Did...did they smooth over Alucard's sprite but leave the rest pixelated?
That looks like an all new Alucard sprite to me. Slimmer, a little more femmy....you know, to fit with the Twilight style of vampire.
Hot on the heals of it's absolute failure to capitalize on the music game craze, which it had firmly in the palm of its hand for, like, a decade before dropping it completely and then releasing Rock Revolution years late and in horrible form--
Konami is once again striking while the iron is hot: RPG puzzle game edition.