From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   BelPowerslave wrote:   
   >>> Have ya'll seen this? I mean, have you seen this!? They've taken John   
   >>> from Bloodlines, made him into Richter, and even gave him the same   
   >>> dumb-bitch sidekick/second playable character. Man, what happened? Was   
   >>> Bloodlines just too good to actually do a real sequel for, they needed   
   >>> to use their "Castlevania-X" template *again*? Fucking Konami...   
   >>>   
   >>> Bel   
   >> It looks like they went for the Super Metroid-Vania approach again.   
   >> I'm not seeing much of Chi No Rondo in there, aside from the girl with   
   >> the magic (were they on screen simultaneously in the PCE CD game?).   
   >   
   > Well, by the "Castlevania X template" I was referring to just the   
   > characters, you know your typical girl-ish looking guy and then some cutesy   
   > anime girl with a 13 year old's voice who constantly screams. ;)  I just   
   > don't understand A) Why the guy with the Lance isn't back and playable, and   
   > B) Why they are doing, yet again, another fucking SotN-like title.   
      
   /Evil Fanboy Mode/  What's this!?  Only a true blue Sega fanboy could   
   say something like this about the legendary SotN!  They can remake that   
   wonderous game that could only have been on a Sony platform as many   
   times as they like and it'll still be solid gold!  It's just too bad it   
   isn't on that stupendous PSP.  Why, if I had a choice between copying a   
   PSX game, and expanding on a crappy Genesis game nobody liked, I'd pick   
   the Sony game any day.   /*Evil Fanboy Mode/*   
      
      
   >>  It   
   >> also looks like they've managed to push the DS further than I've seen   
   >> it go so far.  Having not finished Dawn of Sorrow yet, I will probably   
   >> not pick this one up unless it has some direct link in storyline to   
   >> Bloodlines.   
   >   
   > With it having John back in it, I'm guessing it'll have some links to   
   > Bloodlines, though if I had to guess, they'll probably just erase everything   
   > that happened in it.   
      
         If that's John, it's like it's him at age 16 or something.  It   
   would be cool to have some character filled in for the older games, even   
   if it was abusing the Metroid engine yet again.  $20 says that the   
   storyline ends up being only a slight twist on the AS/DS theme of the   
   main character being tempted to turn evil, but, you know, not.   
      
   >> Now that we all know the characters aren't related in   
   >> anything but name, I kind of doubt I'm going to have any of my   
   >> expectations met storyline wise.  Too man Japanese games and cartoons   
   >> are doing this weird thing with kids, magic, and collection/RPG   
   >> elements.  It just doesn't click with me, and it feels like propaganda   
   >> when I watch it.  ;)   
   >>   
   >   
   > The Castlevania series has never really been real big on continuity, in fact   
   > sometimes they tend to just forget certain games even happened. About the   
   > best you'll get are either some random character from an older game either   
   > being kinda talked about, or actually being playable...and that's about it.   
   >   
   > Bel   
      
   Or character development for that matter.  They just had such neato art   
   design for the characters and enemies, plus awesome soundtrack, that   
   nobody cared.   
      
      
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