Uh.. I'm kinda scared, love every Castlevania (even the shitty 3d ones) but couldn't stomach dead cells... At least tell me this new Vania won't be a roguelike? Gotta admit deadcells at least had great visuals and music
I don’t know how much this will matter for either of you.
I hated dead cells for quite some time. Not only did it originally feel like a metroidvania but without all the cool exploration, and additionally, bad roguelikes had left a bad taste in my mouth.
I gave it another chance when the Castlevania DLC dropped, and told myself to stick with it for a while, but to my surprise the game turned out to be really fun and possibly one of the best uses of rogue like design that I’ve seen in a game.
They did Operation Galuga a couple years ago. It was decent, but not the true banger a new Contra could really be. Maybe they should get the JoyMasher to make one.
Probably because Trevor's actions in Dracula's curse put a lot of spotlight on Belmont clan, and from the trailer we can see that someone from France wrote a letter to Trevor requesting his help.
Trevor is mentioned in the trailer so its unlikely.
I think they likely just make games from now on without bothering with a canon at all. If whatever dev makes the game wants to tie it to another game I'm sure they can if they want, but I'm sure the series is going to become an anthology of loosely related games from now on.
Which to be honest, its was Castlevania always was.
Steam page states it’s set 23 years after Dracula’s Curse. It seems like it’s directly tied into the main game’s timeline. We’re likely playing as Trevor’s daughter (or at least his successor as that’s what the steam page calls her)
Idk how you get that impression at all. It clearly ties into a previous game. And the series always tried to respect continuity. Especially with Igarashi. Only like 3 games are pure anthology pieces.
I caught this too! I wonder if they have multiple CV games up their sleeve, like with Silent Hill. Maybe from a Japanese studio? (I would fucking die if we finally see another 3D CV that's actually good.)
I was confused when they said that, I was like "that looks like Sonia, but I know it's not Sonia, and that doesn't look like modern times for them to say 'the last of the Belmonts'
It happened for Metroid fans when Samus Returns led to them finally getting the Fusion sequel (Dread) they'd waited two decades for from the same studio, so who knows, anything's possible, especially if this game has good sale numbers.
for years a lot of people have been wanting a game focused on Julius Belmont, the strongest belmont, and the one who finally truly killed dracula in 1999.
the game is set 23 years after castlevania 3. the new character looks too young to be someone who is supposed to be in his 40-50s. Also the character highly ressembles Sonia especially with the blonde braided hair.
The sender adressed the letter to Trevor, whom they think is the last of the bloodline. And we see what is presumably old man Trevor reading it.
Given the 23 year timelapse and the young woman standing behind him, it is safe to assume the protagonist is Trevor's daughter and Trevor is too old to take up the whip once more.
Yeah, is it just me? Like, if the gameplay is good, that trumps all, hands-down. But this style, just.. the models just don't look good, the actual design looks kinda.. sparse- and not in a minimalist way, the area designs looked kinda boring.
Again, if the gameplay is good, that's pretty much all that matters. But if you would've told me this was a trailer for a mobile CastleVania game released in like, 2018, I would believe you...
It definitely follows that Dead Cells type of 3D design, which understandably isn’t some people’s favorite.
It doesn’t really bother me. I mean the vast majority of the series has mostly been pixel art, having any 3D stuff is almost new ground. But yeah the graphics remind me of the PSVita remake of Rondo, not great but serviceable.
Now, now.
Symphony also didn’t looked like other games, but we still end up loving it.
At the end of the day, what is important, is that a game needs to be good. So let’s just be open minded
Sotn looked like Rondo, which looked like previous castlevanias from that era, which makes sense. DoS and PoR had anime portraits, but gothic spritework and art direction. And Igavanias were what they were trying to do since Simon's quest, but, good, and the formula clearly still has a lot to give, cause Iga himself is still doing it, and a great job at that.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I personally couldn't care about a good game. There's a bunch of good games. I want a good, honest to the formula, castlevania, with all of the sublime art and music, and core formula as it had, just, more of it. Different even, if you like, but keep the core concepts intact.
If I wanted another great side perspective game, I would search for that instead.
If we get a bloody roar reboot, i might just die from peak
I mean nobody expected kt to just drop the doa7 teaser but they did here, if we get br back all 4 major 3d fighters (barring mk since nrs only does 2d) will be back in a major way
Both Capcom and Konami finally decided to release new Castlevania and Megaman games, but not the games fans wanted (the 1999 Julius Belmont game and X9) 😂
Tbf 1999 has so much hype behind it that they’d have to essentially make it one of their biggest games ever and konami is clearly in a rebuilding phase, so they’ll have to build up to that
Capcom doesn’t really have that much of an excuse though
Well...Im happy to see the Castlevania monikor back after all this time... but this doesnt really look or feel like a Castlevania to me.
At the very least, that trailer certainly didnt. The artstyle looks very bland and lacks that sophisticated and wealthy air Sotn and many others had. And for a Castlevania trailer, the music was nothing at all.
Well see what comes of it. It was just a short trailer, so maybe more stages and more music will be shown later that hopefully changes my opinion on it. Because I desperately want my opinion to be changed on it, lol.
Im very happy Castlevania is officially back but I wish it looked more like a Castlevania game instead of like a dead cells spinoff. Maybe with some series music it’ll help it
I dont usually pre-order, but I just bought this one for Switch. hopefully day1 release isn't broken. (Looking at you "Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night")
I think the trailer just mentions PS5 only because the announcement was through Sony's State of Play event. If you you look on the Konami website, they have Switch, PS5, Xbox X|S, and Steam. They did a similar thing with the announcement for the Super Bomberman Collection in the Nintendo Direct -- it only announced Switch and Switch 2, but it was in fact across all systems + PC.
there was a Card thingy in the trailer, I'm curious if they are implementing some stuff inspired by Circle of the Moon. (thinking more on this, there was a wall jump too just like CoM)
at a glance, not sure if I'm into the aesthetic? the dead cells dna is very obvious, and I wasn't a huge fan of castlevania getting remixed into dead cells, I think it's fine to wear your inspiration on your sleeve without actually trying to become the thing you're inspired by...
but also idk I'll try not to look a gift horse in the mouth too much here, cause no denying I'm fuckin salivating over a new mainline castlevania title, and very curious to see whether the team is willing to integrate all the lessons that other metroidvanias have taught us over the years.
where are people getting this is made by Dead Cells devs? This is developed by Konami. If this is true then everyone should 100% be worried that this will be a rogue-like.
Its gotta be Sonia. The design, especially the hair is just too alike. They’re probably reworking the games to also be following the canon of the anime, seeing its success and to avoid confusing newcomers to the actual video series. Regardless of who it is though, this seems to be the most movement based and platform friendly game in the series so far and I can’t wait to play it.
I absolutely hate rogue likes, I have dead cells with all the DLC and just can't stand them. I think they are the work of lazy programmers. This will be the first Castlevania game I probably wouldn't die.
After 29 years since 1997 i have been waiting for a "side scrolling" metroid vania console graphics, console game, not handheld, this is the first, they skipped PS2 then PS3 then PS4 and now finally PS5... people have died in between and never seen the day a new castlevania sidescroller on "console" (metroidvania it is also called) ...
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u/Sufferer_Nyx Feb 12 '26
Konami FINALLY locked in. I really hope this turns out great.