this art style is not it
Yeah thats what happens when the original creative vision of a series is long gone
yo the 'vania is cooked fr
>>732972073i agree
>>732972073>Indie dev somehow gets the privilege of working on a legacy 40 year old franchise>Forces their fortnite slop artstyle into it that's already been run through for the last decadeGenuinely tragic
>>732972073i can tell this is made by a western dev from this art style. why would Konami do this?
looking at it from a cynical business lense it's a million times easier than trying to make a 3d castlevania soulslike which is the other option
>>732972495it's the Dead Cells devs. this, Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, the new Shinobi(awful game) were all outsourced. i don't understand
>>732972073It's alright, but definitely could find something a bit more better
Why is konami so hellbent on doing anything and everything EXCEPT use Ayami Kojima's artstyle? It gets praise anytime its mentioned, seriously I've never heard a single bad thing about it. It's one of the most unique artstyles in all of gaming but they abandon it for generic anime shit and now this
>>732972073westoids shouldn't be allowed to make video games
>>732972625Is it the good dead cells devs or the ones that did not let the good devs make extra updates because it woudl overshadow their new game?
>>732973062it's the guys who did the DLCs and the roguelike Prince of Persia. i got a feeling that this will be pretty shit.
>>732972073Is this Relooted?
>could have just released the SoTN + Rondo collection for PC>instead we get a Netflix Castlevania-inspired game by rogueslop devs
Why does Sonia look like a man?
Normal enemies look fine. I like the variants.Environments look good. Mid graphics but coherent vision and composition and they don't make my eyes bleed like Bloodstained. Snoya Belmont...I'm indifferent to her, would have preferred a boy but I can stand the woman.The bosses? Look like hot garbage. This werewolf, Medusa, the other two bosses they showed do not belong to Castlevania. Completely botched designsIt kinda resembles Lords of Shadows but animefied.
>>732972073Castlevania was never that dark, it's a horror funhouse. Plus the series only has like 3 good games anyway.
>>732974434She doesn't. That's just your perpetually growing incel-rage clouding your vision.
>>732975863It's not dark in fact. The video Konami posted for the 40th Anniversary on the other hand leans heavily on the horror aspect with bloodied impaled skulls, satanist epstein cultists, tentacles/snakes that look like they came out of Berserk etc.Classicvanias tend to be bleaker because they were inspired by classic horror movies. Metroidvanias are more mystic/heavenly and anime. Lords of Shadow is dark fantasy. Castlevania for N64 is spooky and Silent Hill-like but also relaxing in a weird way.
>>732972073>dead cells guys make a castlevania DLC>the konami fuckheads shake the pachinko balls from their ears in disbelief and actually get inspired to make a new game>they realize they got rid of most of their talent>hire the dead cells guys>the new castlevania game is just dead cells 2I don't know why anyone is upset or surprised.
>>732974434>Soniabecause it's Trevor
>>732972073looks like mirror of fate on 3DS
>>732976559because Dead Cells is shit and only succeeded due to the thirst for metroidvania at the time of release.Now said shitty team, after flunking out of Price Of Persia, is out to ruin another franchise
>>732976559AI trash video, physics isn't like that
>>732976559should've given it to the vampire survivors guy lmao
it looks kind of shitty but dear god please let it be fun. i need fun games
>>732976665>because Dead Cells is shit and only succeeded due to the thirst for metroidvania at the time of releasethere are millions of normies out there who think Hollow knight is the first lel
>>732972073Going to be honest......Bloodstained looks better.
>>732976275She has broader shoulders than most men. So much so in fact, many people think it's Trevor. See >>732976587
>>732976662My first thought exactly. It looks like a generic game from 2014 that would have released and made 0 splash
Dead Cell's not even a metroidvania
I'm cautiously optimistic and already disappointed by the artstyle but I'm glad they decided to give Sonia another shot to become canon. The best outcome is if they keep Alucard and her having a child. Absolute ubermensch with 3 powerful family bloodlines in him
>>732976559>>the new castlevania game is just dead cells 2I will be wholly content and put a few hundred hours into it if that's what it ends up being.
>>732976662
>>732972073It's stark, at least. But the stylization screams "video game" and a game like Castlevania is about atmosphere, not beep boop mash the combo. Too much stylization is just a reminder you're not supposed to take this world seriously, and that ain't right.
>>732972414I'm surprised they didn't just grab Mercury Stream again. They're already familiar with making 2D Castlevania, and now they have TWO (2) highly-regarded sidescrolling Metroid games under their belt. And Mirror of Fate has a more soulful artstyle to it.I guess modern Konami goes with the lowest bidder these days.
>>732977791Damn how you fuck up and make a game that looks worse than a 3DS spinoff?
>>732976683based retard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCMmmEEyOO0
>>732975775>Normal enemies look fine. I like the variants.They're garbage, a generic undead sprite pack that could be for any game. They don't look like Castlevania enemies at all. The one actual Castlevania enemy I saw looked weird and wrong.
>>732972761It's the greatest art in any game series. I don't get it either. You have her. Fucking use her. It's not complicated. You could see in Harmony of Despair how she redid the shitty portrait versions of Jonathan and Charlotte and it just pisses me off more they had to get her to fix it rather than having her do Portrait in the first place.
>>732972761I don't like her art at allthere
>>732979169If you're trying to compete for most soulless golem on this board you got this shit in the bag for sure
>>732979737>"I've never seen a single person who doesn't like her art, ever!">"Well I don't like her art">"FUCK YOU HOW DARE YOU HAVE A PERSONAL OPINION"amazing display of emotional intelligence, anon
This is likely a reskinned mobile game. And they didn't even try hard at reskining it
>>732979832Relax you gigantic faggot it was a joke, he clearly didn't mean it>emotional intelligenceGet that checked out by a doctor asap
>>732979976Yeah I'm sure "he" was merely pretending with "his" spergout
>>732979832>emotional intelligenceRetard
>>732976665dead cells isn't even a fucking metroidvaniawhere do we keep getting floor drooling mongoloids who say shit like this from?
>>732981264>it doesn't fit MY definition so people are dumb!you are aware the metroidvania tag is on the steam page right you autistic fuck?
>>732981264
>>732981984>>732981891>HURR THERE'S A MAP AND YOU CAN GO BACK ITS A METROIDVANIAshut up retards
>>732977592Yeah not sure why that retard thought that would be a knock against the new game.
>>732982023here tard-kun, I know reading is hard for you so I highlighted the part you need to know.
>>732972073>Netflixvania>Music is going to be random chorus instead of groovy skelly slayin' beats
>>732982202yes retard. Dead cell's progression is not based around obtaining items in the level but instead it's metaprogression system. It's not a metroidvania>Yo, gimme a metroidvania with no metroid>no vania either
>>732972073>we want the deadlock audience
>>732982315
this is going to be a $40 game too and that's fucked up
>>732972625>Ninja Gaiden Ragebound>They could've outsourced it to the guys who made BlasphemousWhat a fucking disappointment
>>732972073That aliasing around the characters is rough.
>>732972073God that door looks awful, looks like someone took the PNGs and lowered the opacity and called it a day.
>>732977909Huh, NOBODY liked their LoS bullshit nor the 3DS games
>>732972073I'm tired of reboots.
