Fans of the Metroidvania genre owe a great deal to Koji Igarashi. This video game designer played a large hand in what many consider to be the best of the best – Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. He spent dozens of years with Konami, but finally left the company in 2014 But what has he been working on since then? Well, most likely it’s the game Igarashi has revealed today on Kickstarter: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Although they could not take the name of “Castlevania”, it’s obvious by name alone where their inspiration lies. The game is an exploration-focused, action platformer with RPG elements, as one expects from the Metroidvania genre. Well, Igarashi has actually dubbed it an “Igavania” but that’s beside the point.
Igarashi is leading development on Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night himself, with Inti Creates on development. If that names sounds familiar to crowdfunding fans in particular, it’s because they’re also helping develop another retro revival (Mighty No. 9). Esteemed Konami composer Michiru Yamane (Castlevania, Suikoden) will also be providing the soundtrack. As players explore, they’ll be able to craft better weapons with collected materials. The current plan is to have a map as sprawling as previous games, but there’s potential for an even larger experience.
Amazingly, we don’t have much info other than the basic concept, but fans basically knew immediately whether they wanted to fund this or not from the second it launched! Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is planned for PC, PS4, and Xbox One once it reaches the $500,000 Kickstarter goal.
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Ahh looks good but really hoping the concept art is more true to what the main game will look like ….which i feel mighty no 9 missed out by a long way
And it’s funded 😉
Well, not with my money. Never liked Castlevania plus asking 28$ for a copy..but nonetheless even at 5$ i wouldn’t have back it. Still it is incredible, when you think than economist observators are telling you that for some time KS is dead..
You see 2 projects going over 1M in a week. Plus little devil inside at 250k who will get funded and several project like Tokyo Dark at 40k that are all getting funded.
Projects like this are an exception to the rule. After all people are more willing to donate when theres a brand name behind the project like with the Mighty No9 kickstarter.
Nonscpo, http://www.kicktraq.com/hotlist/games/video%20games/
you might be right normally, but take a look at the hotlist for games on kicktraq.
Of those 25 games on it, i can tell you that almost every single one will get funded.
Except maybe Outland 17 (which is a shame). But that’s unusual.
The behavior of backers is unusual, so there is probably an explanation like Marcus is pointing it out and not all those projects are from notorious campanies.
I have to wonder if Yooka-Laylee brought in a bunch of ‘Kickstarter virgins.’ Because prior to this so many great campaigns were bareeeely making it this year or failing when normally they’d be a sure hit. Now we see a bunch getting funded right out of the gate like it’s 2012 again.
My point exactly, Nonscpo would be right if it was your everytime month. But i’ve been on KS since 2012 and atm almost everything is getting funded (without any real sense). Or easily funded. Which is in contradiction with April as we can read it in your analysis article.
Well, i’ve watched a bit the profile of those “new” backers and most of them are from spring 2014 so relatively “new” to KS..there is also some fresh blood but not really.
I think, this is a correlation of both. half fresh blood and also for those “2014 backers” it is their real first “big” KS (with it’s exciting part). On the other hand rare are people that are still on KS from 2012..even less if it’s before.
I am very surprised honestly, i could name you 10-20 campaigns that are gonna get funded that in any other time of the year wouldn’t. Also, Marcus there is something i have noted, i think it is generational but everything that comes from Japan or South Korea is almost immediately funded. Like this VN from Tokyo..(i don’t understand why it got funded so fast, i am a VN addict though but i didn’t back it, i think it’s actually a disappointing VN maybe it’s the square enix approved..).
Probably due to the fact that backers are mostly people over their 30’s and strongly attached to Anime/Manga.