Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Turns Bosses Into Friends

Belmont's Curse looks to add a lot of good ideas to the Castlevania series' formula. Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is another in that recent lineage of search action titles, taking the solid foundation of Konami's storied vampire-hunting, monster-killing franchise, and enhancing it with some of the smart elements like parries, dodges, and Estus flask-like healing abilities, that have become common in recent genre entries, as well as new ideas of its own. I recently played about three hours of Belmont's Curse, which included taking on its first three bosses, and came away with a strong sense of how Konami and developer Evil Empire are giving Castlevania a new lease on life.