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oniyide on 28 May 2012
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Spazzy_D said:
badgenome said:
Khuutra said:

No you have to come at me with a game that wasn't made seventeen years ago

The other Igavanias don't count

They were also made seventeen years ago

There's a reason they kept making them. There's also a reason why Konami locked Igarashi in a closet after OOE, and now that I think about it, it was clearly the right decision. I hope they never let him touch Castlevania again and force him to keep making Kinect games instead until he commits public sudoku.

They locked him up after Castlevania: Judgement, not OOE.  OOE actually had decent sales I believe, I mean, I would look it up but its not like I have access to an easy to use video game sales database or anything.

Symphony of the Night is one of my favorite games - but everything else (especially the Sorrow games) seemed like such a lame attempt to recapture the "magic" of that game.  Even the character designs seemed a little too similiar to SotN, and he kept using THE SAME sprites from 16-bit games!  I actually think the best portable Metroidvania is Circle of the Moon - you know, the one not made by IGA.  It actually felt a little bit like its own game, and had a very Belmont-esque protagonist.  I still played and enjoyed all the others, but each one seemed less special then the last.

Here's another thing, while I'm ranting, I remember before Symphony of the Night came out how excited I was for it.  Read the Game Pro preview over and over - my two favorite Super Nintendo games were Castlevania IV and Super Metroid, and this game seemed to be taking one and skinning the other over it.  The thing is though - this was a SPIN OFF OF THE MAIN LINE CASTLEVANIA GAMES!  It wasn't an aciton platformer, it didn't star a Belmont, and it wasn't about one of Dracula's 100 year resurrections.  Yet, this spin off game has some how become the only thing people will accept as Castlevania.

I'll say this, the series got convoluted and super bloated and really did need a reboot. Lords of Shadow would have been an amazing Castlevania game except for the heavy fantasy elements in the first third of the game.  And the lack of sub-weapons.   And the fact you don't fight Dracula.  And the lack of classic Casltevania music.  And the fact that it lacked almost all of the iconic Castlevania enemies.  And the lack of hearts and heart giving candles.  Some more platforming wouldn't have hurt either.  But, you know, besides that.

 

 


Damn i thought i was literally the only one who thought like this, we cant be the only ones, it seems the DS games are only popular among a cetain segment of people, I believe that something fresh has to happen to get Castlevania to a more popular stance or maybe its just going to stay where its at.