CASTLEVANIA: BELMONT’S CURSE - KONAMI CLASSIC RISES AGAIN FROM PARIS SEWERS AND JOAN OF ARC IS A BOSS
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Evil Empire creatives explain how it is playing to today’s ‘metroidvanias’ and honouring the original’s legacy with much fresh slaying to be done Since the last Castlevania game hit the shelves (2014’s Castlevania:… With an entire generation raised on “metroidvanias” – a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania – millions of players have only ever seen the games inspired by Konami’s seminal games.
Now with Belmont’s Curse, launching in October, Castlevania is finally dashing back to console, where Konami hopes to reclaim its side-scroller throne. Set 23 years after the events of 1989’s Castlevania 3 – the same setting as the hit Netflix show – Belmont’s Curse shakes off the series’ 3D ambitions and takes the Belmonts back to basics. Dispatching players to the demon-infested streets of 1499 Paris, you’re placed in the tattered boots of Trevor Belmont’s daughter, Rose.
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- Culture | The Guardian: Evil Empire creatives explain how it is playing to today’s ‘metroidvanias’ and honouring the original’s legacy with much fresh slaying to be done Since the last Castlevania game hit the shelves (2014’s Castlevania:…
- Culture | The Guardian: With an entire generation raised on “metroidvanias” – a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania – millions of players have only ever seen the games inspired by Konami’s seminal games.
- Culture | The Guardian: Now with Belmont’s Curse, launching in October, Castlevania is finally dashing back to console, where Konami hopes to reclaim its side-scroller throne.
- Culture | The Guardian: Set 23 years after the events of 1989’s Castlevania 3 – the same setting as the hit Netflix show – Belmont’s Curse shakes off the series’ 3D ambitions and takes the Belmonts back to basics.
- Culture | The Guardian: Dispatching players to the demon-infested streets of 1499 Paris, you’re placed in the tattered boots of Trevor Belmont’s daughter, Rose.
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- Topic: CULTURE — the feed headline centres on CASTLEVANIA, BELMONT, CURSE, KONAMI, CLASSIC.
- Original feed: Culture | The Guardian.
- Published: 17 Jul 2026, 08:00 UK.
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