Castlevania SOTN: The Tragic Prince

[VitalityRichPlus]

It should come to no one's surprise that this theme is forever associated with Alucard.

It's a huge shame to know that Konami screwed up that fact though.

[DarkenedAlias]

This art style is absolutely amazing.

[23mhegslvr]

@DarkenedAlias true to that =D

[perereca]

The series is called "Twighlight" cause those "vampires" cant stand what night really has to offer.

[CJTranceAddiction]

symphony of the night and lament of innocence are the two best soundtracks in the series!

[tubenachos]

Twilight, I WILL NOT.

[StolasEmperor]

Crimsnwood Keep from Maplestory sounds very similar to this lol. CASTLEVANIA WAS MY CHILDHOOD :D

[YummyTofuu]

Dracula: Son... The way how you help the humans is unacceptable.

Alucard: It's Tragic I know..

*guitar music plays*

Dracula: I see what you did there :D

Alucard: AWWWWWWWWHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHH

[gun2grave2]

THIS is the reason why I stayed in the Clock Tower level more than any other levels in the game.

[DaRkSpArTaN02]

this song is so great , AMAZING O.o

[X1ntar0]

ahhh i remember the time when after using a lot of effort, i was at the top of the clock tower rom, on my way to the next room...

then a stupid medusa head popped outta nowhere and turned me into stone...

but it wasnt satisfied yet...

it knocked me off three stories down... :(

[DartUchiha]

this is awesome but it makes me think of those stupid frikkin medusa heads!

[TomoeNageX]

I would go into the entrance to the clock tower area just to jam to this song. The area itself is quite frustrating, as CV clock towers tend to be, but it has one of the best songs on the soundtrack.

[VoiceofJustic3]

A little captain obvious here but Alucard is Dracula spelled backwards

[morgi1067]

Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes is my Tragic Prince -3 luv u alucard

[xxGuanoxx]

boner at 3:27

[TomoeNageX]

@xxGuanoxx word

[JeanMetallicA]

2:15 I love this Part!

[MrPyroguru]

@JeanMetallicA Me too!

Very progressive like something Dream Theater would do.

[tubenachos]

Kick ass at 0:17.

[Kevin01SH]

i love all the music from this game, but this one really stands out for me. love the guitar riffs!

[cakestalker]

Definitely one of my favorite songs from the game. The guitar parts kicks so much ass!

[Flapcakes524]

P.S. this music plays when I fail to exist.........

[Gargoreis]

Symphony of the Night still has one of the best video-game soundtracks of all time; definitely my favorite, and plus it brings back memories from my childhood!

[lunarion666]

Lords of Shadows shouldn't use Castlevania name.It sin't a bad game.. but it ISN'T Castlevania! I want to slash my way through monsters on my PS3 on 3D as Alucard, not Gabriel Belmont :/

[JF3300]

@lunarion666 It isn't Castlevania, but yet it says Castlevania on the box, the game wreaks of Castlevania. Im so tired of all the people complaining about how LOS isn't Castlevania, everyone is butthurt over this game. I loved the game and to me it is Castlevania, its developed by Konami, says Castlevania on the box, the enemies are all part of the Castlevania canon, I loved the story and thought it was a fantastic game and a great addition to the Castlevania series.

[NaxNax96]

@JF3300 +1 =)

[stroopatroopa]

@JF3300 yeah but it is kind of upsetting that they rebooted the series and turned a Belmont into Dracula... :(

[Makutus]

@stroopatroopa I like to think of it as adding a wealth of possibilities. I just hope we get to see Alucard in that universe.

[Makutus]

@JF3300 I agree. My only complaint is the soundtrack not being Castlevania-ish enough, but maybe it fits with the game's more realistic style.

[ChaosLordofAWESOME]

can I use this in a song im making please

[chubies666]

This needs breakdowns!

[Gaskinmoo]

Probably the best game of all time.... plus the sound track is F**KING AWESOME!!

[pwrtepo]

Best solo ever!

[ppincheperro666]

IF I WOULD BE A FIGHTING GAME CHARACTER,THIS WOULD BE MY BACKGROUND MUSIC.

[BARTINO]

i got a wall scroll of this picture!!

[hindd95]

Gotta love those crash cymbals!

