Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls: Console Edition
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Whipping A Dead Mr. Hed: The Castlevania Thread Of Sacred Remains
- Thread starter R.R. Bigman
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Surprised they left that money on the counter as long as they have
I guess that's supposed to be a punchline but I'd legitimately like that. It has good art and a bunch of series characters having fun, entertaining interactions--something that's in short supply these days when bile like the Netflix series is just about the only avenue for representing these characters.
Same. I'm enjoying Mega Man X DiVE Offline, I'd be down for the 'vania equivalent.
It was at least partially sincere. I know GoS did some neat stuff and it'd be nice if the version that extracted the microtransactions from it was available in a non-Apple Arcade form.
A full lobby in HoD is super fun, especially if you're swinging a giant hammer at a giant skeleton.
R.R. Bigman
Coolest Guy
I’m not sure what other collections Konami could bring out at this point. The DS games would be tricky to port, only I would buy an N64 Castlevania two pack, and at least Lament of Innocence is still available on the PSN store.
Castlevania really does need to come back, and with a new direction after the Lords of Shadows team tried their own unfortunate thing. Maybe try to make a good Sonia Belmont game? Demon Castle Wars? More Soma adventures? I would take almost anything.
Castlevania really does need to come back, and with a new direction after the Lords of Shadows team tried their own unfortunate thing. Maybe try to make a good Sonia Belmont game? Demon Castle Wars? More Soma adventures? I would take almost anything.
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
Yeah, I got a few opportunities to do that back when I was finishing up grad school. If I were to start that up again I'd at least want to clean out the PS3, thing's probably full of lint at this point.
I feel like it's a pie in the sky thing, but what if they did remakes of the games the Netflix series are based on, and made them tie in more closely (I.e. same art style and designs, same voice actors for dialogue)?
R.R. Bigman
Coolest Guy
I ended up liking the Castlevania Netflix show a fair bit over time, but I do not want to see that tone carried to the series proper. I would one hundred percent replace Curse of Darkness Isaac with Netflix Show Isaac in the canon, on the other hand. Talk about an upgrade.
Basically all the 3D ones are unavailable at this point. Space is obviously a bit of a premium on those, at least if they were to hit Switch, but I could see a collection of both N64 games and both PS2 games, maybe? I could also maybe see Bluepoint doing a Lords of Shadow Collection for PS5/Series X, though they seem to mostly work with Sony (are they owned by Sony?).
But, I mean, yeah, the big ones would be the DS Trilogy, which... hey, Flip Grip (do the Switch versions of Mega Man ZX/Advent have Flip Grip support?). Though I could also see a Ghost Trick-style port, but that's enough work it would probably necessitate selling them all individually instead of in a collection.
The Lords of Shadow games are all on Steam and the Xbox store and backwards compatible on the Xboxes. But beyond that...yeah, not good.
Outside of LoS the PlayStation 2 games are probably on the more likely track for seeing remasters as well...but it'd be nice if the Nintendo 64 games got some love for once. Given they haven't shown up on three different Nintendo 64 emulation services and Nintendo seems to have no interest in learning how to Controller Pak again (or for whatever reasons, can't), it'd be nice if Konami remastered the games.
I want the biker skeletons to ride again.
R.R. Bigman
Coolest Guy
Spending too much at his shop only forces you to fight demonic Jean Reno. The endings are determined by the in-game clock.
I have seen at least a few people online who have gone to bat (heh) for Castlevania 64/Legacy. I think the videogame audience has changed enough that ,if those games were still commercially available, more people could at least appreciate the massive swings they were taking at doing different things.
I have seen at least a few people online who have gone to bat (heh) for Castlevania 64/Legacy. I think the videogame audience has changed enough that ,if those games were still commercially available, more people could at least appreciate the massive swings they were taking at doing different things.
More or less. Cornell's opening stage on the ship gets added to both Reinhardt and Carrie's scenarios, but otherwise they're mostly intact--whatever differences there are in the level design (Tower of Execution was heavily revised, for example--really, all the towers were) and mechanics are universal across Legacy as a whole (the lone-ish exception is the Villa being different for Cornell, even if it occupies the same spot in the level progression); this does mean that the first game has some "exclusive" renditions of the shared material. Cornell's story is sort of a supercut of almost all the content the game has: he goes through all four of the original duo's late-game towers, which were originally split evenly, with the mid-game tunnel and waterway exclusive stages as well as the castle center being the only pre-existing stages he doesn't visit, and which are replaced with three different and new stages for him.
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jpfriction
(He, Him)
Until this thread I always thought people were talking about curse of darkness whenever they mentioned legacy of darkness and was very confused because I played a fair amount of that game and never saw any motorcycle skeletons.
Oh, didn’t realize that Castlevania Nocturne was out today.
First episode tells me it’s more of what I wanted from a CV show.
Well, I didn’t specifically ask for a show about a monster Hunter killing vampires amidst the French Revolution, but whatever gets you there.
First episode tells me it’s more of what I wanted from a CV show.
Well, I didn’t specifically ask for a show about a monster Hunter killing vampires amidst the French Revolution, but whatever gets you there.
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
You didn't but I sure did! Liberte, egalite, sanglante
Ludendorkk
(he/him)
You miss out on the the original designs of the Tower stages and the Forest, but with the debatable exception of the Tower of Sorcery I think they are all substantial upgrades over the originals, so unless you are an ultra-completionist Legacy will serve you fine for both games
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
It's Castleween (didn't we used to have an event? Well, I guess we are all busier lately). So I'm playing Castlevania Bloodlines and should finally finish the Castlevania Collection vol. 1 this year. I guess no Belmonts (by name) in this one?
Bloodlines is Belmont free. It establishes the Morris family as the protector of the Vampire Killer until the Belmont clan resurfaces (which carries on through Portrait of Ruin with Jonathan Morris), and at some point the whip returns to Julius Belmont for his successful destruction of Dracula in 1999.
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