LEGO Castlevania not coming to consoles, handhelds, but it should

By Stephen Munn | April 1, 2009

So, I was thinking for a while about setting up an April Fool’s joke about a LEGO Castlevania game, and here’s how it was going to go: I was going to actually build a full 3D scene involving LEGO bricks and minifigures and everything, it was going to be epic. The only problem is, I have a life. Well, part of one. OK, I just was busy. Playing MadWorld. It’s awesome.

A deal bricked together by Konami and Traveller’s Tales will bring the popular LEGO brand treatment to my favorite video game franchise, Castlevania, this fall. As was done with the two Star Wars trilogies,  LEGO Castlevania will apparently be a walk through the first three Castlevania games, in their classic side-scrolling glory, but presented to look as though all the graphics are done with LEGO bricks and parts. The games will be offered as direct downloads via XBLA, WiiWare, PSN, and DSiWare for play on 360, PS3, PSP, Wii, and DSi. There is no mention of a DS cartridge release of the game, but I’d be surprised if they excluded so much of that console’s audience from this.

The image here is an image from a collection of game scenes redone in LEGO from a few years ago on Flickr. Check that out here.

So instead, what I’m doing is saying, why not a LEGO Castlevania? I’m sure Konami and Traveller’s Tales could get together on this one and pull something out that has the same camera problems the LEGO Star Wars games are known for, but with far poorer sales. Well, at least you and I would buy it. OK, I would.

What do you think? Would you buy LEGO Castlevania?

Source: Castlemania