Konami Supposedly Has Multiple Unannounced Projects In The Works

Well, this is good news. 2023 is shaping up to be a much better year than 2022.

I'd like to see a proper full-scale indie 2D Castlevania game.

Konami let indies work on Getsu Fuma, and included Castlevania content into Dead Cells, so it's not outside the realm of possibility.

Pachinko machines, NFT's and unecessary reboots, I bet.

Well they did announce a ton for Silent Hill, some of which from actually talented devs, so I'm curious what else they have going on. Even with Igarashi doing well on his own, it'd be nice to have the actual Castlevania series back at the very least.

Studio that released multiple games last year and announced multiple games a few months ago, has multiple more games in development that aren’t ready to be announced.

But forget all that. Let’s all repeat the same tired pachinko joke.

I really hope a port of Castlevania Requiem is on the cards. I love Rondo of Blood but I only have it on Wii and Symphony of the Night I have never played. I never understood why it didn't come to Switch when it released in 2018. I remember some folk suggesting it was down to Sony but surely they wouldn't make an exclusive deal for a pair of three decades old games. Even if they did, more than four years have passed so if any deal was made, it has to have expired.

A remaster of Rocket Knight Adventures would be great too.

Fingers crossed for both a Tiny Toons collection and a Ganbare Goemon collection.

Hopefully TMNT did well enough for them to considered bringing The Simpsons Arcade to modern platforms.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika What made you think I was talking about the "year in gaming?" Also, I thought Shovel Knight came out in 2014? Besides, only good games on that list are Shovel Knight and Elden Ring. Rest is shovelware.

That sounds more like a standard New Year message than a product announcement...

They need to release a Castlevania Collection 2 that include all the DS games, Rondo of Blood, Symphony of the Night, Adventure Rebirth, the Lord of Shadow Trilogy, and Judgment exclusively for Switch and PC. Also a Rocket Knight Collection and a Goemon Collection would be nice too. They also need to start working with M2, Digital Eclipse, or HAMSTER in bringing their arcade classics such Monster Maulers, Metamorphic Force, X-Men, and The Simpsons to modern platforms too.

Monster Maulers

@SonOfDracula Xenoblade 3 and Bayonetta 3 are shovelware?

@SonOfDracula They were referring to Shovel Knight Dig, a new spinoff Shovel Knight game that came out last year.

Wait Konami makes games?

More collections, hopefully. Their back catalog is much more interesting than remakes or new titles. And on the big rare chance Castlevania Requiem is ported to Switch hopefully they take the time to fix the bugs and most of all fix that egregious volume issue in SoTN.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika

All you did was just list a bunch of good games and call it a bad year lol.

I second that vote for another Castlevania Collection with those DS games that I never got a chance to play!

Symphony of the Night port for Switch damn it! Come on!

If Silent Hill is being resurrected, hopefully so will be one day other Konami IPs, such as Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania, Goemon and even an actually good Contra game.

There aren't any Konami franchises that interest me. But being on this website long enough, I just want to see a new Dance Dance Revolution so antimatter will be happy.

A new Rumble Roses game, I can feel it. The DS Castlevania games being ported to modern consoles would be cool.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Oh my bad I missed an obvious joke.

More collections would be nice. That is, of course, if they would make complete collections. (Ex they left out Castlevania Legends, Rondo of Blood, Kid Dracula GB, Contra Force and Alien Wars GB out of the Castlevania and Contra collections.)

But what we really want is newer entries into these classic series. I was less than impressed with Rogue Corps so they are really going to have to step it up a notch.

@OorWullie that would be a dream. I have symphony of the night already but it’d be nice to have on my switch, rondo of blood I don’t have a way to play anymore and it’s my very favorite castlevania. That’s such a nice collection tho.

Metal gear would be welcome also. The collection I’ve got on my Xbox is excellent but I always wished it had included the first metal gear solid, I think Japan got that in their head collection.

I'd like to see a castlevania 3D collection featuring legacy of darkness, lament of innocence and curse of darkness....

GetsuFumaDen was really fun. It took me a while to get into and the tutorials weren't great. But once I got into it I couldnt put it down til I beat it.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika if those are the games you choose, then yes. It was a terrible year. Haha. But it wasnt for you

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika They didn't say 2022 was terrible... is implying that 2022 could be improved upon in any way a bad thing? I can't tell if you're toxic or overly defensive, but you accomplished coming off as both. Nice way to start a new year, though why bother existing when no year past 2022 will have meaning.

Finally, Goonies 3!

@Kyloctopus Konami could give literally everyone what they want and they would still be making the same joke. The Silent Hill reveal already proved this.

