As we know, Koji Igarashi and his development team at Konami are hard at work on one of the newest installments in the Castlevania franchise; Castlevania Judgement.

Judgement is not only a 3d Castlevania, but a fighting game feature famous Castlevania characters like Simon Belmont, Dracula, Alucard and Maria Renard.

This years Leipzig's Games Convention featured a new trailer for the upcoming game, showing off the afforementioned characters in battle, displaying various combos, magics and super combos.

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By: Dragonfly

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On: 06:30 Aug 21st, 2008
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You know... I'll (begrudgingly) admit this much... the combat actually does like it'll fun to play. The graphics are also vastly improved from the previous screenshots we saw.

But the reinvented character designs are utterly awful, and a complete insult the elegant and artistic designs of the past games. Nor do I expect the fighting to be especially strategic, even if it does look mildly fun to play.

By: Magus

On: 07:19 Aug 21st, 2008
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But the reinvented character designs are utterly awful, and a complete insult the elegant and artistic designs of the past games.

I completely agree. Especially when you look at Maria and Simon. They've taken Misa and Light from Death Note, and turned them into Maria and Simon, respectively.

By: Dragonsoul

On: 07:18 Aug 31st, 2008
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That video does improve my opinion of the game, but it's not enough to save it.

As long as they keep going for revamping and ultimately ruining the characters basic identifying traits, fans of the series very likely will be turned off by this game...fans like me.

By: Wilhelm

On: 07:22 Sep 1st, 2008
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I completely agree. Especially when you look at Maria and Simon. They've taken Misa and Light from Death Note, and turned them into Maria and Simon, respectively.

Well, that happens when the artist working on it is the person who worked on DN. :P

And IIRC, this is the same trailer that appeared back in July, except for changing the text during a few seconds.