I've never seen the original IP try to knockoff its derivatives before. It's pretty funny.
>>749012515I feel like it has to have happened before, but nothing else is coming to mind.
>>749012515So did Iga/Bloodstained win?
>>749012515>>749014527The latest original Story of Seasons, Pioneers of Olive Town, tried to crib some things from Stardew Valley to mixed results.
>>749012515member when cod copied Titanfall?
>>749012515Dark Souls?
>>749017980how?
>>749018369Elden Ring copied a bunch of shit from Lords of the Fallen
>>749012515>>749014527TF2 introducing a comp mode right when Overwatch comes out
>>749018439>says Dark Souls copied stuff from its derivatives>"how?">starts talking about an entirely different IP?
>>749018675When are fromjeets gonna stop larping like their daddy's one game with 20 different coats of paint are 20 seperate franchises?
>>749018761?
>>749012515What is it knocking off? Genuine question, i don't play indy shartroidvanias.
kek mods deleted the other thread
>>749012515Pokémon Sun & Moon
>>749012515>last thread got deletedJANNY GOT A CALL FROM KONAMI
Īda Shūtarō : Ghostwriter of Castlevania RIP (1973 - 2026)Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (2019 on PlayStation 4) - Game DesignerCastlevania: Harmony of Despair (2010 on Xbox 360) - Level DesignerCastlevania: Order of Ecclesia (2008 on Nintendo DS) - Chief ProgramTime Hollow (2008 on Nintendo DS) - Technical SupportCastlevania: Portrait of Ruin (2006 on Nintendo DS) - Player ProgramCastlevania Double Pack (2006 on Game Boy Advance) - Enemy ProgrammerCastlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (2005 on Nintendo DS) - Player ProgramCastlevania: Lament of Innocence (2003 on PlayStation 2) - Enemy ProgramCastlevania: Aria of Sorrow (2003 on Game Boy Advance) - System & Player>Extra:Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015 on Windows) - Lead Game ProgrammersMetal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (2014 on Xbox 360) - Lead Enemy NPC Programmers....
>set game in 15th century England>hire American voice actorsWhat were they thinking??
>>749020124shitting up the video game board with...video game discussion?
>>749020157I switched the voices over to Japanese as soon as I heard the American accents. At least with Japanese voices I can pretend it's a weeb game.
>>749020260Sorry but janitor applications are currently closed. Better luck next time!
>>749020157The dub is terrible. But the Japanese voice track is legitimately good.
This is literally happening with most Nintendo games currently
>>749017980>>749018439>>749018761We have an honest to god paranoid schizophrenic here.
>>749020157To be fair if it was supposed to be accurate to medieval England then all the nobility would be speaking Anglo-Norman and all the commoners would have something akin to West Country and maybe some northern accents. And personally I could live without the game sounding half like a French drama and half like an episode of The Archers.
>>749015775What did they copied?I haven't played Olive town yet
>>749012515>>749014527Guitar Hero
>>749012515>>749014527This happened a lot wrt: MCU and the comics.
>>749012515are you 11?
>>749012515>Outsourced to European devs>Get low quality derivative trashNot even the first time this has happened to Castlevania.
>>749020598It's 15th Century, not 13th Century
>>749022227That's pretty borderline. Henry IV was the first post-Norman king to speak English as his first language and French remained an important language at court for long after that.
>>749014527343 Halo
>>749020157americans shouldnt be allowed to voice act
>>749020598>England only has two accents Why do Americans struggle so much with this? Not even their own country has a monoaccent, why on earth are you convinced everywhere else does?
>>749022758That's not the point, the issue is there's few if any accents that are largely unchanged from the medieval period. The West Country accent is one of them, it being noted in middle english literature. So yes, there would be other accents, we just have no idea what they'd sound like and probably don't correspond much to anything around today.>Why do AmericansI'm from Berkshire you presumptuous twat.
>>749023059You're not fooling anyone, yank
>>749014527Umm Silent Hill?
>>749014527Pokemon Sun and Moon has so much Yokai Watch in it because roadkill cat honestly scared Game Freak.
>>749018675Do you simply not know the meaning of the word derivative?
>surely the ost is not as bad as people say>mfw Carmilla
>>749023551Whether it's music or character design, I swear there's no other character who's been as consistently fucked with.
>>749022547it's a game set in 1499. The Tudors are the people in power in England, anon this is well past the Norman-Anglo-Saxon divide that didn't even last to the 100 years war
>>749012515>estus flask charges>bonfire enemy reset>le dodge i-framei fucking hate westerners making japanese games
>>749012515and it's better for it
>>749012515>I've never seen the original IP try to knockoff its derivatives before. It's pretty funny.Driver and GTA
>>749023508didn't Gen 5 have a lot of Yokai-ish Pokemon
>double jump>slam>aerial dash>whip>parryHere are your metroidvania upgrades. No underwater exploration, no super jump, dash or anything more esoteric apparently.
>>749019462uses Hollow Knight's map system instead of the typical Castlemania grid map
>>749012515>I've never seen the original IP try to knockoff its derivatives before
>>749024173the dodge actually doesn't have iframes, funnily
>>749024173Metroidvania genre needs to evolve rather than stagnate, for me, the game's only downsides are that enemies don't drop anything and cancer jump puzzles.
>>749012515Mario Kart pulled midair tricks for boosting out of CTR wholesale.
>>749024249Black and White released 3 years before Yokai Watch even existed.
>>749024294You forgot Breath of the Wild
>>749019462By the most part it feels like a worse Lost Crown clone, which by itself was a crystallization of modern MV trends. From a get go it has a significantly worse combat system (no launchers or combo mechanics or hold attacks or anything) but it's very similar in terms of movement, has a hollow knight charm system, hollow knight like map, water zones are just pits and there's a considerable amount of suck to target in combat. It also has estus flasks for some reason, and enemies are as tanky as in lost crown too despite not being anywhere as fun to fight against.
>>749012515Tom Braider became Uncharted with a hot grill
>>749024015>it's a game set in 1499Well that would've been more useful to say instead of just vaguely the 15th century.>The Tudors are the people in power in EnglandThen give the nobility Welsh accents for a laugh.
>>749020157but it's in 15th century France
>>749023507ThisAll the non-Konami Silent Hills are just member berries of the main line games.
>>749012515Slop made by French so they made the setting in France.Yeah i am not touching this frog slop. It's not enough that this slop is western made, it's made by french set in fucking France.I hope Konami cans them and never works with them again.While we are talking in the subject of game development Konami should have outsourced this IP to someone reputable, that being TEAM LADYBUG who made really good metroidvanias such as Touhou Luna Nights and Record of Lodoss War.End blogpost.
>>749023507aside from Silent Hill f, which has no connection to Silent Hill and was made by some taiwanese company, every other silent hill has failed hard because its western slop.
>>749012515Can't even start the game because the monitor has too high a refresh rate, what a joke.
>>749024768The problem with Team Ladybug is that they're barely more than a doujin circle, which is why all their games are kind of barebones despite being solid design-wise. You'd probably need a whole extra third party to help them with a full-scale CV game.
