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{{quote|''"It's God of War in Europe, with friggin' werewolves."''|'''Kevin Pereira''', G4's Attack of the Show!}}
''Castlevania: Lords of Shadow'', developed by Mercury Steam (creators of the [[Love It or Hate It]] horror FPS ''[[
The story is an [[Alternate Continuity]] from the previous titles and concerns Gabriel Belmont, an orphan raised by the Brotherhood of Light and currently tasked to speak with the Old Gods in order to determine the nature of a darkness afflicting the world. Perhaps humanity has been abandoned by God. Perhaps someone -- or something -- has cast a spell powerful enough to separate Earth from the heavens, preventing the dead from moving on. Either way, Gabriel has a personal [[Just for Pun|stake]] in the matter: his wife Marie was recently killed, and he hopes to (at the very least) speak with her again and, if possible, discover a way to bring her back to life.
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Traveling through ancient groves, mausoleums, forgotten temples, castles and swamps on his quest for an artifact that may bring Marie back from the dead, Gabriel encounters all manner of characters both mortal and immortal.
A sequel for the 3DS, ''Castlevania: Lords of Shadow-Mirror of Fate'', was revealed in the June 2012 edition of Nintendo Power. Another, more direct sequel, ''Castlevania : Lords of Shadow 2'' for [[
=== ''Lords Of Shadow'' provides examples of: ===
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* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: This was particularly true to the [http://ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/14275422/castlevania-lords-of-shadow/images/castlevania-lords-of-shadow-20101222104641423.html?page=mediaFull: human form] of Carmilla before she ascended and her spirit fractured.
* [[Best Boss Ever]]: There's a [[Magitek]] [[Golem]] who you fight, that constantly rains down meteors made of the lost relics of an ancient civilization upon you. ''It's the second boss, and it isn't even the [[Climax Boss]]''. [[Serial Escalation|And they just get better from there]].
** A perfect example of it just getting better is {{spoiler|Pan, your [[Stealth Mentor]] and [[Mysterious Protector]]}}, as the Silver Warrior. Where to start? Well, he looks like [http://images.wikia.com/castlevania/images/9/9a/SilverWarrior.jpg this]. He uses a BFS with a chain-whip tip for his weapon, has magic just like you, pulls off some [[Crazy Awesome|utterly stunning]] moves with said BFS and will summon spirit animals to attack you. He insists you bring it on throughout the battle (but not so frequently as to become annoying). The best parts, however, are under the spoiler tags (consider yourself warned, as they are serious plot twists). {{spoiler|You just killed a god, and it was a [[Heroic Sacrifice
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Gabriel, [[Just for Pun|sorta.]]}}
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Satan is defeated, but Marie cannot be brought back to life, leaving Gabriel behind as she passes on to heaven. Some time later, Gabriel becomes Dracula, forever separating him from Marie.}}
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*** {{spoiler|[[Evil Makes You Ugly]], period...}}
** And of course, it wouldn't be a Kojima game without a naked dude, right?
* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[Lady Gaga
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Gabriel suffers this right after banishing Satan, which he hates to the bones.}}
* [[Fission Mailed]]: {{spoiler|Right before the final battle Gabriel gets this after his death in the hands of the Necromancer, and then is revived by Marie.}}
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* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: The Game.
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: The Brotherhood of Light's Founders' attempt to purify themselves and ascend to Heaven as powerful spiritual beings worked well enough...{{spoiler|too bad their bodies became the vessels for the evil they left behind and became the Lords of Shadow.}}
* [[Grim Up North]]: The setting is a little more fleshed out, in that the kingdom of the Vampires is in a very cold climate that gets little sun. Adjacent to their kingdom is Wygol Village, which instead of being a [[Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia|friendly haven for the player]], is a sacked Eastern Europe hellhole constantly under attack by the vampires.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Gabriel knees the gremlins in the groin when he catches them, and then they explode.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: When rappelling, you can kick-jump off the wall. If you kick again immediately after landing back on the wall after the first jump, you'll fly out farther. Incidentally, the game and manual never tell you this and it happens to be required to get through part of the Clock Tower level.
