Castlevania The Adventure ReBirth (WiiWare)

I'll be on the lookout for this one!

This game is a must-buy for me!

This is awesome!

I can NOT wait

Completely amazing news, lots of Nintendo Life users predicted this one and had it on their Wii-sh list. Konami must have listened, so 'job well done' everyone
If anyone knows Jedi mind tricks, persuade Konami for 'Axelay ReBirth' and 'Sunset Riders ReBirth', for me please.
Cheers.

WOWOWOWOW. Can't wait. I want to see some screenshots soon!

@JamieO: Don't forget the get nintendo life users to persuade konami to give us rondo of blood

It'll be interesting to see how the do this.

I just wish they would do another Castlevania game that was as good as SOTN. That still has the most fluid and fun control for the main character that I have seen in any of the Castlevania games.

Instant download for me. I think this will be 1000 Wii points and will be a 5 level 16-bit remake of the original GB game. Color me happy

I just hope they take out the rope climbing and add steps

YESZ!!!!

@Tony - if it were a 16bit remake of the original game it'd have 4 levels I honestly hope they go for a bit more...it'd be good to have another 8-level Castlevania like 68k Castlevania or another branching-paths thing like Drac's Curse...but yeah these Rebirth games tend to be the shortest in their respective series (unless it's the FF4 sequel...but that's priced like 4 games anyway)

Need screens and videos.

Come out tomorrow please I beg you

Hmmmm,

Seeing the latest screens it looks a little bit like DS graphics scaled up to fit on a standard TV which is not quite what I would have liked.

I was really hoping for something that looked as detailed and and polished as the likes of Symphony of the Night.

There's a timer?? Awwww!!! Oh well, so far of what I've seen here, Castlevania Adventure Rebirth (GB, 1989~WW, 2009) looks a beautiful 16-bit title to me. I wonder when it'll come out.

It also makes me wonder when Konami will release the Rocket Knight Adventure games on VC!

Ok, now that I have seen the complete game via youtube I can say it looks pretty good.

Classic Castlevania, although that means it still has some of the issues that are present throughout most of the series such are as sluggish movement and control of the main character (SOTN seemed to fix this much more than any other Castlevania game so I have no idea why they don't use that model for fluid player movement) and some annoying hit detection when you simply bump into certain enemies or parts of bosses that really shouldn't hurt you, but it looks pretty solid overall.

Classic!

This should come out the 30th. That would make November such an epic month not counting this past week.

The early Castlevania games are designed around the way your character moves, though, Kirk. The focus is on the level design rather than the enemies themselves, and their placement is always very metered and considered - always making you think carefully about your next move ("When should I jump to that high platform so that I don't get trapped or knocked back by that skeleton and suffer my third death-by-recoil of the evening?"). If you were given Alucard's or Samus Aran's fluid movements, it would all fall apart. These days, you don't have to put much thought into your movement and can make sloppy jumps all over the place, because falling down from somewhere simply means you have to waste a bit of time climbing back up again.

ReBirth does come to a compromise, though, by giving you two control schemes to play with. 'Normal' allows you to correct your jumps in mid-air, sort of like in SMB, whereas 'classic' forces you to commit to them, and basically gives you Richter's movements from Rondo of Blood, minus the backflipping. I think you'll still enjoy this game either way, mate.

PS - don't worry about the timer, StarBoy. You get a good ten minutes or so to do each level, which I've found is always plenty. You'll usually reach the bosses with at least 3 minutes to go.

I like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Castlevania: Bloodlines. Other than that, I don't care so much for the series. But, I'd download this anyway.

So are they going to give us a date anytime soon? I've been playing Dracula's Curse nonstop to prepare for it, but I'm starting to feel like I've been stood up, dagnabit! If I get New Super Mario Bros Wii before this I might never get around to getting it. I kind of have an obsessive mentality until my next flavor of the month arrives.

This game is going to be awesome

SOTN kills this, rebirth can't even hold a candle to the GBA games

@Orgone. I'm assuming since Castlevania Rebirth is out today that you've played it to back up that comment.

Just downloaded Castlevania III the other day.. looks like I need to get me some more points for this too now lol

This game is pretty good. Worth it, IMHO.

I will download this once Europe gets this but 1,000 pts is a lot?

I hope there is a Metroid ReBirth, that first game was so hard to enjoy.

This game is AWESOME!!! Highly recommended.

@pie4prez
Unless Konami buys the Metroid IP(that's never going to happen btw) a ReBirth of that series is unlikely to be made.

Can't wait for the review!
Looks AWESOME!

The Metroid ReBirth is coming...only it is tentatively known as, "Other M". :]

I love this game, it's my favorite Wiiware title!

for those who have played it, how difficult is it compared to Mega Man 9?

Very high difficulty. Continues do help.

Not as difficult as Mega Man 9, esp the last stage. MM9 is more about memory anyway.

this is great news,ive been waiting for this for ages.

Downloaded on friday 26 feb, am enjoying playing the game and like the old remakes of the music, shame their no password system to carry on when you don not carry on.
Thanks Konami, when will their be rebirth of track and field and penguin adventure from the msx days?
adam

This is pretty fun. The first level uses music from Bloodlines, which I love.

This game is very playable and has great atmosphere. I especially like the design of the enemies.

i'm really tempted to buy this, but the lack of saving/password is an obstacle...