According to Dreamcast conservationists, the building comes before E3 1999 and contains five 3D environments and a boss fight. You can read more about the game on Unseen64, which explains how it was canceled due to ‘disagreements between the Japanese and American Konami teams’. It would have taken place in 1666 and Sonia Belmont (of Castlevania Legends) met the new character Victor Belmont (who would later appear in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2).
The anonymous owner starts the game from a disc titled “Sega Confidential”, dated 1999, and reads ‘Castlevania Resurrection’ in the handwritten text. The owner then displays a number of levels from a “select section” developer menu, including Logo, title, courtyard, stairs, hall, hallway and chapel.
Movement appears intact as ghostly figures follow Sonia around a lava pit and a ghostly chapel. If legal, it’s a fascinating look at a promising game that was never made, an all too common story in the game industry. IGN even wrote about the game before it was canceled, played an early version and rated early images.
“Unlike the somewhat flimsy interface of the N64 version,” IGN wrote, “this game seems to need to bring back the visual flair that prevailed earlier in the series with a variety of creepy villains and a moody light atmosphere that is whimsical because it is breathtaking. ‘
While Victor Belmont finally made his debut in 2014 in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, it was also the last time we saw a new episode in the series. Konami has since been reluctant to develop new console games for its classic franchises – but despite some rumors, it has not closed its gaming division.
.
Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.