Topic: Is KonamiofJapan mocking American developers? Order of Shadows needs a REMAKE.

[Danial]

In Reply To #29

when did he remove it from the canon?  The last article I read about OoS said that they used Iga's input for the basic idea of the game.

[The Last Belmont]

OoS will mkost likely be removed from the canon.

Considering it was never released in JP it probably wasn't meant to fit in with the existing canon. Just a nice cheap extra for cell phone owners looking for something new to play cheap.

[CVfan13]

In Reply To #32

I didn't even know OoS was canon in the first place! Is it really?

[Azmodan]

In Reply To #31

The IGN interview with the lead developer of OoS said that IGA told them it had to be made from a gaiden standpoint, as it fudges with the whole 100-years from Christopher to Simon.

[Danial]

Sure glad Iga's always followed that rule.  oh wait...

Seems like Iga thinks he's the only one who can make a "real" castlevania.

[ChibiMaddiChan]

In Reply To #35

I know!  It's like he completely disreguards the other games before the ones he made because he didn't actually make them!  Damn that IGA, always ruining everything!  See my hair?!  Look what he did to my hair!

Wait...

[Azmodan]

In Reply To #35

In CoD and PoR, his resurrections were always dismissed as incomplete, hence why he could be killed by non-Belmonts. And of course HoD didn't really have Dracula's Castle in the first place, moreso than a Castle summoned by Maxim's other half. Even the Dracula Wraith acted like it didn't really understand who it was, considering how it referred to Dracula in the third person.

So yes, IGA has been observant of preserving the 100 year rule. Besides, his timeline somewhat implies it's only a legend formed during the events of Castlevania Adventure.

I'm sorry about your hair, ChibiMaddiChan. If IGA didn't have such a sick mind as to retcon the 64 games and CotM, your hair would've been normal and the world wouldn't be so unstable.

[Genya Arikado]

I like Iga's Castlevania's better than the rest. I think he is best at making Castlevania games.

[Danial]

I'm not saying the guy is the devil.  I'm just making the observation that since he started making CV games, all others not made by him aren't considered true.

I like the guy's games, he's just not that great of a story teller. And since his are the majority of ideas that are being created, and all other ideas that might happen to get through are considered not really what happened, the CV genepool is getting a little thin.

[Azmodan]

Eh, I agree with you there. Fresh ideas would be better than "Okay, degrade the level design to hallways and shelves, throw in more enemies and weapons to compensate for it, have an extended sub-weapon system, and hope the players won't notice." They've been doing that since the Sorrow games, and it's gotten old. Fast.

I'd rather play, well, a visually stunning game with varied backgrounds and enemies instead of a hallway-runner hack n' slash.

[The Last Belmont]

In Reply To #35

I know!  It's like he completely disreguards the other games before the ones he made because he didn't actually make them!  Damn that IGA, always ruining everything!  See my hair?!  Look what he did to my hair!

Wait...

no he doesn't, just the crappy ones and the ones that were made just to rake in cash. (COTM and legends aside they're two of my fav's maybe he'll put them back in someday, it would be cool to see the belmonts give the VK to the graves who then give to the morris's later)

In Reply To #35

In CoD and PoR, his resurrections were always dismissed as incomplete, hence why he could be killed by non-Belmonts. And of course HoD didn't really have Dracula's Castle in the first place, moreso than a Castle summoned by Maxim's other half. Even the Dracula Wraith acted like it didn't really understand who it was, considering how it referred to Dracula in the third person.

So yes, IGA has been observant of preserving the 100 year rule. Besides, his timeline somewhat implies it's only a legend formed during the events of Castlevania Adventure.

I'm sorry about your hair, ChibiMaddiChan. If IGA didn't have such a sick mind as to retcon the 64 games and CotM, your hair would've been normal and the world wouldn't be so unstable.

Don't forget legends.

Eh, I agree with you there. Fresh ideas would be better than "Okay, degrade the level design to hallways and shelves, throw in more enemies and weapons to compensate for it, have an extended sub-weapon system, and hope the players won't notice." They've been doing that since the Sorrow games, and it's gotten old. Fast.

I'd rather play, well, a visually stunning game with varied backgrounds and enemies instead of a hallway-runner hack n' slash.

there has to be a balance though, which Iga has only been able to really accomplish with SOTN. You don't want to be like the early n64 games and be all flash, but you don't want to be like the Super Star Wars games on the SNES and be all substance either. God those games were aweful what was Lucas arts thinking!?

[DoctaMario]

In Reply To #41

Tuxedo Mark, is that you? O_o

[ChibiMaddiChan]

In Reply To #41

Um, I wasn't being serious with my post, hence the hair comment at the end. I've played enough Castlevania and heard more than enough people whine about which games he actually did sack to know better. (Don't let the post count fool you, I've been here a while, just not recently. )



But yeah, I actually did hate that he got rid of COTM and N64 games (seriously a little tweaking to the story (esp. to the 64 games) and it could have fit.)

Though I will agree that he does need to bring something fresh to the series. It doesn't have to be a complete overhaul and I don't mind playing the games he makes now but just...something else.