>>732986905Would you care for some remakes instead?
>>732972852Eastoids has yet to make a vidya genre that surpasses RTS. You can combine all the niptoid games like Cucken Ring, soulsbourne, Street Fighters and Mario altogether and it still wouldn't even reach the depth, complexity and skill of your average RTS games like Total Anihillation and Age of Empire 2.I do agree that westard have yet to make a good looking metroidvania though.
All of the 2D shit they showed in the Absolute State of Play is visually repulsive. It's the reason Hollow Knight succeeded. Visuals. Aesthetics.
I’m more worried about what Dead Cell’s writers are gonna do instead of the gameplay, since Dead Cell’s was fun enough. But that game had atrocious writing holy shit, and yes it doesn’t have much at all which is a good thing because every line of dialog in those “lore rooms” was BAD.
>>732977909Mof was ok but got really long with the backtracking at the end.
>>732972073Honestly I blame blizzard for popularizing this art style, everything looks like WoW now.
>>732972073They could have just given it to Team Ladybug. With a budget, they would make a game that can't be beat in below 10 hours for once and the chance of them creating a Castlevania worse than at least 8/10 would be virtually 0%.
>MC has a body of a guy>But the face and hair style of a feminine womanIs Trevor a femboy? The face looks very feminine.
>>732988886>unironically liking pixelshit
Blue is Richter's thing. Why she wearing blue? Give her a different color.
>>732989043I'd rape you until you said you liked pixel games, but you seem like the type of person that would enjoy that.
What happened to normal male or female protagonists? Both this and Bloodstained 2 have tranny mcs.
>noooo she's not feminine enough for me to fap to, I might be considered gay for doing so!Just come out already you fucking homos
THAT LOOKS LIKE FUCKING SHIT AND NORMIES ARE GOBBLING IT UP
Reminder that Dead Cells was made by a different studio, they just took over once the game was already made.Their first game was the cartoony style Prince of Persia from last year. I haven't played that one so I have no idea if it was good or not.
>>732972761>why is Konami so hellbent on not using an artstyle that would be hella expensive and extremely hard to translate into motionquestion of the century
>>732989090That is Ritcher's Mom, Julia Belmont. She inspired Ritcher's dress in the Netflix show.
>>732972073>hey you know how everyone hated bloodstained for being 3D?>let's do that again but also make it look like fortnite on top of it
3dpd
Ever since the netflix cartoon I have had zero interest in castlevania. Gay ass western slop can go eat a dick.
>the new official account is following only 1>it's netflixvaniaGrim.
>>732972761>gets praise anytime its mentioned, seriously I've never heard a single bad thing about it.LOL>>732978787>It's the greatest art in any game series.LMAOOO
guh
Are we at a point that roguelike is>Some randomly generated map>Hardcore (optional?)
>>73299203599 percent of modern devs don't make real roguelikes unless you're an actual boomer dev who grew up playing Rouge and rouge clones. It's all lite these days
>>732991732Yes, if you don't like Ayami Kojima, you don't like Castlevania, plain and simple
>>732992208Cope
>>732992238Considering they got her for GoS again, Konami agrees she defines Castlevania's style
>>732984037Blasphemous looks ugly as shit, nigga
>>732992208tiny head
>>732977791People think this actually looks better than Belmont's Curse? WTF is wrong with you... Lords of Shadow is literally some generic high fantasy Warcraft-looking garbage; it's not Castlevania at all. You must the same trologdytes that think that warcraft reject Simon actually holds a candle to Ayami Kojima's gothic high class designs
>>732982451Yep. That's the genre that it actually fits within. Good job.
>>732979169her art is fine, its better then the netflix slop they're touting objectively its not an opinion its a matter of fact.
>>732972073it's alright, I think the reaction here is overblown because you lads are incapable of knowing anything but misery.
>>732992349Normal-sized head, fuck huge shoulders. That's how you know he's a seme
>>732992208that looks like shit tho
>>732977909>mercury steamvania happens and everyone shits their pants in rage at how bad the games are>we get ONE new trailer for a new castlevania by someone else and people immediately starting running historical revisionism for the worst era of castlevania everinsane
I still wish Bloodstained had gone with 2D.
>>732992460>Lords of Shadow is literally some generic high fantasy Warcraft-looking garbage;Bait used to be believable
>>732992305Better than shitstained for sure.
>>732992713cope
>>732988897Trevor is the gramps who is reading the letter. The woman is his disciple.
>>732992743yeah, the visuals and the weapon upgrade system are probably my least favorite parts of the game. it's just a bit ugly, which isn't the end of the world if you actually play videogames instead of crying about screenshots on /v/ 24/7.
>>732992765>shittalking Bloodstained Faggot.
>>732992753Fuck you and fuck Lords of Shadow
>>732972073looks pretty good to me desu
>>732992792cope what? She can do better, this style looks like utter garbage and she's obviously worse at drawing feet than Liefeld
>>732976275trvke
>>732992960Curse of Darkness Trevor is one of her best designs, period.
>>732992960goddamn that looks like shit
>>732992812Yea, you cherry picking retard. Go ahead and post the ugly mainline game.
>>732992960Ugly as fuck
>>732993096>design and style are the same
>>732992960his face is fucked up and he has yaoi proportions. the fit is really good though
>>732992208>
>>732993317No, but they're obviously heavily linked. What other style is Ayami Kojima supposed to use exactly? Her style is why her designs are the way they are.
>>732993571Soul
>>732972073>it could look like this if they only wanted it to>they chose that instead>>732992743Absolutely.
>>732992305it's the best looking pixel art vania ever
>>732993571>>732993353Imagine liking Castlevania and not liking yaoi, LOL
>>732993712>trying to inject homoshit into straightgaming
>>732993791>larping as le serious castlevania game because you like one of the worst entries in the franchisefucking kill yourself you closeted faggot, nobody is into vampire media and cares about homosexuality
>>732993791>Straightoid trying to pretend Castlevania hasn't always had yaoibait
>>732972073>Joan of arc boss fight Major red flag
>>732993872>>732993918uh oh the gays are having a melty
>>732994032>post obviously retarded thing>get called a retard>uh oh everyone is melting down!!!when did this line of defense become so socially acceptable?
>>732993872>>732993918Iam sorry gays but this series is for straight men who want to bear children with women as decreed by the literal protagonists bloodline and no amount of headcanon is going to change that.
>>732972073Doesn't look clunky enough. Castlevania needs to be clunky
vampire media has always been faggot shit or foidbait like LoK and twilight. alucard getting assraped is canon
>>732993872>one of the worst entries in the franchiseFiltered lmao
>>732994085>this level of delusionlolevery Belmont is straightstop trying to inject your trash and then throwing a fitty when you get BTFO harder than your colon
>>732994154>le famously popular homoerotic media genre is actually not homoerotic because it has a really hot guy as the main characterinteresting line of defense here anon, maybe post some more hot photos of the male protagonists from the series you have saved onto your desktop to really solidify your case
>>732994229nobody gets filtered by circle of the moon, it's just obviously shit. it's not harder than CV3 or Rondo.
>>732994032>>732994154Hate to break it to you, but Fujoshi have been carrying your series for decades. You don't have to like it
man it must be indian time on this board or something
>>732994269>look at Simon>pp does not stand upIam comfortable with my sexuality thank you. post your address so I can call the cops on you for being a grooming faggot.
