Castlevania: Lords of Shadow DLC a 'mistake' says Konami

Dante's Inferno seemed like a cheap knock off. Castlevania LoS seemed like a better game than GoW 3.

Lords of Shadow did not need DLC. Gabriel Belmont's "character development" was effective as-is. Having DLC to step-out how he got to that point just made it less mysterious, and the way it was executed just spoiled the experience as a whole.

Each LoS DLC, priced at $9.99, consisted of still-image cutscenes with full on voice work. It looked like an incomplete, no-budget, "deleted scenes" featurette you would find on a DVD movie. The production behind it was arguably rushed and half-hearted; it made Mercury Steam look lazy and Konami greedy.

If Konami felt they needed to release DLC to capitalize on the franchise's success, they should have released extra challenge maps and added a leaderboard feature. They could have also added playable characters for the challenge maps, such as Zobek, Claudia, Cornell, and Pan. These are not original ideas, mind you, but mimicking the approaches of other games such as Ninja Gaiden and Arkham Asylum / City.

Nothing has come close to Symphony of Night. how old is that game, like two decades old now?? Just crazy... I would take an epic 2D side scroller with a 'Vanillaware' art style over a 3D Castlevania any day of the week.

sucks, never for PC :(

would that had been a mistake too?

big fan of the series, and I really enjoyed Los. The game was fantastic, cant wait for the sequel

This game sucked. You want a good Castlevania game? Buy a Gameboy Advance. There's 4 awesome ones on there. Or if you have a PS3, buy Symphony of the Night on the PS Store. The 3-D Castlevanias are an insult to the series.

I'm not a huge fan of the series and in fact the only game I bought in the hole Castlevania series was the one that came on the N64 which for me felt like the Zelda game that was out for that system and it also felt like it some RPG elements to as well but not really. Then I Haven'e played one of these games since until Catlevania: Lords of Shadow came out I decided to pick up and I really enjoyed it and at times it felt difficult, but it was still a great game and it is probably the only way I was going to come close to playing a game like God of War and yet I was surprised at how the game sucked me right into it's world and story and the gameplay was pretty awesome and it felt just right.

So my point is I'm looking forward to the sequel and I did not realize that the first game had DLC for it, ah well here to the sequel.

A decision by "Higher-ups" regarding making DLC led to underwhelming results.

No matter how hard I try it's IMPOSSIBLE for me to be surprised by this.

I bought both the DLC's when they were half price. I still feel ripped off.

Glad to see someone 'man up' on this issue. I absolutely loved the main game, but the DLCs were not worth the money. Thanks Konami.

Good DLC that is intended to maximize the life of the game is good. Betheseda do a great job with their Fallout and Elder Scrolls DLC. If the DLC for LoS was rushed then at least Konami will learn from their mistakes and improve upon it in the future. It's good to see a company admit when they did something wrong.

This is to the masses of people who donot know what they are talking about. All the people who are complaining that Lords of Shadow is a God of War ripoff and SotN is an original masterpiece. SotN is in the same boat of Lords of Shadow. It reinvented the series, while borrowing mechanics and elements from other games. It is a great game but not original. There is a reason why the genre is called Metroidvania. Simpletons, like this make us gamers look bad.

@mrboone01 @Fandango_Letho Actually he is a newer gamer. Mr Boone, he is lying about gaming since 1989, he stated in the forums since 1997. So he grew up in the N64 years. Fandango tries to be hard on games, but does not understand game design. He is another child trying to be more than what he is. He is the gamer that embarasses the rest of us.

I wish more developers would have the guts to stand up and say:"We were rushed by the people upstairs." I think if that happened, we may see more forgiveness from games, and perhaps support for the developer in the form of letter bombing the publisher.

I am in love with this game, and will be the first to buy the collector's edition of the sequel, if they decide to make one.

This title was fun, if you were a Castlevania fan. But not worthy of DLC. And 10-15 dollars is way tto much for an hour of extra gaming.

The thing is, while this game wasn't perfect, it was damn fun. Classic Castlevania games are hard to match and I love the older Nes, Snes and Ps1 realm of castlevania. The only thing is, is that the most recent 2D games have not been good. They actually have kind of drifted off to a more Anime style or the story is just a mess now. This is all my opinion, but I find that LoS was actually at least something different. Not in terms of games in general, but just what has been seen in Castlevania. I enjoyed it.

The honest is appreciated. Hope the guy doesn't get in trouble for speaking out.

Yes Lords of Shadow was rushed and overall crappy.

@danusty

no you're a mistake

That's the problem with money grubbing people, They see they products doing well, they Milk it till it can be milked no more, With that the Milk would not taste as good as it should, and people buy the milk to find out it's not good anymore, same logic to this and alot of others.

Cows are the Developers

People are the Buyers

Milk is the product

The Milker the Money grubbing people

why even mention this? I don't care from company's point of view..i care from people's point of view..just give us the full game..now that u have mentioned DLCs have been planned for LOS2 from the get-go why not include them in the original game too? any content related to LOS2 if it is being developed before the game is even out, i believe it should be part of the main game! U want us to believe that the same higher ups won't force u to slice few parts of the main game and feed us as DLCs? i borrowed first LOS from a friend..it was meh...i beat it though..i didn't even know there were DLCs for this game..n to admit that those DLCs were rushed when the main game was not even that awesome..what a joke!

Sounds like the "senior management" really knows what they're doing. I have an idea, why not ask us consumers if we want DLC and then go from there.