Topic: IGA Talks About Castlevania Future At E For All Expo

[James Belmont]

Between LoI and CVIII...interesting...

[VoDkA]

In Reply To #14

Unfortunately for you, CotM is a better game than HoD.  Fact.

[Marto]

In Reply To #17

That's as much a fact as is "Clay Aiken isn't gay"... :

Spare me the empty facts...

[James Belmont]

In Reply To #14

Unfortunately for you, CotM is a better game than HoD.

[Gunlord]

In Reply To #15

Eeesh, I didn't mean to start an argument...there can be no accounting for taste, of course, and while I personally think Sotaro Tojima did a fine job on CoTM, I can understand why other people wouldn't think so. My point was, however, that I think we can all agree that there are other fine Castlevania music composers besides Ms. Yamane, accomplished as she is How about Soshiro Hokkai, composer for Harmony of Dissonance? And if you didn't like HoD's muzak, how about the composer for Super Castlevania 4 or CV3 on the NES? Plenty o' great Castlevania composers aside from Michi-chan  

[Steve]

Oh snap at this quote (it's IGA's response to the question, "What was the worst decision ever made in Castlevania?"

"Probably when we put out the timeline. Because since Dracula only appears every 100 years, we made the whole timeline and ran out of places to put in another game. I made the timeline, but I shouldn't have actually released it, because now it's all official. That was a bad decision."

Agreed wholeheartedly. Though really, he should just work outside the timeline every once in a while.

This wouldn't be a problem if his bosses at Konami didn't force him to release a new game at an average of one per year.

[Dark Nemesis]

For me a good composer for making a Castlevania soundtrack could have been Hitoshi Sakimoto, the composer of Vagrant Story soundtrack. The music theme's for great cathedral and lime stone quarry are my most favorites.

[mgfcortez]

well the 100-year resurrection thing never been a problem.
dracula is better than a lawyer in finding loopholes to come back.lol

and LoI doesn't say the Belmonts don't meet Dracula until CV3 it just saids many years so they could be a belmont and drac fight before castlevania 3
as for OTHER vampires that the Belmonts hunted down must have read that in a mag?
well that be cool two tho

[Long John Silver]

But that's only because they're so close minded (and apparently many of the fans are too).

So, Dracula can return once every 100 years. Let him then, there are many other vampires that can serve as the main villains in those periods. Vampires like Carmilla, Olrox, Walter (well except he was absorbed but still), Joachim, Bathory and others.

Death could also serve as a final boss too with a bigger role than "ok, I'm done. go kill him, guy who didn't even appear until now".

Then we also get the whole cults that are the main villains (and as usual are eventually shoved aside to throw in a pointless Dracula battle)

[Marto]

In Reply To #24

I honestly didn't like in CoD when Dracula came out of the blue. It was kind of a 'wtf' moment for me. 

But other than that, I don't have an issue with the timeline.

If only Iga put more effort into his games though... (rephrase) of only he had more TIME put into them.

[crisis]

In Reply To #25
Drac came out of the blue in HoD too.. also a wtf moment

[Marto]

In Reply To #26

Agreed. But at least it made more sense, considering the plotline from the start dealt with the remains of him, and we all know what happens when they all come together. And technically, it was only his wraith, not the full out Dracula.

In CoD, it was only there for dramatic Drac-fight reasons.

[Long John Silver]

And technically, it was only his wraith, not the full out Dracula.

As well as a pretty cool nod to the cv2 Dracula battle, since it more less happens in the same way. The remains get together and a ghostly apparition of Dracula emerges from it.

But yeah, those two were unneeded, as well as por's Dracula. Hell, even Bloodlines one technically shouldn't happen if they were to follow the 100 year rule, though according to some sources the bloodlines Drac was the body of Drolta possessed by Drac's spirit, sorta like Isaac in cod.

[Marto]

In Reply To #28

CV Simon's Quest is the only Castlevania I have no played.

I didn't know that that's what happened.

I think it terms of a Sequel, HoD did its part wonderfully with all the homages, story elements, appearances, etc.