Capcom’s “Castle 4 Remastered” released in 2024 allows fans of the series to relive this classic work launched in 2005 with a more modern play style and picture quality. But at the same time, the PC version of this game has also developed a huge modding community, such as changing Leon to John Wick, etc. Recently, a latest mod has introduced unexpected new gameplay to the game.
When “Castle of Evil 5” and “Castle of Evil 6” were launched in 2009 and 2012, Capcom introduced a rich multiplayer cooperation system into the game, allowing players to complete the game with a friend. But in subsequent works, this style of play seems to have been abandoned by Capcom, and it has returned to a design that focuses more on the single-player experience. However, a new player-made mod turns Castle Evil 4 Remake into a two-player cooperative game.
Modder claybtv recently Nexus Mod This new set of modules called “The Castle of Evil 4 Remastered Multiplayer Edition” was released on the website, allowing two players who own the PC version of “The Castle of Evil 4 Remastered” to cooperate online and challenge the game’s story campaign together. Not only that, co-op players can also choose the appearance of their characters, whether it’s Wiskar, Ashley, or even choose to have two Leon appear at the same time. In this cooperative mode, all enemies, events, and mechanisms seen by the two players in the game will be synchronized, just like in “Castle of Evil 5” and “Castle of Evil 6”.
However, it is worth noting that this module is still in the beta testing stage. Therefore, players may encounter some large and small problems during the experience, especially delays or lags in the enemy action module. The water level where you fight the boss “Lord of the Lake” also has very serious bug problems at this stage. In addition, two “Evil Castle 4 Remastered” players must arrive at the same location before they can synchronize the connection after installing the module. When one player opens the item bar, the other player’s game will also be paused. Even so, enabling players to play Castlevania 4 Remastered with friends is an impressive achievement in itself.
Back to “Castle of Evil” itself, Capcom officially launched the latest sequel to the series “Castle of Evil: Requiem” earlier this year, and just after this game achieved extremely impressive results in both reviews and sales, the company also At the Summer Game Festival at the beginning of the month, the remake of the next new game “Castle of Evil: The Code” was officially announced, and other news hinted that they are also planning remakes of “Castle of Evil 0” and the original “Castle of Evil” simultaneously.
Source: KOCPC Chinese