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Post by purifyweirdshard on Jul 12, 2018 12:29:38 GMT -6
Lol yeah I saw this on FB a couple hours ago. Thanks for updating the thread
They're FINALLLLLLLY doing this.
Also estebant, you asked me earlier for sources on the "if" thing, and I remember trying to hunt for that, but basically it was a reply on Twitter that Mondo gave to someone to the tune of "if we do SotN, it would have to be x (Rondo first? I can't remember)" or something like that. Finding twitter comments when I don't even know if it was on their main account page is pretty hard.
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Post by freddythemonkey on Jul 12, 2018 13:26:37 GMT -6
I don't get why they have such inconsistent artworks. Anyway, I retrieved all of the other LPs so I'll surely pick this up as soon as it comes to an European distributor like Amazon it.
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Post by purifyweirdshard on Sept 18, 2018 8:57:07 GMT -6
still waiting zzzzzzzz
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Post by purifyweirdshard on Oct 2, 2018 8:34:16 GMT -6
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Post by purifyweirdshard on Oct 22, 2018 12:06:30 GMT -6
Okay finally, the Rondo (and SotN) vinyls are releasing this Wednesday at Mondo estebant
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Post by freddythemonkey on Oct 22, 2018 12:42:51 GMT -6
I hope they get to my trusted distributor, I'd love some colored variants but 70 bucks plus shipping to Italy will be overkill for my wallet, can't really afford that.
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Post by estebant on Oct 22, 2018 13:17:45 GMT -6
That Symphony vinyl is God awful. I can't believe they're serious. Compare that art to the Dracula's Curse one.
I'm so disappointed. Definitely will not be buying.
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Post by Sindra on Oct 23, 2018 8:08:35 GMT -6
That Symphony vinyl is God awful. I can't believe they're serious. Compare that art to the Dracula's Curse one. I'm so disappointed. Definitely will not be buying. Yeah, the artwork for the symphony one (while very nice) is not what should be used for the front cover. Inner cover maybe, but Alucard looks less heroic and more pouty Victorian-era teen and that sours it. Of course it's not just about the artwork, and hopefully the music sounds excellent, especially if they are including the tracks from the Saturn version of the game also. (Chaconne C'Moll for the Cursed Prison and "Guardian" for the Maria battle especially)
And I thought the Dracula's Curse art was also godawful. The only covers I've liked have been Simon's Quest's and Rondo's.
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Post by purifyweirdshard on Oct 23, 2018 8:27:37 GMT -6
It's better than SCV4's, to me, and not that bad overall. At least to not where it's a deal breaker. CV3's was thematically pretty interesting (forming the final boss with their faces etc), even if telling the characters apart is a bit of a problem lol. Simon's Quest is probably the best looking one, though.
According to the site, it does have "7 bonus tracks from the Sega Saturn version of the game", but that means they're leaving something out. I personally don't really need all the remix versions of VK, Tears and Beginning - I would agree that the prison song and Maria's would be the important ones. So maybe -
Those two, 3 remixes, ?
It's an odd number, I believe there's 6 total remix tracks.
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Post by freddythemonkey on Oct 23, 2018 11:08:56 GMT -6
I thought that the art for SCIV vinyl was incredibly amateurish and pretty much hideous. I also didn't like the art for Simon's Quest very much.
The other three are good to very good, while Symphony isn't THAT bad in my opinion. In the end, this isn't going to stop my collector lust. I'm gonna get'em lol.
The only thing that isn't clear to me is why they couldn't use any of the original artworks. If they can print the music on vinyl it means they have a license, doesn't it? Maybe the license only applies to the music and not to the art? I'm really curious at this point.
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Post by purifyweirdshard on Oct 23, 2018 11:24:50 GMT -6
I think it may very well be their own preference to do that. Mondo does a lot of original art prints (and...what's essentially fanart sold at premium prices), and I imagine most if not all of those artists are people they have connections with from all that. It's maybe almost as much about the cross-promotion from that as it is getting the music out there.
