Fortunately, many promising games have been canceled over the years – more seem to be returning from the dead. This year already GoldenEye 007 XBLA and Dinosaur planet leaked online, and to add to this, a pre-E3 demo of the Castlevania Resurrection has surfaced.
This title was originally announced by Konami in 1999 and was intended as a Sega Dreamcast release until it was delayed and then canceled around the year 2000. It is believed that the Dreamcast’s struggles and the success of the PlayStation 2 contributed to this.
Before it was canceled it was shown to the press and now somehow out of the blue a video of the game being played has been uploaded to YouTube entitled “Castlevania Resurrection Exists”. It appears to be an early build of the game (prior to 1999) and allowed the developer to transport the character to many different areas.
This title was apparently intended to focus on Sonia Belmont and a character named Victor Belmont, and is said to have taken place in 1666 just before Simon Belmont’s original outing.
It is not yet known if the uploader of this footage will share this pre-release build online, but if we hear anything, we’ll let you know. On a related note, last week “the absolute worst” Castlevania game added to the Arcade Archives collection on Nintendo Switch.
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