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  • It's time to hunt some vampires! The Castlevania series stretches many centuries and two family lineage fighting against the lord of darkness himself Dracula. Find out how the story unfolds in The Leaderboards Complete Castlevania Timeline.
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    Let's take a closer look at the world of Castlevania. We bring you through the lineage of the Belmont and Tepes family lines. In the constant war between vampires and hunters in the world of Dracula. Prepare yourself for the Complete Castlevania Game Series Timeline.
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  • @TheLeaderboard
    @TheLeaderboard  Před 5 lety +912

    Have you played all of the Castlevania games?

    • @charliejames1981
      @charliejames1981 Před 5 lety +24

      I only played and have is SOTN...
      My favorite one out of all of them.

    • @raiandox
      @raiandox Před 5 lety +10

      I have played the Castlevania games that contribute to the main timeline + Circle of The Moon.

    • @jmarx3943
      @jmarx3943 Před 5 lety +5

      I've played all of the NES, SNES, genesis, playstation, and the ds games.

    • @VonArmagedda
      @VonArmagedda Před 5 lety +4

      Not all, most of them anyways

    • @user-rv9ds8iw6g
      @user-rv9ds8iw6g Před 5 lety +1

      Yup all of them.

  • @skylordianandy2644
    @skylordianandy2644 Před 5 lety +5518

    HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO DO THIS, OLD MAN!?

  • @metalbladex4294
    @metalbladex4294 Před 5 lety +5348

    I bet no Belmont had to travel to Egypt with his grandfather, a fortune teller, his school mate, a French man and a dog to punch Dracula in the face multiple times.

    • @emetanti
      @emetanti Před 5 lety +352

      Nah, that was the offspring bloodline of the Joestars in a fated fight against a vampire, its source and original creators completely unrelated to Dracula.

    • @SaladSneky
      @SaladSneky Před 5 lety +115

      And in the knee once.

    • @grandelderx7084
      @grandelderx7084 Před 5 lety +72

      metalbladex4 walk like an Egyptian

    • @kornx10
      @kornx10 Před 5 lety +230

      Truly a Bizarre Adventure

    • @fork-man
      @fork-man Před 5 lety +23

      @@kornx10 good one

  • @mar4566ify
    @mar4566ify Před 5 lety +2515

    Dracula; *breaths*
    Belmont clan; I’m going to end this whole monster’s career-

    • @afteryouknowme4642
      @afteryouknowme4642 Před 4 lety +5

      Such a lame unoriginal joke

    • @sauldogeman2816
      @sauldogeman2816 Před 3 lety +80

      @@afteryouknowme4642 You must be a rain of sun shine.

    • @afteryouknowme4642
      @afteryouknowme4642 Před 3 lety +5

      The Great One When someone tells the same joke over and over and over it gets to be really unfunny. I love comedy but not the same regurgitated joke

    • @gravesidepoet5405
      @gravesidepoet5405 Před 3 lety +8

      “Transylvania is for the Belmonts!”

    • @FlamaAce
      @FlamaAce Před 3 lety +2

      @Nathaniel Harrison Chong wait... Is Dracula a hamon user?

  • @skittlesilly
    @skittlesilly Před 5 lety +2703

    "Ugh, another one of those Belmonts. I hate those guys."
    -Dracula, whenever a Belmont enters his castle

    • @b_Wtv14
      @b_Wtv14 Před 5 lety +65

      The battle has constipated

    • @silverman1601
      @silverman1601 Před 5 lety +47

      Terminal montage?

    • @user-yg7ck9ip3d
      @user-yg7ck9ip3d Před 4 lety +20

      couldn't he make his castle float and fly mad high or outerspace lol

    • @ddsjgvk
      @ddsjgvk Před 4 lety +11

      Even his own son.

    • @Famygdala
      @Famygdala Před 4 lety +18

      @@user-yg7ck9ip3d Maybe. But do you want to get out of your coffin one night as your castle takes lift off only to see some jackoff riding a rocket at you while swinging a whip?

  • @sindisoncube8880
    @sindisoncube8880 Před 5 lety +1378

    damn can dracula just say no to being resurrected

    • @MrZangetsu468
      @MrZangetsu468 Před 5 lety +251

      Aokiji actually he can't. Igarashi answered this in an interview, that when the mortal part of Dracula's soul refuses to be brought back, the evil part of him reincarnates with no humanity. SotN is the last time his humanity shows itself in the timeline.

    • @MrZangetsu468
      @MrZangetsu468 Před 5 lety +69

      Doom Slayer He quotes the Bible ( Mathias rejected God before 1100, yet he's quoting the bible 700 years later. ) and shows humanity towards Lisa and Alucard. It's part of the narrative, it doesn't matter what ending you get unless you don't complete the inverted castle.

    • @scottbruckner4653
      @scottbruckner4653 Před 5 lety +5

      no.

    • @nald420
      @nald420 Před 5 lety +1

      J.M ive played it like 20 yrs ago and i still remember. i don’t think i’ll ever forget. matthew 16:26

    • @lpfan4491
      @lpfan4491 Před 5 lety +3

      i mean,we saw what happened to soma lol. "no" is not exactly an option

  • @sylvester5022
    @sylvester5022 Před 5 lety +981

    Belmont's bizarre adventure

    • @zapperil
      @zapperil Před 4 lety +17

      But the latest Belmont Saga protagonist was the Brando..

    • @ekopermana7150
      @ekopermana7150 Před 4 lety +3

      @@zapperil and that is why symphony of the night protagonist is also tepes AKA alucard 😆

  • @cr0w898
    @cr0w898 Před 5 lety +1727

    This is like jojo but 1000 years and no weird lightning karate and punchy ghosts

    • @MrRoMaGi
      @MrRoMaGi Před 5 lety +138

      Soma can get a soul that is a legless punching ghost that shouts Ora Ora in Aria of Sorrow.
      Also, in Dawn of Sorrow, Soma fights a vampire that throws knives and grants the ability to stop time when defeated.

