Gaia, Cozy Okada’s Studio, Is… Gone?

By Spencer . October 6, 2010 . 2:16pm

Something strange is going on with Gaia, the studio Kouji "Cozy" Okada formed after leaving Atlus.

Nintendo signed Gaia to create Cosmic Walker, which appeared in a reel of Wii games back in 2008. Cosmic Walker showed up as an in-development title in Nintendo’s financial statements until late last year where it vanished.

Now Gaia’s website is gone. All that remains is a message that apologizes that for the site’s closure.

Gaia’s last title was Sword & Poker 2 for the iPhone. Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner, which was published by Atlus domestically, was Gaia’s only retail game in North America.

Read more stories about Cosmic Walker & Gaia & Wii on Siliconera.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QV6XF4MUWY26PHIN3DAL2WFEFY Skitch

Uhhh isn’t it Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner not Monster Hunter
- keyboy7
  
  yes. who said it wasn’t?
  
  also I’m actually very spooked by this. its not even like the website is down, it’s just…gone.
  
  so creepy > _<
  - https://twitter.com/#!/SplashdownTiger STiger
    
    Maybe it’s a new project… involving psychological dickery.
    - keyboy7
      
      haha now THATS a business model :P next press release reads:
      
      dear loyal consumers,
      ohhhhh so you guys DIDN’T like it when we fell off the face of the earth? well thats what you get, assholes :). maybe when you learn to buy our f***ing games, we wont have to disappear on you, k? good.
Zeik56

Maybe this means he’ll go back to Atlus. <_<
- DDanny
  
  go back to Atlus and megaten puhleeeease
- Yusaku_Matsuda70s
  
  Didn’t he work on the mainline SMT games?
  - Zeik56
    
    He did, yes.
  - DDanny
    
    He did work on the main megaten games, I think SMT1,2,if… and NINE.
    Maybe the fact he left before Nocturne is one of the reasons that game is so different from classic megaten.
    - Zeik56
      
      I thought he left after Nocturne? (I’m always seeing people try to use that as an argument as to why every game after Nocturne sucks. >_>)
      - cj_iwakura
        
        He also worked on Persona 2: both of them. He’s done all the best games in the series, shy of DDS.
http://waxingerratic.tumblr.com/ ECM

Ah, nuts. Cosmic Walker, despite the complete lack of info on it, was something I was keen to see a great deal more of but, alas, perhaps it is not to be.
Yusaku_Matsuda70s

Something about this mysterious vanishing, along with the type of game they were working on, strikes me with a goose-bump-inducing ghost story vibe. Or I’m just scaring myself.
http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner, was and is an excellent game. I thought I was one of the few beings who had bought it on day 1, I loved it to death and had an awesome voice acting cast, truly one of Atlus’s best. I wish the series had actually continued.
- neo_firenze
  
  1) I agree on that Monster Kingdom comment, but yeah we probably are two of a very small group of people who bought it day 1 and like it a lot. Loved the art style and the audio, and while the game was clearly a little derivative of Pokemon + SMT, you could certainly do worse than borrowing elements of those two.
  
  2) I also love Folklore, and I’m still a little bitter that Coded Soul was never released in English.
  
  3) GAIA MADE SWORD AND POKER?? I never knew that, but S&P has been one of my favorite iPod games for a long time, and one of the few I have even bothered to play. Probably my second most played iPod game behind only Espgaluda II. Can’t believe I didn’t get the connection, and I didn’t know it got a sequel until today. I am downloading S&P2 from iTunes as I type this.
http://thrust-the-sky.deviantart.com/ WildArms

That sucks, monster kingdom was a good game
- kupomogli
  
  I’ve never been able to find out. Probably the most expensive PSP game. Hopefully there’s a rerelease.I could always download it, but not really into that sort of thing.
  - http://thrust-the-sky.deviantart.com/ WildArms
    
    Maybe Atlus will release it later on the psn, one of the thing i liked about this game is that you can choose, like from 4 people (if i remember correctly) 2 of them to become your partners, and i think different pairs makes a lot new dialogues.
Bruce

that’s really bad i was waiting for gaia’s next game ….

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