![]() ![]() One new addition to the team will be former Capcom composer Akari Kaida. Shadow Hearts series character designer Miyako Kato is also on board, as is composer Yoshitaka Hirota. The second game, Penny Blood, is a historical horror game along the lines of the 2001 PlayStation 2 game Shadow Hearts, with that game's key creator Matsuzo Machida handling lead game design and scenario writing duties. It also spawned an anime series spin-off. The Wild Arms series began as a Sony-published JRPG on the original PlayStation and would receive five mainline installments through the end of the PlayStation 2 era, as well as a PS2 remake of the original and a PSP spin-off. The team also includes people who worked on subsequent Wild Arms titles, including character designer Tomomi Sasaki and musicians Noriyasu Uematsu and the band Elements Garden. ![]() The two new games – Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood – will share a "Double Kickstarter" project set to launch today with a minimum $750,000 funding goal.Īrmed Fantasia is set in a futuristic take on the Old West and comes from a number of veterans from the 1997 PlayStation games Wild Arms, including lead designer Akifumi Kaneko and composer Michiko Naruki. In other news, the next Mafia game is still a few years away according to Hangar 13, and here is every PS5 and PS4 release for this week starting August 29, 2022.Some of the creators behind influential JRPGs Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts are working together to crowdfund spiritual successors to their past work. They are tentatively offering an option for backers to select Nintendo as well in the hopes that “new hardware becomes available during production.” The platforms that both games will release on have not been settled yet, but if the Console Stretch goal is reached, they promise that both games will be on PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X (we assume this includes the Series S too). Alongside Alicia Fairhead and Euclid Sturges, Ingram hopes to save Londenium from Anomalies believed to be strange mutations of living creatures. The game will use a Cross Order Tactics system that aims to combine a turn-based system with high-octane action. The story will have him travel to Europe and Asia to destroy aberrant horrors seeking to corrupt the world.Īs for the “Westernpunk” Armed Fantasia led by Akifumi Kaneko, the gameplay trailer features a young man named Ingram Goodweather who sets off to become a Pathfinder with a trusty ARM in hand. The trailer shows off a timing-based Psycho Sigil mechanic before attacks that isn’t far off from the Judgement Ring in Covenant. The Kickstarter also revealed that they “pitched multiple publishers” but none of them would fund the games without proof of concepts.Īs shown in the gameplay trailer and the Kickstarter info for Penny Blood, the game stars private detective Matthew Farrell in the 1920s as he attempts to unravel a cosmic horror using his hidden fusion powers. As humorously explained by Shadow Hearts: Covenant director Machida Matsuzo in the announcement trailer posted above, he notes that this Double Kickstarter is due to concerns that “JRPGs have been on the decline lately” and that “it’s been years since the JRPG boom.” I would point out that both the Persona and Tales series have carried on the tradition of classic JRPGs quite well, but it’s been well over a decade since Shadow Hearts: Covenant and Wild Arms XF were released.
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