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* [[Heroic Second Wind]]: {{spoiler|After Zobek killed Gabriel, the spirits of the departed helped resurrect him after Marie pleaded with them not to take him so he can combat Satan and break the spell that separated the Earth from Heaven.}}
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Fighting against hosts of monsters alone and without sleep or much food is not good for Gabriel's sanity, though as [[The Stoic]] he doesn't show it much. Two thirds of the way in, Zobek describes him as talking to Marie as though she were still there. {{spoiler|To his credit, he's resolute enough to ask for forgiveness when made aware of his unwitting evil acts. It remains to be seen if that repentance stuck during his time as Dracula.}}
* [[Hijacked
* [[Hoist
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: Squire (easy), Warrior (normal), Knight (hard), Paladin (very hard)
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Implied with Baba Yaga, judging by some of the comments she makes in the Music Box level.
* [[Impaled
** Carmilla may actually be the best example of this. First {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Gabriel stakes her repeatedly, then she takes off into the air and he impales her ''again'' with his grapple, then he pulls her down and impales her ''again'' on a church steeple, then pulls her further down on it so hard he sends the damn steeple crashing to the ground, ''then'' he punches through her defenses and stakes the bitch so hard the tip of the stake ''breaks off in her chest.'']] [[Rasputinian Death|That one finally crumbles her.]]}}
* [[Interface Spoiler]]: A minor example: the life and magic bars start off being able to be filled up to half of their visible lenght, and thus when you get all the upgrades for them, you have more or less twice as much health and magic you had in the beginning.
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*** Despite the above, the fact still remains that no other "grab" action involving glowing objects needs to be precisely timed to be successful (as opposed to just being too late to trigger it and letting the boss recover: if you try to hold the log up right when the view changes, the Warg will just stand around endlessly until you put it down) and avoiding Rock Titan's swipes doesn't involve predetermined animations, just moving to a different ledge: that, plus the prompt to press A to avoid Ice Titan's swipe doesn't appear either when out of tutorial mode, unlike the countless times the game keeps telling you to hold RT/R2 to avoid being tossed off or falling off a beam.
* [[It Got Worse]]: {{spoiler|Gabriel awakes to find he shanked Claudia in the chest, and it's all downhill from there...}}
* [[It Sucks to Be
* [[Jittercam]]: Not to a huge extent, but the camera is never completely still. It's especially noticeable in the menus which have this effect as well, probably to complement the book motif.
* [[Karmic Death]]: The abbot Vincent Dorin was indirectly responsible for an entire village being killed by vampires because he kept the only artifact capable of killing them to himself. Guess what becomes of him when he is left at the mercy of vampires when the artifact is taken from him by Gabriel Belmont and Zobek.
* [[Kill the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Claudia.}}
* [[Kill'Em All]]: {{spoiler|Every single main character dies horribly, save for Zobek, who turns out to be mysteriously still alive in the modern era! Laura isn't killed either, and becomes something of a [[What Happened to
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Gabriel taking gems from his fallen brethrens, as if they are going to use them anyway.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Gabriel. After having done so many terrible things to some others - or so he said, he still continues his journey bitterly thanks to the heavy weight the world has placed upon him as well as the thought of his beloved wife.
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** One of Zobek's narrations says that Carmilla will "cry bloody tears" before the night is done. Aside from the well-known song from Castlevania II, Bloody Tears is also the name of Carmilla's primary attack in each of her appearances.
** Gabriel is rumored to be an illegitimate child of the Cronqvist family. Mathias Cronqvist was the childhood friend of Leon Belmont in ''Lament of Innocence'' {{spoiler|and, like Gabriel, he became the main continuity's Dracula.}} The vampires' castle is also said to have been built by the Bernhard family (Walter Bernhard being ''Lament's'' main villain and Dracula's predecessor).
** Not only is there a visit to [[Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia|Wygol Village]], it is told the villagers begin to refer to the Combat Cross as ''Vampire Killer''.
** ''Reverie'' sets things up for a confrontation with {{spoiler|The Forgotten One, the optional super-boss of ''Lament of Innocence''.}}
* [[Mythology Upgrade]]: {{spoiler|Malphas.}}
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* [[The Precursors]]: The architects of Agharta and the Titans.