    • @kornx10
      @kornx10 Před 5 lety +32

      @@MrRoMaGi Za Worldo!!

    • @Crunchy_Troll
      @Crunchy_Troll Před 5 lety +14

      And minus the androgyny

    • @josdavas9101
      @josdavas9101 Před 5 lety +9

      @@MrRoMaGi ZAWARUDO

    • @jewel-kun9730
      @jewel-kun9730 Před 5 lety +13

      @@MrRoMaGi hahaha he's exactly like Dio throwing knives and stopping time XD...

  • @xlv9968
    @xlv9968 Před 5 lety +1487

    Jotaro=Trevor
    Joseph=Richter
    Jonathan=Leon
    Dio=Dracula
    Giorno=Alucard

  • @ThatOneAnnoyingPubPlayer
    @ThatOneAnnoyingPubPlayer Před 5 lety +2555

    I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JO- I mean LEON!

    • @TatoAV
      @TatoAV Před 5 lety +216

      Ki- kisama, I see what you did there
      ...
      *dramatically poses*

    • @lsrrr3857
      @lsrrr3857 Před 5 lety +107

      Muda muda

    • @yetisnowmanthing3381
      @yetisnowmanthing3381 Před 5 lety +8

      That One Annoying Pub Player haha made my day thank you!!!

    • @dimagi7864
      @dimagi7864 Před 5 lety +108

      For real Simon and Richtor look like JoJo characters in Smash lmao

    • @metalbladex4294
      @metalbladex4294 Před 5 lety +42

      KO NO DIO DA!

  • @HeliosLPX
    @HeliosLPX Před 5 lety +919

    The games actually explain why the Belmonts stop using the vampire killer . The same prophecy that predicted the battle of 1999 also said that they weren't allowed to touch the whip until said battle took place. Which is why they gave it to the Morris clan as they were distant relatives/descendants of the Belmonts.

    • @JonathanTaylor85
      @JonathanTaylor85 Před 5 lety +60

      Yep. Belmont cousins.

    • @cake6851
      @cake6851 Před 5 lety +84

      Also I believe it was said Richter's mind control tainted the whip and the belmont clan could not use it correctly

    • @roachies4242
      @roachies4242 Před 5 lety +3

      Hakumen_Narukami morning l

    • @RpGfreak901
      @RpGfreak901 Před 5 lety +60

      Cake# That's correct, too. But when Jonathan defeated Dracula, he lifted the curse on the tainted whip and unlike his father, it didn't kill him when he used it.
      Jonathan then tracked down the Belmonts and returned the whip to them, and eventually it was passed to Julius.

    • @MrZangetsu468
      @MrZangetsu468 Před 5 lety +9

      RPGFreak901 Sounds like a ripping fanfic. Link me?

  • @gjtrue
    @gjtrue Před 5 lety +625

    Leon Belmont (1094)
    Trevor Belmont (1476)
    Christopher Belmont (1576)
    Soleiyu Belmont (1591)
    Simon Belmont (1691)
    Juste Belmont (1748)
    Richter Belmont (1792)
    Julius Belmont (1999)

  • @nyxshadowhawk
    @nyxshadowhawk Před 4 lety +204

    Love for Elizabeta turns Mathias into Dracula --> Love for Lisa is the reason Dracula makes war upon humanity --> Love for Mina keeps Soma from becoming Dracula again.
    Power of Love, y'all.

    • @sharp7j
      @sharp7j Před 3 lety +20

      "love is one hell of a drug"

    • @The_Blue_Otaku
      @The_Blue_Otaku Před rokem +6

      Not gonna lie that sounds like it chould be the plot for the next Castlevania game... Now Konami has to get off there ass and slow down on makeing pachinko machines and make real video games

  • @RealOriginalJ
    @RealOriginalJ Před 5 lety +2224

    Great Castlevania timeline vid. There was only a few errors I found.
    After Alucard defeated Dracula in symphony of the night, the vampire killer whip rejected Richter Belmont and, in extension, the Belmont bloodline because Richter’s soul was tainted when Shaft possessed him. This severed the connection between the vampire killer and the Belmonts. Jonathan Morris in Portrait of Ruin thus had to fight the whip’s memory of Richter, which unlocked the whip’s true potential and allowed the Belmont clan to hold the whip once more.
    Oh and Alucard didn’t go back to sleep for another hundreds of years. Maria was able to convince Alucard to stay awake and watch over humanity when the time humanity needed him most, which was the prophecy of the Demon Castle War in 1999 and thus after. Alucard has been secretly building his organization to stop Dracula once and for all this whole time since.
    Also, the Morris clan didn’t disappear. Once Jonathan found Julius, the last of the Belmont clan at the time, he trained him under his wing until he was able to master the vampire killer. Jonathan Morris thus lived a long, fulfilled life and didn’t disappear nor he or his clan had a tragic fate.

    • @Ash90
      @Ash90 Před 5 lety +151

      I have to disagree on couple of things.
      The reason why Richter gave away the whip to the Morris Clan was because he was ashamed of what happened to him in Symphony of the Night. He used the Vampire Killer one year after the game.
      The reason why Jonathan Morris fought the whips memory was because he couldn't access the power of the whip as he wasn't a Belmont. He had to fight the whips memory because it wouldn't work for anyone else but the Belmonts. Eric Lacarde or rather 'Wind' states this after his daughters were nearly turned into vampires and his identity was revealed as being the friend of John Morris, who is the protagonist of Bloodlines and is the father of the protagonist in Portrait of Ruin. John went through the process as Jonathan but died early as the wounds he gained from Dracula didn't heal properly as the whip essentially took part of his life in order to allow access to its power. The daughters of Eric ,also, state not to overuse the whip.
      While the reason of why Richter and the clan vanishing has never been stated, it is implied to be that they found about the resurrection of Dracula and the presence of a solar eclipse in 1999 so it is likely they were getting ready to defeat Dracula once and for all

    • @mariosantos7199
      @mariosantos7199 Před 5 lety +70

      All of this information (Belmonts rejected by the whip because of the curse, Jonathan "unlocks the whip for the Belmonts", Alucard builds organization, Jonathan trained Julius) is headcanon. None of it is actually official, and some of it (Jonathan "undoing the whip's curse") actually contradicts official information.

