I hope Alucard is the original. Change the other voices, fine, but Robert Belgrade is the definitive Alucard. A crime they never got him back to read the new dialogue, he'd crush it again.

Seeing the amount of work being put in just Richter gives me high hopes for how much Alucard will change

It's projects like this where you really need to step back and ask, "is what I'm adding taking away from the original."

In the remastered, Richter says “thanks” to Maria after lending him her strength.

Power Wave isn't new. It is used in the original, but since Dracula can be quickly defeated in the prologue, you may not encounter it.

The added attacks and sprites to Dracula's fight were the parts that impressed me the most when playing the demo, that and the changed 3D cutscene of the Castle in the beginning. I think using the PSP voices is a smart choice since it means the game can have use voicelines from other games that the PSP actors, like Dracula's Fatal Ray line from Ecclesia. That's just a nice change to me.

The hack is pretty cool, but I think the short slide jump and the mana system (for uppercut and tackle) ruins the fun tho. Might be good as a Richter only game/hack, since bonus character in Castlevania usually has sick movement and this one doesn't.

I am loving what I watch! Great work so far!

Incredible work! It’s a little sad to see the slide-kick-thing unnecessarily nerfed so heavily, but otherwise this version looks like a straight upgrade! So impressed at the love and care!

It’s a given that this remastered version is not accomodating to new players to the series, it makes sense in the original that Dracula’s movements and attacks would be slower and limited so that way new players can easily beat him and depending how long it takes depends on the items you begin with with Alucard and I highly doubt that “hardware limitations” would be a valid excuse for this reasoning as well, from the looks of this remaster that is definitely not the case as you can see it definitely takes a lot more effort and skill to avoid getting damaged which would definitely end up overwhelming any new player to the games

Wonderful work!!! Looking forward to it!

If you don't have it or "What is man, a miserable pile of secrets" by André Malraux, it's not even worth it.

I don't like it when Richter disappears like there's a missing frame from the spritesheet. But I think this is actually quite enjoyable.

Que buen trabajo amigo. Es difícil representar una obra tan épica como SOTN.

Changing from the PS1 voices is always a bad move

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I like pretty much all of the original moves and effects way more than the remake ones. They are all just far more polished and visually cohesive than the new ones. Same goes for other elements as well - the portrait looks bizarrely out of place and incorrectly proportioned, and the high-res intro just looks cheap. Speaking of intro - in spite of getting normal-mapped textures, Dracula's castle lost, like 90% of its geometric complexity and now looks more like a small keep rather than a sprawling complex. Also, why the hell is the tutorial boss this freaking hard now? What sense does that make game-design-wise?!

Awesome Demo!!

mm...yeah no, the original just has that charm to it that didn't need to be 'fixed' or changed for that matter. A remaster would be fine if visuals only were updated, not changed sprites, not changed voices, not changed items etc.

Amazing remake, very good work !

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I do not like the Richter portrait change- it is a bit unfitting alongside SotN Dracula's one as Ayami Kojima has improved over time with her artwork, and putting her later art alongside the original one makes it all look a bit inconsistent to me. I get that it the developer wanted to address the common complain of Richter's visual inconsistency though, but it'd be better if all portraits were from the same era tbh

We couldn't have a remaster without the original. It's looking really good! Thanks for sharing!

Awesome! Great work!

I always followed this project since 2018 cant wait anymore, this is awesome

It's absolutely amazing to have more improved. The original cutscene for the castle still my favorite and the model of the castle. With the remastered version, once the camera looks at the castle, you should move forward instead of letting stay for a short period until it needs to move. Some how Richter's remastered run animation looks a little off, his legs doesn't look like their moving in the right place. His body moves fast, but his legs seems to be a little slow. With the pyro storm, are you planning to have a little fog on the bottom of screen because of the storm

The new Richter sprites look good and all, but they deliberately chose to make him look the same as he did in Rondo of Blood. Changing his appearance severs that connection to the previous game.

awesome job

Your apologies and concerns at the start of the video are valid. (Considering the way people are now a days) but one cannot say that the early graphics of the PSX are not out dated and could use a polishing. In short: whoever made this did a great job :)

Very very very very beautiful. Congrats for job.

