Apparently in his dying moments Saint Germain sent Trevor to the Infinite Corridor and saved his life. She agrees, and then Trevor appears, near death on a horse. Germain betrays Death and is killed for it just as Trevor manages to break the spell and then faces off with Death in an epic showdown (slightly ruined by some really cringey lines from Grim Reaper, but hey-ho…) that seemingly ends in a double knockout… or erm, double death, I guess… Although can Death die? … Anyway:Ī short while later and Alucard and Greta decide to start a new town based around Castlevania and the Belmont stronghold and invite a grieving, and apparently pregnant, Sypha to join them. This put a smile on my face as Death was the last main recurring character from the Castlevania series not to have appeared in the animated show, and his design is great. ![]() Reunited the trio take out a whole load of powerful enemies in a long series of well animated fight scenes (seriously, Powerhouse Animation should pat themselves on the back for this season) before confronting Saint Germain, only to discover that Varny is actually Death itself, trying to manipulate the return of Dracula in a maddened form to create as much death as possible. They follow but arrive in a different part of the castle: right behind Alucard as he was fighting a bunch of creatures. This is where the two plots intertwine as Trevor and Sypha fight Ratko and a bunch of night creatures in the Underground Court (turned out the royal family were long dead, for the record…) and then see Varny use a teleporting mirror to pop into the room with Saint Germain. Gergoth makes his animated debut, though he’s out-shone a bit by another classic game boss’s appearance later… As a large army of Night Creatures (including several classic game enemies making their animated debut) unleashes hell at the castle walls Germain heads to the room where Dracula was slain and begins a spell to pull the Vampire Lord and his wife into the realm of the living. Alucard also meets Saint Germain (Bill Nighy) from the previous season, whose trip in the infinite corridor only led him to meet a mysterious figure who told him to resurrect Dracula if he wanted to see his love again, or more specifically, Dracula and his wife into the same body as some ultimate alchemy experiment, or something… In order to do this he happily follows Alucard and Greta to Castlevania itself, where the duo believes they’ll have a better shot at defending themselves. Meanwhile Alucard receives a plea for help from a nearby village and despite his new anti-trust outlook he decides to help out, meeting the head of the village Greta of Danesti (Marsha Thomason), which I assume is supposed to be their version of Grant Danasty at last, though she doesn’t really have the same background or plot as the CVIII character, so… *shrugs* Whatever, she’s nimble and uses a knife in several shots, so I’ll take it. ![]() It leads them to Targoviste, the town where Vlad’s wife was burned at the stake and started the whole thing off, eventually encountering two of Dracula’s old guard in Varny (Malcolm McDowell) and Ratko (Titus Welliver) and meeting the head of the guards of the “underground court” Zamfir (Toks Olagundoye) who suspiciously doesn’t want to show the heroes the underground court itself… ![]() The first two spend the opening episodes uncovering a bunch of vampire and “night creature” dens and following a link they all share with Dracula, particularly an attempt to resurrect him. Thankfully the core story reuniting Trevor (Richard Armitage) and Sypha (Alejandra Reynoso) with Alucard (James Callis) was really well done and fun to follow.
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