Considering IGA has left the building and Konami's sorry state, I'd guess the IP is done for. I know Bloodstained will be around to scratch the Castlevania itch, but it's still sad to think the series may be done for.
Castlevania
The Castlevania franchises chronicles the ongoing fight against Count Dracula by the Belmont family and their allies. To this day, Dracula continues to pose a threat to the world.
Is this franchise pretty much dead now?
Not so dead we won't see one more game of some kind ooze out the pipeline but unless that game is a surprise smash hit it'll probably be the end.
Nah, Castlevania Go will be incredible. Can't you wait to click on werewolves every four hours to collect 'blood tokens?' For free?
silent hils and castlevania: SOTN 2 both bought by Nintendo and hot Will U scloosies, Fall 2016. B-)
I would assume so. If we ever see anything other than some sort of Castlevania collection, I will be shocked.
I'm sure Konami will love to make some sort of Castlevania pachislot in the future.
And it will probably make the jump to mobile.
@arbitrarywater: They're way ahead of you, apparently they're already up to a 3rd one.
https://youtu.be/k5p2qIM14dA (can't embed because I'm on mobile)
Edit: That CG makes it look kind of intense. Too bad that couldn't be anything further from the (highly profitable) truth.
Yep. You want to see something depressing? Look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Konami_games
It starts out OK. Quickly gets super awesome. Then, an inexorable 10 to 15 year decline into mediocrity. Oh Konami, why hast thou forsaken us?!?
The name holds value so Konami will make something out of it. It being any good is very unlikely though.
If Bloodstained is a hit, I wouldn't be surprised to see Konami try to cash in on that with a new Castlevania.
Konami will probably make some mobile game, but I don't think a new console/PC game will show up anytime soon. I hope we will some kind of compilation in the future though. If Mega Man Legacy Collection turns out good, maybe Konami will give Other Ocean the rights to make one. Frank Cifaldi would probably be all over that.
@ezekiel: If Konami have got the rights for Bloodborne and slapped Castlevenia characters into the game, i'm pretty sure their fans would have been jumping around happily by now.
Bloodborne is the Castlevenia that Konamidon't.
@giant_gamer: An RPG isn't quite what I expect from Castlevania. Bloodborne doesn't even have platforming.
I just want one really good collection (or a couple) of the classics - especially if they can get the DS games onto consoles or PC somehow. Or just release the 360 version of SotN onto Steam. Please just let them get some of those classic games out on modern gaming systems before they take the series out back and stuff it into a pachinko machine or an iPhone. Please?
I suppose so, yeah. Luckily there are a huge swathe of fantastic Castlevania games between the GBA and NDS, so I can always go back to those for my fix.
@ezekiel: oh yeah, i forgot about the platforming. I think that RPG, specially with Bloodborne's fast combat mechanics are the most suitable for a 3D Castelvenia game. You just need to change the character building and base it on a Castelvenia character instead of the open system in Bloodborne.
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