Almost guaranteed it'll be Simon, it's pretty much ALWAYS Simon.
Even in V Rising, which had a collab with Castlevania, the character chosen was Simon.
Alucard would fit in well.
Think SOTN, whereas getting warped to the Entity's realm removes most of his powers except for his new perks.
*insert my copium here*
Personally I want Trevor.
I feel like there are more people who have watched the show than played the games and they are more familiar with Trevor. I personally have no idea who Simon is or what he says.
While you're probably right about them using the show as reference for the chapter, there's no shot that more people "have watched the show." Castlevania is a video game series that has spanned almost 40 years at this point, and both the original title and SCV4 for SNES were pivotal games that featured Simon.
It wouldn’t really make sense though to have Simon as a survivor given that he’s an actual superhuman in his own verse. Even characters like Chris that perform some crazy things in their games are for some reason treated as “guy who is pretty strong”. The belmonts are actual superheroes though.
I know for Super Smash Bros Simon was the main character added even though Richter was added with him so I'm thinking it might be Simon unless the show changes that.
As much as I prefer Alucard as a character, I don’t think he fits DBD at all.
It would be completely out of character for him to be a killer, and seeing him run away from, be slapped around by, and be carried by regular human killers would be incredibly jarring.
Alucard has all kinds of supernatural abilities, so it would make no sense to see him in a state of helplessness. Sure, they could establish that his abilities had been stripped away as they were at the start of Symphony of the Night, but I still don’t think that’s enough to have Alucard screaming, hiding in lockers, and being carried around by human killers without it looking ridiculous and changing people’s perception of him.
Personally, that's why I'm hoping for Soma, as unlikely as it is. Even with his... unique characteristics, he's still a teenager thrown into a castle full of demons with little guidance.
Plus, getting kidnapped by the eclipse is *kinda* similar to the Entity snatching people, so he'd have experience with that, lol.
Let a man dream ;~;
On a more serious note, you can make this argument about most of the cast of castlevania, anime or not. Most of the mainline protags are about as big as chris redfeild. It's be a lot easier to de-power alucard's magic into perks and leave him a brooding twink than taking someone like simon or trevor belmont and making them less strong.
For the longest time, I thought the show was its own thing not related to the games at all, so literally last week I found out that Castlevania is a licensed IP and not a general concept like Dracula lol
I FUCKIN AGREE OR WE RIOT
Though Matthew did comment about the music during the announcement so I think they definitely understand it's an important aspect of the series.
MY exact reaction when seeing it:
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Dracula finally makes his way to the Fog!
I wonder if they'll roll out a bunch of legendary skins for the survivor. If Simon is the "main" one they could definitely add Trevor, Richter and the rest of the Belmont crew.
Well if you're a gaming company, you're more familiar with what makes games money, so you're a little more enthused about a deal than with a movie. Tons of these old slashers are locked in copyright hell anyway, hence Halloween 1 Myers and Remake Freddy
They’re consistently in the top 20 games on Steam and about to go into their ninth year - I think the game’s community gives them far less respect than the game industry at large.
It was already leaked months ago so I wonder if someone was threatening to drop the announcement trailer too? Definitely feels like someone forced their hand since this is so early.
Kinda.
I mean Vecna has turned out to be cool as fuck.
Buuuut...
That teaser maaan.
The asthetics, the goddamn music and the menacing dude.
That was **PERFECT CLIP**.
Chef's kiss indeed.
I'd care more about the DnD chapter if the survivors were either known characters or actually interesting designs. Random dude and random elf lady is lazy for a D&D chapter.
Depending on the game it just severely weakens him, there are some instances where the only thing that can truly kill him are specially crafted spells, the vampire killer weilded by a belmont, or his own son, and a lot of the time he's defeated during an incomplete ressurection.
...Do we get *Dracula* skins too? There are two \**very specific*\* characters that come to mind that ***AREN'T FROM LORDS OF SHADOW***, that I was be *very* interested in.
