20 years ago, Bandai Namco produced a PS2 game called Kaena, based on the movie of the same name. It follows the titular heroine on the planet Astria as its giant central tree starts to run out of its life-imbuing sap. The game was only released in Japan, but there was an English language version in development that was even advertised in Europe.
As reported by Time Extension, that scrapped English port has finally surfaced all these years later thanks to Twitter user Robin Davies. They revealed last week that they had found a full debug preview copy, dated November 2003.
They've since posted clips that show off the English voice acting, and even promise to share the game online for others to play.
What makes this case especially bizarre is just how star-studded the cast was, with Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man), Anjelica Huston (The Addams Family), Keith David (Mass Effect), and Richard Harris (Gladiator) reprising their roles from the English dub of the CG animated movie. In fact, it was Harris' last performance after playing Dumbledore in Harry Potter before he passed away in 2002.
Bandai Namco never explained why Kaena's English dub was scrapped, but...