>Gayfags getting uppity all of suddenSilence homos
>>732994301If the controls discomfort you and make you cry and piss and shit, then yes, that's called getting filtered.
I have accepted the death of Castlevania on two occasions. One, when Lord of Shadows was the focus, and the second time, when that dog shit Netflix series released. This doesn't faze me anymore, I'm at peace.
Nah the game looks good. Much more evolved than what we used to get in the DS entries. Hyped for this one, happy that Konami is trying to make shit again. There’s going to be some Castlevania fanboy in these threads though just spamming.
>>732994341Indians are known for screeching about an imaginary homo threat and pretending to be ultra masculine machismo, it seems like it since literally no one has acted this way over fucking Castlevania before
>>732972073How many western made licensed metroidvanias got announced yesterday? A dozen?
>>732972073Fucking Nortubel has a better art style
>>732994335sure it has, lmao the audacity of you retards.get over yourselves, know that you and foids are less then 5 percent of the people who will actually buy and play this, they HAVE to impress us not the other way around. Women and Fags dont buy videogames.
>>732972073Is the MC a man or woman
>>732988886Blade Chimera is so fucking good. You can tell it started as an SMT 2 spinoff but Atlus didn't go for it.
>>732994418Blasts will be had, fellow organic positivity poster!
>>732994439>literally no one has acted this way over fucking Castlevania beforeAre you lying on purpose?
>>732994519I forgot about it. Played the demo and couldn't wait to play it, then completely forgot. Lmao.
>>732994518MC is supposed to be Sonia but the artstyle makes her look bad. hasnt been confirmed people are assuming.Also this thread is actually fake and gay complete with astroturfing shill homos who think they can shame actual CastleVania fans into buying the game
>>732992460>Lords of Shadow is literally some generic high fantasy Warcraft-looking garbage; it's not Castlevania at all.The middle third of the first game did a decent job with the aesthetics, the second one had cool castle sections too. I agree that Mirror of Fate looked cheap and dull though
>>732994686>MC is supposed to be SoniaShe's completely different though, literally the only things alike are the hair braids
Are we just gonna have to wait when the game is actually out so the actual CV fags can start posting instead of this faux outrage bait master bullshit again
>>732994676It's actually quite mediocre. The story is retarded as shit, it's mostly linear with story unlocking new areas, and it's braindead easy. The visuals are fantastic but they can't carry the game.
Ayyy this the game with the gay vampire?
>>732994763>and it's braindead easy.That's every team ladybug game to be fair
>>732994686the artstyle is good. A character doing physical activity must be fit, not some waifu garbage
>>732993712I have respect for fujos in their devotion to things but the yaoi artstyle is just kind of bad really. I will give credit where it's due however, Kojima's (not that one) work on Symphony of the Night and Aria was stellar, mostly because they don't adhere to the yaoi body proportions, or hides them better
>>732994836desu you can still see the Yaoi hands even in SoTN art, you can't avoid it but it's better than most
>>732994916Seething incel
>>732994836don't look too closely, but Alucard totally has yaoi hands in this pic, and it's still one of the greatest video game-related pieces of art ever made despite that
>>732994730thats why I said people are assuming.>>732994792No it doesn't the fact that you dont like the peak 1980's anime artstyle means you're an even bigger retard then youre letting onto be, I thought faggots liked the old anime style.
>THIS GAME IS SHIT!>It's not even out
>>732988886i know deedlit looks nice but giving it an 8/10 is way too generous.
>>732995140Yes.
Not a single person in this thread even plays castlevania
>>732994761Ah yeah the good old "if you don't like the new slop you're not a real fan" strat
>>732995174>>732995189Thanks for proving my point
>>732994991>peak 1980's anime artstyleit looks like AI slop. Like when someone says "draw this guy in Ghibli style" except this is in generic retro animu style.
>>732995184/v/ doesn't play video games, they just goon to random bullshit
>>732995195Now going for the "all posters who disagree with me are the same person" strat I see
>>732995195We did indeed prove your point that it's trivially easy to recognize shit games. Not gonna buy your slop
>>732995251>>732995258Keep proving me right
>>732995228>ingdom Hearts on the other hand is a lost cause as its females are both not sexy and worthless for the gameplay
>>732972073Western "cartoony" artstyle is just so fucking ugly.
art-style is a give or take for me at this point. More importantly, I wonder if they plan on actually bringing in new environment levels like in the old games back. Having the games take notes from symphony of the night is good and all but actual castlevania was level based. A mix of the two would be amazing.>>no mention of badass monster designs or kick ass music in the thread.>no matter who you color it, everyone in this thread is not a "true castlevania fan" if you never beat simons curse, let alone the original. Might I also add, bitching about the art-style that is practically iconic to the series at this point comes off as insecure, it's as honorable to the gothic themes and aesthetic the games have strived for (not counting kid dracula) the anime style featured in rondo of blood was neat though.
>>732995115eh I dont know about that, if you dont like it dont buy it man. Iam going to pirate this because If Iam gonna hate it Iam gonna hate it for the right reasons.first impressions are everything and they are not impressing me at all.>>732995204Sounds like a personal problem a tasteless problem, now dont bother talking to me again.
>>732972073it's fine. im more concerned the gameplay wont be interesting
Someone explain to me why the genre is called Metroidvania when 95% of the games are just Metroid clones
What a dogshit thread I wish CV actually dead for real so all you retarded knuckle dragging retards can fuck off
we got the last good castlevania game we'll ever see in our lifetimes in 2019, hope you appreciated it.
>>732995328me too brother, better the series stay dead and buried and whatnot, the faggots in this thread think they're doing us a fucking favor. Can you believe that?
>>732972073is not what?
>>732995460it
>>732995282Do you want me to post the playtimes of the other collections too or is this enough to shatter your retarded narrative
>>732995501Anyone can fake it, not proofstill proving me right
>>732995501Which collections are worth it? I have the anniversary collection so far
I like that there seems to be a focus on whips, but I hope they have more weapon variety like in the later Iga games like spears, great swords, axes, etc. She uses a short sword in the trailer a couple times so that's something.
'luv castlevania'ate kikeflixthis new game looks like kikeflix slopsimple asyou cannot refute this
>>732995324Cause SOTN happened which popularized being like metroid
>>732995656Oh so the point isn't that it's a game that's kinda like Castlevania and kinda like Metroid, it's that there was a CV that copied Metroid?
>Coping this hardNo more (You)s from me>>732995553Dominus collection is an actual port, it goes out of its way to fix the magic seals from DoS without removing them entirely like romhacks do (it asks you to input a button sequence instead of drawing), it also has Haunted Castle revisited. Advance collection is alright, nothing particularly new about it, same for the Anniversary collection. Overall you don't really lose much by emulating the games from the first two collections and with Retroarch you can easily use stuff like shaders or overlays.
>>732995690Yes, Metroidvania was initially meant to refer to just castlevania games that were like Metroid, but then the term just spread to all games that are like metroid.
>>732972073Any other style that isn't the classic pixelated one will look different you dumb fuck, did I have to remind you the 3d versions in N64 or PS2?.At least this style looks good enough.
>>732972073Shut up and let them cook. Stylized artstyle is a thing you know.
