Castlevania
Sign in to saveCastlevania (), known in Japan as is a gothic horror action-adventure video game series and media franchise created by Konami. The series is largely set in the castle of Count Dracula, the arch-enemy of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters.
Key facts
- Video game series.title
- Castlevania
- Video game series.image
- Castlevania logo.png
- Video game series.caption
- Logo of the Castlevania series, introduced with 2003's Lament of Innocence
- Video game series.publisher
- Konami
- Video game series.first release version
- Castlevania
- Video game series.latest release version
- Haunted Castle Revisited
- Video game series.creator
- Hitoshi Akamatsu
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Castlevania Portal Site
Welcome to the Castlevania portal site! Come check out all the latest updates and information on KONAMI’s beloved vampire slaying, action-adventure game series.
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Wikidata facts
- Genre
- platform game
- Developer
- Konami
- Platform
- Xbox One
- Official website
- www.konami.com/games/castlevania
- Image
- E3 2013 (9029502585).jpg
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- Commons category
- Castlevania
- topic's main category
- Category:Castlevania
- list of characters
- list of Castlevania characters
- alternative name
- キャッスルヴァニア
- topic has template
- Template:Castlevania series
- derivative work
- Castlevania
- title
- 悪魔城ドラキュラ
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Games
- Spin-offs
- Common elements
- Gameplay
- Plot and setting
- Development
- Audio
- Reception and legacy
- In other media
- TV series
- Cancelled projects
- Notes
- References
- External links
Castlevania (), known in Japan as is a gothic horror action-adventure video game series and media franchise created by Konami. The series is largely set in the castle of Count Dracula, the arch-enemy of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters.
Debuting with the 1986 video game on Nintendo's Famicom Disk System, the first entry and the majority of its sequels are side-scrolling action platformers. The 1997 game, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, originally released for the PlayStation, returned to the nonlinear gameplay first seen in ''Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, which also introduced role-playing elements and exploration. Several installments later adopted Symphony of the Nights gameplay, which along with Super Metroid, have popularized the Metroidvania genre. 2010 saw the release of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, a 3D action-adventure game developed by MercurySteam and Kojima Productions that served as a reboot of the series.
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