*snif* I think in a few moments here I'm going to go play Castlevania: Lords of Sahdow. I'm listening to music and I keep thinking over and over that this and that song fits perfectly for the game. I wish I knew how to get the cutscenes and stuff onto my computer cause then I would make videos of it. But I'm not that talented so all I can do is picture how awesome it would be. You know Victor still hasn't finished playing that game. I want to show him the scene after the ending credits at least, cause I think it's really neat. "I can not die... yet... I can not live." Aww, does Dracula need a huggle snuggle? Yes I think he does! *glomps dracula and strokes his hair*
I also need to replay because I need to do the challenges.
And I guess if I scrounge youtube I could gather cut scenes. I did just find a 22pt cutscene series. But for now I'm going to get some reeses hearts and go play the game.
This is Gabriel Belmont. (click to enlarge) And the reason why this is more of a game for the ladies than it is for the guys. He is very angsty. And he's got a British accent.
*SPOILER WARNING IN COMMENTS* Because someone seems to have forgotten that important notice.
Man's Point of View:
ReplyDeleteLet's make this clear: Gabriel is weak and easily corrupted by his own greed and desire for power. Through this weakness, he is convinced to murder his own wife, and other women, to further his own power. Several times throughout the game he commits the same act again, to increase his own power, and continues to try to block it out. At the end he is forced to stop lying to himself.
What Gabriel is ultimately whining and angsting about was that he was too much of a pussy to fight evil like a man, and was willing to murder his own wife (and many others) to increase his own chances of survival. It turned out all he was actually doing was corrupting himself and becoming the next lord of darkness. He does not need his hair stroked, he needs to be destroyed and left to rot in Hell before he can harm others.
I have trouble playing this game because Gabriel is the worst kind of coward in existence, and I figured out what was going on very early. As a reboot of the Castlevania series it's excellent.. far better than Igarashi nixing the true Belmont origin in favor of making it a lover's quarrel between two pretty men, but it should have been left alone the first time.
Dracula's origin in the original (true) storyline is exactly like his in the book, and the Bemont line is simply started by a brave woman who could no longer stand to see her people being slaughtered, and set out to defeat the evil Dracula; and during her journey fell in love with Dracula's son; thus endowing the future Belmonts with more power to fight Dracula. It was a story about a bloodline redeeming itself.
Again, this game's better than Iga's rewrite.. but it's still not good enough. And I don't want to play as Dracula. I do not seek to "understand" evil. I seek to either redeem it, or destroy it.
From the woman's point of view:
ReplyDeleteGabriel was being mind controlled and was basically killing people in his sleep. As you remember in that one cutscene he was having a nightmare and then awoke to find blood on his hands. As someone who does things in her sleep a lot I can relate, if on a much smaller scale. You really have no memory of what you did, and if you were killing people then that might come through as nightmares. Remember a lot of the opening texts say he suffers from nightmares to the point that towards the end of the game he goes days without sleep.
You haven't finished playing the game, so you didn't see the look of utter terror and anger when he finds out he was made to killed Marie. He wasn't convinced to do it, and it wasn't out of greed. His mind wasn't even there when he did it. He is in no way a coward, he goes to hell and back to save the woman he loves, and quite literally. The last boss is Satan himself. He actually tells Satan that God will forgive him and anyone else who asks of it and that Satan might want to consider it. He says he's redeemable and asks God to forgive him, and that's when he dies and God brings him back to life. But, as Marie says to him, it was too late for her. Then Gabriel drops to his knees, crying out in anguish. He spends the rest of forever in agony over it. You yourself said the origin is about Dracula turning his back on God because of his wife dying. Well, that's when you see it happen. In the after the credits scene you see him angsting in a dark corner and it is implied that he's spent the last few thousand years moping about. If anything, fighting Satan and then telling him to ask for forgiveness as you allow yourself to die in order to bring him down is not only brave, it's not in any way selfish.
If anyone is the badguy here it's Marie. She knew the mask wouldn't bring her back to life. She knew she was willingly sending her husband off to forsake his order and everything he was, she knew the hardships he'd face. She knew he'd end up battling his way through hell. And for what? So she wouldn't be a ghost trapped on Earth? If she really loved him she'd have let him be and hoped he'd have a good life. She clearly wasn't upset with him for killing her, she kisses him and tells him how much she loves him and that he is a good man. Yes, he was a good man before she corrupted him and made him turn against everything. The only fault I see in him is that he didn't accept that she was dead. If he hadn't gone traipsing off to save her he wouldn't have gone through the act of total and complete faith in God that brought him back to life. He even says, "Why am I alive? This shouldn't be, it should be YOU." or something similar. Didn't she ever wonder what would happen to him once he freed her? Or did she care?
btw, from what you've said I, too, wonder at them naming him Belmont. Remember, I did ask you about that.