Topic: "The Dragon Returns" - Castlevania Lords of Shadow Sequel (HERE BE SPOILER INFO)

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

These huge signature pics... I don't think they're needed.
And since people aren't reading between the lines...
**changes the limit**

I went ahead and resized one offending one, and removed another.

Helpful hint:  The IMG tag can be used to resize an image.  Just use the {img width=xxxx height=yyyy}imageurl.url{/img} (and use the square brackets).

[Kingshango]

These huge signature pics... I don't think they're needed.
And since people aren't reading between the lines...
**changes the limit**

I went ahead and resized one offending one, and removed another.

Better?

[Neobelmont]

These huge signature pics... I don't think they're needed.
And since people aren't reading between the lines...
**changes the limit**

I went ahead and resized one offending one, and removed another.

I do not think the one I have is a problem but if it is I will get rid of it.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I was about to resize yours, actually... but yours is the least offender of the three I was looking at.

Not everyone has a 1920x1080 resolution or higher, and some people are viewing the forum on their phone.

[Kingshango]

Well now that we're all good on the sig business, we can go back on theory mode:

There are two sarcophagus that Gabriel passes by. One is decorated and Gabriel touches it as he walks by, the other one by the mirror is plain and Gabriel just looks at it like he wants nothing to do with what's inside.

My theory is that the decorated sarcophagus belongs to his second wife and mother to Alucard and the non decorated one is Marie and his lack of attention to it means that he's past mourning her and finally moved on. However he still care's about her enough to have her tomb in his castle. Now why is the first tomb decorated? It's might be because his second wife's death may have been recent (well recent during his time as Dracula) and is in now in the process of mourning her now the best way he can, by slaughtering the humans that may have been responsable for her death. Even though it may have happened centuries ago.

[thernz]

The Lords 2 prologue should be Gabriel massacring a flurry of Brotherhood jerks
to steal Marie's coffin.

NOW THAT'S LOVE

[Dremn]

Is Dracula even going to need to jump to ledges/platform anymore? Dude can just teleport anywhere he wants.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Well now that we're all good on the sig business, we can go back on theory mode:

There are two sarcophagus that Gabriel passes by. One is decorated and Gabriel touches it as he walks by, the other one by the mirror is plain and Gabriel just looks at it like he wants nothing to do with what's inside.

My theory is that the decorated sarcophagus belongs to his second wife and mother to Alucard and the non decorated one is Marie and his lack of attention to it means that he's past mourning her and finally moved on. However he still care's about her enough to have her tomb in his castle. Now why is the first tomb decorated? It's might be because his second wife's death may have been recent (well recent during his time as Dracula) and is in now in the process of mourning her now the best way he can, by slaughtering the humans that may have been responsable for her death. Even though it may have happened centuries ago.

I pretty much liked EVERYTHING you just said here and I agree.

I much rather have your theory come to fruition than the Trevor becoming Alucard one.

The idea of Gabriel moving on and falling in love with a human women and bearing Alucard sounds like a good idea not to mention it would be pretty similar to the old canon which is a plus for me.

Of course MS can put their own "spin" on it such as the circumstances surrounding Gabriel's new love's death and how Alucard grew to become his enemy later on.

Perhaps Alucard blames Gabriel for her death?

[CastleDan]

I have a feeling this will be there symphony of the night.

I'm thinking

Alucard/Gabriel main characters.

You will obviously have the powers of a vampire, so transformations such as wolf will probably be available. In the video you see him using a magic whip to kill the enemies but in the art you see a sword in his hand, one might conclude we get multiple weapons, and the talk about gabriel exploring his castle....so the gamin mainly takes place within the walls of the castle.

It's all very exciting.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

In the video you see him using a magic whip to kill the enemies but in the art you see a sword in his hand

wait what?

He had a sword?

Which art was this?

Can you post a picture here?

I must have missed it.


And someone brought up a interesting point earlier about Gabriel having to traverse through his OWN castle which really does sound pretty damn weird.

I wonder how MS is going to pull this one off since Gabriel should very well know about his own Castle that he has been living in for god knows how long and yet the main objective in this game is to traverse through his own castle looking for way to gain his old powers back.

And also, who the enemies will be is another good question since in Mirror of Fate the castle seems to be occupied by his minions.

So after Mirror of fate was all his minions destroyed?

And now his castle is inhabited by Satan's minions?

[Kingshango]

wait what?

He had a sword?

Which art was this?

Can you post a picture here?

I must have missed it.

Here:

[flyingchai]

One of the environment art pieces looked like the castle was in Hell, with Dracula standing on a precipice with long grey hair.
I'm going make a wild stab at this, that when Dracula was destroyed, he and his castle descended into Hell and got overrun by Satan's minions.

That leaked chapter listing starts to make more and more sense....

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Here:

Oh yea THAT pic.

The one I saw was cut short for some reason and only showed the handle of the weapon in his hand which I thought was a new combat cross at the time.

But its great to see gabriel with a SWORD in this one.

Hopefully its actually a sword and not some WHIP sword or some shit.

I want to see some swordplay in this game as well as whip play.

[CastleDan]

yeah the magic whip...

the red bean he was swinging at all the enemies in the trailer...

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

I just noticed that there is a pic of the new guy (Alucard) looking into the sword showing his reflection on the official Lords of Shadow 2 site.

If I had known that i would not have went through the trouble of making one myself from the video lol.

But one thing that this does tell me is that they are trying to drop hints purposely to let everyone get a look at this guy (although briefly from the reflection) and be able to tell he is definitely not human.