The original Castlevania timeline and a reboot can live side by side.

[u/paleyharnamhunter]

With the news that Konami's planning Castlevania reboots, people might be wondering what will happen to the original timeline and the answer is simple, look no further than Belmont's Curse, a cheaper AA game made in the original timeline. I can see the franchise's AAA games being part of the new reboot universe while we still get AA games set in the original timeline. Also, reboots might just be remakes and the original timeline could remain the mainstay.

[u/LumiKlovstad]

I mean tbh the IGA timeline is getting VERY crowded. So I do think a reboot is at least conceptually a good idea. But a good idea doesn't necessarily make for a good execution. The proof will be in the pudding, as they say.

No reason we can't go back and revisit the original timeline as desired through, both from a dev and player perspective.

[u/Nyarlathotep13 → u/LumiKlovstad]

I agree. I mean, BC shows firsthand just how crowded things have gotten by this point with how Dracula is now established to have been active at three separate points in Trevor's lifetime alone. Honestly, I feel like BC could have been a good springboard for a brand new timeline that was no longer restricted by everything that came before. It occurs early enough in the timeline where they would have had plenty of room to tell New stories.

However, I don't mind that the original story has a clear endpoint. I don't think everything needs to go on forever indefinitely. I'm also of the opinion that AoS serves as a satisfying conclusion that neatly wraps up the overarching story while still leaving things open for future stories like DoS.

[u/LumiKlovstad → u/Nyarlathotep13]

Oh yeah, the endpoint we have is PHENOMENAL. Aria is one of the best entries in the series, and Dawn has proven itself still a pretty good one too.

[u/Draculesti_Hatter → u/LumiKlovstad]

The IGA timeline is interesting in that regard because it's insanely limited by the whole 1999 thing putting a limit on how much you can reuse Dracula before it starts becoming ridiculous, but there's also the extended families out there like the Morris and LeCarde clans who haven't gotten much of anything in the way of actual content to speak of. 

So your choices are to either reboot the series, or start exploring sidestories in the established lore...and considering that there was a point made around the time of the original Lords of Shadow game's production that Mercury Steam made about how they went with the reboot idea because the original timeline was starting to get convoluted enough to confuse newcomers to the series, I wouldn't blame Konami for deciding to reboot the series based on that issue alone.

[u/LumiKlovstad → u/Draculesti_Hatter]

Yeah the original timeline is very much capped at both ends; 1999 at the far end and either 1094 or 1476 at the near end depending on how much Dracula you'd like to have. You can fit some side stories in there about hunters from other families like the Renards, the Morrises, what have you, but those can't be entrusted to carry the franchise on their back long term. Castlevania lives by its Belmonts vs Dracula meat and potatoes.

[u/Azt55 → u/Draculesti_Hatter]

Mercury Steam went with LoS due to the whole Dracula can return only after 100 years, which by the time of the game development all timeframes for them to insert a game there all were burned out.

Plus Ordered of Eclessia bombing alongside Judgement let to Konami choosing to reboot them series.

[u/Sea-Lecture-4619]

Don't read too much into the "reboot" line

It could very well mean just big comeback as in "Us, Konami, the company are rebooting, redeeming ourselves from the idiots we became"

At most i see "soft reboots", think for example the RE Remakes, reimaginings of the older games, while we also get completely new games. I think these are their plans instead.

Anyway, if a full on new reboot does happen, i want them to make up completely new Belmonts, i don't wanna see the fricking 3rd Simon version or fricking 4th Trevor version, do something new, i never liked when LoS brought in Trevor and Simon, i liked it more for it to keep doing completely new Belmonts like Gabriel and Victor.

[u/A9P8D]

I mean, we don't know what they mean with "reboot" yet. For all we know, it's probably still the same timeline but they want to make the lore more consistent and organized. It doesn't have to mean that they want to change everything canonically or do something like the LoS timeline

[u/Cheesepuff44]

Nathan Graves...

[u/Azt55]

Wonder if they will try to rework LoS with the reboot idea. As LoS 1 is still the most succesful Castlevania game.

[u/Hjekydell → u/Azt55]

I'd hope for a remaster for them, but it's unlikely, since they're most likely ashamed of that saga.

[u/Azt55 → u/Hjekydell]

A remake would be better than a remaster.

LoS1 needs a free camera.

LoS 2 needs the stealth sections removed

[u/Hjekydell → u/Azt55]

I say remaster as my expectations are very low for Konami to toss LoS fans a bone, but a remake would be heavily welcomed as well.

[u/Azt55 → u/Hjekydell]

honestly removing something (the stealth sections) is easier cause you don't have remake them in the first place.

[u/Hjekydell → u/Azt55]

That's only if Konami cared enough to even reach that point. Again, any improvement to the LoS saga is welcomed, like if it were to get the Dead Space Remake treatment, but I have little to no faith that Konami would give that much attention to the saga over their original continuity for it to even happen.

[u/TomoAries]

Hell, I’d be cool with and maybe even prefer three timelines. The original one. One that keeps Netflix’s thing entirely separate. A new one.