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300 damage.
Holy crap, that power creep.

The iOS "HD" versions looked really bad, let's hope they're actually fixing it properly here.

DON'T LOSE YOUR WAAAAAAAAAY

Well Castlevania may be gone, but good to see that IGA's going to continue making the games we love.

Nooo now Igavania is definitely dead. （ ´,_ゝ`)
M-muh Battle of 1999.
Guess I should go get a used copy of Portrait of Ruin then to play on my 3DS.

Aw man, this site too?

Translator's note: LeGrimoire means plan

I hope the stage will reference the ghost girl or the saving glitch, dohoho.

Ew Lucario.
On the bright side I can always use it as the punching bag in Training Mode.

Lucario.
ａｂｓｏｌｕｔｅｌｙ　ｄｉｓｇｕｓｔｉｎｇ

Looks pretty flimsy, like you could snap off the control slot-outs while holding with both hands

Man, I want Igavania back. I played the 3 DS ones and a few of the GBA ones a lot in high school back in the mid to late 2000's. It's a great shame that they're done with it now and there's not exactly many similar Metroidvanias with the item/weapon/ability collecting aspect even among indies. Maybe I should just go and get a copy of Portrait of Ruin to play on 3DS.

People paid for a new Megaman from Keiji Inafune, so it's understandable that everybody's getting so mad with this sudden development that was not under the terms when they donated. Forcing your political views on something that wasn't even your original idea is completely unnecessary, actually nevermind that forcing it on a game that doesn't even need any sort of political crap is completely unnecessary.

Delicious Flat Chest strikes yet again.

I've liked the games and really really enjoy the concept, but I hope they could rehaul the battle system into something more generic JRPG-ish. I'm not fond of the point-based attack requirements. The inactive allies stat bonuses/decrements could be retained, but just doing away with the points would make it a lot more enjoyable, maybe even making it feel like Rotation Battles in Pokemon.

HAHA only CASUALS wouldn't know these by heart

You guys should use checkboxes and not radio buttons for these polls

Art of Balance is great.

Sad matter with the whole AAA or Indie-only approach we have with consoles these days. Back in the days of PS2/Xbox/Gamecube you'd have lots of gems here and there since companies were less pressured to make minor stand alone games and the development costs were lower. That atmosphere's gone to the handheld side now since DS' generation so not all is lost fortunately.

inb4 he says he wants to revamp MGS too ( ° o°)

Oh great. We-want-CoD-audience now applied to Contra after their GoW treatment of Castlevania. If he's so insistent on changing things up so much then bring it under a new name, it won't be Contra anymore.

@VincentV
If Capcom buys Atlus nobody wins.

Ha, maybe they just squeezed in some swear word or two to get the M rating.

10 bucks? And the other players must've bought it too?
Doesn't really sound like it'd work for me and the rest on my friend list.

Don't just stop at hacked Pokemon.
Shut down the morons asking for Lv.9 legendaries on GTS, or at least let us search for users looking for a specific Pokemon.

Huh, the save backup is interesting. I guess it's for when you transfer systems since I heard previously system transfer does not transfer the save file as well. I've backed up the save for all my downloaded games anyway.

Nintendo's never been in direct competition with Microsoft and Sony since the Wii so get one for the mainstreams, and get Nintendo for the Ninty games. It's carved its own niche by now.

Multiplats are a tough case. Wii/Wii U's always been left out of the 3 system multiplat thing compared to GC which enjoyed multiplats with PS2 and Xbox back in the day, mainly because its lower specs make it less favorable or maybe harder to port. There's also the case of the Wii/Wii U version being modified to suit the controller but most third party devs just do a half assed job on that or fail to fully take advantage resulting in a worse version of the game.

Oh please not Mercury Steam let Wayforward do it.

That comment on him appearing on Steam daily sort of made me chuckle after the seriousness of the rest of the article.

Steal Castlevania from Mercury Steam and let these guys do it :U

Haw haw, I got the digital version for free from that Destructoid EO4 download code contest back in April. It's a great game, though it's considered the easiest of the 4 (not that it's not tough in its own right).

Bah, I loved the Metroidvania games, Portrait of Ruin is one of my favorite DS games. Classicvania is good too, though some of its supporters go a little overboard with the Metroidvania hatred. I wish they'd pass the torch back to IGA so we can get a proper Metroidvania game on 3DS, but it doesn't sound like they're keen to let go of it.

Phoenix's new objection makes him sound younger than the previous version :u

Ubi means potato around here anyway.

@LordessMeep
I'm from Malaysia haha, I just went to the main site and sent a report to the customer service, then they emailed me asking for a police report and my old and new 3DS serial number. I sent the scanned report and details to them and they responded with the Club Nintendo game codes and $20 (which I wasn't actually informed on, there was suddenly $20 on my new 3DS eShop account to my surprise). I actually lost a game card with the 3DS but they only helped with the digital stuff obviously.

I'm not sure how often they get overseas issues like mine but I think it might be harder to get help with this sort of thing now (whether local or foreign) after this rep just clarified the stance on the issue, so better just keep your 3DS away from grubby pick pockets.

Nintendo of US helped me with this issue just a few months ago. My 3DS with the Club Nintendo reward games and $20 worth of eShop games was stolen and they gave me the download codes for the Club Nintendo games and even put in $20 in my new 3DS' eShop account. I'm not even a US citizen, I live in Asia and was using the Club Nintendo services since my unit was a US unit. They did shut down my Club Nintendo account since it was meant for US and Canadian citizen use, but it was awfully considerate of them to even help me with my problem at that time.