What was Castlevania: Resurrection?
Castlevania: Resurrection, in terms of series’ canon, was going to be the follow-up to the N64 games, and it was slated to be released on Sega’s ill-fated Dreamcast. News of the next 3D installment to the series arrived around early ’99, and it was slated for release in early 2000. It quickly made waves for more than one reason. Mainly, it was going to be the story of Victor Belmont, the Tim Curry look-alike who sought to escape his vampire-hunting destiny. The catch? Sonia Belmont, star of Castlevania Legends, was somehow going to travel from the past into the present to keep him on the straight and narrow–to maintain some kind of Yin Yang order or something. Time travel. Great–just what the series needed. Whether or not both Victor and Sonia were going to be playable characters, I can’t guess. Who knows? The problem, of course, was that the N64 games, though not the disasters they were purported to be, pretty much torched the wells in terms of the idea of “Castlevania in 3D”–at le
