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🩸Vampire confirmed?! ‘Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania’ DLC out now
'Ode to Castlevania' DLC out now, offering "an absolutely stupidly gigantic amount of content".
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November 1, 2024
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poncle :
Developer poncle is getting ready to celebrate its biggest inspiration: Castlevania! The team is launching their newest and biggest yet DLC for their indie hit Vampire Survivors today!
Titled “Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania”, the new DLC is an all-out celebration of Konami Digital Entertainment (KONAMI)’s iconic franchise. It features an absolutely stupidly gigantic amount of content with OVER 20 Characters, 40+ weapons including more whips than we can count (it's eight), 30+ music tracks, the biggest stage yet and even though they're literally at Dracula's castle, still zero vampires.
Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania will launch on 31st Oct 2024 for PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation5/4 and mobile, and will be $3.99 / EUR 3.99 / £2.99 (please check your local pricing!).
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About Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania
The Vampire Survivors gang have come a long way in their honourable hunt, and have now joined forces with the Belmont Family.
The sun has set on Dracula's iconic castle once more, and as the moon rises a hellish horde of murky Mudmen, ghastly ghosts, and frightening Fleamen take the stage as the battle of good and evil rages under the moonlight. Unleash an arsenal of new Vampire-vanquishing weapons upon these beasts and leave a trail of doom in your wake on your quest to rid the world of the unspeakable terror. Do not be blind to the shadow that looms over you, Survivors, as your quest has only just begun! It's all very serious stuff, so now let's pump up the volume and let's go, this is Castlevania in Vampire Survivors, you haven't survived anything yet!
DLC Features:
20+ New characters: What a horrible night to have a curse, especially if you are:
The Belmonts, your favorite whip-obsessed family of vampire hunters, including Simon, Richter, Trevor, and even Sonia.
The Belnades, Sypha, Yoko and a myriad of legendary witches from throughout the history of the occult clan. Even the likes of Charlotte Aulin and Maria Renard have their spellbooks ready.
Other Heroes, not just Jonathan and Charlotte, but Jonathan Morris AND John Morris?! Amazing allies abound, from Shanoa to Eric Lecarde.
40+ New weapons, fighting the forces of evil is hard as hell:
Whips - Whole lot of whips. More whips than we can count (it's eight).
Spells: elemental magic has finally made its way in Vampire Survivors, offering a wide array of spells inspired by games such as Portrait of Ruin and Harmony of Dissonance.
Magic weapons: not any sword, but Alucard's Sword. And Alucard's Spear. Also Alucard's Shield, Alucard’s etc.
Projectiles: do you remember that time the Morris' were throwing javelins and iron balls?
Glyphs: Confodere, Vol Confodere, Melio Confodere, but also plenty of non-Confodere, we swear
A monstrously large Stage
Enchanting mysteries and danger await those who enter:
The largest map Vampire Survivors has ever seen, stacked with sinister secrets and a bunch of baneful bosses.
30+ New Music Tracks
A ridiculous amount of remixes of Castlevania tracks from Vampire Survivors historic composers Daniele Zandara and Filippo Vicarelli, but also from fan-favourite Evelyn Lark and Keygen Church!
♫ Vampire Killer, Bloody Tears, Simon's Theme, Leon's Theme, a lot of themes.
♫ Moonlight Nocturne, Lost Paintings, Dance of Pearls, but like you've never heard them before.
♫ Aquarius, The Beginning, Divine Bloodlines, everything that screams "this is Castlevania".
♫ An Empty Tome, Invitation of a Crazed Moon, Pitch Black Intrusion, so many hits from the more recent entries in the series.
♫ Amber Scenery, Sarabande of Healing, Jaws of a Scorched Earth, and many others you didn't know the title of!
On top of that we have borrowed several dozen original tracks from Castlevania games. There is so much music we revamped the music selection panel for the occasion.
About Vampire Survivors
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters thrown at you.
The genre-defining “be the bullet hell” action game is a multi-million seller, was the highest-rated Steam game of 2022 (over 220,000 reviews, 98% overwhelmingly positive), is one the most played games on Steam Deck, won 2 Baftas (including “Best Game”) and was featured on the New Yorker’s “Best Video Games 2022” list. Vampire Survivors is currently available on PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PS5, PS4, Android and iOS and does not feature any vampires.
About developer poncle
‘poncle’ is a small game dev studio founded by Luca Galante, based in London. After cutting his teeth (fangs?) on a series of HTML5 projects, Luca developed Vampire Survivors as a pandemic pastime, hoping to improve his skills as a developer. The game was an unexpected smash hit and has gathered a massive cult following. Today poncle is a merry band of programmers, designers, artists and other game-making folks, working in dialogue with their community of players to make Vampire Survivors the best it can be
About Konami Digital Entertainment
Konami Digital Entertainment, which is the core company of Konami Group, develops entertaining content for mobile, console and card games. The company is known for global franchises such as eFootball™, Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Castlevania, and Contra, as well as the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game series.
For more information, visit: https://www.konami.com/games/corporate/en/
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