So does Dracula consider Alucard human in this rant? Like, is he reducing Alucard to a mere human(no better than those who killed Lisa) for betraying him? Or is he just talking about his human-half? He thinks Alucard's human side is a bad influence, if Alucard was turned into a full vampire he would have sided with him or at least not oppose him.

Or Dracula is convinced humans turned Alucard against him, because surely his own son wouldn't take up arms against him of his own free will?

Maybe Dracula thinks Hector being a human is why he betrayed him? It didn't matter how favored Hector was, he would inevitably betray him. After all, Hector is only human. (All the while ignoring Isaac.... Wait, no. Isaac hates humanity and wants to be a demon, so he don't count clearly.) Dracula can only trust demons bound to him or simps

How ironic if Dracula only treated Hector (and Isaac) like a demons under his service, while Hector always wanted to be human. And only now he does consider Hector a human.

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Unrelated, but creative read of the scene: Alucard's betrayal after Hector's was the last straw before Dracula decided to curse Wallachia and/or Dracula feared he's doomed after Death was killed.

Remember how in Symphony of the Night, Dracula genuinely seems to resent Alucard's humanity:

"Still uttering the same nonsense. No matter. Now is the time to put aside your weak human side and join me in remaking this world!" (ENG, PSX)

"Enough of your nonsense! Away with your humanity! Stand with me as Prince of all the world!" (ENG, DXC)

"Are you still saying such nonsense? That's fine. This time, I will wipe away your vulgar blood and make you join my family." (JP)

The Japanese line is by far the worst. "Vulgar blood" ("下賤な血")? Talking as if Alucard no longer belongs to his family, and can only return to it if he sheds away Lisa's heritage? What a hypocritical bastard.

So yes, I do believe that he blamed Alucard's human side for his betrayal, and he may even reduced him to "one of them" in his fury. And to be fair, while we never see their falldown, Alucard must have tried to defend mankind from Dracula's irrational ire, so of course Dracula would see it as him siding with them over his vampire heritage. It would fit with Alucard's angst over his half-breed nature, wouldn't it? Humans see him as a vampire, vampires see him as a human.

Hector also tried to plead Dracula by appealing to his own human nature, and he himself in this manga seems to be conflicted: while Alucard seems to be torn on both of his heritages, Hector has been conviced that he's nothing but a demon, but he so desperately wants to consider himself a human - it doesn't help that while Alucard likely watched Dracula waging his war from the sidelines, powerless, Hector was forced to participate in it. Different situations... but Dracula would not catch the nuance, and reduce both of them as traitors for the sake of those cruel humans: this would fuel his belief that humanity as a whole is a scourge to be wiped out.

Nothing to be done about Hector: he was born a human, and he shall die as one. Alucard, on the other hand... he can be fixed :)

Vulgar or low-born. Either way Dracula sees humanity as a stain on Alucard's glorious noble vampire bloodline, and thus it need to be removed so he can properly be his son. Dracula still greets him as his son, so it's not as Dracula stopped considering him family but more he is the sort of parent who thinks children as their property who exists only to fit the parent's image.

Alucard saying he don't want revenge (EN) or Lisa didn't want revenge (JP) and Dracula dismissing him as "still talking nonsense." implies Alucard did try to reason with Dracula. Whether early on or during the battle (I prefer before Alucard hid himself)

I mean, Hector could have been fixed by being turned into a vampire too. But Dracula is so furious at Hector's betrayal he's not willing to grant him the honor of being a vampire. (And/or Hector could lose his abilities in the process and so make him worthless)

Dracula with his magnanimity welcomed Hector, a mere human, taught him and gave him one of the most privileged positions and much more you would argue :P. And yet Hector only wants to spit on his generosity, therefore he deserve to die as a punishment.

Alucard despite his audacity of going against his bloodline, and while tainted by human blood, still share his blood, and thus is allowed more forgiveness. Just need to put out that nonsense about not killing humans once and for all.

Yeah, I firmly believe Devil Forgemasters need to be human, and that's why Drac never turned his boys (also they were fresh supply of blood :P)

The topic of what kind of husband and father Dracula used to be is interesting. By all means, we can assume he was genuinely kind and loving... maybe because he had everything under control. He started to crack once he felt control slipping from him :) Lisa dying when not under his watch? Alucard openly defying his wishes? That's when they all learned that Dracula's love and support is conditional :)

With Hector, there's also the fact that it's stated multiple times that he was the favorite one over Isaac. One would think that the one feeling inferior would eventually defect, right? No, it was Hector, despite being the one praised the most, the one who "got the closest" to Dracula, the one that by all means had nothing to complain about. We understand that it's because he had both solid principles and one hell of a pride. Dracula was likely confused - what, he gave the boy everything he wanted, all the power and praise he craved, and that's the thanks he gets?

