I think what happened was he wanted to emulate P.T. badly becoming the white knight of gaming and that was as far as his planning went. If you don't have a real vision for something, chances are that you will be stuck in development hell
@NTM23: i believe that both DR1 and DR2 have an survival mode that you can play after you beat the game so it might be worth it to beat if thats what you desire
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