    • @bennelson7020
      @bennelson7020 Před 5 lety +12

      @@Ash90 you got it rong because Rickter could not use the whip because of the his soul lost the power to control the whip because of him being possessed it was stated that way many times in the games and the guides books next time do some more research.:-)

    • @Ash90
      @Ash90 Před 5 lety +36

      Ben Nelson
      Provide a source of official material. Richter uses the whip after the events of Symphony of the Night

    • @MrZangetsu468
      @MrZangetsu468 Před 5 lety +3

      Plot Twist Plottwist, you beat me here by 9 hours (it's Zangetsu)

  • @SirCharles.
    @SirCharles. Před 5 lety +784

    I'll just leave this here..
    0:48 - 1094 Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
    3:13 - 1094-1476
    4:14 - 1476 Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
    5:39 - 1479 Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
    6:53 - 1576 Castlevania: The Adventure
    7:31 - 1591 Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
    8:27 - 1691 Castlevania
    8:50 - 1698 Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
    9:38 - 1748 Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
    10:44 - 1792 Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
    11:38 - 1797 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
    12:52 - 1800's Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
    14:05 - 1897
    14:21 - 1914-1917 Castlevania: Bloodlines
    15:27 - 1944 Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
    16:41 - 1999, August 11 The Demon Castle War
    17:42 - 2035 Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
    19:18 - 2036 Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

    • @beleques
      @beleques Před 5 lety +8

      Sir Charles Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻

    • @DrArthurCGarp
      @DrArthurCGarp Před 5 lety +1

      So when does the Netflix show occur?

    • @AnalogDial
      @AnalogDial Před 5 lety +13

      @@DrArthurCGarp Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse and Curse of Darkness. 1476 for Season 1 and 2. Season 3 will start Curse of Darkness (1479).

    • @RostaRolandDavid
      @RostaRolandDavid Před 5 lety +6

      And Super Castlevania IV? :D

    • @bxyhxyh
      @bxyhxyh Před 5 lety +3

      @@RostaRolandDavid That's remake of original so 1691

  • @Andrew-ig2uv
    @Andrew-ig2uv Před 5 lety +247

    You thought dracula was the lord of darkness but it was me dio

  • @cancerino666
    @cancerino666 Před 3 lety +67

    Remember that time a japanese highschooler had to team up with his classmate, a stilish european from a long line of vampire hunting, a villain turned good and a mystic?
    No, not *that* time. The time the highschooler turned out to be Dracula's reencarnation.

  • @wearenumbooone8434
    @wearenumbooone8434 Před 5 lety +825

    Damn, a 942 year legacy of vampire slaying...

    • @tragictoast2956
      @tragictoast2956 Před 5 lety +51

      Almost a millennium!

    • @Alex-qi8rq
      @Alex-qi8rq Před 5 lety +29

      More like a 942 year legacy of resurrecting or trying to resurrect Dracula...

    • @TiaHelzinha
      @TiaHelzinha Před 5 lety +27

      ... of slaying the Same vampire.

    • @emetanti
      @emetanti Před 5 lety +20

      942 years of Dracula not getting it that this really didnt work the first time, neither will it work the other 13 times or how often.

    • @edymiguel4247
      @edymiguel4247 Před 5 lety +2

      942 years... basically not 900 nor 1000. Whatever happened to the "Once every 100 years"?

  • @malcolm5765
    @malcolm5765 Před 5 lety +689

    he rejects his humanity huh?

  • @bonafiedangeredpenguin5387
    @bonafiedangeredpenguin5387 Před 5 lety +534

    Dracula "dies a thousand times"
    Also drac
    "gets reborn as a teenage boy"
    Makes sense its an anime now

    • @lpfan4491
      @lpfan4491 Před 5 lety +31

      i mean,it is an interessting place in the timeline to be at. a world where drac is gone. i dont know why his soul decided to yeet into japan tho,but whatever

    • @DarkMirria1
      @DarkMirria1 Před 5 lety +4

      Well that’s unfortunate because they are wether people like it or not.

    • @DarkMirria1
      @DarkMirria1 Před 4 lety +3

      Head canon isn’t canon, there is a difference.

    • @avrylmbrt7386
      @avrylmbrt7386 Před 4 lety +18

      I don't like the anime art on DoS. Castlevania's official arts has been beautiful and unique throughout the series but now it has fallen into a boring and unremarkable anime stereotype kinda art.

    • @DarkMirria1
      @DarkMirria1 Před 4 lety +9

      I’m always first and foremost a Zelda fan so I’m quite used to game art style changes but for Castlevania I really did love most of the old artwork and a lot of Ayami Kojima’s art for Castlevania, it suited the series very well. Though I don’t think the “anime style” is totally bad, I think Yoko looks way better in Dawn than she does in Aria for example. I find Soma’s design in Aria to be better than his Dawn one, is portraits anyway, his character sprite looks pretty cool in Dawn.

  • @squattingheads
    @squattingheads Před 5 lety +726

    just realized that alucard was dracula backwards. oh man facepalm

    • @FuryousD
      @FuryousD Před 5 lety +16

      u and me both :)

    • @bruhbruh1185
      @bruhbruh1185 Před 5 lety +34

      alucard is badass

    • @mynegaims
      @mynegaims Před 5 lety +17

      OMG.. it took me this long to figure that out

    • @augustus8944
      @augustus8944 Před 5 lety +17

      Really? You just realized?!

