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Just in time for the third season of the Netflix animated series it inspired, PlayStation classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is now available for $2.99 on iOS and Android devices. It’s the PS Vita and PS4 re-release of the game, now with virtual on-screen controls, which everybody loves.
Castlevania is a punishing game. Getting hit at the wrong time might mean plummeting to a frustrating death. It’s a…
The Castlevania Anniversary Collection is on sale this weekend so I picked it up as it includes the Japanese editions of some of the classic games. I knew there was an array of differences between the US and Japanese versions, but it’s been neat seeing them directly. One of the most interesting is that in the original…
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Let’s talk about one of my least favorite words in the video game lexicon: metroidvania. A portmanteau combining the…
Genre is mostly bullshit. It’s useful for discussion and for imagining where a certain game exists on the continuum…
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Konami is patching its arcade, Castlevania, and Contra collections today to add Japanese versions of most of the games. It’s also adding button remapping to Castlevania and Contra. Now you can play Castlevania III with the better music.