I just played through Lords of Shadow 2 from the beginning up to the point where you get the Chaos Claws, and I can’t find anything that talks about Chaos (the entity, not the power).
No offense intended, but that is, by far, the weakest justification for any character’s stat tier that I’ve seen in this community, ever. “This character was resurrected in a similar way to this character, who exists in a completely different timeline, which means that their powers must be connected.”
Did you read the blog ?
An interview quote regarding the canonicity of Lords of Shadow relative to the primary timeline: "Is this game a full reboot, disregarding the series storyline and characters completely, or would you still consider games like Cv1/4,2, and 3 (or any other game) part of the same continuity?
You're still making the assumption that Chaos, as an entity, exists in the Lords of Shadow canon. Really, between Satan taking the role of the primary enemy of God, and Inner Dracula taking the role of Dracula's power personified, Chaos has no reason to exist in this canon.
Alright, I'm done playing games and searching for this hidden piece of information that completely disproves my argument. You're the one who made the blog, so why don't you find it instead, since I'm obviously so blind and incompetent?
What is scaled is general Chaos stuff.
1. That statement seems extremely iffy. Between what might have been lost in translation and the fact that another statement of significantly greater detail directly contradicts this one, I don't think I can buy this.
Literally all non canon games are in the same multiverse. Lords of shadow not being part of the main canon means Jack shit. Also you have yet to refute the point about the chaos claws stemming from the castle, an aspect of chaos that’s been a thing in all of the games, canon or otherwise.
I read the blog and looked over all of the references and explanations for "Chaos" but I do not see any indication that it runs throughout the multiverse or that it's the same source for all creatures of chaos in different universes. Given that the sole reference in the blog to a connected multiverse is a statement from the animated shows showrunner who didn't work on any of the games, I suspect there likely isn't any reference that describes Chaos in such a manner, in which case, we can't assume that chaos is identical between universes (if we can even confirm it's existence in the LoS universe). The same way that various parallel versions of Marvel characters aren't necessarily identical in power.
I'm in the same position as you. I want to understand where this comes from, but I just can't.
Well, it sounds as though LoS doesn't really describe Dracula using that word, but we also can't assume that it scales between the different universes. For instance, does power of the Infinity Stones is different between the MCU and Marvel Comics.
This statement from Igarashi in the blog post appears to contradict that:
Yes, he's literally descended from dragons
Right, but consider the various versions of Trigon in DC comics. They all have a lot in common, but they aren't all the same level of powerful. A lot can change in alternate universes, and authors will shift power levels to accommodate the story they want to write.
From what Igarashi says, it seems like he isn't non-canon in that game because the game itself is "an event from another world which does not consider things like timelines or parallel dimensions at all." but I get the impression that LoS characters aren't present in it, and I don't think it would justify the assumption that all Dracula's scale through "chaos" any more than all versions of the Green Lantern would scale to each other since they're all powered by the same thing, right?
1. I never said it didn't. We were discussing Gabriel and his dragon form if you recall.
I did read them, but it's not clear to me which things are the "base chaos stuff" as I didn't see any obvious crossover references. Which ones crossover and why?
1. I'm not going to dignify this one with a response, clearly you just like being an ass.
which comes directly from the developers of the game and makes direct reference to Kojima himself, saying that he personally put together the Lords of Shadow canon.
Well if an LoS character has an ability they never are actually shown to have in their game due to this scaling, it should likely be removed as it is not a sound assumption.
I'm not sure this is about Adi Shankar? His name isn't mentioned in it and nothing else I can find online about Adi Shankar shows any indication of him working on the games, being referred to as an employee of Konami, or being a video game producer in any capacity.
I'll admit, I wasn't aware of that. However, that's still one (with little to no involvement in the development of the Lords of Shadow series) saying "yes" while two (who literally made the story) say "no". Only seems sensible to me to go with majority rules.
Hold on a second. In this scan it says "Special Castlevania Discussion 1." This new link is "Special Castlevania Discussion 2" and his bio is completely different, this one only references him as the executive producer of the Netflix series and doesn't say anything about him being involved with video games.
Maybe if you didn't make a blog the size of the goddamn Declaration of Independence, people would read the blog. You can't sit me down in front of a 3000+ word blog and expect me not to skim for the important stuff.
Right, it's not about who is being interviewed, it is who is conducting the interview. Who is asking Michiru these questions? The series producer, who is not Adi Shankar.
Dude, you aren't listening to me. Konami has many branches and divisions. Konami Digital Entertainment Co. Ltd is specifically the Japanese division. He has no reason to be a producer at the Japanese division. Can you find literally any source referring to Adi as a video game producer? I looked, I found nothing. He's not named in this blurb, he is introduced later on with a different title. It's not referring to Adi. But I'm more than happy to change my mind if you can find something that actually refers to Adi this way, because if what you're saying is true, surely the sole source for this wouldn't be a 2019 guidebook that mentions some unnamed person as the series producer. But I suspect you won't, because bottom to top this premise doesn't make sense.
That doesn't make it a connected multiverse.
