 Journalist John Sczepaniak believed the game's American satire and themes of terrorism may have given publishers cold feet.According to Zach Huntley of Kakehashi Games, the Japanese publisher working with Devolver Digital on the 2019 remaster, the game's long development period left its release near the end of the Xbox's lifecycle, and Microsoft was already shifting their focus to the Xbox 360.In 2018, FromSoftware confirmed that the political climate following the attacks of September 11, 2001 led them to cancel localization.