



Orduyan said the E3 demo from 1999 put disparaging rumors about the game to rest, but the PlayStation 2’s launch in 2000 obliterated Konami’s plans for Dreamcast games, Castlevania: Resurrection included. In a 2007 interview, Castlevania: Resurrection art director Greg Orduyan said that 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 disc in the video). (Victor Belmont, albeit in a different form, would be introduced in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. The video shows the build’s unidentified finder steering Sonia Belmont through two of the five stages, which are started from a developer’s menu.Ĭastlevania: Resurrection would have introduced a then-new protagonist, Victor Belmont, into the world of Sonia Belmont, who debuted in 1998’s Castlevania Legends for the Game Boy. It’s a 3D platformer, with a very linear approach to its levels. The prototype is a build predating E3 1999, where Castlevania: Resurrection got a closed-doors demonstration. Preservationists have been shown a video of the prototype in action, and shared it via YouTube over the weekend. A playable version of the canceled Castlevania : Resurrection for the Dreamcast has surfaced.
