Konami recently put out a trailer for the upcoming Belmont’s Curse game… I’d post it here, but I forgot to bookmark the video and don’t feel like looking it up. Basically, it just announced the English cast for the game, which includes a couple voice actors from the Netflix series as well as someone voicing a character from a previous Castlevania outing. Needless to say, I’m largely ambivalent regarding casting for these things, so other than the little bits of gameplay shown off, my anticipation remains the same.
I do have to laugh at some of the folks who are crying foul that this feels nothing like the Castlevania they grew up with or were familiar with. To those folks, I say, “Join the club. Now you know how some of us felt when Symphony Of The Night was a thing.”
Castlevania has moved past its Igavania phase. If you want more of that, Bloodstained is right there and the new one will offer more of that, I’m sure. Am I completely on board with this new style being presented? Not entirely, but I wouldn’t say that I’m against it, either. To compare it to what came before is doing this a disservice. If you want to say that you prefer the older games over what this one is offering, fair enough. But to anyone who says this doesn’t need or deserve to be a Castlevania game… I’ve said the same thing about Order Of Ecclesia for years. I even made a video on that count; you can watch that here.
Belmont’s Curse is scheduled for release on October 15th. I’ve considered getting this on Switch, but figure that I might be better off getting this on Steam and running this on the big tower. I’ll probably post some quick thoughts afterwards. If the game rocks, I’ll say so. If the game sucks, I’ll say so. But I’ll judge it on its own merits before deciding whether I like it more than whatever came before… and if this turns out to be worse than Judgment, we’re all boned.
Anyway, some big stuff coming up on the channel and the blog. Hope it all works out…
