Ken McKown writes: It’s hard to believe that it has been nearly three years since Mercury Steam released its reboot of the Castlevania franchise. Lords of Shadow remains one of my favorite games of this generation, despite its flaws. Now, returning to it years later I remember why I fell in love with Gabriel Belmont’s adventure in the first place. The epic set pieces, fantastic voice acting and variety of enemy encounters hold up, and now PC players can see it all in super high resolution glory. Toss in both DLC packs and we have a package worthy of the Belmont name.
This week A Pixelated View discusses the history of the Castlevania series, and whether or not it should be resurrected again.
I'd kill for some more 2D Castlevania titles.
More entries with huge maps to explore and combat/collectible systems similar to Order of Ecclesia, Portrait of Ruin, and Aria/Dawn of Sorrow would be most welcome indeed!
And the music...oh LORD, the MUSIC...
I know a lot of people want all the flashy 3D realism and stuff these days, but for Castlevania, nothing has yet to top the 2D Metroid-vania outings.
They're just quite frankly superior in quality and replay value, IMO.
You said it, Castlevania just doesn't feel right if its not in 2D. It deserves a new handheld release for Vita or 3DS with high res sprites.
Well, the New 3DS offers more power, so, as a wise little taco girl once said: "Why not both?"
Seriously though Konami should release a new Castlevania game. Aria of Sorrow, Symphony of the Night and Portrait of Ruin were my all time favorites.
The New 3DS might pull something off, but it could be bad for business if it can't run on older 3DS models. Vita on the other hand is plenty powerful.
I agree to a point. I thought the first Lords of Shadow was done amazingly well. You can't beat a 2D Castlevania though!
If Rocksteady's Batman series could get the large scale Metroidvania formula down, I can't see why a 3d Castlevania can't work. But I would love to see a new 2d Castlevania but with Igarshi gone I don't think Konami will do anything with Castlevania for a long time.
I don't know how you all feel about this but if they decide to go 3D again, I personally feel that From Software or Platinum Games would do an amazing job.
This, right here.
Souls games really are the closest thing to a 3D Castlevania (the old NES ones) that we have ever had.
You know,
It would be interesting if Konami took Castlevania in the direction that Simon's Quest took.
Think...An open world Transylvania with towns and villages tasked with resurrecting Dracula to destroy him.
The issue would be with the gameplay of course, but in theory, it could be very cool.
That would be a great/new direction.
Castlevania is one of my beloved franchises ever since the days of the first Castlevania and Simon's Quest. I would absolutely love to see something like that Tex!
Online petition anyone..? haha
A new big sale is now available on GameStop in North America, discounting the PC digital versions of several Konami published titles.
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I never got around to playing this, guess I'll have to
It was a really nice game. Might dive in again for the pc graphics
I had it on PS3, but I bought it again off Steam just to support this amazing developer and because the PC version is the one I want to keep in my collection.
It runs very well and looks amazing. The solid 60fps, 1080p resolution, superior texture filtering, and much better anti-aliasing really makes this game live up to its full potential.
On consoles it was one of the best looking games I have played, but it was let down by the aliasing and poor frame rate. On PC it looks outstanding and easily beats other 3rd person action/hack n slash games.
There is just so much diversity and content in this game and I loved the platforming and combat. The characters and voice acting are incredible and the musical score is simply some of the best music to be found in a game.