That’s because that death doesn’t have anyone to control him with the crimson stone in vampire survivors compared to every other Castlevania game where Dracula or someone who wants to become Dracula actually does
@@kostalking9747The stones are in the DLC, in case you didn't know. In the most south east corner of the castle, after obtaining the black disc. You can defeat a certain boss that drops the treasure.
Even though it was done for humorous intent, there is something oddly heartwarming about Dracula going "Screw it. I'm sick of constantly being at war against you guys. Let's team up and kick some ass together instead!"
I love how at the end it looks like a cutscene shows the character select screen having characters added to it and you just sit there waiting for the cutscene to end only to realize that, no, the game ACTUALLY took you to the character select screen. It's wild just how much fun Luca had with making this game. You can tell with every little update.
Honestly, it makes perfect sense in this game for the Grim Reaper to be the final boss, hehehe NOOOO, NOT THE DIRECTER! HE WAS COOL ACTUALLY! The fact you collect his masks to restore your game functions is honestly fuckin' badass tho.
I love the black disk thing, trying to put a SotN PlayStation disk in a cd player got you that. Edit: After looking into it a bit more, it is almost entirely unchanged. The only thing different is the removal of the word “PlayStation”.
Yes, that took me back int he early days when I was messing around with PS1 discs and extracting XA files and the like, and then came across that one having an actual CD audio track in it and ended up extracting that as well and compressing to an MP3 at the time.
@@iantingen And EXTREMELY addicting. It's basically Hades without the story and characters, but makes up for it by destroying your bitrate and showering you in dopamine. Hades says "We're going to need to find a vein for this adrenaline syringe we've got here." and applies it carefully. Vampire Survivors says "We're not gonna prod & probe for a vein, it takes too long, so we're gonna jam the needle directly into your brain AND your heart." x'D
I definitely recommend playing the base game without DLCs first - then you can do the DLCs in whatever order you like. The Ode to Castlevania DLC easily doubles the entire amount of content in the game, containing more characters than the base game itself - so that's why you should do the base game first. Don't worry - there's still plenty of fun secrets and gags like this! And, lore-wise, I suppose you kind of need to understand how the game works and who "the directer" is to really get the significance of the Ode to Castelvania DLC, if you care about that kind of thing?
The best part is that you dont even need any levels, you can just rush to the boss and win it, because it is more of an interactive cutscene (not a complain, its lovely!) i certainly did at level 6. As long as you dodge the little scythes and hands.
I swear, I saw Liza I was like "oh cool, a secret character!" then Mina "Err... Two?" Then Rinaldo and like... WTH? Half the DLC's content is a secret?! Edit: in hindsight it's very obvious, there's ALWAYS a secret ending, or an inverted castle.
@@arahelis2038 when I got there, I didn’t know what was happening. I didn’t immediately recognize Lisa or Mina but once I started recognizing people It was all shock and joy! Great point about the inverted castle, just another little love note
i can't believe that of all games to create such an emotional and memorable moment that i'll probably think of a decade from now, it's fucking vampire survivors creating icons on its character select here.
I love that death straight up Alucard's you by stripping you of your gear and then the CD track?! Perfection. Only thing missing is I am the Wind during the credits.
How is it that the best final boss fight in the Castlevania series is in a game that isn't Castlevania? If Konami ever releases a Demon Castle War game, the ending has to come right on the heels of this epicness.
Castlevania protagonists:i never thought i'd die fighting side by side with dracula Dracula:what about fighting side by side with a friend Leon belmont:aye we could do that
This is probably the most powerful death has been in any form of castlevania (outside of the anime). Every Vania game he's able to be pantsed in some way
I’m still waiting for them to add a feature where you can “rescue” random characters from a stage, then they follow you (kind of like the “option” in Gradius/Life Force) attacking at random.
Congratulations on defeating the final boss!
You have now unlocked less than half of this DLC.
TEARS. JOY. LAUGHTER. SCREAMING AT MY TV.
I accidentally deleted my almost 100% save when I installed Ode to Castlevania.
congratulation, you just finished the prologue, now the real grind begin. 😅
Man, just like after the high school leaving exam
I love how when Dracula decides to get in on the fun, Death has to be a killjoy and say "wtf is this shit?!"
Funny but the way I see it, Death's reaction kinda echoes his Netflix incarnation, only with a clean language.
