I deeply apologize majority expecting for me to make a video comparison of Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 4 Remake. Sadly has a more uncertain wait regarding many issues on my end. Mostly technical ones that's really slowing me down at the moment. I figured to do this blog comparison I been thinking about on and off for a few years now.
Also for this comparison I'm excluding other Castlevania time lines. Such as Circle of the Moon, Netflix shows and non canon Castlevania games especially Kid Dracula series. For the record, I'm only comparing the original Castlevania series here. This by itself saves a lot of confusion for Castlevania fans that read this blog comparison, you are welcome.
Resident Evil Village and most of the Castlevania series takes place in a similar part of the world being Europe. We have Ethan trying to save his daughter from the Four Lords of the Village. Each lord is already notably presented within the Castlevania franchise. Like Moreau is an merman that controls his territory.
The closest Castlevania merman with that going for them is Giant Merman in Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. More commonly the mermen served Dracula. They are mostly found in watery locations. In Harmony of Dissonance, there's two types of fish people Juste Belmont faces. Personally I prefer facing those mermen over Moreau.
Beneviento manipulates dolls since her variation of the mold is vastly different from everyone else's. The closest Castlevania boss to this is Puppet Master from Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. There's a couple similar theme Castlevania enemies. Especially true in the Metroidvania style entries. Again I prefer facing the Castlevania enemies over another lord.
Puppet Master also appears as a boss in Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. Heisenberg has powers similar to many characters like Magneto or Captain Kid to name a few. His concept heavily drawn from Frankenstein or more directly a particular film, Frankenstein's Army. There's a few times The Creature whose inspired by Frankenstein's The Creature acts as a boss in Castlevania series.
I should point out there's another similar boss creature of the same concept. Lady Dimitrescu is an vampire lord that lives in a castle. Obviously I shouldn't even need to say who she's similar to. But for the purpose of this comparison I will say it's Count Dracula!!! He's an vampire lord that lives in a castle.
Although it's possible she could be similar to Elizabeth Bartley. She is Dracula's niece that revived her uncle in Castlevania: Bloodlines. Now all Four Lords of the Village serves Miranda. In both stories, Bartley and Dimitrescu dies before their masters do. We haven't even talked similarities with the heroes yet.
I do need to point Dimitrescu has three daughters that's insects. They share many similarities to several Castlevania creatures. Like Princess of Moss can turn into a giant demon moth in Castlevania: Bloodlines. To be fair Succubus also could be compared to Beneviento too. Succubus attempts to manipulate Alucard with an illusion in a false save location in Symphony of the Night.
Beneviento does illusions to both Ethan and his daughter Rose. Like Dimitrescu' daughters, she doesn't hide her attempt to manipulate male enemies with sexuality. Do I even need to say what an Succubus does? For those not familiar what an Succubus is. It's a female demon that manipulates human males into sexual intercourse to steal their life spans.
All of a sudden my blog isn't meant for kids under the age of 18 to read lol. I don't see a point comparing more insects to Dimitrescu' daughters. Another Castlevania character I need to compare to them though is Carmilla. In particular in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. She is an vampiress that's sometimes accompanied by her servant, Laura.
Obviously with her not wearing anything could play off that too. Ultimately they serve a master that willingly died for. It's always possible I miss a female character or more that's the Dimitrescu's daughters are similar to. I felt I gotten the most obvious names for this comparison. Going back to Princess of Moss, those ladies are strangely similar to her since they're all insects in humanoid disguise.
Miranda also has these crow creatures as well as lycans. For those not familiar what an lycan is, it's werewolves. There's plenty of bird creatures that serves Dracula. It's rare when more than one werewolf serves Dracula, they usually appears as a boss in several Castlevania games. Miranda also can shape shift but so can Dracula, his son Alucard and his descendant Soma.
Miranda was around for a little over an century. In Castlevania, if Dracula waits an entire century prior to being revived. He returns with his full power, there wasn't many centuries Dracula had that though. Miranda waited for her opportunity to recreate her daughter all those years. Although she did make several attempts on the way creating Eveline as well as the Four Lords.
Village has two campaigns with the later dlc sequel campaign being Shadows of Rose. For the most part, majority of the Castlevania series has one campaign with some exceptions. Mostly what I actually wanna talk about is both Ethan and his daughter Rose aren't humans. Well they are officially moldy humans that has some form of regeneration.
In both Village campaigns, Miranda wanted to change Rose into her daughter by force. In an attempt to recreate her daughter. Believe it or not, parts of this actually similar to the Castlevania series. Maybe by the end of this comparison, the fan game ResidentVania will make more sense. In several Castlevania games, monsters and humans wants to revive Dracula.
