Topic: Reinhardt Schneider opinion

[Battler Ushiromiya]

In Reply To #15

Except Nathan and Hugh don't wield the VK.

Also, CV64 might not have been the best Castlevania around, but CV:LoD was made of Epic, Awesome, and Instawin.

[Malus]

Dio Brando made a good point. CV 64 has gotten a bum rap, but Legacy is an improvment. Even though Lament of Innocence is a medicore/decent game at best, its follow-up curse of darkness if anything is 2 steps back.

[A n t r a x x]

Reinhardt's pretty cool. Dig the hair and armor and all.  But like most Belmonts, he lacks personality. 

Read: he's kinda boring.

Good character design from the looks standpoint tho.

I like him better than Cornell, but less than Carrie and Henry.

[Malus]

In Reply To #19

Yes I dig the hair too! Henry has even less personality though than Reinhardt. However I agree with you that Carrie looks better than Reinhardt and has more personality. For many playthroughs I never used Carrie, but eventually I started to and I realized I had been missing out. She controls better than Reinhardt, she's faster and her orb attack is more fun.

She is one of the coolest castlevania main characters to date.

The problem with Reinhardt is that he's too much of a "holy" man. He's not dark enough, their should be a bit more texture their, or at least their could have been. More character development. But bringing polygons to life is no easy task and few development teams manage to pull it off.

IMO life after the 64 vania's in the CV series has been rather bleak.

I've moved on to other "relationships". ie, Devil May Cry that are dark and gothic while being "successful" in providing 3D awesomeness.

I think very little of IGA and his current castlevania work after CV: Symphony,

people were just fooling ourselves if we can't admit its mostly gone downhill.

[A n t r a x x]

In Reply To #19


She is one of the coolest castlevania main characters to date.

She really is.  I like how her future mother side shows up when talking to Malus and the like.  She's a kid but conversing ahead of her years.

The problem with Reinhardt is that he's too much of a "holy" man. He's not dark enough, their should be a bit more texture their, or at least their could have been. More character development.

Well, Henry had a noble cause too, but he dished out justice with a revolver AND a suit of mideval armor.  What more amount of "win" do you need?   

IMO life after the 64 vania's in the CV series has been rather bleak...

...people were just fooling ourselves if we can't admit its mostly gone downhill.

Well for one, that team, Kobe, is defunct.  For another, you'd have to be more clear if you're comparing this 3D game to the 2D ones (which is not advised, as their goals are so different), or whether to the 3D PS2 ones.

Cv64 had some great atmosphere and drama, but it lacks a lot of technical finesse, which the PS2 Cvs pull off a lot better.  I'd say the PS2 Cvs are a lot easier to pick up and play (in fact they have superb controls), but lack the level-design and thus intrigue to keep people playing.

That said, like most who have played both 3D eras of Cv, I think mixing the concepts and execution from both will yield the best end result.  We will find out with this new NEXT-GEN game on the horizon, whether Konami has realized the same.

On thing that can be said, they all have awesome, moody music

[Malus]

In Reply To #21

I could quote you but you know what you wrote, and it just fills up the "wall" too quick... If I have a huge wall of words no one in their right mind will read it.

I'd have to say of all the posts and comments I've read that Antraxx is the smartest and has the best taste of anyone of us on here. Plus a really, really cool avatar. Love the girl with the blinking eyes, nice!

Sure mix the PS2 vania's with the 64 vania's for win. But its really not that simple in execution. Outsource maybe? Nothing is perfect in this life, but thank god at least the music in the series is still great! Look I try to be optimistic, but it all boils down to talent, and I just don't feel that these guys CAN make an awesome castlevania in 3D.

I like the 64 vania's because they have a "Silent Hill" charm to them. They have good art direction/style/soul. And I do agree that their not as user friendly as the PS2 games which have better pick up and play accesibility, but IMO no style other than yawn, and zero soul.

The PS2 games should look 3 times better than the 64 games, but because the art style and level design is poor, they don't. IMO they have a plastic look to them, the characters look plastic, too soft. The stages look plastic, too soft.

But for whatever reason their medocrity is excepted and they get a "soft landing" while the 64 games with soul/style were "crucified".

in short, there is no justice.