#castlevania reinhardt

[chibishortdeath]

Reinhardt and Rosa hehehehehe :3c. I don’t have the 64 games yet but I need them ong fr.

Also would it be weird to post like a ton in one day if possible???

[heljay]

it's one of those "i got sucked into a doodle at butts o' clock" nights

reinhardt and rosa my beloveds

[zeteng]

Hair Color Pie Chart for Playable Castlevania Characters

In whole numbers, we have 7 black-haired characters (12.5%), 7 brunettes (12.5%), 13 blondes (23.21%), 12 white-haired characters (21.42%), 6 redheads (10.71%), 5 classified as other (8.83%), and 6 without or with unidentifiable hair (10.71%). Thanks to Stocke's video, I was able to put this together. I only used the character's artwork in their playable games though.

I did this because I was really curious what the ratio might be for the character's hair colors. As expected, most had white or blonde hair lol. Clearly, Kojima, Igarashi and whoever designed Nathan really liked protagonists with light colored hair.

Regarding the characters categorized as other; Simon has blue hair in Haunted Castle, Eric has green hair in addition to his blonde in Bloodlines artwork, the Lecarde sisters have purple-ish??? hair in PoR, and Carrie has blue/icy blue hair in 64/Legacy of Darkness.

I didn't know what the hair colors for Grant and Shaft are, so I just grouped them together with the "no hair" group. Sorry TT^TT I didn't want to add another category for "ambiguous colored hair".

(Dang, there are way too many characters to tag. I'll try to fit as many as I can, I guess???)

[n64retro]

Castlevania 64 (Konami, 1999)

[heta-magisch]

Castlevania Legacy of Darkness Heroes

[inversionimpulse]

I have mixed feelings what I recently learned re: Charlotte Aulin being a Belnades.

On the one hand it feels a little creatively shallow to have the hero’s magician friend be from the same clan as the other protagonists’ other magician friends

On the other hand it’s really funny. I suppose that Trevor and Sypha inadvertently doomed their families to be stuck with each other for the entire rest of time. There’s a Belmont? There’s a Belnades! Even the Belmonts’ weird American cousins have the Belnades’ weird American cousins around to bicker/cooperate with. Even all the way out in the year 2035, what do you know, there’s Julius Belmont and Yoko Belnades! That’s six centuries after Trevor and Sypha! One marriage and these two clans just cannot escape each other!

[sepublic]

I know I’m right!!!

[xenobuster]

A distant cousin of the Belmonts, Reinhardt Schneider is confronted with the mad castle of Dracula. More to prove to himself that he was worthy of the whip, than to save the world. He allies with young Carrie Fernandez in her quest to bring down the vampire.

[emptymasks]

After months of saying I'll finish these, they're finally done. Castlevania chibi stickers and badges are up on Etsy. There's three listings, one for the video game characters, one for the cartoon, and one for the cartoon sequel Nocturne. Making these stickers were a reward unlocked in mine and Julia_boo's donothon back in April.

Castlevania video game characters available: Aeon, Albus, Adrian 'Alucard' Tepes, Genya Arikado, Carmilla, Charlotte Aulin, Christopher Belmont, Cornell, Death, Vlad 'Dracula' Tepes, Elisabetha Cronqvist, Elizabeth Bartley, Eric Lecarde, Grant Danasty, Hector, Isaac Laforeze, Joachim Armster, John Morris, Jonathan Morris, Julia Laforeze, Julius Belmont, Juste Belmont, Leon Belmont, Lisa Tepes, Loretta Lecarde, Lucy Westenra, Maria Renard, Mathias Cronqvist, Maxim Kischine, Mina Hakuba, Nathan Graves, Reinhardt Schneider, Richter Belmont, Sara Trantoul, Shanoa, Simon Belmont, Soleil Belmont, Soma Cruz, Sonia Belmont, Stella Lecarde, Trevor Belmont, Walter Bernhard, Yoko Belnades.

Castlevania cartoon characters available: Abel, Adrian 'Alucard' Tepes, Carmilla, Death, Vlad 'Dracula' Tepes, Godbrand, Greta, Hector, Isaac, Lenore, Lisa, Morana, Striga, Sypha Belnades, Trevor Belmont, Varney.