>>732972073It needs cleaned up, but it's good.
>>732976662I thought the same. Hell the combat even looks the same.
Absolutely retarded thread. Game looks good and i look forward to playing it when it comes out
>>732996047This, it's a real return to form
>>732996047I, too, will be having a blast
>>732972145except for the creative vision of the series is still there right in front of you if you play the games
>>732994581Fuck off, Castlevania was always a middling series anyway. I’ve probably played more entires than you have, wannabe ESL fanboy.
>>732996120>Castlevania was always a middling series anyway.Castlevania is consistently great, fake fan.>I’ve probably played more entires than you haveProve it.
>>732995140people here don't play videogames they look at screenshots and steamcharts metrics
>>732972073Why do western studios can only make overexaggerated thick cartoony shit
>>732995140>THIS GAME IS AMAZING!>It's not even outShills are the opposite side of the same coin
>>732994938Nah he's right. Castlevania girls whether main characters, side characters, or even the monster girls are supposed to be elegant and beautiful.
>>732995140Highguard
>>732995228Sypha is so fun to play as in cv3 every tome she has is useful in its own way
Why are seemingly random posts getting deleted for no reason?
>>732995293>badass monster designs or kick ass musicBoth are shit and very unoriginal compared to even the nes games
>>732995553All of them
>>732972073I like the way it looks, especially in motion. 2D games have gone a long way. My favorites are 1, 4, RoB, and SOTN. Looking forward to this new one.
>>732995943Of course it's the zoomers defending this trash
>>732997020many are saying this (nobody is saying this)
>>732997020I also can't wait to play this new entry that's a return to form. I'm going to have a blast.
regardeless. if a castlevania game is shit, (adventure/order of shadows) or isn't the way i want it to be. (Pachislot Akumajō Dracula/judgement/) i still want to play them and beat them, because i love the franchise. the only exception is not watching the western animation. i only watched S1 and S2. and did not go further after that. hearing about alucard getting raped by two brown asians filtered me. fuck that.i have mixed exepectations about this new game. but i am still going to play it. because i want to play a new castlevania game and don't want to fall behind.
>>732997180This. It looks fucking fine, bosses look good, has good modern combat and movement sensibilities from a decade of games. I’m starting to think that it’s just outrage bots on the site to farm engagement.
>>732975775>It kinda resembles Lords of Shadows but animefiedThis is the point where I'll remind you that the whip wielded by the protagonist in the title splash art we've been given is using the Lords of Shadow style. It's a one-to-one with Gabriel's Combat Cross, in fact.Given some type of corruption is spreading into the protagonist's whip wielding arm straight from that thing, I would not be surprised if it actually *IS* Gabriel's Combat Cross and 'Belmont's Curse' is referring to the issuer of the curse, rather than the recipient.Keep in mind that the combination of Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate and Lords of Shadow 2 already had timeline rearrangement fuckery going on. We might be getting something here which is - and the notion of it is making me sick - trying to canonize it into the main timeline.
>>732997180>fake outrageThat's what we'll get on /v/ for the rest off time
>>732972073It's the Hades 2 style
>>732997180I'm tired of wokeshit in my games and dumb idiots labeling all dissenting opinions as "fake outrage."Fuck off.You came to a forum for discussion. Why do you expect everyone is going to share your opinion?
>>732997640What? I'm here to spam to create the appearance of consensus
>>732995324The name originally was used to indicate the subset of Castlevania games that weren't level-based, but were using an interconnected world like Metroid did. Hence the portmanteau Metroidvania, and its complement Castleroid.The latter fell out of use, and the former found its way into being applied to anything aping Symphony of the Night - which was the first Metroidvania.
>>732997640There is nothing woke in the trailer. Literally nothing. Don’t even dare say “female protagonist”
>>732997989Retard. The FeMC looks like a man. >>732974434That's not what a female looks like. Women don't have bodybuilder shoulders. Castlevania has had sexy girls before, but we're in the era where we pretend women being masculine is cool.If you're gonna have a chick that's a dude, then why not have a dude? What's wrong with cool masculine male heroes?If you're gonna have a chick, why can't she be feminine and attractive? What was wrong with Shanoa exactly?
>>732997640>wokeshitit's all in your head retard-kun
>>732972073It looks good. Stop being jaded assholes. The artwork on the website are great. I can't wait for more castlevania to be unveiled.
>>732998128Nigga go outside pls
Where is Symphony of the Night 2, and who will make it?
>>732998271For those who dont know, this is the first game in the line of castlevania games they have yet to reveal. I bet sotn remake by M2 is one of them.
>>732998151>>732998276Fuck both you.
>>732998337gay
>>732972073Perfect look for gritty, dark fantasy, in a gothic atmosphere.
>>732998332Just checked to confirm multiple castlevania games are coming, its true
>>732972073I thought those devs could do pixelart. Why is this ugly 3D?
>>732998463Sarcasm?
>>732998332>sotn remakeAn additional hard mode tweaks would be welcome
>>732974434Its just arms. I would have been the same way until I watched Thor Ragnarok. Milf Natalie Portman could bench press you and fold you in half and now you remember her twig arms from Star Wars.
>>732998639Obviously. It's imho a bad artstyle, even if that's thaugth to be non existent.>picrelThat's how a castlevania should look like
>>732972073The animation is crisp and clear. Definetly it should be more old school but for a game that attempts to put color into a very easy drab concept its ok. Having this and a darker concept that plays with light and shadow later on would be a good development.
>>732998639Protip: clarity in visuals is important, and hard to achieve with dark monochrome. Old castlevanias knew to use color.Especially in 2D with presumably tons of stuff going on
>>732998529>we couldn’t think in other
>>732998639what tourist bullshit take is this? all 2d castlevania's are pixel art games did you expect a 3d version? go play bloodstained and lets be honest aesthetic wise because its 3d looks terrible and should be fully 2d
>>732996120>Wannabe ESL fanboyWat
Konami should just sell its IPs.
>>732998783It's just there's so many shitposters defending this trash, it's hard to tell sarcasm apart from genuine retardation and bad taste>That's how a castlevania should look likeFirst time I played Bloodborne, those were the exact thoughts I was having. That everything about it would be perfect for a 3D Castlevania.
>>732998971Are you really gonna go there?
>>732999235do you think thats not pixel art? lmfao
>>732999129Unironically. It's actually what's known in Japan as a zombie company. It no longer turns a profit and is just kept afloat by momentum and legacy.Look at the absolute state of Yu-Gi-Oh for example.
>>732999287Idk what point you're trying to make but the vomit of color in the OP is not what Castlevania should look like. Nor is it a suitable aesthetic for Gothic Horror
>>732977791This game isn't much of a looker, but it's pretty good. Played it recently and had a good time. Fun combat and bosses.
>>732972073Looks good to me. Also, do you retards understand that casuals associate pixel art with low quality? Going that route would have been a death sentence for the game
>>732972073Yeah no it's too cartoony they should not have tied it to the netflix slop it's not like the normies who watched that will care.Still probably better than Bloodstained looks.
>>732998128>femc looks like a manAll we have is artwork of her from behind, and a sprite. There is no woke element to pull from all this. Prove everyone in the thread wrong and post her face and bulging penis. That’s what I thought.
