Ritual of the Night

[A Black Falcon]

I dunno, this is a new company he's working with. An American company that might not be willing to overlook anything too problematic. They aren't Wayforward :D.

Also, when did "fan service" start to mean "creepy"?

I didn't really mean it in the 'creepy' way; I guess there is an element of that, but I mostly just meant 'most gamers are guys and most people like to look at attractive members of the opposite sex'. Of course there are issues here -- how small a place there is for non-attractive female characters in games is an obvious one, and the oversexed costumes female characters are often wearing compared to the male ones in the same games -- but it's one of the reasons for games to have female playable characters. I'd rather have that as the reason than no female playable characters at all.

Also, I checked the timeline and Castlevania 64 (aka the second half of Legacy of Darkness) takes place in 1864.

Okay, a little later than I thought. Still, that's before the invention of the internal combustion engine. :p

Anyway, my biggest problem with a lot of kickstarter projects these days is the notion of "backer exclusive in-game content". It's basically pre-order exclusive DLC, and way too many of these projects are doing it. Mighty No. 9 has the backer exclusive transformation, and this game will have a backer exclusive hidden boss. It's annoying, really, that they went that route.

For my part, backer exclusive content should be limited to physical rewards that don't affect the game, or in-game recognition of that backer that everyone gets to see (such as your name in the credits, or at higher tiers, a boss you get to design). Why would you ALREADY sully the name of what could have been a perfect vision by, out of the gate, excluding future customers from even the possibility of certain content?

InXile got it right. Neither of their games have exclusive content. At best, Wasteland 2 had an exclusive CODE, but that code's been leaked at this point and anyone can input it at the right part to get access to that content.

Yeah, backer-exclusive content's not great. I understand the idea, a reward for the people who back your game, but it's like retailer-exclusive bonuses with purchased games -- it's annoying stuff that makes it near-impossible for most consumers to actually see everything in the game in question, which isn't nice. I'd rather see some way for other people to get that content too.