Talk:Devil May Cry and Castlevania comparison

hokay, so - does the doppelgänger-manifestation business count as a legitimate shoutout/similarity? i know castlevania's not the only game series that does the "hey look your reflection's coming to KILL YOU blaargrhgaghgrhgrhg *snarl*" doppelgänger/mirror-dwelling enemy-materialization routine, but up until Castlevania Chronicles's re-release of the Sharp X68000 'vania (CC in 2001, the Sharp original in 1993 - incidentally both of these games have the most drama-queenly doppelgänger demise ever) they really liked having the cretin jump out of a mirror at you, or at the very least using your character's messed-up reflection to herald an impending enemy. (the dorkiest instance i can think of where this happens is Rondo, where it's just a were-skeleton.) there was a webpage somewhere or another that compiled all the instances of 'cretin jumps out of mirror, attacks your guy' in castlevania, but damn if i can find it again for some reason. either way - to me, it looks like a homage. YMMV, since nelo-angelo doesn't break the mirror like !simon and some of the others and he's teeeeeechnically not a doppelgänger in battle, and since some doppelgängers don't come from mirrors. (leon's are just kinda there, CV3's is like this amoeba of death, alucard's first one spawns out of the wall and his second - i don't know where that guy comes from) but since castlevania really likes to have your reflection climb out of places and try to mangle you (whether it looks like you during the mangling or not), or warn you of impending mangling attempts via your reflection freaking out, i suspect it may have been a shout-out. that's just me though, hence the yapping in here instead of editing the page and then having everyone wonder what i'm smoking. - and hell, that's a lot of parenthetical asides in there. so what do you all think? -castlevaniaburd