Topic: Konami's Approval Rating

[DragonSlayr81]

that's awesome to know.  Dracula being reborn in Japan actually makes sense now =)  Sounds like Julius Mode in Dawn of Sorrow too.

Strange enough, it does make sense. And all these years, I thought it was an attempt to interject some Japanese pop/pride into the CV series. Sometimes they do that, just for the sake of Japanese gamers. It actually doesn't sound like IGA pulled it out of his ass now.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

It would've been nice if the poetic lines were actually IN the story rather than just mentioned.
People have to Wikipedia Fact-check their stuff as a result.

[cecil-kain]

It would've been nice if the poetic lines were actually IN the story rather than just mentioned.
People have to Wikipedia Fact-check their stuff as a result.

Probably better that it WASN'T put in there --can you imagine how badly it would have been FUBARed in localization? English to Japanese and back to English?

*shudder* 

[X]

It would've been nice if the poetic lines were actually IN the story rather than just mentioned.
People have to Wikipedia Fact-check their stuff as a result.

Oh yes, absolutely. I've heard those quatrains before and though they refer to something else, it makes AoS' prophecy of Dracula a heck of a lot better understood then what we got thanks to Konami of America 

[Reinhart77]

any interesting Nostradamus prophesies for around the year 1576 or at least "after 100 years" after some unknown time?  there's a translation of the Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth script on the Castlevania Realm that indicates that Dracula rose according to a prophesy.

"As foretold in prophecy, after 100 years, the time has come for the Demon King who once plunged mankind into fear, Count Dracula, to return. "
http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/cv-adrebirth/documents/DemonCastleLegendsREBIRTH.docx

We almost need a new thread for this.

[narkolepsi]

any interesting Nostradamus prophesies for around the year 1576 or at least "after 100 years" after some unknown time?  there's a translation of the Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth script on the Castlevania Realm that indicates that Dracula rose according to a prophesy.

"As foretold in prophecy, after 100 years, the time has come for the Demon King who once plunged mankind into fear, Count Dracula, to return. "
http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/cv-adrebirth/documents/DemonCastleLegendsREBIRTH.docx

We almost need a new thread for this.

I always did want to know where the 100-year thing came from. Maybe it's a cycle the world goes through, needing to flush all the evil out before the numbers turn. I'll have to look into that... There is one prophecy that mentions the cycles of the moon, and is explained like this in "Nostradamus and His Prophecies":

Wollner's charts show one "great cycle" of the moon between 1288 and 1648, with the next one coming only- after 3797 (in 3808) and several lesser cycles of 252 years, ending in 1576, 1828, 2080, etc.

One date listed was indeed 1576, and Wollner = Dr. Christian Wollner.

I found a very comprehensive page delineating a calendar system, but it is ridiculously complicated and makes my brain ache at 10pm at night :/

A Castlevania prophecy thread would be pretty cool. I actually did bookmark my Nostradamus ebook with a bunch of Castlevania-sounding parts, haha. I especially love these quatrains, because they could be applied to SotN if you think about it enough...


66
Through great dangers the captive escaped:
In a short time great his fortune changed.
In the palace the people are trapped,
Through good omen the city besieged.

67
The blond one will come to compromise the fork-nosed one
Through the duel and will chase him out:
The exiles within he will have restored,
Committing the strongest to the marine places.

Think: it can refer to Richter's possession and rulership of Castlevania under Shaft, and Alucard exorcising the soul of Richter / defeating his father.

I have way too much time on my hands...

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I approve of the creation of said thread.

[X]

The blond one will come to compromise the fork-nosed one
Through the duel and will chase him out:
The exiles within he will have restored,
Committing the strongest to the marine places.

This one just speaks volumes of the original Castlevania to me

The blond one will come to compromise the fork-nosed one - Simon Vs Dracula

Through the duel and will chase him out: - Simon defeats Dracula

The exiles within he will have restored, - The cursed spirits of Castlevania go back to their peaceful slumber

Committing the strongest to the marine places. - Castlevania crumbles into the Black Sea.

[Nagumo]

I don't think people should read too much into this stuff. You could give a thousand interpretations how all of this stuff relates to the story of the games, but I don't think it's meant to. Trust me, it will save you guys a headache.

[narkolepsi]

I don't think people should read too much into this stuff. You could give a thousand interpretations how all of this stuff relates to the story of the games, but I don't think it's meant to. Trust me, it will save you guys a headache.

It's not related to the games (except the 1999 verses, by virtue of the Sorrow games). If one were to prophecy about something it certainly wouldn't be a game series that would come centuries later. I just thought it'd be an interesting diversion. The prophecies are malleable enough that they could be applied to anything at all if you try hard enough. (Just look at all the tinfoil hat sites floating around. I had to sift through a million of them to come up with any sort of reputable Nostradamus anything.) For me, that stuff actually isn't headache-inducing, but kind of fun. It's definitely not 100% serious and I'm a person who's very much into analysis.

[X]

I pretty much did that one for fun too. To me it screamed Castlevania (NES) that I just had to do it. It only took me a few seconds since it all popped into my head when I read it. By trying to interpret the REAL meaning behind the quatrain then yes, you are asking for a headache.

[Mortificator]

I always did want to know where the 100-year thing came from. Maybe it's a cycle the world goes through, needing to flush all the evil out before the numbers turn.

According to the story in the manual for Castlevania Chronicles, which is apparently the same as the story from the Japanese manual of the original Castlevania, there's a legend in the area that the power of Christ weakens once every hundred years.

I don't know why Christ would be on a schedule like that, though.

[Flame]

I was gonna post something witty about Christ going on vacation, but Ive got nothin'

[narkolepsi]

According to the story in the manual for Castlevania Chronicles, which is apparently the same as the story from the Japanese manual of the original Castlevania, there's a legend in the area that the power of Christ weakens once every hundred years.

I don't know why Christ would be on a schedule like that, though.

Hmm. I don't see that in the English version text. It echoes the original story of the Easter Sunday carnival and concurrent black mass, and telling the Dracula legend to their children at bedtime, but only says "the forces of evil prevail" every 100 years. Christ's name isn't mentioned anywhere as far as I can see. Was he mentioned in the Japanese manual?

[X]

The Easter Sunday carnival was also mentioned in the Super Castlevania IV instruction booklet too.