I can't be the only one excited for this? I love the fusion of 2D and 3D artstyle here
>>733698587>I can't be the only one excited for this?You can
>>733698587All I want is 1999, then the franchise can die peacefully in its sleep.
>>733698587Looks terrible for many reasons.
>>733698587>generic indie art style>looks nothing like castlevania>no contact damage>unoriginal instakill spike hallways>mirror of fate gameplay>music most likely will suckhard pass I'll just play Ecclesia again
>>733699259please elaborate
>>733698587it might be fun but it doesn't have the vibe of a castlevania game
>>733699420>no contact damage>implying this is badoh fuck off
>>733699884So you're implying that it's a good game but not a good Castlevania game?
>>733698587why does Trevor look like a grill?
>>733700325She's probably his daughter with Sypha.
>>733698587It has the goated Soulslike/Dead Cells gameplay instead of the boring Bloodstained/classic gameplay, that's enough to make me excited
>>733701265Why does she look like a dude?
>>733698587The art style looks really generic, nothing about it makes me think of Castlevania.
>>733701265She is, the website confirmed it.
>>733707270What's the point not saying her name. Is it a big spoiler or something or are we naming her ourselves?
>>733700261It like a mediocre indie platforming game that isn't castlevania
>>733707542No idea. Some people speculate that she'll be Sonia Belmont brought back into the canon timeline by this game.
>>733698587I just realized there's no candles in any of this. How can you have a Castlevania with no candles?
>It has the goated Soulslike/Dead Cells gameplay instead of the boring Bloodstained/classic gameplay, that's enough to make me excitedtide eaters…
>>733701265>>733700325>womanWhy not traditional manly protagonist?
>>733708046>Sonia Belmont brought back into the canon timeline by this game.Might be interesting, she does kinda look like Sonia.
>>733708046Sonia will never be canon.
>>733708203Sonia's just a name, they can easily just use the new character as a reference or alternate universe counterpart.
>>733708178>manly
>>733698587I think the environments and effects look pretty good (although not very Castlevania), but the character models are messy and strangely drab
>>733708178She is manly though
Think about the enemies you encounter in the first few minutes of Castlevania: SOTN- Giant Wolves inside a Great Hall- Horde of Zombies crawling up out of the ground and swaming you- Mermen bursting out of the water onto platforms (recalling CV1)- Weird skeleton things that creep along the walls and drip poison on your head- Huge dudes in armor throwing axesBelmont's Curse:- Shambling hollow- Sword hollow- Bow hollow- Big fat hollow with lantern spear
>>733698587Shitstained looks like... SHITThis looks better but just looking at it i know movement is beyond SHITSo thats what it should be called, Shitstained beyond shit
>>733698587>I love the fusion of 2D and 3D artstyle hereBlazblue did it better
Last Feith is a pretty nice Metroidvania with an aesthetic that mixes Castelvania and Bloodborne if you want to play something old-school.
looks overanimated
>>733700114other anon that played more 2D souls/vaniyas here yes can confirm contact damage >>>>> no contact damagedefinitively so and stfu about it , it just feels bad to you cuz you suc and don't know how bad it is without it if you were good at the gamegit gud
>>733698587>I love the fusion of 2D and 3D artstyle hereWeird, I fucking hated that style decades ago and I hate it today. Also imagine expecting anything good out of modern outsourcing Konami.
I'm interested but it kind of reminds me of Mirror of Fate and I hate an unreasonable amount of hate for that game.
>>733708801This depresses me so much it's unreal.
>>733708801Honestly I'm just annoyed there isn't a single regular skeleton, I've got a bone to pick with Konami right now.
>>733709698they outsourced it to the Dead Cells devs, so it's gonna be good
>>733710774Everything in the trailer says otherwise, I'll believe it when I see it.
>>733708154>every game should be exactly the same>t. tide pod swallowerCV should borrow a few ideas from souls and other indie platforms but retain its own identity. Not a hard concept. Reskinning something else with a supeficial Castlevania branding layer is soulless trash.
>>733698587doesn't look like a castlevania gamedoesn't play like a castlevania gamepass
>>733708178>>733699259>>733700261>>733700325Kill all poserfags
>>733708801Symphony of the Night is so fucking sick. I fucking enjoyed the hell out of that game. VR remake or bust.
D A R K M E T A M O R P H O S I S
>>733709165Played it right after Blasphemous. It is a clone of Blaphemous gameplay-wise with stats and skin of everything from Bloodborne. It is less unique than Blasphemous, but i liked The Last Faith better as a game. Although both have the same problem - instead of exploration and sequence breaks you have actually a corridor game with backtracking. SotN, Hollow Knight and Rabi-Ribi do exploration times better, while Blasphemous and The Last Faith (and ton of other "metroidvanias") fail to implement that.