>>749024768Team Ladybug's games are all the same. I played the megaten one and the deedlit one and i feel like i played the same game twice.
>>749014715Are you serious? Just this week I replayed Ritual of the Night and it's got so many flaws... BUT still Bloodstained won only because of Curse of the Moon
>>749025001As opposed to a team that made Dead Cells and some piss poor Price of Persia that nobody knows about? Onlythe indie scene loved Dead Cells because it was a roguelike and indie enjoyers jack off to that shit.All Team Ladybug needed was Konamis support, money and time.>>749025043they are heavily SOTN inpired and they have their own mechanics. Their weakness has always been game length not the actual gameplay
>>749025043
>>749024768Yeah I don't really have anything against indie games but I just really fucking don't like Dead Cells.
>>749024285You will never turn into a dog or mist or do goofy ceiling slam moves to fly again
>>749025201I wasn't saying TL are a bad choice, I just doubt they have the manpower to handle a project that big on their own within the timeframe Konami would be demanding. And let's not pretend that Konami is going to be patient about this, TL has about four members total, they would need support from another party to get the job done.
>>749012515>nobody noticed the movement system is 1 to 1 with sotn with different animations
>>749025201>Their weakness has always been game length not the actual gameplayAs in too short or too long? I've noticed indie metroidvania tend to be like 2x3 times as long as any Castlevania is.
>>749025768short
>>749025961I see. I don't tend to mind metroidvania being short compared to other genre but if it's even too short for metroidvania standards it must be quite extreme.
>>749021701Which was really Marvel knocking off Ultimate Marvel
>>749012515I've tried playing the nes games and I can't, genuinely too janky
>>749020157Ironically, the people whose accents most likely resemble what was spoken in 15th century England are Americans living in islands off Virginia/North Carolina
>>749024768Any anons got some recomendations for indie metroidvania worth playing? I've played both of the Team Cherry ones and both Ender games.
>>749026490GuacameleeLa-MulanaNine SolsRain WorldSalt and Sanctuary
>>749026739Holy shit what a horrible list>>749026490Chronicles of the Wolf or Lecarde Chronicles 2
>>749026490zexionenvironmental station alphaiconoclastsaxiom verge (1)valdis story
>>749026956you're just fuming because you know your favorite literally who game will never measure up to La-Mulana
>>749026956>chronicles of the wolfAbsolute shitslop
>>749026959I liked Axiom Verge 2 more
https://youtu.be/mJPdIfEYgCY?si=HLEhf0KY96vucEsE
>>749024285>my upgrades are not weird enough!Kind of a weird issue, like who gives a shit
>>749028175Castlevania had nearly unsurpassed upgrade design 30 years laterLike find 3 other metroidvanias with echolocation or mist form
>>749012515Doom 2016 did this
>>749012515I'm sure it'll be decent, maybe even good if we're lucky, but after playing the demo, I sincerely doubt this will be a series or genre favorite for many.
was the demo good?
>>749030106Why don't you play it yourself?It's only 30 minutes
>>749024469The combat in Lost Crown is hot liquid ass, I don't know why people on /v/ have been glazing it for years. Felt like them trying to do bamham combat in 2D.
>>749030479don't wanna
>>749030520>Felt like them trying to do bamham combat in 2D.It has literally nothing to do with bamham
>>749012515My main concern is that it has only 28 weapons. I hope they are varied enough. Also 15 spells.
>>749030857It's just zooming between homed-in enemies where your preferred target depends on the timing of their melee and when you have a window for your parry. How is that not bamham combat? No mind for positioning required at all. The poster who made that comparison was on some other bullshit too.
>>749024173The only good time it worked was streets of rage 4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-qFg6tRtzohttps://youtu.be/GLone9cTMag?si=1Smb0AKZk0CF1y6Qhttps://youtu.be/ohcRuYwGq5g?si=--cRlOpQ5243iR_u
>>749024768>I hope Konami cans them and never works with them again.This is the first and probably last fucking Castlevania game you are getting until they 10 years from now when they decide to do something for the 50th anniversery. One last chance to revive Castlevania and they fucked it up by givining it to this cuck dev
>>749025201>>749024768What game is this and why does it look like SOTN?
>>749020890You set up a hundred trillion makers on your farm to process materials. It's the main sticking point of the game.
>>749031452Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
>Leon>Brauner>EDM/Trap soundtrackyep it's overThe full OST and all dialogue has leaked:https://www.mediafire com/file/qdw17eggszlgs49/Castlevania+Belmont's+Curse+-+Music.zip/filehttps://www.mediafire com/file/40gv8mayq6cuwke/Castlevania+Belmont's+Curse+-+English+Voices+and+Cinematics.zip/file
>the demo boss uses a cross and a whip>talks like he was corrupted and brainwashed by some demonic powerIs this going to be a game about Belmonts leaning to be better men?
>>749032092lolyeah
>>749032092if you really want to know Rose causes the death of Sypha and Trevor. The corrupted arm is Dracula's Curse turning her evil. She learns to become a better woman
>>749031731>turn on the succubus theme>fat fart noises>turn on the Dracula theme>fat fart noises with something vaguely resembling gothic leitmotif on background
>>749012515You know it will sell anyway because it appeals to the right audience and you're not part of it
>>749012515Nu-Raider games knock off Uncharted.
>>749030106Yes, the best metroidvania of the last 10 years, not counting bloodstained.
>>749032826kys you stupid shill
>>749031731 For people calling the music generic name 5 games with a soundtrack like this one that's not made by evil empire with proper examples I bet you can't. I won't say that this sounds exactly like other castlevania games but its extremely gothic and most importantly fits perfectly with what's going on in the game itself
>>749033172Cope
>>749030106not particularly
>castlevania being one of the two games forming the genre "metroidvania">soulful indie devs get to make a castlevania>they incorporate modern aspects of the now evolve genre>anons call it bad, because it's not 100% identical to the old gamesyou guys are fucking retarded. I pre-ordered
>>749030641I will spoonfeed you, it feels alot like Dead Cells with a camera zoomed out too far and too many abilities that zip you around. It would be one thing if you got those movement abilities towards the end of the game, but you have them before and get another strong one after the first boss. Also there's alot of screen flash when you do very normal shit like hit a skeleton with a longsword and screen shake when you get hit.
>>749033546Yeah but if you put modern things into a series that had its last game 20 years ago then it isn't really the same series. It shouldn't be identical but it also shouldn't have that fucking hitstop and estus flasks and no respawning enemies on screen switch
>>749033546>has very little in common with the old games besides the name>is worse than its indie contemporariesit's the worst of both worlds!
i just want the exploration to be fun
>>749020157>playing a japanese game with amerilard dub
>>749034453it's a Fr*nch game
>>749012515It feels like a pseudo sequel to the animated but it clearly follows the games continuity. It's the "curse" trilogy.
>>749034296>>has very little in common with the old games besides the nameLeon is inBrauner is inIsaac is inAlucard is in
>>749034591oh sorry, besides the names*
>>749024291The "typical Castlevania grid map" of SotN and forward was just blatantly copying Super Metroid's map.
