5/16/2023 0 Comments Bloodstained slacker backer![]() ![]() Step past the harbour, beyond the fountain and past the brownstone houses, and the bag containing all the possessions you gathered throughout the first game is stolen. It can be a cruel city, too - stepping off the boat from Japan, you're confronted with the hot, hostile breath of the place, a photographer shoving his camera in your face and later forcibly trying to sell you the resulting picture. ![]() In Shenmue 2, away from the care of Haruki's housekeeper Ine Hayata, you're left to fend for yourself, your first hours in the city spent looking for nothing more than a pocketful of change and a roof over your head. Every morning there's money waiting for you on the counter, your days spent killing time with the cushion of your own home to return to, the pillow of your own bed to crash back on. The small-town streets of Yokosuka are witnessed through the safe cocoon of adolescence. Its essence is something more pedestrian, more profoundly ordinary. Like Shenmue before it, this isn't a game about revenge, or even one fuelled by bloodlust. Having slowly tracked your father's killer Lan Di through Yokosuka and beyond Japan, as Ryo Hazuki you find yourself on the shores of Hong Kong, taking up the quest in typically ponderous fashion. Shenmue 2 came to the Dreamcast less than a year after the original - in Europe, at least - yet it offers a steep shift in scale and tone. It gets down to a greater truth about not only this city, but all great metropolis: the unknowable sprawl, where the urban space is painted as eternally indifferent. That's all hokum, though, and Shenmue 2's not one to deal in such platitudes. It's a common banality to mark Hong Kong as a city of contrasts where the stiff-lipped colonies clash with traditional Chinese culture, where east meets west and tradition meets modernity. Yet AM2's Hong Kong is thick with character and purpose: an overwhelming city where you sink into a gentle rut amidst its wider rhythms, where human life flows through its streets, ebbing in from the harbour before it splashes down sidewalks and sends slow, chattering oxbows around cluttered alleyways. Shenmue 2's Hong Kong isn't the biggest of open worlds, and unlike the Yokosuka suburb that preceded it, it can hardly claim to be the densest. What do you think about the delay? Expected? Sad? Sound off in the comments below.īloodstained: Ritual of the Night is now scheduled for a 2018 release date and will be released on the PS4, Xbox One, PC, PS Vita and Wii U.There's so much of it, it feels impenetrable. Thanks again for all you’ve done to make such an exciting project possible.īut damn, I’m really hoping that this doesn’t turn out into another Mighty No.9 – Delay, after delay. And as IGA mentioned, you can expect more news about the development process as soon as it’s available.) (In fact, the next regularly scheduled update, featuring some songs and commentary from Michiru Yamane, is just about ready to go. ![]() We’ll continue to keep you updated on the development process every step of the way. Again, I offer my sincerest apologies.Īll of us on the campaign and development sides of the team are looking forward to playing the finished game as soon as we can, but as IGA says, we also want this game to be “done right the first time.” The last thing I want to do is keep our backers waiting, but after receiving such incredible support, I feel responsible for delivering the best product I possibly can. Word of the delay comes directly from the man himself, Koji Igarsahi. Every stretch goal was hit and the game is still getting funding via Paypal / Slacker Backing. Definitely a bit of sad news, but I figured this would actually happen, especially since of all the stretch goals that the funding blew past.įor those who don’t remember, the original funding goal was $500,000.00, to which the final total at the end of the Kickstarter was $5.5 million dollars. Originally slated for a March 2017 release date, the title has now been delayed until sometime in 2018. Alright fans, if you were anticipating the release of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, I got a bit of bad news for you. ![]()
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