IGA is making a new IGAvania
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...l-of-the-night
this would be gorgeous on PS4. looks like they are planning 3 platforms.
Aside from PC, PS4 would be obviously the best platform that would generate the most profit, attention,fame and success, just like SOTN found success on PS1 instead of portable or some nonplaystation platform. If the IGAvanias of portables released on PS2/PS3 instead, they would have gathered a larger fanbase. and even now Castlevania Harmony of Despair, IGA's last Castlevania when with Konami, is still being played online on PS3, yearsafter its debut on X360.
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/inte...l-of-the-night
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I am liking the art but I won't say it's better than SOTN/NITM era artstyles. I think the gameplay backgrounds look a tad too colorful. SOTN to OoE, IGAvanias had a much darker, yet wonderful color tone to them that still filled with interesting enviornment designs that add a whole lot of atmosphere.
it wouldn't have as much impact if they lean towards a more lighthearted presentation, I mean even PoR was very dark and gritty world despite its lighthearted personalities and animeish vibes. I dunno, maybe the HD graphics kind of brightens things a bit much. It doesn't seem the original sprite team is in this project, but still the concept is looking solid.
but these are first impressions, looking at the concept screen, the enviornment does have some dark themes, the ground ceiling just looks bright because of its reflective material.
At least it's nice they didn't make this super deformed, that would have really hurt the
presentation. To this day I still feel Phantom Breaker Battlegrounds should have natural
proportioned characters and high quality backgrounds like the fighting game did. The
Sailor Moon arcade game beat em up has better graphics than that, and they were smart
to not go super deformed with it.
And Syd Valis wasn't as amazing looking compared to the original Valis II (MSX and the other one), mostly because it went super deformed instead of mature art direction.
Well, Bloodstains is looking good and with IGAvania composer the soundtrack could be phenomenol. I think this will be greatly supported.
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