Rumor: Konami Planning MGS3 Remake And A New Castlevania Game
There’s a new rumor going around that Konami has big plans coming for this year.
As reported by PSU, the Video Games Chronicle podcast revealed that Konami is looking to relaunch both the Metal Gear and Castlevania games, and they are doing so in a big way.
Castlevania is getting its first new original game since Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. It’s been nearly a decade since that release, but the property received a ton of mainstream exposure thanks to Netflix’s Castlevania animated series. Starting in 2017, the show is produced by Aditya Shankar, and most notably, written by veteran comics scribe Warren Ellis.
This upcoming video game could use the Netflix show as a base. It would be a welcome move for Castlevania fans, as the franchise’s most recent outing, the Lords of Shadow series, were financially successful but too much of a departure from the game’s conventions for many of its most loyal fans.
Interestingly enough, the Castlevania Netflix show is remarkably loyal to the series’ original canon. So it wouldn’t be unlikely if these new games were sequels or remakes of the games where its protagonists took the spotlight: Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse for Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades, and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for Alucard.
The other rumored game in development is a remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The funny thing about this rumor is, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was in fact the last Metal Gear game that received a remake, as Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D for the 3DS all the way back in 2012.
Fans are likely to more fondly remember Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection, which released for the PlayStation 3 a year later. This was Kojima’s attempt to make a definitive collection of
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