Castlevania

[Xeon]

Castlevania

Remember those good ol' days swinging the wip at some bats in the green, white and black sidescroller? I sure do!

Best described as a dark fairy tale, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow casts the player as the mysterious Gabriel. At its heart it is a vast third-person-viewed adventure, but combat and puzzle solving also play a major part in the main quest, while dark artifacts can be used to enhance Gabriel's powers.

Oh hot damn I'm looking forward to this game!

Trailer

 

[Tsuyu]

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Too be honest with you, I'm extremely dissapointed.

This new game seems to share nothing with the old ones. It reeks of one of those "Awww man, I can't for the life of me think of a good story or characters to make a new game... oh wait, I'll just rip it off some old game! That way I'll get tons of people buying it for the name only, and I don't have to put a lot of effort into the game!"-dealies.

 

[Xeon]

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This is the first of the sequels I've been able to look at without vomiting, but I have a feeling it will feel much like Infamous and/or Prototype....

 

[Tsuyu]

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And those games had how much in common with the Castlevania of old...?

 

[Xeon]

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nada, nix and nothing

 

[Tsuyu]

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nada, nix and nothing

Exactly.

So if this new Castlevania has a lot of common with those games, and nothing besides the setting to the original Castlevania, aren't we being brought back to my original point of view again?

A shame really.

 

[Xeon]

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The first 3 were good, I sure hope that this Gabriel is one of the Belmonts

 

[Fabled Ravrn]

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Yeah, I'd prefer the old Ghols and Goblins for Super Nintendo , but I think I also had a castlevania for super nintendo, cept I never got past the 3rd levels on either, if I'm remembering correctly.

This one doesn't look half-bad though. Idc, I usually enjoy most games I have except for the extremely-corny-and-also-cheesy-ones-that-I-cant-even-finish. Hopefully it doesn't fall under that category.

[EDIT2] This actually looks more like Shadow OF The Colossus to me, and that was a good game. From now on, I'm gonna finish the video before I post =)

 

[Xeon]

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Yeah, I like how they're using the Vampire Killer Whip element to create something new

 

[Ithan]

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I kinda stopped playing Castlevania after Symphony of the Night, it was good, but that's when they started the 3D bull****.
Aria of Sorrow was ok though, but I still miss being a Belmont.

 

[Xeon]

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Yeah, the series jumped the shark when other whips were created and when dracula got prematurely ressurected for the 10th time.... And the future ****, Aria and Dawn of the shadow...

 

[Fabled Ravrn]

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What's so good about the belmonts?

 

[Xeon]

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• 1094: (The events of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence) The 11th century was a time of knighthood, when the medieval monarchs were waning due to feuding lords and knights. The Catholic Church was undergoing many reforms upon which it was investing upon the land, and of course, as a result, the Crusades became a political scapegoat for their actions.

Two of the courageous knights fighting during this period were Leon Belmont and Mathias Cronqvist, who together with Leon's exceptional combat experience and Mathais' skills as a tactician led one of the strongest companies in the realm. Their fighting led them to never suffer a single defeat, even when they were called off to fight in the Crusades by the Church. Yet, Mathias suffered one major loss upon their return from the Crusades when he was informed about the sudden death of his wife, Elizabetha. She had become very ill and had died. He himself became overcome with grief, and was ill to the point of being bedridden a year later. Leon led the company into battle and they continued to do well. Yet, a band of monsters attacked their realm, pouring from an area known as the Forest of Eternal Night. The Church, not sanctioning combat without political cause, would not permit Leon to order the troops to fight back, so he had to personally deal with the matter. Mathias informed him that the lord of the forest, Walter Bernhard, a very powerful vampire, had kidnapped his betrothed, Sara Trantoul. Leon rushes to the woods, committing treason by doing so, and meets up with Rinaldo Gandolfi, a man who informs him that Walter does this as a game, since he gets bored as an immortal and wants entertainment. He gives Leon a powerful weapon called the Whip of Alchemy (Rinaldo is an alchemist), and Leon enters the castle, having been informed that he must defeat five guardians before reaching Walter (which he does). Leon defeats a Golem, Medusa, Succubus, and even an Undead Parasite on the path to Walter, who laughs at him but returns his beloved after he defeats the vampire Joachim Armster and Leon learns that Walter possesses the Ebony Stone, one of two supernatural stones that can grant extraordinary powers. Rinaldo informs Leon, however, that Sara has been vampirized and that there is really no hope for her, but perhaps if she sacrifices herself to the whip, it will become strong enough to destroy Walter. In the end, not wanting to live as an undead, she does so, and the whip is henceforth known as the Vampire Killer, harnessing the power of her sacrifice and her vampiric aura. Leon uses it to destroy Walter, only to discover that Death would enter the room and stop Walter from bragging, sucking his life-force from him and taking the stone away. He said he served the one who possessed the Crimson Stone, who walks into the room and identifies himself as none other than Mathias. He says that he became immortal through the stone's power in order to defy God, who he cursed every day since his wife's death. He thought that he could use Leon to gain the other stone and increase his power and that perhaps Leon would join him in immortality now that he had lost everything as well. Leon, not agreeing with his friend's logic, tells him that though he is sorry for his loss, he cannot curse God and that he knows God has nothing to do with it. Mathias knows that the two cannot get along, and he says: "Death, he's all yours!" Death stands in the way and teleports Leon and himself to a chaotic world where the two fight, but Leon gets the upper-hand and wins. Mathias assumes bat form and leaves through the window. He then travels to an obscure country, continuing to curse God, and eventually becomes the Lord of Vampires, Prince of Darkness. It has been confirmed that he is Dracula. He would not be seen for almost four hundred years. As for Leon, he barely escapes the castle when it collapses, yet the forest returns to day once again and then he picks up the pieces of his life, vowing that his family will hunt the night.

Only a Belmont can unlock the whips full potential

 

[Ithan]

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What's so good about the belmonts?

A normal human whipping Dracula into submission.
Now, what isn't good about that?

 

[Daemon300]

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This looks like God of War, by which I mean awsome!! Never played the old ones, but I'm may get this one!

 

[Xeon]

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most of the old ones were sidescrollers


Castlevania: '

Dracula X Chronicles:

 

[Ithan]

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Side scrolling is dead, sadly.
Mario, Sonic, Castlevania, all used to be awesome side-scrolling games, but I guess it wasn't shiny enough for the ADHD aspergers ridden children of today.

 

[Xeon]

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Mario's sidescrolling days are still going stroll with his new 4 player co-op/versus game comming up, it's not the first time Castlevania pushes its luck with a 3D version, but different from the others I think that this one will actually be half decent. I'm sure that we will see sidescrolling sequels in the future, they're has been quite a lot of them for the handheld consoles.