>>749034734yes, and? That's why I said Castlemania, the accepted and widely used term for the genre at large.
>>749014527Nu monster hunter murdered itself chasing anime action bullshit.
>>749034803...
>>749034874
>>749014715Yes.
>go to reddit>everyone loved the demo>go to /v/ >everyone hates the demoSome ''fans'' you are. Can't be happy for anything.
>>749034803...Do you mean Metroidvania? Nobody fucking says "Castlemania".
>>749035085maybe in whatever alternate universe you're from they used some stupid name like "Metroidvania" but here in reality we say Castlemania.
>>749034982reddit got a lot of fags, /v/'s got a lot of jeetscorrect opinion probably somewhere in the middle
>>749034982I actually thought the demo was kinda neat. A little surprised to learn that it's a direct sequel to Castlevania III, Rose is Trevor's daughter, and that apparently Trevor and Sypha got together. Also that Sypha's dead. But still, I didn't expect official game canon to adopt something from the Netflix cartoon.Also, I wish I could draw, because I want to do some fanart referencing CardCaptor Sakura with the way Rose beat the first boss, "captured" him, he's basically a card now, and giving her a new power.
>>749034982I don't hate the demo but it could've been so much better. I'm going to buy it after like 2 days to see what people think of it but man they just went too Dead Cells on it, I obviously understand why it looks like the Netflix show since it was very popular and I can accept that but the gameplay is too modern. I do like that enemies can attack you while you're wailing on them and that they hit hard, same with the archers aimbotting on you. You're OP and the enemies are OP
>>749035441Also apparently taking some stuff from Curse of Darkness (also after Castlevania 3), but I never played that one so dont know how true it is
>>749023551I refuse to believe that's the final version of the track. Maybe it'll get more refined on release?
>>749034982>Go to corpo dicksuck central and find out they're sucking it off>Go to angry unpleaseable asshole central and found out they're kicking it in the teethWow, what an amazing socialological observation you've made, you want a fucking dog treat?
>>749031731>MainHall_Edit_BloodyTears_New.wav>okay, it's semi salvagea... >it's uninspired dogshit edm remixOkay, now I'm legit mad.
>>749035441>Also, I wish I could drawWhy not draw your idea anyway? In art, the idea is more powerful than the quality of the work itself. That's why a lot "sketch-like" drawings always become more popular than say a fully rendered drawing. Human error adds a lot more flavor to the piece than you'd expect.
>>749014527I'd say Tomb Raider.
>>749034130the estus stuff sucks, I agree. but respawning enemies? they always did that.>>749034296so you already played the whole game?
>>749035627That's right! I forgot about that. I noticed Rose referenced Curse of Darkness when she mentioned Dracula coming back "3 years later" after Castlevania 3. It would make sense since the games have mostly followed their own timeline and canon, and this would definitely take place after that.
>>749035882That's what I mean, in all castlevanias enemies respawn when you switch screens but in this one they only respawn after saving
>>749012515Konami purged all their talent when they thought they were going to go full pachinko
>>749033546>anons call it bad, because it's not 100% identical to the old gamesIgavanias had a particular set of mechanics that could've been refined further instead of replacing them with a soulless modern slop. The very fact there's apparently no swimming at all is hilarious, you just get teleported out of water and water indicators are like pits on the map.
>>749012515Castlevania Belmonts curse is unironically a bad Metroidvania and I would argue the last 2d Metroid was bad too. It's time to rename this genre BlasphemousHollowKnight
>>749033546>incorporate modern aspectsName 3 that are improvements. I'm talking strictly gameplaywise, not AV.
>>749035953It used to be more brutal. They'd respawn if you got just slightly too far left or right where they originally spawn.
>>749034130Does any franchise that existed 20 years ago resemble what it does today? This sounds like a strawman to me
>>749012515Doom did it in 2016 with trying to mimic Brutal Doom.
>>749020339jap track is as run-of-the-mill as it gets
>>749035085One or two autismos say Castlemania here presumably out of genuine autistic hatred of Metroid or Nintendo in general, or out of a desire to get a rise out of people.
>>749036152Hollowemous
>>749035953ok, so I got it wrong, my bad>>749036056I agree. but it's jewnami that is giving their IPs to other devs on a shoestring budget. they are doing the same shit with silent hill. it's on them to give the IP to JAPANESE devs. like other anons said, there are japanese indie devs like ladybug or inti creates (and many others) but they gave it to the dead cell devs. I loved dead cells and the devs clearly put their hearts into this project, but they have their style of gameplay/art. some anons spoke about the blasphemous devs having a pitch for castlevania too. I never played blasphemous, but their ninja gaiden was really solid. they would have been a better fit art style wise for sure. but this was konami's decision. I just find it unfair to shit so much on this game and devs. the game is not even out yet.
>>749033225>For people calling the music generic nameNobody is calling the music generic, they are calling it bad which it is.
>>749036182I didn't call them improvements, just modern aspects lots of gamers got accustomed to. I love classicvania, so I would never call the old games bad. but we all knew we wouldn't get a classic game here. even bloodstained, as much fun as it was had its shortcomings. Hollow knight has even too much influence for my taste. but the whole charm system for example is now everywhere. it makes you choose your prefered playstyle better, yes. but not every metroidvania has to go for this.
>>749036437>some anons spoke about the blasphemous devs having a pitch for castlevania too. I never played blasphemous, but their ninja gaiden was really solidThey made a DLC for blasphemous 2 that had amazing whip moveset and mechanics. Just incomparably better than what i saw in BC's demo.
>just modern aspects lots of gamers got accustomed toWhat the hell does that even mean? Bloodstained used legacy gameplay in 2019 and it sold millions of copies.
>>749033546>soulful indie devsyou can fuck right off pierre
>>749036827it was a kickstarter game from a beloved game dev, anon. sure, there are lots of gamers still loving classic games, but the big bucks are in the modern audience, whatever the fuck it means. usually some streamer bait shit.
>>749036779then they should unironically make an off-brand castlevania game next instead of blasphemious 3. I would buy it for sure>>749036832I'm not even french. I just really like indie games
Ragebound wasnt a perfect game, but it did feel like Ninja Gaiden at its core. Belmont's Curse just feels like "Dead Cells if it is worse and more boring"
Was the last thread deleted because all the dialogue leak or did janny have a melty? Anyway I found it absolutely hilarious the first thing the French did with Castlevania is to resurrect King Arthur and literally let's you whip his corpse
>>749033546>you guys are fucking retarded. I pre-orderedlying just for the sake if being a contrarian
>>749036457Music isn't really bad here, it's simply serviceable and nowhere close to what Castlevania music typically is.Metroid Dread's music is legitimately bad.
>>749036056>The very fact there's apparently no swimming at all is hilarious, you just get teleported out of water and water indicators are like pits on the map.For real? Aw come on, that's a classic metroidvania map gimmick where you gain abilities to go back explorering around the hazard like Undine's Soul to walk on the surface or Deep Seeker/Serpent's Scale to walk on through the bottom floors of underwater/flooded sections.
