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Castlevania has been going downhill ever since Lords of Shadow. I would have excused it as just another mediocre, forgettable 3D Castlevania. But then Konami decided that they needed to run with it and unfortunately contaminated the handheld series with its beat 'em up game play, which is horribly awkward in 2D.
We do have Silent Hills coming!
I'm curious where Castlevania will go now if it hasn't died. Iga has left Konami, and I doubt they have faith or momentum for the 2D style. I'm not sure if Lords of Shadow did well, and Konami's focusing on MGS and Silent Hill for now.
The first game sold a million copies. I couldn't find the sales figures for the sequels but it seems like, as you said, Konami is focusing on other things now. Which is unsurprising given the mix to negative reception of the sequels.
I wish Konami had thought of that. I feel like the series tried too hard to emulate Zelda with the N64 titles and then awkwardly tried to fit the 2D game play from the RPGs into 3D while doing very little to accommodate the format. I'd be okay with them putting the series to rest for the time being. No Castlevania at all is better than consistently medicore Castlevania.
Do it when you can! So worth it.
I really miss the old Castlevania games. I didn't play Lords of Shadow, but it just didn't look that interesting to me.
I'm in the probable minority that actually liked the first Lords of Shadow, but I do agree that the game and its sequels could have been handled differently.
Don't get me wrong, I love Souls, but I think it's time From made a new kind of game.
They also make all the Armored Core games, and those are completely different from the Souls games.
And King's Field, Tenchu, and 3D Dot Game Heroes.
Won't happen for Banjo-Kazooie. The only reason why Rare games used to be good was because of Nintendo. Nintendo wouldn't allow first and second party games to be released onto their system without their final approval. Nintendo made damn sure the games were good before they were released and if that required delays then delayed it shall be. This is true even today. This isn't only for Rare but also for many other companies such as Silicon Knights. Once they stepped away from Nintendo all of their games turned to **** because none of them aimed for perfection and their only goal was to get that sale money as fast as possible.
Let also not forget that Rare is now a Kinect Only company making ****ty motion sport games.
We got one of those recently. It was awful.
Last time I checked, the sales didn't reflect that, which caused Konami to go the Lords of Shadow route. Now that the LoS saga is over, the future of the Castlevania franchise is unknown.
