Castlevania Recurring castle areas
... such as fractile golems. In some later games, waterfalls are often seen here. In at least one instance, the water itself acts as poison, but is in fact merely carrying on the tradition of vampires being harmed by running water sources. This happens in castlevania: symphony of the night.
dungeon
The dungeon stages usually feature backgrounds filled with prison cells (sometimes occupied), chains and wall handcuffs, and skeletons and corpses laying just about everywhere. The stages usually feature such enemies as bone throwing skeletons, hunchbacks, axe wielding knights, and sometimes mudmen. The stage's final stretch usually features a long hallway with these aforementioned knights and then a boss fight.
Arena or Colosseum
The arena has appeared in several castlevania games as a place with a series of rooms with different enemies. The player must defeat all the enemies in a room to go to the next one, with an enemy free area in between to heal and regain mana. Rewards in the form of highly powerful weapons and armor would be at the end of the last room, or in the case of aria of Sorrow, at the end of every room (there were only 3, however). The arena is not required in most of the games, but is rather just a place to get weapons and gain levels. In circle of the Moon, the arena is extremely long, and the player is quickly drained of magic, to prevent the use of DSS (CotM's form of magic)....more
Castlevania Chronology
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Prior to the release of castlevania: harmony of Dissonance, every game in the series was accepted as canon, with the original versions of certain games (such as the original castlevania and Dracula X) usually accepted as the canonical interpretation of certain events. This was assumed even though there was no official unified dire...more
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (Music)
...Trevor Belmont's boss theme (who happens to hail from said game). The name enter screen, option screen, and load game screen music is reminiscent of the Requiem of The Gods theme fr...more
castlevania
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Castlevania is a video game series created and developed by Konami. The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986 with the release of Akumaj? Dracula (????????, Akumaj? Dorakyura?, lit. "Demon Castle Dracula") for the Famicom Disk System (FDS), followed by an alternate version for the MSX 2 platform on October 30. Although the MSX 2 port (localized in Europe and Brazil as Vampire Killer) was released f...more
