Vote on staggered content release options

This is a very tough decision since I prefer and also receiving a disc copy. Two years for the main content or an indefinite amount of time for all content. Tough choice.

lol, even speedrunners generally do multiple normal runs of the game to get familiar with it before they start trying to go fast, unless its a game like ds3 where the mechanics are virtually identical from game to game

I'm sorry, but I definitely like my games complete, including everything on disc so it will be available forever. People who actually like the idea of getting a incomplete package and getting the rest in installments, then 10 years down the road only have the main campaign even though you paid for the whole experience seems a little absent minded. I think too many people are just excepting this horrible DLC craze as the norm without questioning the disadvantages it brings. Some may say in 10 years you wont be playing the game anymore but I still play SOTN at least a few times a year and I am sure this game will be the same, especially with a randomly generated castle every time you play. So I definitely want everything I paid for with this kickstarter on the disc since that is what I thought was implied from the beginning and I am willing to wait and believe it should be a choice us backers should be able to make as a whole or each individually on how we want our copies delivered.

I see no issue with staggering the release of content. We still don't know exactly how much of the content is going to be part of the initial release.

I voted for number 2 because I want the Physical version to become a GOTY VERSION with all the content in it, BUG FREE.

Yes, hopefully not everybody who backed at tiers for physical copies aren't expecting absolutely every promised feature to be part of the initial release.

The main single-player modes (especially the main story) are no doubt going to be complete.  No Igavania game has ever been released without a complete Castle to explore.

4 of those 5 features I've placed in Bold have been part of past Igavania games right from the start (some of which required actually completing the main campaign first to unlock them).  I'd say that those being part of the initial release is a given.

As for the extra outfit (Miriam's "Pure" Costume), I personally don't think they'll wait until a later update to include that in the game.

The real point, is why is it only on the 3DS and Vita...

GV-style graphics would be really cool imo, but I've been assuming it will be more Mighty Gunvolt style personally, partly because the icon for that stretch goal was a Famicom controller.

Anyway...I understand the concerns of some of our physical backers here. The thing is though, I think you're being just a bit unreasonable? What you're proposing would be the exception, far from the norm, for any game now. The unique predicament of a Kickstarter game especially puts the project in a bind as far as coming up with deliverables within a respectable timeframe. I think it's easier to look far forward at this point and say we would rather wait, but for the overall health of the project and logistics, all at once with the staggered model is a good way to go.

Wide reception for this game is pretty important, and there are at least 25,000 people who pledged only for a physical disc. I'm fairly sure not all of those people would be okay with missing out on the game entirely for an undisclosed period of time while everyone else is playing. If someone is that serious of a collector and can handle that, then I imagine they wouldn't have an issue ponying up the eventual assumed "forever" re-release that has all of the content.

As far as things being lost and incomplete many years down the line, aside from the kind of release I just mentioned, I think you underestimate the desire of publishers to make more money on things that are already made. When new platforms, new means of playing come along that outdate what you already had your games on, it's a safe bet that they will be available again elsewhere...certainly this, being one of the top 2 successfully Kickstarted games of all time.