PS2 New Games

CASTLEVANIA
It is the 11th Century. Feudal lords are gaining power and knights protect the peace and fight heretics and heathens in God's name. Leon Belmont (a strong warrior) and Mathias Cronquist (a talented tactician) are old friends. But on the return from a successful campaign, Mathias falls bedridden on the news that his wife Elisabetha had died in his absence. A year later the undefeated Leon encounters mysterious monsters, signaling trouble. From his sickbed Mathias informs Leon that his beloved, Sara, has been captured and is held captive in a vampire's castle, Eternal Night. The Church will not however divert from their crusades in the East. Leon gives up his title as baron and heads out to save her on his own. In the forest he meets Rinaldo Gandolfi. He informs Leon that Walter Bernhard plays a game with hunters in his forest, Rinaldo assisting them with supplies from weapons to potions etc. He supplies Leon with a whip (treated with alchemy) and an enchanted gauntlet with which to fight enemies and draw their power when necessary. You get to use magical relics amid the fight with beasts and monsters of all shapes and sizes. Enemies include lantern & sword carrying wraiths, skeletons, monster knights, reptile lizards and more. Your inventory lists your Items / Equipment / Relics / Orbs / Skills / & Encylopedia (a 12 pages book filled with info you will need). Yo collect items, relics, potions, money, map markers, skills etc. by whipping glowing cauldrons you find everywhere or when defeating a foe - but once you exit an area and return, everything has reappeared, cauldrons and the same enemies. You can also retrieve a Magical Ticket - which sends you back to the old man's cottage for supplies [buy or sell - potions, serum, magical ticket / memorial ticket (return to last save point), diamond, ruby, sapphire, opal, zircon, sacrificial doll (absorbs lethal power from an enemy), white bishop (protection)]. In order to get to Walter, there are 5 monsters guarding his throne - defeat them before you can get to Bernhard. You'll get to a chamber with 5 transporting portal stones taking you to: House Of Sacred Remains, Anti-Soul Mysteries Lab, Garden Forgotten By Time, Dark Place Of Waterfalls and Ghostly Theatre. Finish those and you may get to face the vampire The game has a moody atmosphere, the castle's stone and marble walls and floors engulfing, with huge doors, chambers, torches, waterlogged tunnels, gothic architecture & décor, taking you deep into its darkness. Epic music is of course essential.

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