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Alucard was intended to be a mirror image of his father, as evidenced by his name, his father's name spelled backwards. [1] The original Castlevania games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) contained references to the Universal Horror films, with Alucard being a tribute to Lon Chaney Jr.'s role as Count Alucard from the 1943 film, Son Of Dracula.
Alucard (アルカード, Arukādo) is Dracula's only child, the half-vampire son of him and a human woman named Lisa. He appears in Castlevania III, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Judgment, Legends, and stars in Symphony of the Night. As a reference to the movie Son of Dracula, Alucard is "Dracula" spelled backwards. This is a title Alucard ...
Castlevania (/ ˌ k æ s əl ˈ v eɪ n i ə /), known in Japan as Akumajō Dracula, [a] [2] is a gothic horror action-adventure video game series and media franchise created by Konami.The series is largely set in the castle of Count Dracula, the arch-enemy of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters.
Alucard , the main character in Hellsing; Count Alucard (character), the title character in the 1943 film Son of Dracula and other works; Alucard, a character in the 1967 film Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors; Alucard, a playable character in the mobile MOBA game, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang; Alucard, a villain in Ted Dekker's Lost Books series
Dracula's Castle is the main setting of the video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997), which was designed by Koji Igarashi.Players control the protagonist Alucard as they explore the castle, which was based on the traditional depiction of Castle Dracula from the horror novel by Bram Stoker and related media, and is one of numerous incarnations in the Castlevania series.
The gameplay of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and its 2D successors is often compared in the gaming press with the popular series Metroid, with both Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Super Metroid seen as pioneers in the genre, [h] leading to the coinage of the term "Metroidvania" (a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania), used to ...
Logo of the Castlevania series. Castlevania is a video game series created and published by Konami.The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986, with Akumajō Dracula (悪魔城ドラキュラ, Akumajō Dorakyura, lit.
Meanwhile, Hungarian Professor Lazlo arrives at Brewster's house. Brewster has noticed that Alucard is Dracula spelled backwards and Lazlo suspects vampirism and says the Alucard could be a descendent of Count Dracula himself. While they are talking Alucard appears and tries to attack Dr. Brewster but Professor Lazlo drives him away with a ...