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Xxain on 09 January 2014
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disolitude said:
Xxain said:
kupomogli said:
disolitude said:
That's great but is one of these games going to be actually good? Doubt it...

After playing the 2D release that just came out on Xbox Live few months ago one has to wonder if these guys are just trolling Castlevania or absolutely don't get it.

Hopefully I'm wrong, but if not hope it bombs hardcore and Konami gives it to another dev team.

They've been doing a better job with the Castlevania franchise than IGA has for the past few games.  Castlevania Judgment and Harmony of Despair are garbage, while Curse of Darkness is sort of meh, has some good ideas to its gameplay, and Order of Ecclesia is so so.

As a Castlevania fan myself, my original opinion of Mercury Steam getting it is how much they destroyed the Castlevania timeline, but when I finally gave it a chance, decided to take it as a reboot, a completely different series, it is a different take on the series, and they in no way attempt to make the series their own.  Them also adding Lords of Shadow to each title in the series they want to point out that it's in a different timeline.

Lords of Shadow is my favorite PS3 game right behind Infamous 2.  Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate is a great game mixing classic style, Lords of Shadow combat, and exploration style very well into one game.  It's a bit easy, but get 100% of the items /scrollsand replay the game on hardcore difficulty to make the checkpoints less forgiving with decent difficulty. 

Opinion only, but with only two games, and a third I'm getting on day one, or atleast however long it takes Amazon to ship it to me, Mercury Steam is the newest to dev to be added to my list of favorites.  So while I have no interest in an unannounced game, I'll atleast wait and see until it's announced before I brush it off.

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And just because it seems the need to show proof of everything now.  If you base it off skill, then maybe this series of videos I made will just help show how much of a CV fan I am.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJIateKABtQ&list=PLB905DD74DCE5746E

I agree with Kupo. I dont think the series needs to return to IGA because personally, I think he has run out of idea's. It does need to return to somebody in Japan though.


A reply to both since your posts are connected...

I'm not some old school gamer that wants to see SOTN made over and over. They already remade Castlevania SOTN on next gen consoles and called it Dark Souls. It was awesome. I am fine if they take it in a ne direction and actually hope they do. In fact something like ZombieU strikes me as a game that Castlevania could use as an inspiration to change for the better. More gritty and engaging...

I just hate the path they decided to take with the series. I see that some people like it, and I respect that and not calling your tastes wrong...but as far as I am concerned I'm not touching this series till something changes. RE4 was a huge departure for the franchise but it was actually good and groundbreaking and became my favorite game in the series. To me LoS was a mish mash of other better games with focus on visual presentation and dull story with gameplay and art style trying to 1up each other on which one can put me to sleep sooner.

Imagine LoS as an 8bit or 16 bit game...exactly as it is with the core gameplay mechanics but without the visuals and presentation. My god would it would suck.


I agree 100%. The way you feel about LoS is exactly how I feel about it. I was just turning away the idea that it needs IGA because it doesnt. Castlevania needs to return to Japan because it needs go be redefined on a game design level not a tech or writing level,they only thing Mercury Steam "debatebly" did.