    • @Igarappappa
      @Igarappappa Před 5 lety +47

      Alucard's just lucky that his dad's name backwards spelled something legible.

  • @curfewcrewrobloxgames2141
    @curfewcrewrobloxgames2141 Před 5 lety +594

    I think castlevania is the only video game series with a good number of games where the villain has been virtually the same person every time

  • @IncessantWake
    @IncessantWake Před 5 lety +63

    He doesn't "kill" Isaac. He defeats him but stops when he realizes that his intent and anger are the result of Dracula's curse.

  • @carlospulido7901
    @carlospulido7901 Před 4 lety +112

    Quincy Morris is actually a character from Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. It's cool how the Castlevania series ties into the actual book

  • @LemonNote1
    @LemonNote1 Před 3 lety +54

    Juste is *the* fastest Belmont ever to be introduced to the franchise. He just dances oh-so gracefully through the castle with the occasional attacking, it's great

    • @astrophel12
      @astrophel12 Před rokem

      juste looks like a vampire, with his color theme red and a long hair

    • @tcrpgfan
      @tcrpgfan Před měsícem +1

      @@astrophel12 Dude... Juste is just Alucard with a whip. He dashy-dashes all over the place, has a flowy coat, looks dapper in it, has an afterimage, has long white hair, is good looking, and has a blonde love interest.

  • @rexrabbiteer
    @rexrabbiteer Před 5 lety +158

    Dracula: Kill me as many times as you want, Ill always return!!
    Ganon: Hold my beer

    • @DarkMirria1
      @DarkMirria1 Před 5 lety +1

      lol

    • @dmas7749
      @dmas7749 Před 4 lety +15

      both of them are pretty notorious for that

    • @DarkMirria1
      @DarkMirria1 Před 4 lety +10

      So true!
      BotW Ganon is apparently very stubborn because he’s coming back as a zombie/redead from the looks of it.

    • @andrewcoleman5775
      @andrewcoleman5775 Před 4 lety +6

      Slasher movies villains: are you sure about that.

    • @MVC2fan1
      @MVC2fan1 Před 4 lety

      Not in 1999. That year is where you die, Dracula.

  • @nexusmeepster7810
    @nexusmeepster7810 Před 5 lety +179

    2:54 *"I reject my humanity Jojo!"*

  • @JelloSalad021
    @JelloSalad021 Před 5 lety +438

    They treat my boy Hector so bad in the anime.

    • @evevie3264
      @evevie3264 Před 5 lety +37

      He didn’t deserve the ending he got :(

    • @18ps3anos
      @18ps3anos Před 5 lety +43

      @@evevie3264 it didn't end yet

    • @evevie3264
      @evevie3264 Před 5 lety +35

      Joao Machado well true but the current ending of season 2 was a large oof for hector, hopefully season 3 will fix things lol

    • @AlucardsQuest
      @AlucardsQuest Před 5 lety +18

      @@evevie3264 If season 3 tells the Curse of Darkness story, shit's goin' down!

    • @DarkMirria1
      @DarkMirria1 Před 5 lety +32

      Yeah, they turned him into a lame necromancer wimp. 😒
      I just finished Curse of Darkness and Hector was a badass in it. WTF was the writer for the show thinking??? 🧐

  • @pikapanda577
    @pikapanda577 Před 4 lety +22

    Dracula: IM BACK!
    Vampire killer: no you’re not
    Dracula:NO IM NOT!

  • @CroutonTime
    @CroutonTime Před 5 lety +39

    14:16 I believe this is a reference to the book that technically started all this, "Dracula" by Bram Stoker as opposed to a video game. A character named Quincy Morris is part of a party led by Van Helsing to stop Dracula in 1897.

    • @richardgurney1844
      @richardgurney1844 Před 2 lety +3

      Ikr - she was all like "oh, there's no game depicting those events", well that's because it's in book form; the original Dracula by Bram Stoker.
      Pretty cool how the Castlevania series is canon with the source material!

  • @eddymadison9655
    @eddymadison9655 Před 5 lety +22

    12:42 That's because Richter can no longer posses the power of the whip after his blood was tainted by Shaft's influence, incidentally doom the Belmont bloodline. The whip was passed to the Morris clan (distant relative) because they figure it out how to lift the Vampire Killer's curse.
    17:01 Julius got the whip back from Johnathan Morris after the Vampire Killer's curse was lifted. As for the Morris clan they pass the torch (or in this case whip) back to the Belmont clan and continue on fighting monsters.

    • @DANTVSVERGIL
      @DANTVSVERGIL Před rokem +2

      Richter’s Blood wasn’t tainted by his possession, because if it was, then the Belmonts would’ve lost the whip roughly 200 years prior when Soliel was actually possessed by Dracula himself. But they didn’t, because the curse was broken, much like with Maria and Alucard breaking the curse on Richter. Plus, Richter still had and used the whip with extreme proficiency a year later during the events of Castlevania: Nocturne of Recollection when the Incubus Magnus showed up and started causing problems, and he didn’t pass it off for being ashamed either, because again, in Nocturne of Recollection, he was still extremely proud of who he was and he was still proud of who his family was.
      So, Rocuter giving the whip away because he was tainted by a curse is merely headcannon. Really the only thing we know about why the Belmonts passed off the Vampire Killer has something to do with the Nostradamus Prophecy, and it’s specific stipulation that the Belmonts would need to pass the reigns to somebody else so that they (the Belmonts) could prepare for the Demon Castle War (which took place in 1999).

  • @noranomics
    @noranomics Před 5 lety +31

    Dracula: I REJECT MY HUMANITY! LEON!