>>733709165Shame the game itself plays like absolute shit. It has some cool weapons
>>733711237Right.There are some flaws, like having a dozen pointless clones of the Short Sword. Tasteful integration of a few mechanics common to soulslikes such as stamina and poise have potential to add depth there, without going all-in on the style.
They should've got inti to make one, the curse of the moons are amazing
vampire survivors unironically has the most fun castlevania adaptation in recent yearsthe tribute dlc they made is big enough that it basically replaced all the main contents of it
It's probably going to be a good game but not a good Castlevania game. Just a decent indie metroidvania wearing Castlevania's skin.
>>733714648if this game does generally well, it will probably be the de facto Castlevania style going forward. I hate it.
>>733698587I wouldn't have known it was a Castlevania teaser if they hadn't shown the title
is this a roguekike ? or a proper game ?
If Trevor only had a daughter, how did the Belmont name survive?
>>733714891Are you... retarded?
>>733714812Oh no, it'll look like Castlevania! How problematic!
>>733716696It doesn't look like Castlevania
>>733714815It's a broad with a whip hitting skeletons in a castle what else could it have been?
>>733718249>t. has never played a castlevania game in his lifeWe know.
>>733714891>>733716130Trevor's inlaw wanted the cred and let their child be named Belmon-Whateverhisfamilynamewas. Then only the Belmont part stuck. Simple 'as.
I fucking love Castelvania bros. Fuck Netflix.
>>733718352La Mulana 2, Bloodstained, any number of indie Metroidvanias frankly.
>>733698587We’re boycotting. Woke, censorship, westoid art style. No thanks! Based. This but unironically. >>733699074Fibby bibby my fellow gamer. /thread
>>733698587No Iga = No CastlevaniaAs simple as that.
>>733714648QRD on Castlevania not being a metroidvania until now?
>>733698587It's literally the Rogue Prince of Persia.
>>733719109nta but I can kinda see it, it has that focus on fast paced movement that has been pretty much the go to for 'vanias since the Guacamelee years. IGA's games are much slower and more methodical.
>>733719072>we should hire the guy whose games sold less with each entry lol
733708801Bad criticism, the site shows medusa heads, mermen, frozen shades. They just don't want to show too much733704538The artstyle generally fits EXCEPT that of the bosses. Medusa werewolf and the knight do not look like castlevania bosses at all733714648this733714812yeah this sucks. I welcome Belmont's Curse BUT evil empire needs to fuck off after they complete this or I'll die from boredom>>733714842No, it's not a roguelike. It's their first attempt at doing an interconnected metroidvania. Which is concerning. >>733714891The logical and lore-friendly explanation would be: trevor had more than 1 kid because he needed to repopulate the clan, but the others are too young to fight. This blonde lady eventually married a Morris, giving the bloodline the capability of using the whip. Being the ancestor of quincy john and jonathan would be quite an impressive legacy.The western writer explanation will be: belmont's inheritance rules are sexist or something, female belmonts are just like male belmonts and can grow a cock if they want, also transwomen are women etc>>733719829Konami forced him to make a new game/year with minimal budget while throwing millions on lords of shadow and cancelling his 3d project. Dude could never make the 1999 game due to constraints and you are hating on him?>our system thinks your post is spamFUCK YOU.
>>733719109Are you being a fucking idiot on purpose? The way Castlevania did it and the way modern indies do it are vastly different.
Castlevania's aesthetic varied quite a lot over the years. The only thing preventing the BC from looking Castlevania-ish is the limited bestiary, but we also haven't seen much of the game. That it's a Metroidvania is what I'm disappointed with.
>>733718363It is you who have never played Castlevania, if you can't tell the difference between this shit: >>733708801 and actual Castlevania-style undead.
>>733721558>Bad criticism, the site shows medusa heads, mermen, frozen shades.Tard rebuttal, very stupid. I didn't include other images in the collage because it nails home the point that the aesthetic and philosophy are all wrong. I should not be able to make a collage like that AT ALL.Yes, there are other enemies, moron. Fucking obviously, I know that. The question is whether the implementation is Castlevania-like, and from what I can tell, it's not especially. Some things are unknown-- what's the point of medusa heads if there's no damage on contact? The Merman is bland. A single one jumps out of a puddle and you engage it like any other of the hollows. Lots of other enemies appear to be nothing other than flying things to pivot off with your whip. Nothing looks threatening except the bosses, everything is all about the super-human awesomeness of the whip-wielding, sword-slashing protagonist.But why go into all that autistic analysis when a single image just nails home how fucking embarrassingly off the design philosophy is?
