Castlevania Requiem (SOTN + Rondo of Blood) announced for 10/26, PS4 exclusive (READ OP)

Jawbreaker · Sep 26, 2018

Before everyone loses their mind, let's think for a minute:

Symphony of the Night & Rondo of Blood is coming exclusively to PS4 on 26th October 2018.

Symphony of the Night & Rondo of Blood is coming exclusively to PS4, on 26th October 2018.

These are two very different sentences. One implies it's only exclusive upon release, the other implies full exclusivity.

Last Jon Standing · Sep 26, 2018

Dreamboum said:
4:3 games can be rendered true widescreen, see FFT on PSP

3D arena + blank background ≠ 2D pixel art drawn with 4:3 in mind. Not just that, but SOTN simply wouldn't work given its rooms were made with that ratio in mind.

Laxoon · Sep 26, 2018

I got my whining out on twitter so I don't have to dump itt, whew.

I'm really looking forward to seeing if there are any differences here, especially in SoTN. I'm almost certain these are the PSP DXC versions here, SoTN's border is the same as DXC at least and in this one screenshot available on the website:

It shows something native to the psp version despite the dialogue being the exact same; Alucard's portrait is flipped to face the right. In the original PS1 release he's facing the left.

So that means PSP translation. No DIE MONSTER, no WHAT IS A MAN, and no sweet dulcet tones of Robbie Belgrade as Alucard. :'(
Edit: BUT you do get to play as Maria! So yay for that.

L.O.R.D · Sep 26, 2018

it will be funny if this sells more then Bloodstained.

c0de said:
So are you telling me a PS4 can emulate a PS1? And such an emulator already exists? Amazing ...

it can emulate PSP, Patapon Remastered was actually using PSP emulator.

dbcyber · Sep 26, 2018

Don't care if I will be preoccupied with RDR2 I will get this day 1. SoTN is one of the best games every made and I'm super excited to play Rondo of Blood. Konami keep doing this if you want to be relevant again. They're sitting on so many awesome IP's that deserve to come back.

Lithium Flower · Sep 26, 2018

Sp1 said:
all further switch ports are cancelled because of Bowser hentai, sorry.

It was...worth it.

Tizoc · Sep 26, 2018

Ehoavash said:
Neat. I really didn't know anything about Richter until the smash direct, will definitely check this out

Dude was anime as all get out

Renfran · Sep 26, 2018

Laxoon said:
I got my whining out on twitter so I don't have to dump itt, whew.

I'm really looking forward to seeing if there are any differences here, especially in SoTN. I'm almost certain these are the PSP DXC versions here, SoTN's border is the same as DXC at least and in this one screenshot available on the website:

It shows something native to the psp version despite the dialogue being the exact same; Alucard's portrait is flipped to face the right. In the original PS1 release he's facing the left.

So that means PSP translation. No DIE MONSTER, no WHAT IS A MAN, and no sweet dulcet tones of Robbie Belgrade as Alucard. :'(
Edit: BUT you do get to play as Maria! So yay for that.

Nah both are based on the original releases according to PSblog. Not the awful PSP versions thankfully.

Dreamboum · Sep 26, 2018

Last Jon Standing said:
3D arena + blank background ≠ 2D pixel art drawn with 4:3 in mind. Not just that, but SOTN simply wouldn't work given its rooms were made with that ratio in mind.

It would definitely work in true widescreen, you would just need to tweak camera travel when hitting edges.

You can't say it wouldn't work, Harmony of Despair mostly copy pasted a SOTN map in one of its chapters

Deleted member 20297 · Sep 26, 2018

L.O.R.D said:
it will be funny if this sells more then Bloodstained.

it can emulate PSP, Patapon Remastered was actually using PSP emulator.

Ah, ok :( But can't the PSP emulate PS1? ;)

Drayco21 · Sep 26, 2018

Fuck yeah, Rondo of Blood. For $20, Symphony is a nice enough bonus too, I guess. Hopefully we get a physical release.

Jawbreaker · Sep 26, 2018

c0de said:
So are you telling me a PS4 can emulate a PS1? And such an emulator already exists? Amazing ...

Yeah, but they opted for releases that incorporate trophies, so we get these games piecemeal. -shrugs-

sir_crocodile · Sep 26, 2018

Tizoc said:
I read up online about Maria in the Saturn ver. and apparently she is different to the PSP release.
Wonder if there's a hack to have her Saturn ver. playable somehow at least in the PSP ver.

I doubt it, would be a ton of work. Moveset is very different:

Deleted member 135 · Sep 26, 2018

LordKano said:
is it not allowed to trying to figure out the baffling choice of platforms ? That's the first thing that came in mind to anyone reading the news. Not talking about port begging but only "why"

The first thing that came to my mind when I read the news was "awesome!".

Laxoon · Sep 26, 2018

Renfran said:
Nah it's based on the original releases of both according to PSblog.

I caught that but would they really make the same small changes like the portrait flip and the formatting of that particular sentence if they were using the original?
Format matches the psp version too.

