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Originally Posted by snake5289

At yet look where the series is now. I haven't heard about anything Castlevania related since Lords of Shadow 2.

Hopefully we'll get another entry in the series soon. With MGS trying new directions, it wouldn't be surprising if Castlevania decided to take another go at a 3D world title. Part of their hesitancy it seems is because of the poor reception of the N64 titles. But personally, I thought Legacy of Darkness was fun. Outside of the portable 2D sidescroller/SOTN style, it seems like they haven't been sure how to go with the titles that the fans will accept and have been testing all sorts of genre types with it to figure out how they want to really bring the franchise back at some point.

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Back at Toy Fair this year NECA showed a Simon Belmont figure from the first game, it was done up like one of their standard retro game figures with the pixelated paint scheme. Then Konami changed their mind and had the item cancelled because apparently it was too detailed or something, from the sounds of things they were expecting NECA to make a stack of cubes resembling the sprite and not a detailed sculpt featuring the sprite's colors.

That actually looks pretty badass. Sad it was cancelled. Would have been neat to see their take on a modernized paint scheme to match that sculpt.

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

This has nothing to do with the 4" theme of this thread, I was just bringing up how difficult some of these Japanese companies can be to deal with.

No worries. It relates. The whole point of this thread is to discuss what you want to see, and the potential complications of those various things is a welcome and informative sub-topic that's part of it.