>>733721674So everyone who called SOTN and Iga games “metroidvanias” were fucking idiots on purpose? Do zoomers not realize where the name comes from? Is literacy really this low? What happened to this site?
>>733698587Lmao, what was that room filled with spikes? It seriously looks like indie pixel shit
Looks a lot like POP the lost crown which isn't bad. Might get my hopes up
>>733698587I like what I see so far
>>733721558Here's another comparison to show the difference between Castlevania zombies, and generic zombies.Yes, morons might not see any difference here. They might just see two depictions of slow-moving, probably-easily-defeated undead enemies dressed in rags.The Castlevania zombie is an iconic design, the hunched-over undead with its arms raised in a comically scary manner. This is important because it reflects a designer who actually cares, they aren't content to just let a zombie be a zombie they want it to be distinctive and have personality. In the original NES game, they actually move FAST. They come at you from off the screen, arms up, coming to get you. In SOTN they shamble slowly, more like typical zombies, but they pop out of the ground endlessly. More comical than scary, but still distinctive.The Belmont's Curse zombies are extremely generic and could come from literally any game with zombies.
Think about the enemies you encounter in the first few minutes of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow(Reddit spacing)- Generic Zombies inside a Great Hall- Generic Bats in bland stairways- Generic mermen lazily jumping out of the water onto platforms (copying previous entries for member berries)- Generic skeleton things that creep along and just throw a singular bone - First boss is literally a giant skeleton with 10 frames of animation(Reddit spacing)Belmont's Curse:(Reddit spacing)- Shambling hollow with much detail and care put into it- Sword skeleton (more than a bone)- Bow hollow wearing remnants of their past life on them- Large intimidating hollow with lantern spear
>>733700261NTA but kind of. It's telling that Bloodstained 2 looks like way more of a Castlevania game than this does and looks not only more like Castlevania but just flat out looks like a better game.
>>733711237>VR remake or bust.What?
>>733716696>>733718363Why is it always retarded tourist larpers like you that accuse other people of being tourists? If you think this looks anything like a Castlevania game outside of just being a side scroller then you have never touched a single game in this series in your entire life.
no 2D only high quality pixels and sprites = no buythere's literally no excuse, plenty of artists know how to do it, could have hired the Blasphemous guy
>>733698587I hope it's good but I doubt I'll play it desu
>>733719109>>733724063No don't seem to understand the difference between a franchise and a genre.Metroidvania is a very broad term for an open-ended 2D action-adventure or action-RPG.Castlevania is a specific line of Vampire hunter games with an identity of specific themes and design ideas. There's a branch of games within that franchise that use the Metroidvania format.MEANWHILEThe "2D action-adventure or action-RPG" turned out to be a very popular genre and various other games made their OWN games with their OWN identity using that structure and genre. Some more creative and interesting than others, most of which would obviously try to avoid direct plagiarism of Castlevania.The criticism is that the new Belmont's Curse draws too much from the various other generic Metroidvanias and not enough from its own franchise identity.But I should not have to fucking spoonfeed this. They are right to call you an idiot.
>>733725504That's not what reddit spacing is, newfag.
>>733701841her father was a man.
Oh, and if anyone says so, there's no real comparison to show the difference between Castlevania zombies, and generic zombies.Yes, morons might not see any difference here. They might just see two depictions of slow-moving, probably-easily-defeated undead enemies dressed in rags. And they're right, because there isn't any difference.(Reddit spacing)The Castlevania zombie is not iconic or well designed, the hunched-over undead with its arms raised in a comically scary manner have been the parodied standard for decades and reflect nothing new. The design could be anything that resembles a zombie because it isn't an important enemy, and anyone with a brain and reason can insinuate it doesn't indicate a designer doesn't care or is lazy, that a zombie can be just a zombie. In the original NES game, they actually move FAST. They come at you from off the screen, arms up, coming to get you. In SOTN they shamble slowly, more like typical zombies, but they pop out of the ground endlessly. More comical than scary, but still distinctive. Why does this matter? It doesn't. It makes the enemies taken less seriously and denotes how, despite Metroidvania being more supposedly "action-centric", it actually caters towards casuals who are more focused on spectacle than actual tension and skill testing.(Reddit spacing)The Belmont's Curse mooks (assuming they are zombies) are extremely generic and could come from literally any game with zombies. This doesn't matter though, because they have a distinct artstyle and at least look unique.
