A playable version of the canceled Castlevania: Resurrection because the Dreamcast turned up. Custodians showed a video of the prototype in action and shared it via YouTube over the weekend.
The prototype is a building that precedes the E3 1999, where Castlevania: Resurrection got a closed door demonstration. It is a 3D platform with a very linear approach to its levels. The video shows the unknown finder of the building sending Sonia Belmont through two of the five phases, starting from a developer’s menu.
Castlevania: Resurrection would introduce a new protagonist, Victor Belmont, into the world of Sonia Belmont, which began in 1998 Castlevania Legends for the Game Boy. (Victor Belmont, although in a different form, will be launched in 2005 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2.)
In a 2007 interview, Castlevania: Resurrection art director Greg Orduyan said the game was sabotaged internally 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). Orduyan said the 1999 E3 demo calmed down rumors about the game, but the launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2000 wiped out Konami’s plans for Dreamcast games. Castlevania: Resurrection included.
The last original game in the Castlevania line was Lords of Shadow 2, launched in 2014 for PlayStation 3, Windows PC and Xbox 360. A year later, Konami began a virtual wholesale of the current development of console games, starting with the cancellation of Silent hills and the departure of longtime designer Hideo Kojima at the end of 2015.