Would you like any castlevania references?

I actually don't want any obvious tributes.

Considering Robbie Belgrade is in, I think it'd make sense for him to have a few lines that are obvious tributes, but I wouldn't mind if they didn't include much more than that.

"What is a magi-crystal!?" *throws crystal wine glass* "A miserable little pile of crystallised shards of magic that corrupt our bodies! But enough talk. Have at you!"

Okay, now that I accept.

I don't want them to go too deep with references. It would be nice for long time Castlevania fans (like I assume most people who bothered to sign up here) but it would probably be lost of many without that sort of background. I also feel if you go too deep with the references, it becomes a bit harder to exist outside the shadow of CV - the best case scenario is that this becomes a series that exists beyond this one game. I dunno, wherever the line is will be different for person to person and even each person might feel more for or against it depending on when you ask them so I guess we'll just have to see how IGA et al handle here.

An Alucard reference would definitely make my day, even just a throw away comment of her once knowing some old guy named Alucard

I wouldn't mind if the Japanese side of the game had some tributes to our English localization, and vice versa. We could get some from the Japanese side that most of us don't know anything about.

I think this is what I would want to. Just subtle enough that new gamers to this game would not understand it but to vets it would be a funny nod. 

Adding a full qoute or scene may appear jarring to the experience, especially if it happens often. 

Less is more

Well, I meant something small like this one from the VanHelsing game. 

Eek (I'm a BB-hating GG fan lol). Maybe more like Demon's Souls and Dark Souls/Bloodborne? The three have nothing in common except the skeleton of the gameplay.

I'm all for subtle references. The main callbacks to Castlevania should just be the return of elements from that game, though, and not so much campy lines or characters. I'm talking about wall meat, candles, stats, etc...the same kind of things that carry over from Iga game to the next, within reason.