Supplement from April 28. A group of enthusiasts received a prototype disk Castlevania: Resurrection and laid it on the network. The game works on emulators, but, as mentioned earlier, this is not a complete version, but a set of levels for demonstrations on E3 1999.
The news is edited accordingly.
Original news. Castlevania: Resurrection – The elusive part of the series for Sega Dreamcast, which was shown to journalists at E3 1999, but in the end they did not release. It was believed that she irrevocably disappeared in the abyss of time, but the French fan Sega managed to detect a working prototype.
The build contains five levels and the https://casinovibes.uk/ battle with the boss. Date is written on the disk – 11.5.99, either on May 11, 1999 (if the format is European), or on November 5, 1999 (if the format is American). The Frenchman writes that this is a preliminary demo for E3-then, it seems, still May 11.
The main characters Castlevania: Resurrection Sonya Belmont and Victor Belmont should have been. The scene is divided in two eras: Sony’s adventures occur in 1666, before the events of the first Castlevania, And Victor is already in the 1800s.
The era was only an element of the plot – no time travel was planned. Instead of free movements in the spirit Symphony of the Night They were going to make a linear passage, but they nevertheless looked around at the common spirit of the “Symphony of the Night”. In addition, gameplay Resurrection was completely three -dimensional.
In 2007, artistic director Resurrection Greg Orduyan (Greg Oorduyan) gave an interview about the game. According to him, production went according to plan, progress was significant-it remained to find a balance, add elements of art design, complete the introduction of physics, optimize the code and collect everything together.
Orduyan said that in closed shows, journalists spoke very warmly about Resurrection. However, “people are inside Konami with their own goals ”they allowed rumors that everything was not very good with the game. When Resurrection They canceled, the public had the opinion that this happened due to poor quality.
The heavy heritage of the era: the preserved advertising screenshots from Resurrection by modern standards are simply microscopic.
Castlevania looked better than most other projects for DreamCast, claimed Orduyan. Resurrection canceled somewhere by March 2000, when Sony announced the date of the PlayStation 2 release, – on this day Konami stopped the production of all her games for DreamCast.
Take and port Castlevania: Resurrection on ps2 it would not work: judging by the comments Orduyana, In those years, the versions for different platforms had to be planned immediately. Otherwise, for the new console, the game had to be rewritten from scratch.
