Pre-Ordattu PoR & "Castlevania 20th Anniversary Box"

[Q]

Eikös jenkkimedian myynti ole EU:n sisällä peräti laitonta?

[Kultamuna Classic]

Eikös jenkkimedian myynti ole EU:n sisällä peräti laitonta?

Ehkä fyysinen myynti, muttei varmaan importtaaminen.

[Kultamuna Classic]

Jaahas, sain huorattua luottista ja pistinpä sitte itsekin varauksen eteenpäin Gamestoppiin. Tuli bonuksia tai ei.

[Kultamuna Classic]

Ton voi pre-tilata näköjään suoraan Konamiltakin: http://www.konami.com/Konami/ctl3810/cp ... astlevania

[Q]

Ei tuolta lähetetä Amerikan ulkopuolelle. Noh, jos hyvin käy niin KonamiStyleen sitten ilmaantuu...

[A-Yty]

Haluisin tuon ruoskankin jossain vaiheessa. Onkos noita Euroääliöille? 

Lyödäänkö vetoa niin tyypit joita CV ei kiinnosta pätkääkään, hamstraavat noita itselleen myydäkseen ne sitten huutokaupassa kalliimmalla?

[Kultamuna Classic]

Mun mielestä tuo paketti PITÄÄ saada tännekin.

Sama, mutta alan olemann melko skeptinen, sillä en ole ikinä kaupasta saanut/nähnyt mitään ekstraa konsolipelin sivussa, kun jonkun kämäsen bonus DVD:n jolla on 20min making of.

[A-Yty]

Ajattelin vuodattaa asiasta Konamille, mutta en oikein tiedä mihin tekstin lähettäisin. Kaiken lisäksi tuolla jossain mainitaan ettei firma "ota vastaan ehdotuksia tuotteistaan tai peleistään". Tiedä sitten mitä sillä tarkoitetaan. Siitä siis kun eurojulkaisua siirrettiin viisi kuukauttaa eikä siltikään suoda tuota juhlapakettia, vaikka aikaakin olisi kyllä.

[Kultamuna Classic]

Gamestopista tilanneille tiedoitusta, jos ei ole vielä ite huomannut katella profiiliaan yms.
(omituista sinänsä, olin ihan muistelevani pelin alunperin tulevankin juuri 05/12/06  )

Sekä ainakin oma tilaus-statukseni Anniv.Boksin kohdilla näytti "back ordered":in tilalla "usually ships in 24h", eli vois melkein säkällä veikata saavansa to boksin ite. Mut en ala nuolasemaan vielä. ;-)

[A-Yty]

Kyllä sä sen saat. Ei kai ne nyt noita evää sellasilta jotka sen tilas silloin kun paketti vielä näkyi myynnissä sivuilla? Sehän olisi huijaamista.

[Kultamuna Classic]

Kyllä sä sen saat. Ei kai ne nyt noita evää sellasilta jotka sen tilas silloin kun paketti vielä näkyi myynnissä sivuilla? Sehän olisi huijaamista.

Njoo, mut lähe nyt sellaista sitten selvittelemään, jos ei vaikka tulis. Voihan noilla olla joku kiero prioriteetti-systeemi noitten Bonuksien sendimisissä ulkomaille vrt. oman maan asiakkaat. Ainahan ne voi sanoa että loppu sittenkin, tai ettei ole kovin kosheria tilailla settiä PAL-rajojen sisälle eikä voi sendiä ts. paska tsäkä. Siis juuri näinhän Suomen pään EBgames sanoi. 

P.S. Tässä muuten Anniv.Boksin oikea sisältö (pieniä poikkeavaisuuksia luvatuissa ja *SPOILEREITA* tietty [paketin suhteen, ei PoR-pelin suhteen] ) :

I have the bonus now... we got one in at the store... and well, I grabbed it.

It's cool, not as awesome as I had hoped... but cool.

The artbook is not hard cover.
The disc comes on a flimsy paper backing with the track titles.
The box is thin, also flimsy.
The timeline is what I expected.
The stylus is what I expected.
The game case is kind of interesting, will hold DoS and PoR.