>>732994836>>732994876I never noticed his gigantic left hand before, holy shit.
>>732972073The art style is fine. The problem is one that all modern retro games have: they don't look good in wide screen. There's just so much empty space and you wind up staring at the background more than anything.
>>732999350colour downgrading is down to hardware limitations you do know that was on the fucking nintendo DS?
>>732999465>All we have is artwork of her from behind,And that's enough for me to see her masculine shoulders you fucking retard. Stop arguing like a leftist where you pretend to not understand basic concepts. It's irritating.
>>732990892It's good
>>732972852they're on top right now while eastoids are stagnating
>>732999515Yeah, sure are some hardware limitations here, huh? >>732998639
>>732972073This looks like if Riot Games made Castlevania, absolutely unappealing art style.
>>732998128>If you're gonna have a chick that's a dude, then why not have a dude? What's wrong with cool masculine male heroes?>If you're gonna have a chick, why can't she be feminine and attractive? What was wrong with Shanoa exactly?The problem is western devs.
>>732998529Took them only 10? years to realize.
>>732999149>sarcasm apart from genuine retardation and bad tasteUnfortunately so. Bad taste is basically no taste at all.>bb would be perfect for castlevaniaIdk, maybe. Better than this Koreochinese toon slop.
>>732972073This looks like a random cartoonish indie, not castlevania
>>732972625why do you consider it awful?I played it a bit, i found the demo a little "stale" but it wasnt 'awful'
>>732999572different game and genre also 3d>>732999616konami was making pachinko gambling shit its part of the reason why the konami kojima fall out happened in my opinion
>>732999520People like you genuinely make this website worse. At no point has anyone in this thread looked at your posts and gained anything from them.You might as well be a Python script. No dialogue about the game, it’s mechanics, story, just a girls shoulders. You need to leave the site. This is a place to discuss things, not talk about shoulders for 73 posts.
>>732972073This is a terrible running animation.
>>732999390>discarding quality to appeal to a wider audience is a good thing actually
>>732999792Some interpret the pt call like that. Kojima uses pachinko techniques in all of his games, starting mgs4.
>>732999835Everything is bad about this picture
>>732998529>productsNot necessarily multiple games. Last year they had a Rondo of Blood/Symphony of the Night musical in Japan, a followup to that would count as a Castlevania product.
>>733000000based get
>>732999792>different game Better game>genre No, same genre, retard>also 3dSo is this. Those are 3D models I see in the trailer>>732999813I was here first motherfucker. You fuck off if you don't like people having different opinions.How about you educate these western devs on what a WOMAN is, and we'll stop having these conversations? If they wanted a man, then why not have Trevor? Why have a chick that looks like a man? If they wanted a female, why couldn't they emulate previous female protagonists like Shanoa?The fact that they CHOSE to have a FeMC and deliberately made her masculine, means they're intending to make a political statement with their decisions in this game. That's a red flag.
>>733000000
>>733000000very nice
>>732999952i mean konami went all in on gambling instead of game creation, part of that being pachinko's in japan >>733000036they said during the live stream this game is the first title celebrating the 40th anni that means there is more games>>733000072this is a retarded argument its like going into a random game thread talking about a game i like and saying its better no one cares about some random soulslike dumbass its a castlevania thread
>>732995140I only see people shitting on the art style which doesn't require for the game to be played to be criticized. And it's indeed shit. You can only tell it's Castlevania because it has it on its title.
>>733000170Motherfucker, I like Gothic Horror more than you like eating shit. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time. And I've loved Castlevania since Super Castlevania 4 on SNES.SUCK MY FUCKING DICK DUDE.You're goddamn fucking right I'm fucking pissed one of my favorite IP got revived just so it could be given to some woke western devs with no sense of aesthetic, and no idea what a woman is.Kill yourself, you butt munching gremlin.
lol who the fuck is the main character though
>>733000000the digits have spoken
>>733000317sperg more retard
>>733000390It's obviously going to be le empowered independent womyn, Sonia Belmont. Trevor was mentioned and shown briefly. It's obviously his daughter.
>>732992719It's the fad of our time, anon. Give a few years and products that were lambasted when they came out are "re-evalutated" in light of new products sucking more. It's what Disney adults are counting on in order to claim their opinions on shite like the Star Wars sequel "was always ahead of its time" or some bs like that.
>>732972073as if bloodstained was any better lmao
>>733000438I will, and you'll have to learn to deal with it, you stupid fucking retard.Welcome to open fucking discourse. Guess what motherFUCKER, not everyone shares the same opinion and shit taste as you.End your fucking life.
>>733000480Now compare Miriam's running animation to >>732999835
>>732999892>releasing a game that is DOA and called a mobile game by most people because of its graphics is good actually
>>733000527Yes, actually. I don't give a fuck about normalfags and their stupid opinions, I want a good game.
>>733000518Exactly no one cares about your shit soulslike
>>732995313Yeah the style looks fine, it's the content that looks awful.
>>733000000WITNESSED THE TRUTH
>>733000572I'm pretty sure way more people care about Bloodborne than Castlevania.
>>732972073Castlevania is pointless without Ayami Kojima. It has run it's course, she's the sole aesthetic justification it has.
>>732972073Speaking as 36 year old, the boomer wojak isn't old enough for some of you.
>>733000627bandwagon is more the term
>>732974434Wait that's a woman? wtf
>>733000571I‘ll take a good game with slightly worse visuals that has a chance to be successful and produce sequels over a good game with better visuals that will certainly flop and put the series back in hiatus for another 15 years but you do you
>>733000760>Surely if I pay money for this subpar product I will receive the chance to buy a better product in the futureDo you ever stop to think before you start spouting shit? Also>Implying it's a good game>Implying it's either hiatus or good game
>>733000317>Motherfucker, I like Gothic Horror more than you like eating shit. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time. And I've loved Castlevania since Super Castlevania 4 on SNES.>SUCK MY FUCKING DICK DUDE.>You're goddamn fucking right I'm fucking pissed one of my favorite IP got revived just so it could be given to some woke western devs with no sense of aesthetic, and no idea what a woman is.>Kill yourself, you butt munching gremlin.>>733000518>I will, and you'll have to learn to deal with it, you stupid fucking retard.>Welcome to open fucking discourse. Guess what motherFUCKER, not everyone shares the same opinion and shit taste as you.>End your fucking life.Kek this is someone's valentines day
>>733000480It's a passion project with somewhat appealing gothic designs despite the low budget, since it had to be crowdfunded by fans on kickstarter. The female MC is attractive too and she gets a shit ton of fanart. They also got Michiru Yamane for the soundtrack which is really fucking good. The Scarlet Engagement looked like a visual improvement too, and it mogs the shit out of this new one by Konami
>>733000760I won't. Fuck you. I'd rather the the IP stay dead than get turned to slop.
>>733000000truth
>>733000524you're still gonna buy it.
>>733000874>>Implying it's a good gameThe art will not decide if it‘s a good game. If it‘s bad it‘s gonna flop anyway>>Implying it's either hiatus or good gameOh it‘s definitely hiatus if they made a pixelart game in 2026
>>733000893Both shitstained games look like hot, flaming garbage. I‘ll take that curse of belmont artstyle anyday over 2.5d abomination
>>732972073Who greenlit this? Devs should be ashamed of themselves especially the artists.>>732972625>it's the Dead Cells devsExplains all I need to know, I put them in the same category as Hollow Knight under "Reddit-core Millennial Slop"
Looks a million times better than the visual puke that is Bloodstained, what the fuck was Iga thinking?
