Is this Alucard? Why doesn't he show up in the story?
I recently played Rondo of Blood, the original for the PCECD not a remake, and it lived up to its reputation as one of the best Castlevanias. Good controls, good challenge, lots of replay value to find the alternative exits. My only real complaint is that the music is a little bit lackluster. The good tracks are remixes of previous themes and not a single remarkable new track.
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>Why doesn't he show up in the story?
Why should he have? Rondo is from 1993, way before SOTN was even thought of.
He was in 3
That was a completely different Belmont. They change each game unless it's Simon, who gets special privileges.
Why would that even matter
Because there wasn't much lore at the time. There was no expectation a side character from one game would show up in another. Why specifically ask about Rondo? Why not ask why Alucard didn't show up in Super Castlevania IV or Bloodlines? Same idea. They just kept coming up with new characters rather than recycling old ones until SOTN rolled around.
Well if those other games had a distinctly humanoid shadow like that I'd also ask if that's Alucard.
He's an inmortal son of dracula who hates him and basically only lives to fight him
It's way more likely meant to be Dracula himself, if anything. Or it's just a generic shadow figure because "spooky."
Why doesn't Dracula just come down to the gate so I can kick his ass? Fricking moronic
Because, anon.
Are you trolling me right now, zoomer-chama? I ask because there is a shadowy figure with a flowing cape in the background of this particular level. Alucard had already been established in Castlevania III.
It's just kind of a weird question. The reason it's not Alucard is because the idea that he'd come back hadn't been thought of yet. Sure, I guess you could argue they were being VERY forward thinking and foreshadowing his return but that 1) doesn't jive with SOTN's story, and 2) is implausible since the two games are four years apart and had different dev teams.
They're all Simon to me.
It's the same Alucard, which is why Alucard fights doppelgangers of his old friends in SOTN.
he is talking about Alucard moron
Music taste is subjective. The alternate stages have the new music and they grew on me after repeated playthroughs.
Alucard does not show up because he is in a slumber during that time. He only wakes up after Richter turns evil and takes control of the castle.
The Scarlet Pimpernel takes place at the exact same time so maybe it's him.
>Is this Alucard?
That's Castlevania, who's a pretty cool guy. Eh whips the skeletons and doesn't afraid of anything.
>What if castlevania was a vampire.
Should I name my son alucard
This kind of shit should be considered child abuse.
But it sounds cool
Jesus fricking Christ mate why can't fandoms just give their kids honest names like Henry, why do you motherfrickers have to christen your first child fricking Dovahkiin? You know what Alucard's classmates are gonna call him? They're gonna call him. Amoron, because that's what you and by extension he are.
Bro its not the 90s anymore nobodys going to say Amoron. They'll probably take it at face value. You're being a bit of an old man
>honest names like henry
thats so gay
Nah they'll just bully him with AI or post videos of him getting his ass kicked online. It's worse now.
>They'll probably take it at face value
No they won't, Alucard has been in popular culture since the 40's, for younguns even more so now because of anime
So the likelihood of saying amoron is even lower
>So the likelihood of saying amoron
??????????? They'll say Amoron regardless because the prosody matches up
You're stuck in the past that wasn't even how kids worked when I was a kid
Okay man. Name your kid a vidya gaem character. Not moronic. Not cringe. Have a blast.
>They're gonna call him. Amoron, because that's what you and by extension he are.
normal whites are giving kids such stupid fricking names I don't know if they would even know alucard isnt a normal name.
Shit like Blazer, Lazer, and Fazer.
Look at this shit from 2023
Aire, Royal, Soren, Silas, Atticus, Hugo
Alucard is already going to be in a class full of kids named like some Phantasy Star game.
Soren is a sick c**t name
And normal or not, the prosody matches up with Amoron, so they're gonna call him Amoron
No. Give him your first name spelled backwards.
It's a bad day to be the son of Regina
I'm not naming my kid Kram.
Kram laughs at your four winds!
>I'm not naming my kid Kram.
Kram would actually be a pretty sweet name in a fantasy world.
What about Graham?
Your name is Maharg?
Kids with generic names are statistically happier.
I don't want him happy
You fool. Just name your child your name in reverse. That's the Dracula way. Also sternly warn your child you will come back in 100 years to perform unspeakable evils. In Europe.
Could be. Game's full of callbacks and I think this was just a little easter egg, not any sort of visual storytelling or foreshadowing, but could be.
>no remarkable new tracks
Stage 1 and 5' are certified bops, but I'll concede that the style is overall a bit too 80s and synthy for the theme and setting. I imagine they went this way to match the anime sensibilities rather than gothic horror.
The most convincing theory I've read is that it's the protagonist of Konami wai wai world.
As for the music, I still think it's great as most Konami stuff from the time. But I like the Dracula X SNES version of Divided Bloodlines better than the Rondo original.
eh if it was Konami-man they would have emphasized the winged hat/helmet or made him a bit more SD in stature. Pretty sure it's just an ending screen reference, brother.
>not a single remarkable new track
Cross a fear, dumbfrick.
>not a single remarkable new track
It's whoever this is.
But this is Magus
Or human Frog.
He was asleep at the time.
An interview in the Japanese Dracula X Chronicles guide book asked this question and got an "I dunno, probably Dracula."
It's clearly Spawn
I could've sworn they said this was Dracula in an interview, but I can't find it. Alucard didn't wake up until Symphony of the Night.
Lore-wise it is impossible to be Alucard because he is sleeping during this game time period.
This is explicitly stated during the intro to SOTN.
Behind the scenes I would say that yes this is intended to be Alucard and may be either a simple easter egg reference or a remnant of something that was planned but never finished.
It could also be Dracula himself staring down at Richter. Dracula wears a cape too.
If I was a kid playing this game I'd assume it was Dracula.
I think it's worth noting that a lot of Castlevania covers have this motif of Dracula looming over the landscape from his castle. The more I think about this the more I think that's supposed to be Dracula.
It's that shonen villain thing where they know the hero is coming but want a fair fight to face him at his best or some shit.
Wouldn't he still be asleep at this point in the timeline?
He got out of bed for a quick snack
It's a tree.
Naw homie das Batman
>come back to life every hundred years
>make a fortune in compound interest
>have to spend it on replacing candelabras
>the closest to an official explanation for that is that the candles hold the souls of Dracula's victims, and they give you items as rewards for freeing them
That's gotta be a rough fate.
Why did they steal lore from Super Mario Bros?
It's Shaft you idiots.
Shaft is wearing a fricking dress. He can't lift his legs in that way.
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