Its not a dream, its a nightmare. He is just helping you dud.Fimbulvetr said:Don't step on my dreams! D:
Its not a dream, its a nightmare. He is just helping you dud.Fimbulvetr said:Don't step on my dreams! D:
You're Igarashi's daughter?sprsk said:Take a guess
The Bookerman said:I'm sorry but this looks like total BS.
No way this is true.
sprsk said:Take a guess
Dascu said:I hope all of you people who whined for a HD Castlevania on XBLA are happy now.
Shadow Red said:If it's fake then why would people play a bad joke like that? I'm liking the title screen a lot. Especially Shanoa in Kojima's style.
they are basically reusing assets since Turbographix 16LaneDS said:Well I mean, so long as it has a nice title screen, right? Should be easy to forgive Gameboy Advance sprites scaled and filtered to HD resolutions!
The game looks like it runs on an engine based on Photoshop. Ugh.
Princess Skittles said:People still believe this is a possibility.
Cute.
farnham said:they are basically reusing assets since Turbographix 16
nothing new
fuck.sprsk said:It's real you tardballs.
Ridley327 said:I'm still trying to comprehend the thought process behind this. This is just DoS's crappy Arrange Mode with actual backgrounds and more players. Who was clamoring for Konami to expand that?
This is Silent Hill Shooting levels of dumb.
I think people were expecting a new Metroidvania, not a multiplayer boss rush.thetrin said:Wait, im confused. This is BAD news for people? You DON'T like playing with your friends?
"FUCK! A GAME EXISTS! THIS SUCKS!"
thetrin said:Wait, im confused. This is BAD news for people? You DON'T like playing with your friends?
"FUCK! A GAME EXISTS! THIS SUCKS!"
You remember that new Castlevania trademark you heard about and thought was for Nintendo DS? Well, it's not called Harmony of Despair for nothing.
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (aka Castlevania HD) is an Xbox Live Arcade mashup featuring all of your favorite past Castlevania protagonists, made to work together in full Metroidvania fashion. We have obtained the first screenshots from this amazingly different kind of Castlevania game, as well as some vague information regarding gameplay. Hit the jump for the full story.
From what little we've seen of Castlevania HD, it's difficult to describe exactly what kind of Castlevania game this is most akin to. As you can tell from the screenshots, it's a 2D game using sprites instead of 3D polygons and looks very similar to the post-Symphony of the Night style Metroidvania GBA\DS games. You load into a game and can play with up to 6 friends on a single map, all at the same time. You're given a boss target that you must reach and destroy, helping your friends along the way to the same goal. Known playable characters at this point are Soma Cruz, Alucard, Jonathan Morris, Shanoa and Charlotte Aulin. We've only seen Soma, but we imagine each character will have it's own special abilities (think classes, like Team Fortress 2).
It drops you in with a wide camera angle where you're able to see most of the target area. It's not huge, so there wasn't much of an exploration factor. Clicking the right stick will change the viewing angle to the entire map (where you will see a teeny little Soma in the bottom left), or to the standard, close angle that we're all used to.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to see more than a couple minutes of play, but what we did see got us incredibly excited.
6 people being able to get together and play a giant game of party-Castlevania? I knew Konami was a smart company, but it's like they hooked up a machine to me at night while I'm sleeping...so they can record my dreams.
LaneDS said:Castlevania is not a game that has ever been screaming out for multiplayer. The portable entries that had multiplayer were (in my opinion, obviously) not very good and I can't say I know many people that tried it more than once or twice.
And I mean, c'mon, if those screens were still there... that's a super disappointing way to get 2D Castlevania in HD.
So yeah, bad news (if true!).
thetrin said:To be honest, Uncharted wasn't screaming out for multiplayer either, and Uncharted 2's Deathmatch is pretty awesome.
Cow Mengde said:I sense this game will cause some despair.
To put it another way:thetrin said:He hasn't really been competent at aping that formula, either.
thetrin said:To be honest, Uncharted wasn't screaming out for multiplayer either, and Uncharted 2's Deathmatch is pretty awesome.
Struct09 said:Damn, I missed it
CronosBlade said:http://www.neverknowtech.com/home/2010/4/30/first-screens-of-castlevania-hd.html
6 player co-op (Destructoid say 8 player). HOLY. FUCK. DO WANT.
dallow_bg said:
Here we go.
Segata Sanshiro said:To put it another way:
When he apes that formula we get:
Aria of Sorrow
Dawn of Sorrow
Harmony of Dissonance
Portrait of Ruin
Order of Ecclesia
When he doesn't ape that formula we get:
Lament of Innocence
Curse of Darkness
Judgement
Nanobreaker
LaneDS said:It's not like Castlevania hasn't tried MP already. It has, and it's been entirely forgettable. Basing a game around that with scaled and filtered decade old 2D assets does not fill me with hope.
But I love Castlevania and will hold out hope that (a) it's not true and (b) it will surprise me by being a great game if it is legit.
Uncharted 2 did not use assets from Crash Bandicoot for Nathan Drakethetrin said:To be honest, Uncharted wasn't screaming out for multiplayer either, and Uncharted 2's Deathmatch is pretty awesome.
The original link worked before without asking for authorization, they took down the page suddenly.jett said:With one douche posting a link to a website that requires me to have an account to read and the other not posting a source to check the screens I'm pretty fucking pissed right now.
jett said:With one douche posting a link to a website that requires me to have an account to read and the other not posting a source to check the screens I'm pretty fucking pissed right now.
It looks exactly like the DS titles, just zoomed out. Reused character, enemy and boss sprites.jett said:With one guy posting a link to a website that requires me to have an account to read and the other not posting a source to check the screens I'm kind of fucking annoyed right now.
ShockingAlberto said:Uncharted 2 did not use assets from Crash Bandicoot for Nathan Drake
Segata Sanshiro said:To put it another way:
When he apes that formula we get:
Aria of Sorrow
Dawn of Sorrow
Harmony of Dissonance
Portrait of Ruin
Order of Ecclesia
When he doesn't ape that formula we get:
Lament of Innocence
Curse of Darkness
Judgement
Nanobreaker
EDIT: Beaten.dallow_bg said:
Here we go.
The Faceless Master said:
If MvC3 used the same Morrigan sprite, I agree, that speaks to intense laziness.thetrin said:Re-suing assets makes a game bad now? You probably shouldn't play any Vs. Capcom fighters then.
Freyjadour said:Lament is a fine game.
ShockingAlberto said:If MvC3 used the same Morrigan sprite, I agree, that speaks to intense laziness.