Only series that comes to mind at the moment is Sparkster. Why not?
We had that back in 2010.
it should have stayed dead
that's not how you do a remake. I'd say worse than the more recent battle toads wich wasn't that hot either.
still in terms of castlevania I'd say ritual of the night is the succesor for both metroidvania and the 2d action genre. with some pretty solid releases. It's not like even the OG castlevania always had the same cast among them games. Looking at bloodlines, or portrait of ruin to name some examples no belmonts at all.
The original creators are with this series after all so castlevania ain;t dead imo, sticking with the official castlevania IP with konami is just asking for mobile gacha games I don't see a revival anytime soon. why stay with a dead corpse, the good castlevania creators have already left konami. suikoden aswell, kojima with metal gear moved out of konami aswell literally making games on his own.
Seriously what's actually left of konami, not to mention that even in the golden era's konami had employees that where leaving the company left and right. making companies such as treasure with some of the best games or creating hidden gems such as 10.000 bullets on the ps2.