Konami has released a piping hot bag of screenshots and artwork for upcoming action game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. The 3D take on the classic series has a shot of doing well, not least for the fact that it's being developed by the talented chaps at Kojima Productions. Maybe we can expect three-hour long cutscenes as Dracula criticizes the use of nuclear missiles.
Castlevania's never had the happiest experience with 3D perspectives, and its last big console game, Judgment, famously sucked even though our own Jonathan Holmes loved it because there is something wrong with him. It is with trepidation that we look forward to this one, but hopefully it will be good. Good games are good to play with the hands.
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8:00 AM on 03.02.2010
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Unless I fucked up, if so, you may then make a front page blog about how much Daxelman fucked up.
(please let me have fucked up)
Not being on the Wii apparently.
A Wii port? Yeah, alongside MGS9.
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This game could be great if it actually uses some level design. The thing that killed the last 2 3D Castlevanias was how every room was just a square or a rectangle to fight stuff in. I'll be pumped if this isn't Castlevania: Hall of the Warrior 3.
Regardless, I'm skeptical of this game too. Platforming is a big part of what makes Castlevania so fun, and they tend to forget that in the 3D games. This does seem to have a more God of War feel too it..but after playing Bayonetta and Darksiders, LoD is going to have to surprise me somehow to earn my attention.
Get your facts sorted out, Jimmy.
I feel sorry for those who grew up playing those pieces of crap.
Most 2D iterations are better than their 3D counter parts, Sonic, as you referenced, is a very good example. Not a single 3D Castlevania has been better than a 2D Castlevania, and this game is most likely going to just be more garbage. Hell, it's nothing like any Castlevania before it, it's pretty much just another God of War clone. It's being made by the same "geniuses" who made Jericho and before that Scrapland, one very shitty and one very underwhelming. Kojima doesn't have shit to do with this game, or very little, they just slapped his name on there because they knew people would flock to it on his name alone.
It's just gonna be yet another DEVIL MAY CRY clone, because I refuse to refer to them as God of War clones, when Devil May Cry was first.
So what's Igarashi doing now anyways?
I was going to do an blog about this, but I didn't feel like is was cohesive enough, and in many way I felt like it demonstrated some of the traits shown in Jim "Video Game Fans" article, though only in minimal ammounts. I still question whether this will be a true Castlevania game or not.
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