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Poor Bloodstained (opens in new tab). The crowdfunded spiritual successor to Castlevania held the title of most-funded video game project on Kickstarter for barely more than a month before Yu Suzuki’s Shenmue 3 claimed the title for itself. With less than a day left in its campaign, Shenmue 3 surpassed Bloodstained’s impressive $5,545,991 record; as of this writing, it’s hovering (opens in new tab) around $5.6 million funded, with 12 hours left before the campaign closes.
Originally revealed during the Sony press conference (opens in new tab), the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter was another in a long list of E3 2015 surprises (opens in new tab) that also included a resurrected The Last Guardian, a Final Fantasy 7 remake and more. The Shenmue games have never been hugely popular, but their designs have been both influential and well ahead of their time. There are reasons why people love Shenmue (opens in new tab), and today they’ve put their money where their fandom is.
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