Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - Koji Igarashi Interview

[Sonic2332]

@onikage2099 Yea SOTN did suffer from lack of difficulty. They spoiled the player with too many weapons and power ups so the bosses hardly had enough life to stand a chance against you. Circle of the Moon on the other hand went too far the other way by not even giving the player a store to buy from. To me... Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, and Harmony of Dissonance are the most balanced metrovanias in terms of difficulty. They're not too hard, but also not too easy.

[HuntersX2NCreations]

Castlevania Lament of Innocence wasn't the first 3d, the first two where on N64 then one for Dreamcast called Castlevania Resurrection but didn't release, sucks it didn't because that one might have blown all these new ones out.

[j450n2]

They need to make a castlevania for psp (and not some cheap remake)

[crazyiproshow]

i so agree with that

[bloodwing70]

I'm sooooo going to to enjoy this game now that the new lead character has a hot, sexy back!

I LOVE YOU SHANOA!!!

[vivikunnoul]

WE LOVE SHANOA!

[Shamoo28]

You have no idea how much i respect this dude.

[blkwaltz]

Hey now, I thought that Curse of Darkness was one only a castlevania freak would like, but Lament of Innocence was amazing Id say he was very successful with that around where I live its one of the most sought after PS2 titles (granted probably because more of lack of supply than increase in demand)

[bummugger96]

what months fall?

[Aqua1222]

September, October, and November.

[hulksjedi]

HAHAH 1:05 the interviewer voice just made me laugh at loud! HAHAHA. That's the nerdy voice I ever heard! AHHAHA honesty! HAHAHAHHA

[youstupidideot]

lol I actually liked the 3D castlevania's, even the 64 ones....(except the Arena or wtv when i had to grap stupid ledges and he would never grap on..). But I would say there improving in 3d, and i still play them time and time again

[fvidalh]

dude don't fuckin give up, make another 3d castlevania for the ps3 that'd be tight, Castlevania games are the best games ever, don't listen to those fools

[shineph]

I agree, Castlevania games in 3D were not excellent, but not bad as well. I'm sure the next Castlevania in 3D will be great, and it will probably be in Wii I'm afraid

[fvidalh]

yeah, well Castlevania lamment of innocense and curse of darkness were not bad at all, the only thing i hated was to fucking run around the leves for hours to get to where i needed to be.

[shineph]

you got that right, the game seemed so large and the character too slow. Now, Castlevania Wii will be released end of this year and it will be .... a fighting game .... oh well, we'll see if it's worth it

[Dragonslayer9]

Am I the only one who thought CoD was a good game?

[UtsusuZero]

No, u r not the only one xD, me too, i think was a good game, no excelent, but good game, i like it =P.

[somethinglacking1]

why all the sexism? a female character is a nice change, besides all the males in these games look like women anyway!! Carrie Fernandez, Maria, Chatlotte and Sonia were all awesome characters

[IXINeroIXI]

castlevania simphony of the night woot the best castlevania ever!

[FrogGKnight]

A new female main character

Fuck yes=D <3

[arpegiuz]

WTF IGA allow a FEMALE lead?

[UtsusuZero]

Yup, and thats cool =D, its like Sonia Belmont in a DS, but.. well Shanoa isnt a Belmont D:, but is very cool =D

[monsecienta]

Well yeah except sonia was removed from official continuity and she's not longer exist (as a belmont)

[UtsusuZero]

yah, sadly D:

[ganondorf59]

I think the same, pathetic decission, a female character will ruin the franchise, like Sonia in CVL, and Charlotte in POR, the 2 worst games in the series. This will b horrible I know it.

[UtsusuZero]

Well... that's your opinion, becuase I think is cool have like protagonist a woman in the series of a lot of videogames, where the main character is a male, and is time to have a woman in castlevania series(again) and for nothing, is gona be a good game ^^ im sure of that(but well.. again that's my opinion and also lot of ppl think the same)

[ganondorf59]

yeah, I disagree, but still respect ur opinion

[arpegiuz]

I agree with ganondorf59

This game is gonna suck hard because they allow a female lead ¬¬

[ganondorf59]

that's right.

[Dragonslayer9]

Great games like Metroid have the main character as a female, I don't see the reason why a female would ruin the game, thats just sexist.