GhostTrick · Sep 26, 2018

Laxoon said:
I got my whining out on twitter so I don't have to dump itt, whew.

I'm really looking forward to seeing if there are any differences here, especially in SoTN. I'm almost certain these are the PSP DXC versions here, SoTN's border is the same as DXC at least and in this one screenshot available on the website:

It shows something native to the psp version despite the dialogue being the exact same; Alucard's portrait is flipped to face the right. In the original PS1 release he's facing the left.

So that means PSP translation. No DIE MONSTER, no WHAT IS A MAN, and no sweet dulcet tones of Robbie Belgrade as Alucard. :'(
Edit: BUT you do get to play as Maria! So yay for that.

So, PSP version confirmed.

Deleted member 21601 · Sep 26, 2018

I hope we can zoom to have less borders top and bottom of the screen tho.

Gold Arsene · Sep 26, 2018

Renfran said:
Nah both are based on the original releases according to PSblog. Not the awful PSP versions thankfully.

I've played both and there nothing wrong with the PSP version. Especially since it's have more content the the PS1 release but we can't have that now can we. Frankly I'm amazed there even bothering to include Rondo.

Deleted member 10737 · Sep 26, 2018

super dumb platform choice, i guess i'll ask my brother to get this so i can replay these games. it's been a while since i played them on psp.

Deleted member 2791 · Sep 26, 2018

Laxoon said:
I got my whining out on twitter so I don't have to dump itt, whew.

I'm really looking forward to seeing if there are any differences here, especially in SoTN. I'm almost certain these are the PSP DXC versions here, SoTN's border is the same as DXC at least and in this one screenshot available on the website:

It shows something native to the psp version despite the dialogue being the exact same; Alucard's portrait is flipped to face the right. In the original PS1 release he's facing the left.

So that means PSP translation. No DIE MONSTER, no WHAT IS A MAN, and no sweet dulcet tones of Robbie Belgrade as Alucard. :'(
Edit: BUT you do get to play as Maria! So yay for that.

This is getting worse and worse

Nzyme32 · Sep 26, 2018

Love SotN. Not played it since the old 360 XBLA version came out.
Not really sure about previous ports and if emulation was a part of it then, but it's an interesting choice.

Looks like a lot of people are worried about exclusivity. Although Konami is more of an enigma now in how they behave, I'm fairly sure they are still all about money. As usual I would expect this is the same old exclusivity with several asterisks. The word has no meaning anymore in marketing material

Regardless after ZoE getting released, it's nice to see Konami try thing I might actually want to check out

ULTROS! · Sep 26, 2018

mazi said:
super dumb platform choice, i guess i'll ask my brother to get this so i can replay these games. it's been a while since i played them on psp.

How is it super dumb if it's on the best selling console.

Kouriozan · Sep 26, 2018

I wanted a collection and not just 2 games, but I'll take it.

Kazer · Sep 26, 2018

IN. Never did play Rondo.

Shane M · Sep 26, 2018

Nuclear Muffin said:
Those aren't emulated. They're native ports that have been reverse engineered from the original NES versions.

I don't think that any collection of Nintendo console games, on a non-Nintendo platform, has ever actually used emulation; with the sole exception of Rare Replay (where Nintendo and Microsoft came to an agreement, one which also allowed the re-release of the DKC and DKL trilogies on the Wii U/3DS VC services).

Mega Man X Legacy Collection seems to have a SNES emulator, I haven't tried it myself but I've read on here that other SNES games can be injected.

Renfran · Sep 26, 2018

Kazer said:
IN. Never did play Rondo.

Oh you're in for a treat

L.O.R.D · Sep 26, 2018

c0de said:
Ah, ok :( But can't the PSP emulate PS1? ;)

theoretical it can, but technically it may won't.
the PSP and Vita has built in 3D rendering chip for PS1 games, the PS4 doesn't have that i think, but i think they can make emulator to pay PS1 games and include it in an update.

Jump_Button · Sep 26, 2018

A little odd given Smash Bros but ok? :/

AztecComplex · Sep 26, 2018

Mory Dunz said:
why only 2 games

Here on Era I've been predicting a day and date CV Collection was going to be released with Season 2 of the CV Netflix series for almost a year now. Except my hypothetical Collection included CV1, 2, 3, 4, Bloodlines and Rondo.

I guess I was expecting too much from Konami.

Dust · Sep 26, 2018

Kinda want Rondo, I can run SoTN in memory.

Easy_D · Sep 26, 2018

Oh so it really is the PSP collection just with the 3D remake of Rondo removed. Very Konami thing to do lol

Get_crazy · Sep 26, 2018

Btw on the official Konami website, there's no mention of exclusivity whatsoever. So, like it has been said previously, it's coming exclusively on PS4 ON OCTOBER 26th, it'll come later to other platforms.

Finale Fireworker · Sep 26, 2018

The system warring in this thread is completely unacceptable and it is closed to further replies as we reboot the thread.

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