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  Castlevania Legends - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It replaced Castlevania III as the first game in the Castlevania chronology, introducing Sonia Belmont as the matriarch of the Belmont clan and naming her explicitly as the first Belmont to have actually destroyed Dracula.
Legends also contradicts Symphony of the Night, in that Symphony states that it was the death of Dracula's second wife in 1470- by a band of ignorant peasants who feared she was a witch- that prompted Dracula to begin his war against humanity.
Although Castlevania: Legends was retroactively removed from the Japanese Castlevania timeline by current director Koji Igarashi, for a while Konami USA did not reflect this, and it remained canon according to Konami USA in a Konami Timeline printed in Nintendo Power around the release of the "Sorrow" Series.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castlevania_Legends   (1793 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (Castlevania Legends)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Castlevania Legends is the third and final Castlevania (additional info and facts about Castlevania) title released for the original Game Boy (additional info and facts about Game Boy).
Castlevania Legends takes place in the year 1450, some 26 years before the events of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (additional info and facts about Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse).
It replaced Castlevania III as the first game in the Castlevania chronology, introducing Sonia Belmont (additional info and facts about Sonia Belmont) as the matriarch of the Belmont clan and naming her explicitly as the first Belmont to have actually destroyed Dracula.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/castlevania_legends.htm   (1065 words)

  
 Sonia Belmont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although Castlevania: Legends was retroactively removed from the Japanese Castlevania timeline by current director Koji Igarashi, Konami USA did not reflect this, and it remained canon according to Konami USA in a Konami Timeline printed in Nintendo Power around the release of the "Sorrow" Series.
Until IGA retconned Legends, Sonia was at one time considered the earliest known Belmont chronologically.
In Legends, Sonia was the first Belmont to personally fight and defeat the Count Dracula.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonia_Belmont   (482 words)

  
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Castlevania is a straight out action game at most moments, but exploring and moving back to previous areas is most common.
Castlevania incorperates multiple endings, new cast members through every play and plenty to keep you coming back for just one more time.
It is also the first Castlevania to be in the third dimension, which some welcome, others have scorned (however, most of those have not played the entire game).
www.cheatcc.com /n64/sg/castlevania.txt   (15021 words)

  
 Castlevania Legends
Castlevania Legends FAQ By: Dj Wolfchase V.1.0 -=Legal Note=- This game was created and copyrighted (c) by Konami 1998.
I have not played the other Gameboy Castlevania games, nor do I know someone who has.
Should be no problem for any Castlevania fan.
www.cheatplanet.com /gbstrategy/castlevania_legends.htm   (1818 words)

  
 The MagicBox Forums - Whats your favorite Castlevania game?
Well, got to pray that Castlevania: Lament for Gandalf wont sell too well, or there will be popping one of these atleast three times a year on all consoles.
Castlevania 64 was actually a good game, while Legacy of Darkness is probably the worse Castlevania and worse game on N64.
Castlevania ~ The Bloodletting was the original name for Symphony of the Night in Japan if i'm not mistaken.
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 Castlevania Legends
Castlevania: Legends is probably most notable for being the true first game in the series chronologically.
The previous Gameboy Castlevanias didn't seem to relate to the other games much, but that's been fixed some here.
The levels are long and rather dull, and lack the flavor that Belmont's Revenge had.
castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com /Games/cvl.html   (443 words)

  
 CastleVania Games
A.D. he first 16-bit SNES CastleVania, Super CastleVania IV could be largely considered a remake of the original CastleVania in everything but the storyline (though the Japanese version remakes even that), taking full advantage of Mode-7 graphics and superior sound quality.
A.D. he only CastleVania game to be released for Sega (outside of the Japan-only Sega Saturn version of Symphony of the Night and the aborted Sega Dreamcast Resurrection), Bloodlines offered a fast-paced epic quest that could very well be considered the best in the series so far.
To many, this game is considered "The CastleVania 64 that should have been in the first place, but wasn’t." Many of the levels remain the same, though with minute differences and additional levels altogether.
www.actiontattoos.com /castlevania/cgames2.html   (1350 words)

  
 VideoGames : Castlevania Legends   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I felt Legends to be very shallow in most parts, but the game was not all that bad.
Castlevania legends is again a very good game like all of its predesesors.
castlevania lengends was a ok game it's not in the class of some of the other castlevania series.
www.pilky.com /B00002ST18/Castlevania_Legends.shtml   (318 words)

