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Soapbox: Dear Konami, Please Do Something Decent With Castlevania

Fangs very much.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Damien laments the fact that we’ve not had a ‘proper’ new Castlevania game since 2014…

Those of you who have visited this site regularly over the past decade or so might be aware that I’m a big fan of Konami’s Castlevania. Ever since I was first introduced to the vampire-killing franchise with the potent double-whammy of Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge and Super Castlevania IV in the early ’90s I’ve been utterly in love with it; the intoxicating mixture of gothic broodiness, engaging characters and fantastic music has made this my go-to series whenever I need a gaming pick-me-up. Sure, for every Symphony of the Night there’s often a Castlevania Judgment, but on the whole, this is a lineage of games that will always be close to my heart – despite the fact that Konami seems largely disinterested in adding anything meaningful to the franchise.

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