draculaura
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Post by draculaura on Feb 27, 2023 20:29:56 GMT -5
We've all talked about what new regularvanias we'd want to see from Konami, you know, a Demon Castle War game or a Quincey Morris game or a CV2 remake or what have you. But stop there? Why not think outside the box? Let's get weird with it. What would you make if Konami told you to make whatever the hell you wanted?
Personally, I'd love a Castlevania dress-up game. But- And I cannot emphasize this enough- It needs to have a plot. You ever play Love Nikki? It's a dress-up game with incredibly complicated politics in which instead of physical battles, all conflict is resolved through like, voguing basically. I want that. I want the stakes to be just as high and the characters just as sincere but you get to explode Dracula because his outfit isn't as well-coordinated as yours. Bonus points if there's also rhythm game segments for no real reason at all.
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Post by wygolvillage on Feb 27, 2023 20:38:03 GMT -5
SHANOA/LAURA DATING SIM and by dating sim I mean a character interaction-heavy game focused on Shanoa learning to be a "normal person" post-OoE with her relationship to Laura at the heart of it
Comes with room customization and minigames to play with the village cats and also dressing up in cute outfits bc it's what she deserves
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richterbelmont
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 27, 2023 20:41:51 GMT -5
We've all talked about what new regularvanias we'd want to see from Konami, you know, a Demon Castle War game or a Quincey Morris game or a CV2 remake or what have you. But stop there? Why not think outside the box? Let's get weird with it. What would you make if Konami told you to make whatever the hell you wanted? Personally, I'd love a Castlevania dress-up game. But- And I cannot emphasize this enough- It needs to have a plot. You ever play Love Nikki? It's a dress-up game with incredibly complicated politics in which instead of physical battles, all conflict is resolved through like, voguing basically. I want that. I want the stakes to be just as high and the characters just as sincere but you get to explode Dracula because his outfit isn't as well-coordinated as yours. Bonus points if there's also rhythm game segments for no real reason at all. OH MY GOD CV DRESSUP GAME<3
ive had an idea for a post-sotn game, but its an rpg similar to cattails (on the switch) of all games. it takes place right after sotn, and the trio take shelter in a nearby forest. the premise changes as the game goes on, and you can make decisions as alucard that will lead to either alucard leaving and going back to sleep, or escaping the forest and going to live with maria and richter
it takes place over the span of almost a year, starting at the beginning of winter (where maria and richter's survival is the goal, you have to help them, or not) and progressing as the premises change! after the harsh winter and leading into spring, the goal is to build a shelter but there is a lot of dialogue and decisions about how you want alucard to cope with it all.
depending on what you do in that part, the summer time will either be a lot of domestic (and even leisurely) tasks to complete that will progress alucard into bonding with the two. if you are cold and unhelpful, i havent quite settled on what will happen but it will lean into horror game tactics to signify that alucard is giving into suffering and darkness (this will also affect maria and richter negatively)
by the time autumn comes, you either go back to sleep, or make your way our of the forest and into the hills
i would want the game to be atmospheric, no music, only ambient sounds and the weather/nature. though, there is more and more things happening with the audio as the game progresses (and even depending on your course), like the winter is Dead Silent, as the blankets of snow muffle all sound. in the spring, there are birds chirping etc (exactly what youd expect), and in the summer there is more nature sounds as well as music! there will be an event at this point where they get their hands on a fiddle, and richter makes a drum. however, this will only be the case if you choose to bond with them. i plan to make the audio in the dark route creepier and more dissociative as it progresses
its definitely not something that would ever happen, or something that would fit into the rest of the series, BUT ITS SOMETHING I WANT<3 i would like to one day make it
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yehor
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Post by yehor on Feb 27, 2023 21:00:08 GMT -5
These are all such cool ideas, I'm boring and would just make more metroidvanias just with some other villains instead of Dracula before/while/after he's dead.... Put Soma through more adventures, or some stuff for Julius during the amnesia period, or even invent some new descendant or something lol
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Post by eclipseoffangs on Feb 27, 2023 21:03:52 GMT -5
i REALLY want. like. a visual novel of somas life either post-AoS or DoS. its very casual and there are no major steaks outside of like some petty school things
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Chains of Eternity
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Post by Chains of Eternity on Feb 27, 2023 22:16:35 GMT -5
A post LoI game where you play as Leon traveling and exploring in his quest to hunt his shitty ex while also seeing how he stablishes the bases for the Belmont clan and healing and learning to trust again despite it all. Idk much other than it would be 3D, with exploration, trying to tie in clues to Mat's whereabouts and...enviromental vibes ? Words fail me rn. It would most likely never work but ideas are free Oh and also Rinaldo would be there
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Post by valmnera on Feb 28, 2023 14:53:46 GMT -5
I want either another castlevania fighting game, or a visual novel.
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richterbelmont
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 28, 2023 15:10:46 GMT -5
I want either another castlevania fighting game, or a visual novel. technically judgement is a fighting game, but i want that classic arcade shit going on. maybe somewhat close to darkstalkers in tone. visual novel would be great too!
