How did we go from this

How did we go from this...

To this?

Carefully

Change in artists due to either marketing or a scheduling conflict, I forget which

I hate this style so much. Every piece of garment looks like it's made of generic cloth material with gems slapped on for good measure.

The artist was busy working on another title at the time, and so couldn't participate in Dawn of Sorrow. They ended up going with another artist, who just used a generic anime style because they knew they couldn't ape the style of the original. At least it wasn't someone failing and being an obviously knock-off of the original.

the worst shit

Style is one thing, but what about the character design itself? It went from over the top to just plain stupid.

pretty sure it was ayami's art to make me gay

>Castlevania set in modern times where guns and grenades and rockets exist
>Nope. Can't go full Contra vs Monsters. You use whips
and swords instead
>handgun is also a mediocre weapon even if it has an infinite horizontal range

Literally we want the anime watching audience.

>Hammer was originally planned to be playable in Dawn of Sorrow's Julius mode
>it never happened
God dammit.

No fur on the coat

>>high waisted bell bottom jeans with brass buttons
>>all white pimp jacket
>>black turtleneck

I have no idea how Soma managed to look like such a fucking baller dressed the way he was but he pulled it off spectacularly, his whole aesthetic is very reminiscent of Jerry Cornelius from Moorcock's work, and the Belmonts themselves are similar to the concept of the eternal champion.


Meanwhile
Ugly, bland textureless outfit, no pimp coat, dumb tacticool boots, 2/10 would not bang.

Why is Kojima so based?

>literally get a giant fuck you laser cannon

The art was designed as something that a person could potentially wear in the future. As such, it looked at stuff that people actually wore as design principles for the outfit. Bell bottom jeans with fancy cowboy boots and a wallet chain are kind of silly, but not outside the realm of fashion.

this is just a bunch of anime stereotypes put together in the same general appearance as the original, and so you have stuff like random extra belts and a jacket that looks like it's out of Guilty Gear.

I wouldn’t mind getting my blood sucked by Soma.

>Wallet chain
>Game takes place in 2000
Checks out.

>Tfw you'll never be as stylish as Soma

Step up

JUSTE

BELMONT TOO COOL TO FIGHT DRACULA
PUT DOWN WHIP AND EQUIP SPATULA
CAN'T FIGHT DRAC IF THE BELMONT DIES
SPREADING LADIES' THIGHS TO KEEP THE NAME ALIVE

>those madman eyes

So how many of you complaining about this are creaming themselves over Persona, Xenoblade, Tales or other generic weebshit?

Circle of the Moon is shit and Harmony of Dissonance is better by a mile.

He's in the worst Castlevania so it doesn't count.

>consuming any Japanese media taking place in a high school past the age of 16

This artist is half the reason I played castlevania at all

You mean from this?

When you disocver by playing the entire game with the Golden Sword, 777 gear and thr soul that gives you Luck that the actual ingame LUCK stat doesn't fucking work at all by not scaling properly, and you literally wasted your time grinding the entire game using the whole speedup tools for nothing, ruining your entire game experience.

Next to the glitched cutscene, Anime style, bad enemy placement for use in grinding/proper strategem, and the seal system, DOS was the worst of the DSvania's.

Luckily, there is a romhack to solve like, almost all of these issues barring some of the enemy placement which needs an overhaul.