So here we go!

All wrapped up!

Unwrapped.

Close-up.

*sigh* Velcro.

Ze Guts.

Voila.

Music CD.

The stylus, the case. (I'll note that the stylus actually has CLASSIC castlevania text)

Flimsy Artbook, and a few pages of that.





The Timeline


Back of timeline/Poster


The Music CD has.

Castlevania
1- Prologue
2- Vampire Killer
3- Poison Mind
4- Bloody Tears
5- A Requiem

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
6- The Silence of the Daylight

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
7- Prelude--Epitaph--Prayer--Beginning Boss

Super Castlevania IV
8- Theme of Simon Belmont
9- Beginning

The Castlevania Adventure
10- Battle of the Holy

Castlevania Bloodlines
11- Reincarnated Soul
12- Iron Blue Intention

Dracula X: Rondo of Blood
13- Overture
14- Beginning
15- Opus 13

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
16- Dracula Castle
17- Golden Dance
18- Marble Corridor
19- Requiem of the Gods

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
20- Leon's Theme
21- Admiration Towards the Clan

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
22- Abandonded Castle
23- Endless Sorrow (extended version)

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
24- Requiem
25- Sign of Blood Pulse
26- A Vision of Dark Secrets

Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
27- Successor of Fate

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
28- Ruined Castle Corridor

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
29- Pitch Black Intrusion
30- Dracula's Tears
31- Demon Castle Pinnacle

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
32- Hail from the Past
33- Jail of Jewels
34- Behind the Gaze
35- Piercing Silence

Bonus Tracks
36- Beginning - The Legend of the Demon Castle
37- Bloody Tears


OW!~

The Timeline
(as requested by Ralph)
Since I cannot scan it... I have typed it up.

More than 300 long years...

The Belmont Clan, inheriting the burden of finding Mathias, continue to hunt down vampires. For this reason, all members of the Belmont clan are betowed with the title, Vampire Hunter.Feared for their powers, they are shunned by society. To further their troubles, each slain vampire only adds to the growing power of Dracula. The genocide of humanity begins at the hand of Count Dracula.Altered to Dracula's Existance, a secret team is sent by the Eastern Church to find and defeat him, but all attemps to suppress Dracula end in failure. Faced with no other options, the Church turns to the Vampire Hunters. The Belmont clan, to pursue and defeat Dracula.

1094 - Castlevania Lament of Innocence

The vampire, Walter Bernhard, holds a castle and controls the forest known as "Eternal Night". His fiance kidnapped by this very vampire, Leon Belmont renounces his pledge to the chruch do battle alone. However, everything was just a plot by Leon's close friend Mathias. For Leon, all that was left was the Vampire Killer whip, created from his fiance's sacrificed life force. Thus, the Belmont clan's struggle against evil begins, with Leon walking the path of the Vampire Hunter in pursuit of Mathias, now one of the vampires.

1476 - Castlevania Dracula's Curse

The genocide of humanity begins at the hand of Count Dracula. Altered to Dracula's Existance, a secret team is sent in by the Eastern Church to find and defeat him, but all attemps to suppress Dracula end in failure.  Faced with no other options, the Church turns to the Vampire Hunters. The Belmont clan, to pursue and defeat Dracula. With the hunt underway, a showdown is imminent. Mathias changes his name to Vlad Tepes and continues to live on for hundres of years. Trevor Belmont, the pirate Grant, the cleric Sypha and Alucard, the son of Dracula, join forces and succeed in overthrowing Dracula. Sypha then takes Trevor's hand in marriage, while Alucard- pained from fighting is own father- submerges into an eternal sleep.

1479 - Castlevania Curse of Darkness

Hector had given up his powers and fled Vallachia to pursue a different life prior to Dracula's death at the hand of Trevor Belmont. Now, three years after the events of Castlevania III. The power of Dracula's curse has infected all of Europe. As the continent succumbs to the pestilence, heresy and mob violence. Issac- a former friend and fellow Devil Forgemaster- suddenly appears. Believing their master's death was a result of Hector's betrayal. Issac implicates his friend's beloved in a deadly witch trial. Fueld by revenge, Hector sets off on a journey to his former home, which is now completely morphed in dark magic, to confront Issac. But at the same time, this meant that Hector had to remaster what he had given up in the past, Devil Forgery which he hated for years. And Hector will be taken back to a whirl of destiny.

