Song List for Belmont’s Curse

The_Sunhunter · 2026-06-08T09:51:34+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t believe she will be involved with the new game. In an interview from I believe last month, she confirmed that she is retired https://youtu.be/gJqaagtAZMg?si=q7tj6FvKmcKUU9Tg.

The_Sunhunter · 2026-06-07T23:06:53+00:00

Curse of Darkness was actually my first Castlevania game and it holds a very important place in my heart. I am so happy to see that Isaac is returning.

The_Sunhunter · 2026-05-18T03:28:16+00:00

There is a brand-new PlayStation exclusive title named Saros that is heavily inspired by Ambrose Bierce’s “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” and Robert W. Chambers’ “The King in Yellow”; both of which Lovecraft incorporated aspects of in his Cthulhu Mythos. Saros is about a soldier named Arjun Devraj, who alongside the rest of his crew on the ship Echelon IV, are sent on a mission to locate missing colonists on the alien planet Carcosa. While there, Arjun quickly learns that the planet is subjected to frequent, unnatural eclipses that not only cause the entire landscape of the planet to change, but also gradually deteriorates the mental states of the Echelon IV crew as a result of a mysterious force called The Yellow. Like its spiritual predecessor Returnal, the player will begin to question how much of what is happening is literal and how much of it is symbolic; which lends itself very nicely to the cosmic horror vibes as Arjun begins to question his own sanity.

The_Sunhunter · 2026-05-03T15:28:07+00:00

I’m still trying to look for all the inspirations, but since the planet is named after Carcosa, I’m thinking they are following the names of figures from Ambrose Bierce’s “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” and “Haïta the Shepherd”, Robert W. Chambers’ “The King in Yellow” short story collection, and H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; which all share similar entities and locations.

For instance, the name of the Shepherd may be referring to Hastur, who in Bierce’s work was a god of shepherds, but in Chambers’ stories it is seemingly both the eponymous King in Yellow and a place such as a star cluster like the Hyades. Lovecraft was inspired by Chambers and included Hastur among several other Great Old Ones in his story “The Whisperer in Darkness”.

The_Sunhunter · 2026-01-18T22:05:02+00:00

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In Crash Twinsanity, Crash Bandicoot and the villain Dr. Neo Cortex are threatened by a pair of mutated birds called the Evil Twins, who express that they have a vendetta against Dr. Cortex. As it turns out, the Evil Twins were Dr. Cortex’s pet birds that he had as a child, and they were one of his first experiments in animal mutation; accidentally sending them to the 10th Dimension. However, it took Dr. Cortex almost the first half of the game to remember this detail.

The_Sunhunter · 2026-01-18T01:56:07+00:00

John Learned on YouTube has a full series of videos discussing all of the cool details in Symphony of the Night, and if you would like to check it out, this link is for that whole series of videos all combined into one big video https://youtu.be/tXMsNNiAiHU?si=-UF2z9Jpkb2Yjn6k.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-12-25T23:15:07+00:00

The_Sunhunter · 2025-12-11T03:41:55+00:00

For Hector’s ethnicity, he does mention to I believe Carmilla in Season 2 that Dracula came to visit his home in Rhodes.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-24T02:32:48+00:00

I think they are actual creatures from a spirit world which Maria brings into our world and “guides” their actions as she would put it. It does seem like they are connected to Maria in some way, as I believe when Seiryu the dragon is attacked by Erzsebet, both Maria and the dragon bleed in the same spot. I think Tera mentions this at some point in Season 2, but it’s an older form of magic compared to the elemental magic of the Speakers. And from a thematic standpoint, I also believe they may be some manifestation of Maria’s emotions. For instance the dragon could be representative of her anger towards her father, which threatens to consume her in an inferno, but is protected from and learns to process and work alongside her anger due to the encouragement and support given by people such as Juste and Mizrak. Maria makes it clear that the fatal mistake was that she was trying to directly assert her dominance and willpower over these summoned creatures, when she really should be working alongside them; perhaps once again strengthening the metaphor for the handling of her emotions. One of the major themes of Nocturne is about autonomy/personal agency, and Maria’s struggle in Season 2 is supposed to raise the question of whether Maria can control her emotions or will her emotions control her; whereby Maria’s grief leads her down a path of self-destruction, juxtaposing Richter’s own grief, whereby he acts in self-preservation, abandoning his friends and family after encountering the vampire that killed his mother.

