It has Spanish Dracula. Of course it's scary.
Also, in DXC intro, have you guys noticed how the body of the woman is suddenly gone from the coffin's lid just before it explodes open?
Also, there is no pre-requisite for the sacrifice to bring Dracula back, apparently. No requirement is ever mentioned, and we've seen both a woman and at least two men, in wildly different ages, being sacrificed for this objective. So yeah. Dracula is pretty eclectic with who is sacrificed for him :P
In Chronicles a dark priest poured blood over the coffin.I'm still betting that was Virgin Blood, known for it's purity and spiritual power. Common occult knowledge would say so.
And in CV64/LoD it was a simple matter of sacrificing the lives of a hundred children, as Actress blatantly stated.
(http://www.ezimba.com/work/160107C/ezimba16389281572304.png)
But he's nothing near Mexican Dracula.
Oh man I hope I'm not offending someone with this.
I'm still betting that was Virgin Blood, known for it's purity and spiritual power. Common occult knowledge would say so.
True and again Virgin Blood, but the 64 games are removed from the official canon. In the alternate timeline where they exist the sacrifice only either revives The Guardian to Dracula's sleeping spirit, or it revives all of Dracula with only that Guardian manifesting.
Maybe virgin blood makes him look prettier when he wakes up
'Cause I mean compared to the long-white-hair-kinda-grizzled-and-grumpy-looking-but-still-halfway-dashing incarnations, DXC and Rondo Dracs are both all young and slick and pretty and whatnot
Yeah that's it
The purer the blood the prettier Drac is
I was going to mention virgin blood BUT we have cases like Shaft or Barlowe being sacrifices. I doubt these two were either pure or virgin or both at the same time.
Some have disagreed with me on this in the past but I stick by the fact that Barlowe knew exactly what he was doing (as does Castlevania Wiki), and Ecclesia was a front to actually resurrect Dracula. The same idea was later used in LOS.
Shaft's body died in RoB/DXC and entered Richter's body at it's most vulnerable after his (and Maria's) fight with Dracula - refer to Iga's timeline. Dracula in SOTN's resurrection was made complete by his remains (relics) being gathered by Alucard imo. (The final room can't be entered without them.)
He was not a host body as Dracula's throne room was still beyond "The gates of Hell" meaning he didn't materialise with any sort of host body.
You guys over analyze the stupidest things.
@Waffle Was that a Bill Cosby show?
*Insert Meme of Bill Cosby reading "I'm just here to see if I taped anyone..."*
Flibbidy flam pokeymans.
Over-analyzing is practically the lifeblood of this forum, Waffle-san.
Yeah I know. I remember the time where I made a thread asking if the same COULD be said of all religions, and you guys thought I was serious.
Yeah I know. I remember the time where I made a thread asking if the same COULD be said of all religions, and you guys thought I was serious.
This Dungeon imo is the only thing currently keeping Castlevania [buried] alive.
1. Dracula X Chronicles shows precisely the moment where Shaft got control over Richter's body. And it's WAY before Richter got to fight Dracula. It's before even he got to battle Shaft himself. Jump to 5:40 and watch from there:
https://youtu.be/mp6gNFnPXuA (https://youtu.be/mp6gNFnPXuA)
1. Dracula X Chronicles shows precisely the moment where Shaft got control over Richter's body. And it's WAY before Richter got to fight Dracula. It's before even he got to battle Shaft himself. Jump to 5:40 and watch from there:
https://youtu.be/mp6gNFnPXuA (https://youtu.be/mp6gNFnPXuA)
I thought that was Death who changed the orb to red, presumably to force you to challenge him.
I thought that was Death who changed the orb to red, presumably to force you to challenge him.
It indeed could be Death. I'm playing the game again to see at which point am I allowed to unlock Stage 5'. If it is only after defeating Death, then I'll retract my statement.
EDIT: Yep, it is most likely Death, not Shaft. The black shadow keeps appearing until you defeat Death. Once Death is gone and you redo Stage 4', the shadow is gone.
So Iga's timeline stands regardless then eh.
http://abicion.tumblr.com/post/136905756117/ (http://abicion.tumblr.com/post/136905756117/)
This is deep.
(http://www.ezimba.com/work/160107C/ezimba16389281572304.png)
But he's nothing near Mexican Dracula.
Oh man I hope I'm not offending someone with this.
Maybe I should get a dev team together and we could make a full fan game where you play as Unnamed Tragic Sacrifice Girl, and for the final boss you fight an early version of Shaft, and after you beat him it's just like "lol nope gotta follow continuity *stab*"
Who did they sacrifice in that game? Goofy?
(http://www.ezimba.com/work/160107C/ezimba16389281572304.png)
But he's nothing near Mexican Dracula.
Oh man I hope I'm not offending someone with this.
Spawn of Satan (and Consuela) moving coffins filled with heroine from Wallachia to Mexico, his only achilles heel is Lemon Pledge - which everyone is out of....
