![]() ![]() Players took on the role of Simon Belmont, fighting through a ghastly ghoul-filled castle on his quest to slay Dracula, the titular undead aristocratic of Bram Stoker’s 1897 horror novel. The original Castlevania was release on the NES way back in 1986. (However, they could have also called it “Dracula’s Haunted Castle” and had just as accurate translation.) Historically, Nintendo has been rather strict about censoring anything with even vaguely religious content from their games, so I wonder if the devil/demon part was omitted from the English title just to avoid any possible Satanic controversy. But the game’s original Japanese title is Akumajō Dracula, which literally means “Devil Castle Dracula”, so the constituent parts were there from the beginning. To the uninitiated “Castlevania” might sound like a silly game title, the mashup of “castle” and “Transylvania” being a rather odd choice. Despite the non-linear exploration gameplay introduced in Symphony of the Night that moved the series solidly into the Metroidvania genre, my favorite vampire hunting adventure is still Super Castlevania IV on the Super Nintendo. When Halloween season rolls around, and everyone gathers around a collection of scary movies and Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror episodes to watch, I find myself drawn to a classic action horror video game series: Castlevania. ![]()
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