The funny thing is that the novel Dracula makes no sense in the context of Castlevania, and supposedly some of the games have conflicting canon and at least one was formally removed from canon (Legends). But, I am not sure about the details.
But it does the other way around. Koji Igarashi went back and did whatever it took (including axing entire games, like Legends) to make the Castlevania storyline fit comfortably with Bram Stoker's original. The Genesis Bloodlines game the strongest tie to Bram Stoker's version, despite the ridiculous premise in the background story for John Morris.
Of the games axed from canon, I'm pretty sure the two N64 games did if only for the fucking skeletons on motorcycles long before they were supposed to exist; Circle of the Moon (which wasn't bad but had annoying periods of super-difficulty and ridiculously low drop rates for some items.) I can't remember if there are more.
Castlevania 1 (including its MSX and Haunted Castle incarnations) and Castlevania 4 are canonically the same game.
The only game in the series which didn't receive much of a backtrack to would be Castlevania 2. Dracula X threw in a nice reference with the first level but that was about the extent of it. I remember there being Castlevania 2 of all games being announced for the Gameboy Color when it was new but that never came about, apparently.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Don't worry! You can use it to make Delicious Waffles!
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
I'm also going to point out that America got the superior version of Castlevania 2. There was a lot of space leftover on the famicom disk -> NES cart transition so that space got used for instrument and drum samples, making an already legendary soundtrack even legendarier. When the CD soundtrack for the Famicom games was put to press (which I have, go me) the NES soundtrack was appended at the end so the Japanese gamers wouldn't feel so left out.
Interesting, especially considering that the Japanese Castlevania III made use of a sound chip unavailable to the American NES which gave them the better soundtrack. :] Or so I have heard. There were also a lot of small, kind of pointless and weird graphical changes, as well as horrible difficulty bolstering (the game was already super hard!)
This is true. In Japan, it was much easier for 3rd party game manufacturers to manufacture their own custom MMC chips to fit the game they were making. The one Konami made for CV3 Famicom was this doozy of a chip that allowed a lot of nice neat graphical tricks (no 4x4:1 palette tile requirement and I think allowing the arbitrary placement of line primitives and the such, not sure) as well as adding some sound channels. The American equivalent, the MMC5, could handle most of the graphical duties but nothing with the sound so America got shafted on the soundtrack there. As well as the jacked-up difficulty.
Also, for the all-too common famiclones going around nowadays, they're all incompatible with the MMC5. I have CV3 and if I want to play it, I gotta get ahold of a real NES.
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Oh wow, I remember that video! I always thought it was cool.
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