Topic: What bosses would you add to CV2?

[Inccubus]

Let's say you were put in charge of adding bosses to all the mansions in a straight port of CV2.
Which ones would you pick?
The only restrictions being that they have to be their own room right before the room with the Dracula part.
Also, in the case of Vampira/Carmilla & Death, how would you improve them?

As a reminder the original game had 5 mansions, 2 of which had an optional boss.
Feel free to add more bosses and mansions, but a an extra added challenge try to come up with an additional body part and a function for it. (No Dracula schlongs please.)

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Berkeley: Lesser Demon.  Nice and simple.
Rover: Scylla Wyrm (since the place is mostly a sunken structure with only a small island protrusion). Either that, or that fish chick from Ecclesia.
Brahm: Already has The Grim Reaper but I might switch that one around and put it on another just 'cuz it's too early for him.
Bodley: Olrox, with two forms (might have to make the room larger for it)
Laruba: Carmilla's Mask, Then her Specter, while dodging her servant. (would have to make her room larger).

[X]

Since all the original bosses have died at Castlevania, I would use others that are also well known but were never involved in the battle. Carmilla I would update so it's not just her mask you fight. Death could be in two stages. You fight him in the mansion as usual except he'd be more of a challenge. The second time you fight him is just prior to the fight with Dracula. As for the other mansions I would have the Minotaur, a Golem and the Cyclops.

[KaZudra]

oh... this is a very good topic

[Inccubus]

Had an idea since one of the existing bosses is Carmilla's mask and one of the Mansions was a mis-localization of Bathory. Why not have some bad-ass vampires as the guardians of Dracula's remains in the mansions and instead intersperse some 'regular' bosses in certain areas in between?

For the big 5, I have Carmilla (Laruba), Elizabeth Bathory (Bodley/Bathory), Olrox (Brahm's/Bram's), and ... I need two more vampires from literature that are about right for the 17th century. Any ideas?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Lord Ruthven of "Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires"
Sir Francis Varney of "Varney the Vampire"

If you want to be more international, you can use:
Oneiza of Thalaba the Destroyer
Or, you can just use Jiang Shi from Order of Ecclesia.

[Inccubus]

Ah, "The Vampyre". I read that years ago.
I think those two would work rather well along with the likes of Bathory, Olrox and Carmilla.
They are contemporary for the time of CV2, most of them being rather young vampires makes them perfect as bosses.
Olrox would be the elder vamp as he is a derivative of Dracula himself.
Elizabeth Bathory having died in 1614 is the next eldest.
Varney was turned some time between 1653 ans 1658 because of the interaction with Cromwell.
Carmilla would likely be the second youngest given the portrait of her labeled 1698. Which is a bit late, but nothing says she couldn't have been turned prior to the portrait's commission.
Last that leaves Lord Ruthven, who doesn't seem to have a specific date associated with his turning.

[X]

I'd use Count Orlock rather then Olrox as he was based off Orlock. Nothing like staring down an ugly rat-like vampire with the powers of the bubonic plague at his disposal.

[Inccubus]

I'd use Olrox for two reasons, it was localized as such and Nosferatu has a nasty history copyright violation suits. =P

[VladCT]

Really? Please describe one such incident, if you don't mind.

[Inccubus]

Bram Stoker or his widow or something sued the creators of the original Nosferatu film because it was basically a rip off of Dracula. (I was kidding in my previous post anyway, though.)

[X]

Bram Stoker or his widow or something sued the creators of the original Nosferatu film because it was basically a rip off of Dracula.

The same can also be said of Bram Stoker ripping off the Carmilla story as the events are eerily similar in structure. That and Carmilla came out several years before Dracula did.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Except Sheridan LeFanu did not sue.

[Inccubus]

The same can also be said of Bram Stoker ripping off the Carmilla story as the events are eerily similar in structure. That and Carmilla came out several years before Dracula did.

LOL! I was reading up on Carmilla's history and it is itself a rip-off of another earlier book as well. I guess authors were a lot more mellow a hundred years ago.

[X]

LOL! I was reading up on Carmilla's history and it is itself a rip-off of another earlier book as well. I guess authors were a lot more mellow a hundred years ago.

Okay I gotta see this! What book was it?