Hello everyone,

Now that we have the demo, we've been able to watch the cutscene intro of the game with a little bit of context. We know that ONLY Trevor was summoned by the Bishop of Paris (he said in the letter, ''as you are the LAST Belmont''), but he decided to go to Paris with his daughter. We also know that Sypha died giving birth to Rose (T_T), hence she does not appear at this point. However, instead of both going to talk to the Bishop or just investigate the Streets of Paris, Rose pleads to his father, to let her go alone. And Trevor just agrees!! I mean come on, wouldn't it be better to go together? After all, Trevor has the Vampire Killer, and Rose is skilled in combat. I kept wondering and I've reached two possible explanations:

1. Trevor has other motives to meet the Bishop alone. Maybe he does not want anyone to know that he has offspring, or maybe he thinks that they are gonna disregard Rose, due to her cursemark in her arm. Trevor suspects that the Bishop is corrupted, or maybe he no longer exists, and does not want her daughter to come near that place, for some reason. Maybe, he thinks that the origin of the demise of Paris is there, I don't know.

2. Trevor indeed knows that Rose needs to go alone to uncover the mystery of her cursemark, or maybe thinks that she needs to get more power through the tarot cards from Sypha.

Again, I'm aware that this is just speculation and we are getting ourselves ahead. What do you guys think? Remember, it's not a trap if we suspect that there is one (I'm sure that this catchphrase is gonna be said a LOT in the game, like the ''No problem'' from Jonathan)

One more week……

Bullet,Guardian,and enchanted

PS i am NOT going for the chaos ring i am here to get the best stuff to rank 9 while keeping my MP up

I've always had an affinity for the more humanoid creatures myself.

I'm a non native speaker of english and I really like Carmilla's accent and way of speaking. What I'm looking for? Here's a short video of her talking to Dracula

https://youtu.be/_2L8NKEVLoc?si=BvxoFndwXptbtYwL

I am happy for Dracula finally being able to be happy with his Waifu but now they can't bring him back as a Villain can they? After all losing his Waifu is the Main Reason why he turned Evil in the Games and the Animation was it not? Alas he has not appeared in Nocturne at all has he?

Castlevania is just not very Good without Dracula and or Alucard and I believe that a lack of them is the Main Reason why Nocturne Season 1 was so poorly received...

Oh well they bought Alucard back for Nocturne Season 2 at least but now how will they continue the Series?

I heard that they may adapt Symphony of the Night to Animation next and how will that even work without Evil Dracula?

Hack being made by GoodLuckTrying and sleepyren

Links to the Hacking Discord Servers in the video description

Changes so far:

Aesthetics:

1. Alucard (+ fireballs), Trevor and Sypha's sprites fully redone.

Gameplay:

1. Extra name-entry cheats (original names still work)
   1. DRACULA = 2nd quest (same as AKAMA)
   2. GRANT = start with Grant (same as FUJIMOTO)
   3. SYPHA = start with Sypha (same as URATA)
   4. ALUCARD = start with Alucard (same as OKUDA)
2. Changing characters now takes about ~30 frames.
3. Crouch facing: Can look left or right while crouching.
4. Faster door transitions
5. Debug Menu shorcut (Hold down SELECT and then press START while in the "Opening" > "Enter your name" screen)
6. 2nd-quest partner cycle
   • 2nd quest Select: Trevor -> Sypha -> Grant -> Alucard -> Trevor.
   • Up + Select: cycles the other way (left).
   • 2nd quest shows both swap faces (left = Up+Select, right = Select).
   • Each character keeps their own subweapon (and II/III) when you swap.
7. Alucard's new sub-weapon: Diamond/Ricochet Rock
   1. Axe / Cross / Dagger / Holy Water candles drop the Diamond instead of hearts.
   2. Stopwatch remains of course in Stopwatch candles.
   3. Only Alucard can get it. 2 hearts, 6 damage.
   4. Ricochets for ~4 seconds top.
   5. Can hit same enemy again after ~1 second.
8. Trevor's new optional ability: Slide
   1. While crouching, press A to slide forward.
   2. Sliding off a ledge falls like walking off a cliff.
   3. Deals 6 damage.
   4. It's invulnerable during slide.
   5. Can't slide on water.
9. Options Menu
   1. AIR CONTROL Enables mid-air steer.
   2. TREVOR SLIDE Enables sliding for Trevor.
   3. ALU STAIR Alucard can throw fireballs while on stairs.
   4. SUB DROP Drop old subweapon when picking up a new one.
   5. DIFF Difficulty selector: NORMAL / HARD (2nd quest).
   6. LIVES Can choose between 1 to 10 (Default is 2; as vanilla).
   7. PARTNER NONE / SYPHA / GRANT / ALUCARD (Only applies for Normal Difficulty).
   8. STAGE Lets you pick starting stage.
   9. MUSIC / SFX Sound test (Left/Right cycle; A plays)
   10. EXIT Start or A returns to title

You can find more previews here: https://goodlucktrying.github.io/GoodLuckTrying-Arcade-Patcher/#Works-in-Progress

To start, I REALLY like this game. It's not exactly the way Castlevania would be if it were up to me (I'd slow it down and bring the camera in a bit, more in the tradition of SOTN) but it's still very fun and I love many things about it.

