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General Castlevania Discussion / Castlevania 3D Collection, is it possible?

« Last post by crisis on November 01, 2024, 03:03:18 PM »

Castlevania 64, Legacy of Darkness, Lament of Innocence, Curse of Darkness, and as a bonus Castlevania: The Arcade. They can exclude the Lords of Shadow games because they already received a collection. But would the classics be feasible to all be on a single disc or 2? Would a Switch port be even possible?

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General Castlevania Discussion / And the next remake should be…

« Last post by crisis on November 01, 2024, 02:58:28 PM »

What do you all think the next one should be? Personally I would love Belmont’s Revenge, but I think Legends would benefit the most because that game doesn’t have a good reputation (even though I liked it) and it would broaden the appeal of the first and only female Belmont. They can really make some vast improvements & have fun with it.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: New Collectionon: Castlevania Dominus Collection

« Last post by Abnormal Freak on November 01, 2024, 06:51:56 AM »

I still don't agree, this is not about what people do, it's about what they should be doing instead.

Nah, the no hitboxes thing is total bullshit. We're talking Castlevania here, where traditionally everything is whippable. That you can't attack spawning zombies, axes, or tree monsters is crap and slows down the pacing. Castlevania games are usually designed where they're s breeze to run through once you've gotten adept at them, and having to stop and wait for a zombie to have a specific moment you can attack is just bad design.

It's a good effort from M2 but feels rushed and too short, where I wish they would have taken some extra liberties like they did with ReBirth, which is overall a much more complete experience than HCR. It also omits some of the set pieces and weirdness that make arcade HC charming, like the Yellow Devil wall, the harpy warp room, etc. I wish they'd kept that stuff and expanded on it, rather than do away with some of the cool elements that actually made HC stand out despite some of its design flaws.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Alucard Shield review

« Last post by LuxKiller65 on October 31, 2024, 06:04:13 AM »

How does it compare to the Nvidia Shield?

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General Castlevania Discussion / Alucard Shield review

« Last post by crisis on October 29, 2024, 08:09:38 PM »

So I recently purchased an Alucard Shield replica and I wanted to share my thoughts



It’s very sturdy, they put a lot of effort into the details of the shield



It scales nearly perfectly with the NECA Alucard figure that was released several years back


The NECA Alucard isn’t very good as you can see, so I tried placing it with my Prize Collection Alucard statue, which unfortunately the shield is a little too oversized for it


Here it is posed with Maria


And here it is posed with the whole gang (except Richter)



All in all, I think it was a good purchase. I wish they made more weapons & relics from the games.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Castlevania musical in Japan

« Last post by LuxKiller65 on October 29, 2024, 07:32:15 PM »

not really a musical, but jagmo has been doing game music orchestras for years, including castlevania.
https://x.com/jagjagmo

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General Castlevania Discussion / Castlevania musical in Japan

« Last post by Reinhart77 on October 29, 2024, 06:44:15 PM »

I certainly wasn't expecting a musical.  Hope we get to experience it second hand somehow, ha.

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/10/castlevania-is-getting-a-musical

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Castlevania: Moonlight Rhapsody (formerly Code C (Chinese Castlevania mobile))

« Last post by Reinhart77 on October 29, 2024, 06:29:00 PM »

I don't know any Chinese, though I've been using google translate and chatgpt for translations of that game on the Castlevania Wiki for a while now.  I didn't see anything about a beta, but it does look like have some new stuff to show us. I've never seen the town depicted in the video before. I think they're just showing off the content in the video, rather than a new beta as far as I can tell. They wanted people to fill out a questionairre.

Here's the ChatGPT translation for the main post (Apr 18 2024) if you haven't already seen an auto-translated transcript:

"Dear Hunters, hello everyone! Today, we’re bringing you a preview of the latest main city! After a two-year wait, it's finally making a fresh appearance. Are you still waiting?

Please fill out the questionnaire below to help us better understand the thoughts of all our hunters~"

There was a beta, but that was a few years ago.  Did you have any specific text you surmised might be talking about a new beta?

That's really good to hear that there's new progress on it and they're at least thinking about still releasing it. I found some of the story fascinating and a waste if they never got an actual release.

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Hardcore Gaming 101 / Re: Another Shameless self promotion

« Last post by Hayoam on October 25, 2024, 08:46:01 PM »

Catching Xanadu and Wonder Boy vibes

I'm not familiar with those games but I guess it's a compliment so Thank you.

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Off Topic / Re: Music you've been digging lately

« Last post by Eric Roman on October 25, 2024, 07:47:47 PM »

At this point in my Hatsune Miku journey I've begun exploring The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku, which I'd heard in passing a couple times but got its hooks in recently. 

This video edit that brought its vibe across in a fairly epic way is what did it for me.