The story behind Castlevania’s new game Lords of Shadows is quite simple. Gabriel Belmont is a knight who is guided by his recently deceased wife to do evil. Kotaku.com calls it a thorough omage to Dante’s Inferno, but let’s not be too critical. These screenshots are awesome:

Bitch slap giant rock trolls with your cross whip… thing.

When you see shots like this in a game, you know things are about to go down.

That thing looks like a grass stained Simba! Kill it!

The cool little cross whip thing can give you Tarzan powers.


