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Castlevania Requiem (SOTN + Rondo of Blood) announced for 10/26, PS4 exclusive
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Me too. I don't mind pixels, but these ones are super chunky in places. I will never not prefer a proper CRT filter in place. This is CRT Easy Mode vs Native Pixels. I tuned CRT to my liking, but it can obviously be tweaked to yours. It's crazy how much detail on the character CRT or filters create.
I honestly just wish these older remasters would come with decent filtering options. Like just give us the damn options! I hate when they release with some crappy vaseline smoother or even worse a terrible looking CRT filter that makes the game look horrible. How is it that hard to put your own CRT filter in a game like this? I would think all you need is permission to use a filter for a game. Pay a small fee even. Do something.
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I agree. I think people are falling for this we really tried remaster business. I don't really agree with how they are doing this, and the lack of even a decent CRT filter just makes me not want to spend anything. I don't care to play through this game with its chunky looking naked pixels. That isn't how the game was designed to be seen really anyway.
I would at least hope they have the pixels correctly rendered though.
For $20, fine I guess but I wish they would have taken more care with the project, and I *really* wish they were working on SoTN 2 or something like that.
SOTN2 is coming, it's called Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night.
Was this already confirmed to be a Sony port? Sony isn't going to make a brand new Castlevania game.
Well damn. Can't choose between original or PSP script, no CRT filter and it's pretty much just an emulated PSP chronicles collection right?
Fuck I'll just stick with emulating my original copy. Wanting to play through this with a friend so I think I'll stick with what I have.
Fuck I'll just stick with emulating my original copy. Wanting to play through this with a friend so I think I'll stick with what I have.
How many copies of this do I have to buy to convince Konami to finally bring Harmony of Despair to PS4/Xbox One? It's criminal that it's somehow still stuck on PS3 and 360.
That's not obvious at all. If it's the PSP version it has off pixel scaling at the very least.
It's obvious if you actually just look at the screenshots. Looks a ton crisper than any other official release so far.
The blur was bilinear filtering, which could be easily turned off in homebrew on PSP itself even. Pixel scaling is how the game was redrawn at a different resolution from the PS1 original. The PSP and Saturn ports both have this issue, only 360 maintained proper scaling but it had other issues.
Good news, though they should have included both to appease the purists
"...will not have the original VO for Symphony of the Night or Rondo of Blood."
Is this just unfortunate wording by someone who doesn't know what's what? Because if not, wouldn't this pretty much imply that there's no japanese dub?
Is this just unfortunate wording by someone who doesn't know what's what? Because if not, wouldn't this pretty much imply that there's no japanese dub?
How are we this close to release don't yet know if we can pick the JP voices or not?!
Apparently the PSP "retranslation" is nothing of the sort. It's a rephrasing of the original English translation.
I don't speak Japanese, but I remember someone who does said that if you look closely at all three scripts, the original translation skipped over certain details and made up details of it's own (as translations tend to do), and then the PSP retranslation didn't touch upon any details that were missed in the original, while it made up some of the exact same details that the original translation made up, it just phrased them differently.
Konami didn't retranslate the game and take the opportunity to do the translation any better, they just took the English script and told someone "People are ironically enjoying the flaws in this script. I want you to re-write it to break the memes and suck all the fun out of the room."
wow even though ROB has literally only appeared on PSP/Wii VC and nothing else in the west (Unlike SOTN, which has appeared on PS1, PSP and 360... Which is still not as much as the NES Castlevanias being on every Nintendo system after GBA)
FFS, at least be thankful that ROB is in circulation again after the Wii shop got pulled. Hopefully they do the same for Adventure Rebirth. I'm kinda sick of all the Konami bashing that's the hip thing to do as of late even though they're slowly doing things like publishing Bomberman R and this game which makes me hopeful they'll license out their IPs to companies who'll develop new entries or ports of their more obscure series. I'd love a new Gradius and especially a collection of their GB titles.
FFS, at least be thankful that ROB is in circulation again after the Wii shop got pulled. Hopefully they do the same for Adventure Rebirth. I'm kinda sick of all the Konami bashing that's the hip thing to do as of late even though they're slowly doing things like publishing Bomberman R and this game which makes me hopeful they'll license out their IPs to companies who'll develop new entries or ports of their more obscure series. I'd love a new Gradius and especially a collection of their GB titles.
There's two Japanese dubs. The PCE original is different from the one used on PSP and Wii VC.
I'm always curious to see why anyone ever wants the Saturn version.
The only worthwhile addition to the game that isn't included in the PSP version (and ths this one) is the third hand. The 2 extra areas were rather small and pointless and the game was a worse port in many other areas. We get an arguably better playing Maria in this one, too.
The law of the minimum effort.
Meanwhile I'll be sitting in this corner waiting for Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth and Castlevania Bloodlines to get out of their WiiWare and Sega Genesis hellhole.
How about porting those, Konami? It's pathetic that the only way to legally play these is by buying an actual Genesis cart and that's still better than what The Adventure Rebirth got now that you can't even access WiiWare since they shut the service down!
I sometimes feel like I'm a Castlevania fraud because I just don't find Bloody Tears as great as everyone else does. I have much more love for the main themes in 1 and 3.
Maybe it's because it's been covered, almost literally, to death.
Never played Rondo. Too bad it's not coming to Xbox.
One of the first games I bought on XBLA was SotN. Had it on PS1, but had to replay it. Wouldn't mind another old school 2D Castlevania game.
One of the first games I bought on XBLA was SotN. Had it on PS1, but had to replay it. Wouldn't mind another old school 2D Castlevania game.
I'd be curious to see what it takes to port the Saturn content. The base artwork in the Saturn version is all distorted which would require serious work to fix.
"In celebration of the forthcoming CASTLEVANIA: REQUIEM for PS4, we are honored to present the soundtracks to CASTLEVANIA: RONDO OF BLOOD/DRACULA X and CASTLEVANIA: SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT - available for the first time on vinyl." → https://mondotees.com/blogs/news/music-weekly-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-lp
SOTN:
Rondo:
SOTN:
Rondo:
Oooh really ?
even the Battle collection version ? :'(
don't worry that doesn't make you a fraud.
Any castlevania lover is a sister (or brother), even if that's for 3D games.
There, Vampire Killer to wash the bad aftertaste of what came upper
Its kinda sad that the most exciting Castlevania news in a while is Simon in Smash and the 34 remixed tracks... Im actually kinda more looking forward to the tracks than Ultimate itself lol
because that would involve spending money
and without the classic SOTN prologue I am not touching this
Is more than a meme. Every single voice is waaay better.