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Earlier this year Matsuzo Machida and Akifumi Kaneko, the men behind the classic JRPG series Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts, announced a joint project to revive both games at the same time, albeit unofficially. Machida was planning out Armed Fantasia: To the End of the Wilderness, a spiritual successor to his Wild West JRPG series Wild Arms, while Kaneko was making Penny Blood, based on his PS2 trilogy Shadow Hearts.
It became clear a Kickstarter would be needed to partially fund the projects and gauge interest. Then they thought, “why not team up for double the attention?” Thus begat the Armed Fantasia / Penny Blood Grand Crowdfunding Campaign Of ’22. The Kickstarter launched itself late last August with a goal of hitting $750,000 by September 30.
Today is September 30, so we can properly judge if the campaign was a success. They didn’t earn $750,000….they earned WAAAAY more...
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