{"id":58983,"date":"2021-09-25T20:25:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T19:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/?p=58983"},"modified":"2021-09-26T16:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:57:41","slug":"castlevania-advance-collection-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2021\/09\/25\/castlevania-advance-collection-premier\/","title":{"rendered":"Castlevania Advance Collection: the four games are here for Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The classic adventures of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/tag\/konami\/#google_vignette\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Konami<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>saga have arrived, and the Castlevania Advance Collection is here, more polished and enhanced than ever. Plus, all the releases are in one!<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After months of rumours and leaks, the <strong>Castlevania Advance Collection<\/strong> is a reality: available today for <strong>Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC via Steam<\/strong>. We&#8217;re talking about a compilation of <strong>Konami&#8217;s Game Boy Advance saga, along with a Super Nintendo guest<\/strong> game, so in total, you get four classic Castlevania games ready to take on the most hardcore vampire hunters.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, these are <strong>Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, and the SNES Castlevania: Dracula X (Castlevania: Vampire&#8217;s Kiss in Europe)<\/strong>. All four games include general and quality of life improvements, but without changing their essence too much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Castlevania Advance Collection Trailer\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kXnWqCgG6Is?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talking about being able to save and load games at any point, rewinding to rewind a few seconds (if needed), and a replay feature to record and replay games for speedrunners and streamers. In addition, the Castlevania Advance Collection includes a <strong>gallery of unreleased artwork and sketches<\/strong> from the games, an encyclopedia with all the information you need about the games, and a <strong>music player with four soundtracks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But the best is yet to come: the Castlevania Advance Collection includes <strong>ROMs<\/strong> for all four games in all regions. In other words, <strong>you can choose to play the Japanese, European or American version of the classic Castlevania<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/castlevania-advance-collection-is-real-and-it-s-out-to-1847727594\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Kotaku<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic adventures of the Konami saga have arrived, and the Castlevania Advance Collection is here, more polished and enhanced than ever. Plus, all the releases are in one! &nbsp; After months of rumours and leaks, the Castlevania Advance Collection is a reality: available today for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC via Steam. We&#8217;re talking about a compilation of Konami&#8217;s Game Boy Advance saga, along with a Super Nintendo guest game, so in total, you get four classic Castlevania games ready to take on the most hardcore vampire hunters. Specifically, these are Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, and the SNES Castlevania: Dracula X (Castlevania: Vampire&#8217;s Kiss in Europe). All four games include general&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2021\/09\/25\/castlevania-advance-collection-premier\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":56396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,8968,8969,8975,8976,8965,8966,8972],"tags":[12816,11957,342,12447],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Castlevania Advance Collection: the four games are here for Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC - theGeek.games<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"theGeek.games\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2021\/09\/25\/castlevania-advance-collection-premier\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Castlevania Advance Collection: the four games are here for Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC - 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