I wonder if this might revive the model.

Sadly I'm going to wait a week to get my copy

I'm glad about that... I gotta wait to get it and I'm avoiding any spoilers. New SSFF would have broken that embargo (some things you see, you click).

@@greenhowie and there's nothing wrong with that

@@Jekyll_Jackal Sometimes... reality has to come first :( I miss being a kid and not having any bills to pay.

I agree, it's such a joy to see this one be the success. I'm loving it. Samurai Snake (David Hayter) is the best.

I just finished the game earlier and I'm already gonna dive into Hard Mode. Too much fun.

@@SilverNightbane and them in nightmare, and test content

I true Igavania, i love the game so much.

ya. i am always thinking of returning to the game

100% exploration is around the corner...And with it, the rest of the game.

This game is a triumph, I'm writing a note here "Huge Success!".

But is it better than symphony?

@@redcrimson1028 does it really matter?

@@goldoozaru no it doesn't, it's just something i asked everybody who likes the game since it was made by the same person

Any time someone says 19- anyyear I feel super old from being from that century

I'll take a slice of that crushing realization.

“The Wii was 20 years ago”

@@NoiseKidd bruh

I got my first system some 32 years ago. * shuddering intensifies *

I honestly don't get why he tryed to make it look like the game will be bad or that it's just like MN9. Did he filmed it before release? If so why? Since the game is amazing this video will age like milk.

of course.

@@dricsi07 Uh... Isn't it obvious?

@@SelecaoOfMidas I mean it is but wouldn't in be Wiseer to wait for it to bereleased?

@@dricsi07 it's pseudo click bait.

*spin-off game

@@Keezawea It's a prequel.

@@Ponaru Is not a prequel. The game is set on an alternate reality as everyone has different origins and motivations on Ritual of the night.

@@bruno17289 It's a prequel.

@@Ponaru Nah. The story of curse of the moon and ritual of the night don't sync up at all. For instance Miriam doesn't know who Zangetsu is in ritual of the night.

Good one.

@@liamanderson7082 nope

igarashi is not arrogant and celebratory of his own brilliance. igarashi is living in a Castlevania tangential dimension ergo his vision of Castlevania creates itself.

This deserves way more likes and a pin

The cruel employers of the outside world would ask of you your effort. Konami merely asks for your _dignity._

Life employment at Konami is a fate worse than death.

@@CommanderWiggins indeed ,it's sort of like a living purgatory...kind of like Lampeduse in Italy

like Miyamoto said "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad"

@@GiordanDiodato Tell that to Anthem lol

@@WhnNinjasAttack Anthem was left on the back burner until 2017 and development was rushed to hell. not to mention it was made a developer that had literally never made an online loot-based shooter.

@@GiordanDiodato I love the way you think!

@@GiordanDiodato if only EA didn't meddle with Anthem, I bet the game would of been actually pretty good. Same goes for Destiny 2. I have noticed in regards to ambitious AAA titles, they tend to end up suffering from that "rush to meet deadline" issues that turns a great game to a mediocre one at best.

make up your mind!! you want me to hold your wine or you just don't want it anymore?!?!?

timothy chan * throws another to the ground *

Kickstarter Bloody Roar when?

I'd love for Bloody Roar to return, but it's unlikely to happen.

"I will prove them wrong!"

Backer too here, and I love it too. Also gotta say, the constant backer updates very fantastic. Very transparent, honest and fair and always thinking of quality and the gamer first.

RoTN surpassed my expectations. It's now one of the greatest games of all time. Yes, I love it that much, it's such a fantastic experience in gaming.

Another backer. Sadly I changed to the Switch version a while back, and that got delayed a week so I have yet to play it. Then I have to wait for shipping. Can't wait though, and Hollow Knight has been holding my interest in the meantime.

I was too late for Kickstarter but now I can play thanks to you guys. This is a good successor of the SOTN. Maybe even better game. Now my support for IGA is 7 copies (physical and digital for several platforms) I've just buyed. For me this is a GOTY.

@@rhtr. GotY for sure!

It will. 95% into the game and I still can't stop. It's all I've done for 3 days. What's it like, I hear you say? Take Symphony of the Night as the skeleton, build on it using the 3 DS castlevanias, and finally understand that 4 developers working on graphics paid off. There is your game.

