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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Alexc2808 on July 15, 2008, 10:21:34 PM
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http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/castlevaniajudgment/news.html?sid=6194103&om_act=convert&om_clk=newlyadded&tag=newlyadded;title;1
Look at what we already know...
CONFIRMED FROM 1UP
Cornell (Legacy of Darkness)
Carmilla (Cv2,Circle of the moon/,Dracula X)
Trevor Belmont (Cv3, Curse of Darkness)
Sypha Belnades (Cv3)
Grant Dinesti/Denasty (Cv3)
CONFRIMED IN NP
Simon Belmont (Cv,Cv2, Chronicles, Cv4, Vampire Killer, Haunted Castle)
Alucard (Cv3, Symphony of The Night, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow)
Maria Renard (Dracula X, Rondo Of Blood, Symphony of The Night)
Dracula (All games, as 'Soma Cruz' Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow)
Shanoa (Order of Ecclesia)
HINTED BY IGN
Death (many)
That leaves only 3 characters we don't already know...
They better mean 14 characters to start with, and more to un-lock.
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Did Koji retcon Legend of Cornell? If so, it's funny that he'd include him in Judgment anyway. F, why not bring in Victor and Nathan while he's at it? :]
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In Reply To #2
He later put COTM and 64 back in, via as an off shoot/alternate timeline. So Legends is officially the only one that no longer exist timeline wise period.
And 14 characters isn't surprising, since it's the first fighting game in the franchise. Some have started out with less than that on their first game.
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I feel that Trevor is a waste of a slot especially for a game with 14 characters. There's alot of other characters out there that can give the game more variety. Simon should've been the only Belmont to represent them all (the whip user).
Also they could've added more variety by changing Sypha to say, Yoko from Soma series (if it's some magic user, they could've used Charlotte while having someone like Soma represent his own series) and have only Grant be the one representing CV3 since Alucard is most likely his SotN version.
Lets hope the last remaining slots isn't another Belmont. As much as I want Richter in, Simon already did the Belmonts justice. Doesn't need anymore in my opinion. :/
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I just hope a bonus old clothes for the Epic trio
and... WHY NOT NATHAN D:!
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well if thats say start off characters dont forget theres a "castle mode" where you go about finding items to add to the characters, so alternate clothing and possibly other fihgters to challenge and beat could become unlockable one site mention possible bosses to play as, and seeing all the dracula X characters my wonder is, which richter (if hes in it) would it be? or would he simplly be an unlockable outfit for simon (eg smash brothers alt costume for mario is wario) i surely hope its what you start off with altho some fighting games had only 12 total so, we'll see
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In Reply To #2
As Kamirine said, the CV64 games and CotM are gaiden/alternate timeline adventures. IGA HATES Legends. Resurrection, sad to say, was never officially released, hence it doesn't exist in ANY continuity, be it official or non-official. It's one of those rare occasions of games that oculd've been, yet were never meant to be, hence no looking back. It's like all those games that wind up cancelled and are never released. As far as existing to the public, and being there to play, they never will, hence we'll never know the whole story or anything besides what we've seen. That means, interestingly enough, Victor has less of a real CV presence than Sonia(which IGA hates) and Desmond Belmont(who most CV fans generally hate). And that kinda leads me to our wonderful sprite banner and why Victor's still there when he's as official as the nameless sprites from Bloodletting(Other "could haves"). Desmond, being as corny as he is, has more of a place up there than Victor. ;D
In Reply To #5
Cornell is the only one that IGA's warming up to. Carmilla originated from CV2, and was also in RoB BEFORE she was featured in CotM.
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and seeing all the dracula X characters my wonder is, which richter (if hes in it) would it be? or would he simplly be an unlockable outfit for simon
It's interesting that you should say this. I'm curious as to why Simon has the ability to Item Crash. It'd make sense that Richter is some sort of alternate Simon, although it'd make much more sense for them to have Richter as his own character and maybe Simon and Trevor as swaps, in my opinion.
If there are three more characters, then I'm banking on one of them being Medusa. I'm hoping that Succubus makes an appearance, as well, as I think that her flight could make things interesting.
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In Reply To #4
You can't have 1 Belmont in a castlevania fighting game, I'm surprised there is only two.
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Nathan better be in this, screw Carmilla.
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I just saw a video of the game play. I think its going in the right direction, though I don't think its very well done but hey, if other games get into this type of 3d battling, it'll be a good thing. Unless they all fail, and I don't get a job making video games, cuz this is one thing I'd like to do (3d multiplayer combat)
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In Reply To #9
If you want more clones then be my guest. :P
I'm looking through a fighting gamer's point of view, not a fanboy's.
Having over 50% of the cast being the same old Belmont with a whip would probably be the most stupid thing IGA can think of. There's a reason why he put in DIFFERENT characters. So far his choices has been rather good IMO.
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In Reply To #12
I am a hardcore fighting game fan. Characters can have the same/similar weapons and play very differently. You could even give one or two a morning star instead of a whip.
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In Reply To #13
Yes, true, they can do that. I don't mind having more Belmonts, it's just that out of 14 slots, having one even near similiar would be a waste. If 50% of the roster were all Belmonts, I'm sure that people would whine and complain about why IGA wasn't creative enough to use something very different.
If the roster was like 30, I would be happy if they had all Belmonts. 14 is too low when there's like over 50 possibilities of choices when it comes to characters. If all Belmonts were in a 14 slot roster, there most likely wouldn't be room for characters like Drac, Grant, Cornell, Maria, Eric, Death, Succubus, Joachim, Soma, Charlotte, Pumpkin, etc.
