Topic: What games would you consider "required reading" for discussing the franchise?

[TheouAegis]

I feel there is NO canon! It's all multiple universes occasionally touching at certain points. The most chaotic universe -- the one warped and bent every which way -- would be the IGA universe. So you have the Arcade universe, which was a bit of a dead-end. Then you have the (S)NES universe which was its own little reality. You have the parallel Gameboy universe which is positioned in such a way that it collides with the NES universe briefly. You have the IGAverse, which chaotically weaves back and forth, clashing with the (S)NES universe on a couple occasions, making it look like the canonical universe -- but it's likely not the true canonical universe. Then you have the MercurySteam universe, which also collides with the (S)NES universe. The (S)NES universe is the one the other universes all collide with (excluding Arcade universe), so in a way the (S)NES universe is the true canonical universe and all the others were alternate realities that branched to or from the (S)NES universe. Iga's timeline is just the chronology of his parallel universe. In his universe, Leon was the forefather of the Belmont clan and the first to fight Dracula (Mathias). But in the (S)NES universe either there never was a Leon or there was but he never encountered Dracula.

So I say screw it, who the hell cares? Saying Iga's universe is the true canon is like saying Shakespeare's plays around the Hundred Years War are the true history. Iga is in his own fantastical universe.

[zangetsu468]

I feel there is NO canon! It's all multiple universes occasionally touching at certain points. The most chaotic universe -- the one warped and bent every which way -- would be the IGA universe. So you have the Arcade universe, which was a bit of a dead-end. Then you have the (S)NES universe which was its own little reality. You have the parallel Gameboy universe which is positioned in such a way that it collides with the NES universe briefly. You have the IGAverse, which chaotically weaves back and forth, clashing with the (S)NES universe on a couple occasions, making it look like the canonical universe -- but it's likely not the true canonical universe. Then you have the MercurySteam universe, which also collides with the (S)NES universe. The (S)NES universe is the one the other universes all collide with (excluding Arcade universe), so in a way the (S)NES universe is the true canonical universe and all the others were alternate realities that branched to or from the (S)NES universe. Iga's timeline is just the chronology of his parallel universe. In his universe, Leon was the forefather of the Belmont clan and the first to fight Dracula (Mathias). But in the (S)NES universe either there never was a Leon or there was but he never encountered Dracula.

So I say screw it, who the hell cares? Saying Iga's universe is the true canon is like saying Shakespeare's plays around the Hundred Years War are the true history. Iga is in his own fantastical universe.

That's why I created v"The Sig"v ?

[theplottwist]

So I say screw it, who the hell cares? Saying Iga's universe is the true canon is like saying Shakespeare's plays around the Hundred Years War are the true history. Iga is in his own fantastical universe.

Clearly many people care. And a canon is important to tell a cohesive storyline. Speaking for me, I like the "folk tales" concept, but I like more plotlines that have a start, a middle and an end, even if the end is a cliffhanger (the current state of the main canon). No problem in preferring any other concept above this, though.

Though I get your previous comment's spirit (that there is not one single TRUE canon-- this really IS true, what there is is a MAIN canon, not a TRUE one), I don't get why you and many others try their darndest to kill the canon. Like, live and let live, y'know? Unless Konami themselves come forth and say there is no canon, then you got nothing. IGA's canon, like it or not, is the main canon for as long as it includes the quintessential, classic Castlevania games. Doesn't meant you should like it, but you gotta recognize a lot of people do care about it, is what I'm saying.

And, just so I'm not misunderstood, I'll repeat: There doesn't exist a "true" canon, only a main one. It's the main one because it carries the base to build the CV story, themes and gameplay elements from, aside from containing the majority of games. But that doesn't mean the other games are "less" true. They may be "less important" if you're talking "main plot", but are far from being "less important" in general, as cornerstones of the franchise. To be a true Castlevania, all a game needs is the IP title and official license. Yes, even if it means the game is a cursed pachislot.

[Dracula9]

I don't get why you and many others try their darndest to kill the canon.

because "i don't like it" equates to "the facts surrounding it don't exist", duh

that's like one of the cornerstones of the internet, ya silly goose

i swear to john cleese if anyone takes this post seriously and responds in turn i will make your nipples explode with delight

[zangetsu468]

i swear to john cleese if anyone takes this post seriously and responds in turn i will make your nipples explode with delight

.... I'm into that

[AlexCalvo]

because "i don't like it" equates to "the facts surrounding it don't exist", duh

that's like one of the cornerstones of the internet, ya silly goose

i swear to john cleese if anyone takes this post seriously and responds in turn i will make your nipples explode with delight

I think cornerstone of human kind is a better description, but yes.

[chainsawmidget]

Clearly the only game that's really required is this one ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXabTBhiFs

[X]

Did Simon just boot a Nun out of his way? lol.

[theANdROId]

That's...You...I...
:-/
I'm just gonna go to bed.  I don't even know what to make of that!

[X]

Skate or Die combined with Castlevania.

[AlexCalvo]

Evolution skate boarding.   Fun tiny hawk clone.  Also had solid snake, frogger and a ton of other characters and levels from games.  It had 3 Castlevania levels.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

More importantly, was that Jean-Claude Van Fucking Damme as Dracula?

[gallandryal]

This thread is going nowhere. lol.

Just read everything on the wiki.

While the wiki is helpful, there's some inaccurate info there. And playing a game is a quite different experience than reading a wiki

Answering the thread, I think every game of Iga's storyline should be played/read to understand the universe as a whole