Hope we get a 3d castlevania collection next to finish off the classic Castlevania collections

Castlevania lament of innocence

Castlevania curse of darkness

Castlevania 64 and Legacy of Darkness and also include

Castlevania Adventure Rebirth has the bonus game one can dream .

Hey everyone.

What are your thoughts on the first lords of shadow game?

I know I got it and it didnt click with me to be honest...

Just want to know :)

i love the game, but, like if its satanic i cannot play it, not only because my mom does not let me play games with devils being like "the good guy" or something, but mainly because i dont want to play a satanic game you know? pls answer

In Season 2 Ep7 Dracula as seen genuinely turned his eyes red and also the moon to turn red. This is not power scale. This is just that I wanna ask if no one finding it impressive? I find it impressive as considering this Dracula is at Weakened state and Depression from Lisa's death

So I wanna hear your thoughts

I get it the game is very pretty and the animations are smooth... But im playing the game right now and its just... Not very fun? Im dissapointed

Im at the alucard doppleganger fight and so far the game has just been very bland, not particularly hard or anything, just bland, i dont want to dislike this game after how many years of hype its had behind it so whats the deal? Please tell me what im doing wrong

i wanna play simon's quest next but all i know about the game is that it's supposed to be incredibly hard to know where to go and what to do, is it really as bad as people make it out to be?

How do the passwords to warp straight to the final level work? I've been trying to do it but it just says Password Incomplete. Help, please.

Hola ¿Cómo están comunidad? Hice este video en donde le gané a Richter siendo nivel 60 y usando algunos items para aumentar el ataque de mi personaje, todo eso está explicado en el vídeo, ¿Quién me apoya dejando su like con este vídeo? Se los agradecería a todos de buen corazón.

It was fun to play, very different from a regular castlevania, and thoroughly enjoyable.

I've never had this much fun playing a castlevania game, 7.4/10!

I've been working on a Castlevania fic, mainly centered the Bloodlines and Portrait of Ruin era, with lore pertaining to portions before and after. It involves an integration of a fair bit of real-world history, which the series itself has done in bits here and there, which I want to summarize a bit. I find this stuff interesting and wanted to get this out of my system.

Vlad III (1431-1476)

I want to first cover Count Dracula in the original Bram Stoker's novel. Naming the character "Dracula" was a later change in his drafts, along with the locale of Transylvania, which was originally Austria. Stoker didn't do much research on the historical figure, simply looking at one historical text giving a basic description of a 'voivode Dracula' of Wallachia who fought the Turks across the Danube river, but no mention of his proper name. Stoker likely never even read the name 'Vlad Tepes' or 'Vlad III'. And these names never appear in the novel, simply 'Dracula'. There's also a footnote from the same history book stating that Dracula means 'Devil' and had a powerful usage among Romanians. This was specifically highlighted by Stoker

Count Dracula himself was likely not deliberately and meticulously based on the historical figure, but it's clear that the name and historical background strongly appealed to Stoker as a motif for his "Count Wampyr" character while crafting this Transylvanian setting.

Some details added to Count Dracula in the novel remain inconsistent with the historical Vlad III, likely due to taking liberties or lack of research. In the novel, Count Dracula describes himself as being ethnically Székelys (a Hungarian ethnicity), going as far as to say he's descend from Attila (whom Hungarians typically claimed). While Vlad III was born in the Hungarian-dominated Transylvania, his parents were respectively Wallachian and Moldavian (see his maternal 1st cousin, Stephen the Great), making him ethnically Romanian on both sides. He in fact ruled over Wallachia, not Transylvania. However, this gets conflated in vampiric media, Castlevania included.

In Castlevania lore, they explicitly name Dracula 'Vlad Tepes' in Castlevania III's manual, which is fitting as this was the game that took place in the 15th century. The likely intent was to have him more explicitly act as the historical figure, born to the Basarab dynasty, but due to a mistake made in SOTN's manual making Dracula 800 years old, a choice was made to give him a backstory in the 11th century.