@@DocMcCray you're correct but it's even more than that it's my ten-year-old self's wet dream of everything I thought a video game should be

The dude has a good head on his shoulders. I remember during the final pre-release Twitch stream for the Kickstarter everyone around him was freaking out over the multiple millions they were being backed for, and IGA's sentiments were to the tune of "yeah, that's nice, can I finish playing this level of Shovel Knight on stream _first,_ please?" He knows where his priorities lie.

3 years later and you're getting your wish. Iga is already working on another game.

The first voice of Nick himself. TAKE THAT!

Ah yeah, he's Inafune's translator.

As far as I remember from the Kickstarter News, WayForward was brought in for the polishing phase.

And they have a lot of technical and porting expertise, those dudes know their shit

It's a hybrid of Aria of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia.

As much as 505 pulled their weight in the back end, it wouldn’t have been possible to make those changes without them.

retrofraction Everyone involved did their jobs pretty well.

OoE is my favourite in the series. The breaking up of a few zones and making it a bit linear was one of the negative points for me, but the combat, mechanics, fun factor were all top notch in OoE. It also had some of the most unique boss battles. The Boss on top of the lighthouse was tough, and you had to use your abilities in interesting ways. So i'm glad bloodstained took elements from it.

Nuce just got my backer copy and i loved OOE

Reluctant Hero 15 what? Minutes?

@@fearofchicke hours. A friend has 20 hours with 70% of the castle. So it must be hours

Hours, my bad.

@@Reluctant_Hero Nah, fam, we got you.

Yeah, this game has quickly gotten into my top 3 games. I just hope it gets the recognition it deserves.

Just need to fix the Switch version

Not for a Switch owner lol

I like it so far, though it did remind me how much I suck at that kind of game. Also, there's a Shovel Knight enemy in this game.

I've heard good things about Bloodstained, though.

Oh god

Plus, the Switch version is getting the DLC before the other consoles.

Switch sucks, so it wouldn't have been a loss at all if it was never released.

@@901aerol Ok good for you. We'll be over here not caring.

Yeah Derek made it sound like the “it was delayed” was for months but it’s just one week.

Metacritic has the game at 9.1-9.2 for User Scores, Steam version is sitting at a comfortable 94% positive rating (it actually peaked at 95%). Hopefully the game will sell enough copies that there could possibly be a sequel.

It ain't that good

it's good but it's got some problems, some being my own minor gripes like a lack of retrying bosses (having to walk back to the boss room might not sound like much but it adds up) to some frustrating moments in the game (spike traps in the underground water zone before you get deep sinker can go to hell) to other design choices i think the game would benefit from having or not having, and that's not even going into the bugs, like some reporting deleted save files, or in my case, not having the option to select hard anymore after changing game language

Thank god for Jim

What about manga fans?

@@OnePunchYume Even bigger nerds.

IT'S SO GOOD. I've been playing it every chance I get since release.

I'm with u on that

Haven't yet played Bloodstained, but have heard it blends elements from pretty much all of his Castlevania games. The shard system is ripped straight out of Aria of Sorrow, which is (as of now) my favorite Igarashi game. Can't wait to play Bloodstained!

@@RealBlueony The shard system is actually closer to Dawn of Sorrow with how they can get stronger from collecting multiples, but they can also be upgraded with materials found. Gear can be crafted from those materials as well similar to curse of darkness.... special attacks and familiars can be used ala Symphony of the night (And miriam even controls a lot like alucard complete with downward slashing again finally) yeah it's basically all the best elements of every game he's ever worked on in the castlevania series.

Alicia Fraser yeah, I see what you're saying. I didn't play much of Dawn, even though I loved Aria (weird, I know). But I see what you're saying, and I definitely agree about the fact that it takes the best elements from every game Igarashi worked on.

Dust Off The Relic thank you for watching them! We got more past mortem coming up!

High quality 2d sprites scale more in development the bigger the game is. There more enemies, angles, number of frames and details.

@@MDKcde granted it kinda depends. Hand drawn HD 2D sprites (or "smoothed out graphics"/ "Mobile game 2D" as nostalgia-filled retro gamers (I like calling those kind of people retrotards) call them) are far more expensive to make compared to 2D 8-bit/16-bit pixel-based sprites.

I would disagree about 2D being costly , costs are always relative to the project and what the engine is and their overall game design and technology used.

