Why would anyone want the people who killed Castlevania to work on the OTHER Metroidvania? Good riddance.

I'm glad this got cancelled! It could have been worse than Other M for fuck's sake!

So you find it normal that a company that has only made five games, with only one of them being critically well received (or two if you count Jericho, which was a mixed bag), and whose last game has been critically and financially a failure and that is having financial and staff troubles, decides by its own to make a game based on an IP from no other that Nintendo (because we all know how open minded to this kind of things Nintendo is)?

And to make things worse, they had even decided the setting and aspects of the game.

That doesn't sounds as good management to me.

I'd rather have a Metroid game made by Nintendo themselves and not some crappy third party that made bad/average games.

It would actually be harder to make a worse game than Other M instead of making a GOTY Metroid lol.

I mean, LoS as a series was fairly good, and most of the changes seem to have come from Kojima rearranging it from a new IP into a Castlevania game. I'll take a mediocre-at-worst Metroid over no Metroid at all, especially after Other M. 

How is the best selling instalment of a franchise killing it?

Lords of Shadow 2 suffered from Konami deciding they don't really want to spend money making games any more and also coming to the wrong generation of consoles.

Lord of Shadow 2 suffered from being a sequel to Lords of Shadow 1. Lords of Shadow 1 killed the franshise. Lords of Shadow 2 just pissed on its grave. Selling more means shit.

Why is it always Nintendo or third party, why can't we have both?

Besides, Nintendo is too busy approving federation force over a traditional metroid (both games being pitched by next level games)

Didn't sound good. Good riddance.

Nobody said the game was cancelled.