Eternal Hunters takes its native SNES action RPG to Kickstarter, with a prototype demo

Ultima Team set its Kickstarter for 30 October and a public prototype demo alongside it, for a two-player action RPG built for the Super Nintendo itself.

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A new action RPG built natively for the Super Nintendo now has a crowdfunding date. Ultima Team set the Kickstarter campaign for Eternal Hunters: The Branford Legacy to open on Friday 30 October at 17:00 UTC, according to a press release from Story Bird Studios, a partner on the project. A public demo of the prototype was due to go up for download at the same moment.

The word native matters here. The studio's pitch is that the Super Nintendo version is the original, rather than a modern game squeezed back onto old hardware. Other platforms may follow, depending on how the campaign goes.

A prototype, and the studio wants that understood

The release is careful about what the demo is. It calls it a prototype, a first look at the gameplay and direction of the project, and says it does not represent the final quality of the game. So anyone trying it should treat it as a sample of where the team is headed, not a slice of the finished cartridge. That is a sensible thing to say out loud before a crowdfunding campaign, when a demo is doing the job of a sales pitch as well as a test.

Two hunters, one demon, several eras

This is the first game created and developed by Ultima Team. The story follows Duncan, heir to a line of demon hunters, who loses his father and teams up with an older warrior, Clive, to chase a returning demon through different eras. It can be played alone or with a second player in co-op, and the screenshots run from a sandy market town to a rainy fight against tracked robots. The score features Raphael Gesqua, known among other things for the music in Mr. Nutz on the Super Nintendo.

We covered the game in our preview from its screenshots and trailer, and nobody here has played it. The funding goal and reward tiers were not in the release, so the campaign page is the place to check those.

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