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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Slated for February 2014

First projected for this Winter, MercurySteam’s final act in their critically acclaimed ’Vania saga, Lords of Shadow 2, will make its way to stores February 25th, 2014.

Following the trials of the holy warrior once known as Gabriel Belmont, now the accursed Dracul, the ultimate bastion of darkness, players will face hell’s best and worst in retaliation to Satan’s surgical strike on the mortal coil.

If the date push is too much to bare – and it truly is – Konami and MercurySteam will be dropping an updated HD version of MIrror of Fate onto Xbox Live and PSN this Halloween.  Serving as a bridge between the first and second LoS titles, the 2.5D game also merges the combat and storytelling of the newer titles with the side-scrolling, exploratory gameplay that made the original Castlevania’s widespread successes.

And if you’re still completely unitiated to the reboot legacy by February, the 25th also brings the Lords of Shadow Collection, gathering 2010’s original game along with its two DLC add-on’s as well as Mirror of Fate HD.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2’s Trailer Will Indeed Melt Your Face

Konami’s now annual pre-E3 presser – all the cool kids are doing it these days – brought with it…Christ, how do I not fanboy all over this post?  Basically, they dropped one of the greatest trailers I’ve ever glued my eyes to for Lords of Shadow 2.

Not just one of the “greatest video game trailers” I’ve seen.  No, no, sir.  I had more than shivers dancing up my spine; I had butterflies colliding into each other inside my stomach.  The chord it strikes, the atmosphere it brings, the pained, melodic notes slowly swaying in the background…

It’s all so…oh, hell, man.  Just watch it here.  Once your mind is blown to shreds, you try to keep a coherent string of thoughts.

Billed as the absolute final chapter in the Lords of Shadow saga, which began with 2010’s jaw-dropping reboot and continued on in the much maligned but honestly underrated Mirror of Fate (3DS), Gabriel Belmont’s story looks to break a norm set by other monolithic video game franchises: it seems to actually have finality.

Konami and MercurySteam are aiming Lords of Shadow 2 for a Winter release on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

Gabriel Belmont by David Marín

Gabriel by Diana Da Costa

Crosses.  Because you can’t murder the shit out of something with the power of prayer.