Less than 48 hours after the game went live, purported images and video of new content for Castlevania: Harmony of Despair have surfaced on the GameFAQs message board. This material appears to confirm a new level featuring new enemies and two additional characters including Julius Belmont.
GameFAQs user Bonovox_40 created a new topic titled “2 new characters + stage 7″ on Thursday night, posting a link to this image gallery. The images show a seventh chapter (pictured above) based on the pyramid levels from Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
In addition, the images show new selectable characters Maria Renard (above, from Rondo of Blood) and Julius Belmont (Aria of Sorrow). When I reviewed Harmony of Despair, I noted the peculiar absence of Belmonts and speculated they would be sold separately. These images would seem to suggest that theory was correct.
For those who might dismiss still images as fraudulent, Bonovox_40 uploaded two videos in a separate topic an hour later. These videos clearly show Maria in motion singing a classic Castlevania tune and using her magical bird attack.
One last interesting image suggests that all of these additions will be separate downloads and that the new chapter will only be 4 megabytes of data. A file size that small could mean that much of the new content is already sitting on users’ hard drives waiting to be unlocked. That’s likely to irk more than a few potential customers, especially given the $15 price tag of the original game.
Personally, I welcome the extras: As much as I’ve enjoyed the game so far, I’ve already seen everything it has to offer.
This post has been written by Daniel Feit on August 6, 2010 11:03 am couresy of blog.wired.com/games.
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