"The Big Comfy Couch" (Cancelled Xbox Video Game)

Only just read about this, but I find the whole thing extremely odd. More so than typical cancelled games, there are lots of things about this that just don't seem right. Both this and the power rangers game.

Both games seem to have no evidence of their existence beyond these screenshots, and in the case of the power rangers game, there isn't even an article on the unseen64 site. That means that these games were not only cancelled before release, but before announcement, even. That does happen but even when that does, there are usually details like how far along it got before getting cancelled or why it was abandoned. Normally there's more to these than what seems to amount to "here's some screenshots but that's all I can tell you", even for odd and obscure stuff that never got much beyond prototyping. There's none of that for either of those games at all, as if these screenshots are all there is. Not even a year.

The content of the screenshots is quite strange in a lot of ways. With the comfy couch game, as others have mentioned there's the blood and the glitched open mouth and hat with the dustbunnies screenshot. That could suggest that the game was early in development, but the thing is there are lots of other aspects about them that just don't add up. In the dustbunnies screenshot, there's what appears to be some form of weapon on the floor next to her. She's not quite touching the ground in the outside screenshot. Some parts of the screenshot UI elements have noticable pixelation yet others don't.

Jason appears to be missing his right arm the power rangers one, and for some reason the blue attack section has teleported half of his leg and half of the toilet - and the reason for those is very obvious; he doesn't have a right arm at all. If you edit it to reposition the blue section and line up that right weapon with the left one, it fits perfectly and the toilet is back to being where it should be.  That attack is simply a section of the full screenshot edited and moved slightly to the left, as shown here with this quick fix of it:

These games supposedly were cancelled before being announced, but got far enough along to potentially have enemies, combat, UI elements, menu's and character selection etc and for some reason it seems they're both action games of some sort - somehow there's an overlap in game design between a Power Rangers game, and one based on "The Big Comfy couch" (Right...), enough for significant aspects to just be transposed/shared between the 2. That UI overlap also has a few issues too, elements that are unchanged between the 2 have slight misalignment with other elements, like the numbers next to the minimap are slightly cut off and hidden despite that minimap being transparant around the edges, as if that minimap has just been edited ontop. Same with other elements like the healthbar for enemies overlapping the number on the bottom left. The minimap doesn't seem to know what it's actually for - in one screenshot it clearly shows walls, yet for both the powerrangers and dustbunny one, it doesn't. A few other UI elements are in different places when compared to thers as well, overall the text all feels like it's just been stuck ontop of a screenshot to me.

The specific screenshots seem arbitrary too. That this person supposedly has a working version yet decides these are what will showcase it, makes it seem like these screenshots were taken just to show nothing specific about the game but rather make the whole thing mysterious, rather then genuinely want to show a cancelled game. There's also that they were supposedly sent by an anonymous person, which in itself is not that strange, but that also means there's nothing to verify that person having worked on these games. It seems a bit suspicious to have it not even hinted at what specific developer was supposedly making the game.

Overall, I don't think these are real at all. How similar the 2 are definitely gives me the impression that they might just be some other game changed to try to create a fake mystery that no one can actually verify or disprove. I'd assume they're simply some other released game but with parts of them modded, which would explain things like the blood an the mouth in the dustbunnies screenshot and just how they're nearly identical. Maybe there's a way to figure out what game based on the pose in the power rangers character select.

Obviously it could just be "it's a beta/protoype, they're just unfinished" but...2 separate games that feature near-identical gameplay, UI elements and problems, despite having no overlap with the themes of the IP, with very vague strange screenshots that contain no real clear information, sent anonymously with no information existing about these games before or after, to the point not even a year or developer has been hinted at? Doesn't seem right at all to me.