Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

For those that have seen the series, if you see the anime, it's kind of a direct sequel to that one.

It's centers around 20 years i think after castlevania 3 which was on the nintendo so it's 20 25 years difference in that one so it's a mainline castlevania game it's pretty basic to all the other metroidvania games you need to find your weapon your upgrades your ways your shortcuts all that kind of stuff but the thing is though in previous castlevania games you get really just walk everywhere you want without too much trouble you needed an ability to get to a certain area that is true but around here there's a lot of platforming which for a castlevania game is in my opinion is pretty weird and by platforming i mean like extreme platforming sometimes it's in my case it's unplayable with a keyboard because I can't change my controls good enough.

I have an Azerti keyboard.

So actually, W is on the bottom of the keyboard with us.

I guess it's a direct... continuation of four games from their past.

It's like Lament of Innocence, Dracula's Curse, and Curse of Darkness.

It takes place 23 years after Dracula's Curse.

It's very specific, by the way.

Very specific.

But if you were a longtime fan expecting Belmont's Curse to be a completely faithful revival of the series we played back in the early 2000s, then you will want to think again.

This is a different breed of monster you're hunting, both for good and for ill. Belmont's Curse picks up in Paris about 23 years after the events of the NES Famicom classic Castlevania III Dracula's Curse, the game Netflix's original Castlevania series was based on.

This time, the Belmont in charge of dishing out pain to the various creatures of the night, including Big Bad Dracula himself, is Rose Belmont.

Trevor leaves Rose on her own to get to the bottom of what is going on in Paris, and the story that follows over the next 10 to 15 hours is one that boils down to what fans of Konami's 40-year-old series would expect.

Let's talk about Castlevania.

Belmont's Curse.

Let's talk about

Castlevania.

I did not play them until they were Metroidvania sort of experiences.

I think if I had to put them in a tier, I would probably put Symphony of the Night first, and then Super Castlevania IV, and then probably Dracula's

Curse.

That's the only one I really like.

it really really good stuff

yeah so you didn't mention that here but actually if you rewind the clock to about a year ago when we did our castlevania 3 dracula's curse episode you did in fact reveal it there and i think i wrote this down specifically as an episode to do because i wanted to force you to play it down the road um so yeah i i am quite excited to get in here in uh Talk to, I guess I would be excited to talk to anyone who's played Castlevania 4 for the first time in 2026.

That is an interesting concept on its own, but to talk to someone who knows about video games, but also like Castlevania 3 is one of your favorites of that era.

The fact that you avoided 4 this long is actually kind of crazy to me.

Yeah, I don't know why.

Yeah.

It is some of the biggest value you can have in video games if you are into old side-scrolling action platformer things.

For Castlevania 3 and 4 alone, it's pretty cool, but also, again, you get Bloodlines, the Sega Genesis-exclusive Castlevania game.