Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD Edition could happen

The Big Cheese.

The 3DS is home to quite a library of amazing games. They range from the usual first-party Nintendo hits, to exclusive third party ones. One such game that falls in the latter camp is Resident Evil Revelations, a portable entry in the beloved series that rivals some of its console siblings. Well, that game’s getting the HD treatment, set to hit home consoles and PC on May 21st.

Now we go from one beloved series to another.

It’s been quite a while since Order of Ecclesia on the Nintendo DS, but the Castlevania franchise will finally spawn a new handheld-exclusive entry on March 5th with the release of Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate. But guess what? It seems the trend of bringing over initially exclusive handheld games to home consoles might be applying to Konami’s historic vampire-hunting franchise as well.

Speaking with CVG in London, Konami’s very own Dave Cox revealed that the publisher would “absolutely consider” an HD version of the upcoming 3DS exclusive for current home consoles. And it wouldn’t take too much time porting it over, since HD assets for the game already exist and are “sitting in a computer somewhere” at MercurySteam. That’s because the Spain-based developer actually built the game, the second part of their Castlevania trilogy, as an HD title, going on to shrink it into the 3DS.

I know I’ll definitely be purchasing a potential HD version of the game. My anticipation level for Mirror of Fate is through the roof right now and the thought of playing an HD side-scrolling ‘vania on a home console is just way too exciting. Stay tuned for more Castlevania coverage!

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  • Rayek

    I hope this comes true. Not planning to buy a 3DS and it would be stupid and a shame to not be able to play the second entry of one of the best games i ever played this generation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-Taylor-Smith/809316561 Brandon Taylor Smith

    The ones on the PS2 were super underrated and a lot of fun, I’d like to see HD ports of those! Of course, that probably wont happen.

    • luigiix

      Ya i agree, I love those games, definetly two of my favorites Castlevanias, but to be honest i’d rather keep playing them on PS2 than getting a dumbed down version like the Silent Hill HD collection, i mean this is Konami after all… But like you said, it’s probably not going to happen.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Henri-Lähteenkorva/100001213496243 Henri Lähteenkorva

      If they actually did that, I’d buy them in an instant.

  • luigiix

    This would be great news for me, since i don’t own a 3ds, and honestly i don’t think that will change anytime soon (need to save for Wii U).

  • Henrikm

    Yeah I skipped both Revelation and planned to skip this one out aswell as I dont own a 3ds and sadly miss out on one of the best Castlevania entrys,if news are true it sounds great