In CoD, Dracula's first words to Hector are asking why did he betray him: he genuinely had no idea. He never understood either him or Alucard. That's why he reduced them on the same level as all the humans who, in his eyes, stood back and allowed Lisa to be taken away from him.

Castlevania II Belmont’s Revenge Part 1: Papa Bear gonna kick some ass!

Man oh man talk about a complete makeover!

This is quite literally a major upgrade from the first game in just about every conceivable way!

It’s no longer slower than erosion! Yeah movement is still slower than the NES games but it no longer feels like it takes an eternity to just walk!

There’s no longer any noticeable slowdown, Christopher  can even slide down ropes to go down much quicker

We have subweapons now! Granted it’s only 2: the throwing axe and the holy water, though the latter is actually absent in the Japanese version and a later version found in a gameboy color collection, which both use the crucifix, which is better imo but it’s still fine

The level design is nowhere near as bullshit as before! Yeah it can be pretty tough at points but it’s pretty fair all around, in fact I’d say that this is the easiest game so far!

The music is awesome! Some of the best tracks on the original gameboy. New Messiah alone is worth the price!

Man!

Why couldn’t the first game be like this!?

This is actually fun!

(As a side note why isn’t this called the Adventure II? You’re really gonna have another game called Castlevania II especially after the first one was pretty disliked? Surely this won’t cause any confusion among people and perhaps even lead some to think that this is just a gameboy port of that game right?)

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Castlevania the Adventure Ending: -AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Stage 4

What you’re seeing is actually I believe my 15th attempt

Or 20th, I stopped counting after a certain point

This level is absolutely chock full of do or die situations, pixel perfect jumps, insta kill onstacles, enemies that immediately attack you as soon as they’re on screen (sometimes from off screen…). The slow down will fuck you over so much here mainly due to the fact that it can interfere with your inputs which in my experience means Christopher swinging the whip later than intended or not at all which suuuuuu-

The absolute worst is that final gauntlet right before Dracula where you have to defeat 4 of those guys that served as the boss of stage 1. It’s a big fucking dick move because if you’ve been hit in the previous rooms thus losing your powered up whip then this hallway is practically impossible: these guys take too many hits to kill and if you backtrack too much while trying to avoid them they will RESPAWN after a while! And no: you can’t damage boost past them because Christopher’s too slow

Dracula himself is technically easy (a giant bat as a final form? Someone must’ve resurrected on the wrong side of the coffin) but because of the extremely cramped room it’ll require you a few tries to nail his pattern and guess what? If you get a game over you gotta do the whole stage ALL OVER AGAIN!

Y’know to be as generous as possible I genuinely did feel a certain feeling of accomplishment upon finally conquering this level. Who knows? Maybe one day this game might become a sort of guilty pleasure of mine almost like with some parts of X6 by virtue of it being inherently satisfying to beat a bullshit hard game

…but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a piece of shit

Cute detail that we see Dracula’s bat form rise out of his castle’s ruins after the credits as a way to hint at a sequel. I’d say it’s bold of the developers to expect a sequel to this mess but hey it actually got one!

And boy am I glad that it did…

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Castlevania The Adventure Part 2: -AAAAAAAAAAAAA-

So initially I planned to deal with both of the latter stages in this one video but I had a distinct feeling that stage 4 would cause me a ton of trouble so i decided to split this into two (spoilers: I was right)

If the game had not managed to make you toss your gameboy across the room until now then stage 3 absolutely will

Ladies and gentlemen we are looking at a 10 minute or so long autoscroller here

An autoscroller that moves at a speed that somehow managed to compare to that of the Heat Death of the Universe

Not only is this mind-numbingly slow on its own but the game makes it even worse due to its naturak slowdown

Oh yeah: the Adventure suffers from severe slowdown pretty often whenever there’s too much stuff on screen, especially in this level

Then you also add Christopher’s jog and the fact that this stage is pretty much littered with do or die situations where the margin of error for your jumps and wjop attacks is next to zero with inevitable death being your punishment and you get a level that you’re gonna be stuck in for potentially hours on end

Fun times all around!