[ganondorf59]

I know the exceptions r Metroid, Perfect Dark and Dino Crisis. But putting those exclenet games aside, the rest just suk. Look at CVL, the worst game, it even got removed from the timeline! And POR also suks! So like I said, I'm just saying female protagonists TEND to be the a meaning of disaster.

[UtsusuZero]

I dont think PoR was a bad, game, if you say PoR was a bad game for Charlotte, i will think you are sexist, anyway, Castlevania is Castlevania, there is not bad history in those games, just the gameplay or conversation can affect those result of: ''i dont like this game by that''; me and million of people think Shanoa is a good character, the history is pretty cool, let her a chance...

[ganondorf59]

POR was bad not only cuz of Charlotte (which was also partially the cause) but 4 how short it was, how less serious it was, anime was horrible even worse than in DOS and the looks of the bad drawn Charlotte were horrible (Nintendo Magazine Latin America said it). So there r a lot of reasons why it's bad. So like I said every CV with a female protagonist until today have been bad games. I'm just saying how this will probably occur once again.

[MilesProwerTails]

Portrait of ruin was amazing game idiot!

[ganondorf59]

My friends and I find it the worst game in the series after CVL, official LatinAmerica Nintendo magazine supports that.

[JeremyRodriguez06]

good for you and the latin nintendo magazine. it's still an opinion.

[ganondorf59]

I know it is but it's still sustained by arguments and facts!

[UtsusuZero]

Well, I really liked this game, more than Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin, I know SotN was a good game, but talking of CV DS, for ME OoE was a epic win.

The only bad point was the history, but just that. By the way, the gameplay was so good for me. And the music, ahhh... pure castlevania style.

[ganondorf59]

I believe ur first language may be spanish like mine os I'll reply in spanish:

Ta bien tienes razon en gran parte si es un buen juego pero creo (mi punto desde el principio) es q no es muy al estilo d castlevania (POR mucho menos) x lo q como castlevania no me gusta mucho pero como juego si (t habla un veterano q jugo el castlevania 1 en NES), DOS tenia el estilo clasico d castlevania q tenia SOTN CV4 y COTM x ejemplo, es decir tenia ese estilo clasico pero los retratos anime eran horribles.

[UtsusuZero]

Lo que es el estilo anime si que si te digo que era horrible, me gustaba demasiado el estilo rumano-gotico-japones que tenia los juegos anteriores, como la joya de Aria of Sorrow(me gusto mas la primera parte que la de Dawn). Por dicha y se lo cambiaron a Order, pero sin desviarme, el PoR ni el DoS los sentia anime, ya que solo la intro y la expresiones a la hora de hablar era lo unico en anime, lo demas era puro sprite. Por eso no se siente,no como el Judgement,que si lo juego es por curiosidad

[ganondorf59]

Claro a eso me refiero a mi me encanta el estilo gotico-rumano-japones q tenian toods los anteriores precisamente y q bueno q en parte regresaron a eso en el OOE,en cuanto al Judgment me da rabia saber q lo cambiaron a un juego d peleas!Street Fighter,Mortal Kombat o Killer Instinct son de lo mejor de lo mejor pero eso de castlevania en peleas no.A mi me parece q el COTM el Aria y el SOTN son los mejores sin duda ya q seguian el estilo clasico pero el resto d los portatiles no x ello el disgusto

[UtsusuZero]

Por algo se les llama Metroidvanias no? Jaja, en fin, yo con el Order of Ecclesia quede encantado, sin decir quede maravillado, pero la euforia de jugar un castlevania al igual que otro titulo de juego, es genial, a pesar de que se distorsione un poco.

Sin embargo, el Judgement, no me molesta que sea un juego de peleas, imaginate que yo siempre he esperado un juego de peleas de Megaman jaja, lo que me disgusta es el asqueroso arte de Takeshi Obata, y lo peor es que a Iga le gusta ese arte.

[UtsusuZero]

PD: Lo de Megaman es por que, junto a Castlevania son mis 2 sagas favoritas, seguida por Guilty Gear.

[ganondorf59]

Digo digo a mi me gutsan tanto los clasicos como los metroidvanias pero el Ecclesia no e slo mismo sientoq es otro juego el arte noe s muy bueno pero mejor q los dl anime y ese IGA realmente me parece un idiota sin ofender. Kisiera q regresen aunke sea al estilo clasico en un remake del Castlevania 4 o el 1 aunke sea, al estilo de Dracula X Chronicles de PSP eso seria espectacular, es lo q ademas anhelo mucho, ojala c cumpla eso.

