/vr/ - Retro Games

Yeh I’d let him fuck me up the ass

>>8653073
there's already a castlevania thread

>>8653073
>redhead
>Which smash bros should have use base model
Ultimate based

Nice artwork, OP. How long did it take you?

>>8653073
The Famicom manual design is the best design, shame it only really exists there.

>>8653073
How the hell does the wikia site cit this as the Famicom design but leave out the X68000 boxart? That's a near-flawless recreation of what NES/MSX boxart Simon looked like from the front.

>>8655787
Why does he dress like this in the late 17th century?

>>8655798
To be fair, I think they decided the timeline later, and it's better than the other attempted redesigns.

>they don't know

>>8655798
He looks somewhat more era-appropriate in the sequel. Funny thing is, since Simon's Quest never had a reimagining, this is canonically his most recent look, chronologically. Kind of strange to think about.

So much for the guy who insists that Dracula's 2nd form isn't Dracula because he read an interview of someone who recalls a discussion he had with someone else some decade ago

>>8655916

>>8653073
He looks like Alex Kidd.

>>8655872
That one is just a rip-off.

>>8655916
That's why "Word of God" is, at the end of the day, a retarded concept.

>>8656050
Alright, buddy, what am i lookin at?

>>8655787
This is the best design. He looks like Conan or a generic action movie star, like someone who could enter that castle and kill monsters for days. However, this is my favorite:
>>8655842
Because he is hot.

>>8655842
>>8656703
The Chronicles design by itself isn't bad, but what's terrible is the in-game sprite edit. The browns work so much better in this game than that black/red. Also they ruined the shading on the clothes and the hint of eyes from the original X68000 sprite. It's almost as bad as bucket-tool Richter from Saturn Symphony. Almost.

>>8655787
The wiki, like most FANDOM sites, has its issues. One of the high-ups pestered IGA on Facebook for the timeline, which is one thing but I think he had already left Konami at that point and he kept trying to say that the rightsholders might have other ideas. More recently, some iffily-translated fax from Konami to EGM got treated as proverbial gospel, even though it has tons of translation issues and abandoned plot threads/ideas, and had it supplant some officially released/final info. I imagine giving it its own article as a curiosity of Bloodlines' development, but it was clearly internal info that was leaked and never meant to see the light of day. And for some asinine reason, they've had the Hunchbacks and Fleamen split since forever, even though they're the exact same thing (the 1993 Famicom rerelease of Akumajo Dracula even renames them as such). I'm surprised there was never a fork that cleaned things up.

>>8655798
>Why does he dress like this in the late 17th century?

The design is based on King Conan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCTymSnZB0I

>>8655842
This is the best simon fight me

Shimon Belmondo, I think you mean.

>>8655798
I always thought he was a Scottish dude or something because they always referred to Belmont as a clan back then which kind of explained their pseudo barbarian look. These days it's always referred to as a family rather than clan though so it was probably a weird localization thing.

I imagine that's why they ARE Scottish in the Lords of Shadow canon while I think it's never really stated in the mainline where they're from other than they regularly show up in Transylvania when needed.

>>8655916
Dracula looks like Moonman

>>8653073
I don't know, anon... It doesn't seem real, seems more like a drawing.

>>8655842
>>8656703
>>8657236
Holy based

>>8656863
Ay carramba, anon!

Strange to translate "this story shall also be told" to "but this is another story". More classical, and less hopeful. Sad we never got king Conan.

>>8655849
Source

>>8659942
I'm pretty sure that's Vampire Hunter D

>>8657814
I always thought the Belmont surname was Spanish or Portuguese

>>8662557
After I learned that it was supposed to be Belmondo in Japanese, I now think of them as Italians or French.

>>8659942
It's Vampire Hunter D

>>8655872
In the 80s he fronted a little known band called Iron Maiden

>>8663034
This is (was) Belmondo, Jean-Paul. Probably a descendant.

>>8663034
I think the consensus is that Belmondo is correct, though it could very easily just be either, because they're both real names, and Belmont would be written as Belmondo in Japanese either way.

I was under the impression that Belmondo was actually Belmonte... A pretty common Spanish surname.

For example, here's Belmonte Castle, a Spanish castle from medieval times

>>8658093
Simon is sicker than your average vampire killer.

>>8663832
>garlic-bulb eating players

>>8663034
>>8663237
There's also "Belmond" from the Japanese version of Dracula's Curse.

>>8664000
The Japanese versions used all three spellings (Belmondo, Belmont and Belmondo) at different points until they finally settled on Belmondo around the second GBA game.