IGA talks Castlevania, plays Castlevania

by JC Fletcher { Sep 16th 2008 at 7:22PM }

IGN has several minutes of new gameplay footage of Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, showing off new environments, new enemies, and new glyphs, which include a hammer, a giant scythe, and magical attacks like ice and fireballs. According to IGN, it's Koji Igarashi himself on the controls, playing his own game. Surprisingly, his playthrough looks like pretty much anyone else's -- Igarashi takes damage from normal enemies fairly regularly. Maybe he was just nervous with a bunch of IGN guys staring at him.

He also spoke in a video interview (available via the sidebar in that video player) in which he describes the premise behind Order of Ecclesia, including who the Order is and what Shanoa is doing invading the demon castle. While describing the differences between this and past Castlevanias, IGA also says that the animation of the enemies has improved. He must be referring to the ones that have new sprites!

IGA reveals the extra modes in Ecclesia: a hard mode accessible by completing the game, and a mode with a higher (255) level cap unlocked by beating that hard mode -- or by connecting Judgment on the Wii with Order of Ecclesia.

Tags: action, castlevania, koji-igarashi, konami, order-of-ecclesia

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

flameofdoom666 @ Sep 16th 2008 8:35PM

DS game of the year (in mybook).

Anthony @ Sep 16th 2008 10:14PM

ummm. i think its ign, not iga.

JC Fletcher @ Sep 16th 2008 10:32PM

Koji "IGA" Igarashi visited IGN. It's very confusing.

Almadi @ Sep 16th 2008 10:53PM

No speed run record for him.

Zealot @ Sep 16th 2008 11:30PM

Shanoa calling her attacks has the potential to be the new JOHNATHAN! CHARLOTTE! (although I really didn't have that problem...used Johnathan 95% of the time.)

And the prospect of a 255 level cap is frightening. I ground endlessly on Dawn of Sorrow and burned out at level 93 because it just took so much EXP at that point. And yet, I'm looking forward to trying to achieve level 255 (and most definitely not through Judgment connectivity.) I'm a Castlevania completist and it's a horrible feeling when you're officially out of things to do, so the post-hard mode level cap should help.