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The Great Gaias is Alive and Coming Soon!

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Apr 132018
 

All the way back in 2014, I wrote about three video game Kickstarters I hoped to see succeed.

It was a doomed post. None of those three Kickstarters made their goals.

However, one of the three has returned to life! The classic JRPG-inspired The Great Gaias, which I noticed in 2016 appeared to still be in development, has a release date! It will be out on June 22.

(Once I’ve played a few more of my backed games, I really should write a follow-up crowdfunding article.)

The Great Gaias is a turn-based RPG with 17 playable characters, a 60+ hour story, multiple endings, and more. I’ll admit I’d more or less forgotten about it, but once I saw the update, I was excited again.

The Steam page is now up, and there is also a new trailer. Let’s take a look.

Not only is it back, but it still looks good – better than ever, in fact.

I’m happy the developers were able to make this game after all, and I look forward to seeing it when it launches in June. What do you think of The Great Gaias?

The Good Life Kickstarter is Now Live

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Mar 262018
 

We’ve talked about The Good Life a couple of times now, first when it appeared on Fig and again when they announced the upcoming Kickstarter plans.

Now the project is live on Kickstarter, so let’s take a look.

The Good Life is being co-developed by White Owls (led by Swery) and a team led by Yukio Futatsugi (Panzer Dragoon, Phantom Dust).

It is a “debt repayment daily life RPG” (although it’s later described as a “debt repayment daily life action adventure” game) about a journalist named Naomi who goes to the town of Rainy Woods to take photos in order to pay off a massive debt. Your main goals are to pay off the debt and solve a murder.

(As a big RPG fan, I’d like to hear more about that aspect, but it sounds pretty interesting just as a mystery game, too.)

Once a month, everyone in town turns into a cat or dog.

In the original announcement, everyone turned into cats, and then later there was going to be both a cat version and dog version of the game, but now the system sounds much better. According to the Kickstarter page, you will choose at the start of the game which you want to turn into, but you might be able to switch later on.

Photography and part-time jobs will help you earn money, the in-game time and seasons will change, and your interactions with the townspeople will affect the story.

The Good Life is planned for the PC and PS4. If it sounds interesting to you, head over to the Kickstarter page and take a look.

The Good Life Kickstarter Launches on March 26

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Feb 092018
 

Remember The Good Life, a strange mystery RPG from the developer of Deadly Premonition that we discussed back in August?

The Good Life definitely sounded interesting, although a bit confusing. (It’s an RPG, but also a life sim? Plus there’s photography? And all the characters turn into cats at night? Except then they announced a dog edition?)

Swery (Hidetaka Suehiro) and his new studio tried to crowd-fund it through Fig, which might not have been a good idea. Fig’s investment model could be worthwhile, but it doesn’t have strong name recognition yet.

In the end, The Good Life raised $682,864 of its $1,500,000 goal (wow!), which meant the campaign was unsuccessful and the game was left unfunded.

This week, Swery announced that a new crowdfunding campaign for The Good Life will be launched through Kickstarter on March 26.

According to his announcement, they have made changes and are much more prepared for the campaign this time than they were the first time. It should be interesting to see what parts have changed.

So if you were interested in The Good Life and wished it met its goal, don’t lose hope yet. It’s coming back next month for another try!

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