Topic: Vergeben Predicts New Castlevania Game AND New Castlevania Collection

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Konami's official Twitter is plugging the show and, particularly, the staff on the show.

They're probably waiting for season 2 to drop and get all of the users moving to watch it with an announcement of "hey fans, the games this show is based on are getting re-released!". Make an announcement at a release seems to be one of the "in" things companies are doing, something Sega's now doing with Yakuza games.

I have to say, between the upcoming October Microsoft hardware/software event, the upcoming October Google Hardware/Software event, a new season of Doctor Who in October, a new season of Netflix Castlevania in October, and now a possible new Castlevania game + a compilation announcement in October?

I think my October is about to get very, very geeky.

Dare I dream?

[Super Waffle]

The Switch version of SotN better come with Maria nachos.

[zangetsu468]

The Switch version of SotN better come with Maria nachos.

It's coming with a bowl of Shaft-O's

[Reinhart77]

If they are going to be a little savy, it’s be nice if they’d include the original sotn dub as well as the Dracula X Chronicles version.  Heck, throw in the both versions (including Maria), DXC RoB 2.5D game, and the Snes Dracula X to give us the complete dracula x experience.  Oh and toss in the Saturn version too.  And what the heck, why not Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night lol.

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This. All of it.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

when the fuck are they gonna remake castlevania 2 officially literally everyone else is doing it

[Dremn]

when the fuck are they gonna remake castlevania 2 officially literally everyone else is doing it

Out of all the games that need a remake/re-imagining, I would also put Simon's Quest up there at the top for sure.

[zangetsu468]

If they are going to be a little savy, it’s be nice if they’d include the original sotn dub as well as the Dracula X Chronicles version.  Heck, throw in the both versions (including Maria), DXC RoB 2.5D game, and the Snes Dracula X to give us the complete dracula x experience.  Oh and toss in the Saturn version too.  And what the heck, why not Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night lol.

Maybe Richter's appearance in Smash is indicative of things to come.

At first I thought it was going to be some type of general CV collection. However, if it is a Dracula X Anthology it will most likely be one "complete" version of SOTN, hopefully with a Japanese option, Rondo, and DXC. I agree that XX should really be thrown in but it isn't a quote-unquote canon entry.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

XX should really be thrown in but it isn't a quote-unquote canon entry.

DXX is just an alternate, streamlined take on Rondo's canon for the most part, so technically it is a canon entry when push comes to shove. If you examine most of the plots that derive from or reference the events of Richter's life, they fall into two categories: either specifically mentioning the events of Symphony of the Night, or drawing from a generalized version of Rondo's plot that could easily refer just as well to DXX.

I think the reason that was done for so long was because Rondo spent over 15 years locked out of the North American market and DXX was our only point of contact with that story, so there was a "soft requirement" to compose references that could apply to either version of the story. Ironically, even Symphony only references characters from Rondo who reprise in that game: Terra, Iris, and Annette aren't mentioned at all, and there are no specific references to any of the other bosses in a narrative sense (though several of Rondo's bosses do appear again to confront Alucard).

Honestly, it's a good approach, and Dracula X Chronicles later took the best of both game's distinct plot elements -- or at least took Rondo and then added DXX's original elements back in.

Really, they're all canon because they're all the same story just with some different emphasis from different storytellers, and none of the differences in storytelling have made or broken any other later tales that tied into this one (so far).

Same fairy tale, different storytelling traditions.

Kind of like King Arthur, but gothier. And with pretty boys with whips.

[Shiroi Koumori]

And with pretty boys with whips.

Yes. Yes. Giggle

[Nagumo]

It never made sense for DXX to exist in the same universe as Rondo, though. The intro claims hundred of years have passed since Simon Belmont, and Anette and Maria are made to be siblings. Both those facts are straight up contradicted by other material. There's also nothing that suggest that all Castlevania games are unreliable accounts of what really happened. That's fine as headcanon but I think it's a lame way to shoehorn a redundant  story into the timeline.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

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[zangetsu468]

It never made sense for DXX to exist in the same universe as Rondo, though. The intro claims hundred of years have passed since Simon Belmont, and Anette and Maria are made to be siblings. Both those facts are straight up contradicted by other material.

Exactly, I'm glad someone beat me to the punch on this..
It's also clear that DXX/VK Maria and Rondo/ Sotn Maria are not the same person, yes they share the same name but that's it. DXX/ VK Maria isn't a warrior or mage who uses animal spirits of any kind.

This is personally why I place it on the alternate timeline. However I will say that I believe the "Hundreds of years after Simon Belmont" as a mistranslation as I used to own the game's cover and it specifically mentions something to the effect of 100 years passing or "It's been 100 years" referencing the resurrection cycle and implying the original Castlevania/ SCVIV occurring prior. Bear in mind this cover is of Vampire's Kiss and not DXX.

[Super Waffle]

I like the waltz remix of the Stage 1 theme that gets played as the ending credits music in Dracula XX.

I don't like the rest of that game very much.

[zangetsu468]

I like the waltz remix of the Stage 1 theme that gets played as the ending credits music in Dracula XX.

I don't like the rest of that game very much.

#tastelesswaffle