>>733710771please understand, China is a huge market.
Autism
>>733711708more shame that by the time you get some of the cooler weapons the game is like 2 bosses away from ending
>>733698587You're not the only one. I love it and it seems most people on social media love it. This place is just full of jaded contrarians.
>>733725984kek @this meltdown
>>733698587Looks great but why did they have to make it about Trevor again? Should have been a new Belmont imo
>>733698587It looks like indie slop
>more metroidvania slop>with a terrible artstyleJust bring back the classic action-platforming god damn. Iga is the worst thing that happened to Castlevania.
>>733699074Fpbp
>>733725984>In the original NES game, they actually move FAST.The fuck are you talking about
>>733698587>female protagonistim not playing it hahah. im just not going to play. sorrryyyy :D
>>733725984kek @this based shitpost
>>733726184>>733725901>>733725163>>733723959>>733719056Can you stop samefagging you disgusting larper
>>733699420>the checkpointskek
>>733698587Art style is awful
>>733721558Holy fuck india go away
>>733725901>>733726487It’s so funny that Castlevania is no longer allowed to be a “metroidvania” since zoomers all grew up with hollow knight instead. ETA until we start calling igavanias silksong-likes?
>>733699420this shit was why i dropped The Lost Crown. the game was kind of fun, but holy shit they spammed these spike gauntlets and it got really fucking boring.
>>733725901>Metroidvania is a very broad term for an open-ended 2D action-adventure or action-RPG.no, actually its a term for a specific type of Castlevania game that was so popular it got cloned endlessly.
>>733727436It's not that specific.Go ahead, articulate the specific required details of "Metroidvania." Either your list will be dumb and wrong, or it will exclude a number of elements unique to the Castlevania series and not common to all Metroidvanias.
>>733727371That's not it. There's a shit ton of Metroidvania Castlevania's and even more fucking clones. There's nothing exciting about yet another 2D backtracking simulator.
>he stopped reddit spacing to avoid being called out on it LMAO
>>733699420I'm a fan of the given name "troonspikes"
>>733726267Castlevania for NES.They move fast for zombies, at any rate. They more at least as fast as Simon if not faster.
>>733727619anon the term "metroidvania" is literally derrived from "metroid-style castlevania" nothing else you say about it matters because you weren't born yet when the term was decided on.
>>733727781>weren't born yet Well hold on, the term didn't get started until around the 2010s, so it's very possible anon was born during that time because he seems like such an uneducated, limited experience faggot.
>>733727686There hasn't been any reason to make further arguments with paragraphs. Nothing has been refuted, you just responded with worthless, insincere nonsense. It's clear you don't care about the topic and care way too much about performing for your discord or wherever the fuck you came from.
>>733727936People used the term in the early and mid 2000s to refer to... you guessed it... the Metroid-style Castlevania games
>>733727781>anon the term "metroidvania" is literally derrived from "metroid-style castlevania"Yeah, and what does that mean to you?You can't explain it, can you? You don't understand it well enough.
>>733728068I never heard it until around the 2010s. Even then, it became much more rampant when games like Hollow Knight came out; I'd say it really became cemented when Cave Story arrived in the west, which was 2011.
>he seethed
>>733727781>>733727936>>733728068>>733728203None of this is relevant to the point that "metroidvanias" that aren't Castlevania aren't Castlevania, and a Castlevania game borrowing too much from a decade of SOTN clones results in something soulless and generic.
>>733728457Good thing Belmont's Curse doesn't look generic then innit bruv?
>>733728203>I never heard it until around the 2010s.well yeah, being born in the 2000s you probably didn't hear many words before the 2010s. doesn't mean they weren't uttered. the term goes back to 2001 when Circle of the Moon was new and people realized Symphony wasn't a one time thing.
>>733698587I don't like Dead Cells so I'm not interested
>we want no one's audienceWhat did they meant by that, bros?
>>733728858i like Dead Cells but i'm still skeptical that the team can make a real video game that isn't a roguelite.
>we want the Castlevania audience(Reddit spacing)What did they mean by that, bros?
>>733698587movement should be more clunky
>>733725163It also shows another aspect of Castlevania, which is the kind of everything and the kitchen sink horror anthology. The classic zombies, even back to the first game and Simon's Quest, were kind of the first weak foe you encounter, and share a lot of simularity to Scooby-Doo's Creeper and some other old monsters who chase the gang with their arms up in the air. Obviously many of the bosses drew on Hammerhorror and Universal monsters, and later games have enemies inspired by Texas Chainsaw Massacre and slasher movies, Cthulhu mythos, religious demons like Kali, and folk legend cryptids like Mothman and Bigfoot. The somewhat silly and weak zombies show a kind of clear history and hierarchy of horror.
