Castlevania fans have had a pretty decent year. Two characters from the main series will be appearing in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Castlevania Requiem is set to bring the franchise's two best games to the PlayStation 4, and most importantly, the hit Netflix show from last year boosted a renewed interest in the property and will continue airing for a second season later this month....
The ratings poured in, the rumors flared out, and now, we have confirmation that Castlevania Requiem will be released as a PlayStation 4 exclusive just before Halloween on Oct. 26. This bundle will contain two of the best Castlevania games, or indeed, two of the best video games in general, of all time, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Both will have...
I was just thinking recently that it would sure be nice to play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Castlevania: Rondo of Blood on modern consoles. And while I was more specifically thinking of the Nintendo Switch, thanks to my lust for retro games on Nintendo’s home/handheld hybrid console, the PlayStation 4 is at least a good place to start. The South Korean Game Rating Board has...
Get ready! This announcement is just as big for NES players as the addition of Mega Man to Super Smash Bros. Nintendo finally tapped into the classic Castlevania series during Wednesday morning’s Nintendo Direct presentation by announcing not one but TWO Belmonts are entering the fray in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. …of course, after brutally murdering Luigi at the hands of...
If you spend any time in the nerd space, there's a pretty good chance that you know the name Adi Shankar. If you don't yet, you will very soon. Shankar has been building up a library of serious nerd cred for the last few years. With the release of Castlevania on Netflix, he's solidified the rep he's been building. If you want to take a geeky property and make it work as a story –...
*Warning: Possible 30-year-old Castlevania spoilers ahead* No doubt, thousands of Castlevania fans are getting their first taste of the sheer brilliance of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse through the recent hit Netflix show. I'm just about to sit down and binge through the show, and I'm fully prepared to enjoy a solid two hours with four icons of my childhood. Castlevania III:...
As promised, I plopped myself down for a blood-soaked afternoon with Castlevania on Netflix, and yeah, I had a pretty good time. It took a while to settle into the groove and realize that only a brief amount of time was going to be covered in this first season, but once I realized these four episodes were nothing more than a teaser to measure our interest, I started to enjoy it more....
Adapting geek culture out of its original format has proven over and over to be incredibly difficult. It took decades to get comic book movies right with any consistency, and we've only had "okay" video game adaptations. With Netflix's Castlevania, producer Adi Shankar promised us the best video game adaptation ever made. I don't think Castlevania is quite there yet, but I can't say it'...
Now that the word is out on Netflix’s upcoming Castlevania series, fans around the globe have plenty of questions for producer Adi Shankar. He was happy to share a few tidbits with IGN in an interview that shows he won’t settle for second best. Shankar, who is a self-described fan of Konami’s venerated series, claimed that he is aiming for the gold-standard of quality on today’s...
Alright! Not only do we get to see what Castlevania looks like if it was remade in Unreal Engine 4, but we also get to see if Konami's lawyers are as surgically precise as Nintendo's. Dejawolf, the creator of this remake, has been working on this remake of Castlevania's first level for nearly a year, and as a fan game, it plays well enough. The character animations are not really up to...