Replay Value / Ongoing Gameplay

Here's my worry honestly. I feel like they put so much focus on extra modes that the main game will suffer. All i honestly care about is a fantastic single player story. I want the environments to be incredible, i want tons of secrets, tons of easter eggs, i want a lot of cool things to find and do. Tons of enemies bosses. many unique weapons...visual changing equipment ( like capes or maybe shields)...etc.

I feel all this focus on extra modes hinders the work they could do on the main game. For instance....

Lets say it costs a lot of money for transformations or visual changes when equipping items. Maybe if they didn't have so many modes they could implement them into the main game but because they have so much focus to spread over so many things i feel like the main game takes a hit.

This is just a real concern for me. Maybe they did do all those things in the main game, maybe they manage to do ALL OF THIS without anything being effected but that just seems mind blowing and hard for me to wrap my head around.


someone ease my worries.

I made it clear that I am probably thinking too into it. It's just a concern of mine because it honestly is a lot of modes. I want the main campaign to get majority focus and I feel so many modes takes some focus away. The fluff imo is features that help make the main game herree. Thinks they could focus on cuz even iga said most fans just look for a good single player experience.

Either way it's merely a xoncern. The game seems to be in the right hands so I'm excited

Those generated dungeons can hold pretty much of the replaying value IMO.
But TBH, a good game really lives on. People replay SotN like thousands of times, and they keep trying to dig things out of it.
A conclusion in storyline doesn't mean the whole game is over.

I'm really looking forward to the roguelike mode, and yeah, I also can't help but wonder what it will look like. It's still quite vague, and the nature and quality of it is still up in the air.

However I've seen many many people express that they think the 'secret' as to what makes castlevania good is tons of fluff and easter eggs. Frankly I find this ridiculous. so some boots made you 1 pixel taller... WTF is that so good? Does anyone ever wear those and enjoy the game more because of it? No, it's like "oh, it makes you 1 pixel taller? cool story bro", and proceed to use whatever they were using before. I liked the little touches that would add atmosphere, because atmosphere is a tangeble thing that you can see and appreciate. Like the confession booth in the chapel. But useless boots that nobody uses or even notices their function?

I think the staff will be experienced enough to know that these things don't make a castlevania game good, so I'm not really worried that dozens of people expressing what I think to be a frankly outlandish opinion as to what makes it good will somehow make them ruin the game or anything, but whatever. Now the too many game modes might sacrifice some of the quality of the base game mode opinion, that's possible. But I kinda doubt it. Boss rush mode is easy to impliment, and it is something that many CV games have anyway. Roguelike mode is indeed fairly odd and new, but assuming it is of decent quality, it will make the game's play length skyrocket. Not to mention artists and designers don't really have to waste time designing randomized content =P. It'll be more of a scripter/programmer thing, which people dislike to be lacking, but at least that's something that is often fixed after released. Lack of art quality and design and such often are set in stone after release.

Boss revenge mode. Frankly I think that sounds more like a gimmick than an actual mode myself. I think it'll be fun to experiment with once or twice but then lose appeal, I could be wrong t hough. Async multiplayer coop thing...another thing that's not really specific, we can't say what it will be, but again, I can't imagine it will demand the time and efforts of the art/music/level design staff.

Did I forget any other modes?
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Distinctly different playstyles and techniques, special challenges (like Punch-out Wii, wherein you defeat opponents within time limits or letting them knock you out) which could unlock some bonuses like codes, changeable difficulties ... Boss Revenge mode can have as much going for it as the others.

Such as when he said he may incorporate certain days having better chances for certain things to happen?

It never occured to me that you might be able to play as the bosses via boss revenge mode in the roguelike mode...that would actually be a really great addition to add replay value to an already high replay value mode (unless the roguelike mode just kinda stunk for whatever reason)

Not exactly what I meant, but that works too! I meant that there may be bosses that are specifically in other modes only that must be beaten in order to use in Revenge mode. Granted procedurally generated levels could have an added flair mixed with boss revenge. Only time will tell though, until then I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to keep from having unrealistically high expectations...albeit with high hopes and great trust in the team to make a new memorable game that will stand the tests of time!

I think the dungeon mode will give plenty of replayability, theres also the classic mode and the Boss revenge mode, so Im not worried.