Castlevania Nocturne characters available: Adrian 'Alucard' Tepes, Anette, Drolta Tzuentes, Edouard, Erzsebet Báthory, Julia Belmont, Juste Belmont, Maria Renard, Mizrak, Olrox, Richter Belmont, Tera.

I can’t link to my Etsy without risking Tumblr hiding the post from tag search results, but the link is in my pinned post, my carrd, I’m emptymasks on Etsy. Reblogs help support artists more than likes ❤️

[ID: Individual pixel art chibi drawings of 86 characters from various European musicals (listed above) that are available as stickers. These drawings are also available as badges where they are placed inside circles to show what they will look like as physical button badges, some of them with plain colour backgrounds and some with 1-3 different pride flags as examples of how you can customise the backgrounds.]

[beevean]

Castlevania Remakes

A fair few games in the Castlevania franchise are ripe for expanding and improving in a remake.

Simon’s Quest is one, for how developers could take the progenitor of the style that would become more of the series’ identity and give it all the improvements later attempts shined with.

Belmont’s Revenge is another, because of how conceptually interesting it is as a Classicvania and the ways the structure can be developed to incentivize many repeat playthroughs.

And then there are the two games that could probably use and benefit from this treatment the most: Castlevania 64 and Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness. With a big budget, plenty of time and freedom from the limitations of a 1990s cartridge console, a remake of the Nintendo 64 Castlevania saga, a two-games-in-one deal, sounds like a winning formula for 3Dvania respect.

It’d be even better to have the original games re-released and preserved to co-exist with a refined, HD upgrade to Reinhardt, Carrie and Cornell’s adventures. There are incredible things they could do with the atmosphere, storylines and boss battles. Maybe even give character and enemy redesigns where especially needed.

Reply: I think BR is a perfectly enjoyable game as it is if you like the genre, but I agree that SQ and the N64 games are in sore need of a remake! The former because it ended up being one of the most influential games in the series, not just in gameplay but lore as well (at least two games, if not three, have Dracula’s Relics as a plot point - also it’s the best insight in Simon’s character we have excluding GoS), and the latter because from what I know it has some very cool ideas and atmosphere, it just needed the refinement that came with future 2D games. They have become, from what I’ve seen, something of cult classics, probably fighting the backlash they got back in the day - same with SQ who now is much more appreciated than it used to be back in the AVGN heydays lol

[chibishortdeath]

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and happy holidays! I got some games hehehehehehe >:3

Also there’s a couple cookies I liked!

[lamborghinea-pig]

Castlevania "canon" is so fucking funny because like....

Canon First Belmont:

Simon Belmont (Castlevania)

Trevor Belmont (Castlevania III)

Sonia Belmont (Castlevania Legends)

Leon Belmont (Castlevania: Lament of Innocence)

Gabriel Belmont (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow)

Canon Dracula's:

Count Dracula (most)

Mathias Cronquist (Castlevania: Lament of Innocence)

Maxim Kershe (Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance [both bad endings])

Soma Cruz (Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow)

Graham Jones (Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow [fakeout])

Gabriel Belmont (Castlevania: Mirror of Fate, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2)

Random Dipshits Who Proved You Don't Need A Belmont or Alucard To Kill Dracula:

Reinhardt Schneider, Carrie Fernandez, Cornell (Castlevania 64)

Maria Renard (Castlevania: Rondo of Blood)

Nathan Graves (Castlevania: Circle of the Moon)

Hector (Castlevania: Curse of Darkness)

Eric Lecarde, John Morris (Castlevania: Bloodlines)

Johnathan Morris, Charlotte Aulin (Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin)

Shenoa (Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia)

Times Dracula Was Resurrected By A Vampire Hunter Just So They Could Kill Him Again: 2

Number of Times Dracula Was Killed Within Hours of Resurrection: 20+

[n64retro]

Castlevania 64 Konami Nintendo 64 1999

[alln64games]

Castlevania

NA release: 26th January 1999

JP release: 11th March 1999

PAL release: 14th May 1999

Developer: Konami

Publisher: Konami

N64 Magazine Score: 82%

In 1997, the PlayStation got Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It got great reviews and is now considered to be an amazing game – it’s even the reason for the “vania” part of the phrase “Metroidvania”. However, it didn’t sell well. Unfortunately, this era of consoles looked down poorly on 2D games. This was even worse on N64 than on PlayStation, so Castlevania on the N64 had to be in 3D.

