Who's for a "Castlevania - Symphony of the Night REMASTER"?

[DoBYaH]

For me "Castlevania - Symphony of the Night" aged like fine wine.

Imagine this:
✨ Content - Sega Saturn (It was never ported on PSP or PS3.)😭
✨ Features - Local-Coop & Randomizer (We need those.)😵
✨ QoL - Turbo mode & 100%-completion list (A must be.)😘

✨ Engine - Unreal Engine (2.5D, 32:9, HDR, Post-processing)😍
✨ Graphics - Just like in Bloodstained (Do not need to elaborate.)🧐
✨ Cinematics - Whole video remake (4K, 120 FPS, 32:9, HDR)😎

✨ Music - Remastered from Michiru Yamane herself (🤪🤪🤩🤪🤪)😛
✨ Sounds - Remastered sounds of effects (New sounds.)🤔
✨ Ambiance - Dynamic ambient-sounds in the stages. (Of course.)😁

✨ Fixing Bugs/Glitches. (Gameplay-wise / Performance-wise.)😛

The BEST result would be a Hybrid between:
(Where we can toggle graphics on demand like Diablo II - Resurrected.)
Bloodstained - Ritual of the Night & Castlevania - Harmony of Despair

Please elaborate...

[Kargor]

I don't care.

I'm guessing its a precursor of some sort; since it's not on Steam, a "remaster" might not actually be a good thing since it might just be too old for a new paintjob to be sufficient to bring it into the modern world.

Aside from that, if it's a good game, I'll consider getting it -- regardless of whether it's called "Castlevania - Symphony of the Night", "Bloodstained -- Ritual of the Night 2", "Bloodstained -- The Pre-Sequel" or "Dorothy and the magic castle". It's the game that matters, not the title.

[Jet]

The closest thing to a remaster that I've seen is this project called CV: SotN Hacked from a guy going by the name "Esco". Not a lot of info is known about what's going into this project, but there is a playable demo of the Richter vs. Dracula fight. I'll link his YT page below.

https://www.youtube.com/@SOTNHacked/videos

[HELRAVN]

Better idea: SOTN remix. Add the Saturn content, randomizer, difficulty options, Maria as a playable character, Maria boss for Holy Goggles. co-op modes. Everything. But DO NOT change the graphics, engine, no updated gameplay. Dracula X Chronicles gave nothing with the Rondo 2.5D remake.

[BerzerkSlayer]

No. Let the fans decompile the game like what the based alphas that decompiled Mario 64 and every popular N64 game out there, put all of the content in from all versions, have options for the PSP VA, PS1 VA, and OG JP VA and dialogue, have both the OP Maria from the Saturn version and the more basic Maria from the PSP version, widescreen, the whole nine yards that fans will do that companies always muck up. People always bring up the Saturn extra content, but never mention that, while it's cool extra stuff, I personally do not think it's worth putting up with the jankiness of that port of the game even with the tweaked ISOs of the game that fixes some problems while not fixing other issues.

Also, and this is gonna be a hot take, but more on topic with the game that this discussion board is for, but I'm ready for Bloodstained 2 at this point. This is not a game whose multiplayer they added in is the main draw on the level of something like Counter-Strike. Some of us already played the game when it released four years ago, and them rebalancing things, patching in new playable characters and modes has drawn the development out all because of some stupid promises made on a crowdfunding platform no one cares about anymore. The era of the "totes-not-niche-thing-that-big-companies-don't-care-to-make-new-entries-that-the-players-want-anymore" spiritual successor died when Mighty No. 9 released in the state that it did along with all of the preceding drama that this and I'm sure Bloodstained and Shenmue 3 also dealt with. I get that Shovel Knight and other games are Kickstarter success stories, but those were indie developers who, while taking cues from games that they played growing up, weren't trying to ride off of an era where people were supposedly longing for a new Megaman or Castlevania when the fact is, the best games that people can make of both are the fans, and there's plenty of romhacks, fangames, and even a Megaman Maker for the former. Them releasing paid DLC 4 years later to me comes off as IGA and 505 Games trying to milk a game that I and probably others have got my fill of a long time ago, and I have plenty of Metroidvanias to go and play that I have in my library.

[WanderingSilver]

I'd rather just get a new game, instead of rehashing old stuff.

[DoBYaH]

Publicado originalmente por Jet:

The closest thing to a remaster that I've seen is this project called CV: SotN Hacked from a guy going by the name "Esco". Not a lot of info is known about what's going into this project, but there is a playable demo of the Richter vs. Dracula fight. I'll link his YT page below.

https://www.youtube.com/@SOTNHacked/videos

Nice find.

[Zapphyrald]

Unforuntately we're talking about Konami who... never had a knack for remastered and porting in the last 10/15 years or so (coff coff SH Remastered on Xbox 360 & PS3).

[The Rizzler]

Publicado originalmente por DoBYaH:

For me "Castlevania - Symphony of the Night" aged like fine wine.

