Topic: Any Details on new DS title yet?

[Gunlord]

In Reply To #23
Thinking about it, has Castlevania ever had any really good female characters that weren't a: annoying and/or b: damsels in distress? Sypha, I guess, but she never really said much :-/

[Azmodan]

In Reply To #31

Does Maria or Yoko fall into any of those categories?

DoS Julius mode Yoko was pretty handy...

[Long John Silver]

Carrie in Lod was cool too. A 12 year old who was mature beyond her age, wasn't cutesy and didn't speak like Maria in rondo.

[Clara E. Leet]

In Reply To #32

Maria was kind of annoying at least in the US version how she always managed to follow Alucard even into places only he could get to (spiked corridor, for instance).

And Yoko... god, Yoko was annoying as fuck. I don't care if she was a powerful mage when you played as her. She got herself stabbed in Aria and she was an annoying shop owner in Dawn.

[Gunlord]

In Reply To #34
I thought she was funny in Aria ;_; Then again, I have something of a soft spot for 'surrogate sisters'...;;_;;

[Kale]

In Reply To #34

oO..... what are you talking abuot, she didn't follow Alucard. Shes there first.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

In Reply To #36

Maybe, but how DID she get past the spiked corridor that only mist could pass through?

Even with a triple jump you can't avoid those spikes AND open the door AND go through the grate.  I can see her having a Jewel of Open maybe... but mist?

[Clara E. Leet]

In Reply To #37

Not to mention that there are only two rings in the castle that allow an adventurer below the clock room. How the hell did Maria get there?

[Steve]

Non-playable characters aren't limited by the constraints of playable ones.  To get past the spiked corridor, she could have jumped from one of the bell towers onto the roof, then entered the room at the end through one of the windows.

As for the rings, there could have been two pairs, or some other method to get down there.

[Long John Silver]

She used double heart refresh glitch to get there.

Not that it's possible for characters with no menu, but hell, explaination as good as others. Better than "she used her 'NPC teleporter' to get there."

[The Last Belmont]

She had spike armor on so the spikes didn't hurt her.  That's how I always thought she got into that room after that long corridor of spikes.

[CVfan13]

Ooh! I have a good one for that! Maria doesn't exist, she is a figment of Alucard's imagination and Castlevania is all a really bad dream he had after eating too many burritos! Either that, or Maria has super-dooper superior powers that have not yet been reveealed to us. Or, more logically, she rode through the spikey room on her dragon.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Ooh! I have a good one for that! Maria doesn't exist, she is a figment of Alucard's imagination and Castlevania is all a really bad dream he had after eating too many burritos! Either that, or Maria has super-dooper superior powers that have not yet been reveealed to us. Or, more logically, she rode through the spikey room on her dragon.

...and through the mist grate.

[Profbeanburrito]

Maybe she just climbed through the outside and into a window?

[The Last Belmont]

...and through the mist grate.

oh yeah, that would be a problem for her, hmm, I guess she could go out a window and come back in after she passed that grate. :?

oh and sorry about the rom thing