This one isn’t a “Metroidvania” game, but seems like its taking the style of the first few Castlevania games and turning that into 3D. I should note that I’ve never played a Castlevania game before.

In Castlevania on the N64, you get to pick between two characters: Reinhardt, a vampire hunter with a whip, or Carrie, who has magical powers. They sense that Dracula has returned and seek to destroy him.

The graphics are nice on the N64, and Castlevania has the right atmosphere for the style of game – creepy, but adventurous. The levels are long but mostly linear, with you occasionally going off the path to hit a switch or find a key.

Combat is quite simple, you have a melee attack and ranged attack, and can also use magical items as weapons. You can lock on, but can not move (other than a jump to the side) while doing so.

Movement is a bit more of an issue. The jump is tall and floaty, and really difficult to judge – and definitely not helped by the camera. To make matters worse, any missed jump us usually instant death, and you’ll need to load your previous save or start the level from scratch.

The saving is one of the game’s big frustrations: they are quite a distance apart, meaning you have to fight through many enemies before you can start a jump again. In one instance, you fight a couple of bosses and then walk down a corridor. The floor will give way and you’ll die. Your last chance to save was before the bosses. Luckily, save states solve this, but it was still frustrating with that.

Another issue are some doors and events that only happen at certain times of the day. You can use sun and moon cards to skip forwards, but sometimes the only choice is to wait around for the right time.

That said, I was mostly enjoying the game until Castle Keep. Here, you have to move an explosive substance to a crack elsewhere in the castle. If you jump or get hit, you die. Of course, they set up a massive, winding narrow bridge you need to cross, with lizards spitting fireballs at you. It’s the hardest part of the game, but not for good reasons.

Then the game put its middle finger at me. I finished the level when it faded to black and told me I had finished the game and to start again on a higher difficulty if I want to see the rest. As I know I’m going to play a slightly different version of the game later on, I instead downloaded a safe file just before defeating Dracula (incidentally, if you don’t get there fast enough, you’ll get a bad ending).

Castlevania has some nice ideas, but a lot of frustrations. The gameplay is still enjoyable and I was expecting much worse from it’s reputation. Still, it’s an odd game because a port of Symphony of the Night would have been much, much better.

It’s just a crying shame that the obvious hard work that Konami have put into Castlevania is diluted by the game’s biggest fault; a wilfully obtuse camera that doesn’t always do what you want it to do. Perhaps it seems a little worse than it is because we’ve been spoiled by Super Mario 64, Zelda and, to a lesser extent, Banjo-Kazooie. Perhaps it’s because we want Castlevania to be so much better than it actually is.

- Jes Bickham, N64 Magazine #27

Remake or remaster?

It does need to be included in compilations.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to play Castlevania on N64

[moomingitz]

Do you have any hot takes with any other video game series beyond Sonic the Hedgehog?

Well I already shared mine concerning series like Banjo-Kazooie in the past. So I guess I have to go onto the next platformer series down the line:

The N64 Castlevania game/s are good. I mean it.

For a bit I naturally wondered if nostalgia had put some rose tinted glasses on my head. But after recently playing them for the first time in ages, I still think they hold up pretty well despite their flaws. Yes, like nearly all early 3D games you'll have to deal with more floaty and sensitive jumping and walking/running mechanics, and your biggest enemy will be the camera. But once you become accustomed to the early 3D platformer jank, the gameplay is really no different from the classic platforming from the previous 2D titles. You run, jump, kill enemies, can obtain side weapons, and you fall to your death a lot- complete with all of the Medusa heads. Though there is more focus on exploration in the earlier stages, and you can definitely see the Resident Evil and Zelda influences in the game.