Dude, this rocks.

The stage clear is literally the same from devil may cry

That's pretty cool. I’ll play it.

This is perfect in every single way! Great work! I wonder what Richter's sprite would look like with Ayami Kojima's original design?

the face of the dracula is the face of dragon on demons crest

OMG IS A BEATIFULL!!!

I hope this guy add new attack on Dracula's first phase where he just claws you or stomp at you. And in Second phase, if Dracula manage to catch you while in his drag attack, he's gonna grab and slam you.

It looks interesting, I would check out what happens, I would like the content from the Saturn version to get here)

Awesome.

Good job bro 👍👍👍

Nice the remake looks wonderful

El juego original es una obra maestra, pero esta versión es un digno tributo a ese juego. Impresionantes detalles!

Hmm...The developer should add the another Saturn's outfit to Richter instead as well,because its fit even well with the character art concept. Any way the work is becoming really awesome!

Power wave, I think I remember playing Dracula X chronicles, Dracula demon form performs that move as well.

I just discovered your project and I think it's crazy! the crazy work he has on Richter and on Dracula's attacks :o I can't wait to see Alucard. But I ask myself a question... Maria will be playable too? ^^

It certainly looks interesting, I'm not sure I'm a fan of all the extra UI stuff on screen and the status effect icons under the boss though

To be honest I like the look of the original better

For the Dracula dialogue, I'd probably prefer having some combination of the PSP/PS4 SotN dialogue and the PSP/PS4 Rondo of Blood ending. The ending to Rondo of Blood contains most of Dracula's speech from SotN, but it's more accurate to the original Japanese dialogue. The PSP SotN dialogue is just the PS1 translation but flowered up, so I never found much point to it. Of course, some stuff from the newer translation should probably be retained (such as Richter's opening line telling Dracula to die, as he doesn't say that in Rondo of Blood but the translation of that part in SotN is still accurate), which is why I suggest a combination of the two.

5:51 Thats why we really here.

More more more more !!

Perfect

I get the dialogue change but everytime Konami rereleases sotn I feel like everyone wants the OG drac v Richter dialogue

Hopefully this also improves the boss fights lmao, they were kinda "eh" in the first game. Some are pretty decent like the Doppleganger and Slogra/Gaibon, but most of them are kinda just walking back and forth and can get locked in one position if you spam items hard enough.

Fascinante ....

Almost heard hadoken lol

Wow is so cool

Interesting. Well, I don't have problem with starting area, even it have problems. Of course this fixes make it better. The main problem of SOTN is a balance of a whole game. You quickly became overpowered and second castle bosses become a joke(expect 2 of them). You collect big amount of weapons that quickly turn into trash and just stuck in your inventory

Do I undestand correctly that power wave in second form is reference to Dracula attack in second form in SNES Dracula X?

The castle looks less detailed. More textures but less polygons

Few things... The "storm" is no longer a storm. It's a drizzle... The thunder to kick it off is nice. And making drac hard... is counter productive in isolation... as its a tutorial 'start up' fight, that you are graded to empower/weaken alucard. I hope enough is done to make it good all around. The overall changes to things dont seem bad. Just 'we wanted to make it hard.' Also, why didn't you show off losing in the remaster? Or was that not changed?

I still can't understand the want or need for cooldowns on Richter's abilites.

This looks absolutely fantastic.

I thought he was saying „thunder of God“ insted of hydro storm

Good bro

The dialogue changes is the sole reason I refuse to play the PSP version even though it's technically superior. The same thing applies to your mod.

love richter sprites smooth and awesome, but backflip animation is fucking amazing.

This looks awesome! Is there any demo yet?

the game finna go hard can't wait til it's out

Are you gonna add extras from the saturn version?

It would've been nice to see the retranslation made by Tom and Gemini, but it still looks pretty good regardless

Nice

Men I will love to see this game with Dark Souls difficult that would be amazing!!

