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[combstranger]

So here's a thing that will make sense to two people.

[nesterthelark]

Jeremy Parish has a nice little article on one of my favorite Castlevania games: Bloodlines.  It's often a bit overlooked compared to other games in the series, but I think it deserves a bit more recognition.

Parish writes:

“Forgotten?” you ask. Yes, forgotten. Konami has somehow managed to put every single 2D Castlevania on Wii Virtual Console except Bloodlines—and that includes Rondo, which was never released in America and showed up on the American Wii still in Japanese. The one acknowledgement the company has ever made to Castlevania’s Genesis entry came in the form of Portrait of Ruin, which served as a direct sequel… but only narratively. The two games played nothing alike beyond the gross mechanical connections of jumping and attacking. Portrait creator Koji Igarashi has been put to pasture while the series lay in the hands of guys who claim to love Castlevania IV yet seem primarily drawn to God of War (which, as you may be aware, isn’t actually a Castlevania game at all).