Topic: Castlevania harmony of despair coming this week !

[Dengo vlad tepes]

Yes thats true Castlevania Harmony of Despair launches this Tuesday, September 27th! on US playstation store no UK/EU release date yet ..




confirmed by : Konami on twitter

[Flame]

Good for you.

[shelverton.]

Happy 25th anniversary then, I guess. This is probably it. Lame.

[Nagumo]

My hopes and wishes:

1.) Hodespair PS3 edition will have special anniversary DLC.
2.) It will come with downloadable anniversary bonus content.
3.) This will only be a prelude to the real thing.

[affinity]

1.) Hodespair PS3 edition will have special anniversary DLC.

Oh yes that would be great adding anniversary DLC!     Maybe we can get a Rondo of Blood theme or Castlevania II themed map for Chapter 12,  Nathan Graves (hottest Castlevania guy and interesting DSS card style), Trevor (SOTN sprites), Hammer, Stella and Loretta.

This really deserves at least 1 or 2 more waves of more playable Characters, Chapter(s) and music packs.  Well maybe PSN sales could have some influence. 

[Kusanagi]

Oh yes that would be great adding anniversary DLC!     Maybe we can get a Rondo of Blood theme or Castlevania II themed map for Chapter 12,  Nathan Graves (hottest Castlevania guy and interesting DSS card style), Trevor (SOTN sprites), Hammer, Stella and Loretta.

This really deserves at least 1 or 2 more waves of more playable Characters, Chapter(s) and music packs.  Well maybe PSN sales could have some influence. 

I agree, new DLC for game would be awesome ^^ And most likely the initial sales will affect this. Good thing is that Operation: Akumajou will have their members buy Harmony of Despair as soon as its out to show where the money is - 2d games. So if there really is enough fans for the operation go through with this plan, its more likely that we will get more DLC for the PSN version xD Kinda hoping for re-sprited characters for the game (like Juste or perhaps bring in some characters from the 3d games into pixel form like Aeon or Leon) and of course more stages. One of the main complaints were that the game was short (unless you were after getting every single rare item and boosting every character to max... which I probably will be doing xD)

But I do agree with Nagumo that it should be the prelude to something else. Easy to tell that majority of the fanbase won't be satisfied with Harmony of Despair (and possibly additional DLC) alone. Hoping they do announce a new 2d castlevania for the anniversary, but course only time will tell ^^"

[crisis]

They won't redraw Juste's sprite, it's too much work (which is ironic since they included Simon's 8-bit sprite anyway)

I would like to see Trevor, Sypha & Grant added and maybe Albus. Hell, throw in Old Axe Armor too and we have ourselves a brand new game

[Kusanagi]

They won't redraw Juste's sprite, it's too much work (which is ironic since they included Simon's 8-bit sprite anyway)

I would like to see Trevor, Sypha & Grant added and maybe Albus. Hell, throw in Old Axe Armor too and we have ourselves a brand new game

Simon's 8 bit sprites for was for nostalgia's sake, but when it comes to adding character's particularly from the gba era it might be needed to redo their sprites. This would be to at least keep him consistent with the other characters (Nathan would need a similar process done, since all the other characters have better sprite quality). Its not that its too much work, more rather that they don't want to spend too long a time on one game. Where they can save time yet add to the game is probably the way they would go, so they can work on other new games and so on. So Trevor, Sypha and Grant, Albus, DoS' Hammer, Good old Axe Knight, Stella and Loretta are the most likely to make it as extra DLC if any. GBA remakes or 3D characters being remade to 2D have the least xD but it would be awesome if they did (the best chance they have at being made from a logical standpoint, would be in a sequel to Harmony of Despair ^^"). Unless Konami can prove me wrong by adding Nathan or Juste without altering their looks at all, but even then I don't mind since gameplay is what matters most for me xD

Any additions for characters and stages would be much appreciated regardless xD Richter is the character I want to play as the most, and he's already apart of the original DLC so Im all set to go.

[KaZudra]

Oh yes that would be great adding anniversary DLC!     Maybe we can get a Rondo of Blood theme or Castlevania II themed map for Chapter 12,  Nathan Graves (hottest Castlevania guy and interesting DSS card style), Trevor (SOTN sprites), Hammer, Stella and Loretta.

This really deserves at least 1 or 2 more waves of more playable Characters, Chapter(s) and music packs.  Well maybe PSN sales could have some influence. 

PLEASE Hammer, the guy was supposed to be in DoS and there he has files in HD meaning he was supposed to be in that one too!

[Koutei]

1.) Hodespair PS3 edition will have special anniversary DLC.

http://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/no-new-dlc-planned-for-castlevania-harmony-of-despair-on-psn-at-this-time-previous-dlc-will-hit-in-waves/

*JULY 25, 2011 1:24 PM

[Kusanagi]

http://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/no-new-dlc-planned-for-castlevania-harmony-of-despair-on-psn-at-this-time-previous-dlc-will-hit-in-waves/

*JULY 25, 2011 1:24 PM

To add to that, here's something:
http://www.joystickdivision.com/2011/08/castlevania_harmony_of_despair_4.php

This was on August 18, 2011.
Now I wouldn't be surprised if Konami went with that strategy, as to weigh how many fans there are for this game. So the "depending on how it sells" is the most likely case for sending the DLC in waves again like before. Problem with this strategy is that they may kill the hype for the game if it takes as long as the 360's DLC to come out (once a month if I remember right).

Whatever the case, fans of the game may demand the DLC be released sooner since again it is just a port with added local Coop. New DLC will be dependent on how many people are willing to wait and buy the DLC by my assumptions. But they also could just release the DLC already there and be done with it (Though we are hoping otherwise).

So two questions are the most present then:
1)Will new DLC be added to Harmony of Despair?
2)What will be done for the Castlevania Anniversary celebration?

Edit:
This thought just struck me; why would there be a need to send the DLC in waves if they were already made before and now its just a port? This could mean that if the initial sales are good, then they may just make more DLC for the game during the wait time between each of the existing DLC.

There wouldn't be any need to stall for time unless something more was going to be added to the game. So it only further boosts hope for the game to be expanded on even more (or perhaps a new project in the works?).

[Koutei]

That's light of a good hope.

[Nagumo]

Perhaps, though I wouldn't be suprised if spreading out the DLC has to do with a marketing ploy to somehow make more profits by not releasing it all at once.

Though it's very possible new DLC would be a result of that. 

[jestercolony]

I'm all up for Despair's release on the PS3... But... 25 years? ...a re-release of another game on a different console. That's... HD?


....come on mayne.

[Kusanagi]

Perhaps, though I wouldn't be suprised if spreading out the DLC has to do with a marketing ploy to somehow make more profits by not releasing it all at once.

Though it's very possible new DLC would be a result of that.

Problem I see with that marketing ploy is how much more will they really get? If they sold the separate DLC along with selling the game at the same time, how much different would it be to selling it in waves? The fans of the game I can't expect to be too happy about it, since the fact again is that this game is just a port (unless something more was going to be added while they stall with the waves of releases). Taking a look at how Castle Crashers did it is another thing; their game was pretty successful on the PSN port, and theirs included all of the DLC right from the get go.

The porting for DLC shouldn't be that hard, not enough to warrant having to wait another month to release it. Riding on hype for a game that was originally on the 360 for a year doesn't make too much sense either. Could backfire if they're not careful.

Unless of course the offline multiplayer actually was more troublesome to add then expected... The time they spent could have been in part of adding say a patch for the offline mode to the 360 version. Who knows right?