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	Castlevania timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Castlevania timeline was revised in 2002 by current series producer Koji Igarashi.
		Castlevania, along with the soul of its master, was sealed in an eclipse that occurred at the time of his death.
		2036: (The events of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow) A year after Soma Cruz was awakened to his powers and realized that he was the reincarnation of Dracula, a cult that sought the power of the count returned, this time building their own castle strikingly similar to the count's former ancestral home of Castlevania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castlevania_timeline (3725 words)

	Gamingredients - Issue 11 - History of Castlevania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		Like the original Castlevania, the game was really tough, although it had a better balance thanks to the addition of the password system and the 3 new characters.
		Castlevania was a step forward in the saga, and some might even claim that it set the path for the excellent Symphony of the Night.
		Castlevania is an ancient series with a long history, and so is its story, which you can read all about in our accompanying History in Castlevania article.
	www.gamingredients.com /features/historyofcastlevania (2286 words)

	Dracula - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		The Castlevania Dracula draws some history from both, but instead of preying on maidens this one threatens whole realms with his armies at the least, and at worst is presented as the very embodiment of evil.
		However, Konami retconned Castlevania Legends from the official Castlevania timeline because the game plot was inconsistent with the plot of Castlevania:SoTN and Castlevania 3 which says Dracula only became evil after his wife was killed by humans shortly before the events of Castelvania 3.
		Also of note, Castlevania: Curse of Darkness verifies that prior to the events of Castlevania 3, Dracula had not held a grudge against humans, as explained during Hector's confrontation with Dracula at the end of the game.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Dracula (1767 words)

	Gamerdad - Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
		In the Castlevania timeline, it's not been more than fifty years after Simon Belmont successfully banished Dracula and destroyed the vampire''s castle lair.
		Unoriginal story aside, Castlevania: Harmony Of Dissonance is yet another finely crafted Castlevania adventure, based on the game mechanics laid down by Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night, a Playstation classic and a true evolution of the Castlevania game series.
		Castlevania games play as a "Best Of Halloween", with Dracula almost always starring as the lead villain.
	www.gamerdad.com /print.cfm?itemID=2015 (685 words)

	ShiningHalf.com - Castlevania Timeline Rambling
		When I started the Castlevania fanfiction, all I had to work with was Symphony of the Night, still the crux-point of my Obsession, and a basic working knowledge of the earlier games left over from my childhood.
		Since the games themselves are so equivocal, my information about the timeline mostly comes from The Castlevania Dungeon, and in places even they admit that it's a mess.
		Castlevania, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and all other Castlevania games and the related characters, copyrights, and trademarks are property of Konami Co. LTD.
	www.shininghalf.com /cv/cvramble.html (2393 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)

	GamingWorld X - Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA) Review
		Aria of Sorrow is the first Castlevania set in the future, but don't get your hopes up of something refreshing and original.
		Combine the solid gameplay mechanics of Castlevania, and add the soul system, and what you have is the best playing Castlevania in quite a long time.
		The tried-and-true gameplay formula that Castlevania is known for makes another triumphant return, and the addition of the soul system is absolute brilliance and equally addictive.
	www.gamingworldx.com /gcn/CastlevaniaAriaofSorrowGBA.shtml (772 words)

	Exclusive Preview: Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (Konami)
		As one of the biggest PlayStation 2 releases of the fall, Castlevania: Lament of Innocence has a lot to live up to, but the chances are, there's very little to worry about.
		Lament of Innocence takes the series back to its roots - as in, the very beginning of the Castlevania timeline - the 11th century, to be exact.
		As a huge Castlevania fan who really didn't want the series to leave 2D, I was a tad skeptical about Lament of Innocenceuntil I saw it in action.
	www.ugo.com /mini/tombstone/castlevania.asp (579 words)

	IGN: Castlevania to the Big Screen
		Castlevania, which often goes by the name Demon Castle Dracula in Japan, is a highly successful franchise of side-scrolling console games that goes back to the Famicom and the original Nintendo.
		The plots of the various games are supposed to fit into the timeline of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and follow the exploits of the Belmont family through the ages in defeating the vampire Dracula after each of his many resurrections.
		The Castlevania project is still in its very early stages.
	movies.ign.com /articles/665/665378p1.html (297 words)