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Post by wygolvillage on Feb 28, 2023 15:13:13 GMT -5
I'd love a more 2D (smash-esque) Castlevania fighting game tbh
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richterbelmont
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 28, 2023 15:19:21 GMT -5
I'd love a more 2D (smash-esque) Castlevania fighting game tbh it would be cool for playing around with backdrops, since platforming is a feature of cv games. gotta have sprite art, though!!! i would also enjoy a REALLY low poly castlevania fighting game similar to street fighter EX
i think castlevania would look really good in a low poly style akin to this and metal gear solid for the playstation (same console, too!)
one day i WILL make lookalike models for sotn trio‼️
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draculaura
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Post by draculaura on Feb 28, 2023 15:53:59 GMT -5
I also want a CV fighting game that isn't Judgement, but I think if it's a 2D fighter they need to bring on whoever animated Kim's pants in KOF 02 to do the capes. Look at that shit. It flows like a goddamn river. Alucard's Symphony sprites are famously flowy so if you're gonna scale him up this is what needs to happen
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richterbelmont
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 28, 2023 16:06:23 GMT -5
I also want a CV fighting game that isn't Judgement, but I think if it's a 2D fighter they need to bring on whoever animated Kim's pants in KOF 02 to do the capes. Look at that shit. It flows like a goddamn river. Alucard's Symphony sprites are famously flowy so if you're gonna scale him up this is what needs to happen YEAAAAHHHH I WOULD KILL FOR THE KING OF FIGHTERS ANIMATORS TO MAKE THIS- the animations are beautifully detailed and grounded, id love that for castlevania (which is already like that with its animations)
as for gameplay structure, id love for a kof thing going on where you select a team to fight with (i am thinking of kof 98 where your other team members are spectating your fight- would love to see the little animation quirks that would be given to different characters!)
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Post by wygolvillage on Feb 28, 2023 16:11:03 GMT -5
omg that sounds so cute... I love the idea of like, Albus cheering for Shanoa's matches in the background lol
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richterbelmont
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 28, 2023 16:13:13 GMT -5
omg that sounds so cute... I love the idea of like, Albus cheering for Shanoa's matches in the background lol YEAH FR- not sure how familiar with the game you are, but the characters spectating actually do cheer if youre winning, falter if youre losing, and have win/lose animations!!! the level of detail is cool for expressing the personality of the characters, like i said i want that for cv!
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draculaura
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Post by draculaura on Feb 28, 2023 16:55:05 GMT -5
Part of what makes King of Fighters good imo is that it started out as a labor of love, and even today it's pretty clear that the devs are quite passionate about it. So that's the energy I'd hope to see from a Castlevania fighter
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Post by arachenerd on Mar 18, 2023 14:14:06 GMT -5
ah... sorry in advance for the long post
one of my backburner projects has been designing my own castlevania game with mostly just loose connections. it'd be set in the victorian era with dracula's castle rising in the ocean waters ear the coast of england and scotland, over in the north sea. you play as an italian gender-undefined barber with a strange draw to the castle, and some notable other characters include a scottish woman who operates as the Belmont of the series, an english trans woman looking to join dracula's wives (all women from different eras), a male priest looking to test his faith against the castle, and more. as an environment artist i mostly focused on trying to stylize the specific environments of the english coast which culminated in a lot of studies and stuff (english tidepools... that'd be the first area). originally this was going to be a vertical slice of a game where youd enter, kill some enemies, then find out that you can time travel back to a previous era of the castle to kill the boss you couldn't beforehand, but as ive moved onto a horror game for my capstone this one has just sort of sat in my brain as something to think about. maybe sometime ill post the assets ive already made for it ...
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Post by swaglessssoma on May 1, 2023 15:30:23 GMT -5
We've all talked about what new regularvanias we'd want to see from Konami, you know, a Demon Castle War game or a Quincey Morris game or a CV2 remake or what have you. But stop there? Why not think outside the box? Let's get weird with it. What would you make if Konami told you to make whatever the hell you wanted? Personally, I'd love a Castlevania dress-up game. But- And I cannot emphasize this enough- It needs to have a plot. You ever play Love Nikki? It's a dress-up game with incredibly complicated politics in which instead of physical battles, all conflict is resolved through like, voguing basically. I want that. I want the stakes to be just as high and the characters just as sincere but you get to explode Dracula because his outfit isn't as well-coordinated as yours. Bonus points if there's also rhythm game segments for no real reason at all. I want a game SPECIFICALLY about Sonia and Trevor, it would be Sonia raising Trevor through the years. I imagine it would be an open world game where Sonia tries to find jobs while being a single mother and get revenge on trevors dad ( it’s not alucard in the original game alucard goes to sleep 6 years before Trevor is born if I see a “alucard was trevors dad before the game was decannonized” I SWEAR) and the game would end when they find a home.
