They put up some site and are offering the original Castlevania as a free phone game for one month:https://www.konami.com/games/castlevania/us/en-us/
>>12838362Sounds like a terrible way to play it.
>>12838362Modern Kikenami is such a garbage company that they have to rely on mobile outputs and taking shareholder’s money from BlackRock, then only to just outsourced the developments of games for their IPs to literally hack indie studios.
>>12838435Is konami still fueled by gambling? Their move away from games still leaves me baffled
I hate these fucking daily anniversaries and celebrations and everything that games companies and shills use to try to promote shit.Nobody cares. If anything the day they actually got or rented or their mate got the game would be a more important date to remember, but probably only if it was their very very favorite game.
>a fucking dlckek
I see a lot of Castlevania fans excited for the new game but...idk I don't want to sound pedantic but it doesn't really look like Castlevania, it just looks like another indie western style game, with wall jumping (which is fine in Mega Man X for example, or Ninja Gaiden, but why Castlevania?)
>>12838459I'm willing to accept MercurySteam as the developer again as long they do the following >Ignore the shartflix cartoon, unlike Belmont's Curse>graduate from GoW combat sloppa>actually learn everything they were whiplashed about when working with Nintendo >hire an good promo artist while the current one work on the designs
>>12838376filtered
>>12838459Why are SOTN/Rondo being gatekept on Sony shit?
omg It's [game I can play on emulators for free and with better conditions] we're going home bros
>>12838603Not sure what you're talking about, the new Bloodstained is looking great.
>>12839270Yeah but now you can play Castlevania while you're sitting on the toilet taking a big shit
>>12839307I can already do that with my laptop
>>12839156Apparently Sony did the ports and own the rights to those particular ports. There must have been some sort of contract agreement that no one else is allowed to port them so they'll remain Sony exclusives otherwise SotN would have been ported to Steam and Switch a long ass time ago, it would make more money on those platforms than the ps4/5.Konami made a dumb business decision there, but them making stupid decisions is nothing new.
>>12839270Yeah but the fact you can acquire and play it legally now retroactively absolves you from the sin of piracy. You'll be spending one less year in purgatory after you die.
>>12839432It's basically DXC without the remake, it's a PSP emulator and a modified game.
>>12839156>>12839432The remake of Rondo on PSP features both the original PC-Engine release and the PS1 version of SOTN as unlockable extras. The modern Rondo/SOTN collection on PS4 is actually running both those classic games as PSP emulation, with the Rondo remake that once housed them now entirely removed. It's the same PSP emulator that Sony also used to re-release Loco Roco and Parappa the Rapper on PS4. Konami can't just slap that collection onto another system because it would mean paying M2 to re-do the emulation for both games without Sony's in-house PSP emulator.Yes, this is the real reason. Yes, it's this retarded.
>>12839451And they can't emulate PCE/PSX originals because...? Anyway, they have enough random games missing to make another slop collection with MSX vampire killer, CV legends, GB version of kid dracula and N64/PS2 games (pipe dream)
>>12838438Pachinko makes a shit ton of money, sega makes more off of pachinko than anything else combined, be lucky any Japanese company even bothers with vidya
>>12838603I don't get why they made it look neon pink. Of all colors, that's pretty much the exact opposite color scheme CV should have.
>>12840137It just doesn't look like a Castlevania game.It looks like these dime a dozen indie games that are zoomed out and it looks like your character is bouncing all over the walls of an anthill, in 2 main colors.Why can't they do something that's more like actual Castlevania except with even more lush graphics. I hate how modern 2D is more similar to 2000s flash animations than 90s pixelart
>>12838362I'm getting into Castlevania just now, staring with the arrange mode in Chronicles for PS1, and it rocks! I can't believe I missed out on such a fun IP, playing the 1st NES title next. If I'm all about linear levels, short length/runtime and using the whip as my main attack, what other titles from the franchise should I prioritize playing next?
Why is it so goddammed tiny?
>>12841929Because you're displaying an SD game on an HD screen
>>12839678>And they can't emulate PCE/PSX originals because...?Because there's a high chance that Konami out of their retardation lost the source code of the originals at some point and replaced it with the re-releases.
>>12842046You don't need the source code to emulate, you need a ROM dump/image. Or did you think fans have obtained the source code for every game they emulate?
>>12841929I suppose in its defense, that is basically the GBA/PSP whatever layout/proportions, we're all just kind of used to phone games being the whole screen and slapping the buttons over.The start/select button placement isn't great, though, that's where most phones swipe from in horizontal so it keeps thinking I want to fuck off whenever I start the game.
>>12839432You mean the PSP version which bothed the sound mixing and had the crappy redub that still wasnt faithful to the script? even Rondo got released on Wii's VC in 2007 in japan, 2011 elsewhere, but with botched screen scaling.
>>12841929The directionals are ass, retroarch fucking touch overlay is better than this.
>>12839270/thread
>>12838459>>12838730I want LoS trilogy port on PS4 and Switch platform.
>>12841889Man of culture, I see?
>>12838362Check out Konami's shitty under two minutes long anniversary video for it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HcjtbfJfCY
this just relasedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOh-2gFRwc
>>12839270>omg it's we're going home brosWhat did he mean by this?
>>12844141So did they just undo NoA's usual BS or are there graphical refinements?
oh wow thanks mr. konami man
>>12844141Where's the music from?
>>12838376if it's free, it's for me
>>12844141damn this looks great
>>12844141Why make it look worse? What's the purpose?
>>12845261Using a touch screen as a controller is like playing castlevanina with the blast shield down. You must use the force to guide you
>>12847334indeed>>12849106i guess there are good and skilled people on this planet that like to make things better ...so what purpose? ... exactly opposite to your purpose when you make this shitpost
>>12838362>free NES ROMWow...um...thanks...
>>12851448>for a month ...
>>12844141Looks very lovingly made. Will play this version for my next playrhrough