  
 Castlevania Legends
Castlevania Legends is the third game that came out for the Gameboy handheld game system.
Castlevania Legends is a prequel to all of the Castlevania games and stories that existed at the time of the game's release.
Of course, now that Castlevania: Lament of Innocence has some out, the events of Castlevania Legends are but a faded memory in gamer's minds.
www.inverteddungeon.com /Games/cvl.php   (1128 words)

  
 The Lost Castlevania Legend
Legends was notable for two things: it was the first game in the series, chronologically, and it was the first game to star a female Belmont.
Koji Igarashi, the frontman for the Castlevania series, declared "Castlevania: Legends" to be noncanonical and had it removed from the official Castlevania timeline.
Legends may not be the best game of all of those affected, but it has a strenth in its raw, colorless, unembellished, straight-forward tale of the courage and strength of one girl to seek and defeat and evil being.
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 ipedia.com: Castlevania Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This is due to the fact that the developers want to expand the series to involve senarios that do not solely revolve around the main plotline of the series.
The Castlevania series is about a war, between the enchanted family bloodline of the Belmonts and Dracula.
According to the chronological order of the storyline of the Castlevania series and the year the game was chronologically set in, according to The Castlevania Dungeon:
www.ipedia.com /castlevania.html   (472 words)

  
 Castlevania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Castlevania is a video game series created and developed by Konami.
The Castlevania series is about a war between enchanted family bloodline of the Belmonts and At least every hundred years Dracula is and it is up to the Belmonts defeat him before he causes too much and suffering.
I have both castelvania's for the big N but i am realy stuck on castelvania 2 and hope to get this soon.I couln't get past the villa level without the guid on castelvania 1 but me and my friend could with the guide.Now my friend has left to go to another...
www.freeglossary.com /Akumajou_Dracula   (885 words)

  
 The CastleVania Timeline (Page One of Two)
Applying CastleVania to this bit of history, it could be said this third child was Alucard.
It is more than likely the actual events of CastleVania III happen in 1498 or 1499, as Trevor would only be 17 at 1499 if he was born in late 1482 by Sonia even though his bloodline w/Alucard could make this maturity plausible.
Super CastleVania IV was released in Japan as a remake of the original CastleVania (or in Japan’s case, Demon Castle Dracula), in both storyline and levels.
www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/davros/57/ctime1.html   (1873 words)

  
 Dracula's Curse: Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With all the CastleVania drawings, humor, fandom, hater-boiling, and Slogra worshipping, one thing lacking here for many a year was an actual review for the CastleVania III game itself.
The earlier Legends review was rather stale reading compared to what I was recently capable of, so I decided to go back in and fine tune it with this 8 page+ beast.
CastleVania Circle of the Moon a k a...
www.clockworkmansion.com /ericroman/dctp/riibyu.html   (541 words)

  
 DCTP: CastleVania Legends; The other CastleVania 3...REVIEW REEEEEEEMIX!!!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
CastleVania Legends takes place some time before CastleVania III Dracula's Curse (yeah, right), when Count Dracula was just starting out on spreading his reign of terror (you won't convince me of that).
CastleVania Dracula X on the SNES, killed anything that had to do with remixing tunes for a sweet surprise.
CastleVania fan Austin Erickson sent me these passwords on 4-02-98, according to this old e-mail I printed on June 29 of that year, the possible date I got the game.
www.clockworkmansion.com /ericroman/dctp/legends2000.html   (3634 words)

  
 Castlevania Music FAQ - IGN FAQs
In this FAQ I will try to note the names of the tracks that have appeared in all the Castlevania games.
Also, the Stage 8 track Déjà vu is really the Vampire Killer track from the first Castlevania.
Game Over Screen ============================================================================ Release: 1997 Title: Castlevania: Symphony of The Night System: Playstation Music Rating: 10/10 Stars Notes: The Blood Relations track (Fight with Richter) is also known as Strange Bloodlines, which is sort of a remix of bits of the Opposing Bloodlines track from the Dracula X Turbo Duo/Super Nes.
faqs.ign.com /articles/461/461637p1.html   (602 words)

  
 Castlevania Unlimited RPG
Simon is the character featured in the most Castlevania games.
Taking him on in Castlevania Legends for the Gameboy, she wields an upgradeable flame whip just like Christopher.
When she begins her search, Castlevania mysteriously appears, as if to lead her on the search.
www.angelfire.com /wizard/castlevania0/biographies.html   (1295 words)

  
 The MagicBox Forums - Whats your favorite Castlevania game?
Try checking out the Castlevania Dungeon...it's probably the best Castlevania site out there and last time I checked had a ton of albums up.
Besides, after having gone back through the original Castlevania again it's clearly not as difficult as it used to be.
In fact, I never knew what those things were in any Castlevania game until I played Dracula X on my TurboGrafx.
www.the-magicbox.com /forums/printthread.php?t=5239&pp=40   (2624 words)

