Topic: Harmony of Despair (The next Castlevania game?)

[Reinhart77]

Holy S*.  At first, I thought the art was a fan mockup of the title.  But that's real?  Seems to be rather Judgment-esque with all the out of period characters.  I haven't seen any web sites for this yet, better start digging.  Funny how all three non-whip wielding Metroidvania protagonists are shown together in the artwork together (which is awesome, btw).  What ever did happen to the Belmonts?  Ah well, guess we can play LoS for that.

UPDATE:  Here's a second hand article about the Never Know Tech one.  There's a link on there that demands you register before viewing the actual source material.  I can't say I trust Never Know enough to comply with their demands.  This article says that you can also play as Jonathan, Charlotte.  So it includes all the non-Belmont Metroidvania leads.  If they don't include Juste, that would be super ironic given the title name.  If it's 6 player co-op, Juste has to be the other guy, right??  So is this a $10 download minigame essentially?  If it's not for PSN, I'll despair...  

http://www.destructoid.com/rumor-8-player-castlevania-harmony-of-despair-revealed-172497.phtml

[Little Dracula]

SD in-game graphics with HD background, way to go Konami!. Let's hope is not true.

[angevil]

I don`t like the idea..I would love a single player 2D game..



Don`t despair yet, I seriously hope this is fake!

[Reinhart77]

I think fans have often requested a co-op game, this might be an answer to that request.  Of course, not all fans want such a thing.  I certainly hope I could be able to play this by myself in some fashion.  If this is just a $10 side-project, just let it be what it is and I'm sure they'll get around to making a full game when the time is right.  If its "too" big a thing, it risks overshadowing Lords of Shadow.

This falls in line with what Nagumo was talking about earlier, so I'm going to guess its legit.  Man, I love this time when you don't have much to go on but a few pics and some speculation.  I wonder what arsenal each character would use.  Certainly not the entire arsenal from their games...  Wonder if they just give all characters a standard set of weapons, and that's that, or if you can earn new ones throughout the game somehow.

[Nagumo]

...and what about the story? If there is any?

[crisis]

Probably not fake. the artwork looks legit.

But why would they add "press start button" on the logo? Unless that's how the title screen will look like.

[Darth Cariss]

Anyone have any links that work? I missed whatever it was that people saw.

[Ahasverus]

What the F**K?! That looks like a fan-game! Oh God IGA, you don't fail to dissapoint me, the copy-paste is outrageous now. I mean, how can't you see? That's a dumbed down version of a DOS room... please LOS, com nearer, please, I want the world to respect my fav saga again 

[corneliab]

Oh man.

If this is legit, it looks gimmicky and awful.

Oh well, at least there's still Lords of Shadow.

[RichterB]

If this is all legit, this is pretty bad. Doesn't seem anywhere near the care and effort put into 'The Adventure Rebirth.'

[DragonSlayr81]

Did anybody save the artwork? Both links are now dead.

[Ahasverus]

 
The screens are (hopefully) fake, but the artwork is too good to be fan's. I think It's Ayami again 

[crisis]

Yeah, looks like Ayami's design. I just hope this game will be true HD 2D instead of that shitty screenshot.

[uzo]

There is absolutely no way this is legit. The art is nice, but that screen shot is beyond ridiculous.

[Ahasverus]

But that screen shot is beyond ridiculous.

I just don't think he could go this far, but, Iga, he could make anything now.