Remember when ANTHEM was supposed to be the next big service game, and then BioWare fell off the face of the planet? Yeah, us neither. The good news is that Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is right around the corner, and waiting to fill the third-person shooter's place. Wait, what?
Obviously, the Koji Igarashi-helmed Castlevania clone is still very much a single player adventure game primarily, but publisher 505 Games has revealed a rather extensive post-release roadmap for the Kickstarter hit. It all begins on launch day, with the addition of Speedrun and Boss Rush modes, as well as the Pure Miriam outfit; all of these will be completely free.
Further freebies will be added at a later date, including Boss Revenge mode, Roguelike mode, Classic mode, Chaos mode, two additional playable characters, co-op, and versus play. The latter two multiplayer modes will be playable both locally and online.
This is already a substantial slate, but those who stump up $9.99 will grab the aptly named Iga's Back Pack, which will be available from 18th June and will allow you to take on the long-haired auteur himself. Beat him and you'll get the Swordwhip weapon as a reward. This has caused some upset in the Kickstarter community, as these items were originally pitched as backer exclusives, but apparently 505 Games conducted a survey about this very matter and determined that most supporters were "okay with it".
[source playbloodstained.com, via kickstarter.com, eurogamer.net]
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Is the time of releasing a fully complete game with all content included virtually over?? And I’m not talking about proper DLC here. It’s real sad to me.
Absolutely bizarre. There’s no way in hell that after all these years of development, these couldn’t just come with the game on launch day. Can’t single player games just be left alone?
People are complaining but all this is free except the iga pack and really who cares about that especially for ten dollars
@dark_knightmare2 how much is base game?
@ellsworth004 40 euros it is up from preorder.
I was an original backer for the Vita port but you know how it worked out so I changer the pledge for PS4.
The base pledge for the digital version was 28 you could have saved 12 euros I guess. The digital pledge that contained the infamous IGA pack and the soundtrack was 60. That was my pledge and in the poll I said it was OK to sell the IGA pack but I was expecting something like 2 euros or something...
Backer here of 150 bucks
Yeah, I was cool with the stuff not being exclusive
There is supposed to be a 10% discount for PS Plus members, but it's not there.
@belmont next question, what genre is this suppose to be, metrovania? Or side scrolling action adventure game like old school castlevania games?
Eh. This is pretty standard for successful kickstarters. You'll recall that both Shantae: HGH and Shovel Knight received free content upgrades for backers well after release (actually, Shovel Knight is STILL receiving new modes and campaigns, well after release). It's nice that this stuff is almost all free to everyone.
I also detest kickstarter-exclusive content, so I'm glad they're deciding to sell the stuff that was previously backer-exclusive.
@ellsworth004 Metroidvania, like Symphony of the Night. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, the prequel game, was a stage-based sidescroller in the vein of classic Castlevania games, though.
@Ralizah definate buy then, thanks for info, i have the prequel and was hopng this one would be more like sotn
Well they did have 28 stretch goals achieved during the Kickstarter. We already got the prequel mini-game. The once added things like voice acting and music will be in the base game. The ones to add additional modes will come later for free. The goals for additional platforms PlayStation Vita and Wii U were both cancelled. Fairly standard for a Kickstarter.
A Kickstarter back who just just wanted the digital game got it for a lower price ($28 not $40) but the back of exclusive stuff (was $32 now $10) and physical copies (what is $70 including shipping now probably less than 40) are far cheaper at launch.
@ShulkZetta Sadly that's the case when games are becoming more expensive to make and people want them out sooner.
Ok i help you fund your crap and now you slap me in the face. 😑
No more kickstarter for me its getting insulting. 😔
$750 backer here. Im ok with it being nonexclusive. Hope the game turns out better than beta.
@AdamNovice Please for the love of god be quiet its a funded game that excuse is total nonsense.
Cool, as long as the main game is complete (unlike anthem or street fighter 5) I don’t have problem with it. Already backed this game on kickstater.
@Flaming_Kaiser Lol no frigging chance who are you to say when someone can be quiet?
Yes the game was crowd funded but the game was made to be released on multiple systems and that takes a lot of time, plus there's always unforeseen issues that happen in development that add to the cost.
@AdamNovice Plus they cancelled 2 platforms. 👍
@Flaming_Kaiser Yeah cos it would have been wasted cost putting it on a system that not enough people play on, business is business.
Considering Bloodstained's specs on the more powerful and easier to develop for Nintendo Switch, it's probably for the best that the Vita and Wii U versions were canceled.
The way they unceremoniously ditched Maç/Linux support without offering refunds to backers was a bit much, though.
@Ralizah What bugged me was that it was way obvious from the start that it was hard for the game to be completed in Vita and Wii U yet they made a great deal on how they would do it. They hired a group (armature) with experience in porting games in those systems (they are really very good) and they claimed they would port Unreal Engine 4 to the Vita to run the game and release it as open source software for other developers!
This seemed impossible from the start but I ended giving them a change and pledged for the Vita digital version (the 60 euro complete one) when they announced it. We all now how it turned up. IGA sent a mail to backers and apologised for the Vita situation while spoiling the date when PS Plus and retail games will be discontinued. To be honest they offered me the refund but I chose to change the Vita pledge for the PS4 one.
I am somewhat worried they will mess the backer launch like they did with the prequel.
I backed it at 150 bucks. Ok ok with them selling the DLC. I want more Igarashi games. Anything to make it a success
@ellsworth004 40 I think
@ellsworth004 40$ and I just pre-ordered it in my Switch.
@AdamNovice what platforms were canceled? Im just wondering not trying to argue.
@ellsworth004 psvita, wiiu, Linux and Mac.
@nessisonett I was one of the backers and 505 games are a bunch of damn liars. mostly all of the backers who voiced their opinion about the backer content wanted it as part of the base game at launch, thus giving everyone who ever purchase the game later the entire game from the beginning. 505 just wanted to milk the nostalgia fans have for every cent and literally separated the extra content from the base game as profit after release and they literally lied about majority being okay when in reality majority wanted a complete game from the start with no further purchases being asked for, just like how older Castlevania games used to release.
I'll never back another game ever again and I advise everyone to stay away from crowdfunded games.
Yeah, how about including the full game and all its content on the damn disc for a change...? This is pathetic. I already canceled my preorder, will be waiting for the Complete Treasure Trove Edition Of The Year or whatever in 2021.
Kinda reminds me of how Wayforward had Kickstarter exclusive stuff for Shantae Half Genie Hero. Then they released all the DLC chapters, turn around and releases a Complete Edition of the game with some of the kickstarter stuff in the CE and not available for anyone that bought the base game and DLC separate.
Oh well. At least 505 isn't charging people for all of those extra modes, so that's a plus?
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