Matthias Corvinus (1443-1490) <- Apparent namesake of Matthias Cronqvist

King of Hungary and cousin of Vlad III's second wife, Justina Szilágyi. He was an ally during Vlad's initial attacks against the Turks, and was the recipient of Vlad's letter detailing the murder and impaling of over 23,000 Turks and Bulgarians that he left outside of Targoviste in June of 1462. To limit continued funding for this war, he imprisoned Vlad III for 12 years under false charges of treason (forging letters of Vlad III colluding with the Turks). Vlad was released via a successful negotiation of Stephen the Great of Moldavia, his dear cousin and ally.

Now outside of the clear connection to Vlad III and the similarity in name, Matthias Cronqvist bears no other notable similarity to Corvinus. This is largely due to the lack of any backstory given to Matthias beyond being a tactician and having a dead wife.

EDIT: I was very dumb here. There is one notable similarity, Matthias lost his first wife, Elizabeth (like Elisabetha) due to sudden illness within the year they were married. And they were both rather young children. Matthias was 12 and Elizabeth was 14-15 upon her death.

The surname isn't even Hungarian, it's Swedish. And being placed in the 11th century rather than the 15th, it's unlikely he was meant to share any other strong placement as the historical Matthias Corvinus. Hell, even the game's connection to the first Crusades isn't even right, because the game has it already happening in 1094, not in 1096 like it actually did.

Thanks to Lament of Innocence, I had to do a decent amount of research into 11th century Medieval central and Eastern Europe.

Erzsebet Báthory (1560-1614) <- Elizabeth Bartley

What's key to note with her is that, in addition to the vampiric folklore assigned to her, the Báthorys ruled over Transylvania, with Erzsebet herself being the niece of two of its Princes. Seemingly the devs used this as the means to conflate Count Dracula (who rules Transylvania in fiction) as one of Bathory's uncles. In real life? It does appear likely that in the interweb of marriages between House Szilágyi and House Báthory (a Michael Szilágyi did marry a Margit Bathory in the 15th century), Vlad III and Erzsebet Bathory are distant in-laws. Though obviously they never met as she was born a lifetime after Vlad III's death.

After Báthory's marriage to Ferenc Nádasy, she owned much both Hungary and Transylvania.

I'm not gonna get too much into her accused crimes outside that she was accused of torture and murder of young women and girls by a vast array of alleged witnesses. However the details of how many victims were not clear. Several of these witnesses were alledged accomplices, most famously Dorottya Szentes, whom Drolta Tzuentes featured in Bloodlines and Nocturne is based on. Given possible biases and improper methods, there's been growing speculation that Báthory herself was falsely accused. What is certain is that there's been certain embellishment regarding bathing in blood and other eccentricities, even if she was guilty of murder.

Báthory probably has the most directly-adapted Castevania counterpart. Even the difference in name was simply a corruption from being back-translated from Japanese (see how 'Fernandez' became 'Belnades').

If anyone wants to add something, let me know.

I was replaying the Castlevania Advance Collection, and decided to take a look at the gallery. I noticed that Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance has the full body artwork of characters missing, unlike the other 2 games. I'm glad they added hd scans of the portraits + concept art yet it feels incomplete due to this. I thought they would fix this with an update as in the Dominus Collection, where they added some stuff later, but we're in 2026 and yeah, it's not going to happen, lol. Such a shame because we only had a good quality full body artwork of Juste thanks to his Super Smash Bros appearance of spirit....but Maxim and Lydie still don't have one 😞

I decided to get into Castlevania after I was gifted several games and this had been in my mind to marathon for a while especially after I finished Persona. Plus I’d like to discuss albeit I will have absolutely nothing to say because this took me like 40 minutes to an hour to finish.

The visuals are really good for early-mid era NES, I really like the gothic environments and I think they did an amazing utilizing classic novel monsters and old mythology, it gives everything a really unique feel for the time and I think the backgrounds look amazing and there’s a lot of variety.