[gayluigipower]

0:00 Listening to the music for the first time, cool symphony and then BAAAM EPICNESS AT 0:17

[doplegan]

"Hey

Dracula, Maria and Richard! get yours instruments i'm tinking in a music very cool

and i think if will be called of... The tragic Prince!"

[juniorjenova]

look at this happy family!!!!!!!!!!!!!Dracula is the father, Alucard is his firstborn son and Richter....well, Richter is the bad surprice.

[inmyrainbowcemetery]

face melting solo

[ksioamaral89]

is it truth that this was composed by the godlike  Akira Yamaoka?if yes, this guy is fucking insane he only composes masterpieces!

[nabudis66]

Is the picture 'shaking' a bit or is it an illusion?" ;P

[lolmanshiwii]

@nabudis66 It does shake

[prjibaro1]

@TheJenovamother

Actrually Adrian's theme is "Dracula's castle"or the entrance theme.

[omarcortes88]

This game sucks... blood.

[gonzmanX9]

@omarcortes88 And time.

[juansebastian093]

@omarcortes88 at the first 3 words I was like '' die monster, you don't belong to this world''

[jomeskyline09]

Alucard is The Tragic Prince indeed....

[rockman229]

in my time vampires were dark,mysterious and truly spooky, nowadays vampires sparkle,are gay ,and go to the school,why do they go to school,if they have the knowledge of centuries;i wish that alucard killed those gay vampires in twightlight.

[Zynt453]

@rockman229 Yeah, vampires use to actually look badass, now it's just humans with sharp teeth : /

[Dewani90]

@Zynt453 vegan vampires that sparkle, those are creepy, in a bad way, btw,only dracula would have a son so badass that would make everyone love the old school vampires even more

[Zynt453]

@Dewani90 Oh deffintley, Alucard is badass :) I like how only the most powerful Vampires in Castlevania can take on the form of a human, I would mention that I don't like the Vampires from "that" film/book, but I guess it's all subjective since Vampires are a work of fiction.

Anywho, yeah, Castlevania is fantastic!

[Ikalato007]

@Zynt453 So, the most powerfull creature is human?xD

[ShadowOne333]

The movie industry should make like a Castlevania and Twilight crossover..:

Where a Belmont senses the great gayness and suckery in the Cullen family and decides to put an end to all of them before it reaches out to the people in the world.

=D

[jruiz2350]

The real vampires are in CastleVania Cullens sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please Simon , Richter ,Leon ,Juste ,Trevor Kill the Cullens the Gay Vampires

[kequaypha0045]

To Plug the Anus:Robert Pattinson

To be a true Vampire:Adrian F.Tepes

LONG LIVE ALUCARD !!!

[kequaypha0045]

I hope Robert doesn't act Alucard in the movie

[DrDeathfx]

twilight making vampires gay since October 5, 2005 Seriously this game made the vampire genre Awesome then it was destroyed by sparkling faggot teenagers with apparent high school drama issues...lame is all i have to say

[kimflodin]

The Tragic Prince?

more like "THE BADASS PRINCE"

[xWagnerPlaguesx]

fucking medusa heads -.-

[gearlockT]

This is so great when you finally make it through to the roof of the castle and this tune kicks in.

[Drunkkid69]

This is twilight!... TWIGHLIGHT?!?!?!? THIS IS CASTLEVANIA!!

[anakngchinelas]

its ok to be 3d but the gameplay is the prob...i imagine what would SOTN look like if they remake it with modern graphics but the gameplay is still the same hmhmhm......

[monetoxd]

I love castlevania SOTN !!!!

[martooxxx]

you guys twilight to stop being popular?

then DONT TALK ABOUT IT!

if you're fed up on gay vampires stop commenting, because right now every mention of twilight i get is from the people that complain about it.

[adri2shadow]

@martooxxx yeah you got darmn right, stop talking and comparing twilight whit castlevania pleaze, that shit is an insult to the vampires story and werewolf strorys too

[martooxxx]

@adri2shadow

absolutely. no matter wether you're talking good or bad about it, you're reminding us of the problem.

[Valentine4Vincentx]

My childhood..was based around tracks like this. <3 Castlevania :)

[DanceofGold]

The first thing I picture when I hear this is Alucard turning into a bat and soaring up into the dark skies...