And frankly the joke was never that truthful to begin with. The pachinko stuff was a separate branch of the company that makes a fraction of the video game profits (and thus has been decreased in it's focus as it's becoming less popular). They just focused on Japan and didn't do much AAA stuff after mostly losing money on it during the PS3 era.

I know it's high unlikely, but I would love the MGS games on Switch. At least gives us the HD collection that ran on PS3.

Konami is on a roll with the collections, hopefully those continue with Silent Hill, MGS and the later Castlevania titles.

Bomberman collection! Bomberman collection! Bomberman collection!

@Kyloctopus Well, yeah, I'd say that's well deserved. They chased away their best devs and trashed their best franchises just to chase the pachinko money. That's just as bad as how EA ruined once great companies like Origin and no one lets EA forget that. You can't give Konami a pass with things you would probably pillory EA for.

Multiple Pachinko machines.

Year of the Rabbit, you say, Konami?
So, a Tiny Toon Adventures Collection?

Dance Dance Revolution for PS5 and Switch, please.

Snatcher - remake, remaster, re-release… anything please!

@Anti-Matter
Add the Xbox on there as well buddy.
About time for another console version.

@CazSonOfCaz There’s alot of truth to the idea that Konami didn’t treat their leads with respect and it can be argued as the reason towards the downfall of major franchises that should otherwise be going strong. Castlevania (beyond the anime anyways), Contra, Metal Gear, Silent Hill. I just take issue with the mindset that Konami isn’t out here making games, or even making good games.

I try to look at things in a more present-day sense and that’s always been the case with how I view EA as well. I believe I’ve even come to their defense here in the NL comment section in the past, as I have admired the EA Originals and FIFA prior to the Legacy Editions anyways.

And here is where I bring up Goemon again!
C'mon Konami!

@Serpenterror

Why should your hypothetical Castlevania collection be a Switch / PC exclusive? If they’re going to port old games, they should bring them to all platforms.

Speaking of exclusives, the current rumour is that a Metal Gear Solid 1 remake is coming exclusively to PS5. If the rumour is true, I’d assume Sony is finding the development.

Please Bring Metal Gear to Switch and DS Castlevania with Symphony of the Night! Switch needs those games

I thought konami will remake castlevania sotn with 4K pixels after looking at the picture 😂

I do hope konami will release DS castlevania games collection to modern console, after reworking it so we can play it without the second screen.

Symphony of the Night and all 3 Rebirth games on Switch would be awesome!

Don't get your hopes up, they most likely be some indie games (wich might still be fun though), or just some awful mobile-games.

No more Kojima sucking up all of the console game budget. They’ve been throwing us a bone here and there and shall probably continue.

@robr Yup, no more wasting money and resources modeling his selfish butt into games, and hiring D-List movie stars so he can pretend he's a Hollywood level director. Guy is a total clown.

@Orpheus79V people too busy blowing that egomaniac Kojima. They were right to fire that lunatic.

@Pointy59 And it came with the original game, which was great! Though admittedly you are better off playing the fan translated one unless you can read japanese.

@Orpheus79V

AFAIK, Pachinko revenue was better than ever in 2022.
It has been surprising to me that Konami has released video games at all in the past twenty years. Towards the end of the 90’s, I remember encountering Buffalo Grove employees that had the same depressing woes as the Bally/Williams guys: going all in on gambling machines. I certainly wasn’t expecting them to dump so many resources into Metal Gear. I digress. I lean more toward whenever Konami releases a home video game (including retro collections), I’m pretty sure they’re just being nice and doing the fans a favor.

@iLikeUrAttitude Yea, they have been still, if you bothered to actually pay attention. Gets Fuma Den was amazing.

@SupremeAllah If my unoriginal, lame and ignorant opinion got a rise out of you, then what does that say about you...

Goemon Collection with translations of all the SNES games please.

@SupremeAllah looking at their offerings on Switch (and others) would make it seem otherwise. Contra Rogue corps, random baseball crud, yugioh stuff, kinda meh no?

Parodius collection, please.

Konami where my Castlevania game that show the 1999 battle aluded in Castlevania Aria of Soul? i wanting for this game for nearly a decade

@OorWullie Yes.

@Nua Thanks, never heard of that one.

@KingMike I don't know what else Konami has that has anything to do with "Year of the Rabbit". I can't think of anything, anyway. Is that even a clue?

I would keep any hope for more Konami games on Switch in check. Last time they had a big announcement they showwd some NFT images.

I'd like to see Gyruss on Switch, either as DLC to the Arcade Classics Collection or as part of Hamster's Arcade Archives.