That’s because that death doesn’t have anyone to control him with the crimson stone in vampire survivors compared to every other Castlevania game where Dracula or someone who wants to become Dracula actually does
@@kostalking9747also death is good friends with dracula, so not having him around he does his own thing
@@kostalking9747The stones are in the DLC, in case you didn't know. In the most south east corner of the castle, after obtaining the black disc. You can defeat a certain boss that drops the treasure.
Death is mostly just pissed that it can't join as well, considering Red Death is already on the roster.
Finally, the vampire survivor
The people were right. The real vampire WAS the survivors we met along the way.
After so much time, finally, the Vampire vs the Survivor
@@ARGamer99 vampire Vampire Survivor survivor
Konami: "Ok, which of our characters do you want to be featured in your DLC?"
Poncle: "Give us everyone."
Konami: "...Everyone...?"
Poncle: "EVERYONE"
@@PSIHedgehogChris and then Konami actually gave them everyone
I love it when large companies act nicely towards smaller companies
@@mirzapramudya1580 I mean I think Konami knows this game is basically a love letter to Castlevania anyway
@@raikaria3090yeah I think they can spot that this is a massive nostalgia commercial for them.
Eh.. konami too busy milking the pachinko industry nowadays anyways.. 🤷🏻♂️
Konami: "In return, we get exclusive rights to pachinko it."
Poncle: "...Sure."
I love how Poncle filled this dlc to the brim with so much fun content and secrets for a price of a happy meal. Serious props to them! 🎉
@@kmt0837 PURE VALUE
He charged $50 for a DLC?
@@FruitNDoggie they charged 3.99 eur. How expensive is a happy meal in the US now ?XD
I would say a Miserable Pile of Secrets, but even THAT is an in-game item!
little pile of secrets
When the gameplay so good it makes you forget your wife's death.
When the gameplay so good it makes the guys that wanted to kill you for centuries your bffs.
And also resurrects your wife!
@@Hopalongtom and finally, three player multiplayer can give Drac, Lisa, and Card the life they never had…
🤣🤣🤣
@@iantingen they could finally be Vlad, Lisa and Adrian
This DLC is such a love letter to Castlevania, i love it when games do this kind of stuff
5:52 WOW the callback to putting the SOTN ps1 disk into a regular cd player brings back some crazy nostalgia
I laughed so loud when I saw that.😂
I'm glad they added that in. I missed the OG VA of Alucard... not that there's anything wrong with his replacement on SOTN's re-release.
Even though it was done for humorous intent, there is something oddly heartwarming about Dracula going "Screw it. I'm sick of constantly being at war against you guys. Let's team up and kick some ass together instead!"
the part where all the character start coming to help literally give me chills.. the last one to enter and finish death is Dracula himself XD
Seriously did not know this dopamine machine of a game would give me one of the best Castlevania moments of my gaming life
@@iantingenbest Castlevania moment and it's not even from a Castlevania game 😭
Konami, what are you doing???
@@mirzapramudya1580 at least they licensed it cheaply.
Reminds me of one of the Bloodstained Curse of the Moon endings. Everyone comes together to take down the final boss.
They did it
They survived the vampire
The moment of silent disbelief after the coffin landed was premium
@@Epicawesomeness64 its very “wait… what?! WHAT?!??!” 😂
The way Newbon delivered the “I’m sorry Richter” lines also 🔥🔥🔥
Literally was stunned when it happened. Felt like a kid getting an unexpected gift.
Little did I know...
Astarion as Dracula and ProZD as Richter? Wow.
I love how at the end it looks like a cutscene shows the character select screen having characters added to it and you just sit there waiting for the cutscene to end only to realize that, no, the game ACTUALLY took you to the character select screen.
It's wild just how much fun Luca had with making this game. You can tell with every little update.
that moment of "and now all this is ready for you - starting with (SPOILERS)
...Dracula."
I love how all of the Castlevania characters appear sequentially, during the Death fight, in the order of series canon!
after all this time
there's finally a vampire in the game
Alucard is a vampire too
@@softwaremediaguru dhamphir
Man, you can really tell how much they love the IP. I even got a bit emotional during this.
The game was heavily inspired by Castlevania, so makes sense they'd use this DLC as an excuse to nerd out massively.
This whole section really surprise me, How the "search for the vampire" has been taken as a joke in this dlc by the developers
7:52 i love how is the stage clear music from castlevania bloodlines
Makes me wish there was that collectable after every typical Castlevania boss fight
Bloodlines ost slaps so so hard! Harder than a Belmont with a whip
Honestly, it makes perfect sense in this game for the Grim Reaper to be the final boss, hehehe
NOOOO, NOT THE DIRECTER! HE WAS COOL ACTUALLY! The fact you collect his masks to restore your game functions is honestly fuckin' badass tho.
