Now that the fortieth Anniversary of the Castlevania collection is upon us in 2026, Konami is beginning to roll out some new content material for the collection for the primary time in fairly some time. Lately, we haven’t gotten a lot from the collection in addition to the shoddy cell recreation, Grimoire of Souls, in addition to a DLC collaboration with Lifeless Cells and a few collections/remakes, however now the writer has introduced the primary actually new recreation in twelve years, with Belmont’s Curse.
The sport is being developed by the Movement Twin, the crew behind the aforementioned Lifeless Cells, which shouldn’t come as a lot of a shock since that they had their collaborative Castlevania growth for the sport launch in 2023 and had already established a relationship with Konami. The artwork model seems comparatively near Lifeless Cells, except for doubling down a bit extra on the traditional Castlevania gothic structure aesthetics, and also you’ll be enjoying because the successor to Trevor Belmont, set 23 years after the occasions of Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse.
Whereas they didn’t say the character’s identify but, because of the coiffure and clothes, it seems attainable that the primary character could also be Sonia from Castlevania: Legends; a personality that has notoriously been faraway from the story canon greater than as soon as, so we’re hoping this will get clarified quickly.
They introduced the gameplay will function traditional whip model gameplay that the collection is thought for, as the primary character makes use of Trevor’s whip to traverse the environments and slay foes, in addition to extra trendy Castlevania exploration and puzzles, as a substitute of the traditional early collection gameplay. The sport shall be launching on all the fashionable platforms when it’s launched later this 12 months.
Konami additionally introduced that is simply the primary of many extra bulletins coming for the collection this 12 months, all in celebration of this anniversary, and in addition revealed the brand new emblem for this anniversary undertaking, as seen above.
Take a look at the trailer beneath and keep tuned for a launch date because the 12 months rolls on. We’ll have future information in regards to the collection and its anniversary celebration and a overview nearer to launch time.