Bayou Billy Remake, here we go!!! 😉

@TYRANACLES A Metal Gear collection would be nice. I've only ever briefly played the GB Colour entry. So being able to experience the best games of a legendary series for the first time would be really great.

I'd settle for a Castlevania collection that includes the awesome N64 games, and a complete Metal Gear collection. And you reminded me I still need to get GetsuFumaDen, thank you!

Is it hard to port Symphony from the iPhone to the Switch? Even the Gamecom has Symphony now.

@SonOfDracula That isn't what shovelware means.

@SonOfDracula Also, I don't see how this news indicates that 2023 will be "better" than 2022. It's 2023 Konami, not 1997 Konami.

@CammyUnofficial

Maybe to you. But Yu-Gi-Oh is extremely popular with its fans (i am not one of them), their soccer (or Football, if you would) titles are loved by many as an alternative to EA's Fifa games. GetsuFumaDen was an incredible game which revived the franchise from the NES era. Maybe you should give that one a go.

The issue is, people whined and cried "kOnAmI dOeSn'T mAkE gAmEs!" often ignore when they put out games, or just say "NOT THE ONES I WANTED SO THEY DONT COUNT!"

I enjoyed Rogue Corps for what it was as well. Though it certainly could have been better but most of the complains I saw were people who clearly have a vague memory of the Contra series in general.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika

I mean you could continue to fellate the deranged Westaboo that wishes he was a Hollywood level director while he isn't. A lot of misguided people still do. He can continue to steal ideas from other media and just make them worse and certainly there are many people who will sing his praises, you included.

@Erigen I mean if pointing out people who cant think for themselves and rehash nonsense that's been done to death repeatedly that holds no actual basis in reality, sure.

@SupremeAllah You say that and yet went straight to petty name calling over a half-joke. I guess it really hurt you that much.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I don't care what the Oxford dictionary says. Nobody has ever said "shovelware" and meant anything close to that.
While the exact meaning of shovelware, as commonly used, isn't precisely defined, people are generally talking about software produced with seemingly greater intent of making money than concern for the user's experience. (yes, we know that all commercially sold games are produced for profit, but some make us feel that more strongly than others)

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Doesn't really bother me. I'm more surprised that they're so willing to go into multiple arguements with mutiple people over Konami. Nintendo, sure. Bethesda, ok. Blizzard, maybe. But Konami? Konami!

@SupremeAllah yeah good call, getsufumaden does look pretty sweet actually so I'll give that a go. Thank you. Oh I meant 'meh' as in slim pickings relatively speaking, not hating on anyones taste

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Their games in recent times have been mixed, but decent enough. I'm cautious of the new Silent Hill projects, but I do hope those will succeed.

What I dislike about Konami the most is their corporate structure. The Kojima event laid bare the practices of the higher ups and their unwillingness to give anyone within their circle any amount of control or power. To a point that many of their developers are not even accredited to the games they've worked on, in fear that they may grow in fame and influence, like Kojima.

@Boyward I just remember another rabbit license: Bucky O' Hare. But that's probably a far less in-demand than Tiny Toons. It also it think only had two games, a NES platformer and an arcade beat-em-up.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika The exact response I'd expect from a rabid Kojima rider. They still make games and you keep ignoring it to whine about Pachinko.

@CammyUnofficial I dunno what platform you intend to get it on, but on PC one version comes with the original NES game like i mentioned but again, it is sadly not translated as it was never localized for the states (blame nintendo for it never coming here due to their limits on how many games a company could release in a year)

But again, emulation exists and there are fan patches to play it with an english translation.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika

Nonsense. I played all the metal gear games. I even have the fancy Revengence lamp from the special edition

But for someone who claims they don't care about Kojima much, you sure distort the story on "how he was treated"

The guy wasted money and resources endlessly. He took funding from MGS 5 to fund his nonsense PT demo. Work at any company that allocates funds to you for one thing and then you use them for something else, and guess what will happen to you.

The guy was too busy wishing he was a Hollywood level director that he surrounds himself with D-list trash. Replaced Hayter with Sutherland for what? So he could barely speak? Oh, but the STAR POWER of Keifer Sutherland.

Kojima's excuses on that changed many times. He claimed he wanted someone older, he claimed he wanted someone with mo-cap experience. No, he wanted a famous face. Which is why the japanese voice for Snake went unchanged. Hayter called out his BS showing that he had done mo-cap before. Kojima went silent.

Then we have him paying god knows how much to have Stephanie Joostin to follow him around and blow him.

So Kojima absolutely deserved to be "treated the way he was" Wasting money, endless delays so he could model his own dumb face into the game, licensing a bunch of music for no real reason other than just to have something to find in game, etc. The guy is a money pit. His ego got too big.

