Topic: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate 3DS (Discussion Thread)

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

lol at the lip synching.

Thats bugging me at the moment.

Another thing thats bugging me is that while we have seen story for both Trevor and Simon but have seen nothing on Alucard as far as story goes.

[VladCT]

Maybe that's because they can't show anything without spoiling anything?

[thernz]

There isn't even lip syncing. They're just changing their faces to show emotion, but the fact their mouths animate sometimes gives off the wrong illusion that they animated them speaking, when they didn't at all.

[flyingchai]

I doubt they'll show of Alucard's backstory since they want everyone to think that he's really Trevor, when in fact this widely circulated theory will likely wind up being completely wrong.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Maybe that's because they can't show anything without spoiling anything?

But how so?

How does revealing story points about Trevor and Simon not "spoil" anything but revealing anything about Alucard does?

The only thing I can think of is that Trevor DOES in fact become Alucard and thus they just refuse to show story for him so its a secrete.

But at this point Cox and his team pretty much knows that the majority of the fanbase is expecting it.

Hell, one fan even asked him about Trevor being Alucard and he said no.

So I still don't get what the heck they are waiting for.

[Kingshango]

Well since this is one of the first story trailers and im sure Simon is getting his own soon, im guessing we'll get Alucard's side of the story eventually.

But they are really tight lipped about his origins aside from him being Dracula's "son" and I can't even recall them stating what exactly Alucard is.


Im still standing by my demon stance till then tho.

[Thunderbrand]

Either Trevor becomes Alucard and we don't find that out until Simon grows up and ventures to the castle and discovers his father has been turned into a vampire and now goes by Alucard.

OR... my theory here:

Alucard is the son of Gabriel and another woman (Succubus maybe?) and he disappeared long ago, but he surprisingly returns to the castle and both he AND Trevor kind of team up since they are trying to get revenge on Dracula. Trevor eventually dies and it's Alucard who tells Simon the "you'll never stand alone against him" or whatever he says line.

Just a thought that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet.

[Inccubus]

So Sypha is relegated to a 'kitchen bitch'. That figures. Disappointing.

Also when you hug someone you don't shove your face into their not so comforting metal pauldron.

I agree. Between Sypha and Samus I'm beginning to think Nintendo has something against strong heroines.

Alsi, while I agree the visuals look a lot more crisp, the minimalist lip movement is wierd. If the whole thing was sepia with a narrator instead of the voice overs then it would seem like they were going for a silent film thing look to the cutscene which would be very castlevania-like. What bothers me more than the wierd lip movement, though is precisely the cell-shaded comicbook-esque art style. Not in and of itself but more because it clashes with the uber realistic presentation of the rest of the game. Nothing ever looks more unprofessional to me than the use of pointedly different art styles in a game. Makes it seem like they took the cutscenes engine from a completely different project and shoehorned it in.

[thernz]

I'm not sure Nintendo had any meddling in Mirror of Fate's story. It's not like the original Lords was progressive about gender roles either.


i mean for one where was sonnia bimmont

[Dengo vlad tepes]

the cutscenes animation is really bad especially the mouth guess they will make it better in future since they showed the game in a better quality than E3 trailer , mmm....sypha .. i'll wait more i don't think they will make sypha a useless kitchen bitch , i'm pretty sure she's going to get her own turn in the story too

[Neobelmont]

The models looks like ASS. Goddamit, I can't understand how anyone can say this is good graphics. Not even considering it's the 3DS, since there are other games with better models on it.

It's hard for me to explain, but the quality of the game from the trailers or screenshot are not as good as compared to when you acually play it, that's what I hear anyway. On the other hand the backgrounds are some of, if not the best on the 3ds.

So detailed 

[flyingchai]

I'm surprised that no one has remarked or theorized about the fact that Trevor's hair is black....and neither Marie nor Gabriel had black hair.

[Neobelmont]

I'm surprised that no one has remarked or theorized about the fact that Trevor's hair is black....and neither Marie nor Gabriel had black hair.

Correct me if I am wrong but I read something on here about carmilla being a cronqvist and her hair was black so it runs in the family just that Gabriel did not get it or maybe I am crazy. What was is it called a recessive gene.

[Chernabogue]

the cutscenes animation is really bad especially the mouth guess they will make it better in future since they showed the game in a better quality than E3 trailer , mmm....sypha .. i'll wait more i don't think they will make sypha a useless kitchen bitch , i'm pretty sure she's going to get her own turn in the story too

Don't want to crash the party but

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Sypha is killed by Gabriel a short while after.

On another note, the lips things really doesn't bother me. I like the "comic-book"/"cel-shading" style they went for.

[flyingchai]

I don't recall it ever confirmed that Carmilla was a Cronqvist, but I've always thought the idea was interesting...