Are we excited?
Very much so.
No IGA no buy.
>>733610375Looks serviceable but the movement in Dead Cells was never the high point. I've also seen too many games like Timespinners or Lone Fungus go up their own ass with slavish devotion to Castlevania-style design so it's kind of bewildering to see what Castlevania itself does at the end of that ouroboros. Metroid Dread disappointed on many fronts from stagnating and adding contrivances rather than actually building on the series foundation. I could see that happening here.
>>733610375Not really. It looks like an unrelated game with the Castlevania branding slapped on top.
>>733610691I see the argument being made the art style is trying to be reminiscent of the NES games with the simplified color choices.
>>733610375need to see more, but the devs' past games haven't been terrible, so there might be some hope
Looks pretty good, and much better already than Bloodstained.
>>733611068NES games actually had good contrast and didn't overuse solid black for walls like modern indies are obsessed with.
>>733611068Looks more like the animated shows' colour palette than the 8-bit games
>>733610375Yeah, I finally went and beat 1 and 3 in the meantime since I'd never done so, still think cotm is better but I'll have to sit on them. However I'm looking forward to Belmont's Curse first and foremost as a non-rougelite follow up to Dead Cells, I see it being labelled Castlevania as incidental and I doubt it'll retain much of the feel of either the Igas or the classics. I can understand fans hesitiation towards it. The visuals are okay, on par with Chronicles X I'd say. Don't really think CV's visuals are outstanding outside of rondo and sotn now that I think about it.My biggest concerns are the soundtrack and the lack of contact damage.
>>733610375Yes. However I'm looking forward to some quality before truly being happy. Not too much, but some. I have quite a bit of goodwill leeway to offer due to it being the franchise return title.If it's Sonia, toss all of the above aside, I will just ascend on the spot. Regardless of how it turns out, I'll like it then.
>>733611570Didn't play simon quest?The Prince of Persia game they did had a good soundtrack, but it was very much its own sound and didn't feel like older PoP soundtracks,so I would expect the same for Belmont's quest
>>733610691you guys ever wonder about background stuff? like how did that coffin in the back end up there like that, and who's inside of it?
I'm surprised the game is taking place in Paris. I thought Castlevania was always in Romania, besides Bloodlines which was all over Europe.
>>733612465In older games, all the time
>>733612612Wasn't Aria of Sorrow in Japan?
>>733612612>>733612816wasn't PoR somewhere weird too?
>>733612612It is pretty surprising considering it takes place in between III and I
>>733610691>castlevania=gothicThey don't get it, and neither do the redditors praising this slop
>>733612612Bloodlines has you going through Romania, France, Germany, etc.
>>733610375Not even a little.>monster girls can't be sexy anymore
>>733612952Transylvania, as far as we know.
>>733610375You betcha
>>733610375If I get a whiff of netflix faggotry I'm out
>>733616957
>>733612465Yeah, actually.>Dracula's bloody coffin in Stage 1 of BloodlinesMakes me wonder what the final fight was like>that blue-skinned prisoner in Symphony of the NightWhat did he do to end up in there?>Ghostly Theatre in Lament of InnocenceWhat would Walter Bernhard need a theatre for?
>>733610556It's the same in Castlevania. Just look at how they never give you the speed up ability until the end of the game (and also give you basically no mechanics that work with it so half the time you just take damage ramming into enemies and get knocked out of it)
>>733610375Looks ok but i wouldn't have guessed it was a new Castlevania without the name attached.
>>733618213It needs the old tunes. Hopefully those will all be back.
>>733610691The environmental art design for this game is so unfitting for Castlevania.
>>733619063Seconded.
>female protagonistNah.
>>733612612Slightly unrelated but the progenitor of the Belmont family is a french man so.
>>733612612I think it's because the developers are French. But I've also seen theories that Gilles de Rais will be the main villain, or at least in a secondary antagonist role like Brauner was.
>>733619346its castlevania its not like theres much character or story
>>733610375Looks good. Wish they were releasing it for the PS4. From a hardware standpoint there was no reason not to.
>>733619307>Gilles de Rais will be the main villainIt wouldn't be the first time he was helping to revive Dracula.