My point to everything is 14 and too many characters to choose from.
The main question is, would you sacrifice Dracula, Maria, Grant, Cornell, Carmilla for characters like Juste, Richter, Julius, Leon, etc?
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In Reply To #14
More than Carmilla, definitely yes.
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In Reply To #14
More than Carmilla, definitely yes.
Problem solved. :)
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given that there aren't 14 known belmonts, i wouldn't say that was as big an issue as you make it out to be.
3 left, i would probably guess richter, medusa, and leon. though i couldn't really say, i would have never guessed the star of a game that isn't even out yet would get a spot.
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In Reply To #2
And that kinda leads me to our wonderful sprite banner and why Victor's still there when he's as official as the nameless sprites from Bloodletting(Other "could haves"). Desmond, being as corny as he is, has more of a place up there than Victor.
Because I respect all characters from all CVs. The only reason Desmond and others are missing is because 1. I haven't gotten around to doing a 'good' version of his sprite for the banner, and 2. we're running out of room in the keep so an alternate location for the banner might be in order soon.
All those people in the throne room are going to create a Fire Hazard.
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What's Desmond Belmont?
& that's Victor up there? oO I was not aware of that. Garth? Were you aware of that?
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All those people in the throne room are going to create a Fire Hazard.
Oh my god, that's a sprite animations waiting to happen! LOL! I can just see Dracula appearing over the CV Dungeon logo, blazing the area and everybody making a mad panic for the stair case. Little Maria get's knocked down and trampled on. Someone saying, "Oh the humanity!". ;D
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14 characters is pretty disappointing.
I was hoping for around 20.
Maybe it's 14 to start off though and then some unlockables.
All I know is Soma better be in the game. >:(
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I'm disappointed that there are only fourteen characters so far. I just hope they add more. Of all the ones we named, they only used fourteen? :P
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hey stop crying. what if they only used 8? :o
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That would result in more crying and an even less chance of having buyers.
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In Reply To #23
If I was crying, I'd have used a :'( while talking.
Anyway, that would suck if there were onlt eight. Then, I'd have used a :'(.
I'm happy about Cornell, but how are they going to use Carmilla? All she can do is transform into a monster, so what kind of moves could they give her?
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In Reply To #25
Do you really think game makers are so incompetent that they cannot come up with a move set for a female vampire?
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In Reply To #26
No, but in the actual game, she didn't even fight in her human form. It would be awesome if they did something similar to Ivy from Soul Calibur! That would fit her perfectly.
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In Reply To #27
She's a female vampire, it's not hard. They could easily use some of her magic attacks in her smaller form.
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In Reply To #28
That's true. Maybe she has a super attack allowing her to transform!
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All those people in the throne room are going to create a Fire Hazard.
Don't you mean that all their weight might cause the thing to collapse? ;D
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well like i said i like to wait till the game is in my console to review it :p
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In Reply To #30
Then, after it collapses, you unlock the collapsing throne room level! It woould be just like in Castlevania 64 when you kill Dracula's servant, and the master's keep collapses! Then, if you don't make it to the place where you battle Malus in time, you fall and die! Then, Malus could appear out of random and shoot at you, until you're teleported to the place where you fight Dracula Ultimate! ;D
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that or the cod throne room which was in shambles, lol theres beena few broken throne rooms really
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i hope the 3 extra characters are richter, john morris, eric lecarde
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I want Leon Belmont too
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Maybe if were lucky, there will be Un-lockable Costumes or Characters, If there really is only going to be 3 more spots then I choose, Nathan graves, Walter (Or that other vampire), and Hector.
~Efrit
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If I had to choose three more characters to add, I would have to say Soma, Juste and Maxim. Soma would be an interesting character to use considering he has all the souls collected with the power of dominance. They would probably give him the red minotaur, flame demon, and demon lord souls. As for Juste, I choose him because he's my favorite Belmont, and his last character design looked terrible. Also, he would have a ton of different attacks to choose from with the spellbook combinations. They could be sub-weapons. I chose Maxim because he's quick and stealthy, so he would fit into the gameplay very well. I can easily imagine running around throwing giant shuriken at my opponents. They would all be excellent additions to the game. ;D
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Its been confirmed that there is only going to be 14 playable characters wich really sucks.
I hope that the other 3 characters in the game are Richter,Soma, and hector....well either hector or juste because juste would be really cool to with his spell books and stuff.
but the only way to make hector work is to either make it so he actually transforms into the devil forge characters or hector backs off and you dont fight him you just fight the characters he summons.
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I don't think IGA would ever leave Richter or Soma out of a Castlevania celebration.
SO to me there's only one unknown character.
Henry please :D
And yeah I to am afraid the Belmonts will play the same. I already see Simon using some of Trevor's CoD moves.
Other than that, I'm afraid this game won't be all that fun after you play a few rounds with it.
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Characters I'd like to see in Judgement:
Soma Cruz
Joachim Armster
Hector (or Issac)
Juste Belmont
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i'm gonna predict richter based on the fact that there's a trailer featuring the first 4 announced characters, and at the end, even though it shows simon, you can clearly hear dxc richters line "i'm a belmont, that's my job."
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In Reply To #41
That's just a place holder. In DXC's trailer Richter and Maria had their PoR voices.
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In Reply To #41
That's just a place holder. In DXC's trailer Richter and Maria had their PoR voices.
True, but the Simon shown in the trailers looks a lot like DXC's Richter.
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In Reply To #43
What? I don't see that at all.