-Now Dracula has 9 new attacks, more frames of animation and a stunning new graphic style that makes the fight more challenging. -Ok ok, But here comes Maria Renard and... Voilà! I´m invincible now.

great work, but i hope more difficult than the original

Does this hack include both exclusives(includes playable Maria, both exclusive rooms, bosses, and item/weapons) from PS1/PSX and Sega Saturn with smooth framerate? Also one more thing three different dialogue Dubs included of a optional feature?

man it is SOOOOO different , like holy shit ; i can see that whoever worked on the remake honestly tried to do their best and they even tried to 'improve/add' some additional animations that werent there previously , but overall the OG is WAY BETTER , SOTN is a true masterpiece , changing even just a single frame of animation or a few pixels really changes things a lot =/ ; and WHAT they changed the fucking PORTRAIT ART ?!?! , OH HELL NAH , AND THEY CHANGED THE VOICE LINES AND DIALOGUE , NO NO NO , im out XD this is cursed now ; TBF we will always have the OG , so im not against fan remakes and stuff like this , all art is derivative after all , but the OG SOTN IS a legit masterpiece and the fact that ppl are so inspired to make remakes like this and ofc that it and SM spawned the whole metroidvania genre and all of the amazing indie spinoffs [ie Hollow Knight, Valdis Story, Blasphemous, ESA, etc] is very telling indeed

Caraca ficou extremamente foda, mas sinto que não vai avançar. 😢😢 a Konami não deixaria

Seria interessante uma opção para usar o antigo diálogo do PS1 (Na minha opinião é melhor que a versão do PSP). De qualquer maneira, trampo muito foda que você faz, sucesso pra ti

Fuck this is love the comparison

❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥 wow awesomeeeeeeeeeeee

Olá. Me tire uma dúvida. Eu sempre acompanhei de início o trabalho de Esco, isso qdo ele planejava fazer para o PS1. Depois ele mudou de ideia e quis fazer para o PC em uma engine própria. Depois disso não o acompanho mais. A dúvida é, o jogo é em iso para o PS1 ou para o PC? Valeu e e nóis.

Wow the cg cutscenes seem rough. It went from looking like early PS1 to early Dreamcast.

Will the control scheme be changed to better take advantage of richter’s new move behaviours? The old scheme feels a bit clunky for something like this

i think you made it too hard for something in the prologue but if you die you do become invincible so fair enough, and also seperating the item crashes and subweapons is a pretty bad change imo, you just made it way easier to just grab the hydro storm and the cross and just tear through draculas first phase for the casual players and a bit harder for the speedrunners who just grab the heart on the ledge and use hydro storm to beat dracula

É como se tivessem transferido a jogabilidade do Sério's Castlevania Fighter pro SotN.

The fact that he doesn’t plan on changing the dialogue with richter and Dracula bothers me….

fanfic

Unpopular opinion here but the PSP version stomps.the original dialogue. I played through the original game and was pleasantly surprised when I got it again on the and PSP.and cleaned up.the dialog. I know everyone loves "You steal men's souls and make them your slave" But come on, "Fight for them then, and die for their sins" is a great line. I applaud the developer of the remake for not letting nostalgia cloud his judgement. But enough talk, have at me!

Perfeito,estou louco para ver como está a jogabilidade do Alucard 🍷

Some changes goods... Other neither so... But this Dragon of Dracula have be excellente! Very stronger! Makes me remeber the Dracula final version from Castlevania Legacy of the Darkness from nintendo 64: Super powerfull!

Konami: Imposible...

Wherevi can download this? Is awesome?

Hmm shorten the time of the knife special will make Galamoth more harder to beat with Richter

ya está disponible para descargarlo?

Told me This Game contniue in proces

I don't like the updated castle in the openings, or the changes to Richter's moves and appearance. Also, why would you make the opening battle hard? It's kinda completely against the point for the intro to the game.

recién me doy cuenta en el original el efecto de la tormenta hay nubes y en el remake hay truenos y relampagos pero en el fondo hay luna creciente, no me parece muy lógico falta pulir mucho más la idea original

Shut up and take my money!

Will it have sega saturn content?

when is the full released and will it be free?

When is the release date of this hack?

Good job fixing what wasn't broken