Talent-heavy JRPG Project Phoenix soaring on Kickstarter

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There's a JRPG causing a commotion on Kickstarter. It's called Project Phoenix and, in days, it's rocketed past its low $100,000 goal to raise more than $300,000 - a pace that should take it past $1 million before all is said and done.
Project Phoenix will be made in Japan but has a number of high profile Japanese and Western names attached. There's Nobuo Uematsu, renowned Final Fantasy composer, who'll break his indie cherry working on this game.
There's Vaughan Smith who helped design LA Noire, there are modellers from Germany, artists from Japan, a community leader from the US and an actress from Australia. There's also apparently a "very famous" art director who can't be announced until the project is released.
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