Castlevania

>presumably impaled many innocents before Lisa came along
But he said he doesn't do that anymore, so IT'S OKAY.

JUST LIKE KYLO REN
HE IS GOOD NOW

Why is Isaac so based bros? What went right?

Leon exists in this continuity and went to Wallachia looking for Dracula, so Lament of Innocence is presumably canon to some degree. Even if Ellis had no idea Mathias existed till he saw the name on the wiki and thought it'd be a good name for his OC.

Of course, they could always revise that story if they adapt it so Mathias is less malicious, or had no involvement in getting Sara to Walter Bernhart.

Or Leon fought Mathias, who is a separate vampire from Dracula.

Y'know, like the games should have done before they made that stupid retcon.

I fucking hope Dracula is the true Vlad Țepeș and not some bozgor vampire that stole his name.

>ywn sleep with Sypha
Feels bad man

IGA could've done that, yeah. Having him kill Mathias and then vow to keep hunting might've given Leon some nice closure.

I'd say it's much better as an origin story than "Sonia kills Dracula and has Trevor with Alucard", but it reminds me too much of JoJo.

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I always imagined a new game where Vlad and Mathias go to war over who gets to be top vampire (Vlad wins, duh), with a new Belmont caught in the middle.

Or, to spice things up, a new hero that can shapeshift, like Cornell in the 64 game.

I never really minded LoI's Dracula thing, though it takes a bit liberally from Coppola's shitty Dracula movie.

Also is Matthias meant to be Matthias Corvinus or does he just have a similar name?

Probably just similar, same way they took Elizabeth Bathory and made Elizabeth Bartley.

Now I'm wondering if they won't adapt Curse of Darkness cause it seems so many people agree with Dracula and that game was basically Hector looking at the screen and telling the player that you shouldn't turn into a homicidal maniac because of your dead wife

from a human moral perspective he was absolutely wrong. credit where it's due, I like how he at least *tried* to be a positive force on the world once Lisa came along, but genocide's....well. bad.

he himself never even saw it as wrong, due in part to how vampire society just looks at humans as livestock anyway, but the only reason why he had remorse was because he was killing his son. (scene gets me every time ;-;)

"Bartley" was just a mistranslation for the localization, in the Japanese version she was explicitly Elizabeth Bathory.

Though, interestingly

>Please tell us about any events, ideas, or characters that had to be cut from Symphony of the Night. Also, if there’s any post-game story for Richter, Maria, or Alucard, please share that too.
>>Igarashi: As far as the story goes, I did have deeper and more involved dialogue planned, but I thought it would interrupt the game progression too much, so we took it out. There were many characters who had to be cut, but the ones I still wish we could have added were Elizabeth Bathory and Gilles de Rais.

the point the genocide was that Dracula had a death wish. he'd exact revenge on the species that took the only person he loved, but also cutting off a vampire's supply of nourishment and thereby, commuting a very long form suicide.

If Drac ever does come back, just say he was resurrected wrong and his sympathetic human side is gone.

*committing* a very long form suicide.

i need to stop trusting auto correct

Hm. Then yeah, Mathias was probably meant to be the real guy.

Haven't watched the 3rd season, but the FIRST season was ABSOLUTELY perfect. Perfect dialogue, perfect pacing, perfect action.

The second season... wasn't. The main characters got stuck in a basement for the entire season to focus on vampire dynamics. Which, while interesting, wasn't engaging. The action was gory for the sake of gory, and the pacing became slightly stilted.

I liked the third season more than the first two.

I thought the third season was entertaining but tha pacing is even worse, slower than 2 and the payoff wasn't as good. Some of the plots feel like they could've been shortened or just outright cut, but Im still looking forward to S4

>ywn be Sypha sleeping with Trevor
feels even worse

yeah, bring him back as one of his transformation monsters and say he's insane and dangerous
Then in Simon or Christopher's stories he can be more intelligent.

I think they just needed some time to build up what's coming next since the main threat of season 2 had that buildup with season 1. I overall liked S3 but I'd put it below 2. All I'm really hoping for is following up on the *very* last scene of S3 in a big way. Repercussions of that are just massive.

Also interesting is that they originally wanted to adapt the Stoker book and put Alucard as the protagonist
They also had the War of 1999 in mind back then too, when discusing the future and the possible return of the Belmonts. Pretty neat they had that on the table before Aria.