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Title: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: The_Bizarre_Tr00per on August 18, 2017, 05:12:19 PM
This has been an idea that was roaming my brain for quite a while: What if Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting?

Here's how i thing it would be: Doctor Mathias Akula Cronqvist was once a human who was a genius in Bio-engineering who modified his own DNA strains to, in his own twisted mind `evolve`, into something far greater, thus becoming: Dracula!

Simon Belmont would technically be Master Chief wielding a Plasma Whip.

Death, well, he would be still Dr. Akula's eternal buddy (Untill the Demon Castle War of 1999), but he would more be Drakula's first Bio-engineered patient that went horribly wrong, he then ressurected him and gave him Psychokinetic abilities, thus making D34TH the `technically-living` walking/floating corpse he is.

The bosses of Castlevania 1? Dr. Akula's bio-engineered patients that have been heavily modified to the genetic level.

But that's my take for a Sci-Fi Castlevania, i'm more intrested in what would be your take for a Sci-Fi Castlevania be. =)
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: theplottwist on August 18, 2017, 06:04:48 PM
Wrote about this way back, but was with spaceships instead (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=7539.msg168467#msg168467). It was a cringe moment in my life that I'm not really ashamed of :P
 
(http://i.imgur.com/nTSaQDN.png)
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on August 19, 2017, 01:33:17 AM
I'm sure Waffle can create a fanfic for this topic.

Wasn't Getsu Fuuma Den a futuristic Castlevania?
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: theplottwist on August 19, 2017, 03:22:47 AM
Quote from: Shiroi Koumori on August 19, 2017, 01:33:17 AM
Wasn't Getsu Fuuma Den a futuristic Castlevania?

Kinda.

The game does take place far into the future (14,672) and there are hints to a Fuuma-Castlevania connection first established on that game, then repeated on Harmony of Despair.

But the game itself lacks any kind of Sci-fi tones.
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: theANdROId on August 19, 2017, 07:18:02 AM
Would the bestiary be as great?  It seems like there is much more to choose from when you tap into the annals of fantasy/mythology as opposed to sci-fi, but maybe I'm just not as familiar with that genre.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting the idea isn't cool -- this was just my first thought.
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: zangetsu468 on August 21, 2017, 12:18:43 AM
The best things about zeroG = 8 directional whipping, and holy water keeps burning for a long time
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: KaZudra on August 21, 2017, 02:22:39 AM
It can work, But it needs more cyberpunk for glorious aesthetics.
Otherwise, the story could be X-kalibur 2097 but with a whip instead, it's not much.. but a start.
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: X on August 21, 2017, 10:01:08 AM
Castlevania did get kinda sci-fi in AoS. Specifically with Soma's Positron rifle.
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: AdrianTepes on September 01, 2017, 05:36:07 PM
Ignoring the obvious fact that is an Alternate Universe
(click to show/hide)
and in my opinion they kinda took the spotlight from the magic and fantasy elements, something important in a Castlevania title to me.
I personally like the Sci-Fi elements, but restricted to sections like Frankenstein's laboratories, in the same way Clock Punk is usually rectricted to the Castle's Clocktower, allowing the game to have more variety.
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: Corpsecrank on September 24, 2017, 01:23:44 PM
I feel like it would just be metroid with a plasma whip replacing the arm cannon.
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: chainsawmidget on September 25, 2017, 02:25:29 AM
This is actually a marvel villain named Whiplash, but it's not a bad idea for what a future Belmont could look like.

(https://i.imgur.com/Lre8q04.png)
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: The_Bizarre_Tr00per on September 29, 2017, 11:08:59 AM
Quote from: chainsawmidget on September 25, 2017, 02:25:29 AM
This is actually a marvel villain named Whiplash, but it's not a bad idea for what a future Belmont could look like.

(https://i.imgur.com/Lre8q04.png)

This picture already look like it could be Trevor Belmont ready to use those plasma whips on Drakula's genetics  abominations =D
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: theANdROId on September 29, 2017, 04:44:07 PM
The longer this discussion continues, the more I wish I could play such a game! ;-P
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: The_Bizarre_Tr00per on September 29, 2017, 05:30:53 PM
Here's an idea on what D34TH would look like in this Sci-Fi Castlevania.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ea/ab/5a/eaab5a4eaf1d239919ab965504e071a9.jpg
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: Zydalc on November 02, 2017, 07:31:27 PM
Vampire Hunter D?
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: The_Bizarre_Tr00per on November 04, 2017, 11:10:09 PM
Quote from: Zydalc on November 02, 2017, 07:31:27 PM
Vampire Hunter D?

Oh yeah, i almost forgot that Vampire Hunter D was set in the future XD
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: K.G. Morder on November 09, 2017, 07:52:05 AM
Quote from: AdrianTepes on September 01, 2017, 05:36:07 PM
Ignoring the obvious fact that is an Alternate Universe
(click to show/hide)
and in my opinion they kinda took the spotlight from the magic and fantasy elements, something important in a Castlevania title to me.
I personally like the Sci-Fi elements, but restricted to sections like Frankenstein's laboratories, in the same way Clock Punk is usually rectricted to the Castle's Clocktower, allowing the game to have more variety.
Now that you mention it, LoS did have a fair amount of sci fi to it. I liked that they went with this sort of demonic sci-fi route, bio engineered virus that turned people into demons and shit, though it's just too bad that it was all sort of half baked.

if Castlevania was scifi, I'd say take a look at Doom for another example of sci-fi with demons and shit.
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: VladOfWallachia on November 10, 2017, 10:59:21 AM
I never got around to playing Lords of Shadow 2, one of the reasons being that when I first saw the trailer, I really disliked all of the sci-fi elements I was seeing. I was expecting the traditional haunting atmosphere of the Castlevania games, and instead I was watching footage of some futuristic lab and killer robots.

The atmosphere and setting of the Castlevania games has always been a fundamental part of the experience for me, so I would't want to see it switch over to sci-fi.
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: BLOOD MONKEY on November 10, 2017, 11:25:39 AM
Quote from: Zydalc on November 02, 2017, 07:31:27 PM
Vampire Hunter D?

I mean, yeah.
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: Guy Belmont on November 11, 2017, 03:26:18 PM
Quote from: theplottwist on August 18, 2017, 06:04:48 PM
Wrote about this way back, but was with spaceships instead (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=7539.msg168467#msg168467). It was a cringe moment in my life that I'm not really ashamed of :P
 
(http://i.imgur.com/nTSaQDN.png)

I think this is F**** Cool
Title: Re: If Castlevania had a Sci-Fi setting instead of it's usual Fantasy setting?
Post by: The_Bizarre_Tr00per on November 22, 2017, 06:17:25 AM
Quote from: Guy Belmont on November 11, 2017, 03:26:18 PM
I think this is F**** Cool

Same  8)