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Title: EGM Castlevania 5 (SOTN) Preview
Post by: neobuldogg on January 16, 2008, 06:29:12 AM
I was looking through the magazine section, and came caross a castlevania 5 preview which stated that there would be 4 playable characters:

a whip weielding vampire hunter whos a belmont
alucard
a sword swing bounty hunter
a peasant girl

i was wondering if this was originally the premise of sotn, or whether this is speculation on egm's part.

here's a link to the article in question:

http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/Features/magscans/EGM89p44.jpg
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 Preview
Post by: Dark Nemesis on January 16, 2008, 06:33:39 AM
Can you post a link for this article or a scan of this preview? It sounds so fucking awesome and intresting!

Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 Preview
Post by: shelverton. on January 16, 2008, 07:05:21 AM

Maybe this has something to do with Castlevania: The Bloodletting (32X), the game that evetually became SotN. I don't see any other explanation.
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 Preview
Post by: elbryan42 on January 16, 2008, 07:12:08 AM
It's simple. EGM is full of misinformation. Always has, always will. The screens are definitely SOTN. They're speculating, with no actual proof. SOTN was never known as Castlevania 5, except for this article.

And they said that there was no Castlevanias since SCV4. They completely forgot about the outstanding Castlevania Bloodlines.

I know I sound harsh, but that article is terrible. Typical EGM.
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 Preview
Post by: PFG9000 on January 16, 2008, 08:28:03 AM
Wow.
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 Preview
Post by: shelverton. on January 16, 2008, 09:10:40 AM
I had my hopes up for an awesome new CV installment for a split second.

Hehe, yeah.. me too.
And like you said, Contra 4 has technically made Castlevania 5 possible. It's obviously very unlikely though.
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 Preview
Post by: elbryan42 on January 16, 2008, 01:38:13 PM
I don't mean to bitch and moan at the mods, but it might not be a bad idea to re-word this thread.

Done. Feel, free to bitch and moan anytime. ;)
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 (SOTN) Preview
Post by: Dark Nemesis on January 16, 2008, 03:01:55 PM
I haven't seen the scan, i just saw it and i was left with my self saying wtf? ???
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 (SOTN) Preview
Post by: CVfan13 on January 16, 2008, 07:18:08 PM
In Reply To #8

Agreed. Hey, speaking of numerical games, isnt Dracula X castlevania 10, because of the Roman numeral X for 10? That wouldn't make sense though...
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 (SOTN) Preview
Post by: Steve on January 16, 2008, 08:19:15 PM
In Reply To #9

Rondo actually was the tenth game in the series, but that's a coincidence.  The X in the title is just an X.
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 (SOTN) Preview
Post by: CVfan13 on January 16, 2008, 09:36:02 PM
In Reply To #10
 
Oh. I thought so. Then why did the throw an X in there? Oh well, X is just a cool number.
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 Preview
Post by: The Last Belmont on January 17, 2008, 03:13:20 AM
It's simple. EGM is full of misinformation. Always has, always will. The screens are definitely SOTN. They're speculating, with no actual proof. SOTN was never known as Castlevania 5, except for this article.

And they said that there was no Castlevanias since SCV4. They completely forgot about the outstanding Castlevania Bloodlines.

I know I sound harsh, but that article is terrible. Typical EGM.

They also didn't mention Drac X for SNES.
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 Preview
Post by: Azmodan on January 17, 2008, 03:17:18 AM
They also didn't mention Drac X for SNES.


Heh, you've skipped over the last sentence of the first paragraph. "Konami did release a Super NES that was regarded as inferior to the PC Engine title."
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 Preview
Post by: The Last Belmont on January 17, 2008, 03:20:29 AM

Heh, you've skipped over the last sentence of the first paragraph. "Konami did release a Super NES that was regarded as inferior to the PC Engine title."


My bad I kinda just skimmed it.
Title: Re: EGM Castlevania 5 (SOTN) Preview
Post by: SymboliC on January 20, 2008, 08:14:05 PM

Here's a pic of Alucard fighting OUTSIDE Royal Chapel for the beta SOTN.

http://worldbeyondwalls.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12&start=0

Nice view there, Platelord.