This is reality. Welcome to it.

@LikelySatan Don't try to rain on my parade, I'm not listening.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Opinions aren't factual. Aw, who am I kidding, it's amusing that you think so

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Sorry, but that other guy got you about Metal Gear/Kojima. You're trolling hard for some reason, tonight!

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I don't think you understand what contradictions are.

Also, "you're"

You can like someones work and understand that the artist themselves is flawed.

You can enjoy Ted Nugent's music while understanding the man himself is completely insane and wrong.

Only a person in a cult would be all or nothing on something. You call these contradictions. I call them sensible criticisms. I don't see why that's so hard to understand.

Metal Gear without Kojima will be just fine. As you mentioned, Revengence was done with very little involvement from him. It was an amazing game with a great OST. Most of the talent there came from his team, who to varying degrees, was able to reign in some of Kojima's batsh*t insanity. They were the talent that made it work. Kojima was the idea man.

Furthermore, people who resort to the same old cut and paste meme nonsense in replies such as your initial comment, and this "rent free" nonsense every other child spews endlessly, is silly. You are angry that I responded to a post in a comment section. That's your argument.

I think you need to actually figure out what the word contradiction means, and also understand, as I mentioned above, that you can appreciate the work of someone but you don't need to be full in cult mode and support absolutely everything about them, ignoring the flaws. That seems to be your main issue with me, that I'm not part of a cult.

Also, your copy/paste whatever you did didn't work either.

@SupremeAllah I think for a series as old as Metal Gear, it will be nice to have a fresh set of eyes on it. There's such a thing as the "law of the lid," in leadership. Kojima definitely did his part, but even a great designer needs to recognize they don't have all the answers. I keep my eye on Metal Gear to see when it will innovate next.

Cool. Always looking forward to possible new game announcements. Also cant put GetsuFumaDen down. Already stoked for Suikoden. I have all of them already but any excuse to retire my discs I will take.

@SupremeAllah ahhh thanks for the heads up. That's a shame about the translation - I was gonna do switch anyway but will look for fan patches elsewhere, I've done it for a couple other titles.

@SupremeAllah I wouldn't blame the publishing quota so much, at least when we're talking about a 1987 game. At least at that time, it probably seemed like a good QA idea at the time: encourage publishers to choose their best work (wow, so even FCI could do good by being forced to choose good games, unlike its parent Pony Canyon that was publishing whatever crap it could get its hands on in Japan). That was the year LJN came to prove that idea wrong: a company that could thrive choosing the most lucrative garbage.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Survive was a lot of fun, i put over 300 hours into that one. Still occasionally catch a round with randoms here and there today.

It got a lot of hate because of Kojima fanboyism and people just blindly raging at Konami because their hero got canned.

And the usual arguments people have against the game are those who never played it and just regurgitate random criticisms they heard some random say.

@KingMike Well today it makes more sense because games now are way more complex. Back then a team of a few people could put out a quality game. When you think about a one game per year limit back then, that is pretty extreme.

That's why Konami for example got around that hangup by releasing a game under their Konami name, and then another under their Ultragames label. Basically a shell company so they could put out more than one game. Note how Konami made all the NES Ninja Turtle games but they were all put out by Ultragames. They weren't the only ones doin it either, and quality didnt suffer.

@SonOfDracula I agree. Short of remakes the only path now is forward. Continuing the Rising plotline of the aftermath of the main series, for example.

@SupremeAllah Rising is great, another would be fun too

While it was left open for a follow up, they could also go back to the original idea of it taking place between MGS 2 and 4 and be about Raiden going to rescue Sonny or whatever else he was doing beyond that. But I'd honestly rather see a follow up than go back to the past.

@Serpenterror Yes! Yes! Yes!

@NintendoJunkie A Bayou Billy remake would certainly be something unexpected.

@KingMike Bucky o Hare is fun! I don't know if they can get the license for it, but I sure wouldn't say no to a port.

Konami, it's time for a new:

• Bloody Roar
• Suikoden
• Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix
• Metal Gear Rising
• Zone of the Enders
• Bomberman Hero/Generation/Jetters/Land
• 2D Sprite-Based Bomberman with Rooi's
• 3D CastleVania
• 3D TMNT
• Soul of the Samurai
• NBA Give & Go / Run & Gun
• Blades Of Steel
• Arcade Licensed Beat 'Em Up (X-Men, Simpsons, Bucky O'Hare etc.)

Bomberman R2 has already been announced.
I would love to see Pes on the switch and a Castlevania game of some sort.