http://www.meristation.com/pc/noticias/mercury-steam-tiene-dos-proyectos-en-desarrollo/58/2009711 (http://www.meristation.com/pc/noticias/mercury-steam-tiene-dos-proyectos-en-desarrollo/58/2009711)
More disclosure:
-Mercury Steam will receive (if the proposals are accepted) a 466.018,02€ grant and a 4.194.162,18€ lease for Aleph, while for NAKED it will be a 362.658,22€ grant and a 3.263.923,98€ lease.
Looking up Aleph here is what wikipedia says:
The name aleph is derived from the West Semitic word for "ox", and the shape of the letter derives from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph that may have been based on a Egyptian hieroglyph which depicts an ox's head.[citation needed]
In Modern Standard Arabic, the word أليف /ʔaliːf/ literally means 'tamed' or 'familiar', derived from the root |ʔ-l-f|, from which the verb ألِف /ʔalifa/ means 'to be acquainted with; to be on intimate terms with'.[2] In modern Hebrew, the same root |ʔ-l-f| (alef-lamed-peh) gives me’ulaf, the passive participle of the verb le’alef, meaning 'trained' (when referring to pets) or 'tamed' (when referring to wild animals); the IDF rank of Aluf, taken from an Edomite title of nobility, is also cognate.[clarification needed]
You click on Edomite you get this:
Edom (/ˈiː.dʌm/;[1] Hebrew: אֱדוֹם, Modern Edom Tiberian ʼĔḏôm ; "red"; Assyrian: Udumi; Syriac: ܐܕܘܡ) or Idumea (Greek: Ἰδουμαία, Idoumaía; Latin: Idūmaea) was a Semite-inhabited historical region of the Southern Levant located south of Judea and the Dead Sea mostly in the Negev. It is mentioned in biblical records as a 1st millennium BC Iron Age kingdom of Edom,[2] and in classical antiquity the cognate name Idumea was used to refer to a smaller area in the same region. The name Edom means "red" in Hebrew, and was given to Esau, the elder son of the Hebrew patriarch Isaac, once he ate the "red pottage", which the Bible used in irony at the fact he was born "red all over".[3] The Torah, Tanakh and New Testament thus describe the Edomites as descendants of Esau.
Now, I searched "Edom Dracula" on google. Got this:
http://pelgranepress.com/site/?p=7141 (http://pelgranepress.com/site/?p=7141)
Four Generations of EDOM
For years, it has been a legend. Somewhere in the dusty archives of MI6 is the complete version of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula — the unredacted version. The full story revealed clear pointers to the sources and methods the Service used in Operation EDOM, an 1893 mission that sent a bold agent deep into the Balkans to awaken and then terminate a very dangerous asset indeed.
But the termination didn’t take. In 1940, desperate to stop Hitler’s march through Europe, the Service reactivated EDOM, and reanimated their Transylvanian asset. Once more, they found they had bitten off more than they could chew, and in the chaos of wartime Romania they put him to sleep. Or so they thought.
In 1977, MI6 discovered that they weren’t the only players in this game. Their asset had left his own sleepers behind in Moscow and Romania — and in London — and inside MI6. The Service had to reopen EDOM, awaken Dracula again, to find his agents in their own ranks — or so they said.
More Castlevania?
How can they even continue LOS when everybody has been killed except Dracula and Alucard? The only way it could be done is if it's a prequel.Or they retcon LoS2 entirely, who knows what they're going to do. It sounds like this is just a proposal at the moment, so Konami could turn them down.
How can they even continue LOS when everybody has been killed except Dracula and Alucard? The only way it could be done is if it's a prequel.
How can they even continue LOS when everybody has been killed except Dracula and Alucard? The only way it could be done is if it's a prequel.
Meh.
Let me know when IGA's kickstart begins.
Firstly, Kojima wasn't ever supervising anything on any of the LoS. They merely encouraged and lent technical support.- Exactly, I want him supervising EVERYTHING this time, as he's doing with Silent Hill. The funny thing is that Del Toro would fit Castlevania more than Silent Hills, but alas..
Secondly, thats reverse logic there. If the game flopped hard enough, they wouldn't be allowed to do another sequel, which is the opposite of Konami asking them to make up for it by making another sequel. They would be 'free' to pursue their dream game cause they'd likely not get another contract with Konami. LoS1's success may be still keeping them afloat here potentially, but we wont ever know.
You don't necessarily get the go ahead to do your dream project by pleasing a publisher. You usually do what the publisher wants you to do. Publishers want to do what will make the most money, which means follow on successful leads. LoS2 might not have failed to reach it's mark afterall, or LoS1's success made up for it a little, and they convinced Konami they'll do another like LoS1 again.
- I think LoS2 wasn't a financial flop, just a dissapointment, and a very dangerous one. The next Castlevania can't be anything short of AMAZING if they want the franchise to even exist.
Unless it goes mobile. Forget that.
Castlevania Xover
Unless it goes mobile. Forget that.
Nowhere does it say Konami's involved at all.Of course it doesn't say anything about Konami. MS is asking the government for funds, not Konami. Maybe the games will be pitched for Konami, they own the rights for Castlevania/Contra, after all.
And the linking of Aleph to Dracula via loose "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon" is laughable.
I'm thinking Konami has NOTHING to do with this(they aren't even intersting in CV right and are focusing on MGSV and Silent Hills), but MS still wants to do something "similar", so they might as well be doing a not-LoS. It will probably be like the LoS games, but without Castlevania themes, Dracula and other iconic things. It's their Mighty No. 9.
Of course it doesn't say anything about Konami. MS is asking the government for funds, not Konami. Maybe the games will be pitched for Konami, they own the rights for Castlevania/Contra, after all.