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[Wyndstryker]

Love the main char. Stained glass/crystal tattoo's is something you don't see everyday.

 

[Shouta]

I should drop 1500 and get bishop's likeness in the game. =o

 

[Somnid]

Wii U doesn't support Unreal 4 so don't count on it.

Right, they'd need enough overfunding to justify a port. The page more or less leaves that open as the stretch goals go from the top of the castle and there's " legends about a remarkable treasure hidden in the castle basement..."

 

[TGO]

I've grown out of this style with Castlevania but........

 

[BadWolf]

WTF are you talking about?



I don't see what you're talking about...?





Oh nvm. Sorry.

She certainly seems to be blessed.

 

[Xater]

Falling behind, but reasonably competitive. Yooka-Laylee hit a million dollars in a little under seven hours, this hit half a million in three and a half.

Also it's not a competition. We should just be happy all these games get funded.

 

[stan423321]

Wii U doesn't support Unreal 4 so don't count on it.

The way they worded it, there is an 85% probability that it is a hidden stretch goal.

Whether that version will be any good and delivered on time, though, is another matter.

 

[Sesha]

GAF should pool its resources together to get that secret room tier ($8500).

 

[Maxim726X]

Konami made a grave mistake in assuming 2D Metroidvania was dead.

It's more alive than their own reboot is.

Eh... To be fair, the DS iterations didn't sell. Not like they weren't making them.

 

[Sayad]

No stretch goal for Ayami Kojima art?!

 

[hawk2025]

I'm waiting for the trophies to sync on the backer page.

 

[Father_Brain]

I'm basing it off the "secret treasure hidden in the basement" comment, combined with the way stretch goals are shown in the KS (They're layered from lowest to most money going down a castle. If a final stretch goal was added, it would be the "basement" of the castle)

I really doubt that the work necessary to port UE4 to Wii U or Vita would justify sales.

If I had to guess, I'd say they're planning a smaller, less ambitious companion game, along the lines of Mighty Gunvolt, that will be released on Nintendo platforms.

 

[jimboton]

11:00: Announcement with IGA, Egoraptor, and Colin Moriarty
11:30: IGA plays Rogue Legacy
12:30: Turbodog702 speedruns Guacamelee with IGA, romscout, Rocco Botte, and Colin Moriarty
1:45: IGA plays Shadow Complex with Donald Mustard, and Derrick Acosta
2:45: PinkPajamas speed runs Bunny Must Die with IGA and Colin Moriarty
3:45: New music from Michiru Yamane and Ippo Yamada
4:00: IGA plays Shovel Knight with Yacht Club Games and Rocco Botte
5:00: Andy plays Ori and the Blind Forest with Colin Moriarty, romscout, and Fangamer
6:00: IGA plays Axiom Verge with Tom Happ and Colin Moriarty

Smart man, leaving the best for last. I hope the whole point of playing Shadow Complex is to point and things and go 'see? that's what I'm not going to do!'. Otherwise they should have picked a worthy game like Aquaria, Valdis or La-Mulana.

 

[system11]

Kickstarter - continuing to prove that publishers are out of touch.

Backed for physical PS4.

 

[Kouriozan]

Let's fund not-Shenmue next.

Spoiler

:lol

 

[Firemind]

I really doubt that the work necessary to port UE4 to Wii U or Vita would justify sales.

If I had to guess, I'd say they're planning a smaller, less ambitious companion game, along the lines of Mighty Gunvolt, that will be released on Nintendo platforms.

2D sprites: 3 million stretch goal

Spoiler

believe

 

[MCD]

the main character looks great. what's with the hate? not having kojima on board isn't a deal breaker. plenty of great artists out there.

 

[Majmun]

I wonder how much SOTN and the DS Castlevanias cost to make..

 

[Xater]

They are actually going to play Axiom Verge with Tom Happ? That is so cool. Damn, it will also be super late for me.

 

[Mr_Antimatter]

I really doubt that the work necessary to port UE4 to Wii U or Vita would justify sales.

If I had to guess, I'd say they're planning a smaller, less ambitious companion game, along the lines of Mighty Gunvolt, that will be released on Nintendo platforms.

They could hire a third party to port it to another portable/wii u friendly engine.

 

[Lee Chaolan]

lol I just noticed the "What is a Backer?" question. haha

 

[goldenpp72]

Physical edition right from the start? Color me impressed.

I'll back it.

They mention discs, but hopefully I don't get burned with a better physical edition right out of the gate, ala MN09.

What do you mean? I ordered the physical mighty no 9.. Did something happen?

 

[Easy_D]

Kickstarter - continuing to prove that publishers are out of touch.

Backed for physical PS4.

 

[Jotamide]

Yay!