  • @trevorserra2207
    @trevorserra2207 Před 5 lety +44

    My favorite Castlevania game has to be Aria of Sorrow. I just love the ability the player is given to control the powers of monsters and absorb monster souls in addition to all of the different kinds of other weapons Soma is able to wield in the game. Inheriting the powers of Dracula makes the game a ton of fun. I also like the fact that there are multiple ending possibilities in the game: the good ending where you destroy the castle and return to your normal life, the bad ending where you become consumed by Dracula’s power and Julius finds you on the throne ready to fight you, and the ending where you defeat Graham and return to your normal life without having destroyed the castle.
    However I will say that I am also quite fond of Harmony of Dissonance, the map is complicated and large in that game and I like the idea of there being 2 castles.
    Purchasing the Castlevania Double Pack that includes both of these GBA games in one game cartridge was a choice I do not regret.

  • @hayge7262
    @hayge7262 Před 5 lety +56

    "YOU NOW PROSSES DRACULA'S RIB"

  • @Robbie_221B
    @Robbie_221B Před 5 lety +213

    14:16 Don't know if I'd say the details are non-existent. There's an entire book about it. It's called Dracula by Bram Stoker...

    • @curtisKDashfisher
      @curtisKDashfisher Před 5 lety +4

      Lol true

    • @MrZangetsu468
      @MrZangetsu468 Před 5 lety +16

      Yep although certain details of the book are changed to fit Castlevania's continuity.

    • @captainsteroid2454
      @captainsteroid2454 Před 5 lety +10

      @@MrZangetsu468 - OR, are certain details of Castlevania changed to fit the book's continuity? Huh? Huh? >.>

    • @gorimbaud
      @gorimbaud Před 5 lety

      yeah this is all i was thinking about through the back half of the video

    • @MrZangetsu468
      @MrZangetsu468 Před 5 lety

      Captain Steroid Actually no. Lol

  • @lukebrumley2798
    @lukebrumley2798 Před 3 lety +16

    One of my favorite eras of the Castlevania series (and one I don’t think gets enough love) is the Soma Cruz era. Such fun games and awesome characters

    • @Octovisuals
      @Octovisuals Před rokem

      Yeah, but not like that. Just not anime. Castlevania should be dark, gothic and serious. They're not bad, especially gameplay, but not the best ones, especially scenario and all that...

  • @ninjadudezack
    @ninjadudezack Před 4 lety +60

    Jesus: revives once
    Dracula: *hold my wine glass*
    Dracula: actually... *tosses the glass*

    • @fbnflaviusbroadcastingnetw6786
      @fbnflaviusbroadcastingnetw6786 Před 4 lety +2

      Ninjadudezack that’s blasphemy

    • @michaelbandada9887
      @michaelbandada9887 Před 3 lety

      Dracula: I do not drink wine
      Jesus: Seriously? I give you my blood as a way of saving you from your sins and you toss it away?
      Dracula: I prefer blood...fresh human blood
      Jesus: You are sick

  • @Kenosene
    @Kenosene Před 5 lety +173

    Too bad that we never got a Castlevania of the 1999 battle. We are missing that link.

    • @heavenlysteel8337
      @heavenlysteel8337 Před 5 lety +16

      Man I played DoS and spend like an hour searching for a Julius Belmont game because I was pretty confused

    • @AlucardsQuest
      @AlucardsQuest Před 5 lety +15

      @@heavenlysteel8337 IGA gad it all planned out, but Konami forced him to work on mobile games, and had to quit because he hated it.

  • @danielpayne1597
    @danielpayne1597 Před 5 lety +11

    I love the deadpan jokes delivered with a cheerful voice.
    I have only played Aria of Sorrow (awesome game), but watching the new anime. Got curious where in the timeline Trevor & co were and if it related to an actual game or was a new concept. Turns out it was from a game. Thanks for the knowledge drop

  • @christalaznovsky7828
    @christalaznovsky7828 Před 5 lety

    Literally subscribed as the video started, lol. I friggin love the Castlvania series, and the timeline was always confusing to me. Glad you guys made this video.

  • @karlsingh9076
    @karlsingh9076 Před 5 lety +12

    This is the first time I've heard of the game series. I missed out on plenty games when I grew up in the 2000s.

  • @alarsenal10
    @alarsenal10 Před 5 lety +5

    Loving the timeline series, guys! Outstanding work.

  • @sirfullofhimself
    @sirfullofhimself Před 5 lety +5

    Not only is this video informative, but it is also incredibly funny. Excellent voice work and writing. I will definitely be coming back for more!

  • @BurnRoddy
    @BurnRoddy Před 5 lety +7

    ''Patricide... must be... exhausting'' I cracked

  • @ArmaBiologica35
    @ArmaBiologica35 Před 5 lety +131

    Am I the only one who liked Circle of the moon?
    I mean give it some credit. It was one of the first fully featured Metroidvania games on a handheld.

    • @cyrinaefox6828
      @cyrinaefox6828 Před 5 lety +6

      It's my 3rd favorite, and the DSS cards were probably the best magic system in the series

    • @vicktormota7683
      @vicktormota7683 Před 5 lety +5

      SotN, AoS and CotM are my favourite castlevania games.

    • @anthonyrodriguez164
      @anthonyrodriguez164 Před 5 lety +5

      That was my first castlevania game I still love it and play it every now and then, I'm glad that at least they're using the song "Awake" from circle of the moon in smash ultimate. At least it's not forgotten

    • @ArmaBiologica35
      @ArmaBiologica35 Před 5 lety +7

      @@anthonyrodriguez164 Not only that, but one of Simon/Richter 's moves Is based on Circle of the moon.

    • @waxy1277
      @waxy1277 Před 5 lety +8

      No, the game was critically acclaimed. There was some what of a controversy in 2002 when they decided to remove it from the timeline. I can't remember the reason anymore. I like it the most of the GBA games. Music was so great.

