In a 2007 interview with The Castlevania Dungeon, project art director Greg Orduyan said the game was making good progress subsequent to that E3 showing, but Konami canceled the project (and every other Dreamcast game it had planned) 'the same day that Sony announced the PS2' in March of 2000. Magazine reports at the time estimated that the demo version was only 25 percent complete, so there are still plenty of glitches and rough edges in this playable version (including wonky camera controls and hit detection). The Dreamcast Junkyard provides a relatively complete playthrough of the short demo. The game as envisioned would have given players control of both Sonia Belmont, the protagonist of 1997 Game Boy title Castlevania Legends, and Victor Belmont, a descendant who wouldn't actually show up in a game until Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 in 2014. Resurrection was set to be the seventh named Castlevania title and the third in 3D, following two awkward Nintendo 64 entries. ' (Laurent adds on Twitter that the owner 'is adorable and passionate.') Let’s play Castlevania Shortly after, the seemingly one-of-a-kind demo was listed on eBay, with the owner promising to back the disc up and release the contents 'at some point.' That auction reportedly bid up to $20,000 before being taken down.įast forward to today, and Laurent has provided a full write-up and downloadable build of the demo thanks to an owner who placed 'his trust in me by entrusting me with the. Laurent said he first became aware of a working copy of the Resurrection demo earlier this month through an acquaintance who had provided the first new video evidence of the demo in action.

The long-lost demo comes to the wider world thanks to French Dreamcast preservationist Comby Laurent, who has documented a number of unreleased Dreamcast prototypes on his website. Today, you can join them, as a playable version of the Resurrection demo has been uploaded to the Internet. When the game was canceled in March of 2000, those lucky few became the only people outside of Konami to ever experience an exclusive Castlevania game on the system.

Back in 1999, journalists and industry insiders attending that year's E3 got to try an early demo version of Castlevania: Resurrection for the Sega Dreamcast.

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