  
 CastleVania News
A recent issue of PSM has indeed confirmed (apparently) this game, though hasn’t said much other than the fact that it will indeed be more like the old-school CastleVania titles.
Via time travel, these two Belmonts are summoned to take care of the evil that both the Grim Reaper/Death and a new Countess (or is it Bartley?) attempt to bring back into the world...
CastleVania II : Simon’s Quest, when released on NES in 1988, was a game that took the CastleVania series down uncharted territory - RPG territory.
www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/davros/57/cvnews.html   (483 words)

  
 IGN: Castlevania Chronicles
The creepy castles and dreadful draculas of Castlevania.
The next PlayStation Castlevania arrives to Japan in less than a month.
Sure, it's same old classic Castlevania, but that's still better than most of what we get today.
psx.ign.com /objects/016/016263.html   (284 words)

  
 Castlevania Legends for Game Boy Color - Find, Compare, and Buy at Shopping.com
A full moon rises on Castlevania Legends the first GameBoy title since 1991 in the wildly popular vampire hunting series.
The feminine twist to this entry has pony-tailed Sonja Belmont cracking her whip on all sorts of things that go bump in the night.
Hardly a Y chromosome is in sight as Sonja the sister of longtime Castlevania hero Simon Belmont searches a gloomy castle for Count Dracula himself.
www.shopping.com /xPC-Castlevania_Legends   (392 words)

  
 Super Castlevania IV
Historian Mode Activate: Super Castlevania 4 came out at or around the launch of the SNES (which is still the greatest game system ever!).
Well, in reading a review somewhere (which I oddly can't find the link to now, but I know the page still exists), the author made a comment about the original Castlevania (which I think applies well to SCV4) which I shall now steal and rephrase as I like.
Although the graphics and sound of the original CV may not have been the best, everything was blended to create an atmopsphere of a gothic castle right out of one of the Universal or Hammer monster movies.
www.inverteddungeon.com /Games/cv4.php   (1882 words)

  
 Information Headquarters: Castlevania
Castlevania is a video game that was developed by Konami and was first published for the NES game console in 1987.
An earlier version of Castlevania appeared on the MSX Personal Computer in 1986 called Vampire Killer.
The Castlevania franchise has graced the MSX, NES, Gameboy, SNES, PC Engine, X68000, Sega Genesis, PlayStation, N64, Gameboy Advance, and PlayStation 2.
www.informationheadquarters.com /Video_games/Castlevania.shtml   (263 words)

  
 Konami Castlevania Legends Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This game take place as the earliest Castlevania where you play as Sonia Belmont in your standard CV theme of killing Dracula.
This game is cool, since I'm a huge fan of Castlevania, but I agree, that Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge for the Gameboy™, is better.
Cool graphics, and I like the burning mode, but this game isn't as fun or has the cool graphics like Belmont's Revenge, and you can't select levels unless you know the passwords.
www.videogamereview.com /PRD_86606_3758crx.aspx   (286 words)

  
 The Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Since the beginning, CastleVania has been a blending of the classic horror movies, by putting Count Dracula at the head of the pack, and having other monsters serve as bosses (Frankenstein, The Mummy Man, etc.) Vampires have been part of lore and legends throughout history.
In the lore it is said that, first, a stake must be driven into the heart of the vampire.
Not much is known yet about Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, but this is the date where Juste Belmont, descendent of Trevor and Sypha, must battle evil.
mywebpages.comcast.net /remyz16/belmont/series.html   (1865 words)

  
 Shinin9 Fin9er - Bloody Tears   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I recently chanced upon a UK Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow for GBA which was hard to track down upon release.
I intended to pick up at least the PS2 limited edition pack whilst in Tokyo but never got around to it, and have the GBA Castlevania Classics realease somewhere to be photographed when it's found.
My Castlevania collection started off innocently enough, but a chance acquisition of two copies of the same game from different countries lead me to think "I wonder...
uk.geocities.com /shinin9_fin9er/bloody_tears   (865 words)

  
 IGN Boards - The Official Castlevania Timeline
This information was created by the producer of Castlevania, so it has to be correct.
I forget what happens storywise at the end of Dracula X though, so I guess this post was kinda pointless.
I took notice of your post, but you said you think its set 3 or 4 years later, plus since he didn't say he made a mistake in this thread, not everyone is going to go looking for the thread where he said that.
boards.ign.com /message.asp?topic=94787017&replies=5   (806 words)

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