Topic: will a new Castlevania be announced this year? more CVs?

[Kamirine]

In Reply To #15

I really have to agree with answer number #4. I tend to agree with that one the most. 

[Ahasverus]

Konami said 3 days ago that its conference will be very very juicy, with many games and announcements for all platafforms; it will be one of the longest conferences of the E3.
Let's wait 

[Saner]

In Reply To #18

yeah well that's good. at least Konami holds Castlevania close to its heart unlike the Nintendo's pathetic relationship with Star Fox.  all they think about is wii fit, mario, zelda, metroid, and more wii fit.

[Saner]

In Reply To #20

it's so easy to make it sound like something is less and more cliched than other things. 

You are just as biased as I am.   

and Alucard is overrated, just cause he's Dracula's offspring doesn't make his story any less cliche than anyone else's story.   the whole offspring killing their parent has been done more times than an orphan raised to become the weapon that defeats Dracula without depending on the vampire killer.

also when did Trevor lose an eye?  if you talk about Castlevania Judgement, I don't count that game.  that's totally filler and sloppy fanservice.

[Algernon]

1.The Glyph system is basically a rehash of all of the other GBAs' and DS' combination combat systems.

2.Original costume? Are you fucking serious? This is one of your defensive arguments? Every character has an "original" costume.

3.Oh please. The "apparent good guy turning out to be the bad guy and vice versa" scenario is nothing original. It's a cliche'.

4.No, the plot twist was not good. As I already stated. It was a cliche'.

5.A drawback to using a certain weapon. Hmmm...sounds familiar. Where did I see this before? Maybe in the previous game, PoR? Morris' and the Vampire Killer ring a bell?

6.So? It's original because the character is a different sex? That's ridiculous. Especially, when she is a rehash of a previous character.

7.The main protagonist of a video game having to save a village!? How original!!!

8.A clan raising and training one of their own to destroy Dracula? Cough*TheBelmonts*Cough

9.Leon was forced to kill his wife, Trevor lost an eye and was stabbed in the heart from behind, Simon was cursed and forced to resurrect and battle Dracula a second time, Richter was put under a spell, destroying the Belmont name and the ability to wield the Vampire Killer for hundreds of years, Alucard had to slay his own father, etc. I see nothing special about Shanoa's sacrifice compared to all the others.

10.Alucard would break Shanoa into pieces.

If you'd like, we can pick through every Castlevania game in the series and find an abundance of overused cliches. Ecclesia is no more guilty of this than SotN.

However, I do think that Shanoa is one of the better Castlevania characters. At least relative the stars of the other DS entries. I do really like her outfit; it looks good. The long, flowing hair is a nice touch. She's sexy without looking completely slutty like most Japanese game characters; I appreciate that. I can take her seriously as a dangerous woman but still enjoy looking at her. I think the artist did a great job on the visuals of the character.

In personality, all right, she's a little cliche (omg wut happen 2 my emotions!!!!!11) but at least she's a huge step up from the pathetic PorK personalities, and she's way more badass than Soma. Who was a major douche.

But I do have to agree that Alucard could rip Shanoa to shreds.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

He doesn't lose the eye, he clearly has a working eye/vision back in Curse of Darkness.  It's just temporarily disabled because of the giant healing scar around it.

And since Judgment Trevor is in between CV3 and CoD, it makes sense that the patch is there healing it.

And as of all your points guys, you're really overanalyzing.  Still, it's a nice debate.  Carry on.

[Reinhart77]

Shanoa is unique in that she lost her emotions relatively recently.  There's a lot of characters who simply aren't very emotional to begin with, or lost their emotions years ago due to some kind of childhood traumatic experience, but Shanoa's experience is more sad since it "just happenned now".

[Saner]

hey check this out.  imagine a new CV with these kinda smooth animations!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GumIlPK5hLM

[darkwzrd4]

hey check this out.

[Lumas]

In Reply To #25

That looks badass, I wish they would do a CV game to the quality.

[Lumas]

1.The Glyph system is basically a rehash of all of the other GBAs' and DS' combination combat systems.

2.Original costume? Are you fucking serious? This is one of your defensive arguments? Every character has an "original" costume.

3.Oh please. The "apparent good guy turning out to be the bad guy and vice versa" scenario is nothing original. It's a cliche'.

4.No, the plot twist was not good. As I already stated. It was a cliche'.

5.A drawback to using a certain weapon. Hmmm...sounds familiar. Where did I see this before? Maybe in the previous game, PoR? Morris' and the Vampire Killer ring a bell?

6.So? It's original because the character is a different sex? That's ridiculous. Especially, when she is a rehash of a previous character.

7.The main protagonist of a video game having to save a village!? How original!!!

8.A clan raising and training one of their own to destroy Dracula? Cough*TheBelmonts*Cough

9.Leon was forced to kill his wife, Trevor lost an eye and was stabbed in the heart from behind, Simon was cursed and forced to resurrect and battle Dracula a second time, Richter was put under a spell, destroying the Belmont name and the ability to wield the Vampire Killer for hundreds of years, Alucard had to slay his own father, etc. I see nothing special about Shanoa's sacrifice compared to all the others.

10.Alucard would break Shanoa into pieces.

I agree with all but 10

My reason is this. She would approach Alucard and he would pull the same "I have a cursed bloodline" and all that jazz. She would feel overwhelmingly attracted to him thus he would bang her....ever so sweetly. Then when he left he would say that he would call her sometime. But that call will never come for poor Shanoa.

Thus he would only break her heart into pieces not her.