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Title: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: KaZudra on January 15, 2017, 05:50:27 AM
http://www.siliconera.com/2017/01/14/eternal-covenant-brings-co-op-castlevania-inspired-action/ (http://www.siliconera.com/2017/01/14/eternal-covenant-brings-co-op-castlevania-inspired-action/)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=835134353 (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=835134353)
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: VladCT on January 15, 2017, 06:24:24 AM
Well, here's hoping that it's balanced better than Castlevania: Soma & Friends.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: zangetsu468 on January 15, 2017, 08:07:30 AM
HOD x Dragon's Crown in both graphics and art style.

It looks cool, but there's a certain sterility and coldness about it.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Super Waffle on January 15, 2017, 12:57:31 PM
Build a new multiplayer castle crawler based on HoD from the ground up.

Still use tiny-ass ant people sprites with DS resolution.


(and hey, the blue fire girl kind of has Charlotte's design from that think I just posted)
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Reinhart77 on January 15, 2017, 01:04:04 PM
that was nice
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: DoctaMario on January 15, 2017, 08:45:37 PM
That game looks pretty cool, hopefully it doesn't control as sluggishly as HoD does.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Eric Roman on January 16, 2017, 11:44:11 AM
I don't think I like this kind of game.  :\

o_o Charlotte?!
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: shelverton. on January 16, 2017, 02:29:01 PM
Wow, what a rip-off.
I am happy for the people who actually enjoyed HoD though. This must be right up their alley.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: zangetsu468 on January 16, 2017, 05:33:17 PM

o_o Charlotte?!

Stacked Charlotte
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: X on January 16, 2017, 05:40:54 PM
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Wow, what a rip-off.

Who knows? The rip-off might be better  ;D
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: EstebanT on January 17, 2017, 09:21:11 AM
The game does cross the line between Castlevania inspired and chinese knockoff. Also that middle of 2017 release date bothers me a bit... Can they even show they have more than one stage finished?
The fact that there's already a "shopping" section in the main menu is worrisome.
Can we see the rest of the characters?
I can't even find anything out about its developers. They don't even seem to have a website.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Eric Roman on January 17, 2017, 03:14:08 PM
Stacked Charlotte

"I ain't even mad!"
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Gunlord on January 17, 2017, 03:44:10 PM
I greenlit this on steam, but mainly for the ample breasts of the protagonist than anything else. This one doesn't seem to be a particularly inspired spin on the "Metroidvania" formula, but a new one is always welcome XD
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on January 17, 2017, 04:13:02 PM
I greenlit this on steam, but mainly for the ample breasts of the protagonist than anything else. This one doesn't seem to be a particularly inspired spin on the "Metroidvania" formula, but a new one is always welcome XD

I greenlit it for the Castle Editor, which I always thought Harmony of Despair should have had.
Also because boobs.
The fact that the developer responded within 24 hours to my critique of the miniscule sprites is encouraging though, even if it was something of a canned response that I hear from a lot of developers, but that also includes developers like Square-Enix and Capcom, so that by itself doesn't entirely worry me.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: uzo on January 17, 2017, 04:19:49 PM
Build a new multiplayer castle crawler based on HoD from the ground up.

Still use tiny-ass ant people sprites with DS resolution.


(and hey, the blue fire girl kind of has Charlotte's design from that think I just posted)

To be fair, these guys probably have little more than a fraction of HoD's budget. Their art direction is really lackluster and slapped together as is. If it is any good I'd at least give it a try, but I won't pretend to have liked HoD now or ever.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: SecretWeapon on January 18, 2017, 05:08:29 AM
It looks more like Angela than Charlotte tbh
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on January 19, 2017, 11:01:44 AM
Oh hey, the developers left a note when I asked about the avatar size.

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Based on our technic, scale a charactor is not difficult since we have big source and we can scale it at any time with GPU. For the video it looks small because we recorded it in a small zooming, and it has bigger zoom you can set in-game. And the screenshots are captured by 1920x1080 screen size, it is scaled to fit the steam page with a small size, you can scale the last screenshot to 1920x1080 to see the actual graphics.

However, we will tweak the ratio of charactor to scene for more times to get the best feeling.

More picture will be posted for coming contents, keep following us and tell what you think. And we are glad to get help from you. Thanks for open the discussion.

As a side note, their English is actually pretty decent considering they probably don't speak it normally.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: KaZudra on January 20, 2017, 04:01:22 AM
Still interested, The Castlevania itch is getting strong and Shantae didn't scratch it.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Super Waffle on January 20, 2017, 05:51:37 PM
Yeah, Shantae. Remember all of those classic Castlevania-like moments where she morphs into an elephant and has wiggly hips in her crouching animation?
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: KaZudra on January 20, 2017, 07:08:53 PM
Yeah, Shantae. Remember all of those classic Castlevania-like moments where she morphs into an elephant and has wiggly hips in her crouching animation?
Yeah, but Pirate's Curse felt like Metroidvania was doing something new, but 1/2 genie hero is more Megaman than anything else :/
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: MooMilk on January 28, 2017, 05:50:33 AM
This sure looks good. I loved HOD.
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: affinity on February 04, 2017, 04:32:38 PM
raising ripoff flags is really silly considering a large part of the industry copy each other, even to a closer degree than mainstreamers admit.

also copying has led to greater things.   you know Windows wouldn't even exist if its founder didn't steal/copy code from Xerox.    and while Windows has its issues, it really improved a lot of lives and is still the standard OS that a lot still use. 

Mortal Kombat is a Street Fighter ripoff.  even though it does some things differently, it still basically carbon copies SFII's fighting game fundamentals of structure.
Street Fighter is a ripoff of multiple concepts and character designs, including Yie Ar Kung Fu, Fist of the North Star, Mike Tyson, and more.

Nintendo's western SMB2 is a direct ripoff of Doki Doki Panic, and fans to this day benefit from the reinventions and new designs that came out of it, aside from the obvious copy pasting.

Castlevania SOTN can be said to be a Super Metroid ripoff of its genre.

Overwatch is a Team Fortress ripoff.

Rosenkreuzstillette is a MM ripoff, and actually made better games and characters than the MM series.

I dunno about "Castlevania HD" successor though.  Castlevania has 6 players online co op, a vast selection of playable characters,   how much stages/chapters does that hunter game have?  The character designs look cool.   

Well it does deserve support, you don't see Konami caring about Castlevania.   at least some developer is something cool for gothic hunter fans
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Inccubus on February 05, 2017, 01:12:57 AM
Dem titties, tho! LOL
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on February 05, 2017, 01:44:15 AM
Well, it's been greenlit successfully, so I guess this is happening guys!
Title: Re: So, Harmony of Despair got a Successor.
Post by: zangetsu468 on February 05, 2017, 07:22:11 AM
Dem titties, tho! LOL

Blue tits or Red tits???

Perhaps left hand red, right hand blue...
#Titster