Okay you know what, all this talk about who is powerful and what not.
1. CVLOS is not a real Castlevania game at all, at least not for the original generaiton, it is more or less a fan made game, by western people. All the bs about the special cross, and all of that stuff, including devil/garbreil/satan, and all of that bullshite is as much drama muck, compared to the "Witches of eastwick" or Disney usage of "Gargoyles" ( which is owned and made by somebody else ).
2. When Dracula ( the devil, the source of evil, a man of unatural powers, balh balh, all of those things ), was slain, he was dead. He was dead in the first game, so they had the quest to lift Simons curse, in the second game. After that he was dead.
3. Then came all of these other make-up games, but these games were about, the count, being revived, and this is usually done by sacrificing virgin blood in a ceremony, of various sorts. That is why Dracula kept coming back, because somebody, humans filled with evil intentions, and that alone. Humans summoned him, humans raised the dead, humans. He did not just woke up, one day, somebody had to summon him.
4. As explained in the N64 game at least, when Dracula is destroyed in the real world, he flee's into to the underworld where his power is law. We are talking about where, Drac is the devil/satan/etc source of evil. ( none of that LoS BS ), and Dracula appears as a gigantic demonic creature, in the netherworld ( yeah we going to use the Beetlejuice version of that ). Point being is that Dracula needs to be taken out in the N-world, to prevent him from returning. That is usually a one way trip. Of course in SOTN, they have that shaft BS, where he locked his soul in the underworld/N-world/Purgatory ( whatever ), and would posses peoples body, in order to do the summoning. Once again, he does not wake up, he is summoned, just like in Hellboy.
5. As shown in SOTN, ( which is probably the most looniest and tooniest of games. ), as also shown in DX:ROB, somebody needs to summon him, into the human world. The same is also shown in the "Bloodlines" series, where his summoning is prevented.
6. About LOShadow. The whole "Last of the Belmont's" killing himself, so Dracula, could go and fight himself.............................or David Bowie, Goblin King, is Bullshiite, I am pretty sure the two of them, could have helped each other side by side or even unlock a new playable character and or mode. Great he just stands their, the statue comes to life, and the black stuff flies away so they can literally see where the corruption is. LOTS and SOTN is rubbish................................ If the Vampire Killer in CVII, could work his way up to the castle and Simon could go on a quest, I am pretty sure they would have a good idea, of where to go. We did not need to see a black mist, of His shadow posses a statue, so we could track it down like Batman.
7. This whole argument about who is stronger, is about Vampire vs Human, with a bunch of extra items. I would like to see the game being played without any of these items, and see what would occur, Can you see that end result? What if that Belmont had live in LOS, would we have faced some sorta, other boss. So far all I see, is the same damage that SOTN did to series, being used in LOS.
Dracula returns because worshipers summons him? So why didn't they summon Gods right hand man? Because in this series God is irrelevant. When was the last time, you saw a Belmont, get down on his knees and prayed for a miracle? This is not "Earthbound".
The super ultra ending, Your going to use the bible/pray command, and god is going to step down from Heavan, and swat Dracula with a ghost train, fly-swatter, hand, or even shine a special light on him or you. Maybe an Angel is going to be like the baby-metroid, and give all of it's powers to you.
The problem with the LOTS, they tried to do a game, that revolves around Roman mythology, and Religious ideas. Curbing Castlevania into our world, similar to how SOTN, had a bunch of references to KDracula.
8. Apparently they made games that goes into the future, far into the future, and this is never going. We are all thinking this is the final Dracula game, but when in truth, we should be thinking this will never end, unless they just stop. Originally the game ended with
CVNES
CVGB
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CVIII
DX:ROB ( in my opinon is the final final real last game, and the PCE is god 2d nationalist game system, before changing up the story )
Bloodlines ( the last time a summoning was prevented ? ).
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N64 ( they did a special cermony )
SOTN ( where he could be summoned from the grave, more excuses )
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LOI ( more excuses )
LOS ( okay this is kinda off course, for every saved person, there is an doppelganger )