The Last Ninja is also having some issues nowadays, although not as much as the already abandoned ex-Coleco, ex-Retro VGS Chameleon. The scandal is between one said person, a Kickstarter campaign and one Scandinavian band.

We’re talking about FastLoaders. They like The Last Ninja trilogy’s soundtrack. Therefore, they decided to create a metal remix soundtrack of the original songs, and they launched a Kickstarter campaign to get some financial help. From the required 25 thousand British Pounds, they got 10 thousand already, until all of a sudden, System 3‘s (the company behind the initial games) boss, Mark Cale stepped in and asked Kickstarter to suspend the campaign. There’s a twist to all of this.

FastLoaders already received all the required permissions, plus the composers of the games (Ben Danglish, Matt Gray and Reyn Owuehand, respectively) all support the Musicology project. If we also add the fact that System 3 does not own any rights to the music of The Last Ninja games, Mark Cale just acts like a douchebag, especially because Musicology didn’t even take any graphical elements of the original games.

Cale thinks that this soundtrack will take attention away from the upcoming, 2017 The Last Ninja remake. That’s a stupid statement as FastLoaders would do the opposite: the soundtrack would get the attention and some hype for the remake next year. The Last Ninja Musicology already wrote a counterclaim to Kickstarter, so the story isn’t over yet. If Cale loses, he’ll have to accept that he doesn’t have any right to complain. If by some weird occasion he ends up winning this case, he’d just kill off a promising project, also possibly taking attention away from the remade game.