While Konami’s NFT news about Castlevania is still ringing out in a controversial celebration of Castlevania’s 35th anniversary, a group of fans arrives to give it the treatment it deserves with a tribute game.
Castlevania: Seal of Eclipse recalls its early stage, the 8-bit, just like the fantastic Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon recently did. Thus, both its graphics and sound effects and melodies take us back to that time of Nintendo’s NES. Yes indeed, with visual enhancements typical of 16-bit consoles.
It should be noted from the outset that the designs of characters and enemies are original and not simple copies of Konami’s works. There is a lot of inspiration, logically (not in vain it is a tribute), but with freshness and the desire to celebrate in good conditions the anniversary of a legendary saga that has even made the leap to Netflix quite successfully. And that there is no lack of faces known as that of Julius Belmont, for example. Yes indeed, this Castlevania is set in the year 1999.
Its creators are aware of exposure to which they have just submitted when presenting their project in this start of the year 2022, especially in the face of legal problems with Konami, but they are blunt in this regard stating that do not accept any type of compensation for his work being a fan project. And for now, obviously, it cannot be downloaded, but its trailer gives a good example of the great work behind its development, paying tribute to the initial trilogy.
And what about Konami? If we go to the official, the only thing that has made us happy on the occasion of the current Castlevania 35th anniversary we have it in Castlevania Advance Collection, a whole surprise that rescued from oblivion the GBA trilogy.