Unused Content
List of removed and early development content from the Blinx series.
Weapons
TM-Gun
Model of a realistic pistol. Likely the model prior to the PiG-38. |
TM-MachineGun
Resembles a realistic machine gun. Has a gun rest so it can be placed on the ground. |
TM-Bazooka
Identical to the Grenade Launcher. Was replaced by a larger red launcher as seen in MOTAS (BAZ-006). |
TM-Bomb
Model of a hand grenade. Could have worked as a space control. |
Bin
Smashing beer bottles over a Time Sweeper's head would have bumped the game's rating perhaps just a little bit. |
Laser Sight
Either an assist device (weapon attachment) for aiming in first person or gives the player lock-on. |
Nekojara
Translates to 'cat toy'. Probably would have been as effective as the Slipper. |
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Characters
Unused character transmission images face_gs_00, face_gs_01 and face_gs_03 respectively, featuring an unused guard sweeper character with the traditional guard sweeper design but with an orange cap and what seems to be an orange torso on the jacket.
Early MOTAS Concept
Artwork of the early MOTAS conception is found in the MOTAS prize art and Naoto Ohshima's tweets.
The prominent Time Sweepers would have included
The prominent Time Sweepers would have included
- a (notably female) major who resembles NecoJi,
- Blinx with his TTS design,
- a tank soldier, the CEO,
- Catherine as a fully-fledged military medic,
- a mechanic and
- CEO and the Operator.
The Tom Toms had a similar set of characters.
Other images.
Unused Round 7 "Dimension X"
Also known by fans as "the 4th Dimension" or "Dimension X". Here I'll refer to the round as "Dimension X" as it creates the least confusion.*
Dimension X is a supposedly unused round that was cut from Blinx: The Time Sweeper. This missing round was theorised by players as early as the year the game was first released.
The first piece of evidence is right on the back of the box. It states there are over 35 stages, but if there are only 8 rounds (3 stages and a boss) + the final boss, that's a total of 33 stages. The Xbox page for Blinx: TTS mentions "nearly 40 fantastical levels".
Dimension X is a supposedly unused round that was cut from Blinx: The Time Sweeper. This missing round was theorised by players as early as the year the game was first released.
The first piece of evidence is right on the back of the box. It states there are over 35 stages, but if there are only 8 rounds (3 stages and a boss) + the final boss, that's a total of 33 stages. The Xbox page for Blinx: TTS mentions "nearly 40 fantastical levels".
Image of the game resources: no Round 7
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No music for "round7"
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In the game folders, there are no resources named "round7". Everwinter's music track is internally named "round8", Forge of Hours "round9" and Momentopolis's track not named as a round, since that stage only consists of the Final Boss theme. So there's solid evidence that Dimension X was created then deleted later for unknown reasons.
Following the game's logic, the boss could have been an ameliorated manifestation of the octoballoon, which is the only time monster to not have a boss version. |
* Dimension X is still not a dimension by any mean, it's a removed location in world B1Q64. I can guess that people called it "Dimension X" because it would be the "10th round" after Momentopolis. "The 4th Dimension" is what most call spacetime, the unification of time and space.
Last updated on 22 Feb 2020
