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Rumor: Castlevania: Harmony of Despair DLC details leaked

by Griffin McElroy on Aug 6th 2010 9:00PM

Just a few short days after the game launched on Xbox Live Arcade, a GameFAQs forumite by the name of Bonovox_40 claims to have discovered a few pieces of DLC planned to expand Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. This content includes two additional characters to be added to the game's roster -- Maria Renard from Rondo of Blood and Julius Belmont from Aria of Sorrow -- and a new level inspired by Portrait of Ruin's pyramid stages.

The poster's proof comes in the form of a handful of off-screen pictures and two videos showing Maria in action. These photos also include a look at the DLC files, which show up individually on the hard drive, possibly indicating they'll come as separate downloads rather than a smaller bundle. We've contacted Konami to get a comment on these potential newcomers.

Via: Wired
Source: GameFAQs forums

Tags: castlevania-harmony-of-despair, dlc, konami, microsoft, xbla, xbox

Reader Comments (24)

Videos?

How would you even do that for DLC that isn't even downloadable yet? I'm curious as to how they pulled this off.

Pretty cool though, otherwise. Hopefully all the DLC will be included in the inevitable PSN release.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Lives were lost, I'm assuming...

No. But seriously, I just bet he's being a dick and lying about it.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze
89% chance that all the "DLC" is in the game's initial download (like what Capcom did with Megaman 9 and Megaman 10), and Konami will be just releasing "DLC" unlock codes. Once all the built-in "DLC" is "unlocked," expect no more updates.

@Snorlax:
Did you see the videos? That'd be pretty damn hard to lie about.

@BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam

Oh, I misread it. I thought the post said that this man claimed he said he saw the videos. Just saw them now, starting to have second thoughts.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

WHO CARES ABOUT ALL THAT OTHER DLC?

WE GOT JULIUS BELMONT UP IN THIS BITCH.

Illuminati want my mind, soul, and my body!

@Mvp576

THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS UPON US

With the addition of the younger version of Maria, they've now gone as far back as the TurboGrafx for asset recycling. I mean, Rondo of Blood still looks great to this day, but reusing a sprite from 17 years ago... the sprite is older than the character!

However, her "Hymn" attack being Bloody Tears is a nice touch.

Oh, I TOTALLY called Maria! GO ME!

...too bad there's no physical evidence of it anywhere... :'(

(At least I can still brag to my friends!)

Julius sounds awesome. I was guessing it was gonna be Maria and Richter, but I think we all knew a Belmont would be included eventually.

That looks like a straight copy/paste job of one of the areas in Portrait of Ruin.

@GohanEgret
It gave me a case of déjà vu... especially since I'm just replaying PoR as Richter/Maria.

@GohanEgret
Isn't the whole game a straight copy/paste job of earlier Castlevanias?

After playing the demo, I don't think the game is that bad, but it's not worth $15. If it ever gets on the deal of the week, I might get it it seems like a nice time waster. But even then, I can't see myself putting additional money into it for DLC.

This game is really alot of fun and very challenging will gladly drop like 10$ for dlc on this game

rar, I'm hoping they will be reasonable with the pricing of this DLC, I've enjoyed this quiet a bit with my friends! Sure it's kinda grindy, the metroidvania style stages are absolutely delicious, it's regrettable that there just isn't more of them. My only issue if it kind of feels like with a month or two more of polish, and a few more stages, it wouldn't have been getting any flack.

@Codemakura

I agree with everything on this, except for three letters.

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller Is it DLC owo? Nah seriously my actual post was below, still need to get use to the post/reply box being the same, lol.

It would make sense for them to release this kind of DLC. I mean, all they have to do is copy and paste more random stuff from the older castlevanias.

lol, come on don't hold a grudge against me, because of supreme commenter owo; I don't mean any harm, it's certainly not constant, and I like to think my posts have actually have some reason behind them outside of simply being a chance to squeeze a "rar" out, unlike Mr. SC.

I question though if I add an avatar here, I wonder if/how long it'll be til he switches to it, lol.

But on topic, I was a little sad to see none of the default characters was a classic Belmont. But it doesn't seem like they were planning on doing any sprite editing for this project from the feel of it T_T'

Playing the demo just makes me want to play a 'real' Castlevania game...

I'm excited for Julius and all, but where the hell are Simon and Richter?

@Basevi
I wouldn't be surprised if they used Simon's NES sprites at this point...

So the six-player multiplayer game will finally have at least 6 characters?

@Seroth No.
It's going to have Seven Characters now.
One person is going to be left out of the party.

And they could finally use that Leon Belmont sprite from Portrait of Ruin.
Of course they'd have to remake every other required sprite other than just whipping.

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Posted: Aug 6th 2010 9:04PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said

Posted: Aug 6th 2010 9:14PM SnorlaxTheSerialKiller said

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Posted: Aug 6th 2010 9:30PM Cypher FDP said

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Posted: Aug 6th 2010 9:33PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

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Posted: Aug 6th 2010 9:44PM GohanEgret said

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