Imagine this:
✨ Content - Sega Saturn (It was never ported on PSP or PS3.)😭
✨ Features - Local-Coop & Randomizer (We need those.)😵
✨ QoL - Turbo mode & 100%-completion list (A must be.)😘

✨ Engine - Unreal Engine (2.5D, 32:9, HDR, Post-processing)😍
✨ Graphics - Just like in Bloodstained (Do not need to elaborate.)🧐
✨ Cinematics - Whole video remake (4K, 120 FPS, 32:9, HDR)😎

✨ Music - Remastered from Michiru Yamane herself (🤪🤪🤩🤪🤪)😛
✨ Sounds - Remastered sounds of effects (New sounds.)🤔
✨ Ambiance - Dynamic ambient-sounds in the stages. (Of course.)😁

✨ Fixing Bugs/Glitches. (Gameplay-wise / Performance-wise.)😛

The BEST result would be a Hybrid between:
(Where we can toggle graphics on demand like Diablo II - Resurrected.)
Bloodstained - Ritual of the Night & Castlevania - Harmony of Despair

Please elaborate...

No no god please no

Before all this woke nonsense, studios were having trouble with remakes already.

They would ♥♥♥♥ it up so bad.

[Demonite]

I think you're describing a remake. A remaster would be more or less a new paintjob. A remake would be something like what DXC did with RoB. Same game in concept, completely different in execution.

[LordKaiserX0]

It's a timeless game that still looks good if a CRT shader is used. I really don't trust Konami as they will probably cheap out and make it look worse.

[jal11180]

Publicado originalmente por BerzerkSlayer:

No. Let the fans decompile the game like what the based alphas that decompiled Mario 64 and every popular N64 game out there, put all of the content in from all versions, have options for the PSP VA, PS1 VA, and OG JP VA and dialogue, have both the OP Maria from the Saturn version and the more basic Maria from the PSP version, widescreen, the whole nine yards that fans will do that companies always muck up. People always bring up the Saturn extra content, but never mention that, while it's cool extra stuff, I personally do not think it's worth putting up with the jankiness of that port of the game even with the tweaked ISOs of the game that fixes some problems while not fixing other issues.

Also, and this is gonna be a hot take, but more on topic with the game that this discussion board is for, but I'm ready for Bloodstained 2 at this point. This is not a game whose multiplayer they added in is the main draw on the level of something like Counter-Strike. Some of us already played the game when it released four years ago, and them rebalancing things, patching in new playable characters and modes has drawn the development out all because of some stupid promises made on a crowdfunding platform no one cares about anymore. The era of the "totes-not-niche-thing-that-big-companies-don't-care-to-make-new-entries-that-the-players-want-anymore" spiritual successor died when Mighty No. 9 released in the state that it did along with all of the preceding drama that this and I'm sure Bloodstained and Shenmue 3 also dealt with. I get that Shovel Knight and other games are Kickstarter success stories, but those were indie developers who, while taking cues from games that they played growing up, weren't trying to ride off of an era where people were supposedly longing for a new Megaman or Castlevania when the fact is, the best games that people can make of both are the fans, and there's plenty of romhacks, fangames, and even a Megaman Maker for the former. Them releasing paid DLC 4 years later to me comes off as IGA and 505 Games trying to milk a game that I and probably others have got my fill of a long time ago, and I have plenty of Metroidvanias to go and play that I have in my library.

Well, by that pathetic attempt at something that you are refer to as "logic", video games like Doom I/(1993), Doom II: Hell on Earth, Castle Crashers, Terraria, and Minecraft shouldn't get new content, either, yet the classic Doom video games not only literally thrive on it, but that they also get even whole new video games that are based on their architecture as well, such as Selaco and Fallen Aces, and they also even inspire whole new video games, such as Alien Vs. Predator (Sony PlayStation 3/Microsoft Xbox 360/PC), among other Aliens FPS games, which all began, thanks to Aliens TC, Duke Nukem 3D onward owes its existence to the classic Doom video games, and ditto for the Marathon Trilogy, etc. Minecraft also thrives on both official, as well as fan made, DLC, as does Terraria to a lesser extent. Basically, if you are going to accuse video game companies of milking a good franchise, then you are ironically NOT a fan of video games, as well as video game franchises, as, by having tons of new things added to modding communities, you ensure that not just video games survive, but that even whole genres of video games survive.

[jal11180]

Oh, and speaking of Konami, and Castlevania, they just released the Nintendo DS Castlevania Trilogy, along with a remastered, as well as much improved, remake of Haunted Castle, in the Castlevania: The Dominus Collection.

[DigbethKid]

I like most of this, but I would literally feel sick if they changed the graphics to 2.5D, that would be awful.

[DoBYaH]

Publicado originalmente por DigbethKid:

I like most of this, but I would literally feel sick if they changed the graphics to 2.5D, that would be awful.

Yes, you are right. Classic is classic...

[ZERO]

I dont think Konami could pull it off.