Topic: Did anyone already hear about this? (old)

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Still waiting on that inevitable Symphony of the Night port where they HD-ify all the sprites a la Alucard in Encore of the Night, and do the same thing with the backgrounds.

Be nice if they could release a set with that, and similar HD ports of Super Castlevania IV, Bloodlines, Harmony of Dissonance, and Aria.

That set alone would make me cry manly tears of Castle-love-ya.

I know. I know. Awful attempt at pun is awful.

[Puwexil]

You want more of this smudgy shit? None of it looks good in any way. It'd be an enormous disservice to the finely-crafted visuals of the games you mentioned.

[Munchy]

Is that from the iphone game? That looks atrocious.

[Puwexil]

Yep. I don't know why they called it Encore of the Night, since it's definitely not representative of the quality of spritework Symphony is known and beloved for.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

It's the same sprites, just less pixelated.

And I agree, in Encore it came off badly, but I honestly think it could be done appropriately given a budget and a team who honestly gives a fuck.

[Puwexil]

It's the same sprites, just less pixelated.

Is it? Because it looks more like someone took the original Alucard sprite and airbrushed a hasty duplication in an unfortunate effort to "contemporize" the sprite art. It's a misshapen blob as a result. Death there looks like he just suffered a case of the obnoxious smoothening filters, as per usual, but Alucard looks decidedly like a cheap reproduction.

Not that it matters much, since messing around with the presentation of crisp pixel art in any fashion always spells disaster for those misguided enough to attempt it.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Again, in Encore, everything was all done just to grab a quick buck. Imagine a game in which that was done by a team who actually CARED.

[Puwexil]

My argument is that it's a fundamentally flawed practice. Let old games look like old games; they look far better that way.

[e105beta]

Still waiting on that inevitable Symphony of the Night port where they HD-ify all the sprites a la Alucard in Encore of the Night, and do the same thing with the backgrounds.

Be nice if they could release a set with that, and similar HD ports of Super Castlevania IV, Bloodlines, Harmony of Dissonance, and Aria.

That set alone would make me cry manly tears of Castle-love-ya.

I know. I know. Awful attempt at pun is awful.

To be honest, I think I'd rather just have a new game. Like Symphony of the Night 2, or a half-Metroidvania half-Classicvania staring a Belmont