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

[Sindra]

Sorry, misunderstood and probably should have referenced the quote.

I meant the white/blonde guy with the sword on the LoS2 trailer could be Juste or Christopher. Maybe Mirror of Fate would even have an epilogue about it, if the storywriters were feeling like being teases.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Sorry, misunderstood and probably should have referenced the quote.

I meant the white/blonde guy with the sword on the LoS2 trailer could be Juste or Christopher. Maybe Mirror of Fate would even have an epilogue about it, if the storywriters were feeling like being teases.

But its pretty much confirmed to be Alucard now...

Have you seen the new fullbody pic of Alucard?

Its the same guy without a doubt.

Look here



We got a pretty good closeup of the white haired guy's right side during that trailer and its definitely alucard.

[Sumac]

They can do that with any of the games in the old canon equally as effectively and it wouldn't be boring at all even if they use the exact same plot.

It wouldn't be the exactly the same plot already. Simply because in order to make it close to LOS storytelling they'll need to add some things here and there, changing original story into something new, much more detailed.

Doing things differently for the sake of doing them differently is annoying to me. As you can probably tell I have a philosophy of "it ain't broke, don't fix it".

Limiting authors creativity, when dealing with completely separate timeline only based on previous stories, is stupid, I think. New authors should have as much freedom as possible - this is why it is a new continuty. And changing stuff for the sake of the changing is precisely the idea behind these manipulations.
The question is: will authors have enough self-control to sift out all the bad ideas (this is what we talking here - not different stuff, since this is idea behind rebbot, but bad ideas). As for me LOS writers had enough creativtiy to do something different and at the same time to not destroy identity of the franchise.
My phylosophy "Experiment with the story as much as possible, never mind obsessed people!" Without experimentation and new ideas, storytelling will be nothing.

Despite anybody's opinion on DoS, it did deliver on the gothic atmosphere

All I see in this screen is some stupid cartoonish stuff, for which I hated DOS and POR. Those things almost destroyed Castlevania for me.

I will say I hope they don't just throw in Belmonts for the sake of having more Belmonts, like they threw in Carmilla to just have a vampire or Cornell to have a werewolf.

I believe those choices were justified.

[ZenTzen]

I was just thinking, alucard is probably from a different love of dracula. A wife that gets killed by humans much like in symphony, maybe Alucard isn't Trevor but is this timelines Richter turned....Alucard.

It seems unlikely, but i would love if MS maintained that plot point in LoS2 or MoF

[Chernabogue]

Now, I'm pretty sure the LoS2 trailer is set during the MoF era of Alucard.

[Dremn]

Now, I'm pretty sure the LoS2 trailer is set during the MoF era of Alucard.

I wonder why Simon wouldn't be there then.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

I wonder why Simon wouldn't be there then.

But why do you say that?

We do not know how far apart Simon and Alucard's part of the game take place.

For all we know it could be 100s of years between Simon's part and Alucard's.

[Akuma]

Maybe the trailer is implying Alucard faces Dracula 2 times.  This game and LoS2.

Just a wild guess.

[Reinhart77]

i wonder if the Vampire Killer whip will essentially be another skin for the combat cross, or if it will have unique combos.  wonder if it will have its own explanation for why it is so powerful.  maybe they'll pay a little homage to how it played in LoI.  hope it gets passed down to Simon's son.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

i wonder if the Vampire Killer whip will essentially be another skin for the combat cross

I believe it was said somewhere that the 2 are different.

I can't remember were, but I'm positive it said that the Vampire Killer whip is going to be different since its not a chain whip like the combat cross.

[Akuma]

Combat Cross is a metal chain.

Vampire Killer is supposedly a leather Whip.

[VampirehunterB]

But its pretty much confirmed to be Alucard now...

Have you seen the new fullbody pic of Alucard?

Its the same guy without a doubt.

Look here



We got a pretty good closeup of the white haired guy's right side during that trailer and its definitely alucard.

Not bad art..but he look like a Dark Elf Lord! not the majestic SotN Alucard most of us know and love..

[Redgrave]

I'm sure that richter,juste or julius are the candidates for the other belmont.
 https://twitter.com/CastlevaniaLOS/status/211483839833448451
                                        Damn.I'm gonna hope for gamescom then.
                                         

[crisis]

The most likely candidate is Richiter, since he's one of the more well-known Belmonts in gaming

Not bad art..but he look like a Dark Elf Lord! not the majestic SotN Alucard most of us know and love..

lol well Alucard would be extremely out-of-place if he was wearing the dapper outfit he's known for. this armor suits him perfectly given the time period imo

[VladCT]

The most likely candidate is Richiter, since he's one of the more well-known Belmonts in gaming