What do you think of when it comes to medieval vampire-themed games? I believe that in the minds of most players, the series of works of "Castlevania" will definitely be thought of.
Castlevania is a role-playing game launched by KONAMI in 1986. It has developed to the present and has launched more than thirty works. The first generation of Castlevania was launched on the Nintendo FC, and then on SFC, N64, MD, PS, PS2, GB, GBA, NDS, PSP, WII, 3DS and other models.
Konami also carefully wrote the game plot for "Castlevania", and since then, it has also profoundly influenced the subsequent "Castlevania" series of works. I believe that players who have played the first generation of "Castlevania" should be familiar with the plot.
Mainly about a legend in a kingdom in medieval Europe, "the demon king Dracula will be resurrected every 100 years, and each resurrection after the strength is stronger than the last time", once Dracula was resurrected, but was defeated by the members of the Belmont family who have guarded the kingdom for generations, the demon king Dracula fell into a deep sleep. This time it was exactly 100 years later, and at the time of the grand carnival on Easter, the demon king Dracula was resurrected. So our protagonist, Simon, who inherited the blood of the Belmont family, was ordered to seal the Demon King, and the story of the first generation began.
I believe that players who have learned about Castlevania should know about these plots, but do you know which one of the original Castlevania stories was? Yes, Castlevania Innocent Sighs, although released many years later than Castlevania, is the source of the Castlevania story.
The original Castlevania story takes place during the Crusades. The protagonist Leon. Belmont (the ancestor of the Belmont family in the Castlevania series) is a noble knight and captain of a crusader. At Lyon's side there was also a military master who was proficient in alchemists called Matthias. Kruvestre. These two men often led the legions to fight, and often won victories because of the tacit cooperation. The friendship between the two is also getting better and better.
But one day, bad news came from Matthias's hometown, and Matthias's beloved wife fell ill and died at home. Matthias, who received this news, was distressed, as a crusader, Matthias often brought victories to God, but his wife died of illness in her home without God's mercy. This tragedy was unacceptable to Matthias, so he secretly cursed God and broke away from the Crusaders. As a friend of Matthias, Leon, while sympathetic to Matthias's plight, did not leave with Matthias. Because he still has his own noble title, he cannot be discarded casually.
After Matthias left, Lyon's territory was often harassed by monsters, and Lyon repeatedly wanted to send troops to get rid of these monsters, but the Holy See did not let Lyon send troops. The reason is that the crusade is a very important thing now, and the military cannot be wasted on those meaningless things. So Leon didn't care about the monsters.
Until one day, Leon learned that his fiancée, Sarah, was missing. After investigating, Leon learned that his fiancée's disappearance was related to the monsters that often harassed the villagers. So Leon, who was eager to save his wife, gave up his aristocratic status against the orders of the Holy See and went alone to save his fiancée.
Leon followed the monsters along the way to a very eerie forest, which was full of eerie, the sun could not shine in, and it was often in the dark. Although it is very strange here, it cannot stop Lyon's determination to save his fiancée. While on his way through the forest, Lyon encounters an alchemist, Rinaldo. Gandalf.
Gandalf told Lyon that the place was inhabited by an ancient vampire, Walter. Controlled by Berenhardt. It has a castlevania that can teleport through space, and likes to let some of the strong people of the human world challenge it by breaking through the heavily machined castlevania, and then kill these strong human beings for fun. Leon was a crusader commander and was very strong in his personal strength. So Walter kidnaps Leon's fiancée and asks Leon to come and get revenge on him.
Gandalf was once a man who sought revenge on Walter, but he ultimately failed, but Walter did not kill him, but let him help the human strong who came to challenge him to increase his strength, of course, these are also Walter's bad tastes. At this point in the story, Gandalf gives Leon a refined exorcist whip with the ability to strike evil. Leon took the whip and set off.
Eventually, Lyon encounters Walter himself after eliminating five of Walter's men, but Leon discovers that his whip is useless to Walter. Just when Leon did not know what to do, Walter generously returned Leon's fiancée to him and asked him to duel again. After saving Sarah, Leon finds that Sarah has been unconscious, and Lyon, who has no choice, turns to Gandalf again.
After waking up Sarah, Gandalf tells Leon that your fiancée has been sucked by Walter and she will turn into a vampire. If you want to lift the vampire curse, you must destroy Walter. But Leon's weapon was ineffective against Walter, and Gandalf again told Leon that in order to destroy Walter, he would have to refine the whip again with his pure but polluted soul, and from the soul of the user's most gracious person. Anyway, if you want to destroy Walter, you must first let the heroine sacrifice.
After eavesdropping, Sarah convinces Leon to sacrifice herself to help Leon seal the vampire, so that more people can be spared the fate of victimization. In this way, a grieving Leon killed Sarah and sacrificed the Holy Whip, so that the Holy Whip "Vampire Killer", who could completely eliminate vampires, was born. Leon also turned grief into anger and eventually used the Holy Whip to completely destroy Walter in Castlevania.
Just when Leon thinks it's all going to end, Matthias, a former Crusader military and Lyon's friend, suddenly appears. It turned out that Letting Leon eliminate Walter was part of Matthias's plot. He wants Walter's soul to become the vampire king for eternal life, with the aim of eternally cursing the God he hates. Matthias, in gratitude to Leon, who helped him destroy Walter, wants to make Lyon an immortal like himself. But Leon was certainly unable to accept the deception and exploitation of himself, so the two fell out. Matthias let his men, Death, drag Leon along, and he moved away from here to digest Walter's soul.
Eventually, after defeating Death, Leon vowed that Matthias would never be forgiven even if he were given eternal life. No matter how many generations pass, the descendants of Leon Belmont will use the Holy Whip to exterminate vampires.
Matthias, on the other hand, continued to curse God in an unknown distance. Self-proclaimed "Midnight Vampire King". After more than 300 years of reincarnation, he appeared in Romania and continued to kill innocent people in the moonlight. At that time, he was known as the "Count of Dracula".
The story of Castlevania: Innocent Sighs ends here, but the story of Castlevania has only just begun.