Topic: The Lords of Shadow and the Great Easter Egg Hunt!!! (Spoiler Alert!)

[cecil-kain]

Welcome to the Great Easter Egg Hunt!  Lords of Shadow will be launching in just a couple weeks, and we're already starting to see little Easter Eggs popping up in the trailers and other media.  This is the place for fans to chronicle all of Mercury Steam's subtle and maybe not-so-subtle nods to the Castlevanias of yesteryear.  Here's a few examples...

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Easter Egg --Castlevania IV SNES
The Combat Cross can be used to grapple the environment and swing across pits.

Easter Egg --Order of Ecclesia DS
Gabriel was raised by a religious institution, much like Shanoa.

Easter Egg --Legacy of Darkness N64
One of the Lords of Shadow goes by the name "Cornell".

Easter Egg --CV II: Simon's Quest NES
Gabriel's Armor is quite similar to Simon's American Box Art
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No need for me to have all the fun here --let's see what else everybody can find.  

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

The big Wargs look like the Wargs at the Castle Entrance in Symphony of the Night.
(although Wargs in any game look like that, so...)

[Volt]

you know this thread will explode with posts once we get to play the full game, only 11 days til launch.

[crisis]

There is also Wygol Cemetary, also from OoE.

[Dremn]

Awesome idea for a thread, can't wait to find out how much of this stuff there is.

[e105beta]

Olrox and Brauner

[Volt]

Olrox and Brauner

where did you find that out?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Within that huge Lords of Shadow thread there's a pic of 'em.
They look more like movie nosferatu monsters, and do not at all resemble their darksuit-wearing original counterparts.

[Rugal]

I'm staying out of this thread..

[Oralox]

Castlevania 2 had werewolves you fought at the beginning just like the demo and you had to walk through a forest all the way to a lake.

[Volt]

Within that huge Lords of Shadow thread there's a pic of 'em.
They look more like movie nosferatu monsters, and do not at all resemble their darksuit-wearing original counterparts.

I searched for their pictures, I even watched a 7:35 Japanese trailer full of spoilers...curses!
and I still did not notice them, until someone posted a picture of them...and your right, the only thing similar to their games are their name and race IMO.
a bit disappointed I must say

[Ahasverus]

Castlevania 2 had werewolves you fought at the beginning just like the demo and you had to walk through a forest all the way to a lake.

This ^

[Oralox]

Am I wrong?
I just went to play it again to be sure and if you go all the way to the right you fight some werewolves but there are also skeletons. As you make your way, you come a cross a lake and a broken bridge.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

You are correct.  Hmm.

[thernz]

Ha, that's pretty subtle. I like it!
Though, I think that whole Order thing referencing OoE is stretching it a bit.