I know a lot of fans like this, and LOS brought them back. Then there are the did hard fans like me who have been around since damn near the beginning, and we love LOS. That's what I call appealing to the true older fans.
I'm not since the beginning just because I'm 24, but I would have been otherwise, you can be sure of that.
But I want to make clear that I stated that many LoS fans know nothing about CV. Of course not all of them.
Here we have some CV fans tat like it, but we don't have a million fans that bougth a million copies. In that million people, you will mostly find modern gamers that never played a CV game until LoS.
It really seems to me that you like the idea of castlevania being this obscure anime Metriodvania game that has a niche crowd. That's not the way it was back in the day and thats not the way many fans want it. It seems like you feel threatened by castlevania being on the big stage again and getting new fans.
You can be sure of that. I'd love portable MetroidVanias to come forever. Low budget, some recycled sprites, simple stories, but new stages, new music and new characters every time. That's my ideal, yes. Only home console MetroidVanias would be better than that.
But I'd be happy with many downloadable titles as Rebirth too, provided they have new CV stages and music.
LOS is every bit as legitimate as any IGA game in CV. That's fine if you don't like it, but it would be nice if you could stop raining on the parade for those of us who are excited for the sequel. On this particular thread it's a little rude.
OK, I started it as a joke. We were just making fun of MS thinking what they would do with another franchises, based on the way we perceive them.
I will respect that.
By the way, thanks for how you started your post, I like you too
Yeah, I want it to stop too. However, I bet it will start up again if someone else gets the opportunity to make CV games and they reboot the series (almost guaranteed to happen). At which point, both the fans who are complaining now and the fans of the LoS series will start bitching. I don't mean to be negative, but this is just the impression I get.
Oh, and what I said about before about IGN and other reviewers, I may have over exaggerated the way things are and how they work, but my point remains the same.
You can be sure there will always be people complaining. The only way to shut up all of us would be to develop a home console 3D CV with Yamane's style of music, a portable MetroidVania and keep LoS as a separate franchise.
People will always complain when they take away or change what they love. And reboots are the worst thing that can happen to people many times.
And about IGN, I just don't understand Colin Moriarty. He gave a 4,5 to MoF but he loves LoS. I just don't understand it. First, MoF is more CV than LoS the way I see it, and 2nd, you either like them both or dislike them both, how can you give 8,5 to on and 4,5 to the other if they look the same, have the same music and the stories merge?
All this time, I'd been wishing LoS was a separate franchise; yet I'd hope CV would fare better than being relegated to a low budget wing -- for "some sales" only.
I'm all for a bold reimagining of Castlevania; yet this particular one went so far that it got lost in its own dream. When it came out it wasn't Castlevania anymore!
Here's the bottom line: I truly enjoyed Lords of Shadow -- but simply not as a Castlevania game.
That's exactly what I think.
But Pfil: you have to show some kind of optimism towards future games; yes, Konami isn't known to pamper its franchises, but we can always hope for a true breakthrough.
I know, but I just can't when the music is that music. I would forgive anything else and I would have a little more optimism had things been a little different.