Strider reboot was being developed by GRIN

It was hapenning. Game was cancelled after Bionic Commando tanked. They also worked on a Streets of Rage remake, and a Wanted 2.

But that Strider teaser (which Eurogamer doesn't let me embed) looks pretty fucking cool.

Holy shit. I'm shocked to hear that someone was working on an "official" Streets remake. I'm even more shocked to see screen shots. Considering Grin's recent history, however, I'm content with it not coming to fruition and would rather just stick with the fanmade Streets of Rage Remake. This explains why Sega shut the fanmade version down.

That teaser was pretty awesome! Too bad that reboot isn't happening.

Considering Grin's track record, I'm kind of happy that none of these reboots happened. A bad Strider reboot would probably kill me.

Much rather have a studio like platinum doing it instead.

So, when did GRIN become such a high-profile studio to japanese publishers? That article states that they were "in talks" to do that Final Fantasy game, a Silent Hill game, Strider reboot and a Streets of Rage remake. I can't really put a finger on why they would get picked as a likely dev for all this stuff. The only thing I could think of is that they took initiative and sought out these publishers themselves. Surely BC:Rearmed wasn't that crazy a success story right?

@SlightConfuse said:

Much rather have a studio like platinum doing it instead.

Funny you say that, because after watching that trailer, I immediately thought of Revengeance.

@L33tfella_H said:

So, when did GRIN become such a high-profile studio to japanese publishers? That article states that they were "in talks" to do that Final Fantasy game, a Silent Hill game, Strider reboot and a Streets of Rage remake. I can't really put a finger on why they would get picked as a likely dev for all this stuff. The only thing I could think of is that they took initiative and sought out these publishers themselves. Surely BC:Rearmed wasn't that crazy a success story right?

I don't know why GRIN in particular was chosen, but my guess was because Japanese publishers wanted a developer with Western sensibilities at a time when Platinum games wasn't around?