  • @spydakidd21
    @spydakidd21 Před 5 lety +36

    Can we get a 3rd season in Netflix already!!!!!!

    • @narindersingh9802
      @narindersingh9802 Před 4 lety +6

      Ending of season 3 kinda...i m out of words

    • @gus_bock
      @gus_bock Před 4 lety +3

      Narinder Singh ep 9 be like....

  • @Feuerstaub
    @Feuerstaub Před 4 lety +13

    17:07 Actually Jonathan trained Julius to become a vampire hunter.

    • @Jd-ii3yb
      @Jd-ii3yb Před 3 lety +1

      Should it be the way around? wait wrong series

  • @sudokisara
    @sudokisara Před 3 lety +8

    The portrait of ruin is such an underrated game

    • @LemonNote1
      @LemonNote1 Před 3 lety +2

      Ikr? It was my first Castlevaina game I beat, (i always knew of the franchise but I never beat it) and it was really freaking spectacular. I'm super sad people barely talk about it

  • @cyrinaefox6828
    @cyrinaefox6828 Před 5 lety +31

    Favorite Castlevania games:
    1: Symphony of the Night
    2: Curse of Darkness
    3: Circle of the Moon
    4: Portrait of Ruin
    5: Aria of Sorrow

  • @nenjutsu4149
    @nenjutsu4149 Před 3 lety +7

    Ironically Dracula rejected humanity for love and in the end kept his humanity for love.

  • @crimson9790
    @crimson9790 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Dracula: *breath*
    Belmont: I'm about to end your career, revive yours again and ending it again

  • @AgentLevitar
    @AgentLevitar Před 5 lety +9

    I know this may sound mean but the attempts at humor... were not so good.
    BUT the parts that actually told the chronology were actually quite good. I know some deets were skimped but given that you don't wanna make an hour long video or a documentary series, skimping deets had to be done.
    There are some issues tho around after SotN. Like what happened to the Belmont clan.
    There are actually two theories iirc where: 1. Richter no longer felt he or his clan were worthy to wield the Vampire Killer after having been responsible for resurrecting Dracula., or 2. Richter's soul was tainted after being used by Shaft to resurrect Dracula and was hence was rejected by the Vampire Killer. Regardless of which of the two is more widely accepted or correct, the Vampire Killer was given to the Morris clan for safekeeping.
    In response to this, Alucard remained awake this time and did not sleep again because he realized Dracula's threat was stronger than ever without the Belmonts around so after 1797, he has been working behind the scenes to find all the remaining vampire hunters around the world and to help train and fund them. I think by Aria of Sorrow, he like owns a business or an organization of some kind.
    Now in the Demon Castle War, to explain why the Belmonts returned, basically and from what I can recall from the chronology, Jonathan Morris (lead of Portrait of Ruin) found Julius Belmont to finally be able to wield the Vampire Killer once more and then trained him for the upcoming war in 1999. It is said that Julius eventually became the most powerful Belmont to have ever lived and wielded the Vampire Killer. To get a good idea, he's probably the most (or second most) difficult boss in Aria of Sorrow. AND HE WAS IN HIS 50'S FOR PETE'S SAKE! You DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT wanna get into a fight with Julius.
    One more minor thing, Chaos is actually the source of Dracula's soul's power but I understand if you meant that Soma, with Dracula's soul infused, now has the Chaos inside of him. It's a matter of semantics, really.

  • @Sanjixoxo
    @Sanjixoxo Před 5 lety +46

    Circle of the moon is canon in my heart :,(

    • @raiandox
      @raiandox Před 5 lety +7

      I dunno why CoTM is not canon, atleast Castlevania Legends and Lords of Shadows have a reason why they're non canon.

    • @darthpaul99
      @darthpaul99 Před 5 lety +5

      Castlevania Legends is also non-canon just because they decided that they don't want a woman Belmont. Completely ridiculous.

    • @raiandox
      @raiandox Před 5 lety +12

      @@darthpaul99 actually it contradicts the Timeline way too much, because Sonia and Alucard gave a birth to Trevor, that means every Belmont after them would be connected with Dracula.

    • @Heir-to-the-BelmontClan
      @Heir-to-the-BelmontClan Před 5 lety +9

      @@raiandox The team who made CoTM wanted it to in its own timeline, they never wanted it to be part of the main timeline. They say this in
      Konami Magazine Vol 20, March 2001
      So yeah that's why.

    • @GameboyFanatic
      @GameboyFanatic Před 3 lety

      @@darthpaul99 Iga said it's cause the game sucks and he's ashamed of it, he also did this with the Saturn port of SotN when making the Psp port with features from there being removed, I guess it's cause he's Japanese that he apologizes that much over bad games, at least I think this is the reason.

  • @martmandred9182
    @martmandred9182 Před 3 lety +6

    6:52 Technically, Hector isn't a Belmont, but surely the first non-Belmont who defeats Dracula.

  • @drac0nisw0lf
    @drac0nisw0lf Před 4 lety +4

    Symphony of the Night is my favorite Castlevania because of Alucard, then Curse of Darkness. I found Hector to be somewhat similar to Alucard, and that 's why I loved it. I also liked that they weren't confined to just the whip as a weapon.

  • @cynthiatobar2717
    @cynthiatobar2717 Před rokem +10

    Only games I've played were Lament of innocence and Symphony of the night. Though I have always been a huge fan of the series where I would full on absorb lore about it.

