I know Konami doesn't have a lot of money to do in-house development, but for the love god, can they stop licensing Castlevania to westerners?
..how did you do that
>>749841560>>749841556What is the point of this bot spam?
>>749841770What the fuck? That wasn't on purpose
>>749841560Highest-rated game since Dawn of Sorrow, thoughbeit. Seems they did the right thing here.
>>749841803Yes it was
You will never be Japanese. They dont even make good games anymore. Stop coping. If you want gatcha shit then go play it
>>749841849OK, critics are wrong and stupid
>>749841887Nope.
>>749841560Toru Hagihara left konami.You won't ever get a real castlevania ever again.
>>749841560They licensed it to Mercury Steam who made the best selling most popular game Castlevania Lords of Shadow. They licensed it to Powerhouse Animation/Netflix whose western animes have brought more viewers than any of the games.It’s clearly a winning strategy.
>>749841560They can't seem to break from allowing gaijin to ruin Silent Hill either.
>>749841560At the same time, they don't call these westernvanias Akumajou Dracula too. Like these are separate from the real series.
>>749842959>Successful then crashed and burned with LOS2>Successful then crashed and burned with NocturneI'm starting to see a pattern here
dont worry, the next good castlevania is made by scalies
>>749843052LoS2 had a messy dev cycle. Still sold more than OOE across all platforms.Nocturne has different writers with a worse pedigree than first series, but still second most popular thing in the Castlevania after the first series.Even when westerners crashed and burned they still did better than what was happening before with Igavania rehashes and occasional classicvania rehash. It was due to dire situations like this that Konami stopped doing video games for a while
I still don't know what the curse is supposed to be.
>>749843662Girlboss curse
>>749841849Not among the Japanese.
kill yourself
>the other two threads shitting on the new cv were deletedlmao konami must have told the mods to remove them
>>749844336No way
>>749841560agreedanybody who doesn't realize there is more inspiration in a single random screenshot of rondo of blood than there is in the entirety of the new game simply lacks a soul and their opinion should be discarded immediately
>>749841560Let me guess you got filtered by the spikes.
>>749846627Real Castlevanias don't have rooms that are 90% spikes, it's a tranny platformer thing.
>>749846627Let me guess you're a shill faggot.
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>>749847478Wtf, delet this!
>>749847478come up with new material, trannyone simple puzzle where you hang with your whip and do a couple of jumps vs 80%+ of the game's entire content
>>749847381Yeah they pay me 2 bux every post bet you're jealous :^)
>Japanese user reviews at 19%>English review at 90%+Castlevania isn't a Japanese franchise anymore
>>749841849>RatingsLol
>>749843052Tourist see new toy.Toy is funny first time.Toy however gets broken by tourist.Broken toy no longer fun.
Kotama and academy citadel is one of the best metroidvanias ever and I begged people here to play it and nobody ever has any interest. Somehow. You don't want this type of games, you don't even respond when they do get made.
>>749844261Are you a jap? No? Then why do you care what they think. Their brains have been destroyed by mobile gatcha gooner slop. >>749844261
>>749841887You're wrong and stupid, you're angry because bc is a sucess and you grasp to understand that every cv game is unique in its own way, keep seething and crying
>>749841560The same westerners they previously licensed Castlevania to have gone on to successfully revive 2D Metroid, maybe the problem is Konami themselves.
>>749848770MercurySteam can be good if kept on a leash.
>>749842725What in the fuck is a true Castlevania???
>>749848829A castle that vanias
>>749843042Castlevania Belmont's Curse is a 100% canonical Castlevania game, keep telling your blatant lies, massive idiot.
>>749848770>>749848802>mercurysteam fellatorsjesus christ
>>749848932Ideally they wouldn't need a leash otherwise they go full retard, but it's what it is.
>>749846560Castlevania evolves you're doing the opposite, keep living in the past, old timer, you faggots are the reason that game series don't want to take risks anymore
>>749847215larper detected
>>749847581This is obviously an ai generated image, Castlevania is not like that! /s
>>749848930>キャッスルヴァニア ロード オブ シャドウ>キャッスルヴァニア ロード オブ シャドウ 宿命の魔鏡>キャッスルヴァニア ベルモンドカースEven that shit mobile game was called Akumajou Dracula lmao>悪魔城ドラキュラ Grimoire of Souls
>>749843042Interestingly, the whole reason that Konami hates IGA is that he used the name "Castlevania" for Lament of Innocence in Japan and the jap audience freaked out at the westernisation of it.
I remember the first thread after release, where a guy claimed to be a marketer and told everyone that the focus would be on platforming and spike traps, and that they'd been briefed to push the "platforming is what castlevania is all about" meme.I called him a schizo then...starting to believe now
Who decided that jump puzzles every two meters represent the pinnacle of game design for metroidvanias?
Castlevania unironically fell for the Metroidvania meme
they hired the wrong gaijin team, hire migami, kitchen or joymasher
>Bloodstained thread in catalog>been there for days>people having fun>sharing art>talking about how awesome the games are/what they like/don't like>belmont's curse thread in catalog>over in hours>full of shills and marketers>the artwork sucks so it's only shared to point out how bad it is>sharing shitty reviews of it/talking about how bad it isIGA won. Even /v/ loves this man.
>>749850053>they hired the wrong gaijin team, hire MigamiThis. Mig would have done the series justice. Hell Chronicles of the Wolf is more "Castlevania" at this point than Belmont's Cursehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfo6F-WwM7wThis shit feels 10x more true to the CV series than Dead Cells 2 - even got old Alucard's voice actor back
>>749850189To be fair, Bloodstained looks like shit. Thankfully, gameplay, sound, etc, are great (except the Lair of the Behemoth).
