Retroware Presents "The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest"

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From Programancer, the developer of Prison City and Dumpy & Bumpy, comes a brand new title: The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest! You're supposed to be the hero, but your spotlight was taken away! Rival Stan Helsing defeated Dracula first, now Simon Quest must embark on a journey of retribution to raise the Count from the dead piece-by-piece, slay him, and obtain the glory he deserves! Go on a perilous journey through the world of Transylvania.

Explore dark mansions, discover minigames, and collect different parts of Dracula to raise him from the dead…then kill him! The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest (TASQ) is a parody/homage platformer set in a dark 8-bit world. Reclaim your glory by resurrecting Dracula piece by piece and slaying the dark count yourself! Coming to Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and Epic in 2025. Stay tuned for more platform announcements. Retroware is excited to announce this new project in development with Programancer! AND, if you're itching to get your hands on playing a preview of The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest (TASQ), YOU CAN at MAGFest 2024 at the National Harbor from January 18 to 21!




Watch the announcement trailer to see gameplay, the 8-bit world, and more from The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest, an upcoming parody/homage side-scroller platformer game where you set out to resurrect and re-kill Dracula to one-up your rival.

The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest will be available on Nintendo Switch, Steam, Epic Games Stores, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4 in 2025.

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[P4-630]

the 8-bit world

Not the games I would buy...

Maybe on a handheld gaming device 2 decades ago...

 

[mechtech]

Was a great game back in the day with a great soundtrack considering the limitations of the day.

 

[KrazyT]

Was a great game back in the day with a great soundtrack considering the limitations of the day.

It was perfectible and now it's hard to play (without guide) though ... but the music !

This title seems good enough to put a $ on it !

 

[Bones]

Concerning the story/plot:
It's not like he will be the first to have done it, Helsing did beat him to the punch.

Then you have the main character un-doing what had to be done in the first place for their own personal glory - Not what a true hero would do anyway and I'm not aware of anyone getting "Glory" for being second either.

More or less (To me) a very poorly conceived story plot here, even if it's a parody of the original game.
Of course it might be fun to play but ATM game mechanics are yet to be proven one way or the other at this point so.....

It's a combo of that and other "If's" that says to me - Hard Pass.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Not the games I would buy...

Maybe on a handheld gaming device 2 decades ago...

A lot of these retro items are actually better games than the AAA trashfire that dominates gaming now.

 

[natr0n]

The game has more colors than the main character. It looks good though.

 

[bug]

The game has more colors than the main character. It looks good though.

Choice of colors is always a matter of taste. But all that puke has no contrast at all, you're going to die a lot because there's no telling what's going on on the screen.

 

[CyberCT]

Really wish the went with a 16 bit SNES version instead of an 8 bit NES version.

 

[GreiverBlade]

AH, Castelvania II, Simon's Quest was actually one of the 2 first games i got with my NES back in the days (1989, yep i was 8yrs old, tho i had already a good grasp of what's a video game and what's real and not real well, the 8bit graphics did help )... and also the game that, kinda, made me learn English, the game was in English and well, my parents could roughly translate it, hilariously the first sentence i got was : "here come the horrible night"

Spoiler: yep that one ....

now, if only a company like Retrobit would do like they did with Holy Diver (NES) and R-Type/Super R-Type (SNES), that would be better than that ... (aka: a real rerun of the cartridge, i got both, and Holy Diver in collector limited run ... although i still need to find where i did put my NES and SNES to replay them )

this, feel like a chinese copy of Mario but for CVII SQ (even the name make me feel that way )

Really wish the went with a 16 bit SNES version instead of an 8 bit NES version.

nah, the 8bit version was superior (joke) but Castelvania II Simon's Quest was a masterpiece to me (musically even more ahah)

Choice of colors is always a matter of taste. But all that puke has no contrast at all, you're going to die a lot because there's no telling what's going on on the screen.

yep the OG version look better

 

[Calenhad]

I love the old Castlevania games, so this will be interesting. I played Castlevania 1 - 3 and Super Castlevania back when they were new. But peak Castlevania is Symphony of the Night though. Give me more games like that

To bad they jumped the gun by presenting this way to early for a planned 2025 release imho.

Really wish the went with a 16 bit SNES version instead of an 8 bit NES version.

They need to leave room for a sequel. Isn't that basically what all the retro lookalikes do? And this got a proper limited 8-bit colour palette as well.

 

[Dirt Chip]

‘Potato pc games’ (aka old school arcade) are the best!

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Really wish the went with a 16 bit SNES version instead of an 8 bit NES version.

Slow your role on this one for a moment. There are lot of CV remakes that span the games from the NES, to SNES/SEGA, to PS1/GBA era and some of them even have staff from the original castlevania teams. So you can take your pick of what you want here and you can find it. Easily. Even the gameboy ones have some good spin offs.

If you want to branch out farther even games that don't openly sell them selves as Castlevania/Metroidvania games sell themselves hard on their roots to it. DeadCells is amazing and is pretty open, even if not stated it in marketing, that they straight ripped CV to the point where they teamed up to get a CV DLC for the game.