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

[Profbeanburrito]

Thereis another picture of Simon summoning a red knight with horns on its helmet. I wonder if that and this 'Sypha' looking summon are the light and dark magic bars from LoS. It could very well be Sypha but that's the first thing that came to mind

[Chernabogue]

Cox reconfirmed the 4th character (only a short prologue). The game's lenght is around 20 hours for the story. They did not lie about it for LoS, so I hope it's true.

[Inccubus]

A character you play as exclusively for a short prologue barely feels like it should count. Now if you get to play the game again with him a`la' Richter in SotN, then he counts as a bonus character. So 3 main playable characters + a bonus character (even if he turns out to only be playable for the prologue.). Poor choice of words to have said 4 playable characters, I think.

[Kingshango]

Cox reconfirmed the 4th character (only a short prologue). The game's lenght is around 20 hours for the story. They did not lie about it for LoS, so I hope it's true.

To add to that, each character's playthrough takes about 5 hours each.

[flyingchai]

To add to that, each character's playthrough takes about 5 hours each.

That's not counting exploration in order to achieve 100%. I'm curious in what order of characters we're going to play. Obviously Gabriel's first, but as far as the other 3....?

[kaiwai]

I'll say: Gabriel > Trevor > Simon > Alucard (and then, the doors for LoS2 will be open) ...

But, it's just pure and poor conjecture. 

[Chernabogue]

Cox said it would be possible to re-play stages with all the characters IIRC.

[Chernabogue]

Cox confirmed MoF's prologue is set before LoS. So, he's Gabriel and not Dracula yet.

[Nagumo]

That's explains the changes to his outfit I guess. It's a bit confusing, though. Why set it before LoS1?

[flyingchai]

That's explains the changes to his outfit I guess. It's a bit confusing, though. Why set it before LoS1?

Maybe something important happened that set Gabriel on the path to become manipulated by Zobek, kill Marie, etc.

Or it could just be totally irrelevant just to show that Dracul was once a skilled warrior for The Brotherhood. The game's supposed to be self-contained with no need to play LOS1 to understand it...

[Chernabogue]

That's explains the changes to his outfit I guess. It's a bit confusing, though. Why set it before LoS1?

Cox said earlier that the prologue of MoF should have been part of the DLC's but that Konami did not let them enough time to do it.

[Zetheraxza]

Ahahahaha... Classic, Dave Cox... Classic!

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Dracul ‏@IamtheDragon047
@CastlevaniaLOS Dave, I saw the Halloween trailer, if Gabriel is a prequel character to the story then why did he have the seraph shoulders

Dave Cox ‏@CastlevaniaLOS
@IamtheDragon047 - Well spotted it's a mistake we will fix thanks #nerdsrock!

Dracul ‏@IamtheDragon047
@CastlevaniaLOS wow really?

I will say, that to openly reply to this mistake, he's more human than some people think him to be. I wonder how many more of these "mistakes" will be detected before the release... I wan't to see them in the game myself, lol.

[Inccubus]

Nice to see them taking continuity error reports seriously. However, this now begs the question, if this prologue happens pre getting the Seraph wings, then what is this a prologue to? Was this a chapter that was supposed to be in the main game of LoS? Was this supposed DLC an 'oops, we should have included this before' thing?

[Inccubus]

Dracula up and personal more than ever. No ho ho ho I [attack] and disappear like a prick just to get a cheap hit on you I like it. But if there is one thing I want from Gabriel is that he should use a spear I mean he is a up and close Dracula why not use one?

Funny enough, these are the sort of guerrilla tactics the real Dracula used when defending Walachia from the Turks.

[uzo]

Nice to see them taking continuity error reports seriously. However, this now begs the question, if this prologue happens pre getting the Seraph wings, then what is this a prologue to? Was this a chapter that was supposed to be in the main game of LoS? Was this supposed DLC an 'oops, we should have included this before' thing?

Probably some narrative focus on Gabriel when he was following the order, as well as Gabriel and Marie's relationship, and showing the faces of, and or the workings of, the order itself. This is all a good basis for whats to come with Trevor's story. Otherwise we'll know next to nothing about it. It's probably the journey that Marie had the baby on, and hid it from Gabriel.