Simon Belmont to come to Smash?

The thing that's been largely overlooked is that the ENTIRE LIST of E3 "rumors/leaks" noted in the Castlevania Dungeon Forums have come true now--even this one about Simon that some said was far-fetetched--except for the new Castlevania game project. So, if Ridley and Ice Climbers and Simon were real, and the Resident Evil 2 Remake for PS4 was real...I think we may be looking at least at a teaser of a new Castlevania game (or a collection*) by the time E3 2019 rolls around.

*I'm having trouble remembering if the "collection" in the rumors was just Hyper Sports R or not. But there was definitely a second "game" mentioned by Gamekult and at least one other source that seemed to strongly suggest a new Castlevania game. One "leaker" went so far as to note it was to counter Bloodstained's rise, as I recall. And given Konami's statements about Switch during Bomberman R, and all this Smash Bros action, it could be that Switch will be the test system for the revival.

Considering this thread, I made this other thread in error, apparently. Maybe it should be merged into this thread about Simon.

The only truly hard to believe thing re: Castlevania in all this was/is there being a new game, which I still am just as skeptical of as I had been.

It's possible (and preferable) that they hand development off to a competent group, but that requires some good decision making.

Hmm...

I'm a little torn. On one hand, I don't want anything to potentially hurt Bloodstained's success, but on the other hand, more great 2D Halloween-y games just makes the world a better place to live. Using WayForward as an example is horrible because now my imagination is getting way out of hand. Gosh, imagine a Castlevania game with the production values of DuckTales Remastered or Shantae: Half-Genie Hero.

I've heard of the Vergeben name before and I'm pretty sure they are full of it. They've gotten too many things wrong for me to buy they actually have insider knowledge. Some of the things they've suggested are things one could reasonably infer/guess/suspect on one's own. I wouldn't put too much stock in their rumors.

RichterB yes, I've been following the leaks, rumors and the CV Dungeon thread (I checked it earlier yesterday as well as the overall board, and was doing so daily during and after E3 - yay Hyper Sports R). We've had a few topics and discourse over this on the forum here as well. I know the context for thinking it would be happening, and agree the timing and data/market line up with it properly, but Konami is just not the same as these other groups. The leaker(s) may very well have even heard first-hand talk at a show of something coming straight from a rep (or are the employee themselves) and I'd still not buy it.

Thank you for laying out a summary though for people who might need/want to catch up though.

Only one potential unknown remains in my mind, that being Konami's Switch "Action/Adventure" title, that may/may not be horror-related and may/may not exist entirely.

About Bloodstained though, absolutely no worries. There's very little danger of this negatively effecting the game. Something new 'vania actually brings us more attention (our FB group has blown up in numbers since the Smash reveal for instance) and I would never expect Konami or even a potentially licensed partner ever attempt an Iga-style game anyways. That's entirely too much work for too little reward, in Konami's eyes, the very antithesis of what they're about. If they did though, that itself would bring more attention than draw it away, I'd say.

If something happens (already a low chance), I'd break the chances down further like this myself, in order of most to least likely:

In the instance of actually doing anything at all with the franchise via console, some manner of compilation is inevitable
"Remasters" (as in not so much of an actual remake, see ZoE2 recently) are just slightly less likely, but probable
Remakes, less still, but far from impossible. Best candidate being a CV ReBirth of sorts to match Netflix show's recent popularity, hopefully again with M2 or some another competent dev
New game of a new genre from an outside dev, about as likely as remakes, such as say a 3D character action game or Warriors style game as a big crossover
New game of a "3D Castlevania" style, something like or between LoS or the PS2 games, less still than the above, but a workable path for them
Completely new Classicvania in 2.5D, going into pretty unlikely territory here, but in dreamland this could be a thing a la MM11
Completely new Metroidvania/Igavania in 2.5D: 0.001% chance
Completely new Classic in 2D: zero chance
Completely new M'vania in 2D: zero chance

I also don't think a GoS port would work or make sense as that/those types of games are structured to work for a mobile platform only. It'd take a lot of rearranging and effort just to make something with PSP graphics that only barely qualifies as a game to itself workable on a console.

Occam's Razor denotes that Simon and Richter should share a Final Smash. This is especially true because Simon's Final Smash is just a variant of Richter's Cross Item Crash. Furthermore, there was an explicit reference to Hydro Storm in the Castlevania trailer. If Richter had Hydro Storm as his Final Smash, they would have just shown us that, not obviously reference it in the trailer. 

The real question is will Bloodstained do the same to Castlevania as MN9 to Megaman? Also unlike Inafune Iga is a far more respectable director and might be essential to the series.

For what it's worth, Chrom is an echo of Roy, and his Final Smash is mechanically similar to Roy's, but a bit different. (Roy swings his sword in a 360 style, while Chrom just seems to attack forward.)

Perhaps it could be that Simon and Richter have largely the same Final Smash, but the initial attack that you have to land to hit with the Final Smash proper is slightly different. With maybe some animation difference with the Final Smash itself.

Yes and no. What I want is another metroidvania but in 3d with at least smash level graphics.