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“ Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night ” is a Metroidvania (or “Igavania”) released on the all major platforms in 2019. As a spiritual successor to Castlevania games produced by Koji Igarashi, Bloodstained originated as a Kickstarter project when IGA (as he prefers to be called) parted ways with Konami in 2014. The intellectual property of Castlevania stayed with Konami, but nothing was stopping IGA from creating a new IP in the same style of side-scrolling exploration platformer with gothic styling. Nothing, that is, except funding. The Kickstarter was WILDLY successful, meeting 11x the original goal of $500,000 with over $5.5 million. I didn’t personally back it , but I was very tuned into it as a long-time Castlevania fan. I wanted the project to succeed, but I didn’t have any console to play it on and I previously didn’t have much faith in Kickstarter after the OUYA fiasco . Instead, I just watched from afar. When “ Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon ” was released after meeting the ...

It seems that the Bloodstained Kickstarter  project of several years ago is actually coming to fruition. Source: http://bloodstained.wikia.com/wiki/Bloodstained:_Curse_of_the_Moon When I  first discovered the project , I was super excited. I’ve always loved Castlevania games, and Koji “Iga” Igarashi is the man behind it all. With his exodus from Konami, any future games in the Castlevania series will likely be a stark deviation from the earlier games, and the Bloodstained intellectual property appeared to be the most true spiritual successor possible. All aboard the hype train, choo choo! I didn’t fund the kickstarter, since I didn’t own a PS4 at the time, but I definitely followed it closely at first. I followed @SwordOrWhip  on Twitter for updates. I checked out all the new art. Being a crowdfunded endeavor, I didn’t want to get too invested and end up being let down if the project failed. Still, everything about Bloodstained looked like exactly what I wan...