What is a castle? A miserable little pile of recurring rooms!

November 19, 2013 10:29 AM

You might've noticed that the castles in the various Castlevania games, while different in every game, often feature similar areas and architectural ideas from game to game. You probably haven't gone to the trouble to catalogue these common components and their recurrences in the sprawling Castlevania series, but this is the internet, which means that somebody has.
posted by Pope Guilty (12 comments total)

Metafilter: But this is the internet, which means that somebody has.
posted by Now there are two. There are two _______. at 10:51 AM on November 19, 2013 [3 favorites]

Every year at the Brașov Marriott, there's a seminar for tax assessors on how to do a proper valuation of an ever-metamorphosing nightmare hellmouth castle.
posted by prize bull octorok at 10:52 AM on November 19, 2013 [8 favorites]

Awesome tagline - I had to think about it for a second
posted by Dmenet at 11:10 AM on November 19, 2013 [1 favorite]

I was under the impression that Death usually hung out in the Clock Tower, not the dungeon. But I'm not a Belmontologist, and this person clearly is.
posted by kewb at 11:13 AM on November 19, 2013

Check out the Clock Tower page, kewb.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:18 AM on November 19, 2013

Love this. I noticed this many years ago too but I would never have the drive to compile something like this. Very cool.
posted by Our Ship Of The Imagination! at 12:27 PM on November 19, 2013

What about the orchestra playing a special symphony just for interlocutors? That and making sure to place adequate prime rib dinners behind each of my valuable paintings was probably the hardest thing about setting up my castle.
posted by mulligan at 3:16 PM on November 19, 2013 [3 favorites]

This is great. Wish there was more about the mansions in Simon's Quest, though. I spent a lot of time just dicking around in Simon's Quest as a kid, and even then I got to wondering about how people did actual living in the mansions. They were heavy on the spiked ceilings and floating platforms and moats, light on the bedrooms and dining areas.
posted by Countess Elena at 5:03 PM on November 19, 2013 [1 favorite]

 ___________
| YOU NOW   |
| PROSSESS  |
| DRACULA'S |
| CRIB      |
posted by Eideteker at 10:35 PM on November 19, 2013 [3 favorites]

I spent a lot of time just dicking around in Simon's Quest as a kid, and even then I got to wondering about how people did actual living in the mansions. They were heavy on the spiked ceilings and floating platforms and moats, light on the bedrooms and dining areas.

(L) The Castle Keep: While its design seems architecturally impossible, this doesn't prevent the keep from remaining Dracula's favorite place to relax while sipping on some warm blood

posted by ersatz at 6:05 AM on November 20, 2013

Dracula's actually really into Minecraft.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:23 AM on November 20, 2013

"Behold my true breakfast nook, and DESPAIR!"

The whole Castlevania series is just an absolute master class in the re-use of game assets. Thanks for the post.
posted by cog_nate at 12:55 PM on November 22, 2013 [1 favorite]