>>749037350The list of traversal abilities was leaked and swimming is not found anywhere. Moreover, look at the water indicators at the map, they are presented basically as an obstacle and have no depth.
>>749037191The jannies don't care >>749031731
>>749036336it's called a joke libtard
>EY YO DEAD CELL DEVS>GIVE ME A CASTLEVANIA GAME WITH NO EXPLORATION AND NO STAGES
>>749037437>The list of traversal abilities was leaked and swimming is not found anywhere. Moreover, look at the water indicators at the map, they are presented basically as an obstacle and have no depth.Well shit. They better bring back the Ferryman then at least, or there's gonna be hell to pay.
>>749035847I guess you're right. I could give it a try anyway.
Sex with Rose.
Honestly had fun with the demo but that's mostly because i went in expecting more dead cell and pop roguelite goodness, but this time in a proper metroidvania format.That being said i can see why the purist would hate it. And yeah the musics were sadly not on par, and will never be on par. But i still enjoyed them.
>>749037794He's in the leak
Music is like the least of my problems, I will just play Castlevania sountracks in the background. Series has so many good tracks.Still dumb though.
>>749037802Honestly, I might draw your idea cause it sounds like a fun idea. Better get to it before I finish work!
>>749020040He was one of the key people that made IGA's Metroidvanias good. Very sad. He will be missed.
>>749020157I guess it's the reverse of them hiring random bongs for fantasy JRPGs that do not take place on Earth. We just can't win.
>>749037986Great.
When is Konami gonna port harmony of despair anyway, or when is some AI jeet gonna vibe code a better one than the unity one somebody is doing
Imagine stumping for this turd
>>749024768Gothic architecture is french, the Belmont family is of french origin. If any non japanese devs had to make a castlevania game it had to be french ones.
>>749012515>looks like the shitty cartoon>soulslop mechanics>too much fucking talkingI can somewhat stomach these, at least the constant talking can be skipped if needed.But:>the "music"This one is just unforgivable for a Castlevania game.
>>749035740At first I thought you were overblowing it, but holy fuck it literally just kept getting worse the more I listened to it. What the fuck were they thinking?The game is set in the fucking 1400s, at least if this was a Soma game I could see some reason for it to exist but this is beyond the fucking pale.
>>749037794
>>749034591>Leon is inHe shouldn't be.>Brauner is inHe shouldn't be.>Isaac is inOkay.>Alucard is inHe shouldn't be.This list of names does more harm to the game than good, you must realize.
>>749034982retardera hates it too, lolhonestly most people enjoying it are on here
>>749012515This looks like absolute shit, can someone explain to me why are people saying it looks amazing? It looks closer to Metroid Dread than any Castlevania.
>>749038805SOVL
>>749032092Leon Belmont after the event of his game got kidnapped, brainwashed, made into an immortal monster by Dracula and then kept in dark storage for several centuries. None of the Belmont know or care. It's a dick move by Dracula btw. They WERE friends
>>749038930The guy who regularly sends out monsters, undead, and devils to murder people in the countryside is kind of a dick?
What if Leon Belmont was TRAPPED and BETRAYED for 400 years?
>>749038827It's time travelling multiverse slop. There's nothing we can do about it. Shanoa has her face plastered in the game despite not being born yet lol. It also means in the future anything and everything can happen. You can have more slop like Soma Cruz in the 14th century tag teaming with Simon Belmont
>>749035882>doesn't play like the old games>plays worse than its contemporariesI've played enough
>>749039239There are already multiverse castlevania games
>>749036313run of the mill is better than bad
>>749038930This will never be canon
>>749036234Metroid Dread still feels like a Metroid game (for the most part)
>>749020297>
>>749039643yes anon, inoffensively average is better than raw sewagewhat an epiphany
>>749039656But it's already in Belmont's Curse?
>>749026431Unironically, you're completely fucking wrong.
>>749018675What do you think derivative means?
>>749039643Don't reply to mentally impaired people.
>>749039767Your point being? Castlevania ended when Lords of Shadow was announced.
>>749032576>Castlevania>sell
>>749039785>no argumentConcession accepted.
>>749020040Damn, he didn't even make past his early 50s. I thought japs were supposed to live 100 years.
>>749040082He literally got cancer nigga. >I thought japs were supposed to live 100 years.Nah, that is mostly Japanese women.
>>749020040Damn, he worked on every single Igavania except Symphony.
>>749034982The way a new hate-thread is made the moment the hate threads die. Or just before. All day every day. Is hardly organic at all. It's also very obvious how the OP is samefagging very aggressively in the threads too. Obviously there are anons who genuinely don't like the game. But it's also obvious that an absolute schizoid autist with no life has made it his mission to shit all over the game. And he likely isn't even paid to do it.
I got the 3d castlevanias on sale a long time ago. Never bothered playing past the tutorial. Should I finally play them?
>>749040218He was a large part of Castlevania's identity from Aria and beyond. Came up with the soul system for one, and even in things he didn't work directly he was always there giving his input. The Skeleton Waiter enemy that holds a plate of currry is based on him.
>>749040551Which 3d ones? Note that the Lord of Shadows games have completely separate story/lore that's unconnected to any other Castlevania games other than their own.
>>749026490InfernaxMomodora: Reverie Under the MoonlightEnder LiliesEnder MagnoliaThe VagrantAstalon: Tears of the EarthHunterXEldritchvania (Free)
>Oh boy, these melee weapons will be useful!>Punch an enemy>End up taking damage insteadSURELY YOU HAVE A STAGGER MOVE SINCE YOU'RE RIPPING OFF ROLLSLOP>Oh, there is! There's a charged punch->It gets you hit if you use itMan thiese Cestus SUCK. NO RANGE, NO ENEMY STAGGER, NO NOTHING. WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT?
>>749026490>>749040681Apologies. I didn't read the last part. What do you think of the Ender games?
>>749040434>release new CV game which is in indistinguishable from any previous game>people dislike it>"clearly this all one person"This isn't even new for CV. Most people on /v/ also hate the Neflix adaptation as well as Lord of Shadows (sans maybe the very first game) for straying too far from the source material.
>>749026739>>749026956>>749026959>>749040681Thanks for the recs>>749040740>What do you think of the Ender gamesGenuinely my favourite metroidvania ever.
how is infernax?
>>749041158Really good and has co op if you have friends.
In a different world...
>>749038827I don't disagree but we're talking about a series that culminates in Dracula reincarnating as a femmeboy and his castle getting sealed thriugh the power of GRORIOUS NIPPONESE PRIESTS BANZAI. It's shit, baby girl. The best stories are in the games that don't even acknowledge a plot beyond an intro.
>>749041568they make a game that plays like ass and isn't an igavfania and also isn't even a classicvania it's gay hollowslop??????
>>749040779>(sans maybe the very first game)vomit.jpgLords of Shadows is a way, way worse offender than this game. That you could even consider otherwise says a lot about you.
