Topic: Inspired from Castlevania

[Belmont Stakes]

I have never seen any references to Castlevania as the inspiration for some other game(s) and no I am not talking about Rusty or Vampire or any of the other games in the dungeon. Nor
for that matter any person pointing to the series or a character in the series for the creation of any other popular video game icons. Are there any articles on the web that anyone has come across stating so and so as the major driving force behind the creation of such and such?

[crisis]

Hideki Kamiya has been on record stating that he loves the original castlevanias so one could argue his games have taken inspiration from the series and it def shows in games like devil may cry