2d, 3d, 2.5d..what do you think?

I would prefer purely 2D but I know 2.5D can look just as amazing, if done right.

It definitely depends on the game. For Castlevania 2d is idea. I dunno but the engines that handle 2d and 3d. 2d just feels better.

Be it nostalgia or a deep seeded lust for a good 2d style game but I'll always research a 2d game that is new first before showing interest in a 3d. Unless it comes to something already established.

just had a thought, even though youll be moving on a 2d plane, i think taking little details on your placement in the castle in reference to other areas of the castle a step further than they have been in past games (like the clock tower being far away in one part of sotn, going through the clock tower later on, and the long staircase having the clock tower be very close in the background was epic) by having more areas referenced in the fore and background, walking through one area where you line up with a break in the castle walls and briefly see part of the ship before it disappears behind the ramparts, the vague outline of the pagoda and fountain off in the distance as you traverse a gallery, little touches that make the scope of this castle seem both massive in a 2d sense and well connected in a 3d space (assuming those bits of concept art make it in)

This is something I hadn't thought of...I wonder. Would the the level and surrounding areas (probably not the whole castle) actually be rendered in 3D around you? If that is indeed the case, and eye-catching details of other levels line up in certain spots of the ones you're in, located in real space relative to where you're at...that would be something. I hadn't even considered that, but it's obviously a great possibility. One of the great aspects of Dark Souls is how this is done, often in various not-obvious areas.

There's so much the team could do with that. Perhaps even a problem with a cryptic solution (such as with the Holy Glasses) could have its solution hinted at by observance of a different level from the one you're in. An important, but discreet detail that you wouldn't notice otherwise...it opens up your mind and you recall an area or puzzling item description that relates to it.

Even further, perhaps a large boss of the current/a different level could be viewed at an angle that shows its weak point. Maybe you had tried to fight it before, but it seemed impossible. The same could be done to show how to access certain areas...maybe you thought you had explored the entire chapel, but looking at it from a garden, you can see something moving in an attic. Going back, attacking the ceiling in the only room that it's reachable knocks open a trap door.

So many possibiltiies...

Double post because new reason to comment here again.
KS chat thing has a few people going ape-dung over the shader pictures because they are 2.5d and not 2d. *headdesk*.

This is kind of what I meant by automated responses in the first post. I think people have this knee-jerk cant be reasoned with mentality about this subject, and I was pretty surprised that nobody here seemed to fit that boat, but some of the recent KS activity shows that there are still some people out there like that... not claiming it's the majority or anything, just... I dunno. I kinda thought making this thread might possibly warm people up to the whole 2.5d thing if they weren't embracing it to begin with.