[dimomarg]

DARK METAMORPHOSIS!

[Kaede5]

3.49 epic music without any loop in a psx game?

YES, THANKS

Vampires, undead while the badass music plays?

YES, THANKS SO MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH

I cannot stop beating Castlevania SOTN once every year... it's so awesome

[fgeo97]

alucard just used his sword and slashed off edward cullen's head

[Robben911back]

Konami made vampires the coolest thing on earth... And Twilight(gayfaggot vampire shit) did the opposite.

[maybeimleo]

@Robben911back yeah if you search google for "Worst book ever" , its says "Did you mean Twilight?" _D

[roman6a]

@maybeimleo it doesn't work anymore.

[maybeimleo]

@roman6a yeah, too bad XD

[Julienfun]

should be renamed "The Epic Prince"

[kingpsyborgrockstar]

castlevania<3

[Nihilusdude]

What a kick-ass theme; definitely my favorite in the game

[SuperTito22]

The distortion makes it sound so sick!... I LOVE IT!!!!

[littlegeo17]

wow they don't make then like this anymore just keep it 2D

[Dracula9AntiChapel]

Two people must've fallen off the broken bridge.

[Kiloueka]

anyone else come here when they saw someone say that maplestory's cwk bgm is a ripoff of this?

[TheAzureNightmare]

@Kiloueka I've played Maplestory... but what does CWK mean again?

[MrASDFSkyler]

@TheAzureNightmare hall of mastery. Type in hall of mastery bgm maplestory

[Kiloueka]

@TheAzureNightmare crimsonwood keep in NLC

[CypherousAcid]

@Kiloueka yeah.. I don't find them similar though, except the opening riff.. aside from that.. this kind of music ALWAYS has the solo guitar in this kind of tone and drum beats like so..

[Ziopanza]

2 ppl are tragic

[Crocadok]

This track roxxxx :D !!!

The best one of the SOTN ost !

[STEVATUNA]

belive it or not this counts as metal

AND ITS ROCKS!

[alexgodzillafan3328]

@Kobainjr Hey, fuck off, will you? If you think that this is lame, then you can go to hell and take your iron shit metal with you.

[rinaldootje]

Love thing song.

Mainly because you think it will be a quite easy song. But than..

BOOM guitars, strings and drums :D What is there more to ask?

[steveiskenderian]

plus those awesome glitches, godmammit the game gets better?

[davedetrick]

That's right folks...

Castlevania ROCKS

[Lvl9chao]

castlevania lord of the shadows was nothing compared to SOTN. I WANT MY CASTLEVANIA FUCKING 2D, NOT 3D

[Dracula9AntiChapel]

@Lvl9chao Amen, brother.

[ps3fanforever]

@Lvl9chao Who doesn't?

[denailharis]

@Lvl9chao

that right.....

[Yazunmanto77]

@Lvl9chao well, lord of shadows is a great game for the ps3 and the xbox, but i find it highly attached more to a god of war feel than castlevania

[chaotic13000]

@Lvl9chao yeah bro!

[orkybork]

@Lvl9chao castlevania lords of shadow was AMAZING. Gabriel belmont is AMAZING. He wishes for forgiveness for all he has done, even if unknowingly. HE KILLED SATAN. I MEAN REALLY. HE KILLED SATAN, THEN BECAME DRACULA. HOW FUCKING AWESOME IS THAT

[Seraium]

@orkybork He did not kill satan, he did only banish him.

[Fatcatnevercameback]

@Lvl9chao - I actually think an amazing 3D Castlevania is possible, if only Konami could lay down a solid foundation for it...

[OmegaWeaponX2]

@Lvl9chao Lords of Shadow... and it was a fine piece of badass gaming, IMO.

[pedro172839]

@Lvl9chao True that, LoS looks more like God of the Castle(cheap copy of GoW(not that I think GoW good by the way)), SOTN and also CoD are the true castlevanias,I miss the ps1 and ps2 ages a lot.

