Those of you, backers of 60+ tier, rush into your fangamer survey page, to find the download links!

We get:

1. Soundtrack in MP3 and FLAC
2. ARTBOOK
3. Strategy guide, nope... Actually, the game's manual, not a strategy guide

Only problem is, there isn't a code to claim the soundtrack on GOG, but a link to directly download your soundtrack, through the Fangamer survey itself!

I only got the OST, but not the artbook or the manual and I'm a $60+ physical (slack) backer.

Makes sense. I think the Strategy guide... Sorry, the MANUAL, was mentioned only in the DIGITAL tier. And the artbook, now that i think of it, must really be an extra; i don't think it was ever mentioned, at least in the digital tier(s), the one i pledged...

Although, people complain the artbook's quality is low or something... And physical backer rewards, arrive in August, i think?

Thing is I backed for a physical GOG copy of the game, and according to one of their updates based on the majority of votes by other backers, they are going to release the physical PC (Steam and GOG) version after ALL free stretch goal DLCs are out, and seeing we have stuff like Zangetsu plus the 3rd unannounced character, Chaos Mode, Classic Mode, among other promised DLCs/features are in the works down the road, it seems like it's going to a long time for physical PC version backers to their copy to ship, but at least they were nice enough to give us a digital key to the game instead of making us wait when console players and backers are already playing their physical copies.

Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/posts/2535257

Good thing. Same way, with code, they temporarily set up Japanese players, to compensate for their extra delay (due to a shipping error, i believe?). Their code, though, will probably expire, the moment they get their goods. Is YOUR code permanent?

I've already used my keys, but I don't see the keys for the full game of Ritual of the Night, IGA Back Back, Curse of the Moon, or even the 2018 beta version mentioning they'll ever expire or much less an expiration date on them, though they did remove beta version keys out of my backer survey without warning but I already used them (both Steam and GOG versions of the beta) long before they were axed.

Yeah, as soon as I saw that there were still holding slack pledges after the campaign was over but the game was still being developed, I was willing to take a chance at getting a DRM-free physical PC copy to have on my shelf of my other (small collection of) PC games. I hope they're willing to fix the issue with digital soundtrack, that and give the rest of the digital goods myself and other $60-tier backers are missing.

So the quality of the digital soundtrack is still crap? Not exactly thrilled to find that the backer downloads are only on the Fangamer page. At the very least I would of expected a key for the soundtrack here, seems like penny pinching to me from 505 Games once again...

At the very least they need to fix the soundtrack issues though.

Anyone else having issues downloading from the Fangamer page? Seems like the download speed just cuts out after a while and kills the download.

Edit: Okay, so the download problems seem to only be with the soundtrack... I downloaded the Artbook and Guide without issue.

Sadly the Artbook is low resolution crap and even shows to be a rush job. Specifically on page 21 there is a white vertical line running through the lower left hand corner image of Zangetsu's head. I wish that was the only instance but it is sadly not. They even managed to not number a few pages and have more vertical as well as horizontal lines showing up in other displayed artwork. There just are quality issues that are far too numerous to mention but I will be compiling a list to send to Fangamer as this is beyond acceptable.

I actually downloaded the fangamer soundtrack, and it looks to be genuine CD quality.

Keep us up to date on that as everything else seems to be a rush job.

Well, they seem to be fixing things, albeit a little unconventionally.

I don't see any detail missing on the rest of the tracks, either. I'll have to listen to them to see if the relevant tracks fade properly, but they sound great, so far.

I cannot check either one myself yet because of the issues downloading them from Fangamer. Is the bitrate correct with the FLAC version finally?

Most the tracks are in the 600-1100 bit save a piano version of the main theme.

Sounds promising.

Just got done going over the Artbook and whoa boy did that get rushed out. Sent the info on to Fangamer with hopes that they will fix the image problems as well as provide the Artbook in a higher resolution.

The "Strategy Guide" is nothing more than a glorified instruction manual and seems to be not what was promised exactly to backers at all.

At the very least the game is good (on PC that is), barring issues that need to be fixed.