Topic: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?

[The_Bizarre_Tr00per]

This has been an idea that was roaming my brain for quite a while: What if Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting?

Here's how i thing it would be: Doctor Mathias Akula Cronqvist was once a human who was a genius in Bio-engineering who modified his own DNA strains to, in his own twisted mind `evolve`, into something far greater, thus becoming: Dracula!

Simon Belmont would technically be Master Chief wielding a Plasma Whip.

Death, well, he would be still Dr. Akula's eternal buddy (Untill the Demon Castle War of 1999), but he would more be Drakula's first Bio-engineered patient that went horribly wrong, he then ressurected him and gave him Psychokinetic abilities, thus making D34TH the `technically-living` walking/floating corpse he is.

The bosses of Castlevania 1? Dr. Akula's bio-engineered patients that have been heavily modified to the genetic level.

But that's my take for a Sci-Fi Castlevania, i'm more intrested in what would be your take for a Sci-Fi Castlevania be. =)

[theplottwist]

Wrote about this way back, but was with spaceships instead. It was a cringe moment in my life that I'm not really ashamed of
 

[Shiroi Koumori]

I'm sure Waffle can create a fanfic for this topic.

Wasn't Getsu Fuuma Den a futuristic Castlevania?

[theplottwist]

Wasn't Getsu Fuuma Den a futuristic Castlevania?

Kinda.

The game does take place far into the future (14,672) and there are hints to a Fuuma-Castlevania connection first established on that game, then repeated on Harmony of Despair.

But the game itself lacks any kind of Sci-fi tones.

[theANdROId]

Would the bestiary be as great?  It seems like there is much more to choose from when you tap into the annals of fantasy/mythology as opposed to sci-fi, but maybe I'm just not as familiar with that genre.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting the idea isn't cool -- this was just my first thought.

[zangetsu468]

The best things about zeroG = 8 directional whipping, and holy water keeps burning for a long time

[KaZudra]

It can work, But it needs more cyberpunk for glorious aesthetics.
Otherwise, the story could be X-kalibur 2097 but with a whip instead, it's not much.. but a start.

[X]

Castlevania did get kinda sci-fi in AoS. Specifically with Soma's Positron rifle.

[AdrianTepes]

Ignoring the obvious fact that is an Alternate Universe

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Lords of Shadow 2 had a big amount of Sci-Fi elements: A bioengineered virus that mutates people into gun wielding monsters, riot police riding flying mechas, and probably more stuff I forgot already.

and in my opinion they kinda took the spotlight from the magic and fantasy elements, something important in a Castlevania title to me.
I personally like the Sci-Fi elements, but restricted to sections like Frankenstein's laboratories, in the same way Clock Punk is usually rectricted to the Castle's Clocktower, allowing the game to have more variety.

[Corpsecrank]

I feel like it would just be metroid with a plasma whip replacing the arm cannon.

[chainsawmidget]

This is actually a marvel villain named Whiplash, but it's not a bad idea for what a future Belmont could look like.

[The_Bizarre_Tr00per]

This is actually a marvel villain named Whiplash, but it's not a bad idea for what a future Belmont could look like.

This picture already look like it could be Trevor Belmont ready to use those plasma whips on Drakula's genetics  abominations =D

[theANdROId]

The longer this discussion continues, the more I wish I could play such a game! ;-P

[The_Bizarre_Tr00per]

Here's an idea on what D34TH would look like in this Sci-Fi Castlevania.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ea/ab/5a/eaab5a4eaf1d239919ab965504e071a9.jpg

[Zydalc]

Vampire Hunter D?