>>733729627Stop samefagging
>>733728569It looks very generic, and instead of debating that point directly like a confident, masculine vampire hunter, you sniveling midwits retreat into semantic tricks and fallacies.
>>733729968He posted it for my benefit, Sukdeep.
>>733728569It looks very unique, and instead of accepting that it does like a confident, masculine vampire hunter, some sniveling midwits retreat into semantic tricks and fallacies.
>>733698587I'm totally down for this game. I have faith in the Deadcells devs to do Castlevania justice.Besides Konami has other stuff in the pipeline besides Belmonts curse.
>>733730795I don't like how she swings the whip back and forth instead of directly forward. I know it's a small nitpick, but it shows a completely different attitude to the other Belmonts, where they strive forward and confront evil directly in a straight line. NuSonia swings it back and forth, almost like a Muslim torturing a slave, instead of a driver forcing evil on and out like a beast of burden. The Whip is really important to Castlevania, probably moreso than even the creators know.
>>733731665The whip isn't that important to Castlevania.The original Simon Belmont is just a brave and strong man up against supernatural horrors. The whip was just his weapon of choice.
Anyone know what the fuck this nigga is talking about? >>733731665
>>733731841It's a rather pathetic, failed attempt at sarcasm.
>>733698587Is that a male or female character?
>>733731827It's pretty important, since in the original games, they needed a weapon that had to be loaded up and then smote forward for the weighty committal combat to work. It also had take up little space so they didn't have to make a sprite with a huge sword or spear. It's contemporaries like Zelda II, Ninja Gaiden and Demon Sword just have instant action attacks with no up time or recovery. (Actually Zelda II does have a little)I realize the design of commitment is pretty much entirely absent from Castlevania now, along with most 2D action games.
>>733731665Bruh, the whip in Castlevania was inspired by Indianna Jones.Quit making up shit in your head.
>>733731462I wish this game was longer. Its so fun but you can beat it in less than an hour.
>>733733046if there was a remake of belmont's revenge. and it includes two extra castles. what kind of theme do do you want those to be? you already got crystal, rock, plant, and sky,
>>733732869Except he uses it nothing at all like Indiana Jones, and it quickly turns into a flail in the first panel of the game.
>>733732686Zelda 1 uses a sword and has commitment. It's very short and the delay comes after the payload, but it's there. (The bow&arrow has effectively no commitment. The boomerang fires instantly but there are delay frames when you catch it on the return)
>>733732686This incidentally makes the gamefeel lean towards clunky despite it being a dedicated game mechanic. Players want instant attack for quick reaction and feedback, which makes the game "feel" faster.
>>733733913The game designers wanted whip swinging in the original game but the NES couldn't do it but the dream was realized in Super Castlevania.
>>733698587>I love the fusion of 2D and 3D artstyle hereI simply refuse to believe anyone actually likes 2.5D sidescroller shit.
What exactly is Belmont's Curse™?
>>733698587I don't like how that fire looks at all. The flat colors on all the special effects looks bad as well. Despite looking more stylized than Bloodstained, it has the same problem with foreground elements blending into the background. Smash Bros. for 3DS has significantly cleaner visuals than this. I can't really comment on the gameplay yet except to say I don't like the idea of dodging forward into enemies. Castlevania is easy enough without having a dodgeroll. The backstep from older games was already plenty.
>>733714891She probably kept the Belmont surname, and gave it to Christopher's grandparent.
>>733734315It's meant to utilize chiaroscuro hence the very black contrasts against a lustrous foreground material. It's the most recognizable European artstyle that implicitly makes it look Western.
>>733734310Notice how the werewolf has a burned hand like the Lady Belmont.I'm thinking this wolfman is actually a cursed Trevor or other family member.
>>733699420picrel is just hollow knight and celeste
>>733734527Forgot pic.
>>733734447Sounds great if I want to go to a library and write a video essay but if I want to actually play the video game then I'm stuck looking at honest trash for hours.
Defend this artstyle then. This was universally made fun of back then so no revisionism allowed that it was liked.
>>733733406I dont think CV has ever had an Egyptian level. Would be cool.
>>733725957Makes sense.
>>733734531>picrel is just shit gamesthanks for the clarification
>>733734531Those games are both very relevant to the discussion
>>733714891She got pregnant.