>>749040681I loved Infernax conceptually but they made the platforming actual garbage when they introduced the uppercut
>>749041646I hate that this description is actually correct.I still like it anyway.
>>749034296>>has very little in common with the old games besides the nameHow so? Take Circle of the Moon. How is it more Castlevania than Belmont's Curse? If anything the games shares a lot of similarities it seems. And yet no one questions Circle of the Moon's "Castlevania-ness".
>>749041646At least femboy Drac is smashing prime miko puss, he ain't a total failure.Still gets folded in half by Julius but what can you do, he's like the in-Universe Jesus Christ of Belmonts.
>>749012515it happened with zelda botw
Saint Louis is an allyYou guys told me this game was woke
>>749040660There are 3d castlevanias that aren't lord of shadows?Those ones, I'm asking if the gameplay is good. Story doesn't need to be great.
>>749042991there's Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness but they're both pretty bad
>>749040710the whole point of the game is that you cant just mash X on an enemy you need to look at its startup attack so you can roll
>>749043195every single castlevania game but the one you started with is bad
>>749043316No, the PS2 games are genuinely just junky.
>>749043316No I like Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia
>>749042790>Rose has a fucking Sonia skinChudbros, we won.
Classicvania GODS what are we playing?Currently trying to learn to 1CC X68000, I think this game is hugely underrated. Some people just call it a remake of CV1 but I see it as more of a director's cut, takes all the greatest pieces of CV1, adds on it, then ups the difficulty as a sort of "second loop" for those who mastered CV1.
>>749043316I started with CV3 but SotN is my favorite
>>749043885It's somewhat more of a remake than IV is, but it's still a very different game. Even the level concepts it reuses are often different in terms of layout, and a lot of levels and bosses are entirely new. I don't think of it as a remake.
>>749043195Lament is good. Great even.CoD is bad.
>>749044427>Lament is good. Great even.The level design is atrocious.
>>749038842>It looks closer to Metroid Dread than any Castlevania.Especially all the blacked out cut-a-way space in the walls/ground.
>>749012515It used to happen much more in the old days. Pay more attention to people rather than brand names and IPs. Also, it's hilarious that the people simping and shiling for this game are abusing the report button. BTW. Soundrack is fucking ASS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXLJLEY1izw They got danny asadi, a persian as in heritage and musical style trap artist to do the OST.
>>749044514And the combat/progression is some of the best on the console.
>>749014715He gets to make games. He might even be making money. Sounds pretty damm good. >>749014527Most recent I can think of is CIv and Humankind. And THAT was a shitshow.
>>749037229Dread ost is nowhere as offensive as this game soundtrack.
>>749012515>Look inside>Laura Bailey>Matt Mercer>All the restlet me off this gay planet
>>749045032I don't recognize any of those characters.
>>749040681>Momodora: Reverie Under the MoonlightIs the sequel any good?
>>749021578Eh, they were both stealing from Konami. And later cut a deal with Konami.>>749024523This anon bites his thumb at people.
>>749044941I don't think it's good enough to warrant the emphasis. It's pretty repetitive and samey; most enemies are just bland timesinks. Some of the bosses are okay, but getting there is a total slog.
YOU FUCKING NIGGERS! I PRE-ORDERED KNOWING I WILL LOVE THIS; THEN YOU NIGGERS CRY LIKE LITTLE FAGGOTS ABOUT THE GAME MAKING ME INSTALL THE DEMO JUST TO FIND OUT THE GAME IS KINO! WHY DO I STILL LISTEN TO YOU NIGGERS? NEVER LISTEN TO V/
>>749044968>Civ and HumankindMakes me laugh everytime. They had more faith that Humankind would revolutionize the genre than the Humankind devs themselves did.
because being stuck in the past worked out great for shenmue 3, right?
>>749046059I can't imagine being this impressed by the demo unless this is literally the only 2D indie game you've played in the last decade.
>>749033225You have shit taste deerqueer. Also no one's complaining about the music being generic even though it sounds like soundcloud amateur shit. People are complaining because the music sucks despite being allowed to use famous Castlevania songs. How did they fuck up this bad
>>749046059Thank you for paying
>>749046059I liked what I saw, but "kino" is a bit much. Demo is too short to tell. Enough to get me to pick it up though.
>>749046059If you were a real fan, you would preorder twice, one for yourself and again for the bull in your relationship
>>749033225beep beep, bot post detected
>>749046059https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eNVLUFUerk
>>749033225Trap music is fucking gothic? >>749035716Unlikely.>>749043885I'm just a lightweight, but this october, I'm playing Simon's Quest for the first time in about 40 years, going no manuals or spoilers. I last played it at launch. Playing it in Japanese for the extra language practice. I'm old, slow, getting my ass kicked constantly, but enjoying myself. It's not looking good for my ending time.>>749035296Correct opinion is ALWAYS playing the goddam game yourself. One of the tells that anon is full of shit is not specifying which part of r/. Because it it's a place like GCJ, or one of the places that puts up pride flags in january, it's an anti recomendation. I think the best case scenario for this game is that it's Dead Cells with more budget and don't fuck up other partws too hard. The worst case scenario is if they go too much with Netflix castlevania and modern audience shit. The music is a bad sign so I'm down on it's prospects.
>>749024768>>749025043>>749025201Biggest problem with Team Ladybug is the lack of effort in the UI and generally everything besides the art. All of their game has the same fucking font and the same looking menus and the same sound effects. Somehow even lazier than IGA when he recycle the same Rondo of Blood sprites.
>>749047217recycling assets is not lazy it's smartthe phrase "don't redesign the wheel" exists for a reason
>>749047217Yeah, I am sure IGA recycled shit because he was lazy and it had nothing to do with Konami's giving him two onigiris as a budget.
>>749025201>As opposed to a team that made Dead Cells and some piss poor Price of Persia that nobody knows about?But Dead Cells is good and Rogue Prince of Persia is even better. You can ignore all the roguelite shit, and the movement and combat of those games are simply really satisfying.
>>749047361Square Enix needs to relearn this shitFromSoftware reuses assets/animations a lot, people still love their gamesHell, Symphony of the Night reuses a shit ton of prior Castlevania assets and it's beloved among most CV fans
>>749047361I mostly agree. Like RGG reuses fucking everything, but they'll usually touch up some of the more dated stuff every console gen or so to make it less noticeable. I don't mind the sprite recycling but seeing Rondo sprites in a DS game alongside a bunch of new sprites in a different artist's style would probably stick out a bit even if you didn't know where it came from.
>>749047509>Square Enix needs to relearn this shitSquare Enix needs to make good games first though.
>>749047217You're retarded lol
>>749047809>Like RGG reuses fucking everything, but they'll usually touch up some of the more dated stuff every console gen or so to make it less noticeableCompletely different philosophies because RGG games are based on real life locations and then they bloat the shit out of them when they iterate sequels, or do dumb shit like the hawaii part.
>>749041646
>>749014527Zelda
>>749014527Street Fighter.
