What the fuck is this: Castlevania SOTN is now going for like $70?!!

"What do you do when you find yourself without a castle? You build another."

Iga plays SOTN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqheYYeA4k4

www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/05/koji_igarashis_castlevania_successor_teased_by_comcept_set_for_11th_may_reveal

"In any case all should become clearer at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 7pm UK / 8pm CET."

The runes on the chair have been decoded as "What a wonderful night to have a KS"

The suspense is killing me!

Also wading through Neogaf threads for rumors/new info (It might be the whiniest place I've ever seen on the internet/entitled nadir of consumerism). Rumors from anonymous inside source:

"There may be plans for "social" elements and "freemium" content. Hopefully tomorrow shows otherwise."

"- 2.5D
- Story takes place during Industrial Revolution, church worried that demons will invade if science prevails
- NotShanoa, NotJonathan and NotAlucard are the characters I saw."

"Yamane is in. So is the main programmer from the GBA/DS games. I believe he directed Harmony of Despair."

"Miriam's hair is dark brown. Shoulder length. Don't recognize the artist, but reminded me of OoE. Miriam is the protagonist."

"From what I've seen, it looks like OoE in 2.5D."

"From what I was told, drops are used for crafting skills and items. Seemed like Aria/Dawn with a middleman step."

"Okay, I'm done for the night. Last bit of info is that Fangamer is doing the merch."

it's up
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night

hooray!
i'll wait a little bit before they sucker me out of $28

Nice that the basic goal is secured already. Wonder how much further it will go.

2.5D -- hopefully it won't look as bad as Mighty No. 9

Hopefully more like Ultimate Ghosts N Goblins or Ori And The Blind Forest.

what is up with those old Mad Magazine style cast portraits though
They've already passed $1M, so Hayter guaranteed (as if this wasn't happening)
xp yeah I'm hoping it'll look better too...
i almost, almost want to pull the trigger on that $60 physical disc option but damn, two years...

$28 is a solid price point for this.

Seems like they need a tier for handhelds, tho.

I'm a little sad it won't be pixel art because they'll probably never go back that way and it would have been nice to see an pixel Igavania created from ground up because that never happened before.

I am fully willing to pay $28 for whatever game Iga makes (I bought Harmony of Despair and DLC, despite it sucking), but I think I'll just buy it when it comes out.

Did you get Judgement and Adventure Rebirth?

Adventure Rebirth is really good

whatever Igavania Iga makes. (I might buy Adventure Rebirth at some point, but then I'd have to plug in my Wii again.)

I didn't even know that game existed...

Yeah, it's just the whole KS "never knowing when a game is ever gonna come out" thing. And I'm not sure Iga has actually ever produced anything
independent of Konami... but in all likelihood it'll come out eventually.

Also wish there was a handheld tier, but I don't own a Vita anyway, which is probably the platform it would come out for

Isn't the original Wii shop dead now? Or are they still selling WiiWare?

Still selling Wiiware on Wii and WiiU. All of the Rebirth games are worth a look, M2 developed them.

LOL also completely unaware of the Wii fighting game. i just completely ignored that system after a certain point since I never picked it up. I'll remember them if I pick up a secondhand Wii at some pt...

I YouTube linked cut scenes from it last week.

Don't know if you guys have been hearing the news and rumours about Konami but right now it looks like they might stop making most of their videogame franchises.

ohhh i thought that was one of the N64 games

So I put down $60 for a physical backer edition. I hear they are implementing a 2D Classicvania version as well.

I was playing OoE earlier today. I was jumping from tree to tree, shooting lightning out of my hands at killer crows that were swooping in. I ran across bigfoot, who jumped off a bridge into the distant mountains. I thought, hell yes, I want more of this stuff!

New music sounds GREAT! I can't believe Michiru Yamane is involved!

I also bought the book they are basing the monsters on, the Lesser Key of Solomon. It's the more popular OTO translation by Macgregor Mathers with an intro and illustrations by Aleister Crowley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Key_of_Solomon

some of those monsters are straight outta SMT/Persona. Ha.

https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/003/824/226/0cc31003258a1e01ec3eaf1d93fe2a8b_original.png?v=1432076642&w=700&h=&fit=max&auto=format&lossless=true&s=3f675dc571d2688de7214046603a211f

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-NF6SJxps

This is a super early animation test but it's kind of amazing how quickly they were able to pull this together. This game may turn out to be really really special.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=waAsGYKptqI

Watch for the third advert. It's really funny.

ha

The CV4 beta was very different! It even has a boss that isn't in the finished version. "Through a room!"

good god the commercial with the SCIV beta was so long. as long has HUMANLY POSSIBLE

punk rock dracula was nice

yes japanese punk dracula ftw

http://www.twitch.tv/ffstv

Iga's playing through Shantae right now. They are celebrating the biggest video game kickstarter ever, ending tonight, with $5.5 million right now.

So insane. This couldn't have happened at the right time, with what's happening with Konami and all. Every time someone bashed 2d gaming, everyone that bailed after 3d started and uglied up and sold out games, all that karma is getting funneled into this project.

Now they are interviewing Michiru Yamane, who composed "SOTN".

Even though I haven't played any games that I've actually Kickstarted, what the hell... fine. In for the $60 physical edition. Maybe by the time it comes out I'll have finished playing the DS games.

I'm glad they managed to get there without me.

That's great that it did so well. I wonder how many backers are long-term fans, how many are very recent fans. I wouldn't have thought it normally but maybe Lords Of Shadow did introduce the series to a much wider audience?

Was there alternate language pages for this kickstarter? Because I'd assume a lot of backers would be non-english speakers.

Maybe I could find a cheap PS Vita to play this on? (Assuming I can get a physical copy of Bloodstained from shops).

http://i.imgur.com/Q7I79Ju.png

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/posts/1506864

gotta say i really like the way this is looking. even if she is a bit small on the screen, the design of the castle itself looks really nice from this one image!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4um6_cNpb6M

huuuuuuh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAL07Pbqx3c

Looks like they're playing it safe with the Igavania formula, which is fine. Backers shouldn't be disappointed.

https://www.twitch.tv/

live-streaming it right now

....and they're out of time! Iga says that a demo should come out for fans this week (hopefully)

that looks tight

Graphics are a bit disappointing but I'm sure it'll be fine.

feel the same. i don't even want to see anymore until it comes out