>>733001108>what the fuck was Iga thinking?To scam backers and make a fuck ton of money with UE slop.
>>733000947No I'm not actually. I don't blindly buy things on brand alone.
>>733000470>DisneyHad almost a heart attack. Misread that Disney bought castlevania.
>>733001392Just an example to give you an idea how bleak things are.
>>733000893>despite the low budgetYou high? They had development hell, made a couple of classic castlevania games, plenty of dlc and started with the sequel. They had a massively successful ks campaign and funding was never a problem.
kneel
>>733001461It's ridiculous. We are obviously degressing. Guess it's has to be worse than it is now, before we can start developing again.
>>732974434I swear they said you were playing Trevor Belmont in this game.
>>732995636I can't. I won't. I don't want to.
>>733000000gem
konami doesnt make games anymore. they just get other people to make it for them why they force the old konami devs to work the pachinko mines
>>733001609Watch the trailer again.
>>733000947Yeah, so?
>>732972625Does Konami even have inhouse developers anymore? I thought they punted everything after they switched to pachinko
>>732972625western game devs actually want to make 2D platformers, japan doesn’t. it’s that simple.
>>732972414They also worked on Prince of Persia, and the main complaint they received was about the artstyle
>>732972761there willing to use it for the anniversary website, but not the games, it seems
>>732972761I dont get it. We finally have the power to make games actually look like the concept art/box art, but instead every game ends up looking like generic slop.Same thing for Amano's art in the case of FF. Imagine how cool a modern FF game would look if they went all in on making the game look like Amano's concept art. instead we get generic realistic ue metahuman slop.
>>732984037I don't want my 'vanias looking like Blasphemous either
I just want her back
if i was konami i would get a anime studio to make the 2d artstyle assets for the game and then get a well know metroidvania studio to make the game thats the perfect combo
>>732982202>>732981984goycoper using wikipedia as his source but yet again
There's something about how the castle looks that irks me. Something looks off.
>>733001913Apparently it's difficult to animate. Maybe its due to risk aversion or lacking skill. Samurai pizza cats and South Park look like legit episodes, so it's likely possible to make games look like picrel.
>>733002381Not enough windows?
>>732972073It's a bit rough, but I like it in overall.
>>733002381its small but thats probably due to having to go through the city prior to going into it is my guess
>>733002415I think with modern tech it should be possible. Games like Okami exist which look pretty close to concept art. I just wish devs did more with modern graphic tech then just realistic=good.
>>733002415>Apparently it's difficult to animatein 3D?I could see that being the case, but you have stuff like Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust or the Arslan OVA which use his style, and it works so for 2D it should work fine
I'm still gonna buy it tho, I miss Castlevania the one you can metroid in a castlemania
Shitters madThe gameplay looks better than any castlevania game
>>733002781>Shitters?The Dead Cell devs added a bunch of shit to their game so it's play itself basically. Like auto-tracking when you swing and shit.
>>733002781it looks like overcrowded, unclear slop
>>733002781it doesnt look better than SOTN lets stop lying to ourselves
>>732972073more concerned about the soundtrack than the visualsNetflix's Castlevania really had terrible audio mixing and a bad renditions of the original Castlevania songs so i doubt this game will buck the trend.
>>733000000wasted
>>733000470Been over 10 years and opinions of Disney Wars movies have not improved. And those were massive big-budget movies exploiting one of the most popular brand franchises of all time with a large fraction of fanboy consoomer addicts willing to defend literally anything.What really happens with low-effort garbage that is in fact garbage is that after 10 years it's just forgotten. Nobody talks about it outside maybe a tiny niche of enthusiasts, if you are lucky.
By the way that's a nice cover isn't it? It's like a game within a game :)
>>733002381other depictions had bigger foundations so even if they had towers and spires all over the place it didn't look silly
>>733002781>copypasted bow&sword hollows instead of a variety Castlevania monsters>constant screenshake>some half-assed platforming gimmicks
>>732984037They did, what you on about?
>>733002540Ye, likely it's not establish and devs don't care for some reason. I'd love see it.>okamiIt's ps2, eh?>>733002575Idk, there's some decent advancement in 2.5 d pixel in 3d and voxel in 3d. Saw concepts and demos of real games and it looks good. After ai made this first person pixel adventure, some are actually going for that look. It's... Something else, sure.>vampire hunter D artstyleThat would be like omg/10
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lsIye_bWY_8>TFW none of the /v/tards realized that Konami literally teased the 1999 Julius Belmont game/v/ is dead.
>>732972073i stopped expecting castlevania from konami years ago, why are people still holding on
>>732994269>>732994335gay shit is really not very popular, manyou're being fooled by a very noisy minority - gay stuff is viewed as uncanny and corrupt by most people, and heroic beauty is not a product of eros but pathosplease correct your alignment; being gay is a choice
>>732988886What a shameless copy. Not going to pay that much for a 5h game. I'm intrigued, a bit at least.
>>732988886Team Ladybug games looks nice but they lacked content imo
>>732977909Mirror of Fate fucking SUCKED and frankly Dread is only marginally better. They still clearly have no idea how to design a map.
>>732994518The MC only named Belmont because they want to keep it non-binary :)
>>732992812It's not a masterpiece, but I had fun. Very grindy.
>>732977909
>>732994335>>732993571Lol is this a meme? I want to draw something with this
>>733003791>will be done by dead cell devsTerrible fucking news
>>733004169Dread has some good individual rooms and enemy placement but the way they're connected almost spoils the whole thing. If you're lucky areas loop within themselves and funnel you to another one of those shitty bandaid teleporters, but generally speaking the map is way too twisted within itself for its own good. I still like the game but I can't deny the map doesn't facilitate exploration on the way previous games did.There's a reason those Metroid has always had those big vertical rooms with shit tons of doors in it, even Fusion had a handy hub room in every sector.
>>732972073it's like netflix cartoon, I don't mind as long as the gameplay is solid. also check the cartoon it has some incredible fights (even though the latest season was kinda gay).
>>733004962>don't mind the gay looks as long as the gameplay is solidAnon, I...
>>733004962Nah, I'm good.First season was alright. Second season was gay as fuck. And I couldn't sit through the first 3 episodes of the Richter one due to how cringe it was.If you enjoyed that garbage, genuinely kill yourself
>>732974434>>732972073>draw a woman>call it a manI fucking hate nips' obsession with effeminate faggots.
>>733005081There's a spinoff, too. Skipped season 2 after 2 full episodes and 3.l completely.
>>732993918twittertroons need to stop thinking everything is about them
>>733000000WITNESSED
>>732993621That game would had been literally perfect with twice its lenght, removing the bow puzzles and playable PirotessSad
I thought that character is a guy with long hair before I read here it's supposed to be a womanfucking lolnot buying this, can't even design a woman properly
>>733005013you can't call animation style "gay" nigga. it's stupid. you wanted grimdark anime style vs american cartoon but I personally don't care that much about the art style in a metroidvania game as long as it's not extremely basic looking.
