i'm just gonna leave this here
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remember kids, if you don't have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all

Yeah, because that's how the internet works.  :P:

This time, I'll leave the ranting to my Canadian NFR colleague, who actually has to deal with the fallout if this studio fails.  Suffice it to say that there are some shady aspects to this Kickstarter that disturb me (which I have detailed elsewhere) and I hope it fails like the 1st Kickstarter did.

I read somewhere that Nintendo recently re-filed for an "Eternal Darkness" trademark.  Not that I necessarily think this means anything other than the remote possibility of an eShop release, but I'm curious to see what Nintendo decides to do with the name, considering the couple of franchises they've resurrected over the last couple of years.

I won't badmouth the Kickstarter campaign for this "Spiritual Successor", but I still have little confidence in this campaign yielding something compelling given the apparent issues with mismanagement.  What is this, the 3rd time they're launching this kickstarter?

Everybody wants to play, nobody wants to fund.


I don't see anything changing this time around. Other than lowering the goal, is there any reason why they expect this kickstarter to succeed when the other one failed?

I don't care enough to read the actual details to know for sure, but I heard that this time around it's not episodic (or this funding is only for 1 episode) and the silhouettes of the blond chick (Alexandra Roivas ?) and the soldier (Pious Agustus ?) have been removed.

then a day later, news of Nintendo renewing the trade mark on Eternal Darkness pops up. So, that may be a reason as to why the kickstarter needed to be relaunched. They probably needed to remove all references to the previous game in order to move forward.

They also renewed the trademark in 2010, so it has nothing to do with this project. They just do it on a regular basis to make sure they don't lose it.

Precursor Games removed half the silhouettes. Only the characters that were already revealed before are still on their website. Like I said in another post, this still looks like the first episode. They're being far less ambitious with this attempt by focusing on a single release rather than planning 12 of them which is good even if it still seems too ambitious for a Kickstarter eshop game. Precursor Games intention is likely to release the entire game they wanted, but get the first one out, gain an audience, then worry about the rest.

Nintendo added electronic distribution in with the trademark filing, so it is more than just a save the trademark thing, they are probably adding it just in case they want to release it down the line.

Or they're doing it to protect their trademark. And this Kickstarter is just giving them more reasons to do so. Kinda malicious, but totally in character for recent Nintendo.

I don't think it's malicious at all. Precursor Games is on record several times that Nintendo has been very supportive of the project. The Kickstarter page for Shadow of the Eternals not only mentions Eternal Darkness like 37 times, but it even has a picture of Eternal Darkness' logo with Pious Augustus which probably couldn't happen without Nintendo's blessing. I'd imagine Nintendo would have demanded that they take the picture down (and not granted them an eshop license) if they really wanted to be malicious.