Castlevania

Short on time this month, the Game Boys have prepared a handful of shorter episodes to cover the rest of the month until they can return to their regular recording…

A new veteran character may have finally opened a link to the long speculated possibility of a future Netflix’s Castlevania crossover with their new animated Devil May Cry series…

It is another year for fans of Konami’s neglected gaming poster boy to rise up and celebrate the finest breed of a video game adaptation that has ever landed in the public eye…

Dracula’s Curse’s legacy changed in the most unexpected way possible for a video game series: exploring a different medium of storytelling with pristine success.

Castlevania isn’t a dialogue-heavy series by any means, but it’s still home to one of gaming’s most compelling narratives. Equipped with only their ancestral weapon, the legendary Vampire Killer, descendants…

‘Super Castlevania IV’ is just as much a love letter to the franchise as it is the definitive, one-of-a-kind Castlevania experience.

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25 years later.

One might be right to be hesitant about Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The term ‘spiritual successor’ is one that often leaves me a skeptic. How often have we seen…

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has finally been released, after nearly 5 years in the making. The unholy successor to the classic Castlevania games released by Konami from 1997-2008, Bloodstained joins the ranks of Doom, Final…

The first Castlevania game was released on the Japan-only Famicom Disk System as Akumajou Draculaon, September 26, 1986, and later released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System as…

Vampires, bats, whips, spells, castles…what’s the first thing that comes to mind when hearing these words? Elder Scrolls maybe? Twilight perhaps? Of course not! It’s time to take a look…

Adventure is often written as a metaphor for idealistic youth, where anything is possible and conquering the world seems an inevitability. From whiny Luke Skywalker to sleepy-headed Link, the departure…

We have fellow GoombaStomp editor, Mike Worby, on as a guest host this episode to help the crew dive into the wild ride that is Attack On Titan. Some members…

A good twist plays on an audience’s expectations in order to contextualize something. More often than not, that “something” is the story. Books and movies use twists to reframe narratives,…

Having recently wrote about how the second season of Castlevania appeared to be dragging its feet for roughly half of its 8 episodes, let me be the first to say that, holy…

The first season of Castlevania moved along at a deft clip. The storytelling was epic, the action was fast and frenetic, and there always seemed to be something happening. In fact,…

It’s no stretch to say we’ve been in the retro-revival trend for the better half of a decade now. There have been plenty of good and bad examples of how…

O gaming news, gaming news, wherefore art thou gaming news? Is anybody else bored of how many times battle royale games like Fortnite seem to keep themselves in the news?…

Curse of the Moon is a Bloodstained tie-in spinoff that is more than just a quick Kickstarter promise.