Konami unloaded a pile of new art for Lords of Shadow today, including screenshots showing Gabriel in some suitably atmospheric places, beating up werewolves and spiders, and swinging through the air. Also shown are some goblin-like creatures in what’s probably one of the in-engine cutscenes we’ll be watching in the game. The screens are impressive in their detail, and I think the game’s looking better all the time. I just wish we could see more footage of the game in motion.
You can also see some enemy renders, showing off a large spider that also appears among the screenshots, as well as other enemies like the goblins and lycanthropes. Finally, there are a few concept art pieces to look at. Head below to see the rest of the images.
Source: Games Press
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Among Carlos Lerma’s collection of redone NES game box art is this really sweet Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse boxart which TinyCartridge credits to Gerardo Ramirez and DeviantArt credits to hanzthebox. I remember the day I bought Dracula’s Curse back when it was new. Cracking open the plastic, flipping through the manual, not recognizing the collector’s item it would be today if I’d never broken the seal… I remember how awesome I thought the box art was. This would have been at least as good.
Other great covers in the collection include Super Metroid and Bionic Commando. Check it out.
Source: Carlos Lerma on DeviantArt via TinyCartridge
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A string of video game “remake” images showed up online a while ago and I glanced at a couple of them and then moved on. It wasn’t until tonight that I had a look through the images and discovered there’s one here of Castlevania!
Artist Mikaël “Orioro” Aguirre is showing 34 images on DeviantArt under the title, “Videogame Remakes.” Along with this awesome Castlevania image, you’ll find some brilliant Metroid images, and a number of other great classic games.
Source: DeviantArt
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Dave Cox today posted this photo on his Twitter feed using Twitpic. It appears to show a developer at Mercury Steam working on the upcoming Lords of Shadow.
Source: Twitpic
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I was excited to receive my copy of Castlevania for MS-DOS in the mail, but surprised by one thing: the manual is a universal one, with instructions for all three of the home computer ports of the game. This includes the boot instructions as well as the controls. When I boot the game, it asks me what my video and audio hardware are, because this is from back before Windows… you needed to tell these games everything.
Another interesting issue I’ve had with the DOS version is that the “passwords book” I mentioned that came with it is a grid. When you boot the game, it asks for the four-digit code at certain axes, and if you don’t get it right in three tries, the game exits. As a result, this would be unplayable without the passwords book! The version I had downloaded online in the past must have been hacked in some way, because this was not the case. It skipped the video and audio configuration, too.
The fact that these three manuals are identical could potentially work to my favor if more copies ever appear for me to buy. I’ll know not to sell or trade away any manuals until I have three.
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