Have you played the original Castlevania? It's considerably less tacky and a totally different style (hardware limitations etc), even after all these years it still looks more interesting, I think.

So far I got the game and the Iga's Backpack DLC. No soundtrack.

If you backed over 28$ tier... Then you are going to receive a code for soundtrack free. But no sooner than Switch release of the game (25-26 june).

I saw the faq on discord but other than that, a moderator on the forums replied to me and reassured me, everybody eligible for extra content, is going to receive it for sure.

Good to know. Thanks!

So you wouldn't consider paying $1 for a ~1 hr high-quality game? (I guess part of that depends on the genre you enjoy.) Or am I misinterpreting what you're saying?

Nope, not misinterpreting it. Can't see how a 1h (or 2-3h, possibly even 5h) "game" can be high-quality. Have a hard time considering those even proper games. More like some little experiments, maybe some interactive stories if they have them...

Portal and Firewatch are only 2-3 hours iirc. Indie horror devs like Puppet Combo and Airdorf create experiences that are like ~1 hr a game. The indie platformer Squidlit is ~45 min.

I'm of the view that if a developer puts time into creating a quality product they should be rewarded for their effort. (But I do some gamedev myself so I am somewhat biased.) Frankly I think we need more short games aimed at adults who don't have money but not the time for massive experiences.

Anyway we'll probably just need to agree to disagree, like how we did about GOG dropping their "principles" like regional pricing.

It's also only $2.

On GOG, there is Downwell, which is $3 and where it looks like a typical playthrough might take around 20 minutes. (It has roguelike-style randomization, so I assume it does have decent replay value to make up for its short length, It certainly isn't an epic adventure that will keep you glued to the screen for hours, but it doesn't need to be.)

At least until now all the cutscenes are skipable.
Well "technically" they never promised that the extra game would be DRM-free; don't get me wrong I still think it's a dick move and I was very pissed about it but at least the main game, the one backed for, is DRM-free.

Concerning their anti-DRM-free stance, well the devs of Mutant Year Zero has a very similar one, even praising Denuvo and calling pirates those complaining about it, and yet the game ended up here DRM-free so there is still some slight hope for Curse of the Moon.

1. Inti-Creates never did, but Iga promised a DRM-Free version for those who asked, funded and demanded one; for the ENTIRE package... Due to the nature of the license-contracting, though, Iga couldn't "force" them, he was only to SUPERVISE the project; everything else, including marketing, was Inti-Creates'. And they tricked even Fangamer! Which was led to believe that a GoG version was coming, hence the option in the survery for it (i chose it, back in the day). Yet Inti, LAST MINUTE shouts: "No DRM-Free version for you"! Inconveniencing even their PARTNERS! Now it's an incomplete product, cut in half, spread through libraries. That wonderful retro minigame, which deserved to be here in the house of Good Old Games, will forever rot in my clone Steam account, buried and forgotten. Had it been on GoG, i would play it regularly. It's very good.

2. No hope. None at all. Inti are deekcs. The plain, simple, old-fashioned way. As i said, that moment i would have FULLY REFUNDED, had I been allowed to. And pirate the game(s). Basically, at one point, i am going to pirate Curse of the Moon, anyway and be done with it (the very reason i was a pirate ages ago, had been absence of DRM-Free games and i prefer torrenting and cracking, from client-bound, intrusive crap).

3. Also, it was the first and the very LAST time, i ever backed a Kickstarting project. Only after i make sure they deliver exactly what they promised, in the manner they initially planned, i am going to buy a game, hereafter. And then, probably wait for a sales, as well. No, seriously, i am VERY pissed!

P.S. Also, even if it comes here, i seriously doubt we get it for free, since we already got it for free on Steam, as backers. I ain't paying a dime to those cheating bastards, the Inti ediots!

ever since mighty no 9 let me down with its extreme mediocrity i think "inti destroys" every time i see their name.....




my mom thinks im funny.

Off topic, but since you mentioned it, I definitely never agreed to anything about that, nor will I ever.

Right, I was talking in the context of appropriate pricing. I wouldn't really expect someone to pay, like, $10 for a 1 hr game.

Right, my point is we probably won't agree on this, similar to stuff we didn't agree on in the past (when we talked about regional pricing), so we'll just disagree with each other and move on. "agree to disagree"

Back on the subject of pricing for games, I can see how poorer countries (compared to in the USA where I live) might appreciate more "bang for their buck".

Compare with other forms of media. 30000 words isn't a book, it's a novella, and 5000 is a short story, doesn't matter how high-quality it may be and how much time and effort the author put in it is completely irrelevant. If it has 40 minutes it's hard to call it a movie, more like a TV series episode, and if it has 10 minutes it's a short. At 30 minutes you probably have an EP, not a full music album, and a single song, possibly even two or three, even in multiple forms (for one), is a single. If a musical piece has a minute it's probably a ditty, not a proper song, at 20 seconds it's maybe a jingle, at 3 seconds just a sound effect...

Fair points. I still disagree that short games automatically shouldn't charge money though. A single, EP, novella, etc. can still charge money, just less than their larger counterparts. (And TV series have ads, or you may pay a subscriber service like Netflix.)