Topic: Cancelled CV projects you wanted to see

[Chernabogue]

Dracula's Curse Animated movie. Art and scenario were just awesome (apart they wouldn't have included Grant in the first movie).

[Thunderbrand]

I went with Resurrection. Story may have been somewhat silly, but the game looked great and seemed like it was gonna have TONS of atmosphere. The videos that are out there of this game are awesome IMHO.

[Munchy]

I went with Resurrection. Story may have been somewhat silly, but the game looked great and seemed like it was gonna have TONS of atmosphere. The videos that are out there of this game are awesome IMHO.

Seconded. I wasn't down with the time travel or with Sonia's fugly redesign, but I was TOTALLY down with a Dreamcast Castlevania. I would've also flipped my shit for Bloodletting; if that had come out, I would've flat out refused to sell the 32X. It was probably for the best since the thing tanked, but it would've been a nice apology for our stripped down SNES game (or at least not attempting to port Rondo to, say, the Sega CD).

Of these, I'd really only go for the canceled games. Though, the Game.com SotN port looked awful, and having played CoD, the 360 IGA game would probably have been that with even more needlessly long corridors. C'mon, if it were 2.5D it would NEVER have a shot at being a retail game. Unless if (and this is a very big if) it were a Wii game, which, after Judgment, would just be begging for trouble.

[Odile Kuronuma]

"I don't know, my mind keeps getting violated by dark priests."
Kidding. I wanna see the Akumajou Dracula game for the PS3/360 revisited.With IGA  in charge.
I'm gonna get flamed for this XD

[shelverton.]

I wanna see the Akumajou Dracula game for the PS3/360 revisited.With IGA  in charge.
I'm gonna get flamed for this XD

Nah, you'll be fine. I wanna see that game too, and since IGA was making it I think he should finish what he started. It's been a while since we saw a proper IGAvania (stuff like Judgment, Encore and ReBirth doesn't count) and I'm also curious what he'd accomplish on a PS3 or 360.

[Lisa Fahrenheit]

I chose the Animated Movie, because I think that if it's going to be a movie, it may do better with animation or CG than with live-action. About that, though -- on the wiki page for the animated movie, it lists concept art of everyone. The strange thing is that they list Lisa, but I haven't been able to find her art. Was there ever art of her released, or was it just mislabeled?

As far as other things I'd of chosen, I'd really love to see the third CoD manga. I have the first two and really started getting into the story. Wasn't there supposed to be a Lament manga too? Or am I mixing that up with the cell phone manga?

I'd also like to see the Akumajo Dracula PS3/360 game. What I like about that trailer, though, is that a lot of it got re-used, didn't it? That cap of Alucard looks a lot like a shot of Hector from one of Curse's cutscenes, and the blade that he uses looks a lot like Shanoa's. Still, I really would have liked to see what they'd do with Alucard in 3D -- specifically what the storyline would have been.

I also agree with the comment about Resurrection's atmosphere. I fell in love with the cap of the dancing ghosts and the ballroom! Also, wtf female Dracula. I'd of loved to see the explanation behind that one, haha.

As for the live action movie...well, definitely not the script that's out now. I would, however, be all over the idea of the second, Trevor-centric draft. Both because I adore Trevor, and because I'm horribly interested to see how they would play Mathias and Dracula being separate people.

[Belmont Stakes]

I voted wrong. My vote is for Resurrection because after looking at it, it has more of a gothic horror feel to it than most of the titles I have seen. If the PS2 titles were done with the layout of the castle in Ressurection we would have had a really good duo of games. Now that the technology is in a good place, the art can be overhauled to look less blocky and polygonish and the charcters don't have to be so dead and plastic looking.

[Pemburu Vampir]

I voted for Resurrection.

It needs to be resurrected!

[Chernabogue]

Just a personal thinking, but is the Alcardvania REALLY cancelled? I mean, we just saw ONE trailer and that's it. We don't even know what it is, lol.

[angevil]

The animated movie! I still have hopes.....

[thernz]

The Alucardvania is probably dead considering how many years it's been. I really doubt they'd give IGA that much time.

[shelverton.]

I'd also like to see the Akumajo Dracula PS3/360 game. What I like about that trailer, though, is that a lot of it got re-used, didn't it? That cap of Alucard looks a lot like a shot of Hector from one of Curse's cutscenes, and the blade that he uses looks a lot like Shanoa's. Still, I really would have liked to see what they'd do with Alucard in 3D -- specifically what the storyline would have been.

Both Curse of Darkness and Order of Ecclesia were released before the Akumajou Dracula teaser trailer was released, so if anything it's probably the other way round - IGA recycled things/ideas from his previous games and put it into the teaser for the new game.

EDIT: Or maybe that's exactly what you meant? Lol. I'm tired. Whatever.

[DragonSlayr81]

I know, how many of these projects are still in limbo? I think we can cross off the third volume of the CoD manga, but we never got any word regarding the animated movie, and seeming the live action movie is still on the sidelines. We never got ANY kind of confirmation about IGA's PS3/X360 game, and people at Konami seemingly are just as clueless.

[danceofgold]

It is clear that Resurrection has been cancelled, but there is no evidence that the Akumajo Dracula PS3/360 game has been cancelled.

I'm definitely going to get flamed for this  but I'll say it nevertheless:

I'd like to see a game where Alucard turns evil, finally succumbing to the darkness as his father wanted. He double-crosses his team (think Captain N) and is revealed as the ultimate final boss of the game. And to top it all, the one to destroy him would be none other than.... Maria Renard. After defeating him, she goes insane and jumps off a cliff. It's almost as tragic as Alucard killing his own father (I'm a sucker for tragedies).

[Reinhart77]

and then after all of that, you get to play a bonus prequel round as Alucard.