Everyone is completely (COMPLETELY) missing my original point.
With all respect. I'll try to make it short and clear.
Bare in mind that this "canon" you speak of was pieced together by IGA who picked and chose what games were included, conveintly leaving out every game that he had no part of post SOTN.
I hardly consider IGA's idea of the canon to be the true story because it is completely unfair to the hard work that other developers contributed to Castlevania.
I prefer to give every game in the series the credit of being a "real" Castlevania. Even those games that I don't care for.
I don't really care if the stories don't line up. If you want to know the only true story of Dracula, then you must read Bram Stoker's novel.
CV has always been reinventing itself, it's best to embrace that IMO. The one thing that stays consistent is that CV is a game that re-tells the story of Dracula in new and various ways. That's what I always look forward to.
I don't care about Iga (though I loved his games) and I don't care about the story.
I want a Castlevania game that looks and sounds like ANYTHING from 1986-2008. I don't care if it's canon or not, that would be a stupid position, and I couldn't care less about it.
I read the book, I watched the movie, and I really don't give a damn about that or about story, why would I care about Bram Stoker's Dracula when I want to play a Castlevania game that looks and sounds like always have?
I just want Castlevania to sound and look like any game from the franchise I love. I don't care if it's Legacy, Circle of the Moon or Legends, I like those game as much as I love the rest, some of them even more.
It's as simple as that. It can't get more simple than that.
I am enjoying very much the LOS universe, and this is the way Castlevania games should be made from now on IMO.
So, you want Castlevania music to die. Never again to have something like Wood Carving Partita, Prayer for Tragic Queen, Leon Belmont's Theme, Mad Forest and dozens upon dozens of themes that created a unique sound.
Nowadays, games are being developed to seem like movies. Gaming industry is becoming into another form of artistic expression.
Abysmal mistake. With all respect. Games were always a form of art. They are not becoming that now.
And I have plenty of games that I can enjoy if I want to feel I'm into a movie. I'm loving The Last Of Us. I loved al 3 Bioshock games. I really liked recent DmC and Tomb Raider games. I really like Skyrim.
But Castlevania is not that. Castlevania isn't something you can insert into some trend or compare to other games. Castlevania is, in aesthetics, in soundtrack, in the soul and feeling of the games, something unique.
If you transform it into something else, it's not CV anymore.
And one more thing, to all new fans. You are being selfish if you just want the new tendency to be made and don't care about the legacy of the franchise. It's like if when SotN came out and catched me I would go saying: this is the way Castlevania should be made from now on, ClassicVania is obsolete.
And everyone knows how much I love MetroidVanias, but they also know I also love ClassicVanias, and old 3DVanias even.
Why? Because they all look and sound the same.
And I can't believe that it turned into this discussion again when all I was talking about in the beginning was the mediocre state of Hollywood soundtracks and when I didn't even mentioned Lords of Shadow this time.