>>732972073Agree, looks like some indie shit from the 2010s. Nothing about it says "Castlevania".
>>732972073yes it is. I will be buying this day 1
>>733005081>richter seasonI only watched it for the fights and didn't regret.
>>732972073I remember thinking that Dread looked bad... but now it looks good in comparison
>>733005367Shut the fuck up. I've seen you spouting your dumbass opinions all thread. You're easy to spot due to your lack of proper grammar and punctuation.
>>733000000check'd
>>733005609I've only made this one post and couple of replies to you retards. you are paranoid lmao
>>733005725Your posts are easy to spot because you don't use commas and type in all lowercase.Dumbass.
>>733004586That is not known yet.
>>733005912>Your posts are easy to spot because you don't use commas and type in all lowercase.ahahahahahahhaha, how new can one faggot be?
>>732999762It is definitely not awful, Japan and the west have different philosophies on character design. Western people take shape design/languages and silhouettes more on a macro level (body type, proportion, hair) whereas eastern people disregard both to use them on a microlevel (eyes, noses, items, shadows).>>732999813It is just ignorant conservatives and slavs who cry "demonic faggot communist agenda!" whenever they see something different. I hate listening to them.
>>733006004>ahahahahahahhaha, how new can one faggot be?Idk, you tell us
Wasn‘t the castlevania dlc in dead cells well received by castlevania fans? I‘m surprised by the hate for this game
>>733006187you're pretty new lmao. bunch of esl's are present in every thread, myself included. some of us probably type in a similar way or make similar mistakes. some even share the same opinion about certain things. it's not like I'm pushing some extreme opinions only 1 in 10000 people would agree with.
>>733006496Stop embarrassing yourself
>>733006576no u
>>732998332>I bet sotn remake by M2 is one of them.FUCKING STOP RIGHT THERE, NO, NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. You either give me RE1 or System Shock Remake treatment or NOTHING, i don't trust anybody with that, and by the lord it must be pixel art, no 2d drawings, no 3d, just pixels, thank YOU very MUCH!
>>732972625>AAA studio outsourcing games to small indie studioslazy
>>733007171you think they have the internal talent to make a 2d castlevania anymore? Do you think that talent would have any more actual connection to the previous games as these rando indie devs? There'd be some different names on the box, that's about it
>>733006148i was asking about the new Shinobi game and its gameplay, forgot to clarify
>>733005229>removing the bow puzzlesI liked them. If anything, I'd prefer if they were harder. Not counting that optional bow challenge that was very hard, but it wasn't a puzzle.
>>733007171Westerners are allergic to work, hence they gave some cretins the possibility to earn billions while these cretins help the east to become the new first world, while letting their fellow whites be overrun by blacks and turning the west into some Nigerian shit ghetto. Well played.
>>733007968Wth, that's a bad game. Glad I didn't buy
>>732998735>Milf Natalie Portman could bench press you and fold you in halflmao could she also destroy my fragile ego with a look??Fucking retard faggot, no woman could fight any man who wasn't jobbing.
I remember when Meryl's gorilla shoulders were the biggest joke in gamingNow this is supposed to be normal and hot even
>>732999835Both my kids (5 and 9) just saw this image over my shoulder and were surprised when I said "she". They both thought it was a male with long hair.
>>733008000real schizo hours
>>732977909Mercury Steam is a career shit studio that fails to produce anything better than a 6/10 at best outside of their two Metroid games which were co-developed by Nintendo's EPD division. They're a modern day Silicon Knights where they basically need Nintendo's oversight and guidance to make anything good.
>>733006148You are a subsentient npc programmed to attack anything your masters label as bad (eg "right-wing"). A solid argument was made, and you can't respond because you have no concept of truth or beauty.
>>732972073>blurry ai sloppa
>>733001913It's definitely possible to animate in actual art style, but this would take time and attention to detail, and a level of care that no company is willing to pay for.
>>733006735M2 does really good remakes thoughbeit
>>733008496You vil like THICC dommy mommy and you vil be subservient to w0men
>>733007171It could be fine if there were sufficiently competent producers running the project. /v/ would still complain about the art style but if the art direction and level/enemy design was actually appropriate for Castlevania and not just a lazy souls/hollow knight knockoff with some platforming gimmicks, defenders would have a leg to stand on.
>>733008602Sure, the west is stronger than ever before. Can't even beat Russians b team, lol. Trump is the gravedigger of the constitution.
>>733009745kill yourself /pol/tard
>>732972073Holy fuck what IS this GARBAGE
>>733000000Nice
>>733009745 Bro what are you even on about? You're throwing dartboard geopolitics and slapping it onto a thread about Castlevania devs and talent drain. Are you lost or just terminally online? Go touch moss or something, take a break from your Tucker Carlson binge.
looks like the most generic AI generated Fortnite slop artstyle. They didn't even try to give it an art direction.
>>732972073It's handpainted in the sense that you drag and drop the Handpainted smart material in Substance Painter and it's done
>>733010507>Tucker CarlsonThat guy, kek. I'm saying the west will continue to decliena and this shows in their vidya quality. Don't expect a turn around any time soon.
wait! wait! wait!is really a woman?
>>732972145>original creative vision of a series is long goneAkamatsu left in the early 90s. You don't mean Koji "Cowboy Hack" Igarashi, right?
>>732972625most publishers have been so away from making that kind of game that they see it better to outsource it to devs who have more CURRENT experience
please don't tell me it's roguelike or lite...
a new bloodstain comes out this yearthis game was greenlit to steal spotlight from that
>>733014746Nobody actually cares about shitstained. The niche it filled when it released no longer needs filling
>>733013230>Will she succeedSteam description gave it away despite the trailer trying to conceal her face which really is a odd choice
>>733015361I didn't think it was supposed to be vague, long blonde braids are a dead giveaway 99.9% of the time. Trevor was just the person the narrator was contacting, I guess that might've thrown off some unintelligent people
>>732994792maria is fit but still hot, loved playing her in sotn saturn version. her sprites and animations convey her femininity without removing her credibility as a female warrior.i guess a muscular female can pass but only because she is a belmontoriginal sonia does look like a slut and is hard to take seriously. also got bred by fucking alucard.but as i said maria striked the perfect balance for me. shanoa was hot and fit too and i never thought she looked ridiculous because she is so serious. snoya belmont needs at least to not be insufferable in dialogue or i will skip this game.
I will accept the art style if the gameplay is good.
>>732972073Netflix troons killed Castlevania You subhuman faggots shilled alucard getting raped in the assAnd no s1 was woke dogshit as well
>>732992563you know Dead Cells is nothing like fucking Rogue right?
>>732993353>he has yaoi proportionKojima was a yaoi artist so that adds up
>>733001982Don't we all.
>>732995147It's a final masterpieceLiterallyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3PU303DwGM
How does a new Castlevania stand out in 2026 when there's 40 new metroidvanias being dumped onto steam every single day? SotN is probably the most heavily copied and iterated upon game of all time. What makes this worth buying over any of those? The branding? Who gives a fuck?
>>733004586dead cells plays alright, the biggest problem is the procedural level design and timed doors which are active incentives against exploration, a hallmark of the metroid world design philosophy. but the combat is pretty solid
>>733021375Yeah it seems like abandoning the roguelite mechanics would be a good thing here, and all indications would say so.