[Skyline0014]

Es cierto, dañaron los personajes por culpa del bastardo de Obata, la que mas dañaron fue a la pobre Shanoa, OMG!!!!!!!! es preciosa en el OoE!!!!!

En el Judgment parece una monja, se ve mejor con el cabello largo...

Trevor Belmont hubiera quedado mejor con el diseño hecho para Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

[Nikolai2099]

Oye amigo una pregunta, o quien quiera responder.

Tengo una duda de Order of Ecclesia, tengo entendido que la orden se creo por que el clan Belmont desaparecio, acaso hacen mencion que les sucedio a ellos o si toman elementos de sus predecesores (cronologicamente claro) Rondo y Symphony.

Saludos!!!

[UtsusuZero]

Pues a lo que he entendido, es que la historia que los Belmonts desaparecieron momentaneamente, acordemosnos que todavia falta un Belmont que es Julius, que aunque no ha tenido juego ya salio junto a Soma en Aria/Dawn of Sorrow.

En otras palabras, es que la creacion de Ecclesia fue producto que no habia ningun Belmont disponible(lol). En fin, si me equivoco me corrigen XD.

[Tiars666tiamat]

"Nintendo Magazine Latin America" ROFL Also Nintendo Magazine Cuba said it also sucks. Check some real critics like ign, gamespot

[ganondorf59]

lol, how pathetic, replying to a 1 year old comment.

U must be a blind imbecile if u can't see the fact that this game sux big time, IT'S BORING. And actually, it's the worst CV of them all!!

[Tiars666tiamat]

How pathetic replying to a reply of a year old comment. Does it really matter if it's old? It's not less stupid. And yeah I'm blind, have a wooden leg and no life , how did you know?

[ganondorf59]

U just said it urself. And well, the stupid fanboy and less than 10 year old would surely like this, anybody who grew up with the NES sure would tell u u're fucking crazy.

[UtsusuZero]

Sigo diciendo que fue un juego decente. Si hablamos de juegos malos, para eso esta el Judgement, pero bueno, se supone que todos ya lo superamos XDD!!

Ahora el que sigue es Castlevania Lord of Shadow. Que se ve grandioso.

[ganondorf59]

De acuerdo, totalmente de acuerdo con lo q dices, el Judgement fue una desgracia total. Aunque aun no me guste el Ecclesia, simplemente no siento q fuera Castlevania ni menos entretenido como los otros.

[aaindahouse]

how dare you it's ace just like the others!

[ellelawliet9]

song as background?

[Klatrymadon]

That's Castlevania IV's version of "Beginning", mate. It's a theme that pops up in loads of Castlevanias. :)

[ellelawliet9]

thanks

[BeholdMyStrength]

First song is "Beginning" from Castlevania IV

Second song is "The Silence of the Daylight" from Castlevania II

Thrid and final song is "Bloody Tears" also from Castlevania II

[jameshupp]

Personally, I'd love to see Castlevania on the Wii. What a lot of third party publishers aren't getting is that you don't HAVE to have motion controls in a Wii game. I'd be just as happy playing using the classic controller or the gamecube controller than the wiimote for some games. If Castlevani used minimal or no motion controls, it would probably be sweet on the wii.

[KevinTheShinigami]

Well, just because a game on the wii, doesnt mean you have to whip all the time, like super paper mario, it doesnt use the motion sensor all the time, just rarely... It could have symbols you trace with the remote, like in DoS.

[jenova9]

yep he's very intelligent to avoid the Wii! a Castlevania game would get tiring using the wiimote. it's almost as bad a controller design like the stylus. does Nintendo want people to play games for less periods of time?! working out while playing videogames is a serious design flaw.

[UtsusuZero]

Well that's the body resistance of each person, like me, i like play games like DDR o lots of Wii games without get tired(well, obviously if I play like 8 hours without rest i get tired).

However, in my poscision i can say... i want a Castlevania for Wii! =). I imaginated me hit things with a Vampire Killer xD. Its the body of each person D:

Srry my english isn't not good at all >.>

[hiddeneaf404]

I also want a castlevania for the wii! I remember when I was in 5th grade and i was currently playing castlevania for the nes and after i played the game i made my own whip and kept on whipping on banana trees. if there would be a castlevania for the wii and the wii mote as the whip maybe my dream would come true whipping on monsters.