The next DS Castlevania?

[Yoshi]

I fully support Konami remaking more old Castlevanias anywhere other than the DS.

[Glass Joe]

I'm not touching this horse shit. Castlevania is dead. May its memory, ending with SotN, rest in peace. Konami is now the company that makes Silent Hill.

I feel just about the same. I loved CotM but after that it was all downhill. The last few games were still kind of fun but they lost that CV magic. How I long for a new CV game more along the lines of CV3 and Rondo.

[Frogacuda]

I feel just about the same. I loved CotM but after that it was all downhill. The last few games were still kind of fun but they lost that CV magic. How I long for a new CV game more along the lines of CV3 and Rondo.

PoR is better than CotM, and arguably any of the other handheld ones, honestly. Rondo it ain't, but it's the right balance of old and new for the Symphony clones.

[Glass Joe]

I believe you that it is good but the little I played of it was enough to let me know it was just more of the same. There are just too many of them and they need to go in a different direction to make things fresh again.

[NeoZeedeater]

Like GTA: San Andreas, PoR didn't hold my interest all the way to the end because, even with the improvements, it was still "too similar, too soon". I suppose it's partly my fault for buying them, though. I won't be buying another Metroidvania any time soon (or GTA4 if it doesn't vary enough from the previous games).

[Frogacuda]

Well the settings, level design, and character switching thing were different enough.

If CotM, Aria of Sorrow, and Portrait of Ruin were the only handheld CVs, no one would be complaining, really. Each one changes enough to keep thing interesting, but there are twice as many of these games as there needs to be.

[Yoshi]

If CotM, Aria of Sorrow, and Portrait of Ruin were the only handheld CVs, no one would be complaining, really.

This is true only if there were console games mixed in every other year. The fact that we keep having to say "best handheld" highlights the problem.

[Frogacuda]

This is true only if there were console games mixed in every other year. The fact that we keep having to say "best handheld" highlights the problem.

We don't have to say the best handheld, the console ones blow, and they blow for reasons that have nothing to do with the handheld ones. Thank god we have the handheld ones, really.

[frostwolf ex]

This is true only if there were console games mixed in every other year. The fact that we keep having to say "best handheld" highlights the problem.

you know, for as much as you go on about the handhelds, you should be using some of that venom for the absolutley hideous console 3d ones, if anything dishonors the memory of the old castlevanias, playing as some utterly uninteresting side character as he attacks vaguely castlevania-ish enemies with stilted combos with un-castlevania-ish weapons is a far worse insult.

I will check out the new ds game, but im hoping we get a lot less reused enemy sprites than between dos and por.

[Frogacuda]

Oh, and can we all agree whoever the new artist is is way better than the anime crap from the last two?