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Castlevania Symphony of the Night 2: What is a Screenshot? A Miserable Little Pile of Secrets!

Posted by John Constantine

Can you dig it, everyone? Tokyo Game Show is off to a running start and while it appears that some games that everyone expected to appear, like Team Ico’s Playstation 3 debut, are nowhere to be found, plenty of other exciting games are rearing their glorious digital heads. Who in their right minds expected No More Heroes 2 to be announced? That is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Of course, Tokyo Game Show isn’t without a little mystery here in 2008. For example, take this screenshot Koji Igarashi showed off during a chat about Castlevania:



Why, that appears to be Alucard, star of the ubiquitous Symphony of the Night and apple of ten billion goth girls’ eyes. A discerning fellow might also intuit that Alucard is holding a gigantic glowing sword in front of a certain titular castle and a giant moon. Now, I don’t read Japanese, and no intrepid fan has translated the +D article this picture originates from, but folks over at the Castlevania Dungeon, run by the inestimable Kurt Kalata, are saying that this is from an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 title about, "the bloodline that has been surrounded by darkness and curse, betrayed his own kind and destroyed his own father, the cursed destiny."

We do not trade in rumor and speculation here at 61 Frames Per Second. Well, not often. But here’s a huge dose of rumor and speculation for you anyway: this appears to be a full on sequel to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Can you hear that? That’s the sound of one million geek hearts exploding simultaneously.

Thanks to both NeoGAF user Guymelef and The Castlevania Dungeon for alerting us to the madness.

Related links:

Castlevania Judgment(s): Iga Continues to Show a Keen Understanding of His Franchise on DS, But His First Wii Title Misses the Point

Watcha Playing: Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin
When Good Developers Go Bad: Koji Igarashi
Castlevania: Curse of the Stupid Red-Headed Kid
Castlevania Fighting Game Elicits Anguished Moans From the Living


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Comments

Roto13 said:

"Who in their right minds expected No More Heroes 2 to be announced?"

Me, because the last line in the game is "Too bad there won't be a sequel." I'm absolutely thrilled at the prospect, though. I can't wait.

October 9, 2008 1:02 PM

popecrunch said:

oh my goddddddd my living room is now basically ankle deep in man-spurt

October 9, 2008 2:32 PM

Demaar said:

Um, hooray? I might think about possibly getting excited when they tell us it won't be a 3D action game.

October 10, 2008 4:24 AM

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