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

[corneliab]

Who else smells a Symphony of the Night megastage coming soon?

Haven't a few of those already happened?

[Ahasverus]

Yeah, like three or something, but it will be nice to have the whole castle (minus dispendable rooms of course)

[thernz]

I doubt that'd happen, even though SoTN does have a superb castle. Too extremely huge, despite how well-designed and concise it actually is!

[crisis]

I'm doing one of my yearly playthrus of SotN right now, and I love how I notice something different in each playthru.

It really is a great castle, thernz-sama. It really is.

[Ahasverus]

Yeah, that castle and harmony's actually make sense (HoD (the real) wasn't the bets game, but it's castle is one of my favourites)

[Dremn]

Where do you see these new sprites? ::looks around::

There's a video of Simon floating around.

Here.

Castlevania Harmony of Despair - Simon Belmont - Gameplay

Also Chapter 10

Castlevania Harmony of Despair: Chapter 10 Hard , A first look

[Belmondo]

The Simon sprite kind of leaves me lukewarm. I wish they had used his SCIV one.

The stage looks awesome though! Do people actually play the DLC levels? I haven't bought any, and don't want to shell out if people aren't really playing them.

[Oralox]

Yes! people and myself play these dlc levels.
This one is the hardest yet.
I haven't beaten drac yet tho.

[Foffy]

Wow...did they reuse Simon's artwork from Chronicles on his character page? Considering he has new artwork on the soundtrack cover, that's baffling.

[Dremn]

Wow...did they reuse Simon's artwork from Chronicles on his character page? Considering he has new artwork on the soundtrack cover, that's baffling.

Yea, I'm really disappointed about it. I was really hoping Kojima was going to use Simon's original/Super Castlevania IV design like she did with Richter using his original Rondo of Blood design.

Red head Simon just isn't Simon to me, never will be.

[Flame]

I dont mind redhead Simon, but Its just odd that they go to such lengths as make him new sprites (and use his ORIGINAL design) and yet use a completely different design for his art.

They should have a chronicles Simon with chronicles art if anything. And keep him with CV1 art.

[thernz]

Wow...did they reuse Simon's artwork from Chronicles on his character page? Considering he has new artwork on the soundtrack cover, that's baffling.

I think it's the same artwork on the cover too. Also, I guess this was out of laziness. You know, being Hodespair lol. The new sprites shouldn't have been that much of a hassle to make in any case.

[Ahasverus]

My God they made like 9 new 8-bit sprites! The awesomness! :rolleyes:
Anyway, yeah, it looks fun, but the artwork-sprite conflict really bothers me, why not having both? the chronicles and the original sprite for choice?

[Chernabogue]

The only thing I can complain about is that enemies are soooooo small compared to some of the huge monsters from previous chapters.

[thernz]

Yeah, it's kinda awkward because of size. The level design is especially made more cramped and awkward, in regard to character abilities, but I think it still has more texture than the other Hodespair levels. I think it's an okay trade-off.