Big name and spiritual successor Kickstarter’s like Mighty No. 9 have lofty expectations to live up to, but are all they all doomed to fail in the eyes of the fans and those who pledge their hard earned money towards these projects? RGT 85 shares his thoughts on the subject.
It's finally over
Man, what a let down this was. I don’t even want to admit what I added to the crowd fund… let’s just say I learned a valuable lesson.
"Keep an eye out for upcoming announcements"
I think that’s the problem. Just give us a conclusion like we were hoping for with 3 instead of basically pulling a Shenmue 2 on us and leaving it all in limbo again,
No trilogy collection? All the years Sega knocked out Shenmue clone Yakuza, yet took years to release Shenmue 3 on PS4 only. Was made waiting all those years after Shenmue 2 on Dreamcast.
And they think it's a positive thing?
Potential new fans won't be interested in future sequels because they would need to know the story of all the previous games.
Old fans who were burnt by 3 (like me) won't be interested in the next ones. Especially if they are fillers like 3 is.
The truth is, Yu Suzuki threw away his golden oportunity of finishing the saga in a dignified way. Old fans were thirsty for its conclusion and they got good money on Kickstarter.
Now that they made 3 with some of the worst game design decisions in any modern game, and made the plot be a useless filler, a Kickstarter for 4 would probably fail badly, and the shameful sales of 3 won't convince any publisher to put good money on a sequel.
"Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Koji Igarashi and his studio, ArtPlay, along with 505 Games, released Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night in 2019. Bloodstained is a 2.5D Metroidvania and a true spiritual successor to SOTN. Following years of updates, Bloodstained finally gained “Chaos Mode,” the promised co-op mode earlier this year. Thus, it’s time for us to review the game and what Chaos Mode has to offer," says Co-Optimus.
Nah. This is the only huge failure we've really seen from a big wig developer. Let's see how some of these others pan out. We can always bring up Shovel Knight as a counter example, but we still have Shenmue, Bloodstained, and Yooka-Laylee to see.
Makes me wonder how Bloodstained is going to pan out.. especially since I haven't heard anything about it in over a year.
You could even say they're doomed to cry like an anime fan on prom night.
Lmao jk, but seriously though it's a shame this game couldn't live up to its lofty ambition. This doesn't spell good news dor Red Ash or any of Inafune's future Kickstarter projects
Absolutely not. Yooka-Laylee for example is looking great. Even Might Number 9 isn't that bad, just mediocre. It's getting a lot of hate because that's the cool thing right now but objectively it is like a 6.5. Gotta keep our hype in check too. No hate, no hype, just objectivity.
Project Phoenix is likely the next big Kickstarter failure.