    • @Anti-Latinx
      @Anti-Latinx Před 11 měsíci

      I played Castlevania 64, a few of the early ones, and Lament of Innocence, which IMO was a very sold game for it's time though a bit confusing for young me lol

  • @rafaelcastor2089
    @rafaelcastor2089 Před 5 lety +18

    "I REJECT MY HUMANITY, LEON!" "WRYYYYYYYYYYYY"

  • @ryansickles4630
    @ryansickles4630 Před 7 měsíci +3

    This video was super informative. The details were great. Humor was definitely a plus. My favorite Castlevania game is SoTN for Playstation. I love the Netflix shows they have. I played some of the NES Castlevanias & always wondered what the timeline was like. 20 minutes well spent for a fantastic class on Castlevania. Thank you 😊

  • @alfredrz9544
    @alfredrz9544 Před 4 lety +1

    I loved this timeline narration! Hillariously Awesome!

  • @zach800100
    @zach800100 Před 5 lety +2

    Nice Reference at 7:45 “100 years is a mere blink in the life of an elf, I am patient. I can wait.”

  • @plasmaxander912
    @plasmaxander912 Před 5 lety +22

    there shouldve been a castlevainia game set in 1999
    with all the cheese of the 90s mixed into the dark gothic theme of the series
    julies is wearing soap shoes and dracula has "GENESIS DOES" printed on the back of his cape
    10/10 best castlevainia

  • @WednesdayMan
    @WednesdayMan Před 5 lety +106

    It's not that Lords of Shadow isn't canon.
    It's an Alernate Reboot universe.

    • @BigHeadClan
      @BigHeadClan Před 5 lety +3

      Aye a really good entry as well, let's not speak of the 2nd game though. Lol

    • @BigHeadClan
      @BigHeadClan Před 5 lety +6

      @Doom Slayer Mechanically perhaps, but story/game design wise? Nah.

    • @BigHeadClan
      @BigHeadClan Před 5 lety +3

      @Doom Slayer I can definitely agree the castle bits and the Alucard DLC were the best parts, and honestly that whole series Garbriel (Dracula) is a good guy.
      Dealing out death perhaps, but doing so for the sake of the greater good.

    • @BigHeadClan
      @BigHeadClan Před 5 lety +2

      @Doom Slayer Pretty much the rest of it. lol

    • @primordiuspendragon1620
      @primordiuspendragon1620 Před 5 lety +9

      Doom Slayer Dracula is the good guy in AoS and DoS though, it's just his fanboys just won't stop bothering him, asking him to become the Dark Lord again even though he just wants to be a Gaijin transfer student in Japan cause he got tired of being killed again and again.

  • @deanmorton6537
    @deanmorton6537 Před 2 lety +5

    14:11: I know there is no game for this part, but the fact that Quincy Morris defeats Dracula definitely connects Castlevania with the original Bram Stoker story. The game makers actually say that Bram Stoker's Dracula is actual canon in the timeline. Perhaps this is when it took place! (Edit) - I just read the description in the video, and it matches almost perfectly with what happened to Quincy Morris and Dracula!

  • @duffinthemuffin5792
    @duffinthemuffin5792 Před 3 lety +8

    Draculas castle has been destroyed more times than the hall of justice

  • @Ar0474
    @Ar0474 Před 5 lety +15

    I'm here because Konami announced a Castlevania Anniversary Collection 😍

  • @Asianwaste
    @Asianwaste Před 4 lety +8

    We don't know if the "good" ending of Dawn of Sorrow is the real ending.
    The series could have ended with Soma corrupted and continuing with the Julius mode.

  • @kevlarvest7375
    @kevlarvest7375 Před 4 lety +2

    Awesome vid; complete break-down of key events, and great presentation by Jetset... only wish Eric Lecarde got mentioned for POR, as I feel his role there was far more imperative.

  • @KenronTheGamer
    @KenronTheGamer Před 7 měsíci +1

    Its been said in the games that Richter was corrupted by Shaft and the Vampire Killer whip rejected the Belmont clan until the memory of Richter was defeated in Portrait of Runion.

  • @tardwrangler
    @tardwrangler Před 5 lety +98

    Spoiler: Dracula dies

  • @khenstark7135
    @khenstark7135 Před 4 lety +8

    Damn poor dracula he just wanted a peaceful sleep😞

  • @Viper-sn5cx
    @Viper-sn5cx Před 4 lety

    Great video and man you got some great jokes in there i didnt expect! A+

  • @crystalraider5785
    @crystalraider5785 Před 5 lety

    19:58 The way you say Arikado is so elegant xD

  • @SunnyTacos
    @SunnyTacos Před 5 lety +7

    I think is worth mentioning that in Portrait of Ruin Jonathan is a member of the Morris family and Charlotte a direct descendant of Sypha, and we all know Sypha was a powerhouse.

    • @AlucardsQuest
      @AlucardsQuest Před 5 lety

      I don't remember that being mentioned directly, but she is a learned student of magic from a similar school. Yoko from the Sorrow games fights more like a Belnades should.

  • @brettdiving2744
    @brettdiving2744 Před 2 lety +5

    I knew there were a lot of Castlevania games (never played any. The Netflix series [which was phenomenal] was my intro to the franchise) but holy hell. I didn't know the timeline was THIS confusing lol. Gotta love it though.

  • @KittenEarbreak
    @KittenEarbreak Před 5 lety

    That was exhaustive! Well done!!

  • @Wayward_Warlock
    @Wayward_Warlock Před 5 lety

    Great video! Tell me I wasn't the only person who immediately thought of Warframe at the end when she mentioned eating wall meat? The Orokin must have seen the idea Dracula had for stuffing meat into the walls and taken it to a whole new level haha

  • @CriticalThinkingShow
    @CriticalThinkingShow Před 5 lety +3

    Great video!

  • @saksagan1436
    @saksagan1436 Před 5 lety +21

    simon is my 3rd favorite smash bros chaRICHTER

  • @marlonsanchez3141
    @marlonsanchez3141 Před 4 lety +2

    Lament Of Innocence have us one this franchises most beautiful, ear pleasing and sweeping themes, it is the theme in the Garden Forgotten By Time.

