She was also asked to promote Ape Quest when it was released.Īre there any other canceled Ape Escape games you’re aware of?Īpart from Trapped in Space, the only other game would be Ape Escape 2 which was going to be released on PlayStation 1. She updated the newsletters and received updates from SCEE, and Japan Studio about upcoming Ape Escape games. So Rebecca, who was a major fan, was left in-charge of that. In 2007, there wasn’t any maintenance to be done except Newsletters. “Originally Ape Club started out as a Promo site for SCEE’s Ape Escape titles and was run by them up until 2007. If you saved a copy of those pages back in 2005 and could help us to preserve them, please let us know!Īpe Club was founded by a few people who previously worked with Sony, as we can read in this old interview by Siliconera: While it’s said that some pages about Trapped in Space were leaked online in 2005, we were not able to find anything unfortunately. After E3 in 2006, Japan Studio was disgraced to find out another popular platforming video game franchise had used this concept after it had leaked. Finally, the protagonist would defeat Specter and the Professor would be rescued. The planets would each be very unique and each have its own theme. Specter had created a computer generated universe, with many planets which the protagonist would have to visit and capture the monkeys. Originally the concept was that Specter had kidnapped The Professor and it was up to the protagonist (character had not been announced yet), to get him back by catching the monkeys and defeating bosses. Japan Studio continued to develop the game, hoping that the concept wouldn’t be taken. Several paper’s containing the concept were leaked on the internet in mid 2005. The game was in the process of being made after Ape Escape 3. “Ape Escape: Trapped In Space (working title) was a game that was originally set for release in 2006, however due to complications, it was never released. The project was never officially announced by Sony, but some details were shared online by Ape Club (now offline) around 2010: Players would have been able to visit different planets to catch monkeys, exploring a virtual universe created by Specter. I also checked Ape Escape Japanese sources like and they have no evidence of “Trapped in Space”.”Īpe Escape: Trapped in Space is a cancelled action game in the Ape Escape series, which was conceived by Sony Japan Studio for Playstation 2 (or possibly Playstaton 3) after the release of Ape Escape 3. If I recall, the concept pages they used and claimed are for “Trapped in Space” were actually from Ape Escape Million Monkeys. “This has proven to be false, as there were no official information from Sony regarding this game. They made up fake news stories, fake statistics, etc” “The english Ape Club was the product of a fan who tricked various news outlets that it was an official, Sony-sponsered Ape Escape website. Ape Escape 3 is the perfect send off for what would sadly lead to a series of spin-off games, but the original trilogy is definitely worth remembering.Update: thanks to Brian, Specter, and Keichoro on Twitter, we found out Ape Club was not officially related to Sony and Trapped in Space was just another fake game they conceived: This game also has the largest number of monkeys to catch in any Ape Escape game. The Freaky Monkey Five return as boss fights and are much more extravagant than they were in Ape Escape 2 as their boss fights are based around the transformations the players obtain in the level prior to fighting them. The Water Net in particular has taken emphasis away from underwater exploration as water is now incredibly shallow in terms of how deep you are allowed to dive in. These transformations are somewhat of a replacement for the gadgets from previous games as this game has less gadgets than the second game. Characters now have access to transformations that grant them special abilities and improve their combative potential. The gameplay is more or less the same as Ape Escape 2 with one major change. There is also a new feature that allows players to make small movies using the monkeys they've captured as actors. The player can also buy things like in the previous game, but now they are allowed to buy specific items rather than dumping coins into a roulette machine. The game is heavily modeled after the second installment as health and coins work the same as in that game. Players take control of either Kei or Yumi as they take down Specter's plan to rule the world through brain-rotting television that has left the heroes from the previous games as mindless couch potatoes. Ape Escape 3 is a 3D adventure platformer and the last main series entry in the Ape Escape franchise.
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