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A playable version of the canceled Castlevania: Resurrection because the Dreamcast has surfaced. Curators saw a video of the prototype in action and shared it via YouTube over the weekend.
The prototype is a pre-E3 1999 build, where Castlevania: Resurrection had a closed-door demonstration. It’s a 3D platform game, with a very linear approach to its levels. The video shows the unidentified construction researcher guiding Sonia Belmont through two of the five stages, which are started from a developer’s menu.
Castlevania: Resurrection reportedly introduced a new protagonist at the time, Victor Belmont, into the world of Sonia Belmont, who made her debut in 1998 Legends of Castlevania for the Game Boy. (Victor Belmont, although in a different form, would be introduced in Castlevania: Shadow Lords 2.)
In an interview in 2007, Castlevania: Resurrection Artistic director Greg Orduyan said the game was internally sabotaged by “some people within Konami who had their own agenda.” Castlevania: Resurrection would have been the first Castlevania game developed by Konami of America (whose name appears on the developer’s disc in the video). Orduyan said the 1999 E3 demo put an end to derogatory rumors about the game, but the launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2000 dashed Konami’s plans for the Dreamcast games, Castlevania: Resurrection included.
The last original game in the Castlevania line was Shadow Lords 2, which was released in 2014 for PlayStation 3, Windows PC, and Xbox 360. A year later, Konami began a near-total retreat from current console game development, starting with the cancellation of Silent Hills and the departure of longtime designer Hideo Kojima at the end of 2015.
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