Since the development of Mighty No. 9 is coming to a close it seems Keiji Inafune and his team at Comcept have begun to move on to something new but not quite new. Some big members from the Mega Man Legends team have joined up in making this game and, interestingly enough, elements have been borrowed from MN9. Two characters have shared names from MN9. Beck and Call. No relation to Mighty No. 9 though. They're aiming for $800,000 to release the game with stretch goals to add more to the story. They've dubbed these stretch goals as "episodes" but they're not DLC and are just more story content. If they reach only the minimum goal the story will be complete but it won't have all the content they're aiming for. Kickstarter here! Also, check out this animated film Kickstarter for the same project, Red Ash -Magicicada-. Loving this Beck's design more than Mighty No. 9's Beck. Hoping for a "Mega Man X" version after this.
So a PS4 port is basically confirmed. It's pretty strange that there's only plans(so far) for one console port but I guess it's just because this won't a sidescroller so the game itself will just eat up more money than MN9 did. Then again, that did have a lot of funds from fans...RED ASH seems to be doing well but I'm getting a feeling it won't hit the same mark as MN9 did. Anyway, here's the official theme:
So the $1 million mark is now for a PS4 release with hints of other console releases if Red Ash funds more. Unfortunately, it seems the game won't get funded at all. It's sitting at a meager $456k out of the $800k needed to fund it. With 10 days left to go. Oh and that animation for Red Ash? It's only raised $86k out of $150k with 10 days left too. The people have spoken. They do not want a successor to Mega Man Legends. Of course, there's not really been any kind of demo gameplay videos at all so I'm sure that's been a big factor...but even so, all the concept art looked amazing. Maybe Capcom really was right when they cancelled MML3 stating a lack of fan support? Or maybe this project was just handled really poorly.
So the Kickstarter for Red Ash failed but it, of course, will still be made. In better news, the anime was funded although according to the stretch goals, with the funds it has the animation will only be about 12 minutes long. Oh boy. This whole campaign was a disaster. Oh and Mighty No. 9 just might be delayed until 2016.
