The Mercury Steam-developed game with the Hideo Kojima touch is still coming this year, looking prettier than ever—at least prettier than any 3D Castlevania game that we’ve ever seen. Hold tight for our forthcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow impressions while you bask in the high resolution glory of new media.
Hayview
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 5:19 PMThis is totally my opinion but the screenshots above look alot like rush detail, the woods just got a heap of lines on it, the water effects are unbelievably similar and i believe it just doesnt have the Castlevania look to it.
Its too bright and sunny for my liking, not only did the haunted castle give the game atmosphere it was also STORMING outside in the pitchblack thunder and rain, shining scenes like the first pic is like a disfigured piece in the grand jigsaw.
Joel
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 6:15 PMI have a feeling this won’t end up being like Castlevania at all but more of an action game like Darksiders or God of War.
Castlevania in 3D just doesn’t work.
weresmurf
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 9:27 AMFunny. I remember the words ‘Metroid will never work in 3d!!!’ Look how that turned out…
Castlevania could EASILY work in 3d. It’s a haunted castle, a warrior with a whip and some weaponry traversing it, fighting monsters in a fun environment. The thing is if you try to change the 2dgameplay straight into 3d you’re going to fail immensely as it’ll be a fairly boring game, so you have to do something new, change it up like Metroid did. Then you’ll have a potential hit on your hands.
Ridley200
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 3:17 PMHaven’t played the other 3D Castlevania games, then?
Weresmurf
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 9:18 PMCourse I have. They were shite. However I also keep in mind they were other halfassed developers. This is Kojima who has nothing but an eye for quality.
Weresmurf
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 9:20 PMI also played all the bond games before Goldeneye, they were shite too, then we got a great one…
Stephen Alexander
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 9:20 PMI think this is going to be a game best judged by its own merits, rather than how it compares to the 2D Castlevania entries.
What’s been shown so far looks nice enough, with a little from column God of War and a little from column Metroid.
KBKoopa
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 9:53 PMAm I the only person who liked Castlevania 64?
…really? Nobody else?
Oh well, more nostalgia for me.
symolie
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 11:02 AMIt looks like Jake!tm in Castlevania: The Vamps of Time.
meh.
Can’t we just have a really pretty 2D Castlevania 4 (SNES)or Rondo (PC Engine CD) sequel? One of those, I could get excited about.
Kyle Nash
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 3:26 PMKonomi should make a deal with us that if this fails they take a page out of Capcoms book and do a ‘Megaman’ with castlevania. old school 16-bit castlevania game is WIN
Hank
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 5:42 PMCastlevania in 3d doesn’t work? Castlevania Lament of Innocence on PS2 was pretty fun (and had GREAT music). I think Castlevania fans need to give this a chance. Whether it fails or is a success, it doesn’t matter. The main thing is that they are trying something new. Honestly, the 2D Castlevania games are becoming like the Pokemon games, nothing but sloppy sequals that add nothing new to the series.
Fingers crossed this game has a good story, and great gameplay!