  • @Chorizo1
    @Chorizo1 Před 7 měsíci

    The humor in this video was a delightful encounter :) it made it much more enjoyable and I've watched a lot of Leaderboard videos. Lots of fun to watch ^_^

  • @alangrant6625
    @alangrant6625 Před 5 lety +3

    Very good video. How do you can make those AMAZING videos?

  • @itsdegsy
    @itsdegsy Před 5 lety +14

    I loved the Netflix series and thank you for this video! Castlevania is cool!

  • @tjjourden4806
    @tjjourden4806 Před 5 lety

    Your commentary was awesome, thank you

  • @martareadstarot
    @martareadstarot Před 8 měsíci

    "Whip to wing, against the vampire king." Great line 😊

  • @jamesrussell2936
    @jamesrussell2936 Před 5 lety +7

    The problem with stories like this is that they are hard to end, and without an ending they don't have that punch.

    • @BlueYel1
      @BlueYel1 Před rokem +4

      I mean, a Japanese school teenagers fighting a Dracula in 2035.. it's couldn't be more ridiculous. What next, Sci-fi robotic Dracula in the Cyberpunk world in 2077?

    • @corryjamieson3909
      @corryjamieson3909 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@BlueYel1Umm, I think you made a mistake, the Japanese teenager IS Dracula.

  • @khmasterva6919
    @khmasterva6919 Před 2 lety +3

    Can we just give mad respect for John using the Vampire Killer to defeat Dracula while he was getting his life sapping away

  • @texasred9372
    @texasred9372 Před 5 lety +2

    I love how the Belmont’s were able to return

  • @Kunstschilder1987
    @Kunstschilder1987 Před 5 lety

    you did this great and amusing1 i am just getting into the series and this vid showed me why that was a great thing to do.

  • @Supasmartguy
    @Supasmartguy Před 4 lety +6

    Let's be real, the dormant soul of an immortal dark lord inside an anime high schooler is a ticking timebomb!

  • @derektereve286
    @derektereve286 Před 5 lety +7

    Hello, I just want to provide some insight, but when you say Castlevania 64 is not cannon, you are wrong, it was originally retconned from the series along with Legacy of Darkness, Circle of the Moon and Legends, but eventually Legacy of Darkness and 64 were readded to the cannon while Legends and Circle of the Moon were not

    • @LealFireBall
      @LealFireBall Před 5 lety +5

      Kinda, the 64 games and Circle of the Moon were made by teams that wanted these games to be elseworld stories and thus the games are left out of the main timeline, they were really never retconned. If I recall correctly, Iga wanted Circle of the Moon to be part of the official timeline and it was for some time, but he was asked by the developers of the game to keep it as an alternate timeline and he obliged.
      The 64 games and Circle of the Moon are canon, but canon to their own timeline. Castlevania legends wanted to be in the main timeline but was retconned by Iga due to story inconsistencies.

    • @AlucardsQuest
      @AlucardsQuest Před 5 lety

      @@LealFireBall I think He's talking about the Portrait of Ruin timeline, which came with that game's pre-order. It inexplicably listed the 64 games and CotM as part of the timeline, but didn't explain why they were there. If I recall it also came with a booklet that had a picture of Legends... very strange.

  • @sefikura7141
    @sefikura7141 Před 5 lety +2

    SO MANY GAMES!!! AND I'VE ONLY PLAYED THREE!!
    They were Lament of Innocence, Symphony of the Night, and Portrait of Ruin. I also watched the anime. SO GOOD

  • @joeywall4657
    @joeywall4657 Před 5 lety

    Thanks for this!

  • @TheMissingLink2
    @TheMissingLink2 Před 5 lety +4

    You should mention that we're still waiting for a gaming featuring the events of 1999.

  • @Mr.9
    @Mr.9 Před 4 lety +13

    If symphony of the night was a part of the Netflix series
    Alucard: how the new Belmont
    Richter is cursed
    Alucard: for fucks sake even that idiot Trevor didn’t fuck up this hard

    • @zapperil
      @zapperil Před 2 lety

      Now if Aria of Sorrow is animated next
      Alucard : "Father , why have you become a Japanese kid ?"
      Soma : "Who the hell are you ?"

  • @dontstop2517
    @dontstop2517 Před 7 měsíci

    im back and honestly this video helped me to understand better the chronology in nocturne!!

  • @Spock1777
    @Spock1777 Před 5 lety +1

    I was always under the impression that Dawn of Sorrow's Cannon ending was the one where Soma turns and Julius is forced to kill him. Seeing as it's stated as getting that ending unlocks a whole epilogue about Julius killing Soma.

  • @SpJrD
    @SpJrD Před 5 lety +38

    Castlevania = Kill Dracula + Dracula reborn 😒

  • @zxKAOS1
    @zxKAOS1 Před 2 lety +10

    _Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls_ has been quite interesting. The characters and settings from previous CV games get made manifest through a research lab's magic, so you have Simon Belmont, Richter Belmont (of which Simon was taken aback to hear that _he_ was actually considered the greatest Belmont), Alucard, Charlotte, Maria, and Shanoa, all together! On top of that, there are 2 versions of Maria! One from when she was 12, and another when she's 17!
    It's got a lot of gameplay and storyline than one would ever expect from a mobile game. However, it got yanked from Google Play and is now an Apple Arcade exclusive. Even though AA doesn't allow ads nor IAP, it can get grindy. Worth it if you can put up with it, but that's a big "if".

  • @smoothlikebutter9098
    @smoothlikebutter9098 Před 7 měsíci +2

    wow netflix hector is nerfed i never knew that he was also a protagonist

  • @St4rTr3v1Ut10n
    @St4rTr3v1Ut10n Před 5 lety +1

    6:56 is my favorite part. Hilarious. Saved this whole video for me.