Topic: Thunderbrand's Spoiler thread---

[Kingshango]

Sorry guy's I had to go to work after picking tiny peices of my brain after it asploded from watching that ending, that was the most mind fuckary thing I've seen in a game since Drakengard. Mercurysteam just out trolled Calvia in terms of trollness.

Hopefully the sequel will be more akin to Castlevania than this game was, Canon or not, this shit gonna be intresting and talked about for fan's for a while, fanfiction's away!

And yeah Im still buying this game, ain't no stoppin this train Im on.

[DragonSlayr81]

LOL, it's funny because people were ragging on many of the game sites who reviewed the game and questioned why they said the game didn't feel "CV-ish". I guess, now, we understand what they meant.

[Heuss]

The best finish I've ever seen, unexpected, as should be.

[Kamirine]

LOL, it's funny because people were ragging on many of the game sites who reviewed the game and questioned why they said the game didn't feel "CV-ish". I guess, now, we understand what they meant.

This. I'm sure once more fans start seeing and playing through the game, there are going to be a lot more conflicted views on the story.  Even I'll admit, this wasn't what I expected at all and I'm kind of don't know what to make of it right now.

[GuyStarwind]

So, I watched the ending and I have a question if someone can answer it.

Why did Gabriel kill his wife? I saw him doing it in a flashback at the end. However, since I only watched the end I'm not sure why it happened.

[Apolake]

I really like the abilities sketch animation in this game.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Abilities Sketch

[Nagumo]

Guys I didn't really feel like watching a playthrough for 15 - 20 hours straight. Enlighten me about the ending. Kudo's if it explains the big plot hole known as Brauner.           

[Harrycombs]

Guys I didn't really feel like watching a playthrough for 15 - 20 hours straight. Enlighten me about the ending. Kudo's if it explains the big plot hole known as Brauner.           

Zobek apparently manipulates Gabriel into killing the other Lords of Shadow and reveals himself to be the bad guy in a horribly written drawn out monologue that not even Patrick Stuart could make interesting, then Satan shows up and defeats Zobek and goes on a long winded, horribly written monologue about how he manipulated Zobek to manipulate Gabriel to help Satan, and not even Jason Isaacs could make this scene tolerable. Gabe and Satan fight in an incredibly long and boring battle and Satan is defeated, and then Gabe apparently can't be forgiven by God for unknowingly helping the bad guys, and then it cuts to modern times where Zobek approaches Gabriel who then declares himself to be Dracula, and Zobek warns him that Satan was about to return.

[Nagumo]

Dracula is actually a misunderstood bad guy in this universe? Wow, that is terrible. I already thought of Gabriel being Dracula but I figured they wouldn't pull another Soma. But I guess not.

And how does this fit into the canon again? I still don't get it.       

[Dremn]

I really like the abilities sketch animation in this game.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Abilities Sketch

Cooooool

[Kamirine]

I don't see how it fits into canon either without omitting quite a bit from the previous games.

The story as a whole doesn't bother me, just the latter end of it. Gabe being Dracula doesn't bother me, just the final out come, with Satan still being the main bad guy of the reboot and Dracula just sitting around, hiding in the shadows all tragic and emo until it's time to once again defeat Satan and save themselves and humanity from being enslaved. His he like, the Alucard of the series now (that wants to die and finally rest) and Satan is now the 'Dracula' that only comes around after so many centuries or what not? Where are the actual Belmonts?

[Heuss]

I really like the abilities sketch animation in this game.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Abilities Sketch

Very good... Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2D?  

[Dremn]

Did anyone bother ripping the soundtrack yet?

[Nagumo]

Didn't Cox say he wanted to give his own explanation of why the Belmont family hunts the night or something like that? How does that apply here? Dracula killing his own wife is also pretty ironic when you think about it.  

Oh man, I just can't get over how terrible this twist ending is. Its like they hired some guy from fanfiction.net.        

[Foffy]

Dracula is actually a misunderstood bad guy in this universe? Wow, that is terrible. I already thought of Gabriel being Dracula but I figured they wouldn't pull another Soma. But I guess not.

And how does this fit into the canon again? I still don't get it.       

This is my strawhatted theory, and while ridiculous, it's only a cherry on top of the ridiculous cake.

Gabriel was never a real Belmont and only used the name as a surname (it's implied that he's a member of the Cronqvist family) so with all of the jazz going on with the game, and the fact Gabriel can't seem to be given release by being immortal, he decides to have his revenge against God by becoming a vampire, which begins the whole Mathias thing with Lament of Innocence (Lords references this game a LOT), which then just leads into the Dracula we know of based on the main IGA canon.

The strangest thing I'd find with such a silly fan-idea is that that would mean Dracula has loved 3 women and wanted to smite something for the loss of them. Surely he'd give up at some point .

It's not as bad as the Belmonts literally being the children of Alucard, though.