I read this in the melody of the Carmen Sandiego theme for some reason.
'85 actually.
Who did they sacrifice in that game? Goofy?
ok.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11725864/1/Pointy-Prologue (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11725864/1/Pointy-Prologue)
I’m not sure how I feel about this one.
'85 actually.
True, I meant did you grow up in the 90's, now I know. We're pretty much the same age.
Jesus, I'm surrounded by old geezers ;D
What is it with Dracula and girls' blood anyway?
What is it with Dracula and girls' blood anyway?
It's that time of the month... You know, when the full moon comes out ;)
Maybe that's why they called him "Shaft"... triple entendre if you really think about it..... SHAFT!!!
Maybe that's why they called him "Shaft"... triple entendre if you really think about it..... SHAFT!!!
Well he certainly did live "up" to that title. Then he got "Shafted" three times. Twice by Richter, then once more by Alucard.
Well he certainly did live "up" to that title. Then he got "Shafted" three times. Twice by Richter, then once more by Alucard.
Now there's an image... oh wait, you mean he was defeated by them...
On a somewhat related topic (related to the naked chick getting sacrificed at the beginning of RoB, not to Shaft getting the shaft)... where do these coffins with Dracula's remains inside them actually come from? I mean, at the end of each game Dracula explodes or dissolves or disappears and then the castle falls down around him. Do his minions dig through the rubble to collect his remains? Are his remains meant to be in the coffin or is it just a symbolic thing?
In the japanese manual for Simon's Quest it is said that Dracula's remains get regenerated as the years go by, until they are ready for his revival. This might have to do with the amount of misery people undergo, thus restoring the remains.
Now, I presume these remains are then tracked down and gathered by the cultists to be placed inside a coffin/tomb, where then the cultists will perform a ritual to infuse Dracula's newly regenerated body with his soul.
The burning ritual performed by Simon was meant to destroy Dracula once and for all, but poor Simon didn't expect there to be a hidden sixth remain.
Important of note is that Dracula can be regenerated with as little as ONE remain, albeit very weak.
That is interesting... thanks for that theplottwist. I already knew about the burning ritual and the hidden sixth remain, but wasn't aware of the idea that Dracula's remains would regenerate between appearances. Where do they regenerate, though, do you suppose? Are they like the Triforce and they scatter around the countryside, waiting to be collected by Dracula's followers?
That is interesting... thanks for that theplottwist. I already knew about the burning ritual and the hidden sixth remain, but wasn't aware of the idea that Dracula's remains would regenerate between appearances. Where do they regenerate, though, do you suppose? Are they like the Triforce and they scatter around the countryside, waiting to be collected by Dracula's followers?
Yeah, I figure there must be some kind of ritual or magic that allows the remains to be tracked down. Though that raises the question of why the Belmont's never try to track down the remains themselves to try and preemptively destroy them.
On another tangent, I always thought that they missed a trick in Harmony of Dissonance by not making Maxim Mode a 'prequel' to the main game, with Maxim tracking down Dracula's remains. Of course, by the nature of being an alternate mode it would have all had to take place within the castle from HoD so that may not have ultimately made much sense.
As to why the remains were spread throughout the Castle, I assume that either Dark Maxim did this to hamper Juste's quest (from entering the final chamber in Castle B) as they were no longer required. (It's not the same situation as CVII where they were being guarded in the mansions and Simon required Oak Stakes to break the seal upon them.) When Dark Maxim tears away from Good Maxim, the remains unknowingly would resonate with him, creating 'Dracula Wraith'.
Hang on though, Juste does find Dracula's remains in the HoD Castle, which means Maxim already brought them there beforehand. That or the Castle with the remains materialized prior, but I'm sure Maxim states that he'd found the remains. (see his quote below). Since Maxim and Dark Maxim speak repeatedly on Dracula's remains, I assumed Maxim collected the remains in Wallachia (mansions, countryside, etc and wherever) and brought them to the Castle himself. Maxim was indeed influenced by the power of the remains...
Funny, before I thought that chick was Maria Renard when I saw the screenshot in 10th anniversary of Castlevania special in Gamepro magazine, a little info from that magazine is that you will save a girl named Maria Renard before she get sacrificed and I thought that naked chick to be sacrificed was her, turns out it was just someone else.
Maybe the girl who is sacrificed is the sister of Victoria Florescu... ;)
(which holds Dracula Ultimate and waits for the Power of the Wolf)
In Legacy of Darkness, a woman gets sacrificed over the coffin just like in RoB to bring back Dracula's empty host body (which holds Dracula Ultimate and waits for the Power of the Wolf).
The first time I played LOD I thought that was Aida. I was relieved to learn that she survived.
Maybe I should write something to correct this.
There once was a girl named Aida.
Then she got captured and sacrificed just to piss zangetsu off.
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