Bloodstained Ritual of the Night is the spiritual successor to Castlevania Symphony of the Night, being made by Koji Igarashi one of the godfathers of the "Metroidvania" genre, and co-director of Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
Bloodstained sounds great and the art design is just what you would expect for a modern successor to Symphony of the Night. The Great news is the game reached it's funding goal of $500,000 in only 4 hours! Currently at the time of this writing the Kickstarter is sitting over $1,400,000! That means all the games stretch goals have been hit. To top it all off the game still has 31 days left of funding.
Some of the better stretch goals were a 2nd playable character, A new harder difficulty mode titled Nightmare mode, voice acting by David Hayter (voice of Snake in Metal Gear Solid), Cheat Codes, and 2 player local co-op goals have all been hit. Who knows if we will see more stretch goals added since the funding for this game won't be slowing down anytime soon. Bloodstained looks like the game I have been wanting for a long time.
I wrote an article a little while back about what 3 games I would like to see from Konami, I'll put the link to the article here. One of the biggest things I wanted was a sequel to Castlevania Symphony of the Night, well looks like this will be the game I have been searching for.
I will provide the link to the Bloodstained Kickstarter for you, and strongly recommend you check out the vision of this game, and the best part is Bloodstained will see a physical release for PS4, XboxOne, and PC.
Konami may not be listening to its fans anymore, but at least we have amazing talent like Koji Igarashi to fill the void.
-Retro Forward Dave
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