1576 - Castlevania Adventure

Count Dracula, slain 100 years before, is reborn. It is here where the legend begins-- Once every 100 years, Dracula will come back to life. Christopher, in another fight with Dracula, apparently succeeds in vanquishing Dracula.... but Dracula was not destoryed, and in 15 years a dreadful tragedy will occur.

1591 - Castlevania II Belmonts Revenge

Waiting over 15 years for Christopher's son Soleiyu to turn 15 years of age, in spirit form Dracula has laid in waiting. Dracula coaxes Soleiyu to join the side of evil in a plot of revenge against the Belmont clain.

1691 - Castlevania

Count Dracula is revived by the forces of evil again, for the second time. Simon Belmont defeats Dracula once more, but in the wake of his death, is struck with a horrifying curse. With news of his victory spreading around the world, Simon is becoming the most famous Vampire Hunter in history.

1698 - Castlevania II Simon's Quest

The curse suffered 7 years earlier continues to infect and eat its way through Simon's body. According to a gypsy fortune teller, Dracula would be revived yet again once the curse reached it's peak. In order to lift the curse, SImon must gather up the fragments of Dracula's body and burn them where the castle once stood. He succesfully gathers and burns all five peices... but Dracula is reburn again through a sixth piece. Simon fights valiantly and defeats Dracula and prevents his revival.

1748 - Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance

Fifty years after Simon's battle, Juste, of the Belmont linage, must fight monsters and uphold the duty of hunting for Dracula's relics. However, his old childhood friend Lydie, is kidnapped and taken into a mysterious castle, which had suddenly risen up out of the mist... Dracula is the only supposed to reappear once every 100 years... Juste's friend, Maxim, joins him in the search for Lydie in the castle, the castle was spawned, born out of a thirst for power. Combining the three's strength, the castle vanishes back into the mist.

1792 - Castlevania Dracula X

Called back to life by the dark priest Shaft. Dracula is awakened again. Richter, burdened by destiny, sets out to find and kill Dracula and save the women kidnapped from his town, including Annet, his fiance. Richter is faced with saving all of the women on top of destroying Dracula. Once inside the castle and aided by Maria Renard, he prevails over Dracula. However, Shaft's curse seeps into his heart, left defenseless from his battle with Dracula.

1797 - Castlevania Symphony of the Night

Shaft would come to exist only as a spirit transfered and kept in a crystal ball... However, in the five years since the last battle, Shaft manages to regain power through Richter's curse. After four years, Shaft succeeds in gaining full control over Richter. Using the legendary power of Belmont, Shaft plots to reawaken Dracula. Maria sets out to find the missing Richter, only to have Castlevania rise from out of the mist showing her the way. Sensing the rise of evil, Alucard awakes from a 300 year slumber. Thanks to Alucard, the return of Dracula is prevented. After this fall of Dracula, the Vampire Killer whip kept for so long by the Belmont clan is passed on to the Morris clan. The real motive behind this is not clear, and Richter becomes known as the last Belmont... but in reality the whip eventually does make its way back to the Belmonts...

1830 - Castlevania Circle of the Moon

1844 - Castlevania Legacy of Darkness

1852 - Castlevania 64

1897 - Belmont descendant, Quincy Morris, keeps Dracula at Bay.

1917 - Castlevania Bloodlines

Enter the legendary, 16th century vampire, Elizabteh Bartley, known also as Dracula's niece. With a sacrificial war necessary to bring Dracula back to life, the outbreak of World War I occurs. Quincy Morris' son John, and John's friend, Eric, vow to take up the fight against evil. Note from the developer: A secret to explain the reason why a 16th century vampire somehow show sup in the 20th century is now being planned.