I love the black disk thing, trying to put a SotN PlayStation disk in a cd player got you that.
Edit: After looking into it a bit more, it is almost entirely unchanged. The only thing different is the removal of the word “PlayStation”.
Yes, that took me back int he early days when I was messing around with PS1 discs and extracting XA files and the like, and then came across that one having an actual CD audio track in it and ended up extracting that as well and compressing to an MP3 at the time.
It will be a long time before I’ll reach this ending, but holy crap do these developers love their fans
This is beyond amazing
Ok… I kinda want to play this game now. This looks rad as hell.
It is amazing!!!
@@iantingen And EXTREMELY addicting.
It's basically Hades without the story and characters, but makes up for it by destroying your bitrate and showering you in dopamine.
Hades says "We're going to need to find a vein for this adrenaline syringe we've got here." and applies it carefully.
Vampire Survivors says "We're not gonna prod & probe for a vein, it takes too long, so we're gonna jam the needle directly into your brain AND your heart." x'D
No!! DONT PLAY IT! once you do.... you WONT BE ABLE TO STOP
I definitely recommend playing the base game without DLCs first - then you can do the DLCs in whatever order you like. The Ode to Castlevania DLC easily doubles the entire amount of content in the game, containing more characters than the base game itself - so that's why you should do the base game first. Don't worry - there's still plenty of fun secrets and gags like this!
And, lore-wise, I suppose you kind of need to understand how the game works and who "the directer" is to really get the significance of the Ode to Castelvania DLC, if you care about that kind of thing?
Listen to this guy 👉🏻 @@bugjams 👈🏻
You know what they say; "If you can defeat them, join them."
After Final Boss: "Oh look! Here's s'more COOL SHIT FOR YOU TO DO. You thought it was OVER!?"
And IT'S STILL GOING!
I've unlocked everyone that was unlocked in this,
AND THERE'S STILL A LOT MORE ❤️🔥
6:10 Black Disc Remix is a great track for a boss fight. Wow.
The best part is that you dont even need any levels, you can just rush to the boss and win it, because it is more of an interactive cutscene (not a complain, its lovely!) i certainly did at level 6. As long as you dodge the little scythes and hands.
When I did it, I took care to collect and evolve every whip I'd unlocked at that point for the final boss fight.
Seriously was screaming with joy at the end set piece.
@poncle just NAILED this ❤❤
Sameee
This right here is pure love from the dev team. They knew this was their last hurrah, so they're going out with a bang and chaos.
What last hurrah? They said they'll still launch free dlc and maybe some other.
"That’s a nice argument senator why don’t you back it up with a source"
@@LordFlaggy their own announcement. I read it on Steam.
Bro doesnt know about the chaos roadmap
@@egal7065 I wasn't replying to you, I was replying to the original comment.
"Your vampire is in another castle" OMFG
lol it even has the black disc warning and music. This is bringing so much back. Not that I've stopped playing symphony of the night but still.
The 2nd best part is "here's another 20 units...and another 20!...oh and another 20 more!"
I swear, I saw Liza I was like "oh cool, a secret character!" then Mina "Err... Two?" Then Rinaldo and like... WTH? Half the DLC's content is a secret?!
Edit: in hindsight it's very obvious, there's ALWAYS a secret ending, or an inverted castle.
@@arahelis2038 when I got there, I didn’t know what was happening.
I didn’t immediately recognize Lisa or Mina but once I started recognizing people It was all shock and joy!
Great point about the inverted castle, just another little love note
1:03 The Directer : Oh, that's my cue!
i can't believe that of all games to create such an emotional and memorable moment that i'll probably think of a decade from now, it's fucking vampire survivors creating icons on its character select here.
REAL
We finally have a vampire! THE Vampire.
OMG i LOVE the throwback to the old PS1 discs and their sometimes hidden audio tracks.
Me trying to name all the cameo Castlevania protags
Sees Jonathan
Me: JONATHAN!! CHARLOTTE!!
This might be the greatest love letter to castlevania I have ever seen. What a great developer.
Such an incredible DLC. Genuinely one of the most impressive things I've ever seen pulled off in such a simple game. Vampire Survivors is fun.
This ending with the credits rolling and then walking totally reminds me of the end of golden axe in the arcade. 🥂
seeing all the enemy sprites at the end got me emotional lol, this is a great tribute
honestly agreed. The reveal at the end matching up with the music is absolutely kino
I love when at 9:40 you get the Directer's hand like saying "You wanted Castlevania? Here you go"
"our gift to you" - such a subtle meta moment
I wouldn't have guessed Dracula is voiced by Neil Newbon (Astarion's VA), that laughter though was really like Astarion!
what is a man?