[pablopablobonilla]

@pedro172839 I LIKE THAT YOU ASSUME GOD OF WAR CAME FIRST AND LoS IS A CHEAP COPY ....LET ME INFORM YOUR BRAIN HERE.......CASTLEVANIA LAMENT OF INNOCENCE CAME BEFORE GOD OF WAR AND CASTLEVANIA IS KNOW TO HAVE BIG BOSSES BELMONTS ARE KNOWN TO DO CRAZY STUFF WITH THERE WHIPS AND GOD OF WAR IS A CHEAP RIP OFF OF CASTLEVANIA....if your mad at what i said i dont carre or feel free to correct me if anything here is wrong so good day sir

[pedro172839]

@pablopablobonilla I'm not mad,in other hand, i like that you told me about Lament of Inocence,because i never played it(but i know about the bosses and the belmont clan),so I'm sorry for mentioning GoW without even knowing that, and also good day to you too.

[pablopablobonilla]

@pedro172839 im just saying...people always bash on castlevania and yet they dont do any research... yeah God of war did make the gameplay more crazy but in lament of innocence you do stuff with your whip ...may not be kratos status but castlevania had the idea before god of war  and remember when richter belmont can do a supper uppercut move and do hydro storm ect... thats similar because thats how belmonts are they do crazy stuff with their whips... glad you know now

[AmAxel35]

@pablopablobonilla Really? I've yet to meet anyone bashing Castlevania's gameplay o.o. Other than complaining about the difficulty of the classic platformer style ones.

[pablopablobonilla]

@AmAxel35 i've met a lot of people who bash on castlevania...but lucky you..because it is a war outside if you know what i mean

[chubies666]

@AmAxel35 alot of people were bashing lords of shadow before the game came out. It saddens me that people bash the things that made other video games posssible. Without this franchise alot of great games wouldn't exist.

[AmAxel35]

@chubies666 well hey, at least it pales in comparison to the bashing Sonic gets. The whole "Sonic's eyes aren't green, this change ruined the whole franchise" thing still makes me laugh hard. XD

[hindd95]

@chubies666 But Lords Of Shadow wasn't bashed because it was a bad game; it's just not Castlevania, at all; it's more like a mix of Dante's Inferno with God Of War (on the gameplay aspect). We don't even get hearts, at least until the part that I've played. And also, for me, Castlevania suffers from the same "syndrome" as Mega Man and Sonic: it's not good on 3D; at least for me.

[pablopablobonilla]

@pedro172839 AND I FORGOT TO SAY I MEANT THAT THE GAMEPLAY CAME FIRST FROM CASTLEVANIA

[theknack101]

@Lvl9chao

Things should move foward, or else they stagnate.

Its not like the castlevania series has only been 3d recently. There have been plenty of 2d castlevanias since SotN and Im sure there will be more.

Don't hate them for not being SotN

[hindd95]

@theknack101 There's been plenty of 2D Castlevania in portable consoles; not on home consoles. From what I remember, the last 2D Castlevania for home consoles (not portables), was Chronicles, for the PS1. And I don't think that everything should move forward, or evolve, if they're going very well the way they are. Lords Of Shadow, for me, was a mix of God Of War and Dante's Inferno; only maintaining the Castlevania title, and som characters.

[ZeroX1803]

SOUL STEAL!

[AlanxGalneryus]

@ZeroX1803

dark metamorphosis

[gregarreaper]

@ZeroX1803 man that use to so help me at the lower levels haha

[SELG88]

67284 sould have been cursed with this song. alucards blod is wihitng yourself right now

[manmanguy]

Allow me to lament my sorrows. I've owned this beautiful experience for 14 years. Now my newest PS2 won't play this masterpiece. I am denied this beauty, yet I would love to play it again. Such sadness. DARK METAMORPHOSIS !!!!!!!!

[McNuggetButt]

@manmanguy Get an X-Box 360 and download it from X-Box Live, I had that same problem lol, God bless X-Box Live

[Julienfun]

I loved how he would say "DARK METAMORPHOSIS !!"

[SargentoAgat]

What is a man! A miserable litte pile of secrets!

[shademorgis]

Good video game tune. My favorite from SOTN, or any of the Castlevanias.

