Battling the Toy Maker in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
From IGN.com: When Lords of Shadow 2 launches in late February, what MercurySteam hopes gamers notice is how much their take on Castlevania has been expanded, fleshed-out, and more fully realized. But there’s a specific section of the game that Konami wanted to focus on when talking with IGN, and that section has to do with a mysterious foe known only as the Toy Maker.
“The Toy Maker is a character who was trained under Rinaldo Gandolfi, who forged the Combat Cross which Gabriel used in the original game,” Lords of Shadow 2’s Producer Dave Cox explained. “Gandolfi was an esteemed member of the Brotherhood of Light, and the Toy Maker was his best and brightest pupil. The Toy Maker was a skilled creator of gadgets, weapons, and incredible technologies used by the Brotherhood in their battles against the Lords of Shadow.”
Lords of Shadow 2 – which is a meaty game purported to be about 20 hours long – introduces players to the Toy Maker about halfway through the campaign. He’s unveiled “through a puzzle that tells the history of the character,” Cox explained. As Dracula scours the massive castle for fragments of the Mirror of Fate (an item which you may recognize from the 3DS spinoff), the Toy Maker makes himself known and conducts a terrifying assault on the player.