A BUNCH OF GUYS LOOKING FOR A VAMPIRE AND HAVING A GOOD TIME!
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can I join?
yes, yes you can
Usually I'm not, but these days I'm so proud to be italian.
Love that they got Neil Newbon (Astarion) to voice Dracula.
"YOU AND YOUR FAMILY OF VANDALS" slayed me
The most beautiful homage to a Video Game franchise ever made... it was parfect;
Glad Konami allowed someone else to give to Castlevania fans what they can't provide themselves.
8:29 gives me Donkey Kong 64 vibes when you finish the game all characters appear end of credits
Yep that's something shoudl happen in a Castlevania game, with the whip memories
The perfect opportunity for that would be a game about the battle of 1999, but alas...
What a wild ending! IT's like we're back in 1997 all over again!
What is a DLC?! A miserable little pile of easter eggs and memes! 🍷
Omg this is just wow, i didn't even think things like this is existed in VS
vampire survivors truly has come so far....
I love that death straight up Alucard's you by stripping you of your gear and then the CD track?! Perfection. Only thing missing is I am the Wind during the credits.
As a fan of Castlevania, I Just love , This game , Bro My Heart got Heat whit this one
I already forgot this game is about finding the Vampire 😂
Oh snap!! I didn’t see anything on my switch news feed about it being out already. I’m glad I saw this.
They did NOT have to go this hard
But THANKS for doing it anyway
How is it that the best final boss fight in the Castlevania series is in a game that isn't Castlevania?
If Konami ever releases a Demon Castle War game, the ending has to come right on the heels of this epicness.
The game that keeps on giving!
the best shitpost for an ending...dem references
Is that Sarabande of Healing? 🥹 My heart
it is! keygen church did a mix of it and it's extremely great
We finally did it. We found the vampire.
Yeah I had a blast beating this yesterday.
I kind of get Photoshop Flowey vibes from this
That ending credits song is awesome.
Track number 2, with some arrangements and Stage completed from Mega Drive... I couldn't be happier... :_)
That dialog was hilarious
i did this ending like 30 times already and always end up sweating from the eyes
I REALLY need to start playing this again
Beautiful song
No lies here. It really is the best final battle ever. That's just amazing. Can't wait to grab this DLC for myself. ^_^
Castlevania protagonists:i never thought i'd die fighting side by side with dracula
Dracula:what about fighting side by side with a friend
Leon belmont:aye we could do that
Actually, Vlat Tepes is not a vampire, he is a Romanian emperor. So, we still haven't found any vampires
Holy shit they went hard on this...
Dracula - boss in i wanna be the guy, reference to castelmania
0:44 kool aid man approves of wall breaking 😂 oh yeah 😎
This is super dope boss fight. Dang, had no idea the game updated so much too.
I only started playing again after Operation Guns came out.
I hadn't played since vanilla, and... just... damn!
Death: "you were supposed to destroy the Belmonts! Not join them!"
And then dracula killed death, funniest shit i've ever seen
This feels like the Undertale meta ending Castlevania never had XD
Castlevania has a special place on my heart
1:25 I mean the game is called vampire survivors for a reason
I just wonder… what happened to the vampire that the Belpaeses were hunting?
They're off somewhere, miserable, with their own pile of secrets, waiting to be item crashed
A nostalgia punch to the face. Especially the "this is a black playstation disc" part. Fond memories.
thx for the spoiler. btw i will never know about that, really thant you
HOLY FUCK YEAH THIS IS AMAZING
Dracula sounds a lot like Heisenberg
good ear - same voice actor, Neil Newbon!
I found it very uncertain for future of this game, where Castlevania DLC just hopped in to our game.
I mean, the vampire survived....I gues the vampire survivors are the friends we made along the way
This is probably the most powerful death has been in any form of castlevania (outside of the anime). Every Vania game he's able to be pantsed in some way
*EVERYONE IS HERE*
I never expected the boss of a castlevania dlc to be omega flowey but here we are lol
Wow. They really used Black Disc song.
And finally...the STRONGEST of them all...
...
...THE PUMPKIN...!!!!!!!!!!
I’m still waiting for them to add a feature where you can “rescue” random characters from a stage, then they follow you (kind of like the “option” in Gradius/Life Force) attacking at random.
This is some Flowey boss battle level shit here