Hiku said:
I still have hopes for Bloodstained and Shenmue III.
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Meanwhile Shantae Half genie Hero sits at a comfortable 81 on metacritic. Not all Kickstarter games turn out bad and even in Yooka Laylees case it seems like devs pretty much deilvered on what they promised as far as core gameplay, presentation and story are concerned.
Gameexplains rewiew for instance said that it was an overall good game hampered by performance issues more than anything. I'm not sure about the janky camera and the apparently atrocious minecart challenges but the rest seems fixable at least. It definitively doesn't sound like a 2/10 game from what I can see. It's a shame they didn't optimize it better though.
That might actually be the biggest problem kickstarters are facing, they try to pull funds from gamers on all the major platforms and end up optimizing badly as a result of trying to service too many diffrent ones. Most Indie games would naturally develop for PC or a single Platform first and then slowly migrate from there instead of attempting simultanious multiplatform releases. Look no further than Rocket League and Shovel Knight for games where this strategy really payed off.