/vr/ - Retro Games

>You are probably overplaying that inspiration a bit

Fighting vampires and monsters with a whip, and with a similar fashion style
Main vampire guy isn't just a vampire, he has all kinds of different monsters as henchmen
Enter that vampire's guy, in the first corridor fight zombies and a feral feline.
Soon after that, fall in a trap floor, down a chute into the castle's underground/sewer, followed by fighting Medusa.
In the end, look back at the castle from a cliff (though to be fair, this one is an entire trope in itself; but still the connection is there)

All that was in VHD and I know I'm probably forgetting/overlooking other things. Simon's Quest would make the inspiration even more obvious by using the vampire's design 1:1 for Dracula (pic related); and the following games would take more like the throne room in Rondo/SotN looking eerily similar, and using the same "old bored vampire" routine. SotN would also use the horsebock jump through the castle's half-closed bridge; and I would say even Alucard's re-design has some semblance of D.

I'm not deying the Hammer influence, just saying that the VhD influence is stronger than most people realize

>>10367852
Yep, here is the totally-not-Belmont whip using demon/vampire fighting girl in front of totally-not-Dracula-from-Simons-Quest

>>8061276
>We're all wrong according to the director of the game, Hitoshi Akamatsu

That interview is not an interview of the director of the game though.

It is an interview of someone who recalls talking with the direction of the game some 10 years earlier.

It's basically hear says.

Also, all the remakes and sequels/prequels that re-use this pattern due to call the 2nd form Dracula. So either way, Dracula 2nd form is canon.