Thread:Zigmatism/@comment-5052823-20180625054429/@comment-168591-20180629202604

Yeah, like... he's clearly very very heavily inspired by cultural depictions of Dracula (along with cultural depictions of the Devil to an equal extent, I'd say), but Castlevania did not invent Dracula. Dracula has been a character in various forms of media for a literal century before Castlevania started using him, and for half a century since, and Dracula himself was grounded in an existing tradition of vampiric characters. Picking a single source from that immensely broad tradition and going, "oh, he turns into bats and uses fire in some of his attacks, he must be a direct homage to this specific instance of this specific version of Dracula" is an understandable mistake to make if your familiarity with this archetype of character is rooted primarily in that specific instance, but from a broader perspective it's a pretty major overreach without either specific developer commentary to that effect or a set of much, much more direct and specific parallels than you've thus far provided.