Editing Castlevania (section)

==Non-canon Games==
===Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night===
A [[Kickstarter]] game that's a spiritual successor to Castlevania in the vein of other retro-darlings like ''Mighty Number 9'' (The Mega Man spiritual successor which released to poor reviews despite earning a shit-ton of backer bucks followed by shitshow of a development period) and ''Yooka-Laylee'' (A Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor which released to divisive reviews, though without any grand mess in the development) run by Koji Igarashi himself and a new studio now that Konami's given up on making video games. At the very least, there's been some frequent communication from the team, and were able to release a retroclone in the style of the original Castlevanias in compensation for the delays. It finally released in June 2019 to a generally positive reception, with noted exception going to the Nintendo Switch port (While problematic, they're far from the first to suffer from having a port to that thing be considered the weakest port of the mainstream consoles and the team's been actively working to improve the experience).

Our main protagonist Miriam, who's pretty much a copypaste of Shanoa from OoE/Soma from Aria and Dawn down to the "steal enemy souls for new powers" bit, but her powers are derived from some alchemical ritual that lets her absorb demonic energy. See, the Alchemists created a bunch of people like her in order to summon demons from the pits of Hell in a gambit to scare people away from that trite "progress at the sake of spiritualism" dealio that the Industrial Revolution presented. It backfired horribly and instead the Alchemists and most of Europe get ravaged for ten years with the only surviving members of the ritual being Miriam (by being rendered comatose through unknown means) and Gebel (who managed to survive the mess of being used as demon fuel and acted as a moral guide for Miriam) while the Guild falls apart. Some years later, Miriam awakens and finds out that Gebel has returned to the Alchemist base in order to summon a giant castle filled with demons. Together with junior Alchemist Johannes (who acts as the crafter/stay-at-home husband), Dominique (an exorcist of the Catholic Church who also runs a market) and her contracted swordsman Zangetsu (voiced by David "Solid Snake" Hayter), Miriam delves into this castle to uncover just what turned Gebel to attempt wiping out humanity and prevent him from using a legendary tome to summon the most powerful daemon of them all.

Has an 8-bit companion for the nostalgia-seekers in the form of ''Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon'', which also serves as a prequel.

===Castlevania: Legends (The other Castlevania 2)===
A now non-canon entry released for the Game Boy in 1997, this game introduced the first female Belmont, Sonia, who was apparently also the first Belmont to fight Dracula in 1450 with the help of Alucard.

This game was pretty much hated by everyone or met with extreme apathy, including Igarashi himself, so when Lament of Innocence retconned it with the tale of Leon and Mathias, nobody really minded. The only real loss is the waifu of a protagonist making the series less of a sausage fest.

===Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon (The other Castlevania 10 but in Lords of Shadow timeline)===
Released on 2001 as a launch title for the Game Boy Advance, this game has events that are absolutely unrelated to the larger lore of the series, most critically being that the Belmonts have absolutely no involvement here. Instead, we take the role of Nathan Graves, apprentice to vampire hunter Morris Baldwin. He's also accompanied by Morris' son, Hugh, the rival who's pissed that his dad likes Nathan enough to hand over the protagonist-mandated whip.

Lady Carmilla decides to resurrect Dracula (Gabriel) this time, and for the ritual she needs the blood of an enemy. Thus she stages the ritual in 1860 with such pomp that Morris, Hugh, and Nathan are all present. Carmilla resurrects the big guy, who then blasts the two juniors down an obscenely long pit (which they somehow survive) and kidnaps Morris. With no way up, the two apprentices decide to make their own routes up to rescue the old man. Along the way, Nathan has to come across and kill several bosses, including Death (Who's here because he's Drac's majordomo and thus must always be a boss), Carmilla, and a brainwashed Hugh (who took the rivalry a bit too far).

The main system implemented in this title was a collectible card system that was established because [[Pokemon]] was still fresh on people's minds and [[Yu-Gi-Oh]] was slowly gaining traction to becoming the TCG behemoth it is. These cards were split between Greco-Roman deities and mythological creatures and by mixing and matching cards from each group, you developed new power ranging from the mundane elemental damage on whips to some more intriguing ones like summons and turning into a 1HP skeleton with a weapon that could instakill anything on a crit.

===Castlevania : The Arcade ( Light Gun Arcade Game)===
In this light gun arcade game, you play as a generic vampire hunter and a generic gunner(and a witch). You attack by using a "light whip" which you swing at the screen to attack the monsters on screen. The sub weapons are used with a bottom button and the heart meter goes up to 25 hearts. While this was released for Japan in 2009 and planned for Europe, it was only shown at test locations and can only be found in Japan.

===Castlevania : Order of Shadows (Mobile Phone Game)===

===Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 1, 2, and Mirror of Fate (Tribute reboot)===
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This could have been so much more...

This series of games (The numbered ones being on PS3 and Xbox 360 while Mirror of Fate was Nintendo 3DS) was supposed to be chronicling an alternate canon which explained the origin story of Dracula. What resulted was fraught with problems, with the least of them being that Dracula was really a guy named Gabriel Belmont. In truth, these games were already considered derivative and response was rather mixed. Being that this was not "Blockbuster Success", Konami decided to stop producing the IP beyond the few remasters of old ports and their obsession with pachinko machines.
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In this setting, Gabriel's a member of the Brotherhood of Light, an order who protects the people from the villainous Lords of Shadow (Carmilla, Zobek-not-Death, and Cornell, who turn out to be the evil halves of the Brotherhood's founders) and their minions. Gabriel is set up to fulfill a prophecy that would see a pure-hearted warrior kill the Lords for good and reconnect Heaven and Earth and let the dead reach heaven instead of rotting in Limbo, while Gabe himself wants to put together a mask that the Lords guard the pieces of to bring back his dead wife. While on his journey to kill Zobek, he finds out that not only was it Gabe himself who murdered his wife while under mind control, but that absolutely everything was a plan by Satan himself to get revenge on God for that casting-out business. Gabe's had enough of this bullshit by this point and kills Satan hard enough free the souls from Limbo, his wife included. With nothing left, he decides to gather more power by killing some even-more-ancient evil and by this time, he's well and fully Dracula.

Mirror of Fate was a side-sroller that brought together the tales of Simon Belmont (grandson of Gabriel who now wants to off the old man in revenge for his parents), Trevor Belmont (Gabe's son), and Gabe himself in a rather confusing story which also introduces Alucard to this continuity - but in no way that anyone'd recognize (it's undead Trevor).

The second game has Dracula wake up in decidedly more modern times with all his awesome powers missing (because video game logic) and learns that Satan's trying to make a comeback since there was no opposition. The only way to return to max power is to go through his own castle, facing off against the new Brotherhood of Light in the meanwhile. At the end, Gabe realizes that he was part of a ploy with his son that would see both Zobek and Satan truly dead. The former takes offense to this and is killed while Satan makes his return and takes possession of Alucard-Trevor. Al gets exorcised, Satan gets killed for good and thus can Gabe finally be done with this mess.
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===Kid Dracula===
A simplified game that is almost a parody of Castlevania, featuring chibi versions of Castlevania characters while the OC characters would show up in games released later. Strangely it ties into the plot of Castlevania: Judgement and Symphony Of The Night, given this is the origin of Galamoth who attacks Dracula on his 1009th birthday while in Symphony he is a boss described as having a 1000 year plan to defeat Dracula and in Judgement he sends his version of Death to kill Dracula 1000 years in the past in order to take control of time.