 

[Coinspinner]

The concept art resembles Vanillaware stuff enough that I get a "brawler" vibe from it, rather than platformer. I'm not a fan of complicated combat, anything more than attack+special+ jump confuses my NES-raised brain.

 

[Wishmaster92]

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I should drop 1500 and get bishop's likeness in the game. =o

Wasn't he in Aria of Sorrow?

 

[mysteriousmage09]

Simpsons really does have a pic or gif for everything. Yay at initial goal already done!

 

[Shouta]

Wasn't he in Aria of Sorrow?

lol goddamn. =o

 

[SolidSnakex]

Is there one for each platform?

It looks like something they made for the PSblog post

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/05/11/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-is-coming-to-ps4/

That went live after it crossed the 500k mark.

 

[Foffy]

Eh... To be fair, the DS iterations didn't sell. Not like they weren't making them.

Judd mentioned in the interview I linked earlier that Igarashi was kind of pressed against a wall; he was asked by Konami to annualize the franchise, and by the games being cartridge games, their development costs are largely fixed. Retail for DS games often had games stocked at lower and lower prices, which guaranteed shorter and shorter returns.

All of Igarashi's games made money, but they kept making less due to the above factors not being rebounded by an increase in the consumer base. Mirror of Fate and Lords of Shadow 2 did not have these problems: they literally failed to make money. Mirror of Fate in particular is the worst selling portable Castlevania game ever released.

 

[Bulzeeb]

No Vita, 3ds or wii u means i WiLL wait for a steam sale

 

[.la1n]

While I admit I miss the old reused Castlevania sprites it will be nice to have fresh assets. I don't kickstart often but I've been waiting for this since the tease at PAX.

 

[ioriyagami]

Smart man, leaving the best for last. I hope the whole point of playing Shadow Complex is to point and things and go 'see? that's what I'm not going to do!'. Otherwise they should have picked a worthy game like Aquaria, Valdis or La-Mulana.

Uhm...I thought Shadow Complex was pretty good...

 

[sn00zer]

Im down....once its out....

$30 seems kinda crazy for this type of game though

 

[Dr Dogg]

Konami made a grave mistake in assuming 2D Metroidvania was dead.

It's more alive than their own reboot is.

If you look at the indie scene for the past 7-8 years, christ even longer, an awful lot of the breakout games have been in the metroidvania genre. Just last month Axiom Verge was getting plaudits and so was Ori and the Blind Forest a couple of months back. It's always been a far from dead genre but one that big publishers just don't see a worthwhile ROI from to put their 400, 500, 600 team of staff on for a small but committed audience. That's the beauty of crowdfunding is that it has revitalised the mid tier game that the big publisher just don't touch anymore.

 

[Deified Data]

Konami made a grave mistake in assuming 2D Metroidvania was dead.

It's more alive than their own reboot is.

If they knew they wouldn't have cared.

Im down....once its out....

$30 seems kinda crazy for this type of game though

That's cheaper than I paid for Order of Ecclesia, Portrait of Ruin, Dawn of Sorrow, Symphony of the Night...

 

[Augemitbutter]

so conflicted. i hate them for physical edition. it's hard to resist....

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Ahh, NotShanoa is so cute xD

 

[Wishmaster92]

 

[Gbraga]

Anyone knows who the artist is?

Ahh, NotShanoa is so cute xD

Kawaii

 

[Stike]

$ 500,000 in 4 hours!

That means in 32 days backing time, this will reach $ 96,000,000 !!!

Spoiler

#MajorNelsonMath

 

[8 X 11 Printer Paper]

lol goddamn. =o

You can make a Two-face character, with one half Bish the other half evilore.

 

[TGO]

so conflicted. i hate them for physical edition. it's hard to resist....

Same here......That David Hayter bonus is funny and tempting too lol

 

[Toxi]

I'm starting to think the character designer is allergic to symmetry.

 

[Pyrrhus]

So Johannes is our Belmont analog.

 

[Mr. Nice_Guy]

Also it's not a competition. We should just be happy all these games get funded.

Thank you. We are getting a Banjo-Kazooie and a Castlevania game by their perspective creators, this is a time to be dancing around the camp fire, it could not matter less how fast they get funded, especially since both happened in hours.

 

[EviLore]

Main character looks like a Minbari. Can we get some sort of $5 million stretch goal for Ayami Kojima art?

 

[Deified Data]

Only regret is no Vita version.

Still, remote play on PS4 will be divine.

 

[origamipirate]

2D sprites: 3 million stretch goal

Spoiler

believe

That's my legit hope, honestly. A 3ds spinoff of Bloodstained done in the GBA/DS Igavania sprite style. I'd double my pledge for something like that.