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mario5555
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The character designer's name is Ayame (sp?) Kojima (no relation to Hideo from MGS fame, that I know of) and he is actually a woman...just so you know.I like this designer (you can find his artwork in other games like Soldner Schild, a tactics + rpg) but look carefully at all the men. They have the same face, he changes the hair, the costume but they all have same eyes, noise and mouth. One of them looks like vlad teppes effectively.
And Producer Iga said of her that as long as she wants the job he wants her to be the character designer for the forseeable future so you might as well get used to it.
Plus I think it's nice having a consistency with designs like the FF series with Tetsuo Norima (sp?) and Yoshitaka Amano.
EDIT: Oh and to the person who wanted to see a castlevania in an oriental setting unless they do a sidestory game like (Castlevania:Bloodlines for Genesis/Megadrive which took place in Europe not just Transylvania like the others) don't count on one taking place mainly there unless it starts there and ends up at Drac's door step, nice idea but it probably won't ever happen.
Later.