@@retrofraction perhaps, but imagine hand drawing 720-1080p 2D images.

@@GiordanDiodato Again its all relative. With tablets that is not going to be terrible and with vector art 8k is not untouchable.

MagicMaster667 I’ve seen Classicvania used in many places but Derek is the only one I’ve seen who insists on using Vintagevania.

Kind of like how IGA and co. tried pushing Igavania instead of Metroidvania?

IGAvanias are Castlevania games developed by Igarashi and his team. Metroidvanias are the games inspired by/following up on Metroid and SotN, including IGAvanias.

CyberDragon10K Igavania is fine since it intends to only cover the Castlevanias made by Iga. Metroidvania is a much broader term that includes a whole bunch of games from other developers.

@@CyberDragon10K Crazy guess here, but I think "metroid" might be a trademark owned by a different company, in which case it would make sense to avoid using the word in a promotional trailer

Probably mean official ports, not fan-made ones. that's likely in the thousands. Hell, I'm aware of fan-made ports for old color iPods.

You mean multiply?

It's like a rule 34 variant of sorts: if it exists, someone has probably ported Doom to it.

Dos, linux, mac, windows, snes, gba, ps1, saturn, jaguar, 32x, xbox, xbox360, ps3 and those are the official ports that I can think right now without google, 10 ports even by official ports standard is way too low

TI84, TI89, a smart fridge, probably available as homebrew on just about any console that's ever been hacked.

AoS? highest? LOL

not to mention it's a lot cheaper compared to HD 2D sprites.

Happy with kickstarter exclusive content not being on disc? Backer names not credited? I'm assuming you were also one of the lucky ones to get your backer game already.

How did u beat it twice so fast? U have no life

@@redcrimson1028 Sorry ;n; But naw, I've just had a lot of time in between graduation and getting a call back for my job I'm starting soon! Also I finished that 3rd playthrough hehehe

@@LukaMusics i knew it, when u said school i knew you were young. When you're young with no responsibilities you can play video games all day without a care in the world. I remember when i was young i did the same thing. I could beat a game in a weekend. Now that i'm 37 it take me up to a whole year to beat a game especially when you have responsibilities, taking care of my family, working and my job and on top of that my body doesnt allow me to sit in front of the tv for more than 3hrs. You'd be surprise how siting upright also drains you. Dont get old is my advice to you. Lastly bloodstained is a masterpiece of a game it is huge and can be very hard the farther you get. The game also doesnt tell you where to go and i got lost a lot several times. The pacing is also weird how they dont give you "Invert" until almost at the end of the game which clearly is an item you need in the 1st half of the game. The game also gave you the double jump late as well and i still havent gotten the ingredient needed to enhance my jump for a 3rd time. It must be a great game if you are on your 3rd playthrough? Bloodstained is a masterpiece and keeps me playing, i havent played a game this generation that kept me playing for hours straight with the exception being the first division game.

Well it must be game of the year if you're on your third playthrough

Weren't Wasteland 2 and Pillars of Eternity also crowd-funded and considered a success? Also, Them's Fightin' Herds almost worked out before personal issues got in the way of development, forcing the team to go Early Access.

@@sofija1996 Personal issues? So there's more than just Hasbro coming on their ass?

@@sofija1996 and let's not forget Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero.

Divinity Original Sin

@@sofija1996 There are actually many great kickstarter games. The video even shows a few of them at the bottom. The problem is that people remember the bad ones far more than the good ones, and the reputable devs who achieve success from crowdfunding don't need it again. It's kind of the same story as early access. Shitty devs making it a crapshoot have damaged the public's trust even when some of the best games each year come out of it.

And Mega Man 9, which we all know is fantastic!

IntiCreates makes the best Megaman games don't @ me

Inti Creates didn't make mighty number 9. They created the mighty no 9 spinoffs mighty gunvolt and mighty gunvolt Burst, which are actually really good.

what? lol no, they didnt cretae mighty no.9 but the spinoff ,yeah.

@@krimsonkatt thank you, i redited it

Yu Suzuki isn't done Shenmue 3, ya know.

Inafune isn't a developer.

@@ImJust1Joe even though he was a designer in Megaman X

@@GiordanDiodato Welp, it came out and Shenmue 3 bites hard. So Iga is the grand winner of the Kickstarter conundrum.

