Topic: Disappointment about new Castlevanias:bitterness, nostalgy, or legitimate view?

[X]

He's talking about the curse of the Belmont blood through Alucard's affair with Sonia in Legends.

Ohhh, that curse! Well even before LoI and Legends there was already talk about how the Belmont family was forever cursed to fight off Count Dracula. It was mentioned in the intro-story of CV Bloodlines. The Belmont family are holy fighters for God and Dracula is the embodiment of all that is evil, so it would make sense that they have no real choice but to face him as the Belmont blood calls them to do so.

[zangetsu468]

Ohhh, that curse! Well even before LoI and Legends there was already talk about how the Belmont family was forever cursed to fight off Count Dracula. It was mentioned in the intro-story of CV Bloodlines. The Belmont family are holy fighters for God and Dracula is the embodiment of all that is evil, so it would make sense that they have no real choice but to face him as the Belmont blood calls them to do so.

It's more like they're bound to fight evil it's, of course that started with Leon though, after Sara's sacrifice. The curse is really the fact that Dracula keeps on returning over generations etc. the Belmonts fight for god, Leon was fighting for god in the crusades (and his outfit is very similar to that of a Templar.)

[X]

It's more like they're bound to fight evil it's, of course that started with Leon though, after Sara's sacrifice. The curse is really the fact that Dracula keeps on returning over generations etc. the Belmonts fight for god, Leon was fighting for god in the crusades (and his outfit is very similar to that of a Templar.)

Well Leon was no Templar that I can tell you. His old uniform in the intro-story was that of a French knight. And while it says Leon fought in the Crusades the truth being is that the battle didn't start till a year after the LoI story. A fault on IGA's part I'm convinced. But truth be told even if LoI was not made the Belmonts are still called upon by higher powers to confront evil. We can claim it's through Leon and the sacrifice of Sara, but I feel it with the family long before that. After all Even Renaldo said the whip works better for Leon and that was due to his mystical bloodline. And this was before the acquisition of the completed Vampirekiller.

[zangetsu468]

The thing with IGA Idk about, but it makes little difference in a fictional story. Mathias Cronqvist was taken off Mathias Corvinus who had a wife named Elisabetha, it's a different universe to our own.

X, that's my point though, having a mystical bloodline wouldn't classify as a 'curse' as such.

Curse:
a solemn utterance intended to invoke a supernatural power to inflict harm or punishment on someone or something

If anything the curse begins after LOI when Sara is sacrificed to complete the very weapon which the Belmonts require to 'hunt the night'.

By the same token you could argue Mathias/ Drac is cursed to be forever hunted by the Belmonts.

Unless a future entry to the og canon argues, mystical bloodline or not we can't be sure what happened to the Belmonts before LOI.

[crisis]

the Japan-only loi prequel cellphone manga said that leons parents died when he was very young, leaving him an orphan

or something like that, Nagumo knows a bit more about it

[GuyStarwind]

the Japan-only loi prequel cellphone manga said that leons parents died when he was very young, leaving him an orphan

or something like that, Nagumo knows a bit more about it

I'm sure this has been answered but is there an English translation to that manga?

[Shiroi Koumori]

I'm sure this has been answered but is there an English translation to that manga?

Nope. As far as I know no one here has a copy of that cellphone manga.
Unless we let Koutei time travel back in the past to grab a copy. 

[Nagumo]

The service that hosted the manga shut down 2 years ago. Nobody can't read it anymore. Now we can only hope they release it in tankōbon format someday. Then we can lock Shiroi in a dungeon and let her translate it in exchange for water and food.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Then we can lock Shiroi in a dungeon and let her translate it in exchange for water and food.

Awww man... that's cruel!
But hey, manga translations are easier than novel translations, so no need to lock me up. Though donations of food and water would be nice.

[Koutei]

the Japan-only loi prequel cellphone manga said that leons parents died when he was very young, leaving him an orphan

or something like that, Nagumo knows a bit more about it

It came from not the comic but the guide.
http://castlevania.neo-romance.net/translations.php?lament

Comics are not the prequel. It is all.
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Akumaj%C5%8D_Dracula:_Lament_of_Innocence_(comic)

And there is no sign that a time machine is still invented. hehe.