>>749041646>femmeboywhat's wrong with you niggers
>>749022618This
>>749050569yeah shouldve just said soma looks like a fag
>>749047497It was absolutely a budget limitation, but it's not like Igarashi was known for always putting the money he was given to good use.
>>749043316Aria of Sorrow is my favorite Castlevania but it was my third one.
Wait until folks hear Carmilla’s boss theme, which is one of the best, with its hip-hop inspired beat and strings, they’re gonna be so mad XDAm I right, those who have heard it?
Castlevania 3 is too hard I need to abuse save states..
>>749041646He's just a typical bishounen of that era, I hate how niggers call every dude who isn't epic manly bacon a "femboy" these days.
Waiting for a Silent Planet - Elegy of a Dying World demo
>>749053772Yeah but he's still a random Japanese teenager. If Aria came out today you know there'd be loads of shitposters ragging on it being "disrespectful."
>>749054061Yeah probably, a lot of people already thought Dawn of Sorrow and Portait were disrespectful for the generic shounen artstyle. I'd still take that over the /co/ western "anime" artstyle in the new game though.
Why do you guys bitch about new games? I'm playing through Bloodstained after finishing PoR again and am nothing but excited for Belmont's Curse. Castlevania stopped being consistent after Rondo and Bloodlines.
>>749053302If you are playing the US version, name your file HELP ME to start with ten lives. That should be good enough for practicing and getting through the harder bits.
>>749054593I am not a new game bad goy, I just didn't like the demo very much. Honestly if the aesthetic/music was right I wouldn't care about it being a "hollowlike"/"Soulsvania" very much as much as that's disappointingly trendy. The game seems more medicore that awful but I guess the story has the potential to be extremely irritating to some people here.
>>749054593It just isn't good man. I'm sorry for not liking the corporations new product.
>>749054593first day on /v/?
>>749054750It was the EU version, I just beat it by using save states after every hit kek. I didn't expect it to be this hard, I have to replay it normally and choose the other routes
>>749022758no american has any idea what the archers is, that guy is 100% english
>>749053772>every dude who isn't epic manly bacon a "femboy" these daysJust admit you want to slurp some twink dong and move on. You fags pearl clutch over the stupidest shit, as if people haven't been poking fun at Kojima's effeminate men for longer than you've been alive.
Castlevania that doesn't feel like either classic nor iga
>>749055907I'll admit I am a little bit bi, I just get autistic about these classifications.
>>749057951It feels more like Igavanias than Igavanias do Classicvanias.
>>749040616>The Skeleton Waiter enemy that holds a plate of currry is based on him.Now it's even more accurate sorry
>>749058214Sure, its still a metroidvania in a broad sense, just not the Iga style. I feel like Team Ladybug could have done a better job with this.
>>749058368I think Game Kitchen was the most obvious choice. Would've been nice to have a sprite-based game free from the embarrassing and often clashing reuse of the DS games.And a more grim and eerie tone could've been a nice change of pace too. Oh well.
>>749058614Blasphemous The Third Sin was a rejected Castlevania pitch. At least that's what one of the devs vagueposted
>>749055907Soma is merely a twink. He doesn't qualify for full femboy status.
>>749058910He looks like a girl. However else you want to split the butt cheeks is up to you.
>>749058856Not surprising. Konami is trying to court a broader audience.
>>749058614They'd get the tone and aesthetics down way better than Evil Empire for sure, but I am not sure if I really want it to be a souls influenced game, that's kind of one of the issues with the game as is.
>>749059352You could credibly call the first Blasphemous a 2D take on Dark Souls, but that doesn't apply to Blasphemous 2 much at all.
>>749040082Only jap women, who enjoy afternoon tea with their friends after dropping off the kids at school while the man is working 14 hours a day.
>>749059521I should play it then, its on sale so I'll grab it I guess. The first game didn't click with me much even though I loved the way it looked.
>>749035905
This actually seemed like it could be good from the little the demo showed
>>749026490Blasphemous
>>749054593It's shitposters. You can safely ignore them.
>>749058856Based Konami for recognizing that Blasphemous is trash.
>>749012515can you really say it's a copy of a derivative if the ones that made one of those derivatives literally also made this game?
>>749059521Yeah I honestly think 2 was a lot better than some were giving it credit for. 1 still has the superior cinematics, but I liked that 2 leaned a lot more into the metroidvania side of things.
>>749033546Honestly, I feel like the default controls don't help. I rebound my controls so that up on the d-pad is interact (game will say theres a conflict, but it still works), and dodge/backstep is on a shoulder/trigger button, so that its closer to the DS era controls, and it felt a lot better afterwards.
>>749054593because I played the demo and thought it was bad, pretty simple
>>749054593Gelada
>Metroid came back>Castlevania still dead
>To classicvaia to metroidvania to Igavania to GoW clonevania to NetflixvaniaGrim
>>749067021Don't forget pachinkovania
>>749020157>play game>hear the anime voice
>>749024768The Fr*nch manage to be either extremely based or extremely cucked with rarely any inbetween.
>>749037229Dread's OST is forgettable. This is bad.Nothing in Dread felt as insulting as that rendition of Bloody Tears, if anything its reused tracks were the best ones in the OSThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo5JOpXnk5M
The worst thing about a new Castlevania coming is shills going around pretending OoE, SoTN, and all the old games suck only to get heavy push back and then react in a disingenuous way like "see see, that's how it feels for a game to be unfairly hate". No you retards
>>749066605I'm going in without playing the demo or looking at videos. I plan to refund it if I'm just not enjoying it. I've never played a Castlevania with a bad opening, so this would be a first. Though Lords of Shadow 2 went to shit very fast, so I'm cautiously optimistic
>>749067637I haven't seen that happening
>>749043316But Rondo was one of the last ones I've played and I like it the most
>>749025201Man why didn't konami hire this team instead of the frogs
>>749067637I love those games but I'm not going to pretend anyone who talks about the games being faithful to any central school of thought for design while putting those ones on a pedestal isn't just a posturing, full-of-shit fanboy. I see more classicvania DNA in the relatively little we've seen of Belmont's Curse than I have through seven games and three gens of IGA's output. They reinvented the wheel then, they're doing it now, but now it's a big deal because chuds are still in their feelings over a Netflix series.
>>749067637For the record I didn't like OoE before this game was announced
Should have hired Inti.Or, hell, just get M2 again.Make Inti make new Igavanias, and M2 (with some Inti support) make expanded Classicvanias.Even if those are unavailable, I am sure there were better picks as far as westoids are concerned (WayForward comes to mind, even if their output plummeted in quality).Why fucking Dead Cells random indie smucks of all people? Dead Cells is barely a Metroidvania and has nothing else going on that would tie it to Castlevaniia's DNA.
>>749067679They have been shitting on everything from DoS, to the 3d to OoE, to Super Castlevania 4 to SotN to try and make a point. It's disgusting
>>749025201>>749025265i wish konami gave them man power and money to make Symphony of the Night 2. Deedlit was so fucking good
>>749068080I haven't seen any of that other than shitting on the 3D games, which is and should be a constant.
