Another brief slice of Shenmue 3 footage has been released, in which main characters Ryo and Shenhua have a bit of a rave at a lantern bug concert. It looks for all the world like a cutscene from a 90’s Final Fantasy game.
It might be a little treat to celebrate the end of the game’s successful Kickstarter campaign, which wraps up at the end of the week with $5.2 million already netted. The game’s hovering very near the magical $5.6M marker, which would make it the highest-funded project ever in Kickstarter’s video game category. That record is currently held by Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night at $5,545,991.
That’s still not quite the $10 million that creator Yu Suzuki said he would need to make the game, but it’s still a massive chunk of cash for a crowd-funded game. Anyway, you’re not going to convince me that Sony or someone else won’t throw a tonne of funding at it. Suzuki has already revealed there are other funding sources aside from Kickstarter.
”I can’t get into specifics, but for right now I just want to keep the comment that yes, I have funding sources outside Kickstarter that I collected through my company YS Net, and that will combine with the Kickstarter for this project,” he explained. Vaguely.