I previously mentioned Dracula's niece attempted to revive him. Not only that in Aria of Sorrow with it's sequel Dawn of Sorrow, several people thought they were Dracula's descendant. Which is sorta like Eveline's hatred for Rose because Miranda loves her while no love for her own children. Rose became more powerful with a crystal to save what's left of her father from Miranda.
There's another strikingly similarities not a lot of people. A few Belmonts fought Dracula twice like Christopher and Simon respectively. Of course there was a notable time gap connecting a few Castlevania games closer. With the possible exception of Leon Belmont, most members of the Belmont clan slayed Dracula.
There were different reasons why those three particular Belmonts were forced to face Dracula again. For Christopher, his son Soleil mysteriously disappeared. He went searching for him to later find out Dracula manipulated Soleil forcing the two Belmonts facing each other. For Simon, Dracula did a dick move by putting a death curse on Simon.
He had to locate pieces of Dracula in order to revive him. Which quickly led to Simon defeating Dracula again thus saving his own life. Dracula finally got slayed for good during an Solar Eclipse by Julius Belmont. In vice versa, Rose killed what was left of Miranda on a mental plain for good. Essentially destroying any existence she had left in the process.
Ethan wanted to save his daughter from Miranda. Christopher wanted to save his son Soleil from Dracula. I should point out Richter got manipulated sometime following Rondo of Blood by Shaft. Which led to Alucard finding a way to save his life. It's not often when the Belmonts saved other members of their clans within the series.
Rose has a few similarities with Alucard. Both are the children of humanoid creatures that wants to protect the world from evil. Alucard helped slayed his father a few times. He later disguised himself as Genya Arikado to make sure Soma doesn't become like his father. Ethan secretly helps his daughter in Shadows of Rose campaign.
Alucard was always among the strongest compared to his father's army. Rose was considered one of the strongest of her kind. Ethan suffered two deaths with his physical body in Village. Another major connection if it isn't obvious already is the Belmont clan vowed to slay Dracula for good. The Winters family got manipulated twice that led to Miranda's two deaths funny enough.
The first time, Miranda disguised herself as Mia. Chris with his team went in to secure baby Rose. Eventually Ethan does save Rose before dying for a second time. The second time was more mental to tricking Rose go inside this substance. Basically traveling through connected minds like an hive. Not the bee hive kind lol more like they are mentally connected to each other.
One of Miranda's disguises was a old witch. Obviously there's a lot of witches in Castlevania series. Especially true in Metroidvania entries. I also brought this up because the priest named Shaft. Who revived Dracula twice from Rondo of Blood to Symphony of the Night. Parts of her appearance in that disguise is somewhat similar to Shaft's appearance.
This might be an out of place comparison. The Four Lords essentially act as Miranda's right hand people. In classic Castlevania series, the Grim Reaper himself is Dracula's right hand man. The Four Lords with the Grim Reaper can transform to a degree in their boss fights. I would say Dimitrescu comes the closest to partly mirroring Death to a degree.
Many locations in Village are similar to a lot of locations within the Castlevania series. Sure villages has smaller role in comparison to castles or huge water areas. I won't call Resident Evil Village a rip off of Castlevania series. At the same time, the more you compare the two. The more difficult it is to not notice the many similarities they have.
I know this is on the smaller end of things. I have a feeling someone rather have me compare the merchants. I can't fully compare every merchant within the original Castlevania series. I haven't got to play the DS Castlevania games yet. I would say the closest merchant from those I did play to the Duke is the Librarian in Symphony of the Night.
Both are well aware what's going on that sorta act as neutral characters. You buy weapons and items to help better your chances. In most Castlevania games the merchant stays in one location the entire game. In Harmony of Dissonance, the merchant appears in several locations. Now the Duke himself appears in several locations as well to help Ethan out.
Also because we compared the Duke, he does have an evil doppelganger in Shadows of Rose. Obviously, there's plenty of doppelgangers within the Castlevania series. Three particular boss locations in Symphony of the Night are just that. Two of them are against doppelganger of Alucard. Personally I preferred the doppelgangers of Trevor, Grant and Sypha more.
Succubus disguised herself as Alucard's deceased mother. If you wanna count those people who thought they were the next Dracula too, that's four people. There's some enemies that's Belmont like as well too. Clearly it's one of the more interesting topics within the Castlevania series. I think I compared them enough, I hope those that read this enjoyed the comparison I written.
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