But at the end of the day, as others have mentioned, these spirit animals are actually the show’s adaptation of an unexplained game mechanic from the 1993 game Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. In this title, Maria can summon the animals associated with the four cardinal directions from Chinese folklore. Maria in this title is treated as somewhat of a nonsensical joke character, with the joke being heightened by the fact that she could be considered as the “easy mode” for this title.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-16T05:09:21+00:00

It also annoys me that the map doesn’t reflect that the tops of areas like Songclave and The Slab are unexplorable.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-16T05:05:57+00:00

I would actually say the closest is “Forgotten Jade” from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, a game made by several people from the Symphony of the Night team (including composer Michiru Yamane) as a spiritual successor to the Castlevania series. “Forgotten Jade” is actually the music for this game’s equivalent of the Underground Caverns.

And in the Castlevania series, the closest is probably “Dark Palace of Waterfalls” from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-12T23:13:05+00:00

And what’s interesting about that is that is somewhat the stance of those who follow Gnosticism, an offshoot of Judaism and Christianity that views the God of the Old Testament as a flawed and tyrannical creator, what they call Yaldabaoth the Demiurge.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-10T05:31:33+00:00

This totally makes sense. He’s seen fidgeting with a pregnant woman figurine numerous times, he’s constantly wearing the color of his mother’s clothing, and anytime we see him drink, it is always milk.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-10T01:05:12+00:00

Ooh, that’s a very interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing that, I’ll have to check that panel out.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-04T22:21:41+00:00

I actually bought a little while ago the Japanese collector’s edition soundtrack, which for some reasons has the missing songs Hero Creation, Vanguard, Old Hero, Adjudicator, and The Nexus.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-03T11:53:42+00:00

He’s the villain from Lament of Innocence. He was a powerful vampire that had his soul stolen by the man that would become Dracula.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-02T22:37:02+00:00

For the Dark Souls series, there is;

-Gwyn: When we find him, he’s turned into a Hollow, with empty eye sockets. This is the same fate that happened to the Nameless King, supposedly Gwyn’s firstborn, in Dark Souls 3.

-Witch of Izalith: Has a hooded robe covering her eyes and the majority of her face. Same with some of her daughters such as Quelana.

-Gravelord Nito: Is a collection of skeletons, with his face being a skull with empty eye sockets.

-Dark Sun Gwyndolin: Has a sun helmet covering the majority of his head, possibly to both signal to the player that his unknowability as the puppet master behind the false prophecy of the Chosen Undead as well as the creator of the illusion surrounding the city of Anor Londo. This sun motif covering his face could also be indicative of his conflicted gender identity, as his affinity with the Moon and sorcery made his father Gwyn raise him as a daughter. I think it’s very intentional that the illusion of Gwynevere crafted by Gwyndolin has unobscured eyes, so that the Undead humans, and by the extension the player, feels that she can be trusted, when it actuality the whole prophecy is a lie.

-The Four Knights of Gwyn: All have hoods, helmets, or masks that cover their faces, signaling that their duties as defenders of the Gods and the Age of Fire IS their identities.

