( Warning: some spoilers for the Castlevania TV show follow.)īoth Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow were hugely acclaimed upon release – with the former seeing recurring villain vampire Carmilla (so memorably depicted in the Netflix series) in her mission to resurrect Dracula. We don't really see new Castlevania games released these days – the last official entry on consoles was 2014's Lords of Shadow 2, a whole seven years ago, with the more recent Grimoire of Souls (2019) landing purely on iOS and Apple Arcade.Īnd with Castlevania season 4 having come to an end – and who knows how long to wait until the spin-off series actually lands on Netflix – the Advance Collection is the perfect thing to get your fangs into for the time being, especially because of the recurring characters common across the Collection and the Netflix adaptation of the franchise.