Editing Castlevania (section)

===Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 1, 2, and Mirror of Fate (Tribute reboot)===
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This could have been so much more...

This series of games (The numbered ones being on PS3 and Xbox 360 while Mirror of Fate was Nintendo 3DS) was supposed to be chronicling an alternate canon which explained the origin story of Dracula. What resulted was fraught with problems, with the least of them being that Dracula was really a guy named Gabriel Belmont. In truth, these games were already considered derivative and response was rather mixed. Being that this was not "Blockbuster Success", Konami decided to stop producing the IP beyond the few remasters of old ports and their obsession with pachinko machines.
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In this setting, Gabriel's a member of the Brotherhood of Light, an order who protects the people from the villainous Lords of Shadow (Carmilla, Zobek-not-Death, and Cornell, who turn out to be the evil halves of the Brotherhood's founders) and their minions. Gabriel is set up to fulfill a prophecy that would see a pure-hearted warrior kill the Lords for good and reconnect Heaven and Earth and let the dead reach heaven instead of rotting in Limbo, while Gabe himself wants to put together a mask that the Lords guard the pieces of to bring back his dead wife. While on his journey to kill Zobek, he finds out that not only was it Gabe himself who murdered his wife while under mind control, but that absolutely everything was a plan by Satan himself to get revenge on God for that casting-out business. Gabe's had enough of this bullshit by this point and kills Satan hard enough free the souls from Limbo, his wife included. With nothing left, he decides to gather more power by killing some even-more-ancient evil and by this time, he's well and fully Dracula.

Mirror of Fate was a side-sroller that brought together the tales of Simon Belmont (grandson of Gabriel who now wants to off the old man in revenge for his parents), Trevor Belmont (Gabe's son), and Gabe himself in a rather confusing story which also introduces Alucard to this continuity - but in no way that anyone'd recognize (it's undead Trevor).

The second game has Dracula wake up in decidedly more modern times with all his awesome powers missing (because video game logic) and learns that Satan's trying to make a comeback since there was no opposition. The only way to return to max power is to go through his own castle, facing off against the new Brotherhood of Light in the meanwhile. At the end, Gabe realizes that he was part of a ploy with his son that would see both Zobek and Satan truly dead. The former takes offense to this and is killed while Satan makes his return and takes possession of Alucard-Trevor. Al gets exorcised, Satan gets killed for good and thus can Gabe finally be done with this mess.
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