New Castlevania title: there's good and (potentially) bad news

by Chris Greenhough { Apr 14th 2008 at 3:00PM }

Mysterious Castlevania title Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia has just appeared on the ESRB website, where it's been rated as -- huzzah! -- a Nintendo DS title. Obviously, you shouldn't need us to tell you why that's good news -- just the fact that it's moar Castlevania should be enough -- but don't go letting the party poppers off just yet.

See, there's something peculiar going on here. For games to be assessed and classified by the ESRB, they need to be in a more or less complete state. In other words, Konami must have finished Order of Ecclesia already. So either:

The company has made a completely unique DS game and kept every aspect of it under wraps (which we found doubtful).
Order of Ecclesia is (as was suspected in some quarters) a port of last year's mobile title, Order of Shadows.

We could be entirely wrong, of course, and either way some Castlevania is better than no Castlevania. But we'd like it to be exclusive.

Tags: castlevania, esrb, konami, order-of-ecclesia, platform

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fululian @ Apr 14th 2008 4:08PM

So do they initiate a completely new, all-by-itself-running sort of viral marketing? Strange indeed, there, my dear sir.

Abscissa @ Apr 14th 2008 4:33PM

"But we'd like it to be exclusive."

Umm, why? You don't want people who bought a different system to be able to play it? I can't stand how so many consumers keep buying into all of that corporate "exclusivity" bullshit. I, for one (apparently), would much rather have a CHOICE as to what system I want to play a particular game on.

Danny @ Apr 14th 2008 5:58PM

"Umm, why?"

Probably because they'd rather have a new title than a re-release of an old one on a new system?

doom saber @ Apr 14th 2008 6:12PM

Some ppl prefer exclusives if it means its a game on a system they bought. I mean, if it is was an exclusive for another system, they wish the game will come out on their system even if they hate the game. But if it was an exclusive for their system, they would not want it to come on another system. Typical fanboys. *sigh

sketchampm @ Apr 14th 2008 4:54PM

There's almost no way it can be Order of Shadows. They'd have to remake the entire game, ground up. I bought it for my phone and depsite it's leveling up and item features, it was a lousy game. The controls were horrid, the level design was bland and it simply wasn't fun. Plus, it was ugly. I know it's a phone game but it looked worse than an NES title. How exactly are they going to port THAT?

I'm going be optimistic here and say that it's a completely new title.