Culture 3-Game Collection ‘Castlevania Dominus Collection’ Now Available on PC and Consoles - What is a DS? Nothing but a relic of a bygone era.

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By Genghis "Solidus Kraken" Husameddin


Publisher KONAMI today announced that their 3-game collection ‘Castlevania Dominus Collection’ is now available on PC via Steam, Xbox Series, the Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 5 consoles. This collection brings a set of three Nintendo DS games to modern platforms: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Castlevania: Portrait or Ruin, and Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. Two Bonus titles also included are “Haunted Castle,” the arcade version of Castlevania, and “Haunted Castle Revisited”, a completely reimagined version of this arcade classic.

Have a gander below for more details on the collection. Castlevania Dominus Collection retails for 19.99 GBP/24.99 USD.

Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. today announced that the Castlevania Dominus Collection is now available to download for the Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam®.

The Castlevania Dominus Collection includes three Castlevania series titles previously released for the Nintendo DS between 2005 and 2008. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Castlevania: Portrait or Ruin, and Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia highlight the collection along with two bonus titles; Haunted Castle, the arcade version of Castlevania and Haunted Castle Revisited, a reimagined and redesigned version of this arcade classic.

The Castlevania Dominus Collection features “Quality of Life” functions including Rewind, Quick Save and load-game at any time. Buttons and display layouts for the original dual screens will be fully customizable. Additionally, there will be a gallery mode to view unreleased artwork, development sketches, original instruction booklets and packaging. The encyclopedia brings a comprehensive and exhaustive compendium diving into data on enemies, equipment, items and more for each game in the collection. Finally, players can listen to all the music tracks for each game and even create playlists with their favorite tracks with the music player.

About the Castlevania Dominus Collection Titles


Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (released in 2005/Nintendo DS)

One year after the events of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, a boy named Soma Cruz is once again put at the center of a plot to resurrect Dracula led by a mysterious cult…

Will he finally be able to face his own destiny and put an end to all this?


Castlevania: Portrait or Ruin (Released in 2008/Nintendo DS)

Dracula’s Castle has suddenly resurfaced, but something doesn’t add up.

Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin make their way in the Castle to investigate, they soon discover that the mind behind all this is not whom they thought…


Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (released in 2008/Nintendo DS)

The three most powerful glyphs, thought to be able to even defeat Dracula himself, have been stolen. Can Shanoa bring them back to the Order, and finally destroy the Dark Lord?



The arcade version of Castlevania, released in 1988, follows Simon Belmont as he heads to Dracula’s Castle to rescue his fiancée who has been kidnapped and held by Dracula, the Lord of Darkness. Haunted Castle Revisited is a reimagination of the arcade version of Castlevania. This completely redesigned version has not only been touched-up on the visual side, but also carefully redesigned and rebalanced to provide a more modern experience.



In addition to that, the original version Haunted Castle, notorious for its extreme difficulty, has been included to those wanting to give it a go!

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My favorite Castlevania is Bloodlines

 

[TenMilesWide]

Why would I buy a bundle containing Dawn of Sorrow that does not also contain Aria of Sorrow, do they think I'm stupid? It took them this long to come up with a 3-in-1 DS castlevania bundle when the 3-in-1 GBA castlevania bundle was a GBA game.

 

[Pissmaster]

Disappointing it's just ROMs in an emulator rather than proper adaptations.

 

[Coolio55]

Did they fix the shitty touch controls for the seals or do you still have to install that romhack?

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Weird that vidya is news. Also the lack of Aria of Sorrow is just wrong. Dawn doesn't make sense without it.

Also, Castlevania 1999 war never. Because that covers the military being sent to kill Dracula and that ended badly. It was the event that took place before Aria.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

how many castlevanias are there??

 

[Blitzsneed]

Why would I buy a bundle containing Dawn of Sorrow that does not also contain Aria of Sorrow, do they think I'm stupid? It took them this long to come up with a 3-in-1 DS castlevania bundle when the 3-in-1 GBA castlevania bundle was a GBA game.

Weird that vidya is news. Also the lack of Aria of Sorrow is just wrong. Dawn doesn't make sense without it.

Aria of Sorrow is included in the Castlevania Advance Collection. Pay up, Gaijin.

Also, Castlevania 1999 war never. Because that covers the military being sent to kill Dracula and that ended badly. It was the event that took place before Aria.

That would be awesome, but we know how lazy and greedy those fucks are. Also still no Symphony Of The Night port for PC and consoles.

Fuck you, Konami.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

DS games should be locked on DS systems and gamers forced to play those games the proper way on original hardware or not at all.

 

[frozen_runner]

I own all these games, but Haunted Castle Revisited is really tempting...

Will pirate. Thanks, Konami!

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I have fond memories of playing Order of Ecclesia during my army service. Fun game that reverted on the animefication of the series.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

how many castlevanias are there??

a metric crapload

Also, Castlevania 1999 war never.

that's best left as "something so amazingly cool we can never show it (until we eventually do and it's a letdown)"

 

[PaulBearer]

It's four games, maybe five actually but the original Haunted Castle is shit so it doesn't count.

I got this day one as it's my favourite series, weird how Ecclesia is top on the list, they should have put them in order of release.

 

[Starved Artist]

Once again, paying for emulators. I've no beef with them trying to milk the property again, but at least fucking remaster the games OH JOLLY JEE REWIND, IT'S JUST LIKE MY EMULATORS THANK YOU NINTNEDO AND KONAMI.

 

[Niggernerd]

It's four games, maybe five actually but the original Haunted Castle is shit so it doesn't count.

I got this day one as it's my favourite series, weird how Ecclesia is top on the list, they should have put them in order of release.

Honestly chronological order is best for a series like this also as much as I like both PoR and DoS. Ecclesia felt the most connected to og castlevania

 

[Haramburger]

Weird that vidya is news.

Depends on your algorithm when you open Chrome, I get a bunch of bait articles for "this highly user rated Steam game is free for only a few more days" and it's some indie dogshit, and Monster Hunter update articles.

Rejoice normies, you will have delicious bare back and the pleasure of playing Shanoa's Game™!

 

[Dysnomia]

Aria of Sorrow is included in the Castlevania Advance Collection. Pay up, Gaijin.

I bought that one previously. At the time people were asking a lot for the DS games. I got it on sale cheap. Just wait for a sale. Never pay full price. Hopefully SotN is next.

 

[PaulBearer]

I bought that one previously. At the time people were asking a lot for the DS games. I got it on sale cheap. Just wait for a sale. Never pay full price. Hopefully SotN is next.

That's already out, its on a double pack with Rondo of Blood.

 

[PaulBearer]

Honestly chronological order is best for a series like this also as much as I like both PoR and DoS. Ecclesia felt the most connected to og castlevania

I like it best too, it's got levels almost and I like that sexy thing Shanoa does with her hair to absorb powers.

Sorry for the double post, I can't be bothered to fix it.

 

[Blitzsneed]

That's already out, its on a double pack with Rondo of Blood.

Can you give a source for that? It's not on Steam from what I know.

Just wait for a sale. Never pay full price.

And never preorder. Never.

 

[Niggernerd]

I like it best too, it's got levels almost and I like that sexy thing Shanoa does with her hair to absorb powers.

Sorry for the double post, I can't be bothered to fix it.

Albus mode was fun.
Shanoa is a proper goth baddie and her absorption animation is really smooth.
I like how it decided to do the CV2 route of taking place across Romania instead of just the castle. The landscapes were just a breath of fresh air (granted PoR also did this nicely)