RED ASH - The Indelible Legend

Well even so, the 8 hours they stated only counts towards the main content of the game. While... we may only be getting that at this rate, what they had envisioned with stretch goals in mind would have been a bit more, factoring in extra content such as side quests.

Also it's not like I'm defending short games, I just find Red Ash to be in a unique position. I want people to support it due to the implications involved behind the game. I loved games like Metal Gear Rising (about 5 hours long) and MGS5 Ground Zeroes (like an hour long, only factoring in the story mission), but it's not like I loved them for how short they were or anything. I very much enjoy long winded games such as Star Ocean 3 and Persona 4, both of which I spent about 80 hours on, in the first playthrough alone.

$1m console stretch goal has been announced.

and now I'm going to try and fund this as soon as I'm able

If it's only one for the KS (hoping the other home consoles get ports as retail releases), PS4 will win in a landslide.

So I have to admit, I've been wholly unimpressed with this campaign and see little reason to back at this point. I pulled my pledge for now and hope they can change my mind by the end of it.

I like the setting and characters, but the fact they're not even attempting to make the game they really want is a real turn off.

keiji decided to split up the game into parts because of the type of game this is going to be, this is a very art intensive, cinematic game with a story arc like an anime, set in an open world. thats expensive on a grand scale, so hes splitting it up into game one in a series, with the sequel arcs already planned out. this has several benefits, hes not going to the fans and asking you to foot all or part of the bill of the entire project (which could easily be in the 10s of millions) at once, so it has a much better chance of getting funded. second, once its made this gives him assets and codebase to use in the creation of the other parts, which will bring the production cost way down and allow him to increase the scope and epic of the games. third, this gives him something to pitch to publishers to get in on future funding, it will show that he has the assets already made, a fan base that he can show wants this type of game, and its successful enough to get a suit to sign off on funding, which im betting in the long run the first game will see a port to any consoles it wasnt on before. i have to give him props, this was well thought out and probably one of the best ways to make good of a bad situation

Thanks Hype, you've killed it for me. i'm seriously considering pulling my pledge now...

its cool, I can see your point, and yes i would love for publishers to get their collective heads out of their money lined asses and take risks for the good of growing their scope instead of slapping a new number on the next CoD or Madden or GT and updating some flavor text, i just dont see it happening until the industry is forced to change somehow, and even then the trend seems to be more mobile based unless theres some massive 'retro games' revolution and that becomes the next big thing and not microtransactions, 30 second crack hits and DOA beach solitaire (will say this though, squeenix releasing their old rpgs on mobile is genius and we need way more of this to accomplish that revolution >P)

i dont know if he pitched this to publishers already and they turned it down, or if he went to the fans first, or even the reasons exactly why he chose to do it this way beyond whats stated on the ks page, they may have turned him down or told him to come back in a year when he had longterm sales figures for MN9, but whats done is done and im hoping we get the chance for those sequels to occur cause i wanna see the whole story ^_^

Who in the forum have back both the game and the animation?