See: their inexplicably expensive posters.
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Post by Sindra on Oct 23, 2018 12:05:04 GMT -6
Mondo is all about selling nostalgia with their own shiny wrapper on it. They aren't fans of the material, and get their own curated artists to do the (licensed) fanart for their posters/covers. The best you can hope for is that the artist they choose is both good and has some connection to the source material in order to be able to discern what would make the most sense design-wise to other fans. Unfortunately, they often don't work to resonate with casual fans either. CV1 - Okay. You have a large Dracula which takes up all your focus, and a smaller Simon w/ whip, but no eponymous castle. CV2 - Here we go. You have Simon in his CV2 garb taking up a good half of the cover fighting skeletons w/ whip, the castle very visible in the BG with Dracula's end-boss form overlooking it. This makes sense for veteran fans and casual fans in terms of recognizing the game. CV3 - This is a clusterfuck of bad design choices. It makes no sense nor is it recognizable what franchise this game is from, let alone what game, unless you are a seasoned fan and focus hard enough to make everything out in terms of the 4 characters. No Drac, except on the inside cover, no castle; nothing that gives any great hints that this is even Dracula's Curse. SCV4 - You have Simon's torso holding a cross subweapon. That is it. You barely see the iconic whip. No castle, no Drac (except on the back cover...alone on a throne), no monsters. It's a damn torso. This does nothing even remotely dynamic nor is it determinable which Castlevania this is supposed to be. This was, IMHO, the biggest missed opportunity to really do something that stands out w/ all of the material SCV4 had to offer...and it falls laughably flat on its face. Rondo - And we're back to using several iconic set pieces to show you this is a Castlevania album. Richter front and center in his Rondo outfit on a mountain of clawing skeletons, with the castle huge and looming over him in front of a full moon. Good job all around, though there is a bit too much saturation, though this was likely to provide good contrast. SotN - Clearly trying to stylistically mimic SotN's game cover, we have Alucard even more blown up and is the central image that draws the most focus, with a castle and moon over his right shoulder. Totally blank photo-like background otherwise. Alucard is what they want you focusing on. Beyond my opinion of how they made him look even more androgynous, there's nothing else going on and is rather bland and boring otherwise. Again though, it should be more about the music than the artwork, but there's so much try-harding in everything but the SQ and Rondo covers to be "different" that it doesn't do much otherwise. (Except the SCV4 one, which I thought the artist was just hands-down lazy with designing the front)
Apologies for the monster-post. These album covers have been a pet peeve of mine as an artist and fan.
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Post by freddythemonkey on Oct 23, 2018 14:24:53 GMT -6
I completely agree Sindra, none of the cover is perfect and some are very lackluster to put it mildly. That said, I'm a pretty big vinyl enthusiast in addition to a fan of the saga, so I'd probably have bought the vinyls even with a blank cover.
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Post by purifyweirdshard on Oct 24, 2018 13:24:32 GMT -6
Yeah dey aight. I ordered 6 lmao
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Post by freddythemonkey on Oct 25, 2018 4:17:49 GMT -6
As I thought I coudln't afford them on Mondo's sites. 22 bucks of shipping per vinyl, no thanks. I hope they come soon on Amazon.it, even if it's the regular black vinyl.
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Post by purifyweirdshard on Oct 25, 2018 8:01:41 GMT -6
Oh geez, that's per and not combined?
It would be ideal if they had a regional distributor of these, some of these game vinyls do, but I'm sure you're acutely aware and on the lookout for that. I'm sure there will be a secondary market too, but most sellers would probably be based in the US as well.
Another idea: get Angel-Corlux to buy some extras and bring them to Italy next time he visits his family. lol
Oh yeah, and about the Saturn tracks, turns out it's Guardian and the 6 remixes. That's pretty much fine with me, I can't say I expected any of them.
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