Castlevania General

I feel like we'd get Richter over Simon because Simon doesn't have a... supporting cast? Like it's kind of funny that Simon is both the most iconic Belmont and one of the least important.

We still talking about the show? There's still plenty of loose ends left for Trevor to stake. Hell, we still haven't seen Grant yet. I say we stick with him for at least one more season! And I hope the show's successful enough to get a dozen more.

Even Christopher Belmont had enough of a supporting cast to do a comic book miniseries. It's hilarious.

Kinda funny for the guy who solo'ed Dracula...twice.

Wait? did Christopher solo Drac too? Because being the first Belmont to take him on all on his own is one of the only things our boy Simon has. If he loses that, all he's got in his favour is ...Captain N.

He needs his Drac soloing fame. We can't take that from him.

Don't worry about Simon. He'll always be the OG drac slayer. It's Juste and Leon you need to pity, on account of them hailing from less-remembered games.

At least Leon's game didn't get people saying that it's the worst ever. And Leon being the first Belmont chronologically also gave him creds.

Juste, on the other hand...

Edited by ChrisX on Oct 30th 2018 at 1:59:31 AM

I have tried to beat Lament of Innocence three times now and have given up given how awful it is how can Harmony of Dissonance be worse.

Harmony of Dissonance is fine. A step up from Circle of the Moon, in my opinion. It's just grindy if you want anything to drop anything.

Trevor is in Hector's game. He has one more adventure in him. I want Carmilla to last until Rondo, though. As far as I know you only fight her in Simon's Quest and Rondo, anyway.

And Circle.

Right. Circle is a bit fuzzy for me. I played it. I beat it. I never wanted to look at it again.

... why? Circle was great. Solid map, great music, super fun (if Guide Dang It!-y) magic system allowing for a ton of variety, and pretty good graphics and monster design.

The only real flaws are the stiff controls and the fact the game is hard to see if you're playing on an OG GBA, which doesn't really apply anymore.

Just finished my annual spoooooooky Halloween run of Sot N... I think I'll play Cot M again.

Edited by Larkmarn on Oct 30th 2018 at 11:15:50 AM

I just didnt like it. It's probably my least favorite of the Metroidvania style titles. It's hard to say why.

I know I didnt like the magic system. I made it through most of the game and only got three or four cards naturally.

I also remember there being chunks of the castle I just didn't want to go back to.

I'd much rather play Harmony of Dissonance or the Sorrow titles.

Christopher beat Drac on his own, then went back to the Castle to punch the brainwashing out of his kid and beat Drac again.

Also has a good theme.

and Chris had to fight without subweapons and a whip that degraded in power whenever he got hit, too

And he never bishified.

Christopher is the new Simon!

So a thought came to me on how they could have kept Sonia in the timeline:

Leon has to have married again after the events of LOI right?

Why not retcon her to be Leon’s second wife?

Now, you’d still need to find a way for her to get to kick ass, but at least she would still exist.

The main problem is how Dracula would not appear until he was provoked into appearing before the events of Castlevania III.

I'd rather Sonia not be reduced to another love interest. Having her be Trevor's mother/grandmother and mentor would be fine. In fact that's what I was hoping the Netflix series was going to go for.

I'm imagining her as a sort of wild-west style drifter character, walking the earth and saving towns from non-dracula vampires but never getting proper recognition from the church or government due to her excommunication, but being a folk hero among the townspeople.

Who says she just has to be a love interest (well, ok I kinda did, but lets pretend I'm smarter than that).

She could still be a demon hunter herself that Leon met while setting up his family business. They kick some ass together, he falls for her, and boom: Trevor's born.

I mean, despite IGA having issues with a female Belmont and feeling it wasn't realistic to have an action girl like that at that point in the series (which is it's own debate), there's nothing saying that the women Leon married wasn't a badass in her own right.

I find a big problem with that, for me anyway, is the 400 something year gap between Lament of Innocence and Legends. I also definitely ship Sonia x Alucard, so sue me.

If I fanfic'd a Lament of Innocence sequel I'd probably make Leon's second wife (Actually, did Leon and Sarah explicitly marry? I just remember her being called his "Beloved") something of a mutually beneficial but loveless political affair; Leon's heart ultimate belonged to Sarah.

I totally think Sonia will make it into the Netflix series eventually, simply because they could get so many great lines out of Trevor's mother kicking ass alongside the party.

On a completely related note, I commissioned two pieces of Chibi art of Castlevania's leading ladies.

So, I thought that Hector and Isaac from the anime were original characters.

I just learned that they aren't.

Other than "being a Forgemaster," they essentially are. And what exactly a Devil Forgemaster is is pretty inconsistent, anyway.

Yeah. Issac in particular is very different from his game incarnation.

This is game Issac.◊

Yeah, I decided to watch a video explaining the main timeline which is when I found out.

It would happen to be this video series would it?

I watched the same thing not too long ago.

That's the one.