![]() We got one of our artists (the talented Maxime Bonin) to quickly whip up some imaginations of what Dracula’s Castle and the iconic Castlevania enemies would look like in the Dead Cells universe, which allowed us to get a pitch deck set up. Of course the original scope has since completely exploded along the way! So it was from here that the idea was born to pitch them an entire DLC of Dead Cells, following the format of our previous DLCs with two biomes, a boss, new enemies, weapons, etc. Little by little I started to imagine something much more ambitious – if they’re willing to let us use content from their iconic license, why not try to go further? Then I started to realise that in fact, they were actually pretty big fans of Dead Cells, and that it was completely possible to add some Castlevania content, which had seemed impossible at first. At this point I was just imagining something small like an Alucard skin and the Vampire Killer whip! During our meetings, I started thinking “Oh, if they publish us, it would be so cool if we could put in a bonus for the Japanese players in the form of Castlevania content, but I doubt that they’d allow it… ”. Of course, as the Castlevania license is the origin of practically everything in Dead Cells, it seemed natural to try and get involved with them. As Konami are a publisher over there, they were naturally a part of our discussions. “So I was actually in Kyoto in Japan for the BitSummit (an indie game festival) and to meet with various potential partners to do a physical edition of Dead Cells. So, how did we manage to convince Konami to let us recreate their hallowed piece of gaming history? Well, Benjamin Laulan, COO of Evil Empire, spills the beans: On top of this, we’ve taken the 12 most iconic tracks, such as Vampire Killer, Bloody Tears and Divine Bloodlines, and reimagined them in the Dead Cells style as a soundtrack for the DLC levels, while preserving the Castlevania ambiance of course. No game is complete without its soundtrack and with this DLC you’ll gain access to an alternative in-game soundtrack of 51 of the original Castlevania tunes, that can be heard as you play through the entire game, not just the DLC. Familiar faces and places from the series can be found throughout your journey but we want to leave some mystery so we’ll leave those secret for now… You’ll find secret rooms, candlelit corridors, hordes of evil monsters and of course, chicken legs in the walls. The unmistakable atmosphere of Dracula’s Castle has been recreated in two new biomes.
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