Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. All rumor until April 14, day it got CONFIRMED!

Hellow.... My fellow lovers of CV series...

Did you though that last year was a good year for CV fans??? we got DXC, animated (and live-action movie) announced... and almost at the end we heard the confirmation of a new DS from igarashi... Well...

this year has started really NICE, is just early january and we have screen (unconfirmed) of this new game....

New CV for DS remember they could be "fake" screens

Summary:

1. Seems it would have wii-conectivity...

2. Wi-fi connectivity. Pry to be use as PoR??

3. New female character. foe or friend?

4. May be a sequel to PoR.

enjoy....

MORE NEWS///RUMORS.

Destructoid.com reveal in here that the screens where show in gamefaqs.com and then went "poof"

this was also said in several others sites (but do not know if they read it in desctructoid, or had time to see it by themself) like in ng4,

Also a member of Gonintendo translated the title ( "rough translation" ) as "Castlevania: Carved/Stolen Seal" you can see this here credits to mr Bubbles and GN.

The screens has being "analized" and zoom in at this nintendodic.com here the link... They mention the translated title, a date of when the screen where taken (honestely I do not see that) and give an zoom in image so we can see "Wii" option....

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IGN did there usual Rumor alert

"While we're the first to question the validity of "leaked" shots in this day and age of photoshopping teenagers with nothing better to do, there's something about the shots that screams "not fake.""

"They were at least valid enough for us to contact Konami directly for its take on the subject Naturally, we got the expected "Konami doesn't comment on rumor or speculation" statement, but when it's not a flat-out denial you know there might be something there. Officially, though, Konami's holding strong with a "no comment."

If they are real – and we're not saying they are, officially, anyway – the screenshots reveal..."

".............Right now, it's all unconfirmed, and as far as everyone should be concerned, these screens aren't officially sanctioned by Konami. Until we hear from the company, take this all as pure rumor and speculation. But certainly get excited for the next Castlevania game"

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name and existance confirmed, thx to siliconera.com

Also helps confirm the legitimacy of the leaked shots, as they have a similarly designed title screen (mainly the metal effects)

Source here After clicking this, click search at the right column, then under select the search form, clickBrowse Dictionary. Type Castlevania. From the list click on Castlevania (without the *) and then on Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.

A few details found there:

1, The logo posted in Siliconera.com

2. Word Mark CASTLEVANIA ORDER OF ECCLESIA

3. Filing Date March 28, 2008

5. Type of Mark TRADEMARK. SERVICE MARK.

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This is still a rumor and like one it spreads faster than fire in a forest...

A gaming site in french have publish the words below in here

" Si Konami n'a pour l'heure fait aucune annonce officielle, le développeur et éditeur nippon a néanmoins déposé un nom qui ne manquera pas d'attiser la curiosité de milliers de joueurs. En effet, il semblerait que le studio planche actuellement sur un nouveau volet de la série Castlevania, qui répondrait au doux nom d'Order of Ecclesia. Beaucoup moins réjouissant, on ignore pour le moment quelle console accueillera ce nouvel épisode. Si les portables, et notamment la Nintendo DS, tiennent la corde, nous ne sommes pas à l'abri d'une excellente surprise. Affaire à suivre !"

which translate (thx to babelfish translation) into..

"If Konami for the hour did not make any official advertisement, the developer and Japanese editor nevertheless deposited a name which will not fail to poke the curiosity of thousands of players. Indeed, it would seem that the studio board currently on a new shutter of the Castlevania series, which would answer the soft name of Order of Ecclesia. Much less amusing, one is unaware of for the moment which console will accomodate this new episode. If the portables, and in particular Nintendo DS, hold the cord, we are not safe from an excellent surprise. Business to be followed!"

On the same path this site has stated a point already mention by some of us..

again from babelfish:

" コナミ in the United States "Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia "it became trade mark to have registered, clear." Because Castlevania "it is the overseas name of" demoniac castle Dracula ", it is thought that it is something where this library-name becomes title of the demoniac castle Dracula's next work. When you translate into Japanese, "demoniac castle Dracula: It probably is the place such as order of the church "? Though, because as for the recent "demoniac castle Dracula" series way there are times when title differs completely in Japan and the foreign country, (' the demoniac castle Dracula gallery of labyrinth ' as for overseas name "Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin ", you translate when," descriptive ", ' demoniac castle Dracula of ruin is green the cross of month ' overseas name" Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow ", you translate when," the dawn of unhappiness") you can attach to also the title in Japan those which translate library-name that way, with it does not limit."

