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Will Koji Igarashi's Castlevania successor be revealed this Monday?
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PixyJunket
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I've been drinking a lot tonight, so I'll read this thoroughly in the morning, but all I have to say right now is "COLLECTATHONS ARE DOO DOO GAME. Give me Igarashi Kickstarter."
Castlevania without pixel art sounds like an awful idea. Few 2D games actually get the HD look right cause most of them look like Flash games.
Muscle Wizard
Banned
Dracula is in the public domain, so as long as it's not too infringing on the Konami Castlevania Dracula, it's certainly possible. Of course, the old school Castlevania games ripped off Universal Studios Bela Lugosi Dracula without a hitch, so I'm not sure if even that stipulation is necessary.
OmegaDL50
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I disagree, Hi-Res 2D games that use a hand drawn look such as Vanillaware titles don't look like Flash games at all.
Also generally hand drawn art holds much better at higher resolutions than pixel art. There is a level of scalability involved.
And if this is a kickstarter I would think IGA would be budget concious since raising money to develop the game will be much different as opposed to say having the corporate backing of a big publisher for instance.
If by some awesome goal IGA's kickstarter manages to raise Mighty Number 9 levels of funding, or even something like Divinity: Original Sin or Pillars of Eternity.
It would still not impossible to have a game with sprite quality on par with the likes of something comparable to Guilty Gear XX, KOFXIII, or a Vanillaware release.
threelights
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Daaamn, this is great.
Really interested in what he's working on.
Really interested in what he's working on.
Finale Fireworker
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My understanding is that the character and his appearance are so commonplace that they have become genericized, especially with Bram Stoker's source material in the public domain. Universal or Konami would have had to have introduced original elements that were not present in the original mythology for a distinction to be made.
The "Dracula" look with the black and red cape, the high collar, the fangs and the wolf/bat/mist powers would all be fair game. You can really do anything with him in that case.
rockman zx
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Sima Shi looks like your average Ayami Kojima character, I guess her style did not evolve at all. We will see what happen, I rather have her doing female characters than male characters.
Hah, was doritoing around for info about this yesterday wondering when Iga-sans Castlemania would be revealed 
Perfect as long as you don't want to afk level your Sword familiar a la SOTN But other than that? Yes perfect
Perfect as long as you don't want to afk level your Sword familiar a la SOTN
But other than that? Yes perfect Hah, was doritoing around for info about this yesterday wondering when Iga-sans Castlemania would be revealed
Perfect as long as you don't want to afk level your Sword familiar a la SOTN
If you're referring to /v/, I actually made a thread there asking if people were hyped yesterday. Maybe you saw mine?
Not many posted in it.
funkystudent
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It still boggles my mine Konami never made a brand new SOTN sequel for XBLA / PSN last gen when everyone was making follow ups to their retro IP (Megaman 9, Sonic 4, New Mario Bros, Bionic Commando, etc)
Their retro line was the ReBirth trilogy, which was exclusive to WiiWare. Outside of that, I think they tried to revive Contra with Hard Corps: Uprising, but Konami was Konami: only Contra fans knew it was a Contra game.
If you're referring to /v/, I actually made a thread there asking if people were hyped yesterday. Maybe you saw mine?
Not many posted in it.
Hah, yeah saw that as well but by doritoing I was referring to Googling
Just had this notion that something must have been or would be said about it yesterday so I was searching everywhere
Even ventured in on 2chan and got stuck in the English thread Slightly off topic but...I only discovered today that there is a SOTN port on XBLA.
It looks absolutely terrible - the image quality looks crap, and the scaling and border is horrible.
I don't care regardless as I have the actual PS1 version on both the disc and via retroarch, but am I right in assuming the XBLA version is poor?
It looks absolutely terrible - the image quality looks crap, and the scaling and border is horrible.
I don't care regardless as I have the actual PS1 version on both the disc and via retroarch, but am I right in assuming the XBLA version is poor?
It's poor because at the time it came out there was a file size limitations for XBLA arcade games.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well it's actually one of the best versions to speed run and for all intents and purposes it's the same as the PSX version aside from some glitching, quicker loadtimes, and missing some FMV.
