Momentum forThe Wonderful 101hasn’t let up.
Now at more than 23,000 backers, with 25 days still left to go,the Kickstarter campaignforThe Wonderful 101: Remasteredhas surpassed the $1.5-million mark. As a result, the addition of the epilogue side-scroller “Luka’s First Mission” has been guaranteed, and “Luka’s Second Mission” has been revealed by developer PlatinumGames as a $2-million stretch goal.
“In the main game, you can control 100 wonderful teammates and use Unite Morphs to harness your teammates’ power and progress through the stages,” Hideki Kamiya, Platinum’s senior vice president andThe Wonderful 101’sdirector,wrote in an update post published Sunday. “In this spin-off game, you’ll control Luka–and no one else! How is Luka going to be able to fight all on his own? And what sort of story awaits him?”
“This spinoff game will have a completely different style from the main game,“Kamiya added. “So we hope you’re excited to see just what kind of game it’ll end up being!”
Announced last Monday, the Kickstarter forThe Wonderful 101: Remasteredwas a second chancefor the cult-classic action game to find a larger audience, and a move by PlatinumGamesto begin self-publishing its titles. Within hours, the crowdfunding campaign reached its $50,010 minimum for a Nintendo Switch version, then shattered its $250,000 and $500,000 stretch goals for a Steam and PS4 version, respectively.It crossed the $1-million mark a couple days laterto ensure the addition of a time attack mode, and looks set to hit $1.75 million next, which will bring a remixed soundtrack.
PlatinumGames has also added digital andphysical double packbacker rewards now that the remaster is locked in to go multi-platform.
The first of the mysterious “Platinum 4,“The Wonderful 101: Remasteredhas become an increasingly larger scale update of the 2013Wii U exclusive, and seems to be just the start of PlatinumGames' ambitions for the near future.
MORE ON THE WONDERFUL 101:PlatinumGames’ Hideki Kamiya Shares The Wonderful 101’s Design Doc, Development History