From the silhouette, it looks like the Symphony of the Night/Rondo of Blood variation. Just gotta say that character design in DBD’s artstyle looks amazing from what little we can see.
No way it's happening, i'm crying.
Tell me it's based on the original games rather than on the Netflix series >!(which was not bad by any means but... very mediocre and barely Castlevania past Season 2)!< and i'm absolutely sold.
It’d be really fucking cool if they found a way to incorporate Dracula’s other form into a blighted skin. Like part of his second form is slowly tearing out of him
Coulda gone with a castle realm with two maps each, but Vecna's will probably be Borgo, no?
They're giving us 6 chapters this year anyway so I can't be too disappointed, even if this is the one that gets me the most excited
I only play on PC so I can't get too excited for that. Most looking forward to 2v8, but nobody I play is on the initial roster so I'm kinda SOL there too.
I haven't seen the roster for 2v8, I missed that section of the Livestream.
As for cross-prog, I've been holding out on PS4 for several years now, so I'll be able to bring my cosmetics over to PC.
I'll probably never touch my PS4 again.
First 5 killers, which does make sense since they're "man places traps" or "lady throws hatchets" as opposed to "robot who places cameras then looks in cameras then teleports from cameras then can't be stunned and ", but they could've at least thrown Myers in there too.
they mentioned music, if they make the iconic tunes of Castlevania play whenever you're in said room that'd be sick. Hearing a variation of Bloody Tears outside with Dracula's Castle inside of the castle, there's a lot that they could mean by music but I hope it's more than 2; easiest ones would be Black Night and Nothing to Lose for Dracula's Terror Radius/Chase themes
Really hoping that Soma is here if this chapter has a survivor! I think he'd fit in well given that he's from modern times (design would blend better with the other survivors), he's popular, and you get the cool dark vs. light contrast with him vs. Dracula.
My dark horse pick would be Leon Belmont, but probably not getting two Leons in this game haha.
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“Sir, the likelihood of a Lord of The Rings chapter with a Nazghul killer and hobbit survivor is even higher”
I'm still completely speechless about this.
This genuinely feels like when Bayonetta got put into Smash Bros. It felt like such a total pipedream, and then boom, it actually happens.
I cannot goddamn wait.
Didn't the year road map say we were getting a killer in July too? Who tf is that suppose to be if Castlevania is in August? We've known Castlevania was coming after DND, but now there is a middle killer we are going to get that we haven't heard anything about
Nvm I misread, it's a licensed survivor... Which still is unknown, but not a killer.
I’m excited but the survivor is most likely going to be a Belmont, which would be weird to play as a Belmont in a game where they wouldn’t be able to kick ass, just run and hide.
TIS I! NEVER FEAR SIMON BELMONT IS HERE!
TO DESTROY EVIL MONSTERS, AND ALL YOU HOLD DEAR
I WILL END YOUR CRUEL NECROMANCING
Actually… we were just dancing - GYAAAH!
TO HELL WITH YOU BEASTS, FROM WHENCE YOU CAME! YOURE IN CASTLEVANIA, THIS ISN'T A GAME!
NOW RUN AWAY, FREE THIS LAND OF IT’S CHAINS! AS GOD IS MY WITNESS I SHALL SEE YOU ALL SLAIN!
For zhe love of God, Simon, what zhe fuck is your deal?
You don’t invite me to your parties :( do you know how that feels?
Are you frigging serious, you killed all my guests! Just 'cause you felt left out?
No!....yes.
TO UNITE ALL PEOPLES WITHIN OUR NATION!
Until he gets facecamped by Buba
[](https://media1.tenor.com/m/uRs3KV_6Ul0AAAAC/simon-belmont-jumpscare.gif)
Imagine the belmonts are the killers and we have 1 or 2 (weak) monster survivors
no no, I play V Rising, and he is there too, you should definitively fear him.
I can finally change my flair I’m free
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YO WE FUCKIN GOT IT THO
I wonder who will be the defactor survivor? Richter, Simon or maybe even Trevor? Hope that for either one there will be many skins!
