Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer

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• GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It looks fucking great! (ง’̀-‘́)ง

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looks interesting…

  …but you should know the guy who made the Castlevania games left Konami a while ago. He makes the Bloodstained games with a different publisher. So it’s a new IP but it’s basically the same thing. And they have a new one coming out. The first one, Ritual of the Night, was a spiritual successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. They also made a handful of 8-bit games in the IP to satisfy the old-school crowd.

  So there are basically no “real” Castlevania games. If it uses the Castlevania name, the creator isn’t involved. If he is, it’s called Bloodstained and not Castlevania.

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  • jaselle@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Iga was not the creator of castlevania. He was the creator of SotN and later games.

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It certainly feels like the beginning of that franchise.

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    • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So, the good ones, minus Simon’s Quest.

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  • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Koji Igarashi was responsible for the “Metroidvania” style, but was not the creator of Castlevania. He worked on the series from Symphony of the Night and through the NDS games. There were games in the series both before his involvement and after.

    Iga’s great, but Castlevania is still Castlevania without his influence.

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    • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There were Metroidvanias outside Castlevania as well. And that’s my point. You take the person who made the games what they are for most people, it’s just another one of the clones, but with official branding.

      It’s like when Call of Duty started adding multiple developers so they could churn out the series. People were paying for the name, they didn’t really care about who actually worked on it. But, those games were super formulaic.

      A better example would be Rockband and Guitar Hero. Harmonix made Guitar Hero, but they wanted to add drums and vocals, and publisher Activision said nah, just stick to the one controller. But Harmonix were all musicians (mostly indie bands around Boston) so for that and other reasons, they left. Activision kept remaking Guitar Hero 2 with different songs via the Tony Hawk developer, Neversoft, and it was mostly okay, until Rockband started getting big, and Activision realised they needed drums and vocals as well. Long story short, they did very poorly. They kept churning out games, mostly to flood the market with crap. Guitar Hero is now dead, and Rockband is now called Fortnite Festival (I’m not kidding).

      So yeah, Castlevania without the guy who made Castlevania what it is and into something people want to play? It might be successful, but it’ll be a soulless husk at best. Maybe it’ll even be fun, but it just sounds to me like a game dreamed up by suits in a board room who hate gaming except for the profits, not a game made by gamers for gamers and for the love of the game. Like most shit churned out by Activision, Bethesda, Ubisoft, EA, etc. (And yes, many of those publishers have storied histories.)

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• DaedalousIlios@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For all those wondering, no, this is not PS5 exclusive: …steampowered.com/…/Castlevania_Belmonts_Curse/

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh thank God! After watching the trailer and seeing only the PS5 logo, I was staying to feel real bummed.

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Must be thrilling for Motion Twin to get to work on this. They earned it, TBH. All the power to them.

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• ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Big Castlevania fan, but Konami can’t get bent after the way they treated gamers and devs in 2015. Never again.

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• tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1. I love Castlevania
  2. Evil Empire and MotionTwin

  I’m in.

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• jaselle@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Trevor name dropped, but protagonist looks like Sonya – am confused!

  Excited for a new castlevania game, but skeptical of these developers. I didn’t like Dead Cells.

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• toomanypancakes@piefed.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh shit, that actually looks pretty sicknasty

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wishes:

    1. Not exclusive to PS
    2. Not a rougelike

    That is all, please and thank you.

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• neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not a fan of the art style to be honest

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  • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t dislike that art style in other games but nothing about that trailer gave me castlevania vibes

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    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, it is too bright.

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  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s exactly what I was thinking, glad I saw your comment before making pretty much the same one. Granted, I also didn’t like the 3-D but 2-D style of Bloodstained, but this is orders of magnitude worse based on that youtube vid.

    Granted, the graphics aren’t the main draw to this type of Metroidvania, so long as the gameplay is good, I’ll be happy enough. But, I have serious reservations about the thought process that went into the approval of this design. I’m not usually so opinionated, so it has to the pretty awful for me to call it as much.

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    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree with your opinion about bloodstained. I played it a bit recently, and I think that 3d/2d style is pretty horrendous.

      I think it is done to save cost as it is easier to make a game with 3d models than it is to use 2d sprites.

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• switcheroo@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gonna be honest here. This, was the most interesting part of the State of Play.

  And I don’t even play side scrollers.

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• you_are_dust@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hope this isn’t PlayStation exclusive. I know most of the Castlevania stuff has been released on PC too, but there was Castlevania: Requiem that we didn’t get on PC.

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• Ryoae@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is not doing anything for me. The art style is meh.

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Helllllll yeah

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• Feyd@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Animation and sound design reminds me of blasphemous and moonscars, which are games I like, but I wouldn’t say feel very castlevania-y

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• agingelderly@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cool when can I get this on steam?

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