Castlevania
Sign in to saveCastlevania (), known in Japan as is a gothic horror action-adventure video game series and media franchise created by Konami. The series is largely set in the castle of Count Dracula, the arch-enemy of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters.
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- Video game series.title
- Castlevania
- Video game series.image
- Castlevania logo.png
- Video game series.caption
- Logo of the Castlevania series, introduced with 2003's Lament of Innocence
- Video game series.publisher
- Konami
- Video game series.first release version
- Castlevania
- Video game series.latest release version
- Haunted Castle Revisited
- Video game series.creator
- Hitoshi Akamatsu
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Castlevania (), known in Japan as is a gothic horror action-adventure video game series and media franchise created by Konami. The series is largely set in the castle of Count Dracula, the arch-enemy of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters.
Debuting with the 1986 video game on Nintendo's Famicom Disk System, the first entry and the majority of its sequels are side-scrolling action platformers. The 1997 game, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, originally released for the PlayStation, returned to the nonlinear gameplay first seen in ''Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, which also introduced role-playing elements and exploration. Several installments later adopted Symphony of the Nights gameplay, which along with Super Metroid, have popularized the Metroidvania genre. 2010 saw the release of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, a 3D action-adventure game developed by MercurySteam and Kojima Productions that served as a reboot of the series.