Editing Castlevania (section)

===Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night===
A [[Kickstarter]] game that's a spiritual successor to Castlevania in the vein of other retro-darlings like ''Mighty Number 9'' (The Mega Man spiritual successor which released to poor reviews despite earning a shit-ton of backer bucks followed by shitshow of a development period) and ''Yooka-Laylee'' (A Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor which released to divisive reviews, though without any grand mess in the development) run by Koji Igarashi himself and a new studio now that Konami's given up on making video games. At the very least, there's been some frequent communication from the team, and were able to release a retroclone in the style of the original Castlevanias in compensation for the delays. It finally released in June 2019 to a generally positive reception, with noted exception going to the Nintendo Switch port (While problematic, they're far from the first to suffer from having a port to that thing be considered the weakest port of the mainstream consoles and the team's been actively working to improve the experience).

Our main protagonist Miriam, who's pretty much a copypaste of Shanoa from OoE/Soma from Aria and Dawn down to the "steal enemy souls for new powers" bit, but her powers are derived from some alchemical ritual that lets her absorb demonic energy. See, the Alchemists created a bunch of people like her in order to summon demons from the pits of Hell in a gambit to scare people away from that trite "progress at the sake of spiritualism" dealio that the Industrial Revolution presented. It backfired horribly and instead the Alchemists and most of Europe get ravaged for ten years with the only surviving members of the ritual being Miriam (by being rendered comatose through unknown means) and Gebel (who managed to survive the mess of being used as demon fuel and acted as a moral guide for Miriam) while the Guild falls apart. Some years later, Miriam awakens and finds out that Gebel has returned to the Alchemist base in order to summon a giant castle filled with demons. Together with junior Alchemist Johannes (who acts as the crafter/stay-at-home husband), Dominique (an exorcist of the Catholic Church who also runs a market) and her contracted swordsman Zangetsu (voiced by David "Solid Snake" Hayter), Miriam delves into this castle to uncover just what turned Gebel to attempt wiping out humanity and prevent him from using a legendary tome to summon the most powerful daemon of them all.

Has an 8-bit companion for the nostalgia-seekers in the form of ''Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon'', which also serves as a prequel.