Armed Fantasia Cancelled As Digital Bros Flags Cost Risk
The two RPGs that anchored the same Kickstarter campaign have now diverged into the same outcome on paper: one cancelled over cost risk, one still litigating with a former publisher, with no publisher signed.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
The Wild Arms spiritual successor Armed Fantasia has been cancelled. A vertical slice of the game was shared with 505 Games this past March, but a financial statement from Digital Bros, which owns 505 Games, says the fees needed to finish the game are too much of a risk in the current market. The companion Kickstarter RPG Penny Blood has struggled to find a publisher and is suing its former publisher over allegedly unpaid funds.
Armed Fantasia, the RPG pitched as a continuation of Wild Arms' science-fantasy Westerns, was cancelled after its chosen publisher, 505 Games, and owner Digital Bros weighed the cost of finishing it. A vertical slice was shared with 505 Games this past March.
It sat in the same Kickstarter campaign as Penny Blood, the Shadow Hearts-inspired gothic horror RPG, which has struggled to find a publisher and is suing its former publisher over allegedly unpaid funds.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network This Week in Games Armed Sakura