Topic: Lords of Shadow sequel is coming out this year, hinted by David Cox over twitter

[Flame]

So, in a way it means that Dracula have created Chaos which power him up later. Hence Chaotic spirit of the Castle is evil.

well yeah, that much was never debated, the Chaotic spirit of the Castle IS Evil.

DOS always gave me impression of badly thought out sequel, especially given how AOS nicely wrapped up the storyline (well, as nicely as you can have with IGA). One thing I always was interested in: how Soma saved his Dark Lord powers? I mean in AOS he was powered up by Chaos, sort of, but when he destroyed it he should have been completely cleansed from its inflention?

DoS IS a poorly thought out cash cow sequel.

on his powers, his Power of Dominance isnt something he can just lose. he even mentions it in DoS. How does he have his powers after the last game? he pretty much asks, to which Arikado answers what you'd expect- It's a part of him. It is literally a part of Dracula's soul. it's intrinsic to him. And Soma, being Dracula, therefore has that power. He always had that power. Only it was awakened by his going to Castlevania and fighting the monsters in there.

after AoS, the souls he collected gradually left him, dissipating from disuse, and his power of Dominance became dormant again until it was awakened by fighting Larry Moe and Curly.

[uzo]

Yep, that announcement will come any day now.



Aaaaany day now.

Might as well get comfy while we wait.

[The Silverlord]

Haha, 8/10.  Next.



We need a screenshot.  Something . . . !

[uzo]

You know what that reminds me of...

[VladCT]

GAH IT'S THAT PEDO KILL IT D:
No seriously, why the hell did he hit on (Loli) Maria in PoR? I can understand him only being coded to respond based on gender and not character ID, but come on. I'm surprised that he didn't become a memetic molester because of that.

[Sumac]

on his powers, his Power of Dominance isnt something he can just lose. he even mentions it in DoS. How does he have his powers after the last game? he pretty much asks, to which Arikado answers what you'd expect- It's a part of him. It is literally a part of Dracula's soul. it's intrinsic to him. And Soma, being Dracula, therefore has that power. He always had that power. Only it was awakened by his going to Castlevania and fighting the monsters in there.

Thank you for explanations.

[uzo]

GAH IT'S THAT PEDO KILL IT D:
No seriously, why the hell did he hit on (Loli) Maria in PoR? I can understand him only being coded to respond based on gender and not character ID, but come on. I'm surprised that he didn't become a memetic molester because of that.

Hack it to sprites of pedobear?

[thernz]

Charlotte is underage too.

[DraculaCronqvist]

As someone already said so fittingly, do not want. LoS was horrible enough as it is, that abomination does not need a sequel. Please let it die. Please?

[Flame]

As someone already said so fittingly, do not want. LoS was horrible enough as it is, that abomination does not need a sequel. Please let it die. Please?

Could tell us WHY you thought it was horrible, other than just saying it is.

Many of us, (a few of us?) liked it for what it was, and saw plenty of Castlevania, especially oldschool vania, within it at it's core.

[Kingshango]

As someone already said so fittingly, do not want. LoS was horrible enough as it is, that abomination does not need a sequel. Please let it die. Please?

Since Konami see's LOS1 as a sucess in their eye's and poeple are interested in where the story arc can go, it would be stupid not to do a sequel.

I want Castlevania to go back to the way it was like everyone else but let's be honest, there's nothing left to do in the old timeline. Everything came to a conclusion in Aria of Sorrow (Dos was filler storywise and was an excuse to expand on the soul system), Castlevania's power source Chaos was destroyed and the vampire Killer's power faded away finally ending the Belmont's 900 years long mission.

Lords of Shadow's story arc has just begun and unlike the previous timeline, it has no ending yet and people are interested in how Gabriel/Dracul's story arc folds out and do not wanna be left out hanging, a feeling Castlevania fan's no all too well.

[Dremn]

I want a new Simon Belmont/Castlevania 1 remake for the 3DS for the now recently past anniversary.

Taking ideas from I, IV, and X68000, with a ton of levels and new ideas tossed in as well and

oh god dammit I hate Konami so much.

[crisis]

there's nothing left to do in the old timeline.

dat's not true man. what about the 300+ years of Gaiden stories they can make. or 1897. or Belmont's Revenge ReBirth. or Demon Castle War 99. or LoI sequel.


those ideas alone are 10 years worth of Akumajo Dracula

[Kingshango]

dat's not true man. what about the 300+ years of Gaiden stories they can make. or 1897. or Belmont's Revenge ReBirth. or Demon Castle War 99. or LoI sequel.


those ideas alone are 10 years worth of Akumajo Dracula

It's over man, as much as we would love to see the original timeline get streched out like Mr. Fantastic, the overall mission of the Belmont's war against the night came to a end in Aria of Sorrow. You wanna know how the battle of 1999 ended.

