Topic: A look at Castlevania The Arcade

[crisis]

The vampire hunter could be Richter, but last time I checked Richter doesn't have buckles on his pants (both the dxc version & sotn art of him). Also he doesn't have rist buckles, but the outfit still resembles Richter's. The art looks like Kojima's.

I'm trying to examine his identity by reading the character select screen, but I could only make out a few words. Vampire Hunter, and.. something "the Holy Whip". As for the girl, I could only make out "Lady". Maybe someone could raise the resolution so we could get some answers!

It's also a possibility that this game has no real story, and we'll just be controlling a nameless Belmont & slay Dracula as usual. But I hope not.

[Firebrand-X]

Holy!!!!!!!!!!! This games looks so ffreaking awesome (yes with an extra f)i can see this game on the wii but still i wanna try it on the arcade so i can feel as a Belmont.

[Reinhart77]

In Reply To #16

The article says that you have a choice between a generic "Vampire Hunter" and "Lady Gunner".

[Sonic_Reaper]

This is what Judgment should have looked like.  Honestly people wouldn't be complaining nearly as much if Ayami was in charge of the art for Judgment.

[Reinhart77]

The Vampire Hunter just looks so awesomely rugged in this game.  Too bad you can't really see him in action in a game like this. 

I don't know why I always think of Cornell whenever I see the Lady Gunner.  Oh yeah, now I remember, it's because the way she has her trigger hand curled up in the artwork looks like she should be brandishing claws.

[Abnormal Freak]

Even with a next generation wii, it would be sad to convert an extra wide screen to work on a regular television set.

You've never played Resident Evil 4, have you. Superb graphics, progressive scan capability, wide aspect ratio, and the Wii version has the added benefit of being enhanced for 16:9 TVs. The Wii could very well do this arcade game a great deal of justice. Not sure exactly how the game looks or if it will in fact need to be downgraded for the Wii, but the Wii really is capable of a lot.

[Thomas Belmont]

Why does everybody think it's Richter? Doesn't even really look like him. If anything, it's probably a new Belmont.

[Reinhart77]

Yeah, in the cell-phone pictures he doesn't look a whole lot like Richter, more like Simon actually.  That's because of the dominant color being more yellowish rather than blue.

However, if you look at the cabinet art and poster art, he looks a lot more like Richter.  That art can be found in the original thread for this game:

http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/forums/index.php?topic=1347.0

[paletteswapmonster]

http://www.konami.jp/am/locationtest/dracula_ac/

[thernz]

Castlevania has been getting a lot of busty females lately.

[Abnormal Freak]

Whoot for big-titted women.

[crisis]

Sweet. I wonder who the artist is??

I hope that girl's a Belnades 

[paletteswapmonster]

In Reply To #27

If she was then she wouldn't be using a gun as her weapon.

[Reinhart77]

http://www.konami.jp/am/locationtest/dracula_ac/

oo, i hadn't seen the artwork using that color pallette before.

[Dark Nemesis]

I love that new artwork!!