Harmony Of Despair? That Sure Sounds Like A Castlevania Game

By Spencer . April 15, 2010 . 3:11pm

Harmony Of Despair? That Sure Sounds Like A Castlevania GameKonami may be orchestrating two Castlevania games, Castlevania: Lord of Shadow and Castlevania: Harmony of Despair.

 

The second title has not been announced, but Konami trademarked Harmony of Despair in Europe. And Harmony of Despair follows the post Rondo of Blood naming formula of “something (possibly musical) of something else.”

 

Candidly speaking, this is just a guess at what Harmony of Despair could be, but the Nintendo DS seems due for another Castlevania game. Order of Ecclesia, which was also coincidentally discovered via a trademark a few months before E3, came out two years ago.


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  • MisterNiwa

    Dont get me all hyped right now~~~~ !!!!!

    I want a new NDS 2D Sidescroller!

  • http://twitter.com/Pigowmel Chris Chow

    It seems possible. There was already Harmony of Dissonance =o.
    I'm at odds with two Castlevania games that include Harmony in its subtitle.

  • http://denpanosekai.blogspot.com denpanosekai

    Damnit, the Castlevania Name Generator is offline.

  • MisterNiwa

    Aria Of Sorrow -> Dawn Of Sorrow. :I

  • http://www.xfire.com/profile/mFrog/ mFrog

    Harmonized despair…?
    …like Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor?

    Yes, I bet it'll be a Bach music & rhythm game!!
    Take that, Chopin!

  • http://www.nisamerica.com NickyD

    I didn't realize it, but you're right, Ishaan… it's been a while for one of them 2D Castlevania-types.

    Hmmm. Would be cool.

  • BOYLANmonk

    YES! IGA! The king is back!

    Castlevania: Lords of Shadow looks stupid (imo).

  • Hraesvelgr

    Hey, I might be okay with Lords of Shadow if they could prove to me that it's a Castlevania game. Where's Dracula? You can't have a Belmont with no Dracula.

  • http://superficialsubtext.com/ Elliot T.

    But at least AoS and DoS were directly related. The names were similar in part to tell you, “Hey, this is actually a sequel! That doesn't happen very often!”

    I'm pretty sure Harmony of Despair is not a sequel to Harmony of Dissonance. As it turns out, Dissonance was called Concerto of the Midnight Sun in Japan, sooo… this is an issue for the localization team, I guess.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe that’s the Alucard game that’s been hinted at!?

  • cowcow

    Didnt you hear him at the end of the trailer? He sounded sick!

    IGA himself has said he's run out of ideas lol so I'm willing to give Lords of Shadow a chance (because I'm not a weeaboo)

  • BOYLANmonk

    weeaboo. ugh! why did you have to use such a juvenile internet term? it's stupid and the people who use it are stupid. i hate it! please grow up internet!

  • cowcow

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  • Anonymous

    Probably a sequel to Harmony of Dissonance, as Dawn of Sorrow followed Aria…

  • Chow

    But they already used the word “Harmony” in a title already. It seems redundant to use it again.

  • fallen

    imo. ugh! why did you have to use such a juvenile internet term? it's stupid and the people who use it are stupid. i hate it! please grow up internet!

    seriously, who the hell “like”d that comment? his two alts?

  • BOYLANmonk

    alts? What is that?

    Also, people say “seriously” and “really” way too much in real life and online. I don't like it!

  • somacruz

    Another metroidvania maybe? oh man sounds like fucking gay Alucard Belmont aka Juste making a sequel?

    The name sounds as creative as recent Iga games -_- zzzzzz

  • MisterNiwa

    Concerto Of The Midnight Sun sounds badass. :(

    Why-o-Why didnt we get that one?

  • http://www.siliconera.com Matthew

    Well that's potentially good to hear! It's been far too long since Konami released a portable Castlevania game.

    On a side note, I remember going back to play the PSOne Castlevania game some years ago and finding how “awful” it looks when compared to the DS installments. And all that time I had been under the impression the DS games were still trying to achieve the quality of the PSOne installment…

  • BOYLANmonk

    alts? What is that?

    Also, people say “seriously” and “really” way too much in real life and online. I don't like it!

  • somacruz

    Another metroidvania maybe? oh man sounds like fucking gay Alucard Belmont aka Juste making a sequel?

    The name sounds as creative as recent Iga games -_- zzzzzz

  • MisterNiwa

    Concerto Of The Midnight Sun sounds badass. :(

    Why-o-Why didnt we get that one?

  • http://www.siliconera.com Matthew

    Well that's potentially good to hear! It's been far too long since Konami released a portable Castlevania game.

    On a side note, I remember going back to play the PSOne Castlevania game some years ago and finding how “awful” it looks when compared to the DS installments. And all that time I had been under the impression the DS games were still trying to achieve the quality of the PSOne installment…

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