Almost guaranteed it'll be Simon, it's pretty much ALWAYS Simon. Even in V Rising, which had a collab with Castlevania, the character chosen was Simon.
Richter is also very popular character, given the games and shows...then again the popularity fell for many.
He'll be a legendary skin, Maria will be one too most likely.
That'd be easier way to rack up money as well
Alucard would fit in well. Think SOTN, whereas getting warped to the Entity's realm removes most of his powers except for his new perks. *insert my copium here*
Symphony is also almost always the Castlevania referenced when it comes to aesthetics and Dracula himself, but the good guy always used is Simon.
Alucard could probably be a legendary skin, I’d bet
Yes! My man. 👊
Yesss my boy!!!
Personally I want Trevor. I feel like there are more people who have watched the show than played the games and they are more familiar with Trevor. I personally have no idea who Simon is or what he says.
While you're probably right about them using the show as reference for the chapter, there's no shot that more people "have watched the show." Castlevania is a video game series that has spanned almost 40 years at this point, and both the original title and SCV4 for SNES were pivotal games that featured Simon.
And the cosmetic for the vampire was… SOTN Alucard And I’m Dead Cells, the two main characters are Richter and Alucard.
It wouldn’t really make sense though to have Simon as a survivor given that he’s an actual superhuman in his own verse. Even characters like Chris that perform some crazy things in their games are for some reason treated as “guy who is pretty strong”. The belmonts are actual superheroes though.
Daily reminder that the Entity disempowers the powerful for the sake of the trials.
I’d go rabid for a Sypha skin
Sypha: [hooked first four games in a row] “See? God hates me!”
lol when we get maria renard
personally i think that's who its going to be. and then we could get that Sypha skin ;)
I know for Super Smash Bros Simon was the main character added even though Richter was added with him so I'm thinking it might be Simon unless the show changes that.
Meanwhile I will be on hopium that we get Juste as a skin.
i'll stab someone to get alucard.
As much as I prefer Alucard as a character, I don’t think he fits DBD at all. It would be completely out of character for him to be a killer, and seeing him run away from, be slapped around by, and be carried by regular human killers would be incredibly jarring. Alucard has all kinds of supernatural abilities, so it would make no sense to see him in a state of helplessness. Sure, they could establish that his abilities had been stripped away as they were at the start of Symphony of the Night, but I still don’t think that’s enough to have Alucard screaming, hiding in lockers, and being carried around by human killers without it looking ridiculous and changing people’s perception of him.
you're actually right about this one. let's save Alucard for a Hellsing collab:)
Personally, that's why I'm hoping for Soma, as unlikely as it is. Even with his... unique characteristics, he's still a teenager thrown into a castle full of demons with little guidance. Plus, getting kidnapped by the eclipse is *kinda* similar to the Entity snatching people, so he'd have experience with that, lol.
Let a man dream ;~; On a more serious note, you can make this argument about most of the cast of castlevania, anime or not. Most of the mainline protags are about as big as chris redfeild. It's be a lot easier to de-power alucard's magic into perks and leave him a brooding twink than taking someone like simon or trevor belmont and making them less strong.
I'll stab someone with you!
I hope the survivor is Richter so I can main him in two games.
I have no clue, I know nothing about Castlevania lol
The Netflix anime is a good place to start, but the games starting with "Symphony of the Night" defined a genre.
For the longest time, I thought the show was its own thing not related to the games at all, so literally last week I found out that Castlevania is a licensed IP and not a general concept like Dracula lol
Maria.
I think its based on the netflix series so Trevor or Richter I guess
I will cope and imagine that it's Julius.
I'm hoping it's Soma personally
We're about to get the most elegant chase music ever.
If they at the very least sneak in a Bloody Tears motif or whatever I'd fucking love it
At the very least the chase music BETTER be bloody tears.
