Topic: Thoughts on a NES Castlevania remastered collection

[thernz]

Heh, I wonder if DXC's designs for Maria and Annette are inspired more by DXX's art than Rondo's. In any case, it would've been the greatest if Dracula's art was actually carried on to the sprite.

so bad ass...

[Successor The Cruel]

Annette definitely looks to be much closer to her DXX counterpart. Maria seems to be pretty far removed from either, but I guess closer to Rondo.

[Sumac]

anime worked in RoB, but I still prefer the Snes Artwork.

I think anime worked for ROB because it was different style of animation, more old school and realistic, rather than bright and stylized one like in DOS and POR.

[Abnormal Freak]

Heh, I wonder if DXC's designs for Maria and Annette are inspired more by DXX's art than Rondo's. In any case, it would've been the greatest if Dracula's art was actually carried on to the sprite.

so bad ass...

There totally needs to be a 2D hand-drawn game based on this guy's art and this particular style he used. He ought to do new designs for a new game in the same style. It would blow my mind. :o Seeing that kind of great art and Jack Kirby-esque shading in a video game would be amazing.

If the animators of Redline could make it work, so too can...somebody else. :o Or maybe just hire Madhouse to do all the art and animation in-game—again, based on Akihiro Yamada's artwork and designs. Make it HD. Make it full-fledged. Make it Japanese. Bring in some solid sound director(s). Amaaaaaazing.

But something this awesome will never happen in Castlevania, sadly. Not with how the series has been going for the past decade and continues to decline.

REDLINE trailer - Special VERSION