Are you out of your mind?

-organs are playing ominously in the back
-chicken is being found in walls
-bats are annoying
-stained glass windows and cathedrals loom in the distance
-zombies coming out of the ground while skeleton archers shoot at you
-candles are getting whooped

I’m sorry but this is less of a departure from the franchise than symphony of the night was at the time from Classicvania. I grew up on the NES ones so to me this is just another iteration. At least we got the difficulty back this time. I get that some people grew up on the gameboy advance but come on now.

Castlevania is not just Igavania, the gameplay has changed a few times already.
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Just holding out for a switch 2 version in the future

Started messing around with the demo while waiting for the full game and ended up making this.

It's called Belmont Advance. It gives the gameplay a 320×180 pixelated look with LCD screen effects.

Here's a video with the mod running (demo boss spoilers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPnUEDzq9o

Confirmed working with the full release.

Mod link: https://www.nexusmods.com/castlevaniabelmontscurse/mods/11

What a wonderful night to have a curse. A Belmont’s Curse, that is.

You unlock this by doing the Konami Code, Up Up, Down Down, Left right, Left right, X Square Start

Start in this case was the touchpad for me

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Now for me to get back to the game too! lol

I’ve waited 18 years for this.

Also, why is Xbox requiring a download??

𝑱𝒐𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒓𝒄, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒂: 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕’𝒔 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚.

— Art by Anato Finnstark

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I'm only a couple hours in... Platforming is great, swinging with the whip is great, bosses are pleasantly demanding.

I was sitting there thinking "why does the soundtrack go so hard" when my wife says "Why does the soundtrack go so hard?"

Enjoy friends!!

Bouta show Papa Drac who’s boss once again

Most of the costumes in Belmont's Curse are locked behind either the collector's edition or pre-ordering the game, but the game does thankfully have one nostalgia costume which is instead unlocked by inputting that all too familiar Konami cheat code

https://raiderking.com/castlevania-belmonts-curse-how-to-unlock-the-sonia-belmont-costume/

Has absolutely no excuse for going so hard. Hope y'all are wearing headphones. Loving this game so far.

Good to see Sonia being remembered officially in the Series after so long! :D

Enough said really. Pretty much every castlevania ost has been beautiful until now. I don't mind if other people like it but to me it sounds shit.