Konami should hire From Software to make a new Castlevania

A reader suggests that the best way for Konami to revive the Castlevania franchise is to use Dark Souls creator From Software.

So I guess there are a lot of people at Konami now, desperately hoping that fans still care about Silent Hill, eh? I still can’t quite believe that they’ve announced so many new games for a franchise that has never been a big seller, and all because someone wants to make a new film out of it? Or at least that’s the impression I get, of why they’ve suddenly decided to do all this.

Perhaps there’s more to it though, because the huge success and multiple series of Castlevania on Netflix certainly don’t rouse them to do anything new with that, considering we haven’t had a proper new entry since 2014. Admittedly, it’s still never been that big, at least not since the 16-bit era, but at least ordinary gamers have heard of it and the whole Metroidvania genre is bigger than ever right now.

I’m willing to bet not many casual gamers had heard of Metroid either, certainly not outside of the Metroid Prime games, and yet Metroid Dread was a big hit, both critically and commercially. I believe a big budget Castlevania could be as well, even though it’s a difficult genre to make work in 3D.

Batman: Arkham Asylum is still the best example, if you ask me, but unfortunately developer Rocksteady is owned by Warner Bros. (although some of their top people did recently leave to make their own company).