Previously on The IF Neverland Reportage:
"Without a doubt, this was a time of experimentation from Idea Factory....but there's still a good amount of importance to be found here, at least with Spectral Blade, Suna no Embrace and, to a lesser extent, Kingdom of Chaos, when it comes to the overall lore & timeline of IF Neverland. Humanity, now wielding absolute power (&, in turn, becoming corrupted absolutely), have become the subjugators themselves... Understandably, this isn't sustainable & eventually something's going to break under the pressure, just as it did when Chiffon killed Overlord Janus."
After the year 2000, Idea Factory would pretty much become almost exclusively focused on video games that took place in the fantasy world of Neverland for the next few years, with mid-2001's Run=Dim as Black Soul for the Sega Dreamcast being the sole exception & that wasn't even developed by IF, instead being handled by Yuki Enterprise, which would later become Examu & is now Team Arcana. Indeed, from 2001 to 2003 Idea Factory would develop (in-house) & release eight different games in what would eventually be called the IF Neverland franchise, and that coincidentally matches perfectly with the next part of this multi-part "Reportage" I've been working on whenever I have the time. This also marks the point where Idea Factory started truly experimenting on non-Sony consoles, as while the PlayStation 2 winds up being the primary hardware of choice of Idea Factory for the next decade or so we do see Nintendo's GameCube & Microsoft's Xbox get some love this time around, too, with the latter even being the exclusive home to one of the games we'll be going over for this third part of The IF Neverland Reportage.
Also... we get some truly awesome theme songs for the games from here on out. Prior to this, I'd say that only truly "great" theme song for an IF Neverland game so far has been "Break Out!!" by Ai Maeda for Spectral Force: Lovely Wickedness, though I do give a shout out to Spectral Blade's OP ("Hateshinaki Tabibito" by The Permanents) for being a completely out of left field choice, but from here on out we truly get (for the most part) "banger after banger after banger after banger".
