Next 2D Castlevania could crack whip on WiiWare

Yes. I'd love to see a new Castlevania game with big,luscious sprites. If the Wii-ware CV game is a lazy, 8-bit schlock-fest, I will be very pissed.

I have a secret refrigerated compartment behind my garage wall where I saved one whole turkey led from thanksgiving last year. Just in case...ya know.

Man, I've been whip-attacking my walls for years and all I've ever found were mice and roaches. That wouldn't even be so bad, but how do you get them to come out cooked?

Just in case you are barraged by a horde of floating medusa heads? You wouldn't believe how often that happens to me.

"I mean, how could Classic Castlevania be any different from what they're putting on DS now anyway?"

I dunno, it could be a good game. >_>

Nothing against Dawn of Sorrow, I love that game, but Portrait of Ruin sucked, and Order of Ecclesia looks like nothing special.

A prophetic ass?

Cause that game couldn't place at the special olympics.

And even if it could it'd still be retarded.

Clearly Jason meant the kind of "face-to-palm" that one does when they go "my God! I would never have thought of that!".

or not.

If they fix the problems with the old ones, then it could potentially be awesome. See how that works?

I share that wonderful dream that one day, we'll be blessed with something that epic.

Until then, it's back to trying to finish 'CHRONICLES. :\

He never stated anything about make the game retro or with 8 bit graphics.

He just mentioned a 2D Castlevania... don't know where did you get that he wants to use old graphics.

Have you seen the new Wario game? One of the best hand draw sprites and animations I have seen... he can use similar kind of graphics.

@Kael: quality sprite art is not cheap at all.

"He never stated anything about make the game retro or with 8 bit graphics."

He did: the part about IGA specifically eyeballing Mega Man 9 and citing its potential success as paving the way for 2D Castlevania on the system. There's only one possible conclusion you can make from that; it's going to be as retro as possible. If he were talking about the potential successes of 2D games in general as door-opening, there are dozens of other games to point to, a lot of which have already proven to be successful. To focus on Mega Man 9 specifically, it's clear he's not talking about the financial risk of making a 2D game in today's market, he's talking about the financial risk of making an 8-bit game in today's market.

"Have you seen the new Wario game? One of the best hand draw sprites and animations I have seen... he can use similar kind of graphics."

Giant Bomb interviewed IGA and asked him about making a triple-A Metroidvania on a home console (where he brushed it off saying there isn't any interest in such a thing), and the follow up question was if there WERE interest, whether he'd try to use HD sprites or use polygons. IGA basically said he'd go for whichever turned out to be easier and cheaper to do.

Personally, I don't see the attraction to sprite-based stuff--even in HD--because there are so many great-looking things you can only do with polygons. Like something as basic as real-time lighting, for example. Have an artist make a great painting and I'll get lost in its beauty, but interactive things should be real-time. But hey, ignore that opinion for now because that's neither here nor there.

"Personally, I don't see the attraction to sprite-based stuff..."


Are you under age? Are you a child? Did you start gaming on a PS2? I cannot compute any other reasoning for this statement.

"Are you under age? Are you a child? Did you start gaming on a PS2? I cannot compute any other reasoning for this statement."

I'm 23 years old, and I grew up playing the NES. Some would call that underage, I'll admit. Sprites aren't bad, I suppose, but what's the deal with this seemingly unnatural desire some people have for sprites? They can potentially be beautifully artistic, and sometimes even smoothly animated, but like I pointed out before, you can't use something as basic as real-time lighting. You can't use real-time deformation, or procedural or physics-based animation like rag-doll or euphoria. Things we've all come to expect from games like bump-mapping and other texture shaders aren't possible with sprites. It's not like polygonal things can't be beautifully artistic, too. There are even ways to make them look hand-drawn (The Simpsons Game did that really well). Polygons just have so much more going for them, I don't see why anyone would lust for sprites.

is simon's quest #2? cause i rocked that game with my brother, dad, uncle, and cousin. we played the game parallel and found out secrets and figured out weapons and it was fantastic. one of my favorite childhood gaming memories.

J. Howlett:

Yes, "Simon's Quest" is the second Castlevania. I still own the cartridge for my NES. Like you, I have extremely fond memories of it. I loved the adventure, traveling through the various castle scenes to get the bone fragments (I recall the dead bodies, or whatever they were, hanging from chains in the background), having to kneel before a structure to summon a dervish to take me somewhere, the day turning to night, resting in the church, etc. I really want to play this again!