(note that babelfish is not the best way of translation and in JP goes to the limits, but you should be able to understand the main point in there)

and some other sites, like Game Spark global news have gone as far as this with speculations. This was pointed out in SIliconera, which they used as source and apparentely agree?

Translation:

"The Castlevania series where the fight of Dracula and ヴァンパイアハンター is drawn. Being domestic, it is the action game which is proud of high popularity, but this time, it is thought as the up-to-date work Castlevania: The title name of Order of Ecclesia was registered to the American patent trade mark agency. For the present, there is no proper form announcement from コナミ. PSP edition is Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (the demoniac castle Dracula X chronicle) after the selling, it was the place where future series development would become matter of concern. That it is thought whether the latest title name register and logograph already from the fact that it becomes completion, announcement from コナミ (including the release platform) to be prompt are not certain. Furthermore, Ecclesia it was done in ancient Greece, meaning "of meeting of the populace". With as for the notion that where you say, as for the stage whether Greece? In the title which is the Greek stage in the past series, there is a vampire killer of Mega drive edition."

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Non-official TRANSLATION of the text in the picture:

A member of SHS`s IRC community (NO STAFF, a leech, like me :P , but this one have knowledge in jp) named ChrisR was nice to translate this for me on the channel.

the title of teh game:

Akumajo Dracula: Ubawareta kokuin (confirmed by a couple of comments in kotaku.co as well)

Akumajo Dracula (the name of most Castlevania games in JP) we can see the same symbols also with PoR in here, hx to Mr. P`s realm

ubawareta - to snatch away, dispossess

ubau roughly means to steal, ta implied past tense. wareta: simple past

kokuin - carved seal

Castlevania: The Stolen Seal(like above)

Also he was so kind to translate the text under the female character:

The name of the female characterShanoa (i saw this before but wanted to confirmed with someone else)

And the text reads:

"korekara "dominasu" ni karada o najimaseru tame no gishiki u ke ni iku tokoro desu"

korekara - from now on,

"Dominasu" - foreign language word, so Dominus

karada - body

najimaseru - (najimu - adapt) (maseru - causative, plain)

tame - sake

gishiki - ceremony

uke - accept, receive, take

ni - a particle: in, at....

iku - to go

tokoro - place

desu - represent the verb of the sentence.

Shanoa: For now, go start the ceremony to adapt to Dominus' body. (he inclined for this one more)

Shanoa: From now on, go there to accept the ceremony for the sake of adapting to the body from Dominus

Also in kotaku.com comments you can find the followings:

Shanoa: Starting from now the "Dominas" will prepare your body for the ritual. They will use it as a host afterwards. (this one according to chris is the less like it) by a member of kotaku community: Revenge_of_nekojin or Gremory

Shanoa: Now you'll experience the ceremony to make your body suitable for Dominus. by a member of kotaku community: RENTAHERO1

Thx to all of you, credit is theirs I do not speak one word of Japanese

.... and enjoy...

EDIT:

For those that missed the previews news about it....

Igarashi Interview confirming the new DS game on develope (check interview of Sept 2007, found in here

Gameinformer in August publish an article with a paragraphs that said:

Today in our interview with Koji Igarashi (which we`ll be posting the full trascript of in the coming days) Konami`s Igarashi divulged to Game Informer Online that he already knows which plataform his next castlevania games will appear on. His next Castlevania project will be for Nntendo DS and will not be a remake like Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles and will be all new. This game is currently well into development, however, when it will actually shown is unknow. However, if history repeats itself, Castlevania titles are always revealed in North America - and usually at the Spring Gamers Day.

Later on kotaku.com news about the game being confirmed where reveal based on a interview by wired in here

You can go to the 1st thread about this in here (note that this thread is not open for more post) where other articles where presented by 1up, an german website, the full transript of the interview by gameinformer.....

