Topic: New Castlevania!!!???!!! (DS)

[Danial]

The Dark Lord is a position.  Anyone with enough power or ability can become the Dark Lord.  When Dracula died, I'm assuming all the power he had collected over the years as Dark Lord was dispersed and people like Graham, Dario, and Dmitri inherited it at birth or their souls just had those natural abilities, similar to how Hector and Isaac had the natural ability to Devil Forge.

Soma on the other hand is just the reincarnation of Dracula's soul, which seems to have the natural power of Dominance.  He is probably the best candidate to retake the Dark Lord mantle, which Celia seemed to know, but she had to have a back up just in case Soma didn't assume the mantle.

[Long John Silver]

similar to how Hector and Isaac had the natural ability to Devil Forge.

Was that ever said somewhere? In the official cod comic it's shown that Drac teaches them how to use that power.

[Danial]

I'll look to be sure, but I think they were born with the ability and Dracula just helped them refine it.

[Azmodan]

I dunno Serio, it looked like in the beginning Hector was being tormented by the devils he'd summon, and then he met Issac who took him to Dracula's Castle.

[piscesdreams]

i hope it isn't real

[Genya Arikado]

Hector and Isaac learned the Devil Forge power. That's why in the beginning of Curse of darkness Hector wasn't strong enough to kill Isaac. He had to relearn his powers, which explains why he gets new Devils after becoming more powerful and is finally able to beat Isaac .

[Danial]

Hector had to regain his power because he relinquished it, like Alucard.

[Genya Arikado]

Hector had to regain his power because he relinquished it, like Alucard.

Correct.

[Stalker]

Those "newCV DS" pics looks fake. atleast some of them.
Were does they come from?

[Azmodan]

In Reply To #446

Some guy from Gamefaqs.

[Stalker]

In reply to #447

I found them here not so long ago:
http://kotaku.com/346759/rumored-new-castlevania-ds-screens-indicate-wii-connectivity

[Abster]

These are in fact, real screenshots.  Hopefully something will boil up regarding this in the GDC next week.

[Azmodan]

In Reply To #449

Where'd you hear that?

[erimocard]

I still think it's a fake. Kinda everything about it seems... wrong. As said before, Chanoix looks like some Charlotte-edits (btw they could be related to each other, because they both have french names and look similar), the overall quality is very bad and... I mean, just look at this... giant enemy crab there. Wtf? And... why should they make a Charlotte-relative the main char of the next game?
This better be a joke.

[Dark Nemesis]

What is wrong with a giant crub as a boss? I personally find it very cool and the same goes for Chanoix being the main character, because i think it's really nice for a change to have a female leading character!