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September 30, 2022

Wild Arms / Shadow Hearts Revival Project Rakes In Over 2 1/2 Million

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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 than that. Over two and a half million dollars were raised to bring Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood to life. It’s definitely

August 29, 2022

Wild Arms / Shadow Hearts Revival Project Launches Kickstarter

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Matsuzo Machida and Akifumi Kaneko, the men behind the classic JRPS series Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts, have teamed up for a joint project that will revive both games at the same time — spiritually, at least. Like Iga did with Bloodstained and Playtonic did with Yooka-Laylee, Machide and Kaneko are creating a pair of copyright safe lookalikes that allow them to do what they loved again. This interview with Gematsu tells more. The games — Armed Fantasia: To the End of the Wilderness and Penny Blood — will play like Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts respectively. A Kickstarter campaign to partially fund both titles launched just this morning, with a modest (for game development) goal of $750,000. The end goal is to demonstrate interest in the revivals so that a publisher can foot the rest of the bill. As of this writing, the campaign has been live for two hours and it’s already generated half that amount, so we predict another millions-maker in the works. Wild Arms and Shadow