I think it would be a good idea to redo the end of Shenmue II as a tutorial. Albeit truncated so it doesn't take forever to get back to where we left the story. Not only so we have a point of reference to see all of the lovely graphical and gameplay improvements over the original, but as a starting ...

Your epic render inspired me to do a quick-ish B+W painting study based on it

I assume everyone above $800 will get that reward. None of the tiers above $80 mention the S3 World Telecom thing, but it would be silly if they didn't include it. They're probably just incompetent when it comes to communicating the rewards. Edit: Oops, they did mention the phone thing lower down on...

http://i.imgur.com/MdbHb5F.jpg Obviously not the mirror version, but this dragon graphic is now done. Will update my original post. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/shenmueboxart3.png This one's for Kotaku. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/shenmueboxart4.jpg

Sure. It'd take a while again though. Is there any reference around that's better than this?

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I could maybe work from this but the higher quality the better.

Updated the phoenix. Took bloody ages...

Lo-res preview:


Hi-res:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/533 ... hoenix.png

It'd certainly be cool to see, but we live in reality. And this is a bad thing to prioritise IMO. Something like that would make sense for like a 13m stretch goal maybe once Suzuki has done everything he wants to achieve with the base game. I absolutely love multiplayer games, I base my game purchas...

wdrpgwd wrote:We have received an unimaginable amount of press over this.

That's great to hear. Like I said, I worried that $20k is a lot of money to spend on a chance of publicity rather than a guarantee. But I'm relieved it has already payed off for you.

I don't know what genre Castlevania is.

Have you heard of the genre term, "Metroidvania"?

Castlevania is synonymous with the genre it resides within. That's how massive it is.

I think it's reasonable to be upset that they are "diluting" the reward. If you feel it's diluted too much, or you feel like the rug has been pulled from under you, then I wouldn't blame anyone for dropping their pledge as a result. That's not much consolation though... :/ With all that sa...

Their coverage was better but never more important. Talk to a random guy, he has more chance to have heard of Shenmue kickstarter rather Bloodstained. But isn't he also more likely to have backed Bloodstained than Shenmue? Symphony of the Night - Fast paced. - Pick-up-and-play 2D platformer/action ...

You redraw the entire Phoenix logo??? Holy cow. When we redid all the What's Shenmue assets for the manual, we just made a vector copy and didn't actually fixed it (The low res and the stuff over it make a perfect camouflage). Awesome. I did a rather rushed job on the Phoenix logo. I was considerin...

Was bored. Made a quick mockup picture of what one could look like? (Like the Yakuza example shown above) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/sony_playstation_4_white_1.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/sony-playstation-4-black.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/so...

That sounds really amazing. I do have a concern however, and don't wish to sound disrespectful in voicing it... Since I respect everything you're doing. You are certainly a better human being than I. Basically, I worry for your wallet. I wonder if you've perhaps put up $10k for something you've assu...

Hey guys, speaking of this subject, I painted over the original model and made a little gif of how I think they could maybe improve the model (if anyone wants to see). (Similar idea to the Shenhua concept Yu posted on twitter).

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/533 ... kigif3.gif