On a Mission

[Onslaught Six]

It's such a pain not being able to level up.

[Gomess]

On the other hand, infinite air-jumps from the start, that dashing attack, and the Hydro Storm.

[Shockwave]

Anyone here ever beat the one for the original game boy? I have that one too but could never get through it.

[Gomess]

Yeah. I only beat it on an emulator. Christopher's a sluggish bugger.

[Onslaught Six]

The Castlevania timeline at this point is so muffed up though. Who's the first Belmont now? Christopher?

[Gomess]

Leon.

Yeah. Good old Leon, everyone remembers him.

=/

...I ran out of patience with IGA's "official timeline" when he made a point of leaving Sonia out of it and stuck Leon in. Fuck that noise. I'll accept what I see in the games. And going by them, the timeline's really not confusing at all. It all fits together rather nicely.

[Onslaught Six]

Well, if you go by the games, there's always Gabriel Belmont and the new thing...

[Gomess]

Oyeah, I forgot about Lords of Shadow(?) 'cos it seems hella boring and I'll probably never play it. But I guess Gabriel comes before Leon, then. And we're talking, like, one generation, but they hardly look like father and son. *shrug*

And what is with Castlevania's amazingly generic / pretentious titles? How many of them even have anything to do with the game??

...Legend of Cornell, I guess. =/

[Shockwave]

Clearly I have missed a lot of the Castlevania games. I remember Simon and Trevor Belmont and that's about it. After a while, you gotta think the Belmonts would start to wonder what's the point. I mean, Dracula just keeps coming back every damned time, why even bother? I'd like to see them merge this with Buffy the Vampire Slayer just for the sheer hilarity of it.

[Onslaught Six]

Oyeah, I forgot about Lords of Shadow(?) 'cos it seems hella boring and I'll probably never play it. But I guess Gabriel comes before Leon, then. And we're talking, like, one generation, but they hardly look like father and son. *shrug*

Spoiler

Gabriel becomes Dracula at the end.

I haven't even played the game.

And what is with Castlevania's amazingly generic / pretentious titles? How many of them even have anything to do with the game??

...Legend of Cornell, I guess. =/

I know some of them are actually based on puns. Dawn of Sorrow (DS) was the first Castlevania DS game (although this was a HUGE thing for the DS for a while; Contra 4 was called "Contra: Dual Spirits" in Japan) and the recent "Castlevania HD" game on XBLA is named Harmony of Dissonance.

Clearly I have missed a lot of the Castlevania games. I remember Simon and Trevor Belmont and that's about it. After a while, you gotta think the Belmonts would start to wonder what's the point. I mean, Dracula just keeps coming back every damned time, why even bother?

Because; it is their birthright. Also I'm pretty sure the Belmonts are kind of outcasted as a kind of cursed bloodline because of their need to combat Drac. (Also the last Belmont dies in 1999, I think, right? Because Soma Cruz is the star of the last chronological games in 2050 or whatever.)