Some of the greatest Castlevania games of all time are coming to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC later today thanks to the new Castlevania Advance Collection. It bundles all three Game Boy Advance classics—as well as Dracula X, the Super Nintendo’s interesting Rondo of Blood port—into one complete package for the first time.
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This doesn’t come as a huge surprise, however. Castlevania Advance Collection appeared on video game classification sites in both South Korea and Australia over the summer. Since then, it was also spotted on a similar Taiwanese database before eventually leaking onto Play-Asia, an online marketplace with a history of accidentally revealing games early.
Konami’s popular Castlevania franchise first arrived on Game Boy Advance in 2001 with Circle of the Moon. Its success spawned two more handheld releases, 2002’s Harmony of Dissonance and 2003’s Aria of Sorrow, the latter of which is considered one of the best games of the series’ Metroidvania era. The trio eventually saw separate re-releases on the Wii U in 2014 but, before today, remained some of the few Castlevania games waiting to be ported or remastered for modern platforms.
Here’s what former Kotaku writer Harper Jay had to say about Circle of the Moon back in 2017:
