Posts with tag castlevania
Posted May 23rd 2007 10:40AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News
Seriously. Go to
GameStop and pick up at least one copy. It'll be $15, which is $7.50 per 'Vania.
That's only one (or two, kind of) of the games you'll be fighting CAG users for this weekend, as GameStop is marking down a bunch of stuff by 25-50% during their Game Days sale.
On the DS, you'll be able to get reduced-price copies of
Phoenix Wright and Sonic Rush. There's some other stuff, too-- we've posted the whole list after the break. For more convenient browsing, DS games have SKU numbers starting with 18 and GBA games start with 16.
[Via CAG]
Continue reading Go buy the Castlevania Double Pack this weekend
Posted May 16th 2007 3:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News
For years, we've been crying bloody tears over the lack of availability of game soundtracks in the US. With the rise of music download services, that situation has changed. First we had some
Final Fantasy soundtracks on iTunes, then the
Mother 3 OST, and now the best news of all:
Konami has made a deal with Sony BMG to make
their entire music catalog available on download services.
Naturally, we'll be loading up with
Castlevania music, but Konami has a very large collection of notable game soundtracks that at least deserve a previewing: the
Metal Gear Solid series,
Contra, Goemon/Mystical Ninja, and Akira Yamaoka's brilliant
Silent Hill work. We don't know when Konami will start releasing music on iTunes/Rhapsody/your favorite download service, and we don't know what the order of releases will be. One thing we can confirm: this is
hot.
[Via Dot Matrix with Stereo Sound]
Posted May 7th 2007 1:20PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: News
Comic book legend Warren Ellis has been keeping a production blog to update fans on his script work for
Castlevania: Dracula's Curse, an animated adaptation of
Konami's Castlevania III for the NES. The
Transmetropolitan author has been candid with details about the 80-minute, direct-to-DVD film, discussing characters he will be cutting out of the film (e.g. Grant DaNasty) and plans to make the story a trilogy.
Reassuring us that he won't be butchering the franchise with an Uwe Boll approach, Warren made it a point to emphasize
Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi's bothersome involvement: "He remains absolutely passionate about Castlevania. After eight rewrites of pre-production material, I remain absolutely passionate about beating the crap out of IGA in a dark alleyway one day."
[Via GameSetWatch]
Posted May 1st 2007 1:20PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Fan stuff
This might be a bit out of the norm for us, but we know plenty of you read the site here from your boring cubicle job or what have you, so we figured since
Castlevania is available on the
GBA and DS in many forms, and
we're such huge fans of the series, why not post this fan-made Flash installment in the series. Called
Castlevania: The Blood Way, it's actually a pretty darn fun time.
So, if you're stuck away from your DS for a bit, you might want to check it out.
[Via Game|Life]
Posted Apr 22nd 2007 10:00AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: DS Daily
The morning light has vanquished the horrible night. What better time to talk about
Castlevania? Well, if you're a frequent reader, you know that pretty much
any time is a great time for us to talk about
Castlevania, or
Konami in general.
No, it's no secret that we like our vampires whipped, and our piles of secrets miserable. It's also no secret that we've been
more than pleased with the DS editions. But we have to
wonder: after three
GBA games in rapid succession and two DS games within a year of each other, is a steady diet of
Castlevania a good thing? Is an annual release schedule too rushed? Is the franchise going to get stale, or, at least, is the current exploration-based
Castlevania game type? Or is
Castlevania ageless and immortal, like ... some kind of undead creature?
Posted Apr 21st 2007 11:00AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff
It was not by our hands that these action figures were given "flesh." They were brought here by NECA, who wished to pay
Castlevania tribute.
Simon Belmont, hero of
Castlevanias I, II, and
(Super) IV, and Alucard, of
III, Symphony of the Night, and (spoiler alert, sort of!)
Aria and
Dawn of Sorrow, are shown here in unpainted, prototype glory. The link below has more views of Simon, but all we have of Alucard is this one shot-- for which we had to put our biohazard suits on and go into Myspace.
They resemble the beefy character art of the first
NES game more than Ayami Kojima's work, and Simon's stomach isn't something that should be looked at directly, but these are still awesome. We've been looking for some new decorative items, and these will do nicely. Our desks are as empty as our souls. Blogger-kind
totally needs action figures such as these.
Posted Apr 20th 2007 5:30PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Features
All week, we've been sharing our favorite games with you, as well as snippets of our personalities outside the fanboy sphere. Now you know that
some of
us weren't really huge handheld fans before the DS, that at least one of us is
terribly silly, and most of us seem to dig cats, in some way or another. But forget the trivial details -- how do our favorite games stack up against the critical darlings? We offer this side-by-side comparison to wrap up Fanboy Favorites week, and we hope you've enjoyed this closer look at not only the DS Fanboy staff, but some of the best that the DS has to offer.
Continue reading Critic's choice: The top five DS games
Posted Apr 20th 2007 11:00AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Features, Meta
All this week, the DS Fanboy staff is letting you in on a few of their favorite titles. Each day, a different member of the staff will present their personal top five DS games along with a snapshot of their gaming paraphernalia and habits, in an effort to provide our readers with a little more information on the tastes and personalities of our writers.
As the lead blogger of PSP Fanboy, one might be questioning why I'm here. It's true: I love my PSP and take it everywhere (except the shower). But that doesn't mean I can't enjoy Nintendo's handheld. I've grown up with Nintendo handhelds, owning every iteration of the Game Boy ever. My stash of Nintendo valuables would make any Nintendork jealous. Now that I'm older and spending less time arguing in message boards, I've learned that true gaming bliss comes from having access to all the games I can get. Hopefully, you feel the same way too.
So please, take my "top five" list as an olive branch to end the bickering between the two Fanboy sites.
Continue reading DS Fanboy Favorites: Andrew's top five
Posted Apr 19th 2007 9:00AM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Fan stuff, DS Daily
Continuing
this week's theme, we've got a big question: what's
your favorite game ever? Yes,
ever -- not just on the DS, but all time. That's a tough one, and we'll look the other way (just this once) if you guys can't narrow it down to just done. You little scamps tend to cheat and slip in ties for first place anyway.
We expect to hear about several
Zelda titles, and perhaps a few
Metroids, and hope for a
Castlevania or two, but it's the offbeat favorites that are always interesting, so be prepared to explain.
Posted Apr 18th 2007 10:00AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Features
All this week, the DS Fanboy staff is letting you in on a few of their favorite titles. Each day, a different member of the staff will present their personal top five DS games, along with a snapshot of their gaming paraphernalia and habits, in an effort to provide our readers with a little more information on the tastes and personalities of our writers.
I am absolutely the target market for a handheld system. I'm busy all the time, and I have weeks where the only times I really get to play games are when I
can't possibly do anything else-- like when I'm on a plane, or waiting to pick my wife up from school. So I tend to carry my DS around waiting for opportune moments. Of course, with such concentrated play sessions, I want the most out of my game time. That's not to say that I want simplified games that I can always jump right into, but I need games that are basically going to be awesome every time I play them. I need games that are going to reaffirm my passion for gaming while I'm waiting for a bus.
(The picture doesn't have anything to do with the theme of my little essay. My cat Indiana Jones is just adorable.)
Continue reading DS Fanboy Favorites: JC's top five
Posted Apr 16th 2007 10:01AM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Features, Meta
All this week, the DS Fanboy staff is letting you in on a few of their favorite titles. Each day, a different member of the staff will present their personal top five DS games along with a snapshot of their gaming paraphernalia and habits, in an effort to provide our readers with a little more information on the tastes and personalities of our writers.
If there's anything that can be said about my life -- and that includes my gaming life -- it's that it's messy.
I'm messy. I have all this organizational garbage that's supposed to make it easier to store and find all my stuff, but see, I keep accumulating
more stuff, and so I need more organizational items ... it's a vicious cycle, and it's part of why I love cartridges. I know where the box is for
Clubhouse Games. It's about three feet away as I type this. I could get it, but why?
Clubhouse Games goes in and out of my beloved handheld so often, I usually just leave it here on my desk along with the other games I'm interested in at the moment, and I don't have to worry about it getting all scratched up because it isn't delicate like some pansy
disc. This makes me happy. I have to be more careful with CDs and DVDs ... but that doesn't mean there aren't a few stacks of discs around my workspace. Believe me, if it's at all stackable, I'm gonna stack it, and to hell with the consequences.
Of course, the problem with the size of DS carts means that sometimes I lose my
Clubhouse for a while, and that makes me unhappy to the extreme. Luckily, there are other games that can distract me ....
Continue reading DS Fanboy Favorites: Alisha's top five
Posted Apr 4th 2007 6:37PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff
Our lives are officially forfeit. At a recent Video Games Live show at Yale's Woolsey Hall, classic
Castlevania music was performed on a
three-story pipe organ, like it was always meant to be. And we were
nowhere near it. What is there to live for now? Oh, right, playing this video of it over and over again.
Check out the video after the break, and gasp along with us as
Vampire Killer kicks in. We feel bad for the poor pipe organ, having gotten a taste of
Vania music and forced now to return to its former life.
[Via Joystiq]
Continue reading Castlevania music hits it really, really big
Posted Apr 1st 2007 10:00AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Features, DS Daily
We're sure that a lot of you are just getting back from stores, where you picked up your $19.99 Konami's Best Edition DS Lites. We're glad
Konami solved that DS shortage, and at such a budget price! Welcome, new DS Fanboys, to the fold.
We thought it was a little presumptuous of Konami to label the
whole system as "Konami's Best", but we must admit, a lot of Konami's best work has been on the system-- two
Castlevanias,
Lunar Knights, etc. We can accept that.
So what do you
think about your new systems? And are any of you existing DS owners getting one at the budget price?
Posted Mar 30th 2007 3:20PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: News
Apparently, the
rumors were tragically untrue and Paul W.S. Anderson is actually still helming the Castlevania movie. But not
just a movie, mind you. He wants a full-on cult franchise. Someone should really tell him that one already kinda
exists, Y'know, in the source material. Meaning the games. That, combined with Anderson's
"Dracula Begins" remark that keeps being repeated just makes us want to hide until all this blows over. It's a dark day for Castlevania devotees. If you need us, we'll be huddled in the corner, rocking back and forth in time with the music from
Symphony of the Night.
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