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New 2D Castlevania in the works for DS
racketboy - Jan 2, 2005
 racketboy Jan 2, 2005
Electronic Gaming Monthly has released info and screens of a new Castlevania title for the DS.... The game will be a direct sequel to the GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and will include many new features.

Also keep in mind that the DS is significantly more powerful than the PSX. So you can expect even better eye candy than Symphony of the Night.

 SkankinMonkey Jan 2, 2005
That looks kinda cool, the graphics don't look too great though

 ExCyber Jan 2, 2005

  
	
	
Also keep in mind that the DS is significantly more powerful than the PSX. So you can expect even better eye candy than Symphony of the Night.


The "eye candy" in SotN was good art, not killer effects.

 racketboy Jan 2, 2005

  
	
	
Originally posted by ExCyber@Sun, 2005-01-02 @ 04:38 PM

The "eye candy" in SotN was good art, not killer effects.

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I thought the rest of SotN was good-looking too.

But maybe that's just me?

 it290 Jan 2, 2005
Damn, why did they have to make it a sequel to Aria of Sorrow, though? I'd rather have another game with Sonia or maybe the further adventures of the CV3 gang.

 schi0249 Jan 2, 2005
Looks and sounds good. But I never played Aria of Sorrow. I played the first 2 GBA games and wasn't terribly big on them. Guess I should maybe give it a try.

 M3d10n Jan 2, 2005
Aria of Sorrow was good, but far from perfect. It had better graphics than the first GBA game and much better sound (technically speaking) than the 2nd one. But it was rather short (fitting tons of art + high quality sound in a small cart requires compromises), and setting the game in the future was kinda lame. Many throaway characters, but which Castlevania game has a killer plot, anyway?

Hopefully they'll be able to do a game without the storage limitation issues tha GBA had.

 stack99 Jan 3, 2005
this is great news... I am anxious to see this on the "mighy" DS...lol.. but its a welcome addition, hell any game right now would be a welcome addition. Seriously I would like to see them do some FPS's, (in addition to metroid prime hunters) and some shooters, in this months Nintendo Powere they showed a crappy screen shot of a Shooter thats in the works for the DS.. it looked ok.. I would like to see more shooters, but I know they have a small "fan base". but we'll see.

 racketboy Jan 3, 2005
Welcome Joystiq... readers!

My blog's report and this thread's attachments got featured on there

 SkankinMonkey Jan 3, 2005
They get to see my sexy mug, eh?

 racketboy Jan 4, 2005
now their life is complete...

 Scared0o0Rabbit Jan 4, 2005
Man I love AoS, I've played through it twice now, and am almost through a 3rd time. Just last night I was playing and thinking about how awesome it'd be to have a new one for the ds. I've never really messed with SOTN much but I definetly felt like AoS was one of the best games of the genre I've ever played if not the best.

 stack99 Jan 29, 2005
here is official news from konami's website. looks awesome....I can't wait for this

http://www.konami.com/gs/castlevaniads/...

 racketboy Jan 29, 2005
Thanks for the link!

 it290 Jan 29, 2005
Castlevaniads? I didn't think Dracula had sold out to quite that extent..

 Zoel Jan 31, 2005
Looks like they hire a new artist. Who this one anyways? Or that isn't the offical art yet ( even though it's main site)

Soma looks exactly the same as he did from the GBA one cept he got better shoes. And better detail.

I definetly want to play this , guess i have to borrow my friend's DS.