Cult-classics Wild Arms’ and Shadow Hearts’ directors join forces for double Kickstarter

The creators of cult-classic JRPGs Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts are becoming a member of forces for a double Kickstarter with two religious successors to the unique titles.

Earlier this week, the creators of the 2 JRPGs introduced a supposed first for Kickstarter, a double Kickstarter, for 2 video games; Armed Fantasia, a religious successor to Wild Arms, and Pennyblood, in flip a religious successor to Shadow Hearts. The marketing campaign opens up tomorrow, August 29, and seeks to lift $750,000.

Armed Fantasia is being developed by Wild Bunch Productions, and as reported by RPG Web site, consists of quite a few members of key employees that labored on the Wild Arms collection. The sport options “a dramatic story a couple of group of Pathfinders and their trusted ARMs who embark on a dangerous journey throughout an expansive Westernpunk world hurtling in direction of destruction.”

You possibly can try the web site for the sport right here, although you will not see something on it till August 30.

Penny Blood is in flip being developed by Yukikaze, and itself options key employees that labored on the Shadow Coronary heart collection, which additionally has a web site that does not present something simply but. This one is “a darkish and horrific story set within the shadows of the turbulent Twenties, about an investigator who confronts the specter of evil in the course of the peak of worldwide unrest.”

Whereas the marketing campaign is not dwell but, you possibly can select which recreation you need to again, or each, and there will be a spread of marketing campaign rewards.

The Kickstarter trailer for Armed Fantasia is already dwell, and appears like it is going to function some fairly traditional JRPG, turn-based motion, so nothing to unfamiliar to followers of the style.

It needs to be famous that it’s tremendous unlikely the $750,000 will truly fund each video games, and is only a method of gauging curiosity in them each. Video games value a lot, way more than that to develop, so do not use this for example of how simple it’s to fund video games.