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Anyone who’s followed my writing for any length of time has probably picked up on the idea that I like Castlevania. As in like…like like.
Most of the time…
To that point, I’m actually quite surprised at the lack of more robust writing pieces involving the infamous Castle and the Belmont Clan that serves as the Wallachian health and safety regulators to condemn it time and time again. One day, I will correct that injustice, as the series stands as one of the more deserving of prestige in the gaming realm. Today is not that day, however, but it is not all woe and misery, as a new collection was both announced and stealth launched on the very same day.
A veritable Belmont’s day off
That’s right! The infamous non-connected trilogy that headlined the DS era, and arguably the strongest stretch of quality Castlevania titles ever released, has *finally* seen a refresher port, and made it off of the original system they launched on. The three games, Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, and Order of Ecclesia, have been stuck in old hardware hell, as they have never once been re-released on another system, making it more than a solid decade since their domineering relevancy was able to rock gamers faces.
Emphasis on faces
(A fourth title, an early arcade title in the vein of Castlevania 1 called Haunted Castle has also been included as a bonus as well.)
Konami has finally bundled all of them together in one collection, following in the footsteps of the Castlevania Anniversary Collection and the Advance Collection, updated the lot, and are all now available to play on The Switch, Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series consoles. Annoyingly, they are unavailable to download on the Xbox One or PS4, so if you don’t have Sony or Microsoft’s latest offerings, I would suggest looking elsewhere. Trailer below:
~Pashford
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