KickStarter Bloodstained - Koji Igarashi's new metroidvania game

[Delterius]

rotfl soon people will be angry.
Kickstarter says that game is already 90% funded by PUBLISHER and people can't tell who it is because of NDA.

This is basically ploy to get free PR and $$$.

If PB will be KONAMI then butthurt will be amazing.

What if it was Kojima all along?

The plot thickens.

 

[CyberP]

Yet another legendary classic getting a kickstarter. Have any of these Kickstarters actually given the gamer what they want, that being a game at least equal to or greater than said classics?

Some serious opportunist/creative decline in the industry if all the old masters have to turn to KS remakes to get anything funded...although most of these big KS' have probably been invested in by AAA publishers anyway, as has this one.

Anyway, I hope this turns out good. I really do.
I had ambitions to make a metriodvania successor in the future, design ideas on how to do this and that better. Part of me hopes this is shit so I can be the one

 

[Machocruz]

Would back if it meant replacing the current character designer with Ayami Kojima. If you're going to do bishifaggotry, do it right.

 

[Crooked Bee]

I'd back it if they actually needed money and didn't have a publisher already.

 

[Perkel]

I'd back it if they actually needed money and didn't have a publisher already.

yeah fuck this.

And this doesn't seems SC way of securing funding without loosing IP. So people will literally fund new IP for some publisher that later will be put on pile of unused IP because fuck you.

 

[vonAchdorf]

I'd back it if they actually needed money and didn't have a publisher already.

Luckily it's not necessary. They are at $ 1,250,000 at the moment and ran out of stretch goals. Even silly ones like asking for $150,000 to implement cheat codes while a 2nd character was only $100,000.

 

[Hobo Elf]

IGA wasn't even involved with any of the good Castlevanias. So why is he taking the credit for the series? This is Mighty No 9 all over again.

 

[Declinator]

https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/


(Yes, it obviously won't reach that amount but still)

 

[nomask7]

Symphony of the Night was far too easy, even for a casual-fag like me. This game at least promises to have an optional "nightmare difficulty".

 

[Delterius]

https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/


(Yes, it obviously won't reach that amount but still)

Its impressive certainly, but things are still uncertain. What we have proved so far is that there's a strong core base for the game, whether that will reach higher numbers or tank just like the Matsuno kickstarter is still up in the air even if the kickstarter's namesake, in this case Igarashi, is active in development.

 

[nomask7]

I'd back it if they actually needed money and didn't have a publisher already.

He didn't have a publisher, he had a promise of a publisher *if* he could prove there was enough interest in this sort of game. The last Konami metroidvania game is from early 2008. That's seven years.

 

[Crooked Bee]

I am aware of that. That's why I said they do have a publisher already.

 

[nomask7]

In that case, you should just have said you don't back games that have reached their pledge goal. And who would have been interested in such information? Nobody.

 

[Crooked Bee]

In that case, you should just have said you don't back games that have reached their pledge goal.

No, I don't back KSs that don't need my money since they have a publisher already. Which is what I said in the first place. If there was no publisher involved (i.e. they actually needed my money), I would back it.

 

[vonAchdorf]

No, I don't back KSs that don't need my money since they have a publisher already. Which is what I said in the first place. If there was no publisher involved (i.e. they actually needed my money), I would back it.

Yes, I second this. I don' like Kickstarters who tell me, that my pledge is just a token of goodwill, so they can show that there's a market and get the real big bucks from a publisher. This way, the Kickstarter isn't really about enabling to make a game but hedging the risk of a publisher.

 

[nomask7]

Yes, I second this. I don' like Kickstarters who tell me, that my pledge is just a token of goodwill, so they can show that there's a market and get the real big bucks from a publisher. This way, the Kickstarter isn't really about enabling to make a game but hedging the risk of a publisher.

What's the difference? You're shaming them, for what exactly?

They need a publisher if they want to distribute it physically and release it on consoles as well - either that or they need a lot more money I imagine than they're comfortable asking on a kickstarter. I don't know, it just seems like you're trying to shame the sort of behaviour that you should be encouraging instead.

All the guy is trying to do is produce a game that wouldn't otherwise be made AND create a wide market for it (via physical distribution and a real publisher).

Sometimes I don't get you people...

 

[vonAchdorf]

Why's not pledging for someone's KS "shaming"? If going to KS was the only way for him to realize his game, more power to him and I'm happy that he succeeded.

I prefer KS as a means to realize a game, not just to generate buzz and collect money to hedge the risk of a publisher. But that's a personal preference and other may come to a different conclusion.

Publishers apparently lack good project analysts – they fund crap all the time, but decline to fund sure sellers because of arcane reasons.

 

[Delterius]

You wouldn't Publisher shame.

 

[evdk]

I just want Order of Ecclesia II

(didn't back this, they do not need it)

 

[Ulrox]

Backed for 28 - back when I was 11 years old, all I did was play Baldur's gate and Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Those two games are legendary and holds an equally big place in my heart. Probably have completed symphony of the night up to 40 times or so.

 

[Cromwell]

Backed for 28 - back when I was 11 years old, all I did was play Baldur's gate and Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Those two games are legendary and holds an equally big place in my heart. Probably have completed symphony of the night up to 40 times or so.

I remember when I played it as a teenager and raging because it was so short. Then trying to get to every place on the map because I had no money for a new game and realizing theres a twist and a whole other castle to explore.

 

[Ulrox]

I remember when I played it as a teenager and raging because it was so short. Then trying to get to every place on the map because I had no money for a new game and realizing theres a twist and a whole other castle to explore.

Haha, yeah a few years ago, I told my friend whom I had managed to get to play it, that he would complete it once he beat Richter with the holy glasses on. Damn was he surprised.

 

[Perkel]

Backed for 28 - back when I was 11 years old, all I did was play Baldur's gate and Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Those two games are legendary and holds an equally big place in my heart. Probably have completed symphony of the night up to 40 times or so.

I also love Symphony of the Night but why the fuck you spend money on kickstarter that had already 90% of game funded by PUBLISHER before it even started ?

You are basically funding publisher game.

 

[Ulrox]

I also love Symphony of the Night but why the fuck you spend money on kickstarter that had already 90% of game funded by PUBLISHER before it even started ?

You are basically funding publisher game.

I want to feel like a part of it I guess. Why do people back kickstarter projects...? I'm aware that I'm taking a chance and may not see a return of investment. I also backed Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2, Torment, and Double fine adventure. Not by staggering sums of money though.

 

[nomask7]

Why's not pledging for someone's KS "shaming"?

It's not. It becomes shaming when you smugly announce it on a public forum implying that there's something morally wrong about the way this project is being financed and promoted.