Castlevania Legends

Castlevania Legends is a 1997 platform game developed and released by Konami for the Game Boy. The third Castlevania game released for the system, the story follows Sonia Belmont, a vampire hunter battling the first incarnation of Count Dracula. The game was conceived as a prequel to all other games in the Castlevania series; however, it later became recognized as non-canon.

Castlevania Legends
North American box art
Developer(s)Konami Computer Entertainment Nagoya
Publisher(s)Konami
Director(s)Kouki Yamashita
Designer(s)Tsukasa Hiyoshi
Programmer(s)Yoshiteru Yamaguchi
Artist(s)Kazunobu Uchida
Composer(s)Kaoru Okada
Youichi Iwata
SeriesCastlevania
Platform(s)Game Boy
Release
  • JP: November 27, 1997
  • NA: March 11, 1998
  • EU: 1998
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Castlevania Legends was released in Japan on November 27, 1997 and in Europe and North America on March 11, 1998. The game received mixed to negative reviews, with criticism directed towards its lack of difficulty, short length, technical issues, and unoriginality. The game received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Switch Online service on October 31, 2023.

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