Thanks for the info!! I really appreciate it! Yeah, tbh, I wasn’t too sure because I remember the suppose rumor about a new Castlevania but I also heard rumblings that had been cancelled—then possibly uncanceled or that it being cancelled was misinformation. Then there was the SH, MGS, CV are Sony exclusives rumor and all could be revealed soon, so I wasn’t sure where we were on the gossip mill for the suppose game anymore. XD
As much as I would love a new Castlevania, I have to agree that I’m pretty content if nothing happens.
There are a bunch of upcoming titles (well, at least classicvania wise) on the horizon that I am really looking forward to and Bloodstained and few other gems already have me covered on the Igavania front.
So we don’t get a new game rn, it’s okay. Just slap Rebirth on a collection or something so I don’t have to dig out my Wii to play it Konami. XD
Also all of this! XD
The road map says they’re doing another classic mode (I think paid DLC this time) after the outfits. I’m really interested to see how that’s going to turn out.
I hope they do just one or two more updates to Ritual of the Night. I know the roadmap said they might include the cosmetic and Classic Mode 2 content with the online modes in just update, so if they've hunkered down and did that, that would be great if it came with an official announcement of the sequel. Bloodstained is a static single player game getting updates very slowly like it's a service title, and I think the best shot in the arm to get people to play the game -- and critically, to pay for premium content because not even backers are getting it for free -- is to do it all in one go, as a sendoff for the game while they begin hyping up the sequel. If they wait until all of the planned content is out and it's being done in drops still, we probably won't see an official announcement of a sequel until next year, and I think that's far too long. We might like the game, but it's also a four year old game: people often don't finish the games they buy, let alone stay around to buy content that late in its lifecycle. We've known for two years this sequel exists in some fashion. The
only "big announcement" they can have for this year is announcing it outside of an internal company report that people sniffed through and found multiple games not officially announced. How we even know this existed in the first place is they had to comment on that oopsie.
Doing a big update now can also help draw interest to the Bloodstained IP in general: the main game getting one big final update, the Curse of the Moon Chronicles bundle launching in Japan in July,
and an announcement of a sequel could draw a lot of interest for people to explore multiple things at once. This could also be done as a means of brand defense: the sole reason we have this IP is because Konami stopped letting Koji Igarashi make the games he wanted to make, and if they're back on the scene with Castlevania, this "Castlevania-in-all-but-name" needs more hype around it besides the diehards. People were so starved for Castlevania that Ritual of the Night sold 1,000,000 copies, a very high bar for a crowdfunded game. It'll be interesting to see when both brands are finally coexisting at once in the same space.
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