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

[CastleDan]

Who's "Dracul?"

The lord of all vampires....

[crisis]

You mean Dracula? I thought I already explained this.


lol @ ahasverus for giving me these -1's. good times bro!

[CastleDan]

You mean Dracula? I thought I already explained this.


lol @ ahasverus for giving me these -1's. good times bro!

Nah it makes sense in this game.

Dracula ( son of the dragon )
Dracul ( the dragon )


You would picture the actual vampire lord would be the first not the son of... I think I'm making sense.

[RichterB]

Ahh! From what I can tell, the new Nintendo Power is out with the Castlevania cover story, and yet mine has not come in the mail yet! I can't comment until I see this new issue, which should be very interesting. (The game is already getting some negative press as not following the "presentation" of Castlevania that gave the series such "success.") Hmm... It's so tempting to fish around the net for info, but I don't want to totally spoil the issue. So see y'all later!

[crisis]

So why would the artwork in LoS label him as Dracula? Disrepancy on MercurySteam's part, or the fans speculating way too much?


This reminds me how everyone was sure Vlad kills Mathias & takes his name right after LoI came out.

[A-Yty]

It looks almost perfect to me.

I still remember the promising trailers of LoS that turned out pretty misleading. There's lots of cool early stuff here, but to me it ultimately boils down what sort of preferences the released game caters to; are the really Vaniaish stuff going to be the appetizers or the main course?

It seems they listened to the fanbase and I doubt they'd be stupid enough to pull any more bait and switches. But my point is, I'm not gonna jump to the roof before I've played the game. It's still just a couple of years ago when lots of people felt a similar rush with early info on LoS getting out. And the game turned out to not meet those expectations.

Hype feels nice and I'm eager to play this game. Don't mean to rain on anyone's parade. But I don't think I'm a buzzkill by being cautiously optimistic. Or optimistically cautious.

[Omegasigma]

has any castelvania game lived up to the hype on its release, with all the pre-release hype?

[flyingchai]

So why would the artwork in LoS label him as Dracula? Disrepancy on MercurySteam's part, or the fans speculating way too much?

Dracula calls himself "Dracul." No discrepancy, he just has a big ego.

[Nagumo]

has any castelvania game lived up to the hype on its release, with all the pre-release hype?

Nope.

[A-Yty]

How many CVs were hyped the way LoS was? Don't mean to drag out old stinky cans of worms, but it wasn't just about the hype. It was also about getting misleading information and mixed comments. It wasn't just fans egging each other on.

[Omegasigma]

At first I'll admit LoS burned me pretty good, the game was dark and what not ok I thought, this seems castlevania, but the biggest thing was when the music was absent, and the hollywood score was there instead

[angevil]

[CastleDan]

Nope.

Symphony of the night?
It was pretty damn revolutionary for the castlevania series. So many hidden nuggets and cool features.

[CastleDan]

The reboot wasn`t necessary. The series had established timeline and characters. Now some idiot thought they will launch a new series with the same name, make it kind of similar in some aspects, take those established characters and mix them up into a vomit. This cannot absolutely be welcomed by me. Something like that was done with Silent Hill: Shattered memories and it was ridiculous. All of these ″reboots″ are ffffing stupid and I consider it as raping of the original games, story lines and characters.

They could at least have been a bit original and made:
1.new stories in established CV timeline or
2.new characters or
3.entirely new game and not take a famous franchise name to get more money and attention

So, yeah, I am bitching and I have a right to say what I think. I would really like to want these new games..I would be very excited if it wasn`t like it is. But it`s wrong, it is just wrong.

A reboot was necessary. The series was getting ridiculously crowded and...well more and more ridiculous. Seriously....a castle in an eclipse?...

[Mr.Bushido]

LoS didn't look like Castlevania from the very beginning though. Now this looks like they are really trying at least