[notaspoiler] Dracula dies. [/notaspoiler]

Point is, we know how it all began, we know how it all ends, we know what happens in the middle. No matter how many times they can go back, no matter how many filler stories they make in the year 18whateversomething with some brand new character unrelated to the Belmonts, the story's ultimate end will always be the same.

[Ahasverus]

 Perhaps when the new storyline has ended (In 20 years or something) we could get a reimagined old storyline. I'd love that.

It would be nice if MercurySteam adapt some tough, here's my ideas for making the new series similar to the old one without making 25 remakes.

- LoS2: Events pre-CVIII (Alucard Birth, Death's enslavering, first war on Wallachia). Kinda CVIII. Some insight in the epilogue.
- LosGaiden1: Portable AAA game telling Christopher's story (perhaps the prologue being the final battle of The Adventure and following a reimagined Belmont's Revenge) telling how he was rich and powerful landlord and then kicked out from Wallachia after Soleil's possesion.
- LoS3: Simon Belmont. His rise as a master hunter and recovering family's wealth. Then a reimagined SQII (It shouldn't be long). Make Dracula and SImon confrontation very personal (like Dracula wanting to reunite its bloodline again trying to seduce SImon by its side)
- LoSGaiden 2: Spinoff about Simon's father during the year 1666 and London's fire. Tie it to Bathory.
- LoS4 (next next gen): Rondo of Blood reimagined. Richter doesn't want to be a vampire hunter but he needs to do it after Dracla kindaps his wife, he wants Richter to go to the dark side, just like him. Anette is killed. Ending ambigous.
- LoS5: Symphony of the night reimagined. As the 5th game in the series mercury will be very experienced by then, it could be marvellous. Alucard is now a badasss warrior. Richter is now remorseful just like Gabriel was, Dracul is happy because witha  new dark lord he can go in peace. Alucard messes up everything. Father-son relationship is very studied. Dracul then ends his killing spree and becomes remorseful of his dark life, leading to the Emo-Dracula of the LoS1 epilogue.
- LoSGaiden 3: First modern times game. Not related to the Belmont/Dracula/Satan war, crazy idea, I know: the first Castlevania shooter. The story of a soldier fightting for his life. Dies at the end.
- LoS6: Bram Stoker's Dracula reimagined. Enough said.
- LoS7: Bloodlines reimagined. Most potential of them all.
- LoS8: At least, the final game of the series, in modern times, but now in three parts. The first one, a traiditonal CV with Julius belmont, Dracul is not yet resurrected, Zobek is the main boss here. At the end, after almost dying, Alucard comes to the rescue and both unite after Zobek fled to find Dracul at the forgotten ruins of the Bernhard castle.
- LoS9: The second part of the final game, this time in an Alucard and/or Belnades point of view along with Julius in interweined chapters. The three try to seal hat seal the castle and that stuff. They fail. Dracula is resurrected and the scene after the prologue begins. The plan is simple. If there's no world to save, or conquer, Satan won't return, Dracula solution is of course, wiping mankind. At the end, Alucard is killed by its own father, and then with Dracula's blood, Satan is resurrected BY ZOBEK (He rat). The end.
- LoSGaiden 4: My ever hoped Survival Horror featuring a hostage in Dracula's Castle. He survives!
- LoS10: The final battle from Dracula's point of view, you play as him with belmont being still against him, but now they face a common enemy. Dracul can summon armies of the dark to fight, now enemmies are Demons from hell and the souls of the dead are brought back by Zobek, all the past belmonts and even his Marie, whom he must kill. After killing Zobek in the gruelsomest way possible, Satan comes to the fight, in the end, Julius is killed, and Dracul and Satan fight once and for all.
At the end, Dracul gets the power of hell and to be the ruler of the underworld (in a way reminiscent of the Forgotten one scene) but this time, he rejects it, he doesn't want it. After that, God sees this as his ultimate redemption, and finally frees Grabriel soul from his corpse. Marie comes down again, and says He is forgiven, but he must still purify himself before entering heaven. She says he'll be with him this time. Dracul's soul is embodied with light and then goes to the womb of a pregnant woman.

Epilogue: Fast forward 15 years, two teenagers run into each other, with him dropping her books. He aids her, apologizes and asks her name, she's called Mina, then she asks his, he's called Soma, Soma Cruz. "Cruz, like if you came from God :laughs:"

THE END

Now MS, pay me, I just saved you like 20 years of work.