Enjoy..

yeap guys.... this has pry being one of the greatest news for lovers of CV....

the art seems to be AMAZING!!! more characters....female one, the 3rd image at the right look AWESOME, wi-fi, wii-connect..... WOO HOO!!!! WOO HOOO!!!!!! WOO HOO!!!!

I wanted the new one to fill the gaps from the past in CV world... but this one looks so cool that I`m thrill even thus it can be a sequel to PoR (no that PoR is bad, I LOVE it as you guys may know. But I would like some gaps to be filled, instead of going futher in the future at the timeline)

a have seem that comment a couple of times.. maybe is just me, but i do not see the similarity... I mean she kind of looks a like at the far right screen.. But at the 1st screen .. i do not know.. Her face looks more skinny, maybe she has growned up so her face has a growned up look now and she die her hair...

her way of dressing are defenetely similar....

I`m open to the possibility....

hmmmmm....

The only Charlotte similarity I see is that she takes damage similarly (as it appears in one of the screens), but the art is too different for there to be a similarity. I don't know, this looks really strange, I'm not gonna get my hopes up too high on this.Conver

true... Thus I think that quite a few of the CV characteres take damage in a similar way....

What looks really strage?? the charlotte thing or the whole thing?? What I thing is weird is that we just got the confirmation of IGA a few month ago and he was still finishing DXC, isn`t it too soon for screens??? Thus if they are fake, they are a really good fakes...

it is arumor :|
soma9

sadly yes... :( But IGA in Oct confirmed they where gonna work in a new DS game.. the question is could this really be the screens???

EDIT: I decided to look for the others thread (I knew we had one, seems I deleted from Menu without noticing :P.. i`ll make this one teh official New CV for DS thread :P )

Anyway.... I remember something and yes.. it could be real, when he was interviewed in Aug (1st time a rumor about this started, publish in an article by gameinformer) It read:

"This game is currently well into development,..." "However, if history repeats itself, Castlevania titles are always revealed in North America - and usually at their Spring Gamers Day."

And After a few month (in Oct...) Kotaku.com publish that IGA said this

"We're doing another Nintendo DS version. There hasn't been an official announcement, but we're doing it...we want people to enjoy the PSP version, and afterwards we're announcing it. So, please wait a little bit."

So.....

God I hope this is true (and that we`ll hear something official soon) bc unlike Conver, my hypes are all over the place :lol:

There's no doubt in my mind that these screens are the real deal. Of course, only time will tell...

but do yu now what i hate about castlevania!! or all other games it takes so long to release .....!!! Cant w8 :Ds0m4cruz

yea.... thus DXC came pretty fast (maybe it would happen again :D )

AND NOW: more.....

Destructoid.com reveal in here that the screens where show in gamefaqs.com and then went "poof"

this was also said in several others sites (but do not know if they read it in desctructoid, or had time to see it by themself) like in ng4,

Also a member of Gonintendo translated the title ( "rough translation" ) as "Castlevania: Carved/Stolen Seal" you can see this here credits to mr Bubbles and GN.

A member of SHS`s IRC community (NO STAFF, a leech, like me :P , but this one have knowledge in jp) named ChrisR was nice to translate this for me on the channel.

the title of teh game:

Akumajo Dracula: Ubawareta kokuin (confirmed by a couple of comments in kotaku.co as well)

Akumajo Dracula (the name of most Castlevania games in JP) we can see the same symbols also with PoR in here, hx to Mr. P`s realm

ubawareta - to snatch away, dispossess

ubau roughly means to steal, ta implied past tense. wareta: simple past

kokuin - carved seal

Castlevania: The Stolen Seal(like above)

Also he was so kind to translate the text under the female character:

The name of the female characterShanoa (i saw this before but wanted to confirmed with someone else)

And the text reads:

"korekara "dominasu" ni karada o najimaseru tame no gishiki u ke ni iku tokoro desu"

korekara - from now on,

"Dominasu" - foreign language word, so Dominus

karada - body

najimaseru - (najimu - adapt) (maseru - causative, plain)

tame - sake

gishiki - ceremony

uke - accept, receive, take

ni - a particle: in, at....

iku - to go

tokoro - place

desu - represent the verb of the sentence.