1944 - Castlevania Portrait of Ruin

The world is in chaos. The second world war has claimed millions of lives, leveled cities, destoryed nations. The souls of the war's dead blanket the planet, lost, hur, and angry. Their anguish summons an accursed castle of legend. It had appeared many times throughout history, bringing with it evil and darkness. The castle of Dracula, the lord of evil. It arrives in man's darkest hour, to push us over the brink, into ruin.

1999 - On August 11th (July 1 on the old japanese calendar), a total solar eclipse appears over Eastern Europe. Ity was predicted by Nostradamus the Great Lord of Terror would escend upon the earth on that day. The Belmont Clan, and Alucard all confirm it is indeed the coming revival of Dracula himself. Awaiting the rebirth of Dracula, in japan they find the magic which can even control gods using the power of a solor eclipse... and prepare to take on the Count. It is Julius, the heir to the Belmont clan, who takes up the Vampire Killer to face Dracula's power. Then, by the secret arts of the clan, Dracula is trapped and confined within the darkness of the eclipse. It is this which ultimatedly seals Dracula's fate by destoying him and eternally ending his regeneration cycle.

2035 - Castlevania Aria of Sorrow

It is prophesized that the supposedly perished Dracula will return again. Then it happened in Japan in 2035 on the night of a total solar eclipse... high school students Soma Cruz and Mina Hakuba are beckoned toward the supposedly vanquished Castlevania. When Soma awakes, he finds himself within the confines of the castle. To escape from the castle, Genya Arikado guides Soma to the throne room. There to greet them in the throne room is the shock that Soma himself is Dracula. To free himself from the chaotic power of Dracula, Soma must battle the chaos within himself. Finally liberated from his Chaotic powers, he is freed from his demonic destiny.

2036 - Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow

Taking place a year after Aria of Sorrow, the game's protagonist --Soma Cruz-- finds himself at the center of a mysterious cult's plan to resurrect their evil lord and master Dracula. In order to save himself and protect the lives of those he loves, Soma must infiltrate the enemy's home base, a towering replica of Dracula's castle that is teaming with monstrous creatures.

[Peklo]

Tuo taidekirja on kyllä aika seksikäs.

Soundtrack on ihan hyvää tasoa, varsinkin kun ottaa huomioon että sehän on "pelkkä" kylkiäinen. Tosin kappalevalinnat ovat melko yllätyksettömiä. Eikä siinä edes ole yhtään biisiä Belmont's Revengestä, joka on sarjan musiikillisia huippuhetkiä omasta mielestäni. 

[Kultamuna Classic]

Tarkoittaako tuo aikajana nyt sitä, että Legends on tällä hetkellä ainoa epävirallinen CV? Vai oliko nuo N64-pelit ja CotM lisätty siihen vain periaatteen vuoksi? 

Hmmmm...erittäin hyvä kysymys siellä perällä! 

Veikkaisin, että CV64/LoD & CotM on vain periaatteen vuoksi, mutta ken tietää varmaksi!?  Pitääkin oikein kysellä tuolta Lontoon päästä oikein. 

[A-Yty]

Aikanaan Tyrmässä(?) oli puhetta, että jonkun haastattelun mukaan tekijät tarkoittivat alun perinkin N64:n vaniat ja CotM:in epävirallisiksi sivutarinoiksi. Legends taasen yritti olla viralinen alkuosa ilman kaikkien tahojen suostumusta (?).

P.S. Ajattelin siirtää nämä aikajanaa käsittelevät jutut Aikajanarihmastoon heti kun saadaan hyvä skannaus tuosta julisteesta. Jos tästä on vielä nyt puhetta, niin jatketaan täällä :

http://foorumi.linnavaanijat.com/index.php?topic=137.0

[Maria]

Itse luin jostain että Gamestopin ainakaan ei aoi jaella noita bonuksia ennenkuin peli lähetetään, eli toivoa sopii.

Kivalta näyttää sisältö, nyt kun vaan sais ton. Ton julisteen voisi ainakin laittaa seinällä jonnekin muittan Cassuvaanijajulisteiden seuraksi.