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Title: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Super Waffle on January 03, 2009, 08:08:46 AM
http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/Images/Scans/SotN/psmcoverbig.jpg

I never really understood this ad.


btw, looking kinda Chyna there, Maria.
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Xain on January 03, 2009, 09:04:36 AM
strange...never seen this before. Anyway, perhaps its meant to depict the end of the game with the destruction of the castle with maria safe in alucard's arms. problem is 1)Drac's castle never burns. 2)alucard doesn't leave with Maria at all. so the most you can say is that the poster is inacurate.

Unless you consider that the fire means that the castle is EVIL!!! .....still doesn't explain Maria and Al.

Lastly, where was this used as an ad?
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Long John Silver on January 03, 2009, 09:42:42 AM
plus it's richter that required saving in sotn, not maria. she was there to save him, not to be a damsel in distress like almost every other female character in cv. :o
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: thernz on January 03, 2009, 10:08:23 AM
It's because it's a PSM cover. Not really official. Better than the CoD ads though.
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Kale on January 03, 2009, 11:42:18 AM
In Reply To #1

I never knew it was an ad, I thought it was fan drawn. Definitely doesn't look all that great. Maria looks like a vamp.
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Super Waffle on January 03, 2009, 03:10:18 PM
plus it's richter that required saving in sotn, not maria. she was there to save him, not to be a damsel in distress like almost every other female character in cv. :o

You're forgetting about the recorded-but-unimplemented ending where Maria succumbs to being turned into a monster, and then Alucard is like "I AM BEOWULF, AND I'VE COME TO KILL YOUR MONSTER."
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: A n t r a x x on January 04, 2009, 01:29:45 AM
Wow, that is likely one of the sluttier pictures I've seen of Maria. Why is her black slip skirt riding all the way up her thighs so as to be nonexistent? Is she pulling it up for Al with the other hand?

And yeah, it's retarded that the castle is on fire.

...But that's a fucking cool pic of Alucard, for sure. He looks like a MAN in that pic  ;D ...Although he looks a little cross-eyed.

But We've seen this sort of composition before (Basically 80% of all 80's action flicks). Not very original at all.
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: le052383 on January 04, 2009, 08:07:07 AM
It's a cover for a game mag which isn't official.  With the exception of few, there are lots of magazines that uses fanart as a cover.

PSM is no exception.  It is like the SOTN cover for Gamefans where it was drawn by some guy the magazine commissioned.

I think whoever they got the person to draw the psm cover, hasn't played Castevania and just supplied him with art of the character, which why Maria is in Alucard's arm.
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Profbeanburrito on January 04, 2009, 10:42:05 AM
I sure we can all agree its a better representation of SotN than the Megaman 1 cover is of that
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: sonicabid on January 05, 2009, 02:11:48 AM
In Reply To #9

Those are crazy proportions. Look at those legs and tittayz! Goddamn!
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: The Last Belmont on January 05, 2009, 02:34:28 AM
In Reply To #9

Those are crazy proportions. Look at those legs and tittayz! Goddamn!

Yeah if that's what she really looked like, alucard would have been an idiot for not hittin' on her.
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Danial on January 05, 2009, 08:11:43 AM
It was done by Luis Royo.  He's a very good artist, mostly known for his work in Heavy Metal.

Besides the huge amounts of erotic art, I think his style actually fits well with CV.  I wouldn't mind seeing him do more for it.  Especially in the tone of the older games with a modernized look of the barbarian style.
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Super Waffle on January 06, 2009, 12:56:14 AM
Why is her black slip skirt riding all the way up her thighs so as to be nonexistent?

They're more like bike shorts.
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Omegasigma on January 06, 2009, 03:02:55 AM
i'm surprised that a belmont hasn;t simpley tried to torch the castle before, lol
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: paletteswapmonster on January 06, 2009, 12:26:54 PM
In Reply To #14

It's made of bricks.
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: gravekeeper on January 06, 2009, 03:12:13 PM
The anatomy is fucked up, Maria looks like a slut, Alucard look like he's glaring at his reflection in the sword and at the same time becomes cross-eyed so the castle might as well be on fire too - making the fail complete :D
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: The Last Belmont on January 07, 2009, 07:33:07 AM
The anatomy is fucked up, Maria looks like a slut,

so you sayin' any woman that looks good is a slut?  ;)
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: gravekeeper on January 07, 2009, 12:05:48 PM
so you sayin' any woman that looks good is a slut?
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: silvermoonlight on January 12, 2009, 10:40:24 AM
In Reply To #18

It reminds me of the cover of a romance novel.
A poorly done one.  :P
Title: Re: Why is Dracula's castle on fire?
Post by: Nazrath on January 12, 2009, 04:01:26 PM
Yeah if that's what she really looked like, Alucard would have been an idiot for not hittin' on her.

"One man's meat...", it seems...

This thread really bought back some memories...looking back, 'tis hard to believe that it took so long to find those glasses...