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Konami’s Castlevania Dominus Collection bundles up three DS hits and one arcade remaster for £20 or $25Castlemania, more like
Castlemania, more like
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Castlevania Dominus Collection Trailer (PEGI) | KONAMIWatch on YouTube
Castlevania Dominus Collection Trailer (PEGI) | KONAMI
The DS games in question are Castlevania: Dawn Of Sorrow, in which you can combine souls to make weapons, Castlevania: Portrait Of Ruin, which sees you switching between two protagonists with different abilities, and Castlevania Order of Ecclesia, in which you scour Dracula’s Castle for magic glyphs. All have naturally been reorganised to fit on a single screen, with inventory and map stuff over on the right. In the case of fiddlier DS-specific flourishes, like Dawn Of Sorrow’s drawing mechanic, they’ve come up with some…straightforward solutions. The port of Haunted Castle, meanwhile, includes both a redesigned version with more elaborate pixelart and a straight port of the original.
Oh hang on, I get why we missed this from the round-up. They shadow-dropped it during one of those Nintendo Direct things the Silksong people keep shrieking about, which also brought news that Konami’sSuikoden 1 and 2 HD remasters will arrive in March. Konami are doing a brisk trade in revivals of various kinds at the minute, witha new version of Silent Hill 2anda new-ish version of Metal Gear Solid 3on the cards.
My thoughts inevitably turn to the future of the Castlevania series. Our buddies the Belmonts and old man Dracula havefound another lease of life/undeath on Netflix, but it’s been a while since the last actual new Castlevania game, theunderwhelmingLords Of Shadow 2. Konami appear content right now to loan their various vampires and vampire-killers out to games likeV Rising. I’d really love to play aSonic Mania-style reboot of the 2D series. In the meantime, you can check out the Dominus Collection onSteam.
