Topic: Chronicles Simon

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Best Castlevania Cover art ever IMO.

[JayDominus]

Best Castlevania Cover art ever IMO.

Indeed. It tells you everything you need to know about the game.

[Ahasverus]

Thought this was interesting, but Konami still acknowledges the original design for Simon in their new Sound Voltex Booths. This appears as artwork for the Vampire Killer remix in the game.

Perfection

[Aridale]

I agree thats a fantastic Simon. Id love to see it in sprite form =D

[Ahasverus]

I agree thats a fantastic Simon. Id love to see it in HD 3D model form =D

Fixed that for you.

[VladCT]

Why not both? Oh wait, already seen the former in PoR. lol

[Inccubus]

Also, I think more guys should wear eyeliner.

Agreed. However, That half-coat thing is completely useless and too "fashion-y". Whole coat or GTFO.

[Chernabogue]

This new Simon rocks. Not fan of the hair cut (something a bit more metalhead/stylish, maybe?), but in general, I'd really love to play a 3D CV game with that Simon.

[Inccubus]

These are both better interpretations of this design, I think.

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My co-worker just brought up a good point. Up in the Carpathian mountains of it's freakin' cold most of the time. And I doubt the games usually take place in summer.

[Sumac]

Perfect Simon. Simply awesome.
Interestingly, seems Konami fluctuate between his two designs. In International Track & Field on NDS he appeared in his CVC form, in some scateboarding game he appeared in his Barbarian design. In HD he once again in CVC costume, and now this.
Simon "Two face" Belmont? 

[Dremn]

It's common sense/knowledge that Simon was directly inspired from Conan the Barbarian, but why Conan? What made Konami even go for Conan as the basis of Simon's design? He looks more like a barbarian than a vampire hunter. I like the barbarian look but it never struck "vampire hunter" to me, more so just "video game icon."

Same for the whip, why a whip?

[JayDominus]

It's common sense/knowledge that Simon was directly inspired from Conan the Barbarian, but why Conan? What made Konami even go for Conan as the basis of Simon's design? He looks more like a barbarian than a vampire hunter. I like the barbarian look but it never struck "vampire hunter" to me, more so just "video game icon."

Same for the whip, why a whip?

I don't know about Conan, but I remember reading somewhere that they chose the whip because it was hard to properly animate a sword on NES hardware.

[crisis]

A lot of NES-era characters had the Conan/tough guy look, Konami was just going with the flow nah mean jelly bean

but I remember reading somewhere that they chose the whip because it was hard to properly animate a sword on NES hardware.

LOL

[Dremn]

I don't know about Conan, but I remember reading somewhere that they chose the whip because it was hard to properly animate a sword on NES hardware.

That's pretty damn funny if true.

The whip is more original in the end, so it's probably a good thing they went in favor of that.

[crisis]

I wonder wha happen to Leon's sword  and his gauntlet