[xxxCRAZYLOVExxx]

richter belmont kicks ass in this level

[swarrior80]

just a random tip for anyone playing the game shield rod+Alucard shield combo is the strongest in the game use the shield rod special move then jus run head first into anything while holding shield out for insta kill

[V742]

@swarrior80 Crissaegrim does the job :P Though it does break the game

[IIblahheadII]

@swarrior80 Or you can alternatively use the Mablung sword, which is the sword variant of the Shield rod.

Best non-broken weapon in the game is Mourneblade IMO, soul steal sword FTW.

[fightlover187]

@swarrior80 only problem is when you overuse the shield rod+Alucard shield combo to easily crush Dracula's minions your att def and other stats go down a bit, which i stoppped using it cuz i noticed after using it too much my stats for some reason starting going down which was gonna my me weaker in the long run, so I only used it when necassary for instance use it against Galamoth, beezlebub or any boss you find that's just too tough for you

[SirEpileF]

Best game ever

[UNSCsarge]

This makes me want to play SOTN again. :)

[GrooveOfMidnight]

DIE MONSTER! YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD!

[Nevareh]

Formed from an impossible union of human and the Lord of Darkness, whose long-dead heart knew love one last time, this prince of chaos' tragic fate is bound forever in his cursed blood. Perhaps love could find him, someday, except he has already seen what love had done to the demon that sired him. Perhaps his only solace is in his vigilance against his father's fell machinations.

I always preferred this as Alucard's theme, if just because the title "Dracula's Castle" doesn't really suit him.

[adri2shadow]

the best game of the castlevania series of all the times and of course the best music

[VFellhn]

@adri2shadow i agree man!!!this game is the best..for all ways!!!

[Hyoga08]

The best song!!

[DowkasenARGENTINA]

buenissssssimoooo!i love this theme!最高

[elputas111]

Sounds like Symphony X!!! great!

[lunarion666]

True vampires DO NOT SPARCLE!

[xRisingForcex]

@lunarion666 thumbed up so many times

[moviemowdown]

@lunarion666 They just decide to survive uv rays :)

[brunstad]

@lunarion666 no they sparkle

[darttito]

@lunarion666 True vampires go trough an entire castle fighting every single fantasy monster ever created to fight against a world famous vampire hunter, to free him from a curse, to go trough another castle (inverted) twice as hard, even fighting against death, to kill his own father ho turns out being Dracula....

THATS what a real vampire does!

[lunarion666]

@darttito And suck blood, and cast fireballs, and change into bats, and teleports, and suck blood, and change into mist, and suck blood! Oh, and suck blood.too.

[VitorMadcowe]

@darttito uh he WAS Dracula, he didnt just turn out to be you know? x)

[GSE1916]

I remember those days in the Clock Tower, getting pwnd by the medusa heads, good times, one of the best songs.

[DanceofGold]

@GSE1916 I hated those fricking medusa heads! the most annoying things in the castle!

[LilCyco223]

@DanceofGold AMEN!!!

[DTSephiroth]

@DanceofGold Worst of all, they're in almost every Castlevania game... Medusa Heads suck....

[gaveupgolf]

i always thought this was the trans-siberian orchestra...lol

[MegaMacTV]

@gaveupgolf Lol, I know, right? I love most music in the same vein (pardon the pun) as Classical Rock. Trans, Symphony X, Nightwish, Theatre of Tragedy, Sonata Arctica. There are bunches. ;3

[miguelm16]

hey, i want to play this game, it's Castlevania what? what dous SONT means?

[Anquarius]

SONT = Symphony of the Night.

[Maverick2736]

..."Symphony Of Nhe Tight"?

You two should get glove-slapped by Alucard.

[Anquarius]

So sorry D: -Alucard slap-

I write it again. SOTN = Symphony of the Night.

There. Now it's right.

[Michelle2815CV]

*shouts hysterically* WE LOVE ALUCARD!!!!! ALUCARD RULEZ!!!!!!!!!!!! *faints*

[DanceofGold]

Hell YEAH! ^_^

[Michelle2815CV]

HES HOT!

[silverrayd]

i wish they follow up story of this game symphony of the night in the ps3 the best castlevania ever cause of alucard the greatest castle vania hero ever

[thetuckman1]

This song could be played in a montage of me throwing my controller down in anger about cheap deaths in which I have to go back, like, two hours.