Topic: (Rumor) E3 Leak; Castlevania is there.

[Nagumo]

Yeah, if a this is real the trademark is most likely already filed. There is usually some time between it being filed and it being published, though. I guess that's a measure against information about it leaking.   

[Kamirine]

http://gameotakublog.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/leaked-nintendo-digital-event-2014/

There's that other list I was talking about.  It focuses on what the E3 Nintendo Direct will showcase.  No Castlevania, but then again, no Sonic Boom (which we know will be at E3, if not Nintendo's Direct) or other 3rd Party. 

Oddly...it does match up with the list of games that will be show floor demoed.  Even the description of the Zelda game sounds like it could match the game's supposed title. And the Xeno game is still there, just as Xeno World instead.

All rumor naturally, but make of it as you wish.  I'm still holding my breath until I get more proof.

[Sindra]

Just give us Castlevania Chronicles: Dracula's Curse and be fucking done with it already.


It's like they hate my money.

[Mike Belmont]

Just give us Castlevania Chronicles: Dracula's Curse and be fucking done with it already.


It's like they hate my money.

`Nuff said . I still wait for the independent project of that game. Is it finished?

[RichterB]

Exciting potential here. The Zelda game sounds like it might nail the right balance. I'd prefer a sprawling Classicvania, but even if it turns out to be real and a Metroidvania, Symphony of the Night 2 could just be a codename. We've had stranger things happen. Contra 3DS was announced in print as a real game, even in Nintendo Power, but it never came out. So this could be the opposite. A working title that comes true. Here's hoping on all fronts.

[darkwzrd4]

Hey!!! Maybe if it's legit, it could mention why the Belmonts could use the whip until 1999. I mean it's shown in PoR that Richter was the last true belmont to wield the whip via the whip's memory you have to fight to unlock the whip's full power. It would be nice to have that explanation. Or, dare I say it. Could it be the 1999 battle? Not likely.

We still don't know if this list is legit yet. Just my thoughts.

[Maedhros]

If this is true, which I don't believe it is really, them for sure it'll be a metroidvania, no doubt.

[Nagumo]

I would be disappointed if it would be exactly like the DS and GBA games again. Now would be the perfect time to think of a new gameplay system. Personally, I hope they retain the RPG elements. Assuming, of course, this is actually going to happen.

[Dark Nemesis]

While i would like to see another Castlevania game, i would prefer to be for a home console and not a handheld console, specialy if it's like the rumor of the sequel to SotN. Also i can't stop but feel, like this is a way from Konami to mock Iga if this is real.

Konami: So you thought that you will quit from us and go and do your own Castlevania like 2D games? Take that Iga

(click to show/hide)

Castlevania Symphony of the Night 2

Iga: What?

Konami: So now what, are you gonna cry, beacause we have stealed your little baby?

Iga: Ah...sarcasm. 'For what profit is it to a company if it gains some people, and loses its respect towards its fans'?

[Kamirine]

I would be disappointed if it would be exactly like the DS and GBA games again. Now would be the perfect time to think of a new gameplay system. Personally, I hope they retain the RPG elements. Assuming, of course, this is actually going to happen.

This is one of the reasons I adore Aria/Dawn of Sorrow so much as a game.  It's one of the Metroidvania's I not only replay on a regular basis, bit that I actively try to do/collect everything in.  It's just that fun and feels different from the other titles.

I'm on Aria now on my play through and your thoughts ran through my mind.  I hope they don't just depend on the name and nostalgia to sell the game if it is a direct sequel.

While i would like to see another Castlevania game, i would prefer to be for a home console and not a handheld console, specialy if it's like the rumor of the sequel to SotN. Also i can't stop but feel, like this is a way from Konami to mock Iga if this is real.

Konami: So you thought that you will quit from us and go and do your own Castlevania like 2D games? Take that Iga

(click to show/hide)

Castlevania Symphony of the Night 2

Iga: What?

Konami: So now what, are you gonna cry, beacause we have stealed your little baby?

Iga: Ah...sarcasm. 'For what profit is it to a company if it gains some people, and loses its respect towards its fans'?

If the game is real, this isn't far fetched.  They may have noticed there is still interest from fans in Metroidvania, who knows, maybe they sold better in Japan (I know Dawn did gangbusters over there at least), and decided to go back that route.

If they've been working on it for a while though ( enough that a demo is ready to play on the showroom floor) however, I think it was more or less they just didn't want IGA on the project and either flat out lied to him about the game, he's under contract and has to lie about knowledge of the game but left because he couldn't work on it.

[beingthehero]

[Shiroi Koumori]

Hoax, rumor, I personally hope it stays like that.
Since los2 has not yet been released in Japan, i don't think they'll start spreading rumors about sotn2. Or has Konami accepted defeat on los2 and hope to bring back the fans through this?
This to me seems like a joke gone bad. It's too early or late for April fools.

[GummiCandyful]

Just give us Castlevania Chronicles: Dracula's Curse and be fucking done with it already.


It's like they hate my money.

This. Seriously, they're nearly on the same path as Capcom now.

[beingthehero]

I remember IGA saying like in 2005 he thought about giving CVIII the chronicles treatment but never got around to doing it.
 
Now it's gone, like tears in the rain~

[Nagumo]

Damn, if IGA thinks it's fake then it probably is. I doubt he wasn't aware of it before he left Konami.