Dave Cox, the Producer on the upcoming Castlevania game, has begun dev diary blogs over at the Konami website. In the first installment he tells us that the story for this game is completely unconnected to those of previous games in the Castlevania series.

He also mentioned that they "have reimagined the world of Castlevania and designed it in a new modern, gritty realistic way whilst remaining as true as we can to the original concepts."

Bringing the game up to date for modern audiences is a priority in the game’s design and so they took a look back all the way to the beginning, 1986. Along the way they’ve picked up some help from Kojima Productions and Mercury Steam in Spain.

You can read Dave Cox’s full blog entry here.