>>749068080That always happens when a new game is coming out and i don't get it. I started noticing it with Pokémon of all things
>>749067637Lol the replies just proved your points. Netflincels are just really corporate simpletons.
>>749067641demo progress carries over so there's no real point
>>749026490Play the original Blaster Master on the NES (it's a great game). Then look up the differences between the JP and US versions as well as the extra lore introduced in Worlds of Power and later canonized in Blasting Again.Then go and play the whole Blaster Master Zero trilogy in one go as one complete experience.Then lament there not being a BMZ4.
>>749068156Stop replying to yourself
>>749068228Scared, marketer-san?
>>749068156t. chud still in his feelings over a Netflix seriesReally weird that you would make this post like the replies are a gotcha just to go out of your way to prove one of them right instead.
>>749067483>>749037229I hope Michiru Yamane doesn't have the misfortune of hearing some of these tracks.Incidentally, while checking up on her she apparently cooperated with music composition for another metroidvania back in 2023 after Bloodstained which looks and sounds breddy gud at first glance:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3591KI7rgAg
>>749067637people saying the old games sucked are rage baiter faggots. nobody in their right mind would say that. let the game come out and give it a try. then form your opinion, really nothing complicated
>>749068141It's because they want to try and make the new entry into some kind of new classic. No niggers, your game ain't the Symphony of the Night. It ain't unfairly hated for "changes". It ain't going to be vindicated by history like [insert games you just threw under the bus here]
>>749068373Why are you angry? I was insulting incels
>>7490683829 years of shadow was solid
>>749067637Same thing happened with that fakeass Silent Hill Townhall game recently, then it flopped because the new supposed fans were shitting on the old games fans
>>749031302/thread
Why is her arm cursed or whatever? She doesn't even use it in combat.
>>749068850It's her masturbation arm and it went crazy
>>749068581It flopped because it was shit and the mc was black. If Belmont's curse truly sucks it will flop too, you don't have to strawman people and call everyone a shill
two handed sword gameplay
>>749067637Ooe is fucking dogshitIt was never a good gameHow woman character is not enough to make a good game
>>749020339As usual
>749069521bait used to be believable
>>749069521I like OOE
>>749069703OoE has always been a contentious entry, newfag.
>>749069402weird seeing Castlevania has movesets, even buttstained using the tradition castlevania attack
How would you make a future Castlevania game (or games) provided you have to stick to the canon timeline? Is rebooting the whole thing into something else the only way forward?
>>749070873Julius game
>>749070873Belmont's Curse already has time travel to circumvent canon restrictions
>>749070521there is also "classic" whip weapon in demo that works like in C4 (not talking about the one for traversal swinging)you can try them in you have PC demo installed
>>749070920Realistically you probably can't keep this shit up for more than a couple of games, though.
>>749070873The series never had any hard rules other than "Belmonts can't use the whip after Richter until 1999" so there's really no reason to reboot it.
>>749071016The other rule is "Dracula resurrects every 100 years (unless somehow forced to earlier)".Most of these slots are already occupied and making him wake up every fucking decade would just be extremely silly. We also have witnessed both Dracula's birth and final death, so we only have the 1000-1999 timeframe to work with.
>>749071089That's not a rule dude. You even included a fucking excuse for it.
>>749070873Reject all attempts at a bespoke timeline, with only a few vague anchor events like SotN, or the Soma games happening at the end of everything. Beyond that just keep making new ones with the usual backdrop of the castle appearing every hundred years. Pay zero attention to the fact that at some point you don't have enough centuries to hold them all. Like full-fucking ignore and handwave the problem. Then you can broadly jump them around whenever you like across the middle ages, the Renaissance, the Victorian, or maybe even start walking it back toward the late/post-Roman Empire. When someone pops up and asks you how the timeline is supposed to work, you tell them to shut the fuck up and go whip some skeletons. This is not an alternate timelines scenario, or a realistic chronological order. It's a bunch of Castlevania games because we want Castlevania games.
>>749071089Dracula is also alive and just chilling in his castle brooding until CV3 when he finally snaps.So realistically the actual feud is between 1400-1999. Making for 8 'legit' resurrections, with some breaks mid-century for reasons (we had two whole extra events right after CV3, 1 after Adventure, then 1.5 after CV1, 1 after Rondo, 1 after Bloodlines. Guess there could be one more after Ecclesia or something.
>Rose completely rejected Leon's family motto and changed it because Leon is wrong and a sinner judged by St. Louis >"The Belmont's will no longer hunt the night... they will show humanity the dawn"Kino. I can't believe Leon Belmont is such a flaw and evil man that curses the entire bloodline
>>749070873I'm of the opinion that the story has kind of written itself into a corner. There's only so many time periods where a the feeling of a gothic vampire-hunting adventure really works, and they have crowded the absolute hell out of that range. Defeating Dracula barely even means anything when you know he's just gonna show up again in five to ten years anyway because some random evil cultist or whatever summoned him again. At this point Dracula is less of a "the legends are true?" sort of thing and more of what should be the number one priority of every government in Europe at all times. A reboot might be necessary at some point, but I wouldn't really want a Subverted Expectations Reboot like LoS either. I guess you could maybe squeeze out one or two more Soma stories but I'll be honest I don't know how much more mileage we can get out of secret fake Dracula castles in the 2030s. I dunno. Maybe do another something pre-Drac about a proto-Belmont fighting a completely unrelated vampire. Or retell an old story with a new Castle layout and bosses, sort of like how there's already several games retelling Castlevania 1.
>>749071654You could do a lot with post-Soma.Have new evil lords with new things associated with them appearing.Make a series of Alucard games investigating other paranormal activties. This guy is immortal and works with some secret societies or whatever.Make fucking Golomoth invade Earth or something.The magical world of Castlevania doesn't solely hinge on Dracula. It existed before him, and will exist after him.That said, that doesn't really work by itself if you have a whole franchise to maintain. You can have all of that and make it good but you do need some parallel titles that do somehow maintain the old identity, otherwise things will just get weird and muddled and not have much to do with Castlevania.
>>749071852>The magical world of Castlevania doesn't solely hinge on Dracula.It does. He's the linchpin of the series.
>every personality traits that Rose is currently exhibiting, the brash, girlboss, anti authority personality is actually Dracula's curse. >Rose is extremely irritable because of it>At the end when she finally broke through that knto the Saints help, Leon said her personality has changed and he finally sees the real herSo why are we arguing about whether Rose personality is fitting or not when it's literally designed to be evil incarnate affecting her action
>>749071852I think you might be on to something with standalone Alucard adventures, but I just think that once you hit the era of modern weapons, cell phones, and computers, it becomes harder and harder to justify that against the series identity of fighting your way through a giant spooky stone castle with whips and swords.
>>749071941The initial lynchpin of the series was trying to parody/make a loving homage to old monster movies. Dracula just felt like a fitting final boss, as he was so prominent in those. Everything after CV3 is basically a reimagination of the canon in a way.You can realistically picture Castlevania with each game having its own unique final monstrosity like The Phantom of the Opera or something.
