Creative Intelligence Arts released today a clip with a message by Nobuo Uematsu to the fans of Project Phoenix, the JRPG that has now reached $375,746 in pledges on Kickstarter.
“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."
I simply can't wait! Wish they'd show gameplay soon or actually anything at this point is welcome.
has he ever done anything less?
Well it's not like he would say 'Oh, this game is getting my worst work possible, I'll probably just take a dump on a cassette tape and plaster it to the game'
I'm looking forward to hear those (possible) cassette tape dumps since they'll still be better than many composers entire lives work.
This man always composed great music
This whole game has a nauseatingly generic feel to it so far. Uematsu is obviously a great composer, but he feels too obvious a choice as a composer for a game that aspires to the "jrpg aesthetic", whatever that even is. There's something borderline stereotypical about it. It smacks of an ignorance of other Japanese talent and really shallow preconceptions of what jrpgs are...