Topic: CV is running out of timeline...

[DragonSlayr81]

I don't know, I don't find anything wrong with CV as it is right now. I understand everything perfectly fine, IGA's vanias included.

If someone wanted to make something as simple as they can, just go out and do that classic "Drac resurrects, Belmonts take up the whip to kill him", nothing more, nothing less. The old games were so simple that way.

[Mikepjr]

I kind of wish they would do that again.. after SOTN it seems like every GBA and DS CV game used the same explorative style.
I do miss the days of just going through a level fighting off bad guys making my war to drac.. only thing i do not miss is the time limits.. i hate timers.. i want to take my own friggen time getting through a level lol.

[Slayer]

I agree with you, especially about the timers.

[Friedenshund]

Hi everyone

As for the curse, it's a guess. Iga said that Richter was the last Belmont to be recognised as a true Belmont by the whip before 1999 (hence he's the whip's avatar during the battles), so my guess is his son must have done something abominable enough to cause the whole "belmonts, gtfo and away from the whip" thing, that lasted until 1999.

Well, I think it could

[Long John Silver]

Well, I think it could

[Friedenshund]

hm...maybe because it happened a second time or something like that...

Well, I hope they will explain it in The Demon Castle Wars. And a explanation in the manual would be the least they could do *sigh*

[Profbeanburrito]

Maybe Richter becomes an alcoholic and can't get the whip back until he completes his 12 step program....sadly, Richter dies in a horse accident while riding under the influence.

But seriously, what could Richter do that would punish his family like that? I like the idea, I hope they do something like that, I just don't know what it could be.
Of course, maybe, since there are no Renard ancestors, maybe he kills Maria with the whip. I don't know why maybe something to do with the 'Maria turning into a demon ending' in SotN. Killing a pure soul with the Vampire Killer probably wouldn't be good....

[Azmodan]

And despite that, we got Simon who had no trouble with the whip. Hell, he went and single handedly handed drac's ass to him.

It's Simon. I wouldn't expect anything less. >_>

When did it say that the Belmonts couldn't handle the whip in between Dracula's ressurections? Juste, Trevor in CoD, Simon in SQ, Richter in SotN, heck, Leon had the whip when Dracula was still Mathias.

IGA said something happened after SotN that caused the whip to be passed to the Morris family. That's the only instance of the whip being seperated from the Belmonts.

[Thomas Belmont]

It's Simon. I wouldn't expect anything less. >_>

When did it say that the Belmonts couldn't handle the whip in between Dracula's ressurections? Juste, Trevor in CoD, Simon in SQ, Richter in SotN, heck, Leon had the whip when Dracula was still Mathias.

IGA said something happened after SotN that caused the whip to be passed to the Morris family. That's the only instance of the whip being seperated from the Belmonts.

I believe Serio was referring to Simon having no trouble wielding the Vampire Killer even though he was cursed by Dracula.

[Azmodan]

And Richter also wielded the Vampire Killer when you fought him in SotN.

Or am I missing something? ;_;

[Long John Silver]

That and the fact that even though the same thing that happens to richter happened to Simon's ancestor, they didn't have to give the whip to anyone else.

Which is why I think it wasn't Richter who caused the whole thing, but his son. Richter was still remembered as a hero by the whip (hell it uses him as its avatar), so I doubt if he were to shame the family to the point they couldn't even use the whip anymore he'd be remembered at all, and you'd probably fight someone else in pork.

[Azmodan]

A Belmont gone awry of his own will? That'd be interesting to see, but I have a feeling that it'd be something minor like 'to wield ultimate powah for 1999, you must give it up till then' or the like.

[Steve]

In Reply To #86

The Whip's Memory taking Richter's form just meant he was the last Belmondo to use it.  It wasn't a matter of honor or anything.

[Thomas Belmont]

A Belmont gone awry of his own will? That'd be interesting to see, but I have a feeling that it'd be something minor like 'to wield ultimate powah for 1999, you must give it up till then' or the like.

I hate how Iga made the Belmonts lose the power to wield the Vampire Killer and I can totally see him copping out and using the " A Belmont mustn't use the Vampire Killer until 1999 for it to be at it's maximum strength" excuse. However,  what if Richter was so ashamed of succumbing to Shaft's spell and, thinking that Dracula was finally defeated by Alucard, gave the Vampire Killer to the Morris'. I know it's pretty lackluster but I can't see it being done too many other ways since the Vampire Killer's last memory of a Belmont was Richter. If he trained his son to use it, his son would most likely be the whip's last memory of a Belmont.





Edit: Or maybe St. Germain could have had something to do with it.

[The Last Belmont]

I'm tired of remakes. New material is next.

Also, there's plenty of timeline between the years 1094 & 1476.

I agree I wanna see some of this awesome power that caused the belmonts to become feared by everyone else and caused the pope to have an insanely hard time tracking Trevor/Ralph down for Legend of Demon Castle. (not that it's not present in the older games, they just really didn't have the tech at the time dealing with 2d sprites to show what the belmonts powers could possibly look like in real life)