Wii Wish Castlevania
Gamers first met Simon Belmont way back in 1986 when the vampire hunter first burst on to the NES. Since then the Castlevania series has been going strong for the past 20 years and shows no signs of stopping with the recent successes of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Dawn of Sorrow and the soon to be re-released Symphony of the Night.
Over the past few years the games in the series have drawn many comparisons to the Metroid series mostly in regards to gameplay and level design. Yet when a series has been through 25 different iterations on almost every gaming platform out there it becomes harder and harder to keep a series fresh. Enter the Nintendo Wii.
Before the GameCube came out every Metroid game was a side scrolling platformer but Samus Aran got a new look and a new perspective for Metroid Prime. The new first person perspective was carried on with Prime’s sequel Metriod Prime 2: Echoes and will again be used in the 3rd, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption which is coming to the Wii later this year. Wait! I thought this was an article about Castlevania? Well it is and this first person perspective would be put to great use in a Castlevania game for the Wii.
The gameplay and level design would be pretty similar to Metroid Prime however it’s the Castlevania I.P that would make the game unique. Imagine you have the WiiMote in your dominant hand which controls your whip or weapon of choice while the nunchuck controls your movement and secondary weapon. Daggers, holy water what have you. I think this would be an extremely fun practice to engage in and would breathe new life into the Castlevania series. Not that it really needs it but one can hope.
Do you have your own idea for a game that would be awesome using the Wii’s unique controls? Well submit it to Wii Rally, send an email and put Wii Wish in the subject line and I may use it in a future.
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*Editors Note*
As of publication Konami has no plans for any sort of game for the Nintendo Wii. Wii Wish is a work of fiction and has no similarity to any game currently on the market or in development….that we know of.
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