Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts Creators Take to Kickstarter to Make Spiritual Successors to Both Games

Wild Bunch Productions and Yukikaze announced "Double Kickstarter" motion Two games, Armed Phantasia: To the Edge of the Wilderness and Penny Blood. The former is Wild He is the spiritual successor of Arms and the latter one of Shadow Hearts.Wild Bunch is made up of the creators of Wild Arms, and Yukikaze is made up of the former Shadow Hearts creators. The campaign kicks off on his August 29th, with the goal of creating a massive JRPG of his inspired by these classic titles, and for both games he's asking for $750,000.Best PS1 game everArmed Fantasia It takes place in the Wild West setting of Londenium and follows a young man named Ingram who loses his grandfather. He is Pathfinder, an adventurer who wields a weapon called an arm to fight against enemies called anomalies that infest Londenium. The game is a turn-based RPG where characters can perform a sequence of actions to disrupt enemy turn orders. It also features a large world map where each party member owns their own gadget to help overcome obstacles during exploration.penny brad is a dark gothic RPG set in the 1920s during the Roaring Twenties and follows a man named Matthew Farrell, a private investigator who works for the Bureau of Investigation in New York City.An incident prompted him to investigate a mental hospital, but he found it to be full of monsters. Defeat them with his father's transformation ability. The story takes Matthew around the world through Asia and Europe. The game is also turn-based, but has some elements of reaction time.Both Kickstarter campaigns share a "combo meter" that influences the stretch goals of both games. Pledges in one game also contribute to stretch goals in other games. Reaching the full funding goal will secure a PC release for both games. Additional stretch goals will port the game to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo's latest hardware at release. A launch window for either game has yet to be revealed, should the campaign reach its goals.Heroic Chronicles: 100 Heroes campaign was the latest high-profile Japanese Kickstarter campaign, and the game was billed as the successor to Suikoden. The campaign also said it would be released on relevant Nintendo systems by the time it was released, but a Switch version was recently confirmed for this year.George Yang is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @yinyangfooey.