Topic: A Konami shared universe might be fun

[The Puritan]

It's been said that Adi Shankar's Devil May Cry series might cross over with his previous work on Castlevania. But if CV was to share space with other fictional works, shouldn't it be with other Konami IPs?

So I pondered a shared universe for the company's otherwise unconnected games. A "Konamiverse" if you will. But unlike, say, Capcom 's SFU or Koei-Tecmo's "Ninjaverse", this Konamiverse would be a non-game setting, like a comic book or animated work. It'd take the basic premise of each game series and put them all in the same world (or universe, to include works set in different time periods or other worlds entirely). You could start with major established series like Castlevania, Metal Gear, and Silent Hill to set this Konamiverse's framework. Then you could work your way down to the likes of Bloody Roar, Getsu Fuuma Den, Rush N' Attack, and Lethal Enforcers to the obscure or outright forgotten like Nanobreaker, Arumana no Kiseki, Kensei: Sacred Fist, Jackal, and more.

And then... that's it really. Various Konami IPs quietly co-existing in the same fictional space, occasionally crossing over with or at least referencing each other. No massive Avengers-style teamups as is so often the case in shared universes, though I've no doubt someone in charge of a Konamiverse will certainly try.

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This is just the long version of me saying I'd be down for an amnesiac Julius Belmont saying he survived a town heavily implied to be Silent Hill. Or that John Morris met "...an old former bandido living south of the border after bounty hunters shot him off a train. He taught me a few new ways to fight with this whip but I reckon the boiler plate for a shield was a bit much."

tl;dr WE SOME KINDA WAI WAI WORLD

[Eric Roman]

There was some of this going on in the ParoVadius worldview, though it was grounded in what I was most familiar with: CastleVania, Gradius/Nemesis, Parodius, TwinBee, Contra; Metal Gear Solid almost made it in. 

[LuxKiller65]

1988 wai wai world

[The Puritan]

Contra; Metal Gear Solid almost made it in.

Aw, that would've been fun.  Wait, is ParoVadius something you did? This sounds like something more true to the whimsy crossover spirit of Wai Wai World than the serious one I have in mind.

1988 wai wai world

I wouldn't have minded a third WWW before the Pachislot era ngl. Then again there's Otomedius.

[Kaneda]

I could see Snatcher or Policenauts being connected with Contra in some way. Maybe even Metal Gear.

Personally, I'd like a Castlevania/TMNT game.

[The Puritan]

I could see Snatcher or Policenauts being connected with Contra in some way. Maybe even Metal Gear.

I've read that Policenauts was gonna be the future of Metal Gear at one point, with Policenauts!Meryl being an older version of MG!Meryl, but the connections were removed later.

There are still lots of references though, so I suppose a Konamiverse could use the original intention of the two Meryls being one and the same. Just tweak things as needed to fit in with the larger shared world.

I can also see potential links between Nanobreaker and the Rising corner of Metal Gear since both involve cyborgs and nanotech. And further on tweaking, I'd be interested in the Getsu clan being reimagined as a Japanese analogue to the Belmonts, with Fuma active at the same time as Simon (instead of having his adventure in the far future of 14672 AD). Would be cool if his descendant showed up to support Julius in 1999. Or even have the Hakubas as a Getsu branch family.

Personally, I'd like a Castlevania/TMNT game.

Mmm, not so much for me since TMNT is a licensed property and the Konamiverse in my head only includes Konami-owned IPs.

You know what would really rock though? Don Marshall of Lethal Enforcers and Falcon from Silent Scope fighting crime together.