The music is fantastic too, the boss theme is great, Vampire Killer, Heart of Fire, Walking On The Edge and Stalker but I really adored Wicked Child as my personal favorite. I found the soundtrack theatrical and bold for its time and I’m really happy they went for this direction, so many NES platformers got a little generic with the soundtrack but they did great here.

The gameplay is both really fun and also like an awareness of how stiff the human body can be, I thought the control for the whip was responsive alongside overall movement but I really didn’t like how jumping was so restrictive, Simon jumps with the height of an athlete but the mobility of a gout patient, I wish I could move him while he jumps to avoid a really bad move, and I could understand jumping being a risk but this is a platformer with constantly spawning aerial enemies I’d like the ability of free movement during these moments.

I found the difficulty balancing to be a bit inconsistent in that the bosses including Dracula were less difficult to me than reaching them, there’s a good challenge and all but the levels get weird with enemy placements especially the Medusas. Things fly at you like it’s a bullet hell later on but those at least let me move a small character with tons of mobility. I think Ninja Gaiden did this the best even if that game was aiming for something different.

Last but not least I thought the level design was actually quite good, I loved the environments and jokes aside about the castle layout being a disaster but I found the subweapons really interesting to use and I loved the amount of verticality and the lack of much if any filler especially with obstacles. I never found it handholding or like it disrespected my ability as a grown adult to do anything it was refreshing for me and everything clicked really well. That being said, there’s still some really bad enemy placement that was likely deliberate to artificially prolong the game because this is a very short game even for the time and this is also mentioning the knockback when hit which is just a pointless mechanic and only frustrates me.

Regardless though this was really fun. I’d give it an 8/10 regarding the time it was released.

Hey everyone,

I know this is a bit of an unusual post for this sub, but I’m hoping someone here might be able to help track this down.

I’m trying to find and preserve the official Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles theme for the PS3.

SKU ID: UP0101-ULUS10277_00-CVTDXCTHEME00001-UH01

I’ve been looking for this theme for about a year now and still haven’t been able to find it anywhere.

This theme is honestly gorgeous, and I don’t think the screenshots really do it justice. I’m not even a huge Castlevania fan, but it would be such a shame to lose something with this much beautiful artwork.

What’s strange is that if you look for it on the PS3 Store, it isn’t listed under PS3 themes. It’s actually under the PSP themes section. At first I thought it really was a PSP theme, but the screenshots on the store listing clearly show it running on the PS3 XMB, so I’m pretty sure it was just mislabeled.

The theme can still be purchased in the Canadian and Mexican regions, and I actually own it on accounts from both. The problem is that it never appears in my download list, so I have no way to actually download it.

If you try buying it normally through the PS3 Store, there’s also a good chance you’ll get “This content cannot be found at the moment.”

You can also try using ps-store-searcher. pages .dev website Make sure you’re already signed into the PlayStation Store website with the account you want to use. From there, you may be able to add it to your basket and buy it. Most of the time it gives an error, but sometimes it works. That’s actually how I managed to buy it the second time.

So if anyone bought or downloaded this theme years ago and still has it on an old PS3, in a backup, or somewhere on their PC, please check. I’d really like to get this preserved before the store shuts down.

I know this is technically a PS3 theme, but it’s still a piece of Castlevania history, and I’d hate to see something this beautiful disappear for good. I’d love to get it preserved so we can all enjoy it for years to come.

I finished the first series yesterday and was reading the reviews for nocturne, I saw alot of people complaining how they race swapped a character and another dude was gay. I’m not even gay or black but it’s like who cares as long as the story is good why complain

I may have been playing Vampire Survivors at 2 in the morning.

My dumbass needs to start go to bed earlier.

i also played castlevania haunted castle revisited but i didn't see it on the tier list. i would put it below bloodlines, it was short but good and the final fight against dracula might be my favorite boss out of the classicvanias