History VideoGame / CastlevaniaLordsOfShadowMirrorOfFate

* INeverToldYouMyName: Dracula already knows Simon is a Belmont [[spoiler: because he overheard Alucard talking to Simon. It's one of the first hints about who Alucard is.]]

* AnimalMotifs: Dracula and dragons, Trevor and lions, and Alucard and lions as well. [[spoiler: That's because Alucard IS Trevor.]]

* IndyEscape: [[spoiler:In the Belfry area, some hunchbacks send a giant bell rolling after you.]]

-->'''Dracula:''' "Hahaha, you fight well. [[InTheBlood Worthy of the name Belmont]]."

** In the secret ending, [[spoiler:the final scene is a shot of Simon standing on a cliff watching the castle crumble, a common ending in the classic continuity]].

** Another body belongs to [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse a pirate king of the Danasty family]].

** The [[Film/{{BatmanBegins}} animation]] of Alucard receiving the bats subweapon.

** Alucard's appearance and dialogue in the previews all but outright stated that he's [[spoiler:Trevor]] before the game officially revealed it.

-->'''Alucard:''' "It seems fate has given me a second chance... Father."

-->'''Dracula:''' "Hahaha! Your brotherhood has betrayed you! [[YouCantFightFate You cannot kill me]]. You will [[SenselessSacrifice die in vain]], [[GenerationXerox just as your father did]]!"

* IndyEscape: In the Belfry area, some hunchbacks send a giant ''bell'' rolling after you.

* CutsceneBoss: [[spoiler:The Lady of the Crypt's ColossusClimb segment and the Daemon Lord's final appearance [[spoiler:(chronologically Trevor's first fight with it but the player's second, due to AnachronicOrder)]] are this plus PressXToNotDie.]]

* ColossusClimb: The second half of the Lady of the Crypt boss fight.
* CutsceneBoss: The Lady of the Crypt's ColossusClimb segment and the Daemon Lord's final appearance (chronologically Trevor's first fight with it but the player's second, due to AnachronicOrder) are this plus PressXToNotDie.

** Simon gets a spell that summons the spirit of a warrior named [[VideoGame/Castlevania64 Schneider]].

* MythologyGag: In the secret ending, [[spoiler:the final scene is a shot of Simon standing on a cliff watching the castle crumble, a common ending in the classic continuity]].

* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: Dracula to Trevor.

* AnimalMotifs: Dracula and dragons, Trevor and lions, and Alucard and lions as well.

* SavedByCanon[=/=]DoomedByCanon: The first game ends [[spoiler:with the now DeathSeeker, WhoWantsToLiveForever Dracula still alive and rotting away in self-imposed exile]] centuries after the events of ''Mirror of Fate''.

** Alucard's appearance and dialogue strongly suggest that he's [[spoiler:Trevor, turned into a vampire rather than actually killed.]]

* TheChosenOne: Prophecy states the Belmont Clan are the only ones capable of destroying Dracula.

'''''Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate''''' is a 2013 action adventure PlatformGame developed by [[VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho Mercury Steam]] and published by {{Konami}} for 3DS, and the {{interquel}} to the 2010 ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' ContinuityReboot OriginsEpisode ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow''.

The game starts 25 years after the main events of ''Lords Of Shadow'', when [[BigBad Dracula]] returns after [[HesBack decades of self-exile]] to [[FaceHeelTurn destroy his former allies]] in the [[ChurchMilitant Brotherhood of Light]] and take the world for himself. Trevor Belmont, son of Gabriel and a knight of the Brotherhood of Light, sets out to [[YouKilledMyFather avenge the death of his mother]] at Dracula's hands. However, [[DoomedProtagonist he is never heard from again]].

* VideoGameRemake: Retells the events of ''[[VideoGame/{{Castlevania1986}} Castlevania (1986)]]'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' in the ''Lords of Shadow'' continuity.

-->'''Dracula:''' Hahaha, you fight well. [[InTheBlood Worthy of the name Belmont]].

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Dracula's classic one-liner from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' returns.
-->'''Dracula''': [[SymphonyOfTheNight Enough talk...! Have at you!]]
* PropheticNames: Gabriel, who loved mountains, gave himself the last name Belmont because it meant "Beautiful Mountain". His grandson, Simon Belmont, ends up being raised by mountain folk years later.

** Alucard's appearance and dialogue strongly suggest that he's [[spoiler:Trevor, turned into a vampire rather than actually killed]].
* TwoAndAHalfD

-->'''Alucard:''' It seems fate has given me a second chance... Father.

-->'''Dracula:''' Hahaha! Your brotherhood has betrayed you! [[YouCantFightFate You cannot kill me]]. You will [[SenselessSacrifice die in vain]], [[GenerationXerox just as your father did]]!

The game starts 25 years after the main events of ''LordsOfShadow'', when [[BigBad Dracula]] returns after [[HesBack decades of self-exile]] to [[FaceHeelTurn destroy his former allies]] in the [[ChurchMilitant Brotherhood of Light]] and take the world for himself. Trevor Belmont, son of Gabriel and a knight of the Brotherhood of Light, sets out to [[YouKilledMyFather avenge the death of his mother]] at Dracula's hands. However, [[DoomedProtagonist he is never heard from again]].

* PropheticNames: Gabriel, who loved mountains, gave himself the last name Belmont because it meant "Beautiful Mountain". His grandson, Simon Belmont, ends up being raised by mountain folk years later.

* FamilyHonor: [[spoiler: (Trevor wants to recover his by killing Dracula and avenging his mother's murder.)]]

'''''Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate''''' is a 2013 action adventure PlatformGame developed by [[VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho Mercury Steam]] with oversight by HideoKojima and published by {{Konami}} for 3DS, and the {{interquel}} to the 2010 ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' ContinuityReboot OriginsEpisode ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow''.

* Metroidvania

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Trailers and promotional material make it clear from the start that Trevor fails to stop Dracula, leaving Simon to finish the job years later. Not that Dracula returning to menace a new generation is a surprise.

The game starts 25 years after the main events of ''Lords of Shadow'', when Dracula returns after decades of self-exile to destroy his former allies in the Brotherhood of Light and take the world for himself. Trevor Belmont, son of Gabriel and a knight of the Brotherhood of Light, sets out to avenge the death of his mother at Dracula's hands. However, he is never heard from again.

Years later, it falls to Trevor's own son, Simon Belmont, to finish what his father started and free the curse of Dracula. But the truth of that curse is even more terrible than Simon knows...

* YouKilledMyFather: Trevor Belmont sets out to destroy Dracula for killing his mother. Simon Belmont also sets out to destroy Dracula years later for killing Simon's mother ''and'' his father.