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

[Flame]

Call me a skeptic but I think the article meant Dracula, especially when the article said "Expect to be shocked and maybe even annoyed when playing as Alucard." Why on earth would we be shocked and annoyed about playing as Alucard for? If anything we'd be ecstatic to play as him, not annoyed. Plus Cox said repeatedly that Dracula will be the only playable character.

But then again developers tend to do that for example (warning, spoiler for a recently released game)

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Naughty Dog said time and time again that Joel will be the only playable character and not Ellie in The Last of Us. Turns out we play as Ellie for a majority of a chapter and Joel's daughter in the prologue.

So I wouldn't be shocked if Cox is shitting through his teeth and Alucard is playable in some form in LOS2, it's almost a foregone conclusion even.

Thats true, it seemed weird that they mentioned Alucard after Cox has been adamant that Dracula would be the only playable character. (unless there is a Reverie-like segment where you periodically control Alucard)

[Shiroi Koumori]

In my opinion, I think Cox is pulling a Kojima from Metal Gear Solid 2.

I doubt that Alucard will be a playable character. Though I agree with Lely that they might offer him up as a DLC.

[Chernabogue]

I bet Alucard may join forces with Gabriel at some point to fight Zobek or Satan. Or we have to control Alucard during a fight against Gabriel, to mimic SotN's final battle.

[uzo]

I can see Alucard becoming an ally out of desperation. Satan would likely be a common enemy. Otherwise Alucard comes at the end, after Gabe kills Satan to finish things off for good.

Maybe your final act as the player is defeating Gabriel, ending the saga for good.

[Flame]

I can see Alucard becoming an ally out of desperation. Satan would likely be a common enemy. Otherwise Alucard comes at the end, after Gabe kills Satan to finish things off for good.

Maybe your final act as the player is defeating Gabriel, ending the saga for good.

That would be interesting. I mean, it would feel weird to fight a final boss Alucard, but a final boss DRACULA on the other hand...

[uzo]

Exactly. And given Trevor's fate, it would make a fitting ending.

Honestly an 'Alucard mode' after Gabriel's would make a lot of sense. Especially if it's short and only a few areas, not a whole redo of the game. About as long as the two DLC's from the first game. Just a final finisher set of chapters to top it all off.

[C Belmont]

Maybe your final act as the player is defeating Gabriel, ending the saga for good

A while back Cox said that Gabriel is both the first and the last Belmont.
If that's still going to be the case then presumably both Alucard and the new Belmont will die before Gabriel does
making something like this unlikely.

[Neobelmont]

I see your point, and no offense taken.
I thought the Alucard game was going to be another Curse of Darkness, and that was great for me, personally.

I for one am glad that game was canceled. Now I might get negatives but hear me out I'm not trying to sound like a jerk but what if it did turn out like curse of darkness? The ideas of innocent devils were nice but what are the chances that it improved upon? I should be saying yes right, but it felt lackluster to me. And one of the major complaints about LoI and Cod was that level design and if they could not improve upon that  with CoD what are the chances that anything would be different the third time around(fourth if one counts nanobreaker which is considered to be really) ? That was my main worry and then use they used Alucard to hype it up. Kind of how Mof fell flat and MS used the series most well loved characters this could have turned out with a similar ending and I know I do not want that happening.

The only thing that would have me going for the Alucard game is a Richter mode voiced by Troy Baker and for those who do not know who he is, he voiced this guy



Yeah I love Tales of Vesperia.

[Flame]

CoD WORSENED LoI's level design.

[Maedhros]

I agree. LoI had overall better design, even though many samey corridors too...

But we don't know the budget to make a judgement of these games. They could be simply like that because their budget was low, so they needed to reuse things to keep it from going higher than the budget.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Edit: This was posted before but just my comment on the interview.

http://www.geekscape.net/interview-castlevania-producer-david-cox

Is it just me, but, Cox in this interview seems cocky....

[Lelygax]

David Cockys

[Kaori]

The only thing that would have me going for the Alucard game is a Richter mode voiced by Troy Baker

Tales of Vesperia is awesome, and Troy Baker is even better! Funny thing is, Troy Baker may have actually been part of that canceled Alucard game. I seem to recall a few years ago that he did something for a canceled Castlevania game or something...let me dig up a link, because I want to make sure I'm not crazy. 

Here: http://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/troy-baker-states-that-he%E2%80%99s-worked-on-a-castlevania-game-with-konami/

[Neobelmont]

Tales of Vesperia is awesome, and Troy Baker is even better! Funny thing is, Troy Baker may have actually been part of that canceled Alucard game. I seem to recall a few years ago that he did something for a canceled Castlevania game or something...let me dig up a link, because I want to make sure I'm not crazy. 

Here: http://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/troy-baker-states-that-he%E2%80%99s-worked-on-a-castlevania-game-with-konami/

Your not crazy I have posted videos about him talking about it before. Man Yuri Lowell as Richter would of been awesome I tell  all of you AWESOME

[Inccubus]

You stole my thunder, I was gonna post that!

Joke aside, it's nice to know that IGA is still doing at least something at Konami besides fetching coffee. And that's quite humble of Cox to respect IGA's wishes to not include certain characters and events.

Just gonna point out that Cox didn't say it had anything to do with IGA's wishes. Although, it smells to me like there might actually be more to it than was said.