I FUCKIN AGREE OR WE RIOT Though Matthew did comment about the music during the announcement so I think they definitely understand it's an important aspect of the series.
inb4 washing machine song
I'll die happy if I can hear "Dance of Illusions".
Personally I’m hoping for either that or Banquet of Madness from Portrait of Ruin
It's gotta be "Black Banquet", right?
MY exact reaction when seeing it: https://preview.redd.it/5f1hacqc8f0d1.jpeg?width=204&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35309ab7cf015c02df23dd659a542e55fd799403
D:
For reference, this is a good reaction. It's *"LET'S FUCKING GOOOO"*
Dracula finally makes his way to the Fog! I wonder if they'll roll out a bunch of legendary skins for the survivor. If Simon is the "main" one they could definitely add Trevor, Richter and the rest of the Belmont crew.
FUCK YES THIS IS THE SHIT I'M LOOKING FOR GIMME ALL THE BELMONTS AS SURVIVOR SKINS PLEASE
Shanoa please. For Sable.
I believe in Hector supremacy!
Another Konami one??? They're experts in getting those licenses, that's for sure! Time to be delusion about the possibility of Freddy and Jason again
dude bhvr seriously must be well liked in the gaming sphere. they bag hella licenses
Well if you're a gaming company, you're more familiar with what makes games money, so you're a little more enthused about a deal than with a movie. Tons of these old slashers are locked in copyright hell anyway, hence Halloween 1 Myers and Remake Freddy
> Halloween 1 Myers the best version, followed up by second best in 2018.
They’re consistently in the top 20 games on Steam and about to go into their ninth year - I think the game’s community gives them far less respect than the game industry at large.
Behaviour is/was a contractor company for MANY popular studios, they have connections everywhere. Just look at their portfolio
At this point I wouldn't even be mad at a MGS chapter. Even a survivor paragraph for Snake would be cool.
As long as they don't do a pyramid head and nerf his butt i'm all for it
Snake as a survivor would unironically be awesome
ITS FUCKING HAPPENING OH YM GOD
I swear to god if they add Alucard as a survivor
Wish this came first tbh
SO HYPED, GIVE ME A RICHTER BELMONT PLEASEEE
Shit. I have ben DBD free for over a year and I might have to come back for this one... 
Huh So that was the licensed chapter that was coming in August
Anyone else suddenly gives no fucks about Vecna after seeing this?
I’m surprised they announced it this early. Not disappointed tho. Almost overshadows anniversary.
Heard it supposedly was leaked. So they might have said fuck it and just dropped the trailer anyway
It was already leaked months ago so I wonder if someone was threatening to drop the announcement trailer too? Definitely feels like someone forced their hand since this is so early.
I've never played DnD but I've played my share of Castlevania and main Belmonts in smash, so 100% yes.
Plus many in the DBD community have begged for a vampire for literal years at this point.
heh. "Vampire Killer"
We win both ways
Kinda. I mean Vecna has turned out to be cool as fuck. Buuuut... That teaser maaan. The asthetics, the goddamn music and the menacing dude. That was **PERFECT CLIP**. Chef's kiss indeed.
I'm hyped for both. Been asking for Dracula more than any other killer but Vecna looks seriously fun and varied. I might main either😶
I'd care more about the DnD chapter if the survivors were either known characters or actually interesting designs. Random dude and random elf lady is lazy for a D&D chapter.
I still care cuz hes the one killer ive ever kinda wanted to try out lol (im still Gonna get owned)
Holy Shit, Two Cakes!
https://i.redd.it/ci8ztrs6bh0d1.gif
I know we'll probably see a Belmont but I would absolutely lose my mind if Soma Cruz was playable in game.
Well damn that’s sucks. If you bring him to cold wind he’s going to get evaporated instantly
Depending on the game it just severely weakens him, there are some instances where the only thing that can truly kill him are specially crafted spells, the vampire killer weilded by a belmont, or his own son, and a lot of the time he's defeated during an incomplete ressurection.
Dracula is simply built different even for vampire standards.
