Lords of Cliché

There is a new Castlevania game coming out and it looks really cool.

However...  A hero with a dead girlfriend and mask that brings people back to life (supposedly).    I can't help but feel like we've seen this before.

Not to menton that Hideo Kojima is a producer (whatever that means).  He was the man that with one hand gave us Metal Gear Solid but then with the other hand inflicted Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

The game is said to feature Alucard (Dracula spelled backwards, took me forever to realize that.  Just like it took me twenty years to figure out the pun in the Beatles name.) Dracula's son.  The news of this has me giddy as a school girl.  Alucard was in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the best Castlevania game I've ever played.

And so with great fear and trepidation I anticipate this game.  I am cautiously optimistic.  But they certainly have a long way to fall.