To be fair? Not entirely excusing Kojima here, but...that's pretty much what Sima Shi's original design looked like in the first place. In that light, it just showed how much she was able to slide right in and make Koei's pretty boys fit her style.
And how many does that? Nah SOTN is a pleasure game
and missing all the fmvs makes it really disappointing. What was MS thinking by limiting the sizes of arcade games?? :/Edit:
Oooh, Saturn version ftw! Forgot that for a second lol
One can always visit this old thread for SOTN.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=513151
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
And how many does that? Nah SOTN is a pleasure game
Oooh, Saturn version ftw! Forgot that for a second lol
Well it's a pretty serviceable version if you only have an Xbox 360 atm of it's available platforms.
IQ is fine so I'm not sure if he has the blur filter on.I pretty much have it on everything but Saturn because it runs like poo.
Whatever he's working on and whenever he's ready I am going to support it crowd funding or otherwise.
If it is indeed a Castlevania type game and it looks like that may indeed be the case he should announce it soon. I don't think the subgenre has ever been more in fashion than it is right now and as was mentioned in another thread the level of hatred for Konami is so high there are people who may back him simply out of spite.
Really hope this is something which is going down soon, if the project is what I'm hoping for I will back for a good amount, regardless of what he's doing next he has my support though.
If it is indeed a Castlevania type game and it looks like that may indeed be the case he should announce it soon. I don't think the subgenre has ever been more in fashion than it is right now and as was mentioned in another thread the level of hatred for Konami is so high there are people who may back him simply out of spite.
Really hope this is something which is going down soon, if the project is what I'm hoping for I will back for a good amount, regardless of what he's doing next he has my support though.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
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Somehow, IGA will still find a way to reuse 16 year old sprites.
TheDarkBites
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I adored his Castlevania's.
The plot thickens...!
Sir_Crocodile
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eagerly awaiting the commodore 64 version
I'm OK with that.
*goes to play monster Hunter which looks worse than the first iteration*
Edit: Ooh, Saturn version is poo?
have a version lying around but no Saturn since it died ages ago I'm OK with that.
*goes to play monster Hunter which looks worse than the first iteration*
Edit: Ooh, Saturn version is poo?
It has two new areas, a consistent Richter sprite, but awful performance.
I personally prefer the PSP version, but that's only on a homebrew system that allows the game to be true 16:9.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
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I completely disregarded the PSP version when saw that I had to deal with shitty borders, not to mention the new awful lifeless voice acting. Barely got past the prologue.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well you can switch to the Norio Wakamoto voiced Dracula in Japanese, but yeah the PSP version isn't too great.
Augemitbutter
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waiting patiently.
I'm shaking with anticipation!! Can't believe this is probably really real!!!!!!
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Nonsense. Dragon's Crown, Odin Sphere, Rayman Legends, Child of Light, Valiant Hearts, Ori and the Blind Forest, Aaru's Awakening, Guilty Gear Xrd*, Ghost Song....
* Yes I know it's actually 3D but it looks like 2D and it's gorgeous
firebranded
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Dear God,
Let it be so.
Amen
Let it be so.
Amen
Thanks for the thread, Foffy.
Curious to see what the scope of the project is, the people involved, desired budget and estimated release schedule.
By the way, any info on the new studio that Koji Igarashi set up recently?
http://artplay.co.jp/
Curious to see what the scope of the project is, the people involved, desired budget and estimated release schedule.
By the way, any info on the new studio that Koji Igarashi set up recently?
http://artplay.co.jp/
New Quarterwomann Tweet:
Maybe that Jonathan Holmes post does have something to do with this ...
https://twitter.com/Quarterwomann/statuses/594768145711140867
Maybe that Jonathan Holmes post does have something to do with this ...
Well like you said, it's likely a staggered announcement. Official announcement of the project on May 4th, build up some press attention and then get out the Kickstarter a few days or a week later.
Sparrowhawk
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Goddamn, I'm already blowing way too much money on Yooka-Laylee.
If this is Kickstarted, I'll be broke for life.
If this is Kickstarted, I'll be broke for life.
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