Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Review
Oct 20, 2026 · 7 min · 9 segments
A long-awaited return that brings the series into the modern era with a fast-paced focus on action first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
Oct 20, 2026 · 7 min · 9 segments
A long-awaited return that brings the series into the modern era with a fast-paced focus on action first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
A long-awaited return that brings the series into the modern era with a fast-paced focus on action first, this is your IGN review of Castlevania, Belmont's Curse, by Scott White.
Nearly two decades after the last mainline 2D Castlevania game, the team behind 2023's Dead Cells Return to Castlevania DLC has been given the keys to Dracula's castle for real.
Castlevania Belmont's Curse aims to breathe fresh life into this 40-year-old series with a creative blend of old and new ideas.
With a brand new Belmont wielding the family whip, familiar foes in your way, and modern conveniences that have become expected in the genre, developer Evil Empire has largely hit their mark.
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.
Dracula comes back, and you need to kill him.
It's a fun story overall, and I loved the nods and winks for dedicated fans like me to catch, but I'd be lying if I said plot was ever the reason I fell in love with these games.
A long-awaited return that brings the series into the modern era with a fast-paced focus on action first, this is your IGN review of Castlevania, Belmont's Curse, by Scott White.
Nearly two decades after the last mainline 2D Castlevania game, the team behind 2023's Dead Cells Return to Castlevania DLC has been given the keys to Dracula's castle for real.
Castlevania Belmont's Curse aims to breathe fresh life into this 40-year-old series with a creative blend of old and new ideas.
With a brand new Belmont wielding the family whip, familiar foes in your way, and modern conveniences that have become expected in the genre, developer Evil Empire has largely hit their mark.
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.
Dracula comes back, and you need to kill him.
It's a fun story overall, and I loved the nods and winks for dedicated fans like me to catch, but I'd be lying if I said plot was ever the reason I fell in love with these games.
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