>>732972761Aria of sorrow artist? I don't like her works, looks like cheap yaoi manga
Will this at least play like a castlevania game?
>>733021654It looks like it's driven entirely by mechanics. I'm expecting button mashing, perfect dodges and parries.
>>732994032>>732994154Calm down little Indian boy, being gay is ok, you shouldn't be afraid of your feelings
>>733021827ewwwI just want a game where you whip shit and jump like a rock. I don't need 100 new mechanics.
Metriodvanias are lame
>>732972073Looks like indieslop
>>733002781it looks like it plays like mirror of fate
>>733004962Kill yourself
>>733020312You know Dead Cells is nothing like fucking Metroid right?
>>733008000>Westerners are allergic to workThen why are the Japs the ones outsourcing to the West?
>>733000000Checked and correct
>>732994939>>732994836>>732999479>yaoi handsI CANNOT UNSEEWHY
>>732972625Shinobi was great
>>733020890If it did a good job with creative, series-appropriate enemy and level designs and atmosphere/feel, of course it has a place.That's not what this looks like, however.
>>732972073Looks ALMOST as shit as Bloodstained
>>733020890I agree. I wanted another Classic instead. Enjoyed Haunted Castle Remake a lot despite being very easy. Whip felt really good.
>>733021654Doesn't look like it.Looks like 2d soulborne with a whip.No flaming ghosts, bone dragons, flea men, goofy yorick skeletons, giant armored knights, etc. Just generic hollows.
>>733025242East Slovakia, maybe and secondly Japan is a western country, even if you call me chinese.
>>733028563but then if both parties are western then its still a contradiction, for the statement to make sense a western party would need to outsource to a non-western party otherwise work is ultimately being done by westerners which defeats the "westerners are lazy" assertion
>>732977092>>732976587
>>733029305According to anons eastern Europe isn't white or western. Ultimately I was talking about West Europe and Northern America, commonwealth, too. There are certainly outliers like Japan or Qatar which are western countries. Ultimately, east and west are very inaccurate categories.
>>733008045faggot
>>733000000this
>>732999561On top of what? The toilet?
>>732972414>>732972495Konami doesn't give a fuck about Castlevania. It's always been a side project that has been table scraps for a budget.It's only been as kino because of the passion and talent of the developers.
These are not Castlevania enemies.
>>733001913Amano's art is untranslateable to 3D. Nothing he draws makes any coherent sense, it's just a bunch of wispy lines and random patterns vomitted everywhere. It looks nice at a glance, but the longer you look at it the more it falls apart.
>>732973062It's Evil Empire, the good devs. It may not be a pretty looking game, but it's almost guaranteed to play really well.
>>732995501>actually bought the collectionsYep, fake fan confirmed. Real fans have been emulating these games for decades.
Have people actually played Dead Cells?It's a very, very, very hard game once you get to the higher ascensions.I have to assume most people did not play Dead Cells very much.
>>732994730>She's completely different though, literally the only things alike are the hair braidsDo you have any idea how many times Simon and Trevor were reinvented. Older castlevania leads aren't exactly known for compelling or consistent personalities.
>>733031296I pretty much only run a hotline miami build any more
>>733030653>It's only been as kino because of the passion and talent of the developers.Sure. Do they have a brand that brings the money? Didn't they switch to gambling?
>>733030675This is a crime to any vidya enjoyer
>>733031525Meaning...?>>733031557Amano's art is freaky. But he can draw basically anything. Check out his concept art for Freya.
>>732972073what do you call this style? reminds me of LoL and all the modern garbagenot that cellshading is bad but damn
>>733031557>>733031719I would have loved it had we finally got an FF game that properly looks like Amano's art. It really bugs me that as soon as graphics became good enough to capture the art style, the art style went to shit.
>>733032859AI could probably generate a game based on that artstyle right now in 10 minutes.
>>733030675the more is see of this game the worse it get lol
>>733032995fuck you
>>732972073That water at the bottom of the screen doesn't look right. There's no clear sign of a waterline, nor is it clear how or why some things from the floor aren't entering the water themselves. That cloth on the right looks like it shouldn't be in front of the water, but in it, and that grating on the left doesn't look like it's floating in the water. It looks like a rough mirroring of what's above it with a distortion effect that needs some work. The water in the background that's presumably flooding the place looks too detached from the rest of the environment, and it's running through a bunch of bones but doesn't seem to transfer any debris.
>>732972073Ugly tumblr art
When did /v/ become such graphicwhores?
>>733033608Learn the difference between graphics and aesthetics, retard.
>>733030689Huh weird, seems like you have eyes issues, because oh look here >>733009063, a coherent try.>The longer you look at it the more it falls apartTake a look at Sabin or Gogo and what the fuck is falling apart huh? next time at least read what you write before posting it, artstyle is not hard to implement, it just needs passionate hands, look at Dragon Ball Fighterz.>>733031557Again, look at Sabin or Edgar, or Locke, what the FUCK is wrong with your eyes you faggots?
>>732993621That was the only good looking area in this game, lol.
>>733033901dont act like this game have good graphics lol, both are bad
>>733007968It looks like she could have almost shot herself with her own arrow. Is that a thing to account for in Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth?
When did /v/ become such aestheticwhores?When did /v/ become such lookwhores?When did /v/ become such exquisitenesswhores?You're still whores, whoring yourself out to screenshots. Gameplay is king, then music, then difficulty. This game will provide all.
>>733034005I'm not going to play Celeste or other gay looking shit just because "gameplay is king."
>>733030689There is such a thing as gleaning intent from a piece of artwork. Ayami Kojima's art actually does fall apart because she renders her ass off but does a pitiful job when it comes to proportions and perspective. Amano just does his own thing, he fundamentally thinks in terms of the 2D plane and he puts composition above all else (and his compositional sense is incredible), meanwhile Kojima actively aims for something that's above her skillset and doesn't quite manage to pull it off.
>>733032859>It really bugs me that as soon as graphics became good enough to capture the art style, the art style went to shit.The answer is simple, they tried to achieve "realism" and put it in franchises that don't and never will mix well with it, the focus of fantasy and the supernatural is how mystic and irreal it is, that's why the earlier FF and Castlevania games are so well remembered, they had mystic in their style, chibi maybe in some cases, but in the character art you could see the style of the whole setting, be it dieselpunk like OG 7 or fantastical like 9, that's what makes them stand out, same with castlevania, full on gothic like SoTN or medieval fantasy like the classicvanias, and some anime in Rondo's case.
>>733034171Thankfully the gameplay in Celeste is shit so no worries there. And the music. Supposedly it gets hard at some point but I didn't see it, it's hardly a complex game.
>>733033608Since always, watch how many retards on here dismiss Bloodstained entirely because they down't whicke da gwafix.
>>733000317Lady Maria in Bloodborne has broad shoulders, so per your own "reasoning", Bloodborne is woke and doesn't know what a woman is. Go rethink what you've been doing.
>>732976936It is the first hollowlike though
>>732972073Hey, OP, you cock sucking nigger faggot. How about titling your thread properly or putting the name of the game in the post so I wouldn't make redundant threads by mistake? Castlevaniafags move here to continue talking about the series after this thread hits bump limit:>>733011248>>733011248>>733011248
