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A new Castlevania gets made! Would you like it to be in the style of the classics or another igavania?
- Thread starter Lant_War
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Old school or Metroidvania, either way is fine. No sense in wishing for a good 3D Castlevania. It'll never happen.
Combat, enemy and bosses are too poor for that distinction. Of the games based on The Divine Comedy it's better than DMC2 and Dante's Inferno, I'll give it that much.
Combat, enemy and bosses are too poor for that distinction. Of the games based on The Divine Comedy it's better than DMC2 and Dante's Inferno, I'll give it that much.
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Iga or classic. Anything is fine.
Though I gotta say, I would love a 3D Castlevania by From Soft.
Though I gotta say, I would love a 3D Castlevania by From Soft.
I voted Classicvania, but I'd actually prefer a Metroidvania as long as it didn't involve any XP-style leveling or grinding for loot.
Oh man that would be incredible.
Now I'm sad that we'll probably never get anything like that.
Both. I want what Order of Ecclesia did but on a far larger scale, like an entire Classicvania leading up to the castle with Castlevania itself bring the size of SotN.
None of the above.
I want a long, path branching, player choosing, side scroller with multiple endings in similar vein to Castlevania 3 and Rondo of Blood traversing over all of Europe for hours, beautiful 2D (or cell shaded) animation by Arc System.
I'm tired of one castle (or inverted doppelgänger) Iga games... and 3D games never translated well.
Make that the Battle of 1999 game and I'd be in heaven.
I want a long, path branching, player choosing, side scroller with multiple endings in similar vein to Castlevania 3 and Rondo of Blood traversing over all of Europe for hours, beautiful 2D (or cell shaded) animation by Arc System.
I'm tired of one castle (or inverted doppelgänger) Iga games... and 3D games never translated well.
Make that the Battle of 1999 game and I'd be in heaven.
Metroidvania for me, easy. I respect but never personally got into the classic style of Castlevania as much (always highly preferred Mega Man's style and mechanics) and Lords of Shadow didn't do it for me either.
I'd play Igavanias forever, though.
I'd play Igavanias forever, though.
I tell you.....and here me out.
Playing an open world in Transylvania (remake of Simon's Quest essentially) 3rd person, would be INCREDIBLE in the hands of the right developer. It would basically be The Witcher but a Belmont but with that Castlevania lore.
Playing an open world in Transylvania (remake of Simon's Quest essentially) 3rd person, would be INCREDIBLE in the hands of the right developer. It would basically be The Witcher but a Belmont but with that Castlevania lore.
3D but different from Shadows. I want a Fromsoft game damnit, or something that apes their style really well, Sekiro proved you can have platforming while keeping the overall Souls structure. Out of all of the presented options tho: classic, havent had one of these in a WHILE, tho Metroidvania would have more to prove in the post-Hollow Knight world.
I don't know how you got "no platforming" out of my post.
Bloodborne strikes an excellent balance in encounter design and difficulty. It has huge environments full of goodies to explore (like Iga games), but they often funnel you into very difficult, narrow encounters that require fast reflexes and multiple tries (like the classic games). It allows you to upgrade your stats and equip new items and weapons (like the Iga games) but the impact of those upgrades is, compared to the Iga games, muted, so it still demands a good deal of memorization and mastery (like the classic games).
Bloodborne rewards your progress, but never so much that it utterly trivializes the remaining challenges or encourages much grinding (since the rewards aren't big enough that grinding takes less time than just "getting good").
There were so many Igavania. Unless they successfully innovate, they should just update the classic style.
we just got bloodstained and the indie genre is basically just igavania clones. gimmie a new Castlevania the Adventure Rebirth