Shanoa: For now, go start the ceremony to adapt to Dominus' body. (he inclined for this one more)

Shanoa: From now on, go there to accept the ceremony for the sake of adapting to the body from Dominus

Also in kotaku.com comments you can find the followings:

Shanoa: Starting from now the "Dominas" will prepare your body for the ritual. They will use it as a host afterwards. (this one according to chris is the less like it) by a member of kotaku community: Revenge_of_nekojin or Gremory

Shanoa: Now you'll experience the ceremony to make your body suitable for Dominus. by a member of kotaku community: RENTAHERO1

Thx to all of you, credit is theirs I do not speak one word of Japanese

.... and enjoy...

i guess that now we know is not charlotte. :)

i'm glad to see they're finally making a third DS installment, from the article that was posted it seems like they may go back to the old art style instead of the anime style, i'll looks foward to that ^_^GhostRider_EF4

indeed... indeed... :D:D the art looks amazing... Woo HOO kojima (assuming is his works, it looks like it)

The screens has being "analized" and zoom in at this nintendodic.com

here the link..

they mention the translated title, a date of when the screen where taken (honestely I do not see that) and give an zoom in image so we can see "Wii" option....

Enjoy..

Does anyone but me think this game looks crappy as of now? O=

The title screen has no sense of depth; the moon looks like a cardboard cutout hanging over the castle, a searchlight, or the bat signal. The lead character's hair is black in the portrait, but brown on her sprite, and that giant enemy crab is TACKY. ==b

Also, this started over at the Portrait of Ruin boards on GameFAQs/Spot, and the person who posted them has since had his account banned. He also said he was part of Konami's English localization team, and I recall hearing he was fired shortly after for leaking the info. O=

Fake until officially announced. :/

EDIT: Now I'm certain this is a fake, especially with this... ==b

Does anyone but me think this game looks crappy as of now? O=

The title screen has no sense of depth; the moon looks like a cardboard cutout hanging over the castle, a searchlight, or the bat signal. The lead character's hair is black in the portrait, but brown on her sprite, and that giant enemy crab is TACKY. ==b

Fake until officially announced. :/CyberDragon10K

I notice those as well, especially bc the enemy looks a LOT like (forgot its name) from PoR. But then again is a common thing to see enemies "recycle" in CV games. The thing that bothers me here is that it looks like it was PSed, thus it most be a freaking great job.

I still think they are real, thus.

Also some point about what you posted:

Where did you found that one?? it is not from the screens posted by "the konami employee" those are dated 07.12.25 and are different.. :? any link?? As Gregg said the places can be reclycle as well, thus they tend to change details. Could it be that now fakes would start to flow?? It would not be the 1st time.

Also the female character do not seem to be teh main one. According to translation (above) she seems to be a supportive one, talking ("guiding") the main character (male character in front, who to me looks a lot like jonnathan - as I stated here. This makes you wonder again)

Hmmmmm..

there is nothing but to wait.... :roll:

my guess is that the pics are real... though the finished product will probably be considerably different from what were seeing now. i agree it doesnt look that great, and a lot of the stuff, like the HP/MP bars and backgrounds seem to be from POR, but these ARE supposedly in-development screens. key word: in-development

at any rate its hard for me not to be excited. i go nuts for any CV on the GBA or DS, and this concept looks pretty cool. its got the ayami kojima art, which i gladly welcome back with open arms. and the lead character (maybe?) is a girl, which i would really like.

@Conver: *stick tongue out in an cartoonish/animish way*

Am i the only one here who liked the anime-style castlevania art better? =(D3j1k0

maybe.... Do not get me wrong the anime stile looks good... But the gothic, is THE CV way to go... :oops:

btw: how in the name of heaven were you able to type stile with a "y" :shock: you have hack the GS system :lol: :P

@Conver: *stick tongue out in an cartoonish/animish way*

[QUOTE="D3j1k0"]Am i the only one here who liked the anime-style castlevania art better? =(chang_1910

maybe.... Do not get me wrong the anime stile looks good... But the gothic, is THE CV way to go... :oops:

btw: how in the name of heaven were you able to type stile with a "y" :shock: you have hack the GS system :lol: :P

does this mean gamespot has no style?