And this is one of those cases where I think the all too common present fog N64 games had actually adds to the game's atmosphere. A spooky lake and forest is exactly where I would expect to see fog, or for a dark and dingy castle to be dusty as all hell. I think this game nailed the atmosphere in general. Helped by it's wonderful soundtrack- which also has my personal favorite rendition of, The Sinking Old Sanctuary.

Also, the game/s has enemies like skeletons on motorcycles and Frankenstein's monster with a chainsaw. Dracula is reborn into a Victorian demon child, who then becomes full on Bishounen dude, and then he turns into a dragon centipede monster. One of the ways you can get items is buying them from a demon who is a salesmen, complete with being dressed in the most typical fancy businessman outfit you can think of- unless you spend over 30,000 in gold. Then you have to fight him because apparently his contract says that you forfeit your soul if you do.

How can I hate a game that goes to town with the weird and quirky stuff?

These games are at least worth checking out. But if you're going to play at least one of them, play the "Legacy of Darkness" release. Aside from it being a director's cut of the original release of the N64 game- there are four story campaigns instead of just Reinhardt and Carrie's, and Cornell was going to be in the original release but him, and many other things, were cut due to time constraints- the stages are better designed and more streamlined, and the camera was improved some.

That magical nitro task in the castle center can still go straight to Hell, though.

[elgamesh]

hottest male characters (VERY much self indulgent)

notes at the end :)

masterlist / other lists / main fandom list

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✧ ENDEAVOR | My Hero Academia

✧ Cole Cassidy | Overwatch

✧ Mirage | Apex Legends

✧ Sousuke Yamazaki | Free!

✧ Eraserhead | My Hero Academia

✧ Nie Mingjue | Mo Dao Zu Shi

✧ Jesus | The Walking Dead: New Frontier (Game)

✧ Ganondorf | The Legend of Zelda

✧ The Iron Bull | Dragon Age: Inquisition

✧ Mink | Dramatical Murder

✧ Haruki Nakayama | Given

✧ Shiro | Voltron

✧ Joe | SK8: The Infinity

✧ Trevor Belmont | Castlevania (Netflix)

✧ Momota Kaito | Danganronpa v3: Killing Harmony

✧ Foreign God | Ennead (manhwa)

✧ Harbor | Valorant

✧ Graves | League of Legends

✧ Carlos Oliveira | Resident Evil 3

✧ Pyramid Head | Silent Hill

✧ Ryu | Street Fighter 6

✧ Vamp | Metal Gear Solid

✧ Vincent Volaju | Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

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honorary mentions:

mauga, reinhardt, gabriel reyes (overwatch)

heracles, iskandar (fgo)

kaji (evangelion)

blanca (banana fish)

jayce (arcane/LoL)

tenma kenzo (monster)

barret (ffvii)

gladio (ffxv)

dick gumshoe (ace attorney)

kaeya (genshin impact)

nekomaru (sdr2), korekiyo (ndrv3)

mike (aot)

harwin strong (hotd)

jim hopper (stranger things, but tbf i’m just a big simp for davir harbour lol)

gilmore, caleb, fjord, mollymauk (critical role)

arthur morgan (rdr2)

geralt of rivia (the witcher)

leon kennedy, chris, nemesis (resident evil)

sebastian michaelis (kuroshitsuji)

mettaton ex (undertale)

griffith (berserk)

fandoms i’m NOT in / franchises i’m not familiar with:

apex legends

league of legends (besides arcane)

valorant

final fantasy

street fighter

the witcher (besides the 1st season of the show)

castlevania (besides the show)

cowboy bebop

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rambling bc i can: this is not done as an statement but merely to show the world my taste and how h0rny i am for middle aged men. it’s personal taste. i genuinely don’t even know some of these characters cause i haven’t played/watched/whatever they are from. this is not about how much i love them but about how hot they are so im just simping. that being said i do LOVE most of these characters very much and i consider them my babies, my baby girls, my daddies, my sluts, etc. even if most are +30 years old beefy and hairy men. i very obviously have a type, yes. shush. it’s not my fault i have good taste. if you don’t then keep it to yourself, cause frankly i couldn’t care less!!!

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