Topic: Iga not doing Castlevania for awhile? Say it ain't so

[Draculas Curse]

While looking for more news on Mirror of Fate I found these stories. Please tell me this is not true, please tell me that Iga is not doing Castlevania for awhile. How can they make CV games without Iga?

Koji Igarashi will have no involvement with upcoming Castlevania games

Why is Koji Igarashi no longer producing Castlevania games?

[Nagumo]

All we know at this time is that IGA is not going to E3 this year. He might still be working on the series.   

[Chernabogue]

How can they make CV games without Iga?

They've done Lords of Shadow without him. New and fresh blood was a bit needed.

[Draculas Curse]

But why cant he do Mirror of Fate? Everyone knows he is not doing LOS sequel, but why cant Iga be on 3DS games?

Enough of this Mercury Cox takeover crap.

[Kingshango]

Castlevania did exist before IGA ya know. Maybe IGA wanted to take a break from Castlevania for a bit and let others give it a shot.

[Draculas Curse]

Castlevania did exist before IGA ya know.

Yeah and didn't the franchise almost die off before Iga and SOTN? The old games were cool, but they were too difficult. Why do you have to die when falling in a pit? Iga fixed this. I sure hope they don't make Mirror of Fate just like Lords of Shadow.

[TheouAegis]

Good riddance, I say. Symphony was good but everything after that started going downhill. I like OoE but Iga's cut-and-paste style of game design is lazy and ruined the series. As a producer or designer, he should have made more of an effort to bring excitement to the series whilst retaining its feel or charm. I eagerly await the day they make a Castlevania anime that I can watch on 4Kids Saturday morning cartoons next to Yu-Gi-Oh.

[Dengo vlad tepes]

Okay lords of shadow and mercury steam were so needed but not forever they need to make a balance for both producers/directors Iga and Cox we do not need someone to overtake the series , believe me it will get boring with time

do you remember the old old days of castlevanias ? when multi producers work on 1 game remember when the game has its golden charm from CV I to SOTN

you know why those games were great ? cuz there is no overtaking on the series ... really

[Nagumo]

^ I agree with this. That seems like a pure win-win situation. They could keep innovating the series while preventing that they lose parts of their fanbase.

[Sumac]

Yeah and didn't the franchise almost die off before Iga and SOTN? The old games were cool, but they were too difficult. Why do you have to die when falling in a pit? Iga fixed this. I sure hope they don't make Mirror of Fate just like Lords of Shadow.

Franchise was quite alive before SOTN.
You have to die after falling in the pit because it is normal convention in video games. It was removed because of the whiners who couldn't do their jumps properly.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I always get a little chuckle out the concept of death pits being so terrible (they're not, learn to jump).
Though I'm more for 'heavy damage based on height', a death pit sharpens your skills over time.

[beingthehero]

People keep forgetting that he produced two games (ReBirth, HoDespair) after Lords was announced. It's been only two years.

Also the only game he actually worked on in person was SotN. He's referenced having to program it before. It is the director that actually makes the games, not the producer. After 12 years, people still keep forgetting this.

[beingthehero]

Also IGA has said for some time that he's tired of Castlevania and has wanted to do other games for quite some time now, like that Gradius-type shooter for the Xbox 360.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

The fact is that the series does not need IGA.

I'm a HUGE fan of IGA and his games, but i always knew that the time would come when he would eventually have to hand over the reigns to someone else.

It would appear that Cox and his team will also be handing those reigns over as well.

The only thing I would want IGA to come back for is the make The Battle of 1999 game and afterwards he can leave the series after finally giving us fans a bit of closure.

I like the idea of it going back to how it was in the old days when they had different developers for different CV games and switched it up a lot.

[Maedhros]

IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE IGA.

They just need someone who can respect or continue the old series, with these standards. LoS by itself isn't a bad thing, just don't forget about the old series and it's fans, not everyone liked the direction LoS took.