>>733734773At least you can tell which series this is
>>733734802Dude...
>>733698587looks like an alright dead cells game. looks like an awful castlevania.
>>733734802there are egyptian themed locations in the metroidvania games. only in portrait of ruin, there are two of them. sandy grave and the forgotton city. i suppose the tower of ruins in castlevania legacy of darkness is also somewhat egytpian.
>>733735364This implicitly means Dead Cells is the better game to emulate moving forward.
>>733729627idk it seems like you are polluting the waters to me.castlevania has dozens of zombie sprites that don't have their arms raised, portrait of ruin for example.the real problem is the game>not being designed around contact dmg because there is no contact dmg>dead cells engine and physics so you feel like "bouncing" when attacking an enemy, traversal is semi-automated, etc>having slow ass aoe combos like mirror of fate, which was hated by most fans for a reason>being the first metroidvania of the devs>the writing being done by a western woman>they are trying to put too much shit into it. sidequests like order of ecclesia, 25 characters, branching dialogue, other maps connected to the main one, a bunch of shit they have no idea how to execute well because their only games so far were roguelites.
>>733731665it seems to me that the first attack is indeed the normal castlevania straight line. you can see it in the video when she attacks biphron and then medusa head (after finding the leather whip)then you can chain other attacks which are slow and aoe and perhaps charge thempersonally I wish there's a classic whip with no combos, dead cells had 2-3
>>733735898are you being intentionally dense or are you stupid? how do you even arrive at that conclusion?
>>733735245Without knowing beforehand, could you really?
>>733727781You need to let this go. It hasn't meant that for a very long time
>>733734773I think that and the Chronicles art looks like shit
>>733736964nun shanoa a cute
>>733698587I am a best cautiously optimistic but it has a few things going against it>Series revivals are shit more often than they are good>Insta-kill spike rooms>Music sounds pretty shitty>Clearly pandering to Netflix fans by going back to Trevor and Sypha>Generally speaking it doesn't look like Castlevania both in gameplay nor artstyle
>>733737443the worst part is that their is no contact damage>Clearly pandering to Netflix fans by going back to Trevor and Syphaalso this
>spike roomsInto the trash it goes
I wish Konami devs lurked here so they can see how fucking poisoned of a franchise Castelvania is.
>>733698587The visuals looks like Blazblue meets LoL Arcane or some shit. I dont like it.
>>733738017It definitely has that terrible indie art mix with the nexflix show art
>>733738225>>733738017Yeah, I don't like the art either.
Shoulda been a Classicvania.
>>733698587I can't be the only one dreading this? I hate the fusion of 2D and 3D artstyle here. Looks a mess
>>733739018at least we have curse of the moon 1 and 2 and Dominique's Curse for a Simon's Quest clone
>>733725504I would say "at least you tried" but you would have been better off not doing so.
Name the last beautiful looking Castlevania game then and be judged for your tastes.
>>733740015Ecclesia
>>733739506I only played the first. It's decent but I didn't care for the way it's balanced. It was somewhat easier and also more annoying than CVIII. Still a good game though.
>>7337402072 is pretty hard you should get it when it's on sale
>>733739034No dread, just apathy
To all the dumbshits trying to say Belmonts Curse is using the Netflix canon, Konami confirmed that Curse of Darkness is the prequel to this new game.
>>733742098I think it'd be very funny if Belmont's Curse canonized Hector x Julia.
>>733698587Sorry anon but they shouldn’t have gone for a feMC
>>733742098see >>733737567
>>733735245It's the Book of the New Sun arena fighter game.
>>733698587looks like shit. you have garbage taste
>>733742326?
>>733743257You're shitting me. I had no idea the Death Note author drew covers for those books.
>>733735932All of that also seems terrible, on top of the terrible enemy design, but I believe Castlevania lives on it's monsters and that even if they got all that right, and still have shit monsters, it would be a shit game. Lament of Innocence would be a lot better with some more enemy variety and combat encounters.
>>733744031They should give M2 another project. Haunted castle revisited was good
How do you make these games fun again?The RPG elements trivialize combat because number go up and you suddenly can take on the Headless Fuckface but then a color swapped jellyfish one shots you the next room.I can't think of a modern game of these that have puzzles or actual secrets. You mostly go into a fetch quest.Should all these include a randomizer mod?I kind of want a game more like the originals.Maybe I am alone on this but I prefer Rondo of Blood over SoTN because once I completely beat SoTN I did not feel like playing it again.
>>733698587The character animation is cool but I'm not fond of the backgrounds, they're too dark and lack personality.
