Igarashi expected negative reactions to Castlevania Judgement
“When you have a franchise like this, that’s become popular in a certain type of game style and you change that so drastically, I understand the responses is going to be negative. I also felt a lot of the response was, I guess, unjustified in the sense that they based their [response] on just hearing about it or maybe seeing a couple of screen shots and making a whole assumption.” – Koji Igarashi
Mr. Igarashi has created some brilliant projects throughout his career, but after seeing some previews coming out of E3, I’m not too encouraged about his latest game, Castlevania Judgement. Igarashi has stated numerous times that he felt that Castlevania on the Wii in any other way would result in fatigue because of constant Wii remote movements; Although, turning the franchise into a fighting game – if you ask me – isn’t the best way to go about things.