Williams and the rest of Santa Monica Studio are currently riding the highs of God of War: Ragnarok after it set the second-highest critic score of the year and outsold all but FIFA 23 in its first week on the market (at least, in the United Kingdom). Unfortunately, Ragnarok put a definitive end to Kratos’ journey. This is probably why he’s set his eyes on a different franchise, albeit one that isn’t necessarily original. Williams recently joined Kinda Funny Games Spoilercast where he said: Williams has spent the majority of his career in the video game industry with Santa Monica Studio. He once told LA Times that he’d received offers from other companies before, only to refuse them because he doesn’t mind being known as the “God of War guy”. But, after proving himself with God of War: Ragnarok, we don’t think Sony will mind throwing him a bone and calling up Konami to see if it’s open to licensing Castlevania for a game or two to Sony. The last we heard, Konami was working on new installments of its classic franchises, which includes Castlevania. However, we’ve heard zero credible info about new titles in the action-adventure video game series, which implies that a portion of the earlier rumors wasn’t true. When you consider that Konami outsourced the Silent Hill 2 remake and Silent Hill F, among others, to other studios, what’s stopping them from doing the same to Castlevania? The worst that can happen is for Santa Monica Studio to work its usual magic and make a new Castlevania game that feels awfully similar to God of War albeit, this time, it’d be better since it’s them making it and not a different studio. If nothing else, what Santa Monica Studio did with the last two God of War games is a good example of what MercurySteam and Konami wanted to achieve with the pair of Lords of Shadow games but ultimately failed to do. Only time will tell if Konami and Sony will listen to Williams’ pleas. Until then, fans can look forward to the premiere of Castlevania: Nocturne on Netflix sometime in the future.