>>749848136>look it up>weebslopGo to hell
Just beat up to the fifth boss and I think it's a good game. However it's only about 45% castlevania in its DNA. I know the devs wanted to try something new, but spike platforming sections everywhere does nothing for me. I'm not asking it to be trivial like bloodstained, but this is just overkill.
>>749850325It does, yeah. Makes it hard to really make out everything, even on cinematic quality. One of my only complaints about it other than some of the music being a bit lacking, and it just not having...100% of that spark.I really should go back and play it again though, I think they just kept adding a ton of game modes to it since then.
>Go up to giant clock tower with green glow>"Don't go here Rose, it is a trap">okay guess I'll ignore it and keep going>Get locked into Dracula boss fight and bad endingKek it's one of the few cryptic Iga bullshit they kept.
>>749850403>Just beat up to the fifth bossCancer spikes will only get worse from here on.
>>749843368>a worse pedigreeWhat does this mean?
>>749849703So japanese games that are called Castlevania instead of Akumajou Dracula aren't true Akumajou Dracula aka Castlevania games???Fucking retard, you're full of shit, BC is indeed a TRUE Castlevania game, keep seething until you die from a heart attack, drama queen
Why didn't they include other playable characters as cameos, like in other castlevanias?
>>749849020What "risks" did they take with this new """Castlevania"""?
>>749849859Ask your mama, tyrone
>>749850189What's your point?
>>749851306>What's your point?it's in here:>>749850189
>>7498509514chin shills didn't like new Castlevania games, even they shit on Bloodstained and Koji Igarashi in the past, now is /v/ king again, neurodivergence as its "best"
>>749849020>game series don't want to take risks anymoreRight that's why they made a a cookie cutter modern Metroidvania resembling Hollow Knight.Which already is the worst Metroidvania, at best just mediocre, because it basically is a 2D Soulslike that larps as a Metroidvania.Sure took a lot of risks with this one.Retard.
>>749851421>worst MetroidvaniaAt least it's not "roguelike", too. (Another genre ruined by indie devs who have no idea what a genre is actually about).
>>749851421ah, I see, you're a boomer faggot that keep telling lies and bs about the new game because they change the gameplay again, you're a mongolic faggot that hates videogames kys
>>749851701Not that guy but yes you fucking RETARD, if they change the gameplay in a way that the game no longer feels like the series it's supposed to be then of course people who like said series are going to complain you stupid twat.
>>749851421Btw, La Mulana destroys your shitty furryvania, please refrain to post your furry shit, and for your information BC isn't a soulslike nor a hollowlike, you fucking liar and drama queen.
>>749851067u mad
>>749851823If it says Castlevania in its title then is a Castlevania, bombastic crybaby mongoloid even Grimoire of Souls, Order of Shadows, Encore of the Night and Castlevania Judgment ARE Castlevanias, Castlevania are many things, there is not an essence, a soul or a feeling, you're in denial
>>749851902As Mad as a funky Mad Forest or as a Mad Man of Castlevania lll: Dracula's Curse
And I'm fucking KILL YOU with a fucking holy cross if you say bad things about Mad Forest
>>749852045>when you're getting paid to shill a new castlevania game, but don't know anything about the fanbase or the series but you googled a list of the games and you're pretty sure that people will respond well to you holding up "encore of the night" as an exampleYou're way out of your depth. But you're right in some ways. Belmont's Curse is a lot like Order of Shadows in many respects.
>>749852045What about Vampire Killer and Haunted Castle?
Mad Forest sucks ass.>>749852169Do it pussy
>>749847478>straw man, straw man, conGA>straw man, straw man, conGA>straw man, straw man, conGA
>grand heroes of the past are frauds>villains are actually sort of good guys, they're only misguided>the church is bad>women are strong and smart and have fridge bodiesI hate western writing and aesthetics so much
90% of the game is just fucking spikes.
>>749852423>grand heroes of the past are frauds**unless they're women, in which case they are treated with utmost ass-kissing deference and they always have a perfectly moral reason for all the bad shit they do
>>749852551>Naysaying, naysaying, naysaying.
>>749843052stop being anti semitic
>>749849020why are the shills doing a newtype larp now
>>749852045OK retard
>>749852659If you wanted me to be nice about the game, it shouldn't have been shit. Simple as.
>>749852423>>749852551Did SomeCallMeJohnny write it?
>>749841849>since Dawn of SorrowThat only proves reviewers were retarded even back in 2005.
>>749841560Galuga was one of the best contra games. Not that was a tough competiton since contra had only like few truly great games on his history. but castlevania is truly a hard bar to clear since has only few bad games. and even the bad ones got great remakes like the rebirth series
>>749841770https://www.4chan.org/janitorapp
>>749841560I'm glad this flopped
>>749841560Why is everyone hating on the artstyle? it looks perfectly fine to me
sooner or later everything good gets raped
>>749853861kys
>>749853861Looks like the Sistine Chapel's ceiling next to Bloodstained.
>>749849020>evolvesIs not even better than any top tier game from anywhere.What exactly did it even evolve to except woke?
>>749851067>It's a true Castlevania game>It's a real womankek
>>749852045>But.. but.. it literally says Castlevania on the box.. it has to be..I reject your slop, it will never be real Castlevania and after a month i won't even have to argue it as it will be over by then
it was really better left off dead.