I envision an internal conflict in Sonia, maybe something where she has to find the balance between being her own person and not getting her life stripped away, and being a good parent.
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Post by claimhsolais on Jul 26, 2023 15:57:07 GMT -5
I'm kinda late to this thread and I shoulda mentioned it earlier but in my head when I think abt random game ideas, I always imagine a Julius game that explores his life before and after the Sorrow games. Obviously we all want that Battle of 1999 game but I love the Sorrow cast so much I wanna see what they're all doing after. I imagine something episodic or mission based that alternates between a current day mission and reminiscence of a past mission or smth like that. And this way we get more of him as a character as he reflects on his life as a vampire hunter while existing as one today, grappling with stuff like getting old or his relationships with other characters. Could even include his apprentice from the Dawn sequel novel altho I always preferred the Grant Danasty descendant lol. It could be any genre but I always imagine it being character action?? I don't know why, maybe this is his Metal Gear Rising moment but a hack and slash adaptation of CV mechanics could be interesting and people love those games. I also imagine things like a shop run by Yoko or Hammer being a common returning point like Rodin's shop in Bayonetta, and characters making appearances there. It's just my little pet idea that pops into my brain every now and then. I'd love to see all those characters again..
Also would really like a musou game, altho you'd have to go really far to differentiate like 6 or 7 different whip users LMAO. The original Hyrule Warriors is one of my fav games of all time just because of how fun it is, how good and varied the cast feels and overall how much of a love letter it is to the Zelda series itself and I wish Castlevania would get something like that that isn't Judgement. Hell a new fighting game would also be cool considering what's changed about the fanbase since Judgement, and there's really good ideas about it in here already.
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Post by blackbirds on Nov 28, 2023 4:31:54 GMT -5
This is something that's been knocking around in my head for a while, but I'd love to see a game starring Daniela back in her vampire hunting days. Seeing as the Belmonts had abandoned the whip at that point and wouldn't have been fighting Dracula at all, it would be an interesting break from the formula. I like to think she and her grandfather would either roam the countryside, or work out of a single base of operations, maybe some out-of-the-way village.
Depending on how distantly related she is to the Belmonts (whether her grandfather was a Belmont raised to face down Dracula or one born after the whip was cast away) it might spend some time dealing with the aftermath of Richter's decision to give the whip to the Morrises, or might not even touch on it at all. I'd love to see the story of a vampire hunter born without some grand destiny, just a woman who picked up a weapon to defend the people around her. I like to think her grandfather (again, depending on his backstory) is happy she got to grow up this way, without the burden of legacy.
I've got a design that's been rattling around in my head for this younger Daniela, something that's a mix of the armor-and-furs aesthetic of Classicvania and the gothic elegance of Kojima's Belmonts. I love Ecclesia's mix of old and new, and I imagine this hypothetical game would be a similar blend.
Gameplay-wise, it'd let the player advance through various stages like in Order of Ecclesia and the Classicvanias, casting Daniela as either a drifter going where she's needed or a defender of her village and the surrounding lands. Seeing as this is somewhere between Dracula's resurrections, either there's a new villain for her to face down, or it splits the story up into episodes focusing on each individual boss.
I imagine she'd have a selection of weapons like Alucard and Jonathan, and maybe a few new subweapons. Perhaps there's a whip thrown in, just to nod to the Belmonts-- though for some reason, I picture Daniela's signature weapon being something like an axe or longsword. It would be hard to justify re-using the game's classic bosses, so I'm picturing a lineup of bosses themed after some lesser-known Universal monsters. It would probably reprise several levels from Order of Ecclesia, showing what they looked like in the past-- perhaps the Lighthouse has a keeper, the Monastery is inhabited, the land is significantly less foreboding without the looming threat of Dracula's return. The three places from Daniela's quests would receive special attention, though I like to think her grandfather survives until the end credits-- for players who've played Ecclesia, it would be a tragic eventuality.
I adored the Wygol villagers and I'd love to see more like them, so this hypothetical game has a cast of villagers for Daniela to interact with. Unlike Ecclesia, you wouldn't have to save them all, and not all would be there for quests-- some would be there just to interact with, maybe a few would be romanceable, some would be there for Daniela to form friendships with. For those that would give you quests, they'd range from a child asking you for sketches of a real live monster to being asked to liberate a village from a curse. Like in Ecclesia, befriending characters or doing their quests would get you helpful items, perhaps ones tailored around boss fights if the bosses are given story emphasis.
There would, of course, be a quest where she gathers ingredients for a cake. Perhaps one of the endings would see her having a picnic with her grandparents, just as she promised to have one with Shanoa after her defeat of Dracula. Maybe there's a secret ending that shows you her and Shanoa's picnic!
Her grandfather, whoever he may be (I like to think Richter or Juste based on the timeline, but it could be a new character) could be an unlockable character. There would also be a mode where you play as an older Daniela, just before her retirement, changing her stats and maybe even weapon loadout to reflect her decades of experience.
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