Topic: What if they rebooted Lords of Shadow?

[zangetsu468]

As far as I'm concerned, they can throw it in the well. Mirror Of Fate was the only half-dozen game that we got out of that series. I almost want to say that the last good Castlevania game we got was Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth.

MoF is a piece of shit imo. I agree about AR though, people are divisive about it, but I think it's pretty damn good.

[thernz]

what would even be the point of a lords reboot with gabriel in it when lords was a reboot
i dont think gabriel even went on to be that iconic of a character, and im not sure lords really had that much traction despite 1mil sales

[Nagumo]

There's no point, really. However, Konami was apperently interested in continuing LoS without MercurySteam. So my idea is basically trying to make the best out of a bad situation lol. That rumor was circulating before LoS2 even came out though. But like you said, it doesn't seem like the LoS series is looked bad on fondly. Then again, I believe Cox and Alvarez recently bragged that LoS2 sold better than most Castlevania games or something, so it's difficult to determine how much merit LoS actually has for Konami.         

[thernz]

i feel like with lords 2, any ideas for continuing the subfranchise died with it just because of the reception, and bc konami itself never really spoke about the sales, so i think cox's and alvarez's say on that is a bit doubtful.

the pachinko probably only exists bc there are assets they could recycle, but it's also based on lords 1 which was actually pretty successful unlike los2 too.

they should reboot castlevania as a musou/dynasty warriors game and it'll be the castlevania judgment everyone wanted. but then they'll remember that the average consumer has no attachment to any castlevania character besides simon belmont and alucard.

[AlexCalvo]

Just wanted to throw it out there... but wasn't it just down right shameful that none of the abundant "historical" references in Universe in LoS2 made any call backs to the original series?  Even MoF had Grant's body... I feel like Lords of Shadow should really be called Opportunities of Missed.  How hard would it be to slide in some more Belmonts, maybe even Henry.  He was a knight after all.

[zangetsu468]

I feel like Lords of Shadow should really be called Opportunities of Missed. 

#lordsofmissedopportunities