Editing Castlevania (section)

==Aesthetic==
One important note: Between all the games below, Castlevania has become at least as much a design aesthetic as a game series.

This aesthetic includes:
* Clockpunk, even before clocks were invented.
* Gothic horror.
* As much of the classic Universal monster library and [[Mythology|medieval demonology]] as will fit in the console at hand.
* References to classic horror in general.
* Lots of what [[TVTropes]] calls "Ham and Cheese", usually from Dracula.
* Anime design principles. Not typical modern stuff, mind, but the old kind of anime that featured lots of blood and guts and ultra-violence.
* Leather armor on the Belmont (or Belmont equivalents), stylish and fancy suits on the vampires, and a tendency towards "combat [[waifu]]" design on the women. Plated armor is for enemies.
* A musical style that mixes the Baroque and Modern Action Music (by the latter, we mean more or less Rock, especially electric guitar, with some Techno and Metal elements as appropriate as well), almost always in a minor key.

The fact that it was so much an aesthetic is reflected in the fact that Igarashi was able to create ''Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night'', a highly-successful continuation of the gameplay and aesthetic sides of the series ''without using the Castlevania name''.