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

[e105beta]

I'm pissing my pants here over the new Simon, almost literally. I mean, the Trevor design is great and all, but after seeing Simon absolutely wrecked after Chronicles, this design looks wonderful.

No generic Greco-Roman NES Simon, no tight leather Chronicles Simon, but a real, angry, barbaric looking Simon with a sexy awesome firebeard to boot.

Seriously, that thing is giving me chills. Move over Julius, Simon just took the Beardmont title.


Gameplay-wise this sounds like everything I've ever discussed that I've wanted in a Castlevania. Exploration of a Metroidvania combined with Classicvania level design, and a combat and movement system that complements the unique Belmont family weapon style. I don't see what there is not to like.

In addition, seeing the environments so far makes me feel like the non-Castlevania-like environments in Lords were completely intentional, because it wasn't a "Man vs Dracula" game. It was Castlevania: Dracula's quest, so it's only natural it wouldn't take place in the same environments a Belmont would go to. A Belmont game is a dark gothic adventure, but the creation of Dracula would be a dark fairytale.

I might be grasping at straws, but it seems so clever in retrospect.

[Neobelmont]

It just occurred to me what if before this game if we were to reserve it at gamestop or on-line we were to get a download code for castlevania 1,2,or 3 3d that would be something if it's done like kid icarus then heck wow Just a thought to compliment MoF.

[Flame]

Y'know I just realized something.

I have to buy a 3DS now.

Fuck.

[Omegasigma]

if we got a traditional dracula battle at the end of this game, and some classic music it'll be a winner 100% in my book, the last handheld CV was DXC, so im going crazy to see 2.5D done right, I havent been this excited since judgment, LoS didnt give me any hype at all.

[e105beta]

if we got a traditional dracula battle at the end of this game, and some classic music it'll be a winner 100% in my book, the last handheld CV was DXC, so im going crazy to see 2.5D done right

I rather liked DXC

[Omegasigma]

No dis to DXC, just the PSP screen gave me a migrane after so long, great game, just bad hardware, I ended up playing it on a psp2k with tv connections

[e105beta]

No dis to DXC, just the PSP screen gave me a migrane after so long, great game, just bad hardware, I ended up playing it on a psp2k with tv connections

Yeah. Never was much of a fan of the PSP. It had its uses, though...

[Chernabogue]

Holy crap the artworks and screens are AWESOME. Castlevania made its return.

Most of the game is set in the castle = yeah!

Also, Robert Carlyle!

[LoneChild]

Sweet.

Trevor becoming Alucard now is kind of a given, with all that "lost soul" character stuff, and the obvious resemblance. I guess Gabriel just defeat him and turns him into a vampire to escape from his terrible, terrible loneliness. Predictible because it makes a lot of sense, I will accept it. In fact, the Belmonts being tagically chased down by the dark, while they try to fight the familiar curse fits this timeline themes just perfectly.
You see? being open minded is easy when the developers deliver. Just look at these screens. Sweet.

Did i say that I'm totally in love with Simon redesign? Hell, that beard 

[Chernabogue]

Simon and Trevor look MANLY!

[Dremn]

Finally saw and read the full scans.

"The lost soul" sounds like Alucard, and I don't think he's Trevor or Simon. Thank goodness the Belmonts are human, I didn't expect the article to answer the origin of Trevor.

Everything still sounds really promising, combat still worries me. I hope things don't drag out for too long, hard to make the call about things that were in LoS and how well they will transition to a side scroller without footage.

We'll find out everything Friday morning.

[Chernabogue]

Just finished to read the whole article and taking a closer look to the scans.

HELL. This is gonna be awesome. MoF may be the greatest Castlevania created for a while.

[Dremn]

The art direction looks like a cartoonier, more stylized Lords of Shadow with a larger emphasis on color. In a way it greatly reminds me of League of Legends. I don't hate it but I still need to adjust to it, I think what will really sell me is how good it all looks in motion.

That giant red knight with the morning star has armor on that looks very similar to Simon's.

[Raxivace]

Sounds fantastic so far. I eagerly await this (And I find myself becoming happier and happier that I got a 3DS).

[Foffy]

Sounds fantastic so far. I eagerly await this (And I find myself becoming happier and happier that I got a 3DS).

Quite the bombs happened yesterday, with a genuine reveal of this and the next main Shin Megami Tensei title coming to the 3DS. And people were saying a year ago this platform was doomed..