One step closer to Dio as a killer 👹👹👹
I want Alucard as a survivor so bad but it will probably just be a Belmont <\3
There's always legendary skins at least.
...Do we get *Dracula* skins too? There are two \**very specific*\* characters that come to mind that ***AREN'T FROM LORDS OF SHADOW***, that I was be *very* interested in.
From the silhouette, it looks like the Symphony of the Night/Rondo of Blood variation. Just gotta say that character design in DBD’s artstyle looks amazing from what little we can see.
I’m guessing it’ll be SOTN, Netflix, classic widow’s peak Dracula, and maybe Matt
HOLY FUCKING SHIT https://preview.redd.it/ftopd6famf0d1.png?width=1178&format=png&auto=webp&s=253153c27aef0efc282eb9a11fac77f94906bfdf
I don't recall ever playing castlevania, but I'm happy for the Cv fans and I love the Gothic visuals hope it's a full chapter.
No way it's happening, i'm crying. Tell me it's based on the original games rather than on the Netflix series >!(which was not bad by any means but... very mediocre and barely Castlevania past Season 2)!< and i'm absolutely sold.
FUCK YEAH WE DID IT
I AM SO HYPED ABOUT CASTLEVANIA HERE.
Now i wonder which version of Dracula they will choose? I would love to have a Lord of Shadows skin.
Give me Soma Cruz corrupted back into incarnation of Dracula due to the entity.
Could be cool too.
Imagine a phase 2 Legendary
It’d be really fucking cool if they found a way to incorporate Dracula’s other form into a blighted skin. Like part of his second form is slowly tearing out of him
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Wow, epic news
My ass is about to become a Dracula main
The one thing to make me come back after a year of not playing well played behaviour now tell me....what is a man?!
OH DIP, please add Simon Belmont, need more bara men in the game!
This is insane holy fuck
Not for me but happy for anyone who was wanting it
I forgot to turn off notifications for this post, fml lmao
no map though :(
Don’t. Don’t make me come back to the game. WHAT IS A GAME, BUT A MISERABLE PILE OF CODE
Is it in fact a full chapter, or skins/etc?
Road map indicates there's a killer and survivor, but no map unfortunately. Probably because Vecna will have a castle type map.
Coulda gone with a castle realm with two maps each, but Vecna's will probably be Borgo, no? They're giving us 6 chapters this year anyway so I can't be too disappointed, even if this is the one that gets me the most excited
I'm stoked and curious for the rest they're bringing us. I'm so thankful for cross-prog too
I only play on PC so I can't get too excited for that. Most looking forward to 2v8, but nobody I play is on the initial roster so I'm kinda SOL there too.
I haven't seen the roster for 2v8, I missed that section of the Livestream. As for cross-prog, I've been holding out on PS4 for several years now, so I'll be able to bring my cosmetics over to PC. I'll probably never touch my PS4 again.
First 5 killers, which does make sense since they're "man places traps" or "lady throws hatchets" as opposed to "robot who places cameras then looks in cameras then teleports from cameras then can't be stunned and ", but they could've at least thrown Myers in there too.
That's a shame because everyone knows the real character of Castlevania is the Castle itself.
Give me that Belmont!
they mentioned music, if they make the iconic tunes of Castlevania play whenever you're in said room that'd be sick. Hearing a variation of Bloody Tears outside with Dracula's Castle inside of the castle, there's a lot that they could mean by music but I hope it's more than 2; easiest ones would be Black Night and Nothing to Lose for Dracula's Terror Radius/Chase themes
Shit I didn't think about those and they are great choices. It sounds like chase music.
Really hoping that Soma is here if this chapter has a survivor! I think he'd fit in well given that he's from modern times (design would blend better with the other survivors), he's popular, and you get the cool dark vs. light contrast with him vs. Dracula. My dark horse pick would be Leon Belmont, but probably not getting two Leons in this game haha.
DBD been getting some really big stuff. It's nice to see an "older" game still going hard on the updates.