EDIT: nope... For a while GS had a glitch that make it not possible to write "style", you had to write either sty.le or stile or.. you get the point. But it seems that the glitch was fix, above I did not know it had being fixed. That said... OMG maybe it was not possible at the time bc GS had lost its "style" for a while. :lol: :lol: :P edited by chang.

I think they are real, but I am not going crazy until Iga says so :)OmegaAce1313

yea... I`m starting to do the same... I mean we know there is one game comming, but I do not think (believe) is that well into develope.

EDIT:

Now... more updates:

IGN did there usual Rumor alert

"While we're the first to question the validity of "leaked" shots in this day and age of photoshopping teenagers with nothing better to do, there's something about the shots that screams "not fake.""

"They were at least valid enough for us to contact Konami directly for its take on the subject Naturally, we got the expected "Konami doesn't comment on rumor or speculation" statement, but when it's not a flat-out denial you know there might be something there. Officially, though, Konami's holding strong with a "no comment."

If they are real – and we're not saying they are, officially, anyway – the screenshots reveal..."

".............Right now, it's all unconfirmed, and as far as everyone should be concerned, these screens aren't officially sanctioned by Konami. Until we hear from the company, take this all as pure rumor and speculation. But certainly get excited for the next Castlevania game"

so.... they can actually be the real thing :)

Did anyone else notice that her bottom half of her clothing looks like Nathan's?DynamicJumpIuff

OMG.. you are right.. are teh same clothes/pants... :lol:

great observation Dynamic...

@Omega: yeap...

Thanks, and please call me Dj.DynamicJumpIuff

I'm actually hoping for this to be fake.

I'd much rather have another sorrow game =D

it seems i have more CV ds games to catch up withHushRong

yeap.. :D:D:D

i still want a sequel to dawn of sorrow!!!!
HOW I YEARN FOR SUCH GAME!!!!!Aang007

:lol: OMG.. he has a real crush with teh series... he has defenetely being sux into this world... is OK do not fight it :D :twisted:

And sorry but the new DS does not seem to be related to DoS... but hey maybe it would amaze you even more :)

Dracula X was the Best, an i need PoR.

but if its a new handheld, im all go for it. i dont sit an play my console as much as my DS an PSP. its sad an i think my PS3 is contemplating murder on my handhelds

this sounds badass, i hope that it is real. and if it is then i must play it asap. i have to know who or what Dominus is. i think i'll google it.

*googles it*

oh my sweet lord, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominus_Iesus

IT MEANS JESUS!!!!!:o

Then I shall google till i find the right one!

VIVA LA LEGION! (cookie to those who get it)

Then I shall google till i find the right one!

VIVA LA LEGION! (cookie to those who get it)

xemnas_is_god

no. i speak of the battle cry for the legion of the damned. military science fiction novel by william c Dietz. wrote one of the halo books.

Wow I just saw the screens for the first time.:P

Looks pretty good, a female protagonist would be good.

Wow I just saw the screens for the first time.:P

Looks pretty good, a female protagonist would be good.

AsakuraHao2004

:P yea.. but now we kind of know that the female is a supportive character... speculations of course, but it seems that way (thx to translation posted on one of teh post above) and she seem to be talking with the main charater infront of her, a male one...

Why does the moon look like a cardboard cutout? For all we know, that could be the Bat symbol.DynamicJumpIuff

remember that those image were leak, if real (which I think they are) which means they will not have the graphics quality that Konami will release to the public :P

[QUOTE="AsakuraHao2004"]

Wow I just saw the screens for the first time.:P

Looks pretty good, a female protagonist would be good.

chang_1910

:P yea.. but now we kind of know that the female is a supportive character... speculations of course, but it seems that way (thx to translation posted on one of teh post above) and she seem to be talking with the main charater infront of her, a male one...

Really? It'd be cool for a female to take a main role if it isnt then.Well, I hope for the best in this game.