>>733610691>It looks like an unrelated game with the Castlevania branding slapped on topThats what i thought too after trailer shows first 20s of gameplayI get that making the gameplay exactly like pre igavania doesn't work well for modern audiences but this is like a new metroidvania trailer with CV dlc/mod
>>733610691>>733610556>>733610473>>733610416It looks like garbage, another modern slop game
>>733617642>What would Walter Bernhard need a theatre for?he was actually bored out of his skull being immortal and all, I think that one was easy to deduce
>>733610375I'm playing through Circle of the Moon right now. Genuinely might be the worst controlling side scroller I've ever played in my life and I think whoever thought that shitty double tap dash was a good idea needs to be permanently exiled from the game's industry. I love it.
>>733621168I was pretty unlucky and only got like 3 cards throughout the whole game
>>733621168For me, it's the screen automatically scrolls up and down when you jump so that your character is always in the center of the screen. No other Castlevania game does this and it just completely nauseates me
>>733610375This game is actually made to compliment the (((netflix))) series. And yes, western hands are touching this game, as Konami is not the one making it. Stay humbled. Stay Woke.
>>733611068>simplified color choices>screen shot in question is overly shadedOkay retard.>>733610375No dead cells was fucking awful. It had one good song and thats it.
>>733610375I don't really care for CV or new art stylebut i like deadcells combat so i am interested
While we are here>victorian goth artstyle instead of anime looking shit>actually challenging>20 distinct explorable locations>simple yet solid story>glyph system was funI dont understand OoE haters
>>733610375I think it'll be good Evil Empire know what they're doing
>>733625430Most of them delude themselves into thinking that Castlevania has a focus on something other than combat and are willfully blind to the same types of linear corridors OoE has existing in the games they like
>>733625430>>20 distinct explorable locationsthis wasn't a positive
Yes but I want a new 3D CAGtlevania
No, looks and sounds like shit.It would be great to have another good cv, but I can't trust anymore the "let's give a bunch of indies our old ip" projects. Shinobi and ninja gaiden both sucked, and dead cells is pretty far from what good 2d castlevania gameplay is
>>733610375Not really, the fact the artstyle resembles the Netflix series killed any interest I could've had.
>>733610375I'm frankly skeptical.
is the MC Sypha or who is thatthe 2D metroiodvania formula is played out 2bh I would've preferred a 3d action game but i'm excited
>>733629158new Belmont girl
>>733629158People think it’s Sonia Belmont reintroduced into canon, but this time she’s the daughter of Trevor.
>>733610375Curious, honestly. I'm a huge faggot for Metroidvanias so even if this wasn't a Castlevania game I'd still want to play it. The fact that it IS makes me wonder how it'll play and what characters will appear.
It looks like every single metroidvania in existence.>room with up and down stairs for some reason, a staple of sidescrollers>hole you can jump down, woah branching paths!>spikes on the right for added "challenge">some traversal rings at the top, surely you'll have to find some skill/relic/item and return here in the future, better keep that one non-descript room in mind!>"hardcore gaymer" enemy placement, archer skelly in the back shooting at you while you fight sword skelly>remember Alucard's cape? we couldn't recreate that in 3d, here's a shitty ponytail insteadIt looks like the most paint-by-numbers generic and safe product possible.
>>733630003Every metroidvania since SoTN is just redundant.
little more interested in the new bloodstained but im glad castlevania is still a thing
>>733610375Unsure. I expect it will be a very paint-by-numbers metroidvania wearing CV's name, not really capturing the spirit of CV outside of some surface level elements and references. I also think it's a pretty poor attempt to bring the series back. I saw some anons say that this won't be the only CV game they're announcing so hopefully this is more of an appetizer.
>>733610375I'm meh on Dead Cells, and this looks like Dead Cells with a Castlevania skin. If there's a demo I'd be willing to try it.
>>733629405It 100% is Sonia, she looks too similar for it to be a coincidence
>>733610375Eh, I hope it's good but I struggle to get optimistic with a western dev at the helm. Also that Joan of Arc boss fight feels like a big warning sign about the story.
>>733610375Looks indistinguishable from all the other Temu Castlevanias. Also no pixel tits and ass = no buy
>this game being announced so soon after Rogue PoP left early accessWonder how much back-end stuff they're recycling between the two. Hopefully they figured out production values since Rogue, since everything not the gameplay itself is ass.
How come Konami doesn't make this game in house? Why contracted to Dead Cells developer? Even Sakamoto at Nintendo did the same with Metroid Dread and using a Spanish dev company. Are the japs just incapable of 2D/sidescrolling now?
