"in the vein of bloodborne and Lords of Shadow" could mean literally anything really.
Bloodborne had some top tier Castlevania worthy aesthetics, so I'd like that, but that they are specifying BB and LoS could also just mean it ends up like Code Vein, which was marketed to hell as back as WOW ANIME SOULS but ended up just being kind of a generic hack n slash that maybe just had vaguely bloodborne-esque thematics about blood and shit.
I'll be honest while i'm not against third parties giving it a try, it always feels kind of like an admission of "we just don't have the capability to do it" by the company.
Like, Mega Man 9 and 10 were fine and all, Inti definitely knows their way around a Mega Man game, but there's something special about Mega Man 11 being developed In house at Capcom, and not outsourced.
Konami already tried outsourcing. It really is about time they put out a proper game themselves.
I guess we'll see how it goes.
I've always felt that a reboot isnt terribly necessary, but in general, it is kind of an issue that the heavy focus on lore that came about post symphony, with timelines and stuff, created a problem of IGA writing the series into a corner. You can only fit so many 100 year resurrections in before you run out of space. And you can only fit in so many "early resurrections" before you have Dracula popping up basically every year, which then becomes simply too comical.
if anything, some kind of reboot would not necessarily toss everything out the window and reinvent the wheel like LoS did, but simply be less concerned with the overarching timeline and dates. Avoid that trap. just make the setting vaguely thematic to a specific century without specifying when it takes place. Since it doesnt really matter.