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The ESRB is the gift that keeps on giving! Right now the site is hosting a description and ratings information for a game called Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth. At the very least, we know a 2D Castlevania action game is heading to WiiWare in all of the series' gothic glory.
This is a side-scrolling action game in which players battle against monsters in Dracula's castle. Players use a chained whip to fight their way through halls and dungeons filled with zombies, skeletons, flying eyeballs, and bats. The enemy creatures frequently shoot projectiles and attack players in hand-to-hand combat.
Now, that description could really apply to any of the early 2D Castlevania games, but the title hints that this may actually be a revamp of one of the oft-forgotten Game Boy entries in the Castlevania series. The Castlevania Adventure shipped in December 1989 and stars Christopher Belmont, who unsurprisingly spends the game hacking at monsters with an upgradable whip.
Despite the game's slow character movement and atrocious graphics, Castlevania Adventure still has a fan-following based in part on how it leads in to the excellent Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge. If it seems a little weird as a candidate for a remake with shiny modern graphics, consider that Christopher Belmont was chosen to star in IDW's 2005 Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy comics. There's clearly some long-standing fan interest in the character, but his game is otherwise forgotten-- making it perfectfor a modern revisit.