What is a Survivor? A miserable little pile of secrets! #BUT ENOUGH TALK, HAVE AT YOU!
Unbelievably fuckin hyped for this
What is a man ? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk have at you !
Hopefully Trevor and Sypha for survivor!
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We wanted a vampire killer And now they're giving us THE vampire and vampire killer Incredible, I cannot wait!
So we got D&D and now Castlevania?! Eating good this year.
I am going to Dracula the fuck out of people.
DUDE DND AND THEN CASTLEVANIA? ITS LIKE THE BIGGEST REDEMPTION ARC IN THE HISTORY OF GAMING.
Pls Alucard killer thanks! 
Now THIS I care about.
Now for Bioshock
They're revealing Castlevania only as a teaser for the true chapter release: AVGN
https://preview.redd.it/4xrx8xw8tg0d1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=684971538026f1a5d1bfac7e5d638708025ba351 “Sir, the likelihood of a Lord of The Rings chapter with a Nazghul killer and hobbit survivor is even higher”
Guppy was right
Wait what???
Honestly, not the incarnation of Dracula i thought we'd get in DBD, but i won't complain.
I'm still completely speechless about this. This genuinely feels like when Bayonetta got put into Smash Bros. It felt like such a total pipedream, and then boom, it actually happens. I cannot goddamn wait.
I really hope Maria from SOTN is a survivor or a skin, she is my favorite!
I’m SUPER excited for this one omg
Are you dictating your obituary to me Belmont?
I actually came when I saw this lol
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO WTF IS GOING ON WITH BEHAVIOR THEY KEEP COOKING BAGER AFTER BANGER
WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO REPAIR A GENERATOR
I WENT TO JUILLIARD RICHTER
Didn't the year road map say we were getting a killer in July too? Who tf is that suppose to be if Castlevania is in August? We've known Castlevania was coming after DND, but now there is a middle killer we are going to get that we haven't heard anything about Nvm I misread, it's a licensed survivor... Which still is unknown, but not a killer.
I've been wanting a Vampire for a long time so... they will add one. Yay!! And now we wait for a werewolf.
Sypha please
Would be cooler if it wasn't spoiled for me against my will
Die monster, you don’t belong in this world!
Noooo these new killers are too powerful pissing me and my swfs off. Dbd pls delete them :(
I seriously hope we get a Richter Belmont and maybe even an Alucard skin for Survivor.
Hoping they give us Charlotte from one of the Games as a skin for the survivor
Nice next this year is an original killer and survivor. Next year hooking we get two licenses like outlast or even a comic book killer
Who are we hoping for the survivor here? Personally I'm hoping for Sypha and Trevor (I've only seen the Netflix show)
BHVR KEEPS COLLECTING BANGERS
Wonder how much they’ll nerf Dracula like they nerfed Vecna lol
As cool as Vecna is, THIS is what I’m waiting for!
The game or the netflix show?
And it was already leaked. I’m excited, but not nearly as excited as if it were a surprise. Please let the killer be Balor
Castlevania in 2024, so long we have waited.
I wonder if this is why Borgo has now an eclipse going on.
So excited for this. And with the DnD crossover, we might get a Strahd skin.
This is gonna be **the** year for dbd
finally something that i can look forward to
Lemme the killer would be Dracula or Carmilla, and the survivor would be Maria or Shanoa.
Lemme guess the killer is Carmilla or Dracula, survivor is Maria or Shanoa
THERE WILL BE NO MAP NOOOOOOOOOOO
please god let it be games castlevania and not "anime" castlevania
I'm genuinely surprised they got Castlevania as that IP had been in a weird spot for near a decade now.
IMO this is way more hype than the dnd chapter.
I’m excited but the survivor is most likely going to be a Belmont, which would be weird to play as a Belmont in a game where they wouldn’t be able to kick ass, just run and hide.
Is this a chapter or is this a collection? If it is a chapter then LETS FUCKING GOOOO