Topic: New Castlevania!!!???!!! (DS)

[The Spoony Hou]

In Reply To #90

Uuuuu... It does seem like it.

[Dark Nemesis]

So we are going to take a Castlevania at Wii? Oh no.....that means more money to spend for me, because i don't have a Wii and if a castlevania game is going to come out on Wii, then i will have to buy one!OMG!!!!

[Mathias Hyperion]

Her name's Shanoa (engrish way of saying a french name Chanoix I hear) and the Hakubas were japanese.

Mina is short for Wilhelmina which I read here on Wikipedia is a German name. Even if you don't trust Wikipedia, it would be hard for them to get Germany and Japan mixed up. Besides, Mina Hakuba is just Mina Harker put through a few transliterations.

[Long John Silver]

Mina is used as a name in japan too though.

[Steve]

Mina is also a Japanese name.

[Long John Silver]

Not to mention it'd be hard for her and Soma to be childhood friends if they were from different countries. Soma was originally japanese.

[Mathias Hyperion]

Well it's still not unthinkable that a French name would make its way over to Japan, especially if the Hakuba have are of at least some European descent, what with them fighting Dracula.

But isn't Soma supposed to be on an exchange to Japan?

[Gunlord]

In Reply To #69

Serio, you said elsewhere that, in reference to the main girl, Kojima's art is animu too. So you don't like Kojima's artwork? I thought you like Symphony and AoS and stuff ;_;

[impulse]

My two cents:

I agree that she looks like an adult Charlotte, but I also think that the person she's talking to might be Jonathan Morris, all grown up to.

I.e. this might be a direct sequal to PoR? Which is kind of ironic seeing as they are reusing all the sprites and backgrounds.

But that's kind of at odds with Iga saying that he'd be doing a game somewhere between LoI and Cv1, atleast I thought that was kinda confirmed.

[Long John Silver]

Her name is Shanoa/Chanoix, so no it's not Charlotte.

Serio, you said elsewhere that, in reference to the main girl, Kojima's art is animu too. So you don't like Kojima's artwork? I thought you like Symphony and AoS and stuff ;_;

I don' like *bad* animu. Kojima's is mostly good save for her giraffe neck females syndrome.

[Genya Arikado]

The woman could be Mina's mother or even grandmother, it could also be Julius' girlfreind. If thats the case expect her to die at the end of the game.

[Profbeanburrito]

I don't believe this has been discussed in this topic yet, but what do you guys think of the "Wii" word in the menu of that first screen? This was discussed somewhat in the Kotaku article.  Wii Castlevania confirmed?

Soma

I doubt it's going to be a Wii game, but probably some downloadable stuff through the WiiWare menu, or even just another game through that if it's real.

[Profbeanburrito]

Not to mention it'd be hard for her and Soma to be childhood friends if they were from different countries. Soma was originally japanese.

Well, thats not necessarily true. maybe he grew up on a military base.
And with a name like "Cruz", doesn't sound quite so Japanese

[Genya Arikado]

True, Cruz is the Spanish word for Cross for all those who didn't kbow.

[Sindra]

I thought Soma was a Spanish exchange student who had been living and studying in Japan - probably living with the Hakuba's or nearby. Hence the non-Japanese name.

And both Soma and Mina were about 17-18 during Aria of Sorrow, and Dawn happened a full year later, so that would put Mina at about 18-19 at it's time.