Wasn't trying to sway you one way or another.
I still consider Legends canon, minus a few details here and there, during the ending.
Dude… you genuinely opened my mind XD
I like it too, but its lore is a spanner in the Lore, the Manual itself makes clear Lisa is Dracula's first love yet they shoved Matias' first love and left Alucard's mom in the bench
Maybe is a daydream Alucard has when we save the game and turn off the console?
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well ain't that castlevania timeline is easier when you remember every protagonist,and some of them divided into canon,non canon,and alternate universe (like Lord Of Shadows Event)
sara wasn't a vampire yet when her soul was infused into the whip. she was turning, but was still considered human when the spell was done to power up the whip. i would presume that because she did it willingly, it added a boost to the normal amount of power that spell would add to the alchemy whip. i would also guess that her soul still exists in the whip, similar to fi from zelda, who resides in the master sword.I enjoyed playing Lament of Innocence, it had an amazing OST but it did establish something I wasn't too comfortable with. Before Lament, the whip was described by some manuals as a holy weapon which would make sense why it destroyed vampires. Lament made the whip into a magical creation of alchemy holding the soul of a vampire that trusted the first Belmont (I'm not sure why she trusts the succeeding Belmonts) and has emnity with it's own kind.
While it did make everything fit, why only Belmonts could use it which led to the drama behind Portrait of Ruin, it broke the narrative of the whip being a holy weapon. Because it's a creation of magic holding a vampire's soul, it sounds more like an unholy weapon because holy means something consecrated to God, or blessed and sanctified by Him and the whip now sounds like the opposite. And if Leon was catholic, I wonder if it occurred to him that by implanting Sarah's soul in the whip, he would be depriving Sarah of Heaven and her eternal rest. In any case, the implication here is that they had to resort to using possibly dark magic instead of holy powers to destroy a vampire.
Beyond the classicvanias, there were other things Iga added that I wasn't comfortable with either. It took 1 or 2 Shinto priests to imprison the WHOLE castle into an eclipse. In other words, they did something Christians or western powers couldn't do. Was there some kind of hidden religious statement Iga hid there that Shinto was superior to Christianity? Or Japanese culture was superior supernaturally?
My Catholic sensibilities were one of the things that made me like Castlevania. Inside Dracula's castle, a vampire hunter seeks to destroy Dracula, carrying a holy whip along with holy sacramentals, a cross and holy water as well as a silver knife, axe...and a stopwatch that um...stopped time. (Well, I'll just pretend it's a holy relic of St. Tempus or some other pretend saint since they never said where it came from...
But...a good chunk of the games are directly referential to other games in the franchise?
I haven't read it because only Zelda 1 and 2 matter to me, but there's an entire book that was published with the official Zelda timeline
Like I said, as long as it's established I'll buy it. Otherwise, relying on 3rd party stuff to "rewrite" another work always struck me as being done in poor taste.
And it only took us nearly 20 years!
With all of the popular indie metroidvanias out there I am not surprised. Especially since they just hired the guys behind Dead Cells to make the game. They have a bunch of indie devs to choose from to make a 2d Castlevania which almost all of them would jump at the chance to make an official Castlevania
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