He did and basically wanted to give it a 10 out of 10. I don't think I've heard Jim Sterling be so giddy about a game.. ever

I dunno, he also gave Breath of the Wild, one of the best Zelda games ever, a 7/10

@@GiordanDiodato Sounds like a fitting score to me.

@@Ponaru then you need to finish grammar school.

@@OniLordMiki Yeah that makes total sense.

Derek must have just forgot the hype surrounding Broken Age, at the time it was the most backed project on Kickstarter.

There doesn't seem to be much more to that story.

I remember the Kickstarter comments raking Angel-Corlux/Roberto over hot coals though. The team sounded like they had a lot of tricky political BS to navigate between retailers and the general release of the game.

also: NO DEEP SILVER

@@CyberDragon10K how can it be avoided. Even at my job the political PC bullshit is showing up at my job.

@@GiordanDiodato cannot be said hard enough

I have one thing to say about needing a company behind you. It's easy to say you want to do something and you can be as creative and have a team of highly-trained specialists but the reason you need a company could literally be at your back is to make you make the best game possible within a realistic time frame and budget which is something Kickstarter as you saying the video is a problem for because of stretch goals and unrealistic and unchecked expectations. So people can complain about how companies do this that and the other thing that ultimately harm its employees but at the same time you need that because unchecked ambitions leads to lawsuits and your own employees also possibly suing you.

Nah, they're too dumb for that.

they're rereleasing Castlevania Bloodlines for the first time ever, so...

They got that panchinko money from the gambling addicts. They couldn't care less.

To be fair, Bloodstained was far into development before the EGS was even created. Also, why burn up the remaining good will by stiffing both Steam and GoG?

@@SelecaoOfMidas One of the stretch goals for the Kickstarter was a GoG version.

@@SelecaoOfMidas The thing is though for the sake of covering their base with Epic capital has been the pitfall of many a publisher. The fact that 505 games and Koji Igarashi said no to that is still astounding to me. It makes sense to us to focus on goodwill with gamers but goodwill doesn't always equal sales. I'm not trying to discredit your perspective but I still think that the fact that this game wasn't snatched up by Epic is a miracle.

I mean if you guys are upset with the Shenmue 3 stuff, why not get the console version?

@@GiordanDiodato As well intended as that suggestion is, there are two problems with that logic. 1) If we had access to a console, we would've chosen the console version as our backer prize. Most of us chose the PC version assuming they'd have no problem giving us a Steam key and reimbursing us for helping fund their project. Those that chose the console backing prize are fine while those that chose PC are guilty and sentenced to buy the game again for not having the right platform for no seeming reason other than money. 2) We funded the project expecting to get the game as compensation to have to buy the game on another platform because of their business decision is rewarding them for breaching our agreement and again not all of us have access to or the funds to procure a console just for this game. There's a principal issue here of being promised something by developers only to be tricked by a third party publisher down the road due to a change in the business landscape. If we were a conglomerate with lawyers, we could probably go to litigation and get some variant of compensation but due to the amorphous contract and structure of kickstarting projects, we're left with little recourse but to vent our frustrations and to inform/warn others about getting involved with kickstarter or the offending developers and publisher.

Funny how all the drama and complaints -- some of which are totally fair -- really fade away when the game itself is actually good. This one could have gone either way, but that extra year of development really paid off. That's important not just for the success of this game, but for it to serve as the foundation for a series, which is I think what Iga wanted. Meanwhile, Inafune was planning an anime, multiple spin offs, and a breakfast cereal, but has now ended up with jack shit because he shipped a half baked game.

Gotta love Miriam getting annoyed by Benjamin.

Thank you

@@_zoinks2554 You're welcome.

I do hope that doesn't hurt Kickstarter's rep, the Shenmue thing isn't really their fault.

ALongLeggedPissedOffPuertoRican yeah, but that isn’t kickstarters’ fault would be unfair to blame them

@@PokeBattlerJaze It doesn't matter whether or not it's kickstarters fault. People will still perceive it as a bad platform when the people who use it abuse it.

I mean, if you're upset at the Epic store bs, why not just get the console version?

@ALongLeggedPissedOffPuertoRican Personally my only worry with Shenmue 3 is... well, Deep Silver.

Iyo

Sell your kidneys

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