	CastleVania timeline ?? - AtariAge Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		I realise too that CastleVania 3 comes before 1 and 2 (since Trevor is Simon's ancestor), but Super CastleVania 4 features Simon and is supposed to be 100 after Dracula's last appearance.
		The Castlevania Dungeon has a sectiond devoted to this topic.
		The graphics and music of Castlevania 64 and LOD did not live up to the high standards set up by earlier games (and probably Symphony of the Night).
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=58772 (1024 words)

	ShiningHalf.com - Castlevania
		Unfortunately, it was only some time after this obsession and its attendant fan-fiction began that I found the original canonical Castlevania timeline.
		A Castlevania story set in the 1950s, in which the Belmonts have become fairly typical Americans.
		Castlevania, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and related characters, copyrights, and trademarks are property of Konami Co. LTD.
	www.shininghalf.com /cv/cvhome.html (521 words)

	The Lost Castlevania Legend
		Koji Igarashi, the frontman for the Castlevania series, declared "Castlevania: Legends" to be noncanonical and had it removed from the official Castlevania timeline.
		In this interview, Koji Igarashi says "Back in Castlevania III, in the beginning of the game, Trevor Belmont is the destined vampire hunter who has been instructed by the Greek Orthodox church to destroy Dracula." So, there's IGA's view on the matter, if you care.
		"Castlevania: Resurrection" was to be a launch title for the Sega Dreamcast console in North America on September 9, 1999.
	supergirl.741.com /Legends/index.html (8945 words)

	Gamasutra - Interview - "Whip Smart: Konami's Koji Igarashi On Mastering Castlevania" Printer Friendly
		At the time the series was developed in a very scattered way, by various different groups, and nobody had overarching control of it from a top level.
		The first Castlevania I worked on was Symphony of the Night, and there I tried to clean up the timeline.
		Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was Koji Igarashi's first Castlevania project.
	www.gamasutra.com /features/20050815/sheffield_pfv.htm (1304 words)

	GAF - News - Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS) - First screens! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		All the newer Castlevanias had pretty large castles and all, but you had so many powers at your disposal and the enemies were so weak, it was just too easy to breeze through them.
		Zeth- IGA was the first Castlevania director/producer to give the series logical and believable continuity (not to mention removing games that destroyed the original stories before IGA even entered the picture)...
		Iga is stupid, he has ruined, from my point of view, the history of castlevania, and the history of dracula itself, with the story of leon, come on, every on knows that dracula is the first and lord of the vampire, and iga comes with a piece of s**t.
	www.gamesarefun.com /news.php?newsid=6232 (5793 words)

	The Castlevania Storyline
		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.
		She was successful in defeating Dracula, but her powers were so strong that the people of Romania feared her, and thus had the Belmonts exiled from the land of Translyvania.
		In Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, you also play as a gun-wielding knight named Henry, one of the children Cornell freed several years prior, to rescue other village kids that are still remaining.
	castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com /storyline.html (2411 words)

	GAF - News - Castlevania: DoS, Super Princess Peach, Mario & Luigi 2 Scans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow is due out this October 3, and Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, the sequel to Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is due out this November.
		Hell, the first one might be a lot better on the SP rather than the murkfest it was on the original GBA.
		To my knowledge DS games haven't been put into illegal forms yet, and there are over 20 Castlevania games even before the two newest games launch....
	www.gamesarefun.com /news.php?newsid=5485 (752 words)

	RPGamer > Info Surfaces About New Castlevania
		In its most recent issue, Electronic Gaming Monthly has obtained some initial info on the new Castlevania title that was announced for the Playstation 2 back in February.
		As far as the Castlevania timeline goes, this will place the newest game as a prequel to the rest of the series.
		So the challenge for us is to make Castlevania fun as a true 3D game." However, to allay the fears of fans, Igarashi went on to say that the game will attempt to learn from the Castlevania titles released on the Nintendo 64 and avoid many of the mistakes those games made.
	www.rpgamer.com /news/Q2-2003/042303e.html (402 words)

	News - New Castlevania DS? // DS /// Eurogamer
		Nintendo Power magazine is hinting at a new Castlevania game for the DS.
		In a short blurb about the next issue, which is due out soon, NP hints at its cover-story thus: "As mysterious as a new moon, the follow-up to one of 2005's best DS titles is a whip-smart adventure that you won't want to miss."
		The whips and moon stuff seems quite obvious, and of course Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow certainly was one of 2005's best DS titles, despite the depth of competition, so it wouldn't be too surprising to hear about another one.
	www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=63627 (96 words)