>>733633017Inhouse staff doesn't have the talent or interest, so why not hit up a studio that's actually interested in trying to do your IP from justice?>Even Sakamoto at Nintendo did the same with Metroid Dread and using a Spanish dev companyAnd said Spaniards made a Metroidvania using the Castlevania IP on the 3DS prior to doing Samus Returns & Dread.
>>733621168Don't feel bad about not loving it I'd say CotM is probably the worst SOTN style Castlevania game. The card system is unbelievably poorly thought out and non functional.
>>733618213I think I only started suspecting Castlevania when I saw the Frozen Shade>>733618651I really like getting to a new area and hearing a new arrangement of an older song. The latest Bloody Tears from Haunted Castle Revisited might be my favorite
>>733610375Nope. Looks Boring. I'll play Mariachi Legends instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC_zzEbK_lE
>>733636826Buy an ad
>>733636935She's the one who gives you your powers
>>733637026At least you can hide them now, it took YouTube YEARS to add this button
>>733637214Top right of the video, when the cards show up, there’s a little Hide button
>>733610375Nah. I dropped dead cells because of how floppy the movement was and I can't say I care for the nondescript artstyle either. Honestly if you're going to poach an indie studio for Castlevania why not at least go for the guys who made Blasphemous.
>>733637398I think the blasphemous devs are working on a different IP for another company since they did that Ninja Gaiden game
>>733610375Excited? No.I don't expect to like it, but I don't think I'll dislike it enough to skip it either. Depends on the price.
>>733610473Suggest playing CV:LoS
Just started playing this. What am I in for?
>>733636826>Latinx: the gamesWhat even?
>>733629405>>733631102No, CV64 and Legacy of Darkness should include in canon
No. I hate the art style plus>female protagonist
>coolest fucking werewolf design ever>forever stuck in a shitty game and will never be used outside of itYou fags dont understand true pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKFotNfqsZoLooks like shit compared to real Castlevania games
>>733610375I'll try it out at least, but the artstyle kind of sucks.
>>733610375No. I don't like the aesthetics. Looks too much like Dead Cells. But I will play it. I have played almost every game in this series and will continue.
>>733610375I'm going to buy both that and the Bloodstained sequel when they come out.
>>733639073This too. I still play it from time to time just to have fun playing as Cornell and Simon. But the game is just incredibly barebones and while they did try to give everyone their own quirks you can tell they didn't spend that much time in the oven before pumping the game out. Along with the horrible balance and a few questionable story and design decisions. I really do hope they take another stab at it one day and really flesh it out. Because honestly this game going back to it every once in a while now, I feel like they had more plans for it but it was rushed for one reason or another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HioQ_JYOrYYI AM THE MORNING SUN COME TO VANQUISH THIS HORRIBLE NIGHT
classicvania>modern slopvania/igavaniaIt's all just fucking bloat and it's way too easy.
It doesn't look good visually, but if the gameplay is anything close to real igavania I will play it anyway. I'm so sick of hearing: "OMG, this is just like Castlevania/Metroid, but better!" and then I play it and it's pure indie slop that has nothing to do with either.
>>733639739The Sorrow games are peak Castlevania though alongside Order of Ecclesia. In spirit I'd include Ritual of the Night as well since it's for all intents and purposes Sorrow3 and it holds up even if its visuals are rough.
>>733638603>What am I in for?Kino
Since Konami announced that the Castlevania revival will have multiple projects, which ones would you want?
>>733641128> which ones would you want?Simon Quest remake. 3d Igavania like Curse and Lament.
>>733641128Legacy of Darkness Remake, all four campaigns completely reworked and fleshed out with modern technology. Proper fighting game basically judgement but good. Aria of Sorrow anime not Netflix anime, made by japanese hands only.
Why did the mods delete that post describing Legacy of Darkness in detail? The guy didn't use a NSFW image or even an image at all. He didn't throw in a slur or anything either. Are the mods deleting the wrong posts on the board somehow?
>>733641234>Aria of Sorrow anime not Netflix anime, made by japanese hands only.Based.
>>733610375Curse of Darkness confirmed canon (therefore Netflix is not)
>>733643024>strongest in the Demon King's armyThat's gonna fuck with tourists so hard.
