Castlevania Halloween Special

The Castlevania titles have been released on various platforms, from early systems including the Nintendo Entertainment System to modern consoles. It has also been released for Pocket PCs and mobile phones. The first title, as well as the majority of sequels were a side-scrolling video game. The sequels Vampire Killer and Castlevania II introduced non-linear exploration.
The earliest games borrowed source material from motifs in iconic horror cinema and other monsters from the Universal Horror and Hammer era of films. Examples include werewolves, Frankenstein's monster, The Mummy, Medusa, the Grim Reaper and Count Dracula himself. The earlier games paid homage to these films. Most of the Castlevania video game franchise has been about the vampire hunting family of the Belmonts and Dracula. Almost every hundred years, Dracula is resurrected and generally the Belmonts must defeat him.
The most iconic weapon of the series is a whip called Vampire Killer. It is the legendary weapon used by the Belmonts in the fights against Count Dracula.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is a reboot of the franchise, and features Gabriel Belmont on a quest to defeat the eponymous Lords of Shadow. While it does indeed feature the usual Castlevania motifs of vampires, werewolves and the undead, the plot is set before the rise of Dracula.

The music for the first Castlevania game was composed by Satoe Terashima and Kinuyo Yamashita,[38][39] of Konami's Kukeiha Club of composers, shortly after graduating from college. Yamashita was credited under the pseudonym James Banana for her work on the Disk System version of the game.
Most of Castlevania's music changes from game to game, but some themes recur often. These include "Vampire Killer", composed by Terashima, "Bloody Tears" (血の涙 Chi no Namida), first composed by Kenichi Matsubara, and Beginning" by Jun Funahashi. Several songs, including "Vampire Killer" and "Bloody Tears", were also featured in the soundtracks of other Konami games, including Konami Wai Wai World, Contra: Hard Corps, and Konami Krazy Racers. Rap group Army of the Pharaohs also used a sample of the song as a background for their song, also called "Bloody Tears".

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[itsjonesh]

Just a quick correction: The name of Gabriel's order is called Brotherhood of Light. And he was singular in his order exactly because of his maestry of the use of the Combat Cross.

Now about the Combat Cross: I believe that it was supposed to be an chain whip full of gimmicks that would make that weapon double as hiking gear and even equipment for torture (spiked chains upgrade). Yeah, as there is no kind of piston or propulsor inside the Combat Cross, most likely Gabriel would use it as an longchain flail, and definetly he would need both hands to wield that thing. The stake pommel would definetly be useful as not only against the creatures of the dark, but also agains humans - If the Combat Cross main body is made of steel, that bit could destroy an chestplate and maybe one or two more layers of protection.

The only drawback about the Combat Cross is the ammount of skill that you need to effectily wield it. That would not be an weapon to you usual jack on the army - only the very elite of the elite would be able to use the Combat Cross in combat. And well: Gabriel was indeed the Elite of his Order.

And i've never seen Gabriel using an cuirass as his armor - It always looked like his was more of an textiled armor with some layers of metal than actual, sturdy material. So probably something like an really stylized aketon. Against humans? It can be pretty efficient and stylish. Against werewolves and vampires? I think he would need to go to his order Quartermaster and demand at least an brigandine or something like that.

And finishing my commentary: My absolute favorite Castlevania is Portrait of Ruin and Super Castlevania IV from the Classic Saga, and about the Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate and the Lords of Shadow 1.

SIMON BELMONT IN MIRROR OF FATE IS A BEAST!! >:D

[NephilimHunter]

A stake to stab through the heart of a Vampire, two spikes for bludgeoning your enemies and the chain could be used much like a Kusarigama to entangle the enemies weapons or limbs then finish them off with the schythe or in this case stake, plus depending on heavy the spike on the end is it could do a great deal of damage in of itself. All in the shape of a crucifix.

[sevenproxies]

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is an early childhood memory for me for the NES. An insanely difficult game that I actually beat without any walkthrough back in the day.

[BVargas]

That spooky guy in make up looks a bit like metatron.

[tiawheeler]

Did I just walk into a video where the Metatron just cosplayed as Brandon Lee's character from The Crow?!
I'm not going to lie, I needed the smile. Thanks.

Edit: I forgot to add that the Gabriel cosplay looks awesome. :)

[lisaheisey]

I love Halloween & anything spooky, and have never scared easily even as a child. But, when you walked right up to the screen, in the intro, that kind of creeped me out. Good job! Lol

[crozraven]

Gabriel's combat cross from CLOS supposed to be re-imagine for a "whip" like previous Castlevania games with the vampire killer. Well yeah, it's ridiculous but hey so is blade of chaos that's just iconic for GoW and people loved it.

Maybe you should make a video what weapon that best suited to fight vampires. Be it western or eastern weapons.

[corneliusfukyuself]

That was a really good cosplay Metatron, very well done and quite creepy, which is fantastic.

[carlosalbin]

I just love it. Awesome cosplay and makeup

[RayRaven]

And here I though we wouldn't get a Halloween video, great job Metatron.

[stavros]

Edgelord Metatron is the best kid of Metatron.

[joshmanwaring]

Glad to see you take Halloween a lot more serious than most in America

[BradKarmour]

"Castlevania?! Hell yeah!"

(Sees that it's based on Lords Of Shadow)

"... Fine, I guess I'll watch it."

[LeonMc]

My man, you pull off The Crow remarkably well. Such fun!

[dillonmorris]

I really appreciate that you did this Metatron, especially the beginning!

[jhinnefreet]

The most badass of the original Simon Belemonts is the 3rd installment of Castlevania on NES. . .Happy Halloween.

[WitchFisterVeo]

My favorite Castlevania game of the series is -Castlevania Judgment- Castlevania symphony of the night and Aria of sorrow. Also, love both the Gabriel and Crow cosplay, really convincing, especially as the Crow

[romanarriaga]

Castlevania will always have a special place in my heart. Since the one where you play as Richter (I've seen it with many names: Dracula X, Bloodlines, or just Castlevania X), Symphony of the night, Chronicles (a remake for the PSOne), and clearly, all lords of shadow. I loved the concept of the second game, and the story was very powerful, but poorly executed. Victor's death seemed so unnecessary... Seriously, they tried to find the source, only to have the magic residue travel far far away to... the tallest building right in front of them. I Do love how the city is actually a part of the castle, and I love how you travel back and forth in time and get to see what the castle became. Dracula's armor though... he's a monster, so I'm sure he doesn't need it (seeing how he can only die by the vampire killer cross Gabriel had in the first game), but at least a shirt or whatever, or at least to remove the belt to either show full tummy, or not to show it at all.

[leighs]

Love your video: very spooky and creepy. Excellent! 👍🏻👻🎃⚔️⚒⚰️🕸🕷🦇😈