It seemed many gamers preferred LoS1. Both were fun for sure but I'm hoping for a darker more difficult experience on the next outing.

MercurySteam had some internal problems when developing Mirror of Fate and LoS 2, which lead to some people leaving the studio. One of them being their main Art Director, for example.

Either way, it's safe to say that the quality between the first and those 2 is noticeable. I think the weakest point for the first game was combos, because you never really had time to perform longer combos.

As for the future of Castlevania, i don't think we'll see anything for a long time. The creator is not even working for them anymore either.

"Reviews" that's what the problem was. Everyone trashed the game because it wasn't call of duty or some hold my hand difficulty game.

Sure the story for LOS 1 was better than LOS2, but consider this. We never had a Castlevania game where we got to play as Dracula. The voice acting was great, the game improved upon LOS1 in almost every aspect but story. The game was open-world, almost no loading times, free camera, refined combat system, better gfx, brought the protagonist from the canceled Dreamcast version of Castlevania.

This game got too much hate than it deserves and people that trust reviews instead of forming their own opinions is why the gaming industry is trash, and why bad companies like Activision and Ubisoft still exist.

They've made half a dozen SotN successors, the formula is quite stale at this point. The series needs to shake things up while respecting its roots. IMO, Dark Souls is a lot like what Castlevania should have become. They're a lot alike, actually.

That would be right up their ally for sure. Everything from the art style, steep difficulty and crazy boss battles would no doubt be nailed by From Software.

Great point. I consider Bloodbourne my new Castlevania. The setting remiss me of old school vania

I know what you mean, I still remember getting the original Zelda as a kid and being blown away. So many great memories from the NES era. I sure do miss the iconic box art and thick instruction manuals that accompanied each release.

@Darth gamer- You and i are not that far apart. Back in those days there wasn't a save feature to take advantage of and i paused the game to go to the corner store and my mother turned it off thinking i left it on by accident... D'oh!... Personally, i would like to see a hybrid of sorts of side scrolling and open world. Especially with today's technology it shouldn't be too hard.

You should tell them about early technology, and how control pads were big joysticks with 1 button back then (atari), and how a spiderman game consisted of a variation of 1 building and 1 villain and a blocky spiderman swinging side to side to climb the building and how that was considered a hit game...kids today are extremely spoiled with today's games...but that's for a different article. ;)

Dude same here. One of my most favorite childhood memories.

Harvest Moon is goat.
Always will be.

Twice as good then! ^^