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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1470 on: May 29, 2015, 02:54:21 PM »
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That's what I'm going to try to ask as well--what was originally the reasoning behind why that would happen and such. The more people ask it the more likely it gets picked as a question he'll answer so the more people who ask the better.

If you guys are going to try and ask about Dark Maria, could you also try asking about some of the other cancelled characters like Elizabeth Bartley and Gilles de Rais? He mentioned them briefly in some SotN guidebook interview and I really want to know more about what he had planned. I will try and ask myself as well, and of course I'll help you guys push the other questions, too. 

Sheeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiit. If true, that negates over a decade of shitposting on the Dungeon and Gamefaqs about how CotM was the last great Castlevania game before that bastard IGA ruined it and life in general.

Well Hero-kun, IGA did say he didn't like to be credited for CotM because he didn't work on it, so I assume his role was strictly PR. But even then, if you listened to what he said in the video, my respect for him has grown ever more since in return of becoming involved in the series after begging, he was basically forced to pump out a CV game each year. And even with his hands tied behind his back he still gave us 5 absolutely amazing handheld games while he probably could have giving us 2 or 3 SotN-tier ones if he actually had enough time. So it's really tragic people gave him crap all these years for "running Castlevania into the ground" even though it was because of a crunched development time and external forces like game retailers lowering the prices of their games.   
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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1471 on: May 29, 2015, 03:18:28 PM »
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If you guys are going to try and ask about Dark Maria, could you also try asking about some of the other cancelled characters like Elizabeth Bartley and Gilles de Rais? He mentioned them briefly in some SotN guidebook interview and I really want to know more about what he had planned. I will try and ask myself as well, and of course I'll help you guys push the other questions, too. 

They were going to put Elizabeth Bartley and Gilles de Rais in SotN? Seems like that would've been kind of out of place, unless maybe they were just bosses and not full on characters (although Gilles was in LoD but I didn't know his history at the time I played that so it didn't seem odd). Or was that for The Bloodletting, from before the project transformed into SotN? I'd definitely be interested to know more about that project since it seems like there's so little info out there.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1473 on: May 29, 2015, 03:30:38 PM »
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Pretty great update!

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1474 on: May 29, 2015, 03:35:09 PM »
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We're getting pretty spoiled.

So. Next week #AskIga is special attacks eh? I always wondered if there were any that Iga wanted to put in but were cut.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1475 on: May 29, 2015, 03:38:14 PM »
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;-; He no answer my question ;-; Oh well, maybe next week.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1476 on: May 29, 2015, 03:41:26 PM »
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They were going to put Elizabeth Bartley and Gilles de Rais in SotN? Seems like that would've been kind of out of place, unless maybe they were just bosses and not full on characters (although Gilles was in LoD but I didn't know his history at the time I played that so it didn't seem odd). Or was that for The Bloodletting, from before the project transformed into SotN? I'd definitely be interested to know more about that project since it seems like there's so little info out there.

I'm pretty sure it was from SotN itself since he said he regretted them not being in the final game. This is what he said about it:

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As far as the story goes, I did have deeper and more involved dialogue planned, but I thought it would interrupt the game progression too much, so we took it out. There were many characters who had to be cut, but the ones I still wish we could have added were Elizabeth Bathory and Gilles de Rais. As for post-game stories, Alucard and Maria’s whereabouts are unknown. Richter uses this as an opportunity to pass the vampire killer to the Morris family, who are relatives of the Belmonts. He disappears with Annette. After this the repuation of the Belmont name as vampire hunters vanishes from history. However, that doesn’t mean the Belmont bloodline has died out, so perhaps they will rise again as Vampire Hunters someday.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1477 on: May 29, 2015, 03:43:24 PM »
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The AMA may be up. It's a bit early so I'm not sure if it's really him but...

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« Reply #1478 on: May 29, 2015, 03:48:49 PM »
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Going by Ask IGA #3, I'm guessing the UMA Magazines in DoS and Marcel's sidequests in OoE were a nod to a Japanese ghost magazine that always featured the Igavanias? If so, that's pretty cool. Wondered where that idea came from.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1479 on: May 29, 2015, 04:00:12 PM »
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Gilles de Rais was in Jeanne D'Arc on PSP. It has absolutely nothing to do with anything except everyone should play that game because it was awesome. Unless you hate strategy RPGs like Fire Emblem. But if that's the case you don't deserve to have nice things anyway.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1480 on: May 29, 2015, 04:03:29 PM »
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Yes, they made the I am A page some time ago:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/37s0ev/i_am_former_castlevania_producer_koji_igarashi/

Here's muh question:

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Dear Mr. Igarashi,

First off, thank you so much for holding this AMA, and thank you as well for all the wonderful work you've done in video games over the years. Though I'm sure you've heard this a lot, SoTN--and your other Igavanias, for that matter--have brought so much joy to me and millions of others across the globe. Personally, I wouldn't have made many of the friends I have now if it wasn't for your games. So I'm truly grateful to you for all that you've done, and I'm sure the rest of your fans feel the same way!

My question relates to something you said in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TzfM6QUs6A

From about 1 hour and 15 minutes in, you describe (through your excellent translator, Ben Judd) the challenges faced with the profit margins of handheld games. To summarize what he said, any game on a cartridge format had a relatively fixed cost of development, but the prices of cartridges at retailers like Wal-mart constantly dropped, resulting in constantly dropping profit margins no matter how much you tried to cut costs. I'm wondering, does digital distribution (like on Steam) have this problem, and if not, was the rise of digital distribution one reason you decided now was the right time to strike out on your own and make your own masterwork? :)

Once again, thank you so much for your time.
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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1481 on: May 29, 2015, 04:16:03 PM »
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Does Reddit preserve threads like this or would it be a good idea to create a back-up in case we get lots of interesting info?

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« Reply #1482 on: May 29, 2015, 04:22:27 PM »
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I think it preserves such threads, but a backup certainly couldn't hurt, prunyuu~

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1483 on: May 29, 2015, 04:34:46 PM »
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He even already answered about 1999. He said it was supposed to be a multiplayer game, but they couldn't find a perfect system to develop it for at the time.

IGA inserted time travellers in Castlevania because he liked the idea of "time watchers" that keep the flow of time intact. And that's about it, no hidden meaning behind them.

Shanoa is not related to the Belmonts, nor to Dracula in any way.

He said he'd respond about the Morris later, but I don't think this will happen.
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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #1484 on: May 29, 2015, 04:39:18 PM »
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I'm gonna bet he can't answer the ending question since it's related to cut content  :'(

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