Topic: News: Dave Cox about continuing LoS after 2: My head says no, my heart yes

[Pfil]

Just edited my previous post, forgot to answer this:

Castlevania: The Adventure is not an atrocious game, it's a wonderful game that is very hard to beat, the controls are not good, but it's still a very good game, one of the best titles on the Game Boy, and the beggining of the beautiful GB trilogy. And who can forget the soundtrack from that 3 games?

I've been thinking about Cox's statement regarding his involvement with Castlevania ending after LOS2.
What if it is a lie?

Then may God protect us all...

[Flame]

It's not invalid.

Except it is. The LoS series has thus far been the ONLY Western Castlevania Konami has published. You can't possibly make that statement that the japanese make better castlevanias when they have had many different games made by different people, and the west only has one game series made by one outside company's dev teams, and the same director.

Once the West has made a few more CV games, by different developers, THEN we can talk about west vs JP CV.

It's like saying Johnny is better at drawing than James, when he is an established artist with tons of works under his belt, and James has only made one set of works so far.

[Ahasverus]

Well I didn't want to create a new thread for this but Cox confirmed that LoS won't be "the 1999 game" because "it's mr igarashi story and only he has the right to tell it"

[Shiroi Koumori]

Well I didn't want to create a new thread for this but Cox confirmed that LoS won't be "the 1999 game" because "it's mr igarashi story and only he has the right to tell it"

Are we 100% sure he isn't lying? LOL.
Well, if we are dealing with scenario writers' respect, then he shouldn't really touch IGA's 1999 story.
I am wondering when will we ever gonna play that 1999 game?

[Lelygax]

That would be a BIG and SERIOUS lie, he should stop doing CV after LoS2 if thats true as a punishment! (With will turn his lie in a truth in the end, making everybody happy)

[Flame]

Well I didn't want to create a new thread for this but Cox confirmed that LoS won't be "the 1999 game" because "it's mr igarashi story and only he has the right to tell it"

Well he's not touching the original timeline, he's making his own version of the "final battle"

[Pfil]

Except it is. The LoS series has thus far been the ONLY Western Castlevania Konami has published. You can't possibly make that statement that the japanese make better castlevanias when they have had many different games made by different people, and the west only has one game series made by one outside company's dev teams, and the same director.

Once the West has made a few more CV games, by different developers, THEN we can talk about west vs JP CV.

It's like saying Johnny is better at drawing than James, when he is an established artist with tons of works under his belt, and James has only made one set of works so far.

OK, when the west make more CV games we'll see. I personally expect they return to Japan for good.
But the point that only japanese get it right, if only japanese and MS did CV games so far, remains true.
Japanese get what a CV game needs, MS (in my opinion) don't.

Perhaps, if in a near future WayForward give us our so desired CV with CV signature music, the west will have a few more points and many of us will have more faith on future western projects.

But I still prefer that they return to Japan, even if IGA, Michiru Yamane and Ayami Kojima are not involved anymore.
Give me another game like The Adventure: Rebirth and I'm happy

[Nagumo]

I have the feeling my words were misunderstood.

[Koutei]

Well I didn't want to create a new thread for this but Cox confirmed that LoS won't be "the 1999 game" because "it's mr igarashi story and only he has the right to tell it"

Full Article
http://www.relyonhorror.com/in-depth/interview-dave-cox-on-castlevania-lords-of-shadow-mirror-of-fate/

[Laina]

Except it is. The LoS series has thus far been the ONLY Western Castlevania Konami has published. You can't possibly make that statement that the japanese make better castlevanias when they have had many different games made by different people, and the west only has one game series made by one outside company's dev teams, and the same director.

Once the West has made a few more CV games, by different developers, THEN we can talk about west vs JP CV.

It's like saying Johnny is better at drawing than James, when he is an established artist with tons of works under his belt, and James has only made one set of works so far.

Except when James had a wealth of material to go on, good and bad, from the people that invented the art through their own trial & error, yet he still managed to deliver a nice, but generic 3D platformer that was pretty & gave you scary feelings like it intended to while bearing no resemblance to what it actually should have other than name-Castlevania.

Like Nagumo said, they just didn't get it. Castlevania has a certain cool factor to it, a 'je ne sais quoi'-it's art. James didn't do a bad piece of art, but when the art he was commissioned to do didn't have that or even remind us of what we came for, we think "he just doesn't get it." When his finished work is a style that's commonplace among western developers we're not exactly beaming with good faith & high hopes for his or his countrymen's future works regarding this particular piece.

It is a bit early to make a definite call on Japanese CV devs. VS. Western devs.; I'm not saying some other western devs. couldn't do it right, I hope someone does. But if we're left with nothing to go on for now other than LoS, then I can see how one would be leaning toward Johnny's continued reign where CV is concerned.

[Nagumo]

Cox says returning to the old timeline is possible. Good to hear that.

[Laina]

Cox says returning to the old timeline is possible. Good to hear that.

Agreed-it is nice to hear. Nagumo, you certainly deserve your Town Crier award.

[crisis]

Except some people on this forum are convinced it's unlikely they'll make another game in the classic timeline. So cox is WRONG 

[Akuma]

Cox should make a game for the old timeline.  Just so I can watch fan outrage everywhere.

[Lelygax]

"Konami should make a LoS timeline game, Just so I can watch Cox outrage everywhere."
                                                                            -Russian Reversal about this.

Cox doesnt even needs to say that its possible, I know that it will happen.