	Gaming Target - PlayStation 2: Castlevania: Lament of Innocence - Preview
		However, Castlevania is finally ready for the big screen, on the PlayStation 2.
		Don’t fret though, ‘Vania fanatics, as Konami has taken a page from Devil May Cry (which I’ve always thought was Castlevania 3D anyway), and Lament of Innocence looks to bridge the outstanding 2D-style gameplay that the series is known for, in the current 3D world.
		Lament of Innocence takes the Castlevania series back to its roots — as in, the very beginning of the Castlevania timeline — the 11th century, to be exact.
	www.gamingtarget.com /article.php?artid=1215 (791 words)

	IGN: Castlevania: Lament of Innocence Review
		It appeared as though the Castlevania series was the embodiment of all things positive in the 2D realm.
		Throwing away the idea that Sonia Belmont first began the Castlevania timeline, Lament of Innocence marks the true beginnings of the Belmont clan.
		Because of this declaration by the crown and the church, the hordes of darkness remain unchecked while the king's forces remain far in the east.
	ps2.ign.com /articles/455/455583p1.html (945 words)

	Castlevania: Curse of Darkness Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine - Find Articles
		If you are one of the people who didn’t like the direction that Lament of Innocence took the Castlevania series in, well…you aren’t alone.
		Lament of Innocence shifted the series into 3D, and in doing so jettisoned a lot of the traits that people had come to associate with the series—the adventuring elements had practically disappeared, and players had to learn how to cope with a fixed camera.
		This entry in the series introduces a new protagonist, Hector, who was once a follower of Dracula before growing disillusioned and leaving for a life of seclusion.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdoup/is_200504/ai_n9522387 (641 words)

	List of Castlevania characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Belmont family (Belmondo in Japan) is the bloodline sworn to oppose Count Dracula in the Castlevania series.
		(For more information on Sonia's removal from the official timeline, see the Castlevania timeline article.) Soon after Dracula's defeat, Sonia bore a child who "would carry on the fate and tragedy of the Belmont family, and the bloodline of dark ways." Many fans believe Sonia's child to be Trevor Belmont.
		In Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge, Christopher had to rescue his son, Solieyu Belmont, after he was kidnapped by the Count Dracula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon_Belmont (2251 words)

	Castlevania. Arthurian Timeline
		In addition to historical information about the fifth century, we have included, in our Arthurian chronology, information about the fascinating and imaginative legends of Arthur that have developed in the vast body of literature that has been written through the years.
		So then, this timeline is an original effort, which is based on the available sources for the period.
		We have attempted, so far as we are able, to weigh those sources and to assign probable values to them, and, in the end, to put them together into a plausible chronology.
	castle.kulichki.net /artur/timeline.shtml (5753 words)

	Review - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow // DS /// Eurogamer
		Not that we're complaining - Dawn of Sorrow is one of the best Castlevania games we can remember, and although its concessions to the DS's unique feature-set are of varying quality and import, it's still a game that you definitely need to own if you have more than a passing interest in action-adventure.
		Although, you might want to clarify whether it's action-adventure you like, first, because Castlevania's biggest trick was and is its unique transcendence of gaming instincts.
		This is fine at first, but it gets a bit awkward and it feels bolted on - although we certainly appreciated the sight of it when we'd been busily thwacking a particular enemy with no joy for some time.
	www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=61282 (1083 words)

	Not A True Ending: The History of Castlevania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		Castlevania as a whole has been around for almost twenty years now, and even though the piles of titles have plenty of variety, they revolve around a central theme: hero needs to destroy vampire (usually Dracula) to prevent the downfall of mankind.
		For example, Super Castlevania IV and the Haunted Castle arcade game are both the same tale as the first Castlevania, and both Dracula X titles are considered to be the same.
		Sadly, it\'s far inferior to the Duo version, which is hailed as the greatest \"traditional\" Castlevania game, as later titles featured gameplay that was closer to that of the Metroid series.
	notatrueending.insidepulse.com /articles/20438 (896 words)

	Flame Bait Discussion: Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
		Not that continuity bothered the Castlevania series much before (Konami's official timeline put Sonia Belmont, the first to fight Dracula, at 1450 AD, while Vlad the Impaler was still very much alive).
		It was just called Castlevania, probably because in Japan the main series is called Demon Castle Dracula and since there's no Dracula in this game, let alone his castle, they needed a title change and used the American name.
		I thought this might be interesting, setting up for a different vampire villain that the Castlevania games could use to allow for more games prior to the 15th century (because if you've ever looked at the Castlevania timeline it's damn crowded).
	www.sabrecat.net /lament.html (2425 words)

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