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

[le052383]

In Reply To #119

It is also possible that her parents are of European descent, but lives in Japan, gave her a japanese name much like how minorities(not counting ppl from HK] gave their children american names when they are born in America.

It is probably rare to happen in Japan, but I am sure it does happen. 

[Genya Arikado]

I think we can rule out the pics of being that of a 1999 game. What else could they be?

[DarkLavos]

In Reply To #122

They could be fake.

[Genya Arikado]

In Reply To #122

They could be fake.

Most likely.

[DragonSlayr81]

They can be fake. But right now we know next to NOTHING abou the next CV game. Any rumors, fake or legit, still have our mouths watering. I don't mind that.

Even so, I don't really care for the art style. Reminds me of something you'd see in a Korean MMORPG.

[Sonic_Reaper]

Let's be honest here.  Real or not, the screens look like crap.

The artstyle is neither new or interesting.  Sure, nothing's original today, but the design just downright is uninteresting and unlike SotN and perhaps LoI, it no longer invokes any sort of time period, but is a melange of incoherence.

The sprites, again, are outlined FOR NO GOOD REASON.  We're no longer on the GBA.  We can see the sprites fine.  If they're going to reuse sprites again, we're going to have a clash of heaving outline with more refined older stuff.

The backgrounds, like in HoD, AoS, DoS and PoR contain no semblence of atmosphere or understanding of neutral of muted color palettes.  This was used once in DoS, in the beginning area.  Some really nice light blues and deep browns.  Here's it's an oversatured nightmare that adds nothing to the overall mood--whatever it was trying to achieve (in this case, it's a background made for the sake of a background).  It isn't even coherent.  We can't tell WTF it's supposed to be.

Tying into this--the acid tripped out background in the third screen.  I won't even get started on that.

These screens are atrocious.

[Cypress]

Her name is Shanoa/Chanoix, so no it's not Charlotte.
I don' like *bad* animu. Kojima's is mostly good save for her giraffe neck females syndrome.

The only reason that I didn't really care about the anime style. Yoko in Aria was fuckin scary looking.

[Genya Arikado]

Let's be honest here.

[Azmodan]

In Reply To #128

The sprite doesn't even match the artwork. And backgrounds are meant to immerse the player into the game's atmosphere, not serve as wallpaper.

Even the repaticious stages of Curse of Darkness were good.

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[Genya Arikado]

I thought the sprites were fine. As for the background, ok so true they may suck but its only two backgrounds. So the whole thing may not be like that.

[Sonic_Reaper]

Are you an idiot?

No, but thank you for your inquiry.

Also, just because I don't like these screens I hate Castlevania?  I have many faves in the Castlevania series, and none of them look as bad as these screens, fake or not.  And for all the flak that PoR gets (and even some I toss its way), I actually enjoyed that installment for what it was.  But I certainly wouldn't want another helping.

[Genya Arikado]

No, but thank you for your inquiry.

Also, just because I don't like these screens I hate Castlevania?

[ChibiMaddiChan]

Hmm.  I don't know what to say about the pics honestly.  If they're real then I agree: the game needs some work. (That background looks like something taken straight out of PoR's City of Haze chapel.)

The only thing that makes me believe it might be real is the title screen (agreed, that moon looks badly done) and the picture of the actual character when she's talking.  Otherwise, it they seem pretty fake to me. (Though the big creature chasing her up the tower? looks pretty nice.)

If it is, it must be early develop. pics because the sprite really reminds me of Charlotte's with maybe a few tweaks and the hair definately doesn't match the girls picture.

[Kale]

I can't see how it could be in early development... unless this is just an early screen, since the game is japanese and usually, from waht I can tell anyway, it doesn't localize til the game's actually done.

[Sindra]

In Reply To #128

The sprite doesn't even match the artwork......

Did you not read my reply a few pages back? Spriting black hair onto a dark/black background is gonna turn out horrible. Ask any sprite artist.

And don't mind Sonic Reaper.....he's a douche about most things.