"While most of MAGfest XI entailed me nerding out during videogame music cover bands, meeting new people and attending some fantastic panels, I did have the honor of interviewing veteran game composer Kinuyo Yamashita of Castlevania and Mega Man X3 fame.
Kinuyo and I chatted about a bunch of things, including how big videogame music has gotten over the years, her influences and style for some of her more well-known compositions and the official answer regarding that “Neon Tiger” track from Mega Man X3.
Special thanks goes to Maho Azuma for translating and MAGfest’s Nick Marinelli for coordinating the interview."
- Patrick Kulikowski
Konami's highly rare Castlevania: The Arcade has finally been preserved, and everyone can soon get to play it for free.
The Last of Us, Castlevania, and Arcane are actually good. What else could be good?
I think the games would need to have a strong narrative or lots of lore to explore to make a good show. I don't understand why Overwatch doesn't make one, Blizzards cinematics are already amazing, why not just make some shows with their stuff?
For me:
- Sleeping Dogs (I know Donnie Yen's making a film)
- Killzone (from the Helghast perspective)
- Mass Effect
- BioShock (showing the rise and fall of Rapture)
- Hitman
- L.A. Noire
Mafia series
Hitman
Mass Effect (if done similar to Star Trek)
Red Dead Redemption
Detroit Becoming Human
Max Payne
Yakuza
Castlevania is one of the most important franchises in gaming history and yet it's been largely abandoned, despite being so very ripe for new games.
Fuck off with the 3d generic action adventure crap. Give me more classic 2d Castlevania or GTFO.
nah it's Konami remember? They don't have a good team in place for it. Play Bloodstain; amazing game.
Typical Konami, unfortunately there back catalogue means nothing to them. But we can live in hope.
Yeah but the fact that Itagaki left sort of shoots this idea in the foot. I thoroughly enjoyed the new Bloodstained games on the Switch. Not the 2.5D one but the 8 bit versions.