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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Konami teases ‘new developments for familiar series’ and unannounced new project

« Last post by Foffy on May 23, 2023, 04:20:31 AM »

Glad someone can be the eternal #OptimistPrime

Just hours after my post, 505 posted an announcement for the beta test for the co-op mode in Ritual of the Night. Hopefully they can do this and announce the sequel soon. I promise I didn't will this into being!

Also, very good chance Castlevania THE ARCADE will finally be playable on PC soon, so there's still something new for most of us! Grimoire of Souls was on the Steam leak when that happened, so that might pop up on other platforms this summer if it had a year exclusivity deal for Apple Arcade. Some of those deals end a year after support/updates cease for the game, and we're just about the year mark for that with this game.

Now mind you, I am an optimist we'll see something. I am not an optimist if it will be good. Depends entirely on who is helping Konami make it.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Konami teases ‘new developments for familiar series’ and unannounced new project

« Last post by zangetsu468 on May 23, 2023, 03:03:27 AM »

Best case scenario: they reveal a Castlevania game this week. Worst case scenario: no Castlevania game at all, but another Bloodstained soon. Things ain't too bad.

Glad someone can be the eternal #OptimistPrime

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Konami teases ‘new developments for familiar series’ and unannounced new project

« Last post by Foffy on May 22, 2023, 06:37:04 PM »

So we shouldn’t expect any Castlevania news from the Sony event on Wednesday, right?  Just maybe MGS and more Silent Hill 2 remake?  I don’t want to get my hopes up.

According to VGC -- and this was back in October 2021 -- that Castlevania would get a game released before Metal Gear and Silent Hill. So one can go into this event with a few ideas...

- If this is still true, Castlevania will be there and be released before Silent Hill 2
- It is not there because it is for a Nintendo platform and will still be released before Silent Hill 2
- This is no longer true and issues occurred during development that either delayed or cancelled this game outright, explaining it not being there

Konami was supposed to have presence if there was an E3 this year, so I don't think they have just two games to show, but a good chunk of titles. The fact nothing's come out in specific about this project is interesting, because the VGC rumor alleges it's an in-house "reimagining" with support from Japanese third parties. This could explain why we haven't heard details on the who and what those involved in this game are making compared to fully outsourced projects, but we'll see.

Best case scenario: they reveal a Castlevania game this week. Worst case scenario: no Castlevania game at all, but another Bloodstained soon. Things ain't too bad.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Konami teases ‘new developments for familiar series’ and unannounced new project

« Last post by zangetsu468 on May 22, 2023, 05:27:28 PM »

Who is even left at Konami? All their talent hightailed it out of their like a bat out of hell.

#PachinKonami is a shadow (organisation) of its former self, currently funded by the Yakuza and run by the ‘Pachinko Elite’.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Konami teases ‘new developments for familiar series’ and unannounced new project

« Last post by nokundhi on May 22, 2023, 11:59:42 AM »

Who is even left at Konami? All their talent hightailed it out of their like a bat out of hell.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Metroidvania Fan Refers to Platformers as Mariosonics

« Last post by VladOfWallachia on May 22, 2023, 07:50:11 AM »

I guess the cool part about Metroidvania as a genre label is seeing part of the name of Castlevania being used in such a widespread manner. Why wouldn't Castlevania fans be happy to see this?

At the same time, this also reminds me a bit of the 90s, when all first person shooters were often labeled "Doom clones". Metroidvania is nowhere near that bad, but I also don't like how when you label a genre after a game, you always have to bring up the name of said game when discussing a very broad range of possible creative expressions, and that just doesn't sit well with me. Nobody calls first person shooters "Doom clones" anymore for obvious reasons, and I think exploration platformers as a genre has also grown into this huge, diverse thing, the same way first person shooters did. Yes, we owe it all to Super Metroid and SotN, but we don't have to bring this up every single time we discuss an exploration platformer.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Konami teases ‘new developments for familiar series’ and unannounced new project

« Last post by Kamirine on May 22, 2023, 07:30:21 AM »

So we shouldn’t expect any Castlevania news from the Sony event on Wednesday, right?  Just maybe MGS and more Silent Hill 2 remake?  I don’t want to get my hopes up.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Metroidvania Fan Refers to Platformers as Mariosonics

« Last post by Belmontoya on May 21, 2023, 02:22:34 PM »

I'll be honest. There are a plethora of reasons the term is off and never really made sense to begin with.

That being said, when you are in the shoes of one working to promote your game, there is still no more effective of a hashtag to use to reach the people who might care other than #metroidvania.

As game developers, we want people to know our games exist.

As whacky as it is, until someone comes up with something that eclipses it for real, that's the game. 🤷

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Metroidvania Fan Refers to Platformers as Mariosonics

« Last post by zangetsu468 on May 21, 2023, 02:03:37 PM »

Metroidvania = Has the sidescrolling Metroid exploration elements with RPG elements added on top of it.  Metroid brought that gated non-linear exploration. Castlevania brought the item-collecting and RPG mechanics. That's it, as I understand it.

Espresso: One does not simply become finer and more pure, it has to be earned…
Ristretto: …. Am I a joke to you?

People have too much time on their hands.. Seriously.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Metroidvania Fan Refers to Platformers as Mariosonics

« Last post by theplottwist on May 21, 2023, 12:28:06 PM »

I have a hot take: This is one of the conversations where, whenever it appears, I ask myself "What else is there to "get" about the word? It's not that complicated." Feels like the conversation made it needlessly complicated for no reason.

Metroidvania = Has the sidescrolling Metroid exploration elements with RPG elements added on top of it.  Metroid brought that gated non-linear exploration. Castlevania brought the item-collecting and RPG mechanics. That's it, as I understand it.

Nowadays people have started calling anything that is a 2D exploration platforming game a "Metroidvania" - including Metroid itself, which still leaves me bewildered. It's like calling black coffee "a latte" because coffee is one part of the latte, but I digress - and the term has been completelly emptied of meaning.