Project Phoenix is an ambitious project led by Hiroaki Yura who worked on Valkyria Chronicles and Diablo III. The game is a real time strategy game blended with JRPG elements. Project Phoenix’s main character is Marcus, an angel with amnesia, who travels through the land of Azuregard. Yoko Enoki is writing the story and Final Fantasy XII artist Kiyoshi Arai is the art 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."
Is it silly that I'm hoping this game will be turn based? I miss the old school turn based RPGS, like, FF6,7,8,9,10, chrono trigger, the Star Ocean games for PS1, I NEED IT BACK!
Nevermind...I just read the kickstarter page..."squad based RTS game design", not into it anymore.