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Play magazine, Feb. issue blurb about new Castlevania game for PSP
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pancakesandsex
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Rondo of Blood is the 1st dracula X gameDefensor said:
Japanese castlevania at that time was known as akumajo dracula
-Rondo was Akumajou Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (but in japanese)
-The Snes version was actually Akumajou Dracula XX, released in the US as Castlevania: Dracula X
-Symphony of the night is actually Akumajou Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight (but in japanese)
-and thats where i stopped following the naming, but im pretty sure they use castlevania in japan now too...
rollingstart
Banned
id be happy if it was an old style Castlevania game in that it had a bunch of levels, but with the fighting/movement speed of SOTN/Metroidvanias.
Has Iga finally stepped up and demanded his team to get over their PSPhobia, or has Sony's money hats began to kick in (possibly both) ?! Either way, who gives a flying ****. Because finally the PSP is officially being blessed with what it has always been designed for, 2D CASTLEVANIA GOODNESS !! God is good, can I get amen ?!
Well, if this is indeed true, I'll bet we'll probably hear something at the Konami Show in Feb.
Still, no "fanboy notions" intended, but I would just be left wondering what would make IGA/Konami pursue this. Didn't some of Capcom's own ventures (the Megaman and Ghoul n Ghosts games) teach a valuable lesson that while perhaps such games may end up looking beautiful on the PSP...they may sell worth crap on it?
And unless CV starts getting into the same club that Metal Gear Solid enjoys, I don't percieve that trend changing...
Still, no "fanboy notions" intended, but I would just be left wondering what would make IGA/Konami pursue this. Didn't some of Capcom's own ventures (the Megaman and Ghoul n Ghosts games) teach a valuable lesson that while perhaps such games may end up looking beautiful on the PSP...they may sell worth crap on it?
And unless CV starts getting into the same club that Metal Gear Solid enjoys, I don't percieve that trend changing...
LiveFromKyoto
Member
Luckyman said:
Because the system actually sells very well.
<---- as you can see i was hoping this would spurn the 2D era on the PSP but all those LocoRoco's could do was sing their hearts out to but a few people. :'(
Everyone together it's the LocoRoco Sing-a-long
Hope this game is like metroidvania and i hope it sells by the bucketload to start something on the PSP, the system needs more 2D games badly.
It's very hard to find Exit in the shops anywhere.
Everyone together it's the LocoRoco Sing-a-long
Hope this game is like metroidvania and i hope it sells by the bucketload to start something on the PSP, the system needs more 2D games badly.
It's very hard to find Exit in the shops anywhere.
sixteen-bit
Member
How can Dracula X arc be a trilogy? At the end of SotN, Dracula is dead for 100 years and doesn't Alucard go to sleep until the Sorrow games?
but if it's a port of Chi no Rondo, AWESOME.
but if it's a port of Chi no Rondo, AWESOME.
_dementia said:
It could end up being written as a trilogy, simply because there is probably one major thing that could be told about Richter's life...."Why did he have to give up the Vampire Killer, any way?". And I'm sure they could just as easily write Shaft and Drac into the mix yet AGAIN, if they so wished. But that would have to definitely be Shaft's last hurrah...
As for Al? That depends. But in any case, he actually should be awake and fell of pep (for him, any way), by 1999. If that's supposed to be the "final conflict" between Belmonts and Dracula, I don't think he'd be missing out on his Pop's last house party where they can all party like it's 1999...because it IS! :lol
farnham said:Rondo of Blood is considered one of the best Castlevania games...
its not metroidvania its hardcore action
i prefer the SNES version though.. its developed by (the future)treasure and all...
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anyway another port for PSP yay!!!:lol
Didn't the SNES have some serious downgrades?
snes version has completely different level design -- it's basically a new game with the same story. and while its color palette is richer, it has a lot less variety and animation than the pce version. i prefer snes drac x to cv4 and bloodlines, but it's clearly inferior to pce dracula x.
DarknessTear
Banned
Rondo of Blood is an amazing game and if this news is true I be happy!
Port? Meh.
Agreed, for the most part. But the SNES game was clearly inspired by the PCE version. It wasn't a sequel, but a reinterpretation. SotN, technically, is the sequel to Dracula X (either version).
Though I'd like to add that some of the songs in the SNES version were better too.
drohne said:
Agreed, for the most part. But the SNES game was clearly inspired by the PCE version. It wasn't a sequel, but a reinterpretation. SotN, technically, is the sequel to Dracula X (either version).
Though I'd like to add that some of the songs in the SNES version were better too.
DarknessTear
Banned
Mejilan said:
Whaaat? You cwazy!
DarknessTear
Banned
Mejilan said:
I still dunno... felt a lot more impact from Rondo of Blood personally but the music in Dracula X was good too.
I find it hard to get excited over yet another Castlevania game. As far as I'm concerned they just don't play like the old school ones that I love. Hopefully if it is a new game, it will be classic Castlevania but updated visually ala Ultimate Ghosts n Goblins. That will excite me at least.
Hellraizah
Member
Finally Capcom wakes up and deliver what fans want.
Mockingbird
Member
Huh? I thought for sure this would come to virtual console via Hudson.
cartman414
Member
Mockingbird said:
They've been working on it. Not necessarily that it's been a given.