>>733698587The fortnite artstyle reminds me of seeing Diablo 3 after hundreds of hours in 2
i hope i can just use the basic attack 90% of the time and the gay combos are only there for showmirror of fate due to mimicking the combat system of the main console games had horrible enemy balancing even fleamans were hitspongesstill i hope for classic mode and trevor skin/mode
>>733745187classic mode with contact damage* of course
>>733737443>Insta-kill spike rooms>Generally speaking it doesn't look like Castlevania both in gameplay nor artstyleMany such cases.
>>733743312People that are upset over a female protagonist in Castlevania are tourists.
>>733740073Shanoa's pixel armpit shading are cute
>>733745696the last man in a metroidvania by konami was jonathan in 2007 though the last belmont? juste in harmony of dissonance.also there would be no issue if Not Sonia was like Shanoa or Charlotte...the problem is she is written by a western female writer...giant red flag they are gonna have her be an atheist lesbian, be insufferable to everyone, euthanize her father or crap like that.
>>733698587>least obvious shill
>>733742098Hey dummy, it not explicitly being in the Netflix canon doesn't rule out them pandering to those fans, which is the actual issue
>>733698587Every time I see this game it reminds of of outland which is like the furthest thing from castlevania visually.
>>733710080>okayDilate acceptance beyond 41%
>>733742098We didn't say it's based on the Netflix canon, we said its visual identity was based on the Gayflix's art style and the plot bringing back Trevor was specifically written to attract fans of that abomination of an animated series.
>>733745696I wanted futa angels protagonist
>>733745991>>733746095
>>733745484Shinobi is even more varied than Castlevania though. I'm a diehard Shinobi fan and I was fine with AoV. My issue with the game was really just the feature bloat.
>>733734773>you don't like this art style? then you must defend this game that got shit reviews from critics and users alike and is virtually never brought up in vania threads because nobody gives a shit about itI'm not following this logic.
>>733698587I'm very excited for it, more so than I am for pretty much anything else. The average /v/ consensus is a hive of losers who need things to fail to feel better about their own wretched existence and is not the owner of any opinion worth respecting.
>>733746441You're right, I'm sure them going back to Trevor and Sypha, as well as explicitly mentioning the Netflix show in the marketing, has nothing to do with the show. Let's just mindlessly consume and hype ourselves instead of tempering expectations
>>733746362Oh no guys! What if the next game has Alucard as a playable character?!That's clearly Wokeflix pandering!!!
>>733731827>The whip isn't that important to Castlevania.I know /v/ has been dead for a while but I didnt realise its corpse was being raped. Jesus fckn Christ
I'm honestly surprised by how pissed this makes me. The style looks cheap and nasty, the character and enemy designs are fucking nothing, and it just looks like it feels the same to play as dead cells, which was awful. What a horrible fucking way to revive your franchise. I'm sure it will do fine because redditors munch shit but this could have been so much more.
>>733746441You're right, female western writer writing a female mc for a game set in Paris (symbol of the revolution and of the modern world) surely isn't a bad omen
>>733698587The art style looks a hell of a lot better than bloodstained. I still can't believe how ugly that game was.
the shill woke up
>>733746564Calm down redditors like you will buy it and it'll be a huge success.
You fuckers deserve nothing.Castlevania is back from from the dead and niggas be acting like "wahh not my vania" before even giving the game a chance.
>>733747038How can you like it if you never played it?
>>733747085You're so close.
>>733747085The argument goes both ways, I remain optimistic until proven otherwise.
>>733747141>it's only okay to like a game you haven't playedyeah.
>>733708178Such as? Weren't they all retconned to take cock up the ass or something? I'm pretty sure that's what the netflix show is about.
>>733727936It was used all the time on GameFAQs in the 2000's, newfag
>>733747295Begone, tourist.
>>733747295>Such as?What happened to richter between rondo and sotn when he got mind controlled by shaft and became a fashion model and lord of draculas castle as a result.
>>733747085Where in that post does it say he likes it? Not being a whiny bitch doesn't equal blind endorsement.
actually looks good, and kinda hypedwish for a SOTN remake in this style
I wish 9 out of 10 CV Fan games werent unfinished. Some of them are nice.
>>733747295>retconnedthe shows are a completely separate canon
>>733747618>I'm so low IQ I can't grasp the concept of subtext and anyone who doesn't like what they saw is whining which hurts my feelingsPost some more it'll make you feel better
>>733747038I can tell at a glance that it is in fact not muh vania. Whether it's good on its own merits is yet to be determined. I have no reason to blindly believe this game will be good, so I will go in with low expectations and hope to be pleasantly surprised
>>733698587It looks and sounds too much like Dead Cells. Damn frenchies should've made the game look like a moving Ayami Kojima painting.
