{"id":3166,"date":"2025-07-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:13:00","slug":"it-is-madness-that-konami-still-hasnt-made-a-new-castlevania-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/it-is-madness-that-konami-still-hasnt-made-a-new-castlevania-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"It is madness that Konami still hasn\u2019t made a new Castlevania \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been a long time since Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night (Konami)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader is baffled as to why Konami<\/a> keeps rebooting increasingly obscure older games but still hasn\u2019t brought back the classic Castlevania series.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of rumours about a new Nintendo Direct<\/a> at the moment, which is probably going to have quite a bit about Metroid Prime 4<\/a>, since it\u2019s their big Christmas game this year. If the game is a hit then the whole series will be in a very good place since Metroid Dread<\/a> was the biggest entry ever, despite being a pretty difficult 2D game.<\/p>\n

Dread is definitely one of the best Metroidvanias I\u2019ve ever played but of course that name has two parts to it. Even though Metroid came up with most things first, the other half of the name is Castlevania<\/a>, which hasn\u2019t had a new game in over a decade.<\/p>\n

Why is a mystery to me because the Netflix show was very popular a few years ago and I\u2019m sure many people never even realised it was based on game. What really makes the situation weird is that Konami has brought back series like Metal Gear<\/a>, Contra<\/a>, and Survival Kids<\/a> recently and is planning to make a dozen new Silent Hill games, and yet still there\u2019s no word on Castlevania.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been some retro collections for Castlevania but the last new game was Lords Of Shadow 2<\/a> which was, admittedly, awful. It was also barely a Metroidvania, so it\u2019s very easy to imagine a bunch of ways to do a new game better, whether it\u2019s 3D or 2D.<\/p>\n

For a long time people have been saying that Konami should get FromSoftware to make one, because Bloodborne was basically halfway there already. I get this and agree but they\u2019re way to successful now to be working on someone else\u2019s game, so that\u2019s not really an option, I don\u2019t think.<\/p>\n

The problem for Konami, and I assume this is part of the problem, is that there are so few 3D Metroidvanias around that there\u2019s nobody that\u2019s really an expert that they can go to. Ironically, the ones with any real experience are MercurySteam, who made Metroid Dread and\u2026 Lords Of Shadow. So I can imagine there\u2019s some bad blood there.<\/p>\n

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