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

[Clara E. Leet]

Seriously, Genya, this is your last warning. You are E-stalking everyone who is calling you out on your behavior and claiming to not be the ass here. One more strike and you're out for a couple days.

Serio, too, calm down.

Seriously though, Serio does have a shitload more experience in the field of spriting, color, and mood than most people here and his say is much more valid and has a higher standing. At least, I think so.

[DragonSlayr81]

In Reply To #224

I was wondering about that because I went and checked the Feb. issue (got it for Sonic DS news) and didn't see a thing on it.

[Genya Arikado]

Seriously, Genya, this is your last warning. You are E-stalking everyone who is calling you out on your behavior and claiming to not be the ass here.

I'm not stalking, I just post in only two areas, sorry for the misunderstanding.

[awack]

Seriously though, Serio does have a shitload more experience in the field of spriting, color, and mood than most people here and his say is much more valid and has a higher standing. At least, I think so.

Does Serio have more experience than the people making castlevania games

[Sindra]

Three people need to stay with castlevanaia, Koji Igarashi, Ayami Kojima, and Michiru Yamane. These three are what make Castlevania, Castlevania.

Oh man...that made me laugh.

IGA's time has come and gone. He's been in the series the past decade, and it's time for a change. He did his due the past 10 years and made a significant mark on the series, but now things are getting stale. It's time for someone else with new vision to come in and take the reigns of the series so that new blood can be infused and things from keep being re-hashed.

Otherwise, we'll just continue to get SotN clones.

[Clara E. Leet]

In Reply To #231

And really shitty SotN clones, at that.

[Genya Arikado]

I dissagree. Igarashi has made the Castlvania games much better. He put them on the map.

[jestercolony]

ROFL Genya. Castlevania has always BEEN on the map. IGA has been re-using the same Metroid formula for the past 10 years. It was cool back in 1997 and made us go wow. Circle of the Moon came out, again made us go wow because re-used Castlevania hard difficulty which it has always been about. HoD came out, again pretty good. Then AoS came out and it captured the mood. But as soon as DoS came out I was hyped for it. I was told it was excellent so I got it. Well wow, first area was cool, but then wow after that it goes down hill.

Portrait of Ruin was pretty cool when I first saw it in the early stages, after getting my castlevania high I went out preordered, got it the day it came out. I dived into it... It was cool at first with the sub levels, I couldn't wait to see the other ones... Well after 4 levels, you then are shown a small us castle  main Castle Map which could have used bosses...etc. Then more 4 levels of the same design, different music, darker atmosphere and did I also mention the plot? It was cool at first....

...But the whole Death/Dracula thing wtf? That's like Transformer shit. I knew that was going to happen. Which was completely retarded, not to mention over powered to make it more "difficult" yeah yeah, just spam your poitions blah blah blah boom dead...

Wow a kiddy ending. Portrait of Ruin was suppose to take place during WW2 Wtf. where's the nazi skeletons and references to Hilter, what about Bartley...etc. Oh no LeCrade DIED! I mean come on, it's over used.

IGA failed to bring CoD and LOI into threedom the CV64's where the only CV's that actually kept it true to Castlevania. So please explain to me why the hell IGA is great for the series? He even stated he's starting to run out of ideas.

Castlevania is on the market but it isn't ON the actual most famous gaming market. If it's not as famous as Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid, it wont be getting the 2D ot 3D treatment it needs. Why? MONEY.

Maybe if IGA pulled an actual Metroid and released a Castleraoid every 2-3-4 years, that would be a different story because he would ahve time to get his facts straight.  So you're quite wrong. If you're saying IGA brought it to the Market they're obiviously a n00b to the series.

The only good recent release he has done was Dracula X remake. But he failed to bring us new content to SoTN on the DXC title. I was looking at it's map the other night and he could have easily put more areas around the map, added in more monsters, bosses, could have redid the boss config to make it more challanging. The voice acting was horrible. It was fresh and new I admit, but very horrible. It was chessier than SoTN. Alucard was suppose to sound like a dark and tormented soul. Not this kid, the guy is 400 years old, he should sound older, not some Cloud wanna be sounding boy. And Maria? She sounded like a 12 year old on speed. They need to find a better voice actor to best suit her "older" character because women's voices do get slightly deeper like men as they "mature", Richter was fine, but too much. Dracula was perfect but overly done.

So please explain to me how and why IGA has put Castlevania on the map? You may think but yeah the reviwers say this. No screw them. They just say its good because its easy. Every game released nowadays is easy. They fail to recapture the hard difficulty we had as a kids because there was no internet, no gamefaqs. We had to relay on 1900 tip lines and Nintendo Power and Nintendo Strategy guides and passwords.

So please EXPLAIN to me why?

[Kamui0101]

This is the worst thread ever. Seriously. Some of the arguments being thrown around are hardly worth reading. So many of you are complaining about the lack of originality in the metroidvanias being released, then say they should go back to the old school formula, which is absurd. The older formula is just as played out, if not more so, since so many other games have used it. You can argue the series needs to go a totally new direction, but don't complain about the existing formula then ask to go back to a previously over used one.

Additionally, why the fuck are people complaining about the storylines in IGA's games when NONE of the Castlevania games have had a good storyline? Let's be reasonable, they're all awful. Any redeeming value you could find in any of them is a stretch. IGA didn't start that trend, Castlevania has always been this way.

To those complaining about the way these shots look, you're being completely unreasonable. Regardless of what past beta shots have revealed, these are still early shots, and more than that, they're shots that were never supposed to see the light of day in the first place. Your expectations for shots this early are unreasonably high in the worst way possible. Don't try to argue otherwise, you know this is the case. Feel free to complain when official shots are revealed, but until then, tone it down.

[Bloodreign]

Well how about an infusion of the old school, and the new school, sure this can be done, and who knows it could breed something entirely new to the series.

[Ralph]

I dissagree. Igarashi has made the Castlvania games much better. He put them on the map.

Castlevania's been "on the map" since the very first one on the NES... which sold fairly well. Not to mention pretty popular too.

[Long John Silver]

Well how about an infusion of the old school, and the new school, sure this can be done, and who knows it could breed something entirely new to the series.

Already done. It's called Legacy of Darkness.

[Dark Nemesis]

In Reply To #228

I'm sorry guys!! I have post it, because i have read it at nintendo go, but it turn out to be wrong!

[G-Han]

Even if the same formula has been used over and over again, it still makes the average Igavania better than B-games like Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. Also, Metroid has been using this Metroidvania for even more than a decade, so stop whining please.

[Clara E. Leet]

In Reply To #240

Yeah but the thing is, that Works for Metroid, and Metroid isn't an RPG.

And B-games? Zelda and Mario are B-games? At least every game they put out is fantastic, and not hit-or-miss like IGAvanias.