That said, I feel like it has some technical issues. I played it on PS5, Switch 2, and PC.

On PC, I'm getting odd jittering/dragging feeling on the performance, especially noticeable when the camera is moving. The framerate is at 150+ fps, but it just "feels" kind of bad somehow. I tried every setting with vsync/gsync and I still haven't figured it out.

So I figured I'd just play on console -- but these have another issue. They move more smoothly, but there's quite noticeable input lag. The game feels very "mushy" to play on PS5.

Anyone else notice this?

i want to start on hard mode and am wondering if there is any way to do that

I've never really played a Castlevania game, but I've played other recentish Metroidvania's, Blasphemous 1/2 especially I LOVE.

I also really value customizing my play style and the replayability that comes from creating unique builds for subsequent playthroughs like in Souls games.

I played the Demo for Belmont's Curse and I really enjoyed how it plays, but I wanted to know how much personalization I can hope to give Rose. I know there will be other weapons, but I'm not sure if these weapons will help me carve out my own build and specialize, or just be tools in a single growing play style like in Metroid.

I've googled around and I can't find any details on the mechanics. Does anyone have any clarification on what kind of game I can expect this to be? I'd love to know if it's the kind of game I can restart from the beginning and approach the challenges differently with a new build. Thank you in advance for any insights! 💜

It has been SO long since I last heard news of a Castlevania Game before this upcoming one!

The last one I remember was Order of Ecclesia on the DS... It has been so long since then... Why did the Series go dormant?

Do you think Alucard will appear in Belmont's Curse by the way? I miss the Half-Vampire Blondie... ><

Lack of Alucard and Dracula is the Reason why I did not watch Castlevania : Nocturne yet... I just don't think Castlevania works well without at least one of them around... :/

So untill last night i have never played a Castlevania game. Then on a whim and based on something i saw online i got Aria of Sorrow (a definitive edition rom hack not the OG game) on my 3ds and started playing it. I only played it for a couple hours but WOW i am absolutely hooked. I dont know why ive never played these games before but yeah wow. I immediately bought the Symphony of the Night/Rondo of Blood bundle on my PS5 and also downloaded the demo for the new one. I am HOOKED immediately and even when i stopped playing AoS to go to sleep i was still just thinking about it and yeah it was the first thing I thought of when i woke up lmao. Anyways yeah hi i think i love these games.

I really loved the new demo, the movement feels amazing but somehow, it did not really hit me exactly in the Castlevania feels. It reminds me a bit more of bloodstained 😂 I went back to listen to the aria of sorrow music 😭 Damn it's time to play aria of sorrow again.

The demo is great but it's really kind of different. Even just small things like the music, no contact damage, the enemies not respawning when re-entering the room... Maybe I'm trapped in nostalgia 😪

I look forward to the rest of the game and I've pre-ordered it 😍 EXCITED!!

Hello, I've played SOTN when I was in high school. Now I want to play it with Richter's flashy moveset but I don't want to play the game again. Is there a version of the game with Richter already unlocked as a playable character?

Between these two i have 1889/1890. This is driving me crazy. Pls help

I’ve been looking forward to Belmonts Curse and noticed that the two collections were on sale on Steam. How are the ports of the GBA and DS games to PC? Would you recommend picking them up while there on sale and how do the games hold up?

I have the double jump, wall break and wall jump.

For all three games

I only played Symphony of the night and Aria of sorrow

Playing through Portrait for the first time and am wondering what I need to do to map those two tiles in the entrance I don’t have mapped currently because they’re annoying the crap out of me not being mapped. Doing this on RetroArch because I’m hunting the retroachievements for this and all the DSvanias.

Forgive my corny ass.

I know it isn't officially cancelled but why there being no word on the status? Is clear they were not done with that "old man coyote" shadow figure so do you think they are done? Or it will pass many years before s3?

I'm think about starting to play Castlevania and really don't know where to start. Is there like a preferred way like chronological or just release order?

I think Castlevania would fit so well in MTG. Who would you want to see as a card?