History Trivia / CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2

* TalkingToHimself: For self-evident reasons, Creator/RobertCarlyle provides voice for both Dracula and [[spoiler: his fiendish doppelgänger, Inner Dracula.]]

* FanNickname:
** “(Sad hungry) Burrito” for Gabriel's aged form.
** “Buttwings” for Satan.
** “Trevorcard” for, ''guess.''
** “Skullface” for Agreus, obviously. Death can fall into this category, too.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by head of studio Enric Álvarez. According to this employee, Álvarez's ego supposedly grew out of control after the success of the first ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadow Lords of Shadow]]'', to the point he didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers in the team. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released. These accounts would [[https://youtu.be/yUjeRl4yO7w later be disputed]], but multiple employees complaining about Álvarez and the studio management following the production of ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' several years suggests [=LOS2=] may have indeed faced similar issues.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by head of studio Enric Álvarez. According to this employee, Álvarez's ego supposedly grew out of control after the success of the first ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadow Lords of Shadow]]'', to the point he didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers in the team. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released. These accounts would [[https://youtu.be/yUjeRl4yO7w later be disputed]], but multiple employees complaining about Álvarez and the studio management following the production of ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' several years later all but confirms [=LOS2=] may have faced similar issues.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by head of studio Enric Álvarez. According to this employee, Álvarez's ego supposedly grew out of control after the success of the first ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadow Lords of Shadow]]'', to the point he didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers in the team. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released. These accounts would [[https://youtu.be/yUjeRl4yO7w later be disputed]], but multiple employees complaining about Álvarez and the studio management following the production of ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' several years later all but confirms LOS2 may have faced similar issues.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by head of studio Enric Álvarez. According to this employee, Álvarez's ego supposedly grew out of control after the success of the first ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadow Lords of Shadow]]'', to the point he didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers in the team. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released. However, these accounts have [[https://youtu.be/yUjeRl4yO7w recently been disputed]]. While there were moderate issues with production, no one else seemed to attribute the game's relative failure to the ego of the developer's head.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by head of studio Enric Álvarez. According to this employee, Álvarez's ego supposedly grew out of control after the success of the first ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadow Lords of Shadow]]'', to the point he didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers in the team. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released. However, these accounts have [[https://youtu.be/yUjeRl4yO7w recently been disputed]], however. While there were moderate issues with production, no one else attributed the game's relative failure to the ego of the developer's head.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by head of studio Enric Álvarez. According to this employee, Álvarez's ego supposedly grew out of control after the success of the first ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadow Lords of Shadow]]'', to the point he didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers in the team. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released.

** Alucard's ''Revelations'' abilities, the Timeless Vision, was originally intended to be Dracula's.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by head of studio Enric Álvarez. According to this employee, Álvarez's ego supposedly grew out of control after the success of the first ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadow Lords of Shadow]]'', to the point hhe didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers in the team. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by head of studio Enric Álvarez. According to this employee, Álvarez's ego supposedly grew out of control after the success of the first ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadow Lords of Shadow]]'', to the point [[PrimaDonnaDirector he didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers in the team]]. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released.

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Castlevania_Wiki Castlevania Wiki]].

** A text file from the game's data reveals Victor was planned to be called Julius.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** [[Creator/PatrickStewart Emperor Uriel Septim VII]] again voices Zobek.
** [[Creator/RichardMadden Robb Stark]] is Alucard, as well as Zobek's Lieutenant.
** [[Creator/RobertCarlyle Rumpelstiltskin]] is his dad, Dracula.
** [[Creator/JasonIsaacs Lucius Malfoy]] returns to the world as Satan.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Many things were cut, such as a final boss fight with a giant seven-headed serpent-like creature, implied to be Satan's true form, a playable dragon form, and a ''far'' darker ending.

** One of the relics -- called Stolas' Feathers -- was scrapped mid-production and its ExperienceBooster properties were given to the Stolas' Clock relic instead.

* PanderingToTheBase: During the tutorial chapter, Gabriel delivers the "What is a man?" line from ''Symphony of the Night'' with no clear context.

** In-game art shows that one of Alucard's ''Revelations'' abilities, the Timeless Vision, was originally intended to be Dracula's.
** The Navigators would also be Dracula's means of transportation in the original game, but were scrapped in favor of the Map Rooms.

* NoDubForYou: Even though VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow had been dubbed to Japanese sometime after its initial release, both the interquel and the sequel, for whatever reason, could not boast of the same. Sure, they've been ''subbed'', but dubbed?

** As per ''Mirror of Fate'', [[Series/GameOfThrones Robb Stark]] is Alucard.
** Creator/PatrickStewart again voices Zobek.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Many things were cut, such as a final boss fight with a giant serpent like creature, implied to be Satan's true form, a playable dragon form, and a ''far'' darker ending.

WhatCouldHaveBeen: Many things were cut, such as a final boss fight with a giant serpent like creature, implied to be Satan's true form, a playable dragon form, and a ''far'' darker ending.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by head of studio Enric Álvarez. According to this employee, Álvarez's ego supposedly grew out of control after the success of the first ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadow Lords of Shadow]]'', to the point [[PrimaDonnaDirector he didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers in the team]]. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released.

* TroubledProduction: An anonymous employee of Mercury Steam sent out a letter detailing the impressively enormous amounts of ExecutiveMeddling by their CEO, who supposedly didn't care at all about the visions of the artists and programmers. It doesn't help that [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776423 over thirty members of the staff were fired]] shortly after the game was released.