Who Do You Think Konami Should Hire To Reboot Castlevania?

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I think the easy answer would be From Software. Doubt From would have interest though. Who could Konami realistically get that would make us a good original 3D Castlevania title?
 
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Nope. Closest you'll get is Elden Souls, and it's close enough in terms of structure that anything you tried would come off as a cheap souls-like. Just do your side scrollers. Don't even use 3D models in your sidescroller either. The quest for a 3D Castlevania should forever remain dead.
 
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Personally, when I play elden ring I really think how a lot of elements from that game would really work in a Castlevania world
 
From Software would give us another shitty same game copy and paste.
It's a big NO.

They should use upcoming talent, similar to how Bloober were in the horror genre.
 
If its a 2D MetroidVania they should hire the Blasphemous guys

For 3D FromSoft
 
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Castlevania's history is littered with 3D turds. How about returning to that one thing that worked really well?
Give Sébastien Bénard the job. The guy behind Dead Cells.

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I'd start by restoring Harmony of Despair, maybe a full sequel with deeper mechanics and more maps. They were going somewhere neat with a MP Castlevania.

In 3D? I would be like " Hello dear Nightdive studios, would you please remaster Castlevania 64 and Legacy of Darkness in one single, nice physical package for the Nintendo Switch? Thank you. Love, from your dearest Ceadeus"

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From Software? I like their games but heck no lol.

2D: Motion Twin/Evil Empire
3D: The devs of Rocksteady Studios, but not the current Rocksteady Studios. Make a new company, maybe call it BramSoft.
 
Fantasy of mine that I have always mentioned:

Hoursemarque.

They could make a fast action game with the difficulty and replayability loop fitting for a Castlevania.

Imagine melee based Returnal but instead of the procedurally generated biomes from that, you have a spooky Castle that is constantly transforming and evolving, different each run. It just fits!
 
If it's 2D I'd probably say Game Kitchen, developers of Blasphemous or Motion Twin, developers of Dead Cells. They already produced a cool DLC with Castlevania so they definitely have the chops to pull it off. I think Mercury Steam would be a good fit too, seeing how well they do 2D Metroid now. Ironic, considering they created the 3D Castlevania in Lords of Shadow.

For a 3D outing it's hard to say. From Software would be awesome given their spectacular art direction and tough as nails gameplay. A suitable fit no doubt. Someone mentioned Neowiz, developer of Lies of P, which would be interesting as well. Maybe one of these new up and coming Korean Studios would pull it off. Konami seems to be pretty spot on lately with the outsourcing of their IPs, so maybe a new Castlevania is already in the works.
 
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Nope. Closest you'll get is Elden Souls, and it's close enough in terms of structure that anything you tried would come off as a cheap souls-like. Just do your side scrollers. Don't even use 3D models in your sidescroller either. The quest for a 3D Castlevania should forever remain dead.
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I'd start by restoring Harmony of Despair, maybe a full sequel with deeper mechanics and more maps. They were going somewhere neat with a MP Castlevania.

In 3D? I would be like " Hello dear Nightdive studios, would you please remaster Castlevania 64 and Legacy of Darkness in one single, nice physical package for the Nintendo Switch? Thank you. Love, from your dearest Ceadeus"

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Night Dive remastering Castlevania 64 makes too much sense.
 
Ironically, Mercurysteam.

I wasn't real impressed with the Lords of Shadow games, but Metroid Dread impressed me enough that it feels like they've done a lot of growing, a new game in the vein of Metroid Dread? You'd have a stew going!
 
Curse of Darkness remains my favorite. I've love a 3rd person action adventure on par with Dragon's Dogma that leads up to a Dracula's Castle megadungeon. In a Simon's Quest style. But those are dreams.

Castlevania is now Netflix and Pachinkos. With the odd remaster.
 
Old Rocksteady would have been a good choice, but definitely not the company as it stands now.

I'd say give it to Sony and let their first party devs have a crack at it.

Also not team ninja, or square soft, or platinum.
 
Have Nintendo do the "Metroid:Zero Mission" treatment to Castlevania 1 leading into Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest.

Improved graphics and gameplay, and then connect and expand them.

Release on switch 2 as a launch title.

Profit.
 
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