Topic: The Belmonts are coming to Smash Bros!

[X]

I'll personally be excited with Castlevania once more when I have an actual -new- CV game in my library.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

I'll personally be excited with Castlevania once more when I have an actual -new- CV game in my library.

I'm gonna disagree with this and take happiness where I can find it, mostly because for all my effort to force some optimism here, I can't shake this feeling that the Netflix series and Simon+Richter in Smash are going to be the end once and for all for this series.

It's the same feeling I had about the PlayStation Vita when it came out: "Yeah, this is awesome and all, but it really just feels like we've hit the end of the road here."

So enjoy it while you can, because we may not get any more out of this series, and if we do, it'll likely be an offensive reduction of the series to sell microtransactions to young mobile gamers with too much money and not enough responsibility.

Better to see it go out on a relatively high note, I think.

I know, it's pessimistic, but it's a pessimism that I have learned well and with good reason over many years, and virtually nothing done in-house by Konami proper has done even the slightest thing to prove me wrong.

[Reinhart77]

Lost Painting track:  https://nintendowire.com/news/2018/10/24/castlevania-symphony-of-the-nights-lost-painting-comes-to-smash-ultimate/

[X]

It sounds a bit too guitar-heavy for my tastes, but oh well 

[Jazz Paladin Productions]

That's not one I would really envision coming to SMASH...

I can't say I like the guitar dependency either, and it's not that I don't appreciate different renditions either...

There are a lot of other tunes I would have chosen over Lost Painting, personally, for the context of Smash...

[VladCT]

I was about to say that it wasn't that bad, but then near the tail end of the preview it kinda sounded like it got confused as to where it's going and I pretty much lost interest on the rendition right then and there.

[GuyStarwind]

They have a couple of new gameplay videos of the Belmonts in action.

[Reinhart77]

sweet thanks.  it looks weird to see simon use richter’s moves, but whatever.

[X]

Yeah, Simon isn't trained in the martial arts as is Richter. You'd think they'd come up with a new set of moves for a barbarian-esque Belmont (which I think would be awesome sauce).

[Foffy]

Just an FYI, it seems the game is out in the wild and is being datamined.

That includes people dumping the soundtrack.

[Darth Cariss]

If any of you want some music spoilers, here's a few I've found. Pretty sweet! More stuff from the game on this channel, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XPvlUd5f8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxSwJlCspQI


EDIT: Had to remove two of the songs because the videos got taken down. Dang. There's a really great version of Crucifix Held Close though.

[Reinhart77]

Palutena’s guide to the Belmonts

https://youtu.be/HCqs8aQSt1k

[Gaawa-chan]

Have you guys heard the Awake/Awakening remix for Smash yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Ot4ibZKgw&index=3&t=0s&list=PLVr-lBy7DrOvExKHHJd98VQRwe-1ilRL3
I think I still like Jorge's more, but I'm ecstatic that this song made it in.  So underrated.

[X]

I think I still like Jorge's more, but I'm ecstatic that this song made it in.  So underrated.

I agree. The Smash version to seems to have some bits of the tune that don't quite jive well with the whole score. The little gaps and pauses in the song seem to distract from the whole composition. Not sure why they decided to do it that way. I'd prefer it if the song flows naturally and fully.

[Kingshango]

Lament of Innocence remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU85WcOY2Mk

Aquarius remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDAW6SnhQqI

Cross Your Heart remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T51WLtSiSGU

Can Nintendo just buy the Castlevania series plz?