I think for a lack of the better word i'm... hearbroken.
Now that the Kickstarter campaign has ended, I suppose the feeling of grief has finally set in. I was one of the first people to back the project and I had no doubt that we would hit all the goals in just a couple of days (did anyone even question that?). When the last stretch goals were announced and voice acting was one of them, I felt such a rush of joy.
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Then 2 weeks later we were nowhere near it.
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Then, in the last 30 minutes, we managed to reach the beach episode, which made me really happy again.
But then I remembered that the VA goal was the last one.
Some said that we could still make it, but having monitored Kickstarter for the last three days straight, I'd say it's highly unlikely, which breaks my heart.
I'm not sure how to phrase it, thanks to the language barrier, but I'm not trying to downplay the whole campaign: I am overjoyed that the developers managed to reach such high goals and gather so many people who like their stories (and I have been one of those people since the beginning).
But I also feel such immeasurable sadness knowing how well the voice acting was done for the first game and that we won't be hearing it in the second one.
At first, I saw that the developers were replying to comments about a second campaign in a couple of years with a "never say never!" approach, which gave me some peace of mind. However, their last responses were set in stone, saying "now or never", which hits me like a hammer every time.
Given how good 5012 was in ADWD1, and now, the second game focusing mostly on him, it's a shame we won't be hearing him anymore (he had some great lines in the demo already). Basically, all we have of him is 18 minutes in the first game.
My friends are trying to cheer me up by saying "don't be sad it's gone, be happy it happened", but sometimes it just makes me feel worse. At that point, I even kind of regret playing the first game with voice acting, because that would have saved me from my current heartbreak (I think I'll take these words back, just not now).
I wonder if there are other people who feel the same?
Once again, I would like to reiterate that I am extremely happy that the campaign did so well and that we reached 95% of the stretch goals. However, I am also extremely sad about the remaining 5%.
I apologise for the rant, I felt the need to share it.
Posted Jun 3, 2026, 1:24 PM UTC