Laboratories

Laboratories are a somewhat common environment featured in games that conform the Castlevania series. They follow the classic trope of a mad scientist who owns a highly technologically advanced laboratory (for its era) inside an old castle, equipped with all sorts of buttons, levers, tubes and lights, along with a large stretcher where he attempts to give life to a monster of his creation. On this regard, these places are heavily inspired by the classic Frankenstein horror films that were released all throughout the twentieth century (mainly from Universal Pictures and Hammer Film Productions in the 1930s-40s and 1970s, respectively); and properly so, The Creature is often encountered in them, whether it is as the area boss or just as a powerful enemy.

It is assumed that these places were used to conduct all sorts of terrifying experiments on human prisoners and other living beings. In fact, the castle's laboratory is often built right next to the dungeons, providing a convenient way to move to it any subjects that had been selected to be experimented upon. The area where a laboratory is found sometimes isn't that big, comprised only by a single large room that is two or three screens wide within a larger stage, although other times the entire level may follow the laboratory theme.

The Lords of Shadow games retook and expanded on this premise by having their own version of Doctor Frankenstein, who was once a resident of the castle before Carmilla took it for herself. Furthermore, this subseries features a location known as the Bioquimek Corporation which plays an important role in their plot.

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