Topic: Thoughts on a NES Castlevania remastered collection

[Profbeanburrito]

Arc Systems and Wayforward are the best options if Konami decides to give the 2D Castlevania series to anyone outside themselves.

 as much as I love the work they do, I really don't want Castlevania to have an anime look. Ayami Kojimas work and whoever did the Ecclesia art is as close to anime as I like my Castlevania

[knightmere]

as much as I love the work they do, I really don't want Castlevania to have an anime look. Ayami Kojimas work and whoever did the Ecclesia art is as close to anime as I like my Castlevania

Yeah anime and CV is not so great.

[Odile Kuronuma]

as much as I love the work they do, I really don't want Castlevania to have an anime look. Ayami Kojimas work and whoever did the Ecclesia art is as close to anime as I like my Castlevania

I think he meant the game's graphics/sprites, not the artwork for the characters.

[KaZudra]

anime worked in RoB, but I still prefer the Snes Artwork.
Anime style just takes the personality out of the characters...

[Odile Kuronuma]

I think it all  depends of the artist. Someone like Obata can kill the personality of the characters with his artwork.
I find the art for OOE to be animeish, although not as bad as the one used in PoR or DoS.

[Abnormal Freak]

I agree. May I add  VanillaWare to the list? Muramasa the Demon Blade has some of the best 2D graphics I've seen in a while. Even Odin Sphere, a game developed by Vanillaware for the PS2, looks better in terms of graphics than...HoD.

Don't forget, WHOOOAAA, the lush awesomeness of the upcoming Dragon's Crown.

A 2D hand-drawn, HD Castlevania game would be rad. I miss the days of dot art, but that's kind of impossible with such high resolutions. And I'm tired of all the recycled sprites in Castlevania games anyway...

I'd love a hand-drawn game in the European style of Super Castlevania IV.

[Colin B.]

I thought the anime look worked very well for Dracula X. How did you guys feel about it?

[Abnormal Freak]

I far prefer the Super Famicom Dracula XX art to Rondo of Blood, and I would LOOOOOOOOOOVE a part manga, part American comic book look like that for a new game. Too bad it was translated so poorly in the game itself. :p

http://www.jap-sai.com/Games/Akumajo_Dracula_XX/Akumajo_Dracula_XX.htm

YUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMM. Coolest Castlevania art ever.

[Profbeanburrito]

I thought the anime look worked very well for Dracula X. How did you guys feel about it?

I hate it. It's one of my most disliked thing about that game. The cover art isn't too bad but everything else sucks. I'll take the Dracula XX artwork any day over the generic anime look

[KaZudra]

I hate it. It's one of my most disliked thing about that game. The cover art isn't too bad but everything else sucks. I'll take the Dracula XX artwork any day over the generic anime look

Look on the bright side, it worked as opposed to Dawn of Sorrow and PoR where the anime look Just never fit.

[thernz]

The anime style in Rondo worked because it was in conjunction with the saturated palette in both sprites and backgrounds, despite their inherent GRIM THEMES, and the poppy rock tunes. It all blended perfectly with the straight up action-packed level design. It embellished on the existing personality set by the game. With Dawn and Portrait, the anime was really disconnected from the games who are more like bland husks than anything else. DXX was nice too. The artstyle matched the mood the game set up. Though I found the backgrounds technically great, I found their actual content really banal compared to Rondo. It's a nice style, it just wasn't executed well in bringing out the potential it had. It fits that game. If Rondo had DXX's art, I don't think it would fit as well. It's really a case-by-case scenario.

[Munchy]

I far prefer the Super Famicom Dracula XX art to Rondo of Blood, and I would LOOOOOOOOOOVE a part manga, part American comic book look like that for a new game. Too bad it was translated so poorly in the game itself. :p

http://www.jap-sai.com/Games/Akumajo_Dracula_XX/Akumajo_Dracula_XX.htm

YUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMM. Coolest Castlevania art ever.

Such badass artwork. As much as I like Rondo, the anime artwork does look kinda hokey (especially Dracula. BLEEEEEH)

[Pemburu Vampir]

Those DXX artwork are so badass that even Ayami Kojima borrows that Annette design.

[Odile Kuronuma]

Don't forget, WHOOOAAA, the lush awesomeness of the upcoming Dragon's Crown.

A 2D hand-drawn, HD Castlevania game would be rad. I miss the days of dot art, but that's kind of impossible with such high resolutions. And I'm tired of all the recycled sprites in Castlevania games anyway...

I'd love a hand-drawn game in the European style of Super Castlevania IV.

Yeah Dragon's crown is prolly the only game I'm excited about. I would even buy a PS3 just so I can play it.
A 2D hand-drawn Castlevania would be awesome. It has to be done by VanillaWare imo.
I'm aware that there are other  companies that can make 2D games, but VanillaWare seems to be the closest to the Castlevania universe .Mostly because  their games are often set in an European like world.
 Another reason would be that there's a lot of details in their games. And the gameplay is very unique. I really think they can add something  to the series.
Some may find the artwork a little too anime, but I like it.

[Successor The Cruel]

The artwork for Rondo is pretty cool, in my opinion. They probably went with that sort of look because it would work well with the cutscenes in the game. A similar route was taken with Golden Axe on PC Engine. I'm trying to imagine Rondo's cutscenes done in the style of Super Castlevania IV's cover art and what's forming in my mind is pretty awkward : p

Dracula XX's art is interesting, but its take on Maria Renard is pretty bad.