God Of War: Ragnarök Director Wants to Work on a Castlevania Game - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 22 November 2022 / 2,866 Views
Sony Santa Monica game director Eric Williams speaking on the Kinda Funny Games Spoilercast stated he would like to work on a Castlevania game. That is if Konami, the owner of the IP, was willing to outsource the license to Sony Santa Monica.
Williams called on fans to help "make it happen" and added "I just got into so much trouble!"
"You guys can make it happen, because you have the audience of the world here," he said (via VideoGamesChronicle). "I don't know what I'm doing next, but if somebody gives me that Castlevania license, we would love to make that."
The last mainline release in the Castlevania franchise was 2014's Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2.
Konami has begun letting other developers work on its IPs with the recent announcement of multiple Silent Hill titles. Bloober Team is working on a remake of Silent Hill 2, Neoboards Entertainment is developing Silent Hill f, and No Code Studios is working on Silent Hill: Townfall.
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Jesus. Hipster fanboyism is now preemptively striking at anything different from the status quo.
Well I would look for it.
At least someone in this discussion isn’t a pessimist.
The studio do good work, the IP is good, so as long as they do a good work as expected the result shouldn't be bad. And SSM doing a Castlevania with 3D open world similar to GoWR doesn't take the possibility of original dev team to make whatever version of Castlevania they want.
SMS could very well respect the Castlevania style of gameplay and do something different from the GoW games. The studio doesn’t have to use the same gameplay template for everything they make.
Yep, nothing against they making the gameplay something adequate to this IP instead of trying the GoW elements.
It could work. God of War (2018) and God of War Ragnarok feel a lot like a 3D Metroidvania. They could make it work.
Id like it as long as its not a GoW clone. Needs to be more action and quicker.
My memory could be hazy but I remember when GoW first came out for PS2 I suddenly realized that the later Castlevania games started to feel more like the GoW games. So now its just coming back full circle lol
I love God Of War, but hopefully he doesnt want to try and make Castlevania a GOW clone again. That happened with Lords Of Shadow and it wasnt very good imo.
Jaffe already debunked that, GoW and Rygar just came out at the same time, they didnt know anything at all about Rygar.
Jaffe is not someone to be trusted in anything. No they did not. Rygar is 2002. Gow is 2005.
Please no. Only new CV game I want is side scrolling linear classicvania. (Pre Sotn)
A narrative Castlevania where we have to carry with us a character that will talk non stop to say pointless stuffs in a Disneyland-like world and with emotional sequences to make 15yo girls cry? HELL NO!!!!
You killed the GOW franchise, leave Castlevania be, please!!