Anyway given that the actual ending will be reserved for the next video let’s talk about how this small and simple gameboy game AND Castlevania III which released the same year somehow managed to mess up the plot of the series up until then! Oh yeah!

So according to the manual (including the japanese one) this is supposed to be the adventure lived by Simon’s ancestor Christopher Belmont that was mentioned in the first game’s japanese manual

Cool

But there’s an issue

That manual stated that Christopher lived about 100 years before Simon’s time

Wanna know another game that claims to take place “100 years before Simon Belmont” according to its intro?

Castlevania III

Even though that same intro also states that the game takes place in the 15th century, with Castlevania 1 taking place in the 17th century making it MORE than 100 years before Simon

Some may know that Trevor’s (or Ralph’s in Japan) full name is Trevor C. Belmont

That C is not random as it’s supposed to stand for Christopher

…yet here we see ANOTHER guy named Christopher

Also fun fact: the japanese manuals for both games also state that Dracula was a worshipper of Satan and that’s how he got his dark powers, though the manual for the Adventure does not contain any mention of Alucard or how Dracula presumably sold his soul for power

What seemingly happened is that the developers for both games had set out to both tell the story of Simon’s ancestor Christopher but they failed to communicate properly resulting in the games having this weird relationship

To be fair here I think this is more of an issue with Castlevania III than the Adventure, since it’s the former is the one that decided to take place during the 15th century while ALSO claiming to take place 100 years before Simon, which would have been a logical inconsistency regardless of the latter’s existence or not

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So does Dracula consider Alucard human in this rant? Like, is he reducing Alucard to a mere human(no better than those who killed Lisa) for betraying him? Or is he just talking about his human-half? He thinks Alucard's human side is a bad influence, if Alucard was turned into a full vampire he would have sided with him or at least not oppose him.

Or Dracula is convinced humans turned Alucard against him, because surely his own son wouldn't take up arms against him of his own free will?

Maybe Dracula thinks Hector being a human is why he betrayed him? It didn't matter how favored Hector was, he would inevitably betray him. After all, Hector is only human. (All the while ignoring Isaac.... Wait, no. Isaac hates humanity and wants to be a demon, so he don't count clearly.) Dracula can only trust demons bound to him or simps

How ironic if Dracula only treated Hector (and Isaac) like a demons under his service, while Hector always wanted to be human. And only now he does consider Hector a human.

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Unrelated, but creative read of the scene: Alucard's betrayal after Hector's was the last straw before Dracula decided to curse Wallachia and/or Dracula feared he's doomed after Death was killed.

Remember how in Symphony of the Night, Dracula genuinely seems to resent Alucard's humanity:

"Still uttering the same nonsense. No matter. Now is the time to put aside your weak human side and join me in remaking this world!" (ENG, PSX)

"Enough of your nonsense! Away with your humanity! Stand with me as Prince of all the world!" (ENG, DXC)

"Are you still saying such nonsense? That's fine. This time, I will wipe away your vulgar blood and make you join my family." (JP)

The Japanese line is by far the worst. "Vulgar blood" ("下賤な血")? Talking as if Alucard no longer belongs to his family, and can only return to it if he sheds away Lisa's heritage? What a hypocritical bastard.

So yes, I do believe that he blamed Alucard's human side for his betrayal, and he may even reduced him to "one of them" in his fury. And to be fair, while we never see their falldown, Alucard must have tried to defend mankind from Dracula's irrational ire, so of course Dracula would see it as him siding with them over his vampire heritage. It would fit with Alucard's angst over his half-breed nature, wouldn't it? Humans see him as a vampire, vampires see him as a human.

Hector also tried to plead Dracula by appealing to his own human nature, and he himself in this manga seems to be conflicted: while Alucard seems to be torn on both of his heritages, Hector has been conviced that he's nothing but a demon, but he so desperately wants to consider himself a human - it doesn't help that while Alucard likely watched Dracula waging his war from the sidelines, powerless, Hector was forced to participate in it. Different situations... but Dracula would not catch the nuance, and reduce both of them as traitors for the sake of those cruel humans: this would fuel his belief that humanity as a whole is a scourge to be wiped out.

Nothing to be done about Hector: he was born a human, and he shall die as one. Alucard, on the other hand... he can be fixed :)

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