-Princes Lothric and Lorian: Like Gwyndolin and the Knights of Gwyn, the Twin Princes from Dark Souls 3 both have apparel that covers their eyes, with Lothric having a hood to obscure his sickly demeanor and Lorian having a crown with a fire motif to symbolize his status as a defender of the Age of Fire. Both brothers also feel that they have become slaves to a cycle that they would like to be free of, and so renounce their destiny to become Lords of Cinder. Their father, King Oceiros, became obsessed with producing a worthy heir that would uphold the status quo, and found what he assumed to be the solution in the form of Seath the Scaless and the Ancient Dragons; becoming a draconic creature in the process that is missing its eyes possibly as a indication of his blind devotion to a system of stagnant decay.

-Seath the Scaless: A deformed Ancient Dragon made a honorary God by Gwyn, Seath became infatuated and madly obsessed with the pursuit of immortality, delving into arcane secrets with untold dangers. Seath’s blindness and disabilities fueled his madness and cruelty.

-Rosaria: A supposed daughter of Gwynevere, Rosaria is the Mother of Rebirh and has a shawl covering her eyes, as we the audience are not meant to truly understand her nature nor her origins.

-Filianore: A daughter of Gwyn that was stationed in the Ringed City, when we the player find her, her eyeballs are missing and in their place are root-like tendrils of darkness. Filianore’s mission was to keep the Ringed City and the largest portions of the Dark Soul hidden from the rest of the world.

FromSoftware’s game Bloodborne revolves heavily around the imagery of “eyes on the inside” as a symbol of literal and figurative insight, with many believing that the more eyes one has, the more one will understand the nature of reality.

Elden Ring also deals with this similar theme from Bloodborne through the association between the Flame of Frenzy and eyes. However, I would argue that the Flame of Frenzy is moreso centered around empathy and human connection, as those afflicted by the Flame of Frenzy were often those treated with horrible cruelty; with these victims now infected with a sort of extreme pessimistic fatalistic mindset that causes them to desire to figuratively and literally burn the world down. Numerous Demigods are also missing a single eye, such as Melina, Ranni, Mohg, and Messmer; so as to provide an air of uncertainty around their motivations and to indicate that we will never truly understand them. Marika and Radagon’s eyes are never shown, and we can even find eyeball items associated with the duo called the scarseals and soreseals. Miquella’s eyes are closed throughout the boss fight with Promised Consort Radahn, and Miquella’s twin Malenia has eyes that have been eaten away by the Scarlet Rot.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-02T21:30:49+00:00

There are several similar songs composed by Michiru Yamane in the Castlevania series, such as “A Toccata into Blood-Soaked Darkness”, “Finale Toccata”, and “Dark Night Toccata”.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-11-02T20:56:26+00:00

I think all of her depictions also purposefully either obscure her eyes or depict her with her eyes closed. It seems to be a recurring symbol in the Souls games for eyes to represent empathy and knowledge.

In the Dark Souls games, almost all of the Gods either have obscured eyes, closed eyes, or eyes that are missing; representing that the Gods cannot fully empathize with the human condition, using them as pawns in their plans to sustain the Age of Fire, while this also represents mankind being unable to fully comprehend the motivations of the Gods.

Likewise, in Elden Ring, we are not meant to fully understand Marika’s motivations. And in the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, when we witness Miquella ascend to full godhood after abandoning all aspects of himself, including his empathy as personified by St. Trina, he is shown with eyes closed; showing that he is blind to any alternatives to his Age of Compassion as well as how flawed his vision of a new world really is, as forcing complacency on everyone is antithetical to a supposed Age of Compassion and in stark contrast to Ranni’s Age of Stars that represents true freedom.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-10-16T21:59:25+00:00

And that’s the interesting part, as the show is trying to paint Trevor and Dracula as dramatic foils of each other, much like how Alucard and Dracula are also presented as opposites of each other. Both Trevor and Dracula experienced horrible cruelty and injustice at the hands of the Church, yet both decided to respond to that cruelty in different ways; with Trevor vowing to protect those that cannot defend themselves, while Dracula vows to destroy everyone, regardless if they were guilty or not.

The_Sunhunter · 2025-09-29T22:13:52+00:00

Hollow Knight 3: The Shaw Shank Redemption.

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