>>749071654>>749071338>>749071289>>749070873>>749070915>>749071016BATTLE OF FUCKING 1999.GIVE ME THE JUICE.>>749070915BASED.OG Picrel too large to post, sauce: https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/104745274
>>749072124You can have different final bosses, but there's never been a Castlevania that hasn't focused on Dracula.
>>749072161No, don't. It'll be like the Sonic 4 situation, but worse.They are not ready to make anything good, so they'll butcher their own opportunity and never do it again. Maybe if we have 2 or 3 great games first.
>Joan of Arc got wet seeing Alucard portrait in the datamine Lol>"Gazing upon his face feels as though the trumpets of Jericho were breaking the walls of my heart"
>>749072210I know you're right. I just want to have my fantasy of the game opening with a younger Julius (sans beard but still with his goatee) channeling the intro of Rondo of Blood, only by storming Dracula's Castle on a motorcycle instead of horse-drawn carriage, while elsewhere fighter jets/attack helicopters are in dog fights with enemies like Gaibon to sell the Demon Castle War.
>>749072583If the governments knew about this, realistically they'd just drop a nuke on the castle or something.
>>749021578What was the first Rhythm Game ever?Which series did the genre best?Which one is your favorite?
>>749072652>If the governments knew about this, realistically they'd just drop a nuke on the castle or something.Evidence presented in AoS heavily suggests the governments knew and actively fought Dracula's forces during the event but dropping nukes was probably brushed off the table due to heavy consult with the Church stating that such action would only risk fallout to humanity and do nothing against Big Bad Batty himself. For Japan specifically the Hakuba Shrine Leaders probably convinced the powers that they could seal the Castle into the Eclipse and this was communicated to the UN before such measures would be deployed as a last resort.
if i could become immortal and terrotize humanity because i miss my ex so much i totally would
Konami just ripped Dracula's backtory off from the 1992 Dracula movie by Coppola. This was a near-sighted and silly decision.
>>749072958What does Japan have to do with it?
They should make Castlevania in middle east and let you whip... Cleopatra
>>749073252Because it was the Japanese (Mina's order or whatever) that sealed Dracula?
>>749054593Castlevaniafags gave the game a fair shot and for once people generally agreed that the game sucked ass and listed why. Every other thread about why a game sucked ass is usually just shitposting and schizoposting, but Castlevania is too niche for that
>>749035441I wish I could draw too anon
>>749035441Trevor and Sypha getting together has always been the case. It was the cartoon that adapted the games in this instance.
Rose design just fucking suck and I can't get over it
>>749073252It was Mina's Hakuba mystic Shinto lineage that helped Julius to finally seal Dracula and the Castle into the moon (and why Soma when visiting her while in Japan becomes the reincarnation).
it happens all the time. why shouldn't a genre defining franchise look at everything it influenced and pick and choose the improvements ovee the literal decadey
>>749073364Portrait of Ruin did that
>>749073597Does japanese highschool boy really look like that
>>749073597Soma isn't an exchange student and the castle wasn't sealed in Japan.
>>749055221I find the NES Ninja Gaidens easier than the NES Castlevanias funnily enough. CV3 has “haha gotchu” BS moments.
>>749074052>Not in spoiler because fuck youFuck you right back.
>>749055907Am I the only that thought Soma Cruz looked like Michael Jackson?
I really quite like the demo. And I like the combat. And I like the boss fight. The boss fight feels kind of megaman-esque. Complete with weaknesses to exploit. It's fun stuff. People are doom posting way the fuck too hard.
>>749026490>>749026959Seconding Zexion. Best Metroidvania I've played in a long fucking time. Top 5 for me.
>the fallen>Throwing crops boomerang>Swing and catching you with whipWow I wonder who that is....
>>749054593It's woke shit
>>749033546BE BETTER DEVS. That game is an insult to the series. Even Harmony is better.
>>749074052>>749074430>vile Frenchslop>church is le evil>Leon raped and gaped>sex = matureHoly shit I hate the French. Why is Rose corrupted in the first place? Did Dracula cuck Trevor?
>>749074702He put Dracula's Curse in Trevor's balls.
>>749020157>set game in 15th century EnglandIt's set in 15th century Paris, you idiotYOU CAN LITERALLY SEE NOTRE-DAME IN THE THUMBNAIL
>>749074895>>749074942Fuck, that’s some incredible misinterpretation of what happened in LoI and trampling on Leon’s characterIf I were a LoIfag I’d be boiling my own piss right now
>Make vulgar westslop with cursing and sex>Also allude heavily to LoI and CoD>Don't at least use the opportunity to say "FUCK YOU AND THE NIGHT"shame
>>749074207I like how you can dash past an enemy, turn around, and still get the dash-attack in. It's satisfying.
>>749075130We don't speak of the garbage netflix shit. Let that rot and be forgotten.
Drac sounds like too much of a dick for that era of Dracula.He should still be sympathetic even if mad between LoI and 3. Then go insane from grief and become monstrous after Lisa dies. Then regain some of his earlier embers of humanity during Rondo/Symphony. Then he makes peace with things by the end of SotN. Afterwards he is forcibly resurrected and is more or less a dark specter rather than Dracula's true soul.
>>749075348I never mentioned Netflix though, I was talking about this game
>>749075438Where is the vulgarity, cursing, and sex? And when you called it slop ontop of that. The netflix shit is where everything is pointing. Not this game.
>>749075612>Where is the vulgarity, cursing, and sex?In the greentext that other anon's just dumped.
>>749075643They talk about sex but in an "elegant" way. I wouldn't describe it as vulgar like Joan's >"Gazing upon his face feels as though the trumpets of Jericho were breaking the walls of my heart"talking about her sexual attraction to Alucard. Eleanor use some words like "He appears as a suitor and obviously I can't agree to marrying him but-". Carmilla and the Succubus on the other hand are sluts and everything should be as expected
>>749075786And by extension it makes sense for Rose to curse if she's being a bitch because of Dracula's Curse, hence the original point.
>>749068076Dead Cells managed to worm its way into a Castlevania DLC, so it's more likely that their devs got a guy in Konami or have been persistent enough that Konami bought their pitch.
>>749076457It's probably the other way around. Konami has been contacting anyone popular they could to whore Castelvania out for DLCs and cross-overs.
>>749025001>a whole extra third party to help them with a full-scale CV game.No they don't.Deedlit's game was better than all post SotN metrodvanias, including all Igavanias. It's the only game that feels like a true "successor" for SotN while also improving on its flaws. The only advantage those other games might have is more "content", or should I say, filler. It's my only 11/10. Beyond perfection. I loved that game so much, I can stop playing video games altogether. I'm fully satisfied.
>all spoilers deleted
>>749076660Good.
>>749076457or they where cheapest as blasphemous devs wanna do beautiful pixel art (all what they prepared for konami pitch ended as blasphemous 2 dlc after refusal)
>>749075643>In the greentextAnd you believe their framing as is? People always exaggerate.
