Japanese developer Inti Creates has lifted the lid on Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon at this year's BitSummit -- an annual, Kyoto-based celebration of the finest indie games. Curse of the Moon is a classic 8-bit follow-up to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, originally promised as a Kickstarter reward if certain stretch goals were met. Fans ensured that they were, injecting over $5 million into the project and helping it earn the title of second most-funded video game of all time. In Curse of the Moon's launch trailer, producer Koji Igarashi said that backers who pledged a particular amount should already have access to codes, which can be retrieved via the official home page or a private Kickstarter update. Igarashi, typically flamboyant in his cowboy hat, introduced Curse of the Moon's basic gameplay, characters, and unmistakably retro aesthetic.

Inti Creates is now offering "Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night" Kickstarter backers refunds after game designer Koji Igarashi announced that the metroidvania video game is not coming to the Wii U console after all. Igarashi also confirmed what previous speculations were claiming that the game is going to launch on the Nintendo Switch instead. On Tuesday, Igarashi wrote an update on the Kickstarter page for "Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night" saying that the developers have decided to take the game to a new direction. Instead of bringing it to the Wii U, it will be released for Nintendo's new console hybrid. "During our Kickstart campaign, the Wii U was at the height of its popularity, but then situation has drastically changed after the release of Nintendo Switch," Igarashi wrote.