Castlevania Anniversary Collection

Interesting, because there was rumored to be a new Castlevania game that would follow a collection according to last summer's rumor mill that predicted a ton of stuff accurately about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The Rondo/Symphony collection threw that story off a bit, but this perhaps sort of points things back on track. Then again...

Regarding the collection, Game Rant ran a story about this: gamerant.com/castlevania-collection-leaked-by-ratings-board/ They seem to hint it might be a Lords of Shadow collection... EDIT: It's been said in another way by purifyweirdshard now, but I realize in retrospect that this logic by Game Rant was flawed, because their comments on imagery could easily connect to Super Castlevania IV's Medusa or SotN's Scylla. Plus, there already was a Lords of Shadow collection released previously.

I'm most puzzled by the "anniversary" part. Assuming it's out this year, there are no obvious Castlevania anniversaries to pay tribute to. The only ones I can think of are The Adventure, which came out in 1989: possibly a release of the original and the wii remake; Bloodlines, from 1994 (25 years): a collection of that game plus its sort-of sequel PoR?; and, least likely, Demon Castle Wars: the game that was never made, that was set in 1999.

I'd love to see the three DS games. Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness would be my second choice. I don't have much hope it'll include any of those games though.

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One of the problems with including the DS games in any collection is the touch screen mechanics of each of em.

GBA + NDS titles in one PC bundle? That would be awesome.

Edit: I can use a pen if needed, or mouse for some parts, or they could just patch so we do not need to. Not that hard..

There's actually already a fan-patch to deal with the Seals from Dawn of Sorrow, so I'd imagine it's quite possible. Heck, you could make the argument Square-Enix did the same moving KH3D onto the PS3/PS4. And then of course there's Mirror of Fate HD being a thing.

Julius Mode completely ignores the seals as it is, so it's possible with the programming already in the game too - I just wouldn't expect any extra work on Konami's end to have it happen heh. Knowing them, they'd go through with that but leave Yoko's tutorial in the game about it.

Having the portable Nintendo games on other/modern consoles would feel/perhaps look weird, but I'd get that, sure. I should dig up my post about what I want/expect from this sort of thing in another thread we had about this if I can find it (think it was with the Switch rumor stuff maybe?)

Good point. I'm pretty sure Aria of Sorrow had a virtual console release for wii U as a rom, and some special exclusive 3DS port that was only available to some people. Contra 4 came to mobile. That's all I can think of, so nothing close to what we're hoping for.

Personally, the game I NEED the collection to have is Bloodlines. I've never owned it, so I've never gotten to play it extensively, and when I did get to play it, I only got to the last level. It's one of the few Castlevania games I haven't beaten. Even so, I thought it was an amazing entry.

So, I would take it whatever it is if it includes Bloodlines. But other than that...Castlevania 1-4 and Bloodlines would be a B+; throw in Dracula X and Rondo and we're at an A-; put in the original GB games and SotN and we're at an A. (Include things like ReBirth, Haunted Castle, and the Sharp computer entry that was released on PS1, and we're at A+). ...I know better than to ask for the N64 games, but needless to say that would be spectacular... I can understand the want for the portable Metroidvanias, but I'd like the older stuff first and foremost. It has the most replay value, in my opinion.

...I put this above in an edit to my earlier post, but I'll put it down here again:
It's been said in another way by purifyweirdsoul now, but I realize in retrospect that the logic by Game Rant was flawed, because their comments on imagery could easily connect to Super Castlevania IV's Medusa or SotN's Scylla. Plus, there already was a Lords of Shadow collection released previously.