While a lot of anticipated games are announcing release dates in 2011, it's always nice to be reminded that some titles are still coming this year. Titles like Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, the latest 3D entry in the popular action series. According to PS3 Vault, Konami has slated the game for release this coming October.
I have absolutely abhorred the 3D Castlevania games to date. After the two utter abortions on the Nintendo 64, followed by PS2 releases that were mediocre at best, I'd pretty much given up hope. MercurySteam is unproven as a developer but the involvement of Kojima Productions in the project gives me comfort. Everything I've seen to date on the game has looked very promising, so I'm hoping this marks a turning point for the series.
Keen to get my hands on this title since first seeing the announcement at E3 2009, I simply couldn't make the time to see it this year. Jim Sterling, the bastard, actually has played it and came away optimistic. Did I mention he's a bastard? Because he totally is.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Box Art & Release Window [PS3 Vault via Ripten]
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7:00 AM on 07.21.2010 | 
Needless to say the trailers for this game have me pumped.
As for Kojima's involvement, I still firmly believe Konami threw him at this project to draw attention away from who is really working on the project and what they want it to be. MercuryStream has a tremendous hard-on for God for War and Devil May Cry and they don't make any effort to hide it in the interviews I've seen.
As such, I have no faith in this product. I wanted a Castlevania game, If I want God of War and Devil May Cry, I know where to get it. Castlevania was just starting to loosen up some of its apparent Metroid influences in the last couple of 2D installments and they were good changes.
The solution is not to start aping another franchise even harder than the previous franchise it emulated. The solution is to make a Castlevania game and, you know, actually market it. The previous 2D installments didn't underperform because of platform, but Konami's unwillingness to market Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia as hard as they could have.
At least, it was way better than the E3 demo, which had zero exploration elements, terrible dialogue, and God of War clone mechanics galore (in a bad way).
Alright...I think that might make us the coolest people in here.....maybe.
Enslaved, Vanquish, True Crime: Hong Kong, Fallout: New Vegas, Arcania: Gothic IV, Two Worlds II, Fable III, and now Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
What the fuck?
I'm glad this is coming out so close to Vanquish. Two hyperactive PS3 action games in the same month? Hell yeah.