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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #90 on: May 03, 2015, 06:31:51 PM »
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I don't mind a side story or two as long as the gameplay is on point. I am also cool with the possible brand new plot aspect. I think that will ensure we get some closure in the the storyline if this does well. I am all for SOTN, but remember I am a Generation 1 Castlevania fan and I love that old action style. Are we all forgetting about Super Castlevania 4? We need a evolution of that game!
I don't really like that game. I prefer if they made something more akin to Dracula X or Castlevania 3.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #91 on: May 03, 2015, 06:34:45 PM »
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I don't mind a side story or two as long as the gameplay is on point. I am also cool with the possible brand new plot aspect. I think that will ensure we get some closure in the the storyline if this does well. I am all for SOTN, but remember I am a Generation 1 Castlevania fan and I love that old action style. Are we all forgetting about Super Castlevania 4? We need a evolution of that game!

Konami does not care about the original canon. This is the same company that wanted to distance the series of the "effeminate" work of Michiru Yamane by personally requesting that the Lords of Shadow trilogy have "dark" music. They would rather literally make the franchise some AAA superstar, and that was against everything the series stood for since 1986.

You will at best get easter eggs and nods to IGA's fictional universe of Castlevania in IGA's new game; the whip is one such obvious thing. But an end and a new game in his canon? Probably not. Konami would rather let the series burn at this rate, as they're doing with all of their IPs, Metal Gear included.
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« Reply #92 on: May 03, 2015, 06:40:44 PM »
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Konami does not care about the original canon. This is the same company that wanted to get distance the series of the "effeminate" work of Michiru Yamane by personally requesting that the Lords of Shadow trilogy have "dark" music. They would literally make the franchise some AAA superstar, and that was against everything the series stood for since 1986.

You will at best get easter eggs and nods to IGA's fictional universe of Castlevania in IGA's new game; the whip is one such obvious thing. But an end and a new game in his canon? Probably not. Konami would rather let the series burn at this rate, as they're doing with all of their IPs, Metal Gear included.

Yeah, its a damn shame what is happening within Konami as regards to being a video gaming entity.

Would the IGA team have liberties to go back to exploring that Bloodline/Stoker's timeline? I mean the Bram Stoker mythology has nothing to do with the Konami IP. That would work.


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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #93 on: May 03, 2015, 06:41:10 PM »
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You guys are seriously jumping to conclusions.

The sprites shown are not really final or something you can drawn ANY conclusions at all.

How do you know they are not final?

I admit I may have jumped to conclusions, but as an artist I indeed see where this is going just by seeing the stone pillar and the whip if the work is final. And that's what I mean.

This is all we have to work with right now, so I'm commenting on it, and it did jump on my eye that the overall quality of these sprites are inferior to latest 2D Castlevania ones. "Inferior" in this case being used quite loosely, as I still like them alot. Inferior doesn't mean "bad".

But again, this may be jumping on conclusions indeed!
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« Reply #94 on: May 03, 2015, 07:12:07 PM »
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And whose to say what it might with a successful Kickstarter.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #95 on: May 03, 2015, 07:37:17 PM »
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I agree that it is early to draw conclusions. I will say however, IF this is real, I hope it is sprite based. Preferably HD sprites. I want that charm. 2.5d is overrated.

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« Reply #96 on: May 03, 2015, 07:42:59 PM »
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Im surprised no one has brought up the biggest silver lining about this if it's real:

New sprites! :D

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« Reply #97 on: May 03, 2015, 08:15:13 PM »
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Holy shit youre right! Now I want this to be real more than before.

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« Reply #98 on: May 03, 2015, 08:23:04 PM »
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Whatever happens I just want a new IP. Dracula and Castlevania are better off dead than tossed around the way Silent Hill was for so long. If IGA is going to start anew I wanna see a new story with new protagonists unfold.

Except Shanoa, she can be back for his new game. :P
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« Reply #99 on: May 03, 2015, 09:47:35 PM »
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I swear if this is some sort of joke...

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #100 on: May 03, 2015, 10:12:43 PM »
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... If this is a grand hoax, some people here would flip.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #101 on: May 03, 2015, 10:14:48 PM »
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... If this is a grand hoax, some people here would flip.

Quite the understatement.

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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #102 on: May 03, 2015, 10:30:35 PM »
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I have to say, in regards to the "it's not SotN quality so it's bad" kinda mindset, when did SotN suddenly become THE spriting standard of the universe? It's good, no contesting that, but you'd think everything before and after is invalidated by its quality and anything less somehow ruins everything else about the rest of the game, with how much this mindset gets tossed around.

I also think it says a lot about the fandom that a third of us are varying degrees of hyped or anxious, another third is calling that third gullible/easily excited or calling for skepticism, and the final third has become so jaded about the series that even a direct confirmation announcement wouldn't please them, about all of this.
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Re: The first sign rises with the full moon.
« Reply #103 on: May 03, 2015, 10:32:22 PM »
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To be honest, my skepticism is more of a defense mechanism at this point. After all, once bitten twice shy.
It is precisely because it never cared, that people do care.  It's something which it's lacking, because that which it has, it has lackluster of.
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« Reply #104 on: May 03, 2015, 10:43:11 PM »
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I prepare this word for that case.

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