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Fan Stuff / Re: CHRONICLES OF THE WOLF
« Last post by Migami Games on July 21, 2025, 12:21:58 PM »
We are happy to announce that Chronicles of the Wolf is now fully compatible for Nintendo Switch 2 with no issues!

We would like to thank everyone who got the game SW2 for your patience, and we would like to thank Nintendo for fixing the issue!

Thank everyone and we hope you are enjoying the game! 🐺
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Off Topic / Re: Do you like Bloodstained?
« Last post by zangetsu468 on July 21, 2025, 08:01:02 AM »
‘Yes’ I like it. The characters are not as memorable as Castlevania and the game itself is not as original, nor is it as good.
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Hardcore Gaming 101 / Re: Steam Summer Sale 2025
« Last post by Lumi Kløvstad on July 20, 2025, 09:11:02 PM »
I got:

Wallachia: Reign of Dracula
Mirrormoon EP
City of Brass
Hourglass
Wavetale
Call of the Sea
Sable
Submerged: Hidden Depths
Golf It
Prince of Persia 2008

Mostly I wanted to support some indie devs or just smaller, more creative and art driven developers in general this time around. Gotta cultivate the future of our beloved industry!
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Off Topic / Re: Do you like Bloodstained?
« Last post by Lumi Kløvstad on July 20, 2025, 09:04:01 PM »
Admittedly I'd like it less if Konami had kept Castlevania going, but that's not the world we live in.
And Bloodstained has been quite an able successor in both Classicvania and Metroidvania formats, so I'm quite happy.
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Off Topic / Re: Do you like Bloodstained?
« Last post by BLOOD MONKEY on July 19, 2025, 07:21:36 PM »
I don't care for Bloodstained but I like Miriam :P
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Off Topic / Re: Do you like Bloodstained?
« Last post by Gunlord on July 19, 2025, 06:30:14 PM »
I like Xombiemike <3
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Off Topic / Do you like Bloodstained?
« Last post by XombieMike on July 18, 2025, 06:47:27 PM »
Someone elsewhere said "80% of fans hate Miriam", which I found amusing since people so easily pull statistics out of their butts on the internet. So, let's see how it lines up here.
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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Dave Cox
« Last post by Lumi Kløvstad on July 18, 2025, 03:54:39 PM »
Count Dankula seems to show a bit of remorse upon his defeat by Alucard in 1797, but that small piece of insight quickly went away in subsequent games. All he cares about is world domination moving forward.

My adamant working theory since Portrait of Ruin has been that Dracula's human soul moved on that day.
Unfortunately, Dracula isn't JUST Mathias. He'd spent quite a lot of time killing other vampires, absorbing their souls, adding their powers to his, never mind his singular connection to Chaos... conceivably there was quite a lot to the entity we call Dracula that was NOT human. And that would have been so evil it never would be permitted into Heaven. So it stuck around.
And if you notice in chronologically later games, Dracula gets a LOT less chatty, and when he does chat he's much more stereotypically evil. He makes borderline sexist remarks to Shanoa (claiming she must have been the one to resurrect him and she "only" would have done so so he could grant her eternal beauty, or power at his side as his consort), and in Portrait of Ruin only seems to care about getting his "full" powers back ("One day, my power will be fully revived!"), which beyond being the most generic Castlevania villain quote of all time, strongly implies that he believes that he no longer has his full powers.
That would be consistent with losing his human side, and with what Alucard told him at the end of Symphony: "You have been doomed ever since you lost the ability to love. / You lost your heart. Your soul. You'll never win without them. / When you lose those you love, and stop loving, you have already lost..."

If you want to believe so, there's enough there to claim that God pulled a sneaky, and by taking Mathias when he was asking Lisa's forgiveness, denied Chaos its greatest champion, leaving it forever with a "broken and dulled blade", doomed to lose forever hence.

And eventually, the rest of Dracula would be reincarnated into Soma Cruz, finishing the redemptive arc. When he passes, all that remains of Dracula will pass from the Earth.
Whether some other Dark Lord takes over the job? That's someone else's game now.
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General Castlevania Discussion / Dave Cox
« Last post by crisis on July 18, 2025, 01:38:02 PM »
Count Dankula seems to show a bit of remorse upon his defeat by Alucard in 1797, but that small piece of insight quickly went away in subsequent games. All he cares about is world domination moving forward.
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I think the method of Lisa's execution is most likely symbolic meant to draw comparisons to a saint or martyr. Similar to how how the manual compares her to the Virgin Mary.

The crucifixion in the nightmare looks a little similar to the way Japan performed them, which involved the person being bound to a cross & speared from both sides. So there may be cultural reasons why it looks the way it does.
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