>>733745696obviously
>>733747895Konami said they were canon.
>>733742098I wonder how many kids Hector and Julia pumped out. They'd yield a strong magical bloodline.It would be cool if Hector is playable in BC, and Crispin Freeman voices him instead of Bri'ich theater actor #644564.
>>733746441nah he's right especially since the game is obviously inspired by the show
>>733747157You're supposed to be pessimistic until proven otherwise when it comes to consumer goods. This isn't your child getting to try some sport activity, this is about you being a discerning customer.
>>733748805Funny thing, Crispin Freeman voices Dracula in Dead by Daylight.
>>733747038You could take any indie metroidvania call it Castlevania and it would feel just as fitting to the franchise as this game does.
>>733747038I'd rather the series stay dead. I never wanted a new game and this is exactly why. I pray to god that Soulcalibur stays dead.
>>733747038Stop kissing Konami's ass.
>>733744845Blasphemous and it's sequel have a lot of secrets and exploration, without really having the player get stronger at all. There's no RPG elements, but there's not much to find besides health upgrades and new spells. It's a minor challenge compared to the breezewalk these games usually are.
>>733698587Lol lmao looks so assthey lost the Vania flavour to pander to indie sloppasmany such cases
>>733750674Blasphemous is legitimately one of the most boring metroidvania I've ever played and I'd struggle to even say it is a metroidvania it's so devoid of exploration. It's just a shitty 2D Dark Souls clone.
>>733747038I deserve everything, but I'll probably play this out of desperation and respect for a game I once loved despite the obvious warning flags. It's not like I buy shitty games everyday.
>>733732147ikr on purpose btw
>>733698587I genuinely hate this art style. Just make good pixelshit FFS.
>>733698587Looks great, anyone saying otherwise is a contrarian or newfag
>>733698587Anyone played that Plague Tale game? The writer who did that is also behind Belmont's Curse, is it over?
>>733698587art style sucks, looks like indie slop. You shouldn't be excited for this, raise your standards.
>>733754130I only played the first, but it's fine. Pretty bog-standard story of kids on the run after their parents are murdered, but the rat schtick (so many rats it looks like water) was pretty fun. Got pretty silly by the end with rat tornadoes vs the pope, though.
>>733751217They can't do pixelshit anymore because "there are no more talented artists that do that". That's why we get this slop instead.
>>733754408>there are no more talented artists that do thatsource: my ass
>>733754501retard work on your reading comprehension why do you think that was in quotes?
>>733754720Quotations are used to either reference a direct statement or to cast doubt on a claim, and neither apply here. You just sound like the people claiming that no one can do 2D animation more in favor of CG, when 2D animation is used in the process and it's more market preference.
>>733754914retard moment!!!!!
Unless its parasite eve or resident evil, I dont play video games with female MC.
>>733753082It looks fine, just not very much like Castlevania.
>>733746573One of the most popular games in the series features a main character who doesn't use any whips at all. (Though the flails come close and you can play as Richter after you win). The whip is iconic, but not as important as the enemies and level designs.
>>733756498Yes we know tourist
>>733714891They could have just made an exception and kept the Belmont name because her family reputation was much more significant.
>>733734773isn't this the chick from blazbluethen you got fuckin light yagami and N
>>733700114In a Castlevania game?
It looks like a typical French indie rather than Castlevania.I’m concerned about how much Lords of Shadow like elements I’m seeing in the gameplay. Enemies spawning orbs after hits just like LOS, mercury steam moments of enemies flashing signaling an unblockable attack, the way combat looks in general.
>>733760306I was immediately reminded of Mirror of Fate. God I hope it's better than that.
>>733719056>We’re boycotting.nigga whos we?? fuck off if your hivemind shit
>>733759648>light yagami and NIt's because it's literally drawn by Takeshi Obata.
>>733754347>You shouldn't be excited for this, raise your standards.You say this like I had any say in the quality and development behind this game and that I can just think of something and have it come into existence
>>733754347It's exciting because it's a new Castlevania. Not much else matters.
it doesn't have castlevania personalitywhere are the crazy enemy designs? looks like a phone game with a corporate design
>>733725957Deepest lore
>>733708118>>733708903>>733710984>>733719056>>733754347>>733761159You are some of the pickiest fucks I've ever seen
>>733762280sorry for having standards and not being a shit eater like you
>>733762465lmao what a fucking will power imposer
