Sometimes video game Kickstarters just don't take off. In fact, that's most of the time. For every monumental success like Double Fine or Wasteland 2, there are ten projects that remain undiscovered and unfunded.

Feeling screwed? If you're an American fan of Japanese games, you certainly should be. Publishers in the East have not treated us very well over the past few decades. They've given us rushed and incomplete localizations. Often they don't send us North American ports at all.

If MonkeyPaw Games raises $500,000, they'll know that gamers still love JRPGs.