Topic: IGA --Le Requiem?

[C Belmont]

I don't get it? What more closure could another Iga game possibly bring? Don’t we already know that Dracula loses in the end & that the Belmont line may even finish with Julius as well since he failed to produce an heir? For me Iga's last real game (OOE) felt less connected to Castlevania's mythology than most other Castlevania games usually are - it's almost like a filler episode.

[GummiCandyful]

I picked the third option, but all jokes aside, he should probably give his timeline closure with the 1999 game if he leaves. If he does a good job, great. If not, oh well, then. And after that, they could have some other Japanese developer handle the rest of the series, and Cox continue the LoS story on the main consoles.

[Nagumo]

I don't get it? What more closure could another Iga game possibly bring? Don’t we already know that Dracula loses in the end & that the Belmont line may even finish with Julius as well since he failed to produce an heir? For me Iga's last real game (OOE) felt less connected to Castlevania's mythology than most other Castlevania games usually are - it's almost like a filler episode.

Most Castlevania games are fillers, but OoE wasn't as pointless storywise as PoR or something because it at least explained what happend to the Belmont family.

   

[X]

OoE didn't really explain anything regarding the dissapearence of the main Belmont family line. It just said that they dissapeared. That's it. No real explination. I've played throught the game more then twice and read the story over and over again and still it was all very grey and hazy. That's why we need the 1999 game. It will clear things up if not screw things up even more (story wise).

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[Nagumo]

OoE didn't really explain anything regarding the dissapearence of the main Belmont family line. It just said that they dissapeared. 

You must have skipped the part where it is revealed they have become villagers with amnesia. 

[Alutwon]

The whole "Belmont's can't use the whip because Richter was corrupted" thing is just dumb. Soliyeu was corrupted in the same way and they had no problems then. I honestly don't care about the stories anymore in Iga's games. I just with he'd stop trying to connect everything and give us more Belmont doing his thing.

[whitedragon_nall]

It's been forever since I played that game, but if I remember correctly, Soleiyu didn't use the Vampire Killer to commit his evil acts. If he did, then what did Chris use to stop him.

[darkwzrd4]

The whole "Belmont's can't use the whip because Richter was corrupted" thing is just dumb. Soliyeu was corrupted in the same way and they had no problems then. I honestly don't care about the stories anymore in Iga's games. I just with he'd stop trying to connect everything and give us more Belmont doing his thing.

It's been forever since I played that game, but if I remember correctly, Soleiyu didn't use the Vampire Killer to commit his evil acts. If he did, then what did Chris use to stop him.

Both of these statements have a point.  Richter wasn't the first Belmont to be corrupted, but he was the only one who wielded the vampire killer while being corrupted.  Soleiyu hadn't yet received the title of vampire hunter and thus, he didn't have the whip yet.
The real heart of the controversy is that all of a sudden the Belmonts have disappeared and we are told that they can't touch the whip until 1999 without a legitimate and detailed explanation.  Supposedly, the Alucardvania, which may or may not be made, was going to explain it.  This is why I think Iga should stay for a while and give some closure through the Alucardvania and 1999 game.

[e105beta]

I'm pretty sure Richter corrupted the whip so that IGA wasn't expected to make games with Belmonts anymore.

[le052383]

Most Castlevania games are fillers, but OoE wasn't as pointless storywise as PoR or something because it at least explained what happend to the Belmont family.

   

With the exception of the cornball twist that the villain is the guy you work for (the game is old, so if it is a spoiler then ) I thought Ooe had the best storyline other than SOTN.

I can see this title being redone in the LOS universe with the order and all.

[le052383]

I'm pretty sure Richter corrupted the whip so that IGA wasn't expected to make games with Belmonts anymore.

I thought he did that in trying to explain why John Morris ended up with the whip.  I would expect ppl blaming IGA for his decision in doing so, but it isn't his fault since the Bloodline storyline was the game that tried to fit the Stroker's novel into the CV continuity.  He gotten enough flack for putting the gaiden CV games into an alternate timeline.  

I honestly think he shouldn't have publicly released a timeline since the CV community can be quite vicious.

[whitedragon_nall]

I honestly think he shouldn't have publicly released a timeline since the CV community can be quite vicious.

Surely you don't mean us....... /sarcasm

Didn't IGA say somewhere that he only removed games from the timeline if the directors didn't consider them canon? I swear I read that somewhere. Maybe he was forced into a position where he had to come up with some kind of explanation for why the Belmonts didn't wield the whip in Bloodlines.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

A simple one would've just been "They're Belmont Descendants".  There was really no reason to make it all "My last name is my power".

[thernz]

I felt that both PoR and DoS added things to the storyline that harmed it.

[e105beta]

A simple one would've just been "They're Belmont Descendants".  There was really no reason to make it all "My last name is my power".

We can't have those mudbloods mucking up the bloodline.