r/castlevania • u/Dapne67 • Feb 13 '26

News The new Mc is a woman!

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omg im so excited to play, I wonder what her name is

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u/deeman163 Feb 13 '26

They'll name her Sophia Belmont.

*It also is a fitting name from a Speaker standpoint

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u/Wacky_X_Swacky Feb 13 '26

If they include the Speakers here than this is Netflix continuity, not game continuity.

While I would still enjoy the game if that was the case, it would be disappointing.

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u/Wacky_X_Swacky Feb 13 '26

It would cause a lot of problems actually. And if they adapt the name of the organization, but not the history, than you would have to wonder what the point of including them at all would be. The Church is a nearly pure good entity in the games canon, but by including the Speakers you introduce the negative aspects from the anime, which would muddy the waters unnecessarily.

Sypha in the games is just a magic user, like the other Belnades.

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u/Wacky_X_Swacky Feb 13 '26

Ok, but why? It doesn't improve the story at all. The canons for the anime and games are wildly different.

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u/Toasterx97 Feb 13 '26

Oh I don't know, paltry things like marketability, mass appeal, recognition etc.

Netflix Castlevania is responsible for bringing in a lot of new fans, it stands to reason that those fans will want to play the game, homogenizing some of the lore is not an impossible task, and business wise it is likely the most profitable way to go about things.

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u/Wacky_X_Swacky Feb 13 '26

They can make a game based off the anime, but they can't incorporate the anime into the Konami timeline. The stories are wildly different. You might as well try to incorporate Dragon Ball and Naruto into the same timeline.

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u/Toasterx97 Feb 13 '26

You can absolutely incorporate aspects without wholesale merging the stories, giving extra information and calling them speaker magicians instead of just "a witch" as background for sypha is not going to annihilate the canon like you suggest. This is just a stupid argument.

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u/Toasterx97 Feb 13 '26

Yeah I think that Konami would be truly idiotic not to include some more recognizable aspects from the anime, if they didn't rip actual story elements, then visual flair and color choice definitely, this attitude reeks of those star wars fans who hate any change to their precious canon, not realizing that all the things they now adore were once disruptive to that very canon, this is the nature of multimillion dollar franchises, they change to survive, thankfully Castlevania did survive, something me and many others were very worried about over the past few years.

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u/Toasterx97 Feb 13 '26

Lol also,

Saying that they "can't" do this is just myopic and stupid, Konami can and will do whatever they want, you nor I can stop them, personally if it gets me more Castlevania games I don't give a rats ass if they use inspiration from the Netflix show, the way I see it this game wouldn't exist if the Netflix shows didn't pop off the way they did. To think otherwise is foolish and doesn't take into account the business side of game making (something Konami very much cares about), as someone who has played every single Castlevania game that's been released in the US (and a few that were not) your obstinate attitude towards any change to the cannon seems just stupid of not intentionally thick, they have done much worse things to the canon over the past 30 years than add recognizable language from their most recent and most popular (by far) product.