Barely squeezed it in
The Wonderful 101 arrived back in 2013 on Wii U, but you can’t keep a good squad down, as the Wonder Team will unite again on PC, PS4 and Switch in May of this year.
The impetus for this re-release is none other than a Kickstarter campaign by Platinum Games, which just recently closed down with a final ceremony stream on Twitch. But what about those stretch goals? D🉐id any money trickle through to get 💧them over one last hump? As it turns out, it did.
By way of a message from director Hideki Kamiya on Kickstarter, it looks like they eked out the orchestral recording goal of $2.25 million thanks to “revenue from Twitch that [they] earned during [their] closing stream.” According to Kamiya the orchestral soundtrack will hit the final edition of the re-release, but it looks like they did not hit their final $2.5 million “new language” goal. Close enough!
It seems as if this Kickstarter story will end well for everyone, as it wasn’t really a years-off Kickstarter for an unplanned project: but a pre𒁏-order system for something that was already finished
[Kickstarter]
Published: Mar 13, 2020 12:30 pm