Castlevania AOS Genya Arikado Hack

- Update -


Well here is a bit of news/updates concerning this hack, as of a few days ago I finally got the remaining sprites from Julian and replaced 95% of Soma's sprites with them and thus the hack is nearing completion.

One obstacle I ran into is that weirdly enough Aria of Sorrow for some odd reason separates all the weapon animations/sprites separately from Soma, the only weapons that are a part of soma's basic sprites and animation or the regular and short swords, all the other weapons have to be edited manually be me to match Genya Arikado since the arm itself is attatched to each individual weapon which is a pain lol.

Like say for instance your using a gun or whatever and when you use it soma's old arm is going to pop up simply because its a part of the gun sprites and thus has no bearing on replacing all of Soma's sprites.

Anyways, while editing these weapons I decided to edit the Ronginus spear to give it some characteristics from the Alucard Spear, here are some images with filter and without filter,






I'll be releasing a video of his hack in motion really soon, once that happens that means the hack itself will be released within a day or 2 after the video's release so stay tuned.

This isn't directly related, but Alucard's alias is actually pretty clever. Arikado is how a Japanese person would pronounce Alucard.

Thanks for the comments guys!

- Update -

Well here is another bit of news, I decided to mess around with Soma's transformation powerup and thought it would be a good idea if it appeared as if Arikado was tapping into his original vampire side (Alucard) to transform and thus I changed his hair white and gave him a more sinister red aura, have a look.

^I've always wondered how Alucard would play if he was given the option to transform into his gargoyle-like true form at will.

(Though it does seem to be something that Alucard would actively purposely avoid.)

- UPDATE -


Ok here are the final images I will be posting, after this I will release a gameplay video either later on today or tomorrow and then the hack will be released, these new changes are I changed the Final Guard soul to Alucard Shield, I changed the imp soul to the Devil Familiar, and I changed the Balmung weapon to the fully Leveled Sword Familiar, here are the images and enjoy.






And here are images without the filter

Ooh, I wonder if the Julius fight will have similar dialogue to the Maria fight in the Dracula X Chronicles PSP port of SotN?

Hi, I'm Ken.

Please forgive my bad english (my
Mother tongue is chinese)

Few days ago I play your hack found some mistake(walking actions deviate), another else some
image wasn't perfect.

After that I try my best to correct these mistake and add some element of SOTN(item Image etc.).

Are you have other contact method? we can discuss about this hack.

I will reply your youtube viedo, you can contact me there.

Thank you very much.

This hack looks really neat. I haven't played Aria in a really long time, but this would be a fun way to go through it again.