BNR: There’s a sad lack of indie JRPGs- besides the great ones from Zeboyd, we don’t see too many. Now’s the time to say hello to Project Phoenix. At current, there isn’t much information available about it- the website just features a countdown of days. At the time of this article being written, there were two days to go. That being said, I’m very excited from the information that has come out. In short, the game’s coming out in mid 2015 for Mac, PC and Linux as well as iOS and Android. The dev team consists of such talent as Nobuo Uematsu (the brilliant musician who gave Final Fantasy it’s sound), and Kiyoashi Arai, who worked on Final Fantasy XII and XIV. In long? Take a look at the interview below with Hiroaki Yura, the game’s director.
“I do want to finish the game. I do want to, I even want to, I never said this in an interview before, but I even want to refund their money because we didn’t keep the timeline.” Yura explains.
Kickstarter backers can be a negative bunch, but it seems they reserve most of their piss and vinegar for Japanese developers. Why is that?
Joanna Mueller writes: "In the end, CIA's increased scope only served to drive backers further away. Players were not impressed when the team finally released a vertical cut of the new 3D gameworld. CIA was reluctant to start over after investing so much money into their 3D models."
Japanese role-playing game (JRPG) combined with Real Time Strategy (RTS).
I like FF12 gameplay, hope they'll make something like it, better.