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The Japanese flyer is actually the same as the US one so at some point, this was the feature set. I will ask the original devs to see what happened.

> > So was Pastel Island ever finished, or is this prototype the only known existing
> > version of the game out there? Were there any test versions that were further in
> > development?
> >
>
> Shou is going to do some digging.
>
> This should be the final build of a game that was never released, but based on this
> US flyer it doens't have some features that can be seen in the screenshots, and seems
> more incomplete.
>
> I guess it's possible development carried on outside of Japan or something.
>
> Or it's like LED Storm / Trog, where earlier versions of the games had more features
> / interesting game mechanics, and then they were stripped away for something more
> generic because arcade players were kinda dumb (and in this case, the game was
> eventually cancelled) The Android prototype discovered the previous year had the same
> fate, the earlier version being a much more interesting game than what it evolved
> into, with some debate over if the 'final' version was ever released or not. Player
> feedback based on limited testing is not always good for game development or
> innovation (some of the Atari documents about the development of Guardians of the
> Hood really highlight this and how obsessions with certain other games basically
> turned it into the garbage we got)

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