Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, new screenshots released

I already voiced my… misgivings in Konami’s choice of games to remake, so…

Since this game predates… well, Castlevania III, they’d have a hard time trying to turn it into the “Metroidvania” style of the PlayStation, GBA and DS games. It was basically just four sequential stages, with maybe only the second stage having real navigational choices. No compelling storyline or dialog, just straight-up action. This will be more Super Castlevania IV, Castlevania Chronicles or Dracula X Chronicles than anything resembling the recent 2-D games in the series.

Now, if they continue with the series, Belmont’s Revenge had a stage-select mechanism that Nintendo Power compared to a Mega Man game. The third Game Boy game, Castlevania Legends ,would mean ret-retconning Sonia. The poor girl never did get her Dreamcast game…