** {{spoiler|Claudia is the [[Last of His Kind|only one left]], and that doesn't last long after Gabriel's entré.}}
* [[Preorder Bonus]]: Gamestop preorders got a beautiful black Castlevania shirt with a motif of the Combat Cross. But those who bought a retail copy from Best Buy got a code to download [[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]] for free. Two very excellent options depending on who you are. If you've played every game, you can get the shirt, or buy a retail copy and give the code to a non-[[Castlevania]] savvy player to spread the love.
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: Usually has to be done with bosses once you reduce their health to a certain point, either to proceed to the next phase of the fight or to kill them. They're somewhat easier than the quick time events in other games, thanks to you being able to press any button for most of them, and not getting killed if you fail one (though the boss usually regenerates some health).
* [[Real Is Brown]]: ''Spectacularly'' averted.
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* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Zobek narrates that {{spoiler|Gabriel's devotion to destroying the Lords of Shadow so ferociously is a more than mission-oriented tunnel vision, and hope to save Marie. He is furious at all the creatures of evil and is destroying them with extreme prejudice.}}
** {{spoiler|The Black Knight}} goes into one after arriving to find {{spoiler|a dead Claudia with one of Gabriel's daggers sticking out of her chest.}} Cue [[Boss Fight]].
* [[Scenery Gorn]]: Later stages shows how far the influence of evil is displayed, from decaying corpses in an abandoned village to {{spoiler|the Land of the Dead, the very definition of [[Hell
* [[Scenery Porn]]: To an absolutely ridiculous extent. A very early level, a swamp, may have you remarking upon how gorgeous the foliage is (and marveling that apparently the swamp is filled with the fallen corpses of ''green dragons''.)
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Frankenstein's laboratory, the game is supposed to be set in 1047 AD, yet we encounter lots of mechanical devices powered by electricity, the Mechanical Monstrosity which is effectively a robot with a human brain, and a '''Tesla coil''' with ''that very same name'' (Nikola Tesla was born in 1856).
* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: The Chupacabra for the player.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: After the credits, we see {{spoiler|Zobek meet with Gabriel, who is now Dracula, and ask him for help to stop Satan from returning. In return, he'll help Dracula finally die. And this takes place in modern times.}} Curiously, while this game is supposedly an [[Alternate Continuity]], it seems to be hinting at {{spoiler|the long-awaited 1999 incident mentioned in the Sorrow games.}}
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Star Wars|"Search your soul, Gabriel. You know it to be true."]]
** The way the Chupacabras speak is also very Yoda-like.
** [[Mega Man X
** "[[Portal (
** The magic creating portals and warps is called [[Portal (
** A Shout Out to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlHGCpstzc MGS]. (It's not only the music you hear, but the camera angle when Gabriel is inside the tunnel is a reference to MGS's gameplay, too.)
*** An odd enough shout out given that the song was [[Cut Song|cut]] from the ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series to avoid plagiarism accusations.
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*** And we also have {{spoiler|Zobek}} as the [[Metal Gear|Big Boss]].
*** {{spoiler|Pan is Grey Fox, whose fighting style and personality is not dissimilar to Pan's.}}
** Also, Scrolls of deceased knights talking about a tree named [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
*** From another scroll: A deceased knight mourns the death of two of his companions and vows revenge. The names of those companions? [[Day of the Tentacle|Sister Laverne and Brother Bernard]]. The log is signed H{{spoiler|oagy}}.
** The game's visual style is heavily influenced by the films of [[Guillermo
** The way the Focus meter works is very similar to the way the combo system works in ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' series, also made by Konami, as both increase to the max when you successfully perform consecutive hits without interruption and reset to zero when you get hit or miss a step.
** During the Reverie DLC, you come across a scroll which mentions a time machine built by [[Back to The Future|Emmett Marron]]. If you know what Marron means in Spanish, this could count as a [[Bilingual Bonus]].
** {{spoiler|[[God of War (
** Gabriel's answer to the Forgotten One's boast? [[Symphony of the Night|"Enough Talk...! Have at you!"]]
* [[Show, Don't Tell]]: Averted. At least insofar as character development is concerned.
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