It Is Not by My Hand That I Am Once Again Given Flesh

Castlevania: Symphony of the Nighttime is an activity-adventure game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation. It is part of the Castlevania video game serial, and is the first installment of the series released on the PlayStation. Symphony of the Nighttime is a directly sequel of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and continues the plot of its predecessor.

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Konami. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Konami. PlayStation. (in English). (October 2, 1997)

[Richter Belmont arrives in Dracula'due south chamber]

Richter Belmont: Dice, monster! You don't belong in this world!

Dracula: It was not past my hand that I'g once once more given flesh. I was chosen here by humans who wish to pay me tribute.

Richter: "Tribute"?! You steal men'due south souls, and make them your slaves!

Dracula: Perchance the same could exist said of all religions.

Richter: Your words are equally empty as your soul! Mankind ill needs a savior such as you!

Dracula: What is a homo? [flings his vino glass aside] A miserable trivial pile of secrets! Only enough talk! Have at you lot!

---

[Alucard is met by Decease]

Death: Ah, Alucard. What is your business concern here?

Alucard: I've come up to put an cease to this.

Expiry: Still befriending mortals. I'll not ask you to return to our side, but I demand you cease your attack.

Alucard: I volition not.

Death: You shall regret those words. We volition meet once again. [Expiry steals Alucard's equipment and vanishes]

---

[In his dreams, Alucard sees his mother Lisa most to be burned on a cantankerous]

Alucard: Mother!

Lisa: That vocalization! Alucard, it's y'all!

Alucard: I'm coming, Female parent! I'll save yous!

Lisa: No, Alucard! Don't come hither!

Alucard: Simply Mother!

Lisa: It's all correct! If my decease tin can save others, I gladly surrender my life.

Alucard: Mother! No! Please! No!

Lisa: Yes, Alucard! Watch me die and remember always my final words to you.

Alucard: Yes, Mother.

Lisa: Y'all must despise humans. They are to be your prey.

Alucard: What?!

Lisa: Better for them to dice than to let them compound their sins. Begin by slaying that one, over there.

Alucard: No. It wasn't similar this.

Lisa: What'south incorrect? Alucard?

Alucard: My mother never said such a thing.

Lisa: What do you lot mean? Impale them and bring them happiness!

Alucard: No! Yous're not my female parent! What kind of demon are y'all?!

["Lisa" turns into a Succubus]

Succubus: [laughing] You bankrupt free of my spell. I like that.

Alucard: Demon, decease is too skilful for y'all!

Succubus: Come hither, little male child, and show me what you've got.

---

(After defeating the Succubus)

Succubus: Darkling! I smell you're [sic] blood. You're a vampire. Could it be--? [Alucard doesn't speak] That forcefulness, that beauty. You're the son of Lord Dracula.

Alucard: Death in the dream world volition set your soul wandering for eternity, Demon.

Succubus: Wait, I beg of you! [the Succubus moans sexually as the dream fades to white]

---

[Alucard and Dracula meet face-to-face]

Alucard: Male parent.

Dracula: Well met, my son! Information technology'southward been a long time.

Alucard: I was hoping nosotros would not see each other again. I can't let you to go out hither, father.

Dracula: You have ever been the ally of humans. Accept yous forgotten what they did to your mother?

Alucard: Retrieve you lot I would forget such a thing? No, only neither do I seek revenge against them.

Dracula: All the same uttering the aforementioned nonsense. No matter. Now is the fourth dimension to put aside your weak human side, and join me in remaking this world!

Alucard: Dracula, in the name of my mother, I volition defeat y'all once more!

Dracula: [approaches Alucard on what appears to be a demonic throne] Behold my true form and despair!

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[afterward defeating Dracula]

Alucard: Go back whence yous came! Trouble the soul of my Mother no more!

Dracula: How? How--How is information technology that I've been so defeated?

Alucard: Yous have been doomed e'er since you lost the ability to honey.

Dracula: Ha--Ah... Sarcasm. "For what turn a profit is it to a man if he gains the world, and loses his own soul?" Matthew sixteen:26, I believe. [Alucard doesn't speak] Tell me. What--What were Lisa's last words?

Alucard: She said "Do not detest humans. If you cannot live with them, so at least do them no harm. For theirs is already a difficult lot". She likewise said to tell you that she would dearest you for all of eternity.

Dracula: Lisa, forgive me. Farewell my son.

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[Ending varies based on percentage of in-game map completion]

Ending 1 (less than 197%)

[Alucard arrives to see Richter and Maria continuing outside]

Alucard: So you've made information technology.

Maria Renard: Alucard. I'm glad you're alright.

Richter: I'm sorry. 'Tis my fault you lot had to fight your own male parent.

Alucard: Fear not. I had my own reasons for destroying him.

Richter: It must have been painful for you.

Alucard: Indeed. But y'all must always recollect that the just affair necessary for evil to triumph is for adept men to do nothing.

Richter: I understand.

Maria Renard: Alucard, what will you exercise at present?

Alucard: The blood that flows through my veins is cursed. 'Twould exist best if I were to disappear forever.

Maria Renard: I see.

Alucard: Good day then. We'll not meet once again. [Alucard walks away]

Maria Renard: Alucard--

Richter: Don't you desire to go afterward him, Maria?

Maria Renard: No, mayhap it is all-time this mode. And some day perhaps, nosotros will run across over again. And on that twenty-four hours--

Richter: I see.

Maria Renard: Now let'south go. Everyone's waiting for us.

Richter: Yes. Let's get out of here.

Catastrophe two (more than than 197%)

[Alucard arrives to see Richter and Maria continuing exterior]

Alucard: So you've made it.

Maria Renard: Alucard. I'm glad your all correct.

Richter: I'k sorry. 'Tis my fault you had to fight your own father.

Alucard: Fear not. I had my own reasons for destroying him.

Richter: Information technology must take been painful for you.

Alucard: Indeed. Just y'all must always remember that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for practiced men to do nothing.

Richter: I understand.

Maria Renard: Alucard, what will you lot practice at present?

Alucard: The claret that flows through my veins is cursed. 'Twould be best if I were to disappear forever.

Maria Renard: I see.

Alucard: Bye then. We'll not meet again. [Alucard walks abroad]

Maria Renard: Alucard--

Richter: Don't you desire to go afterwards him, Maria?

Maria Renard: I'grand sorry. I can't let him disappear from my life.

Richter: Information technology's alright. Go afterward him. Perhaps you can save his haunted soul.

Maria Renard: Thank you, Richter. Fare thee well.

Richter: And yourself, dear lady. (Maria runs off subsequently Alucard)

---

[When attempting to play the PlayStation disc in a CD actor]

Alucard: As you tin see, this is a PlayStation black disc. Cut #1 contains figurer data, so please don't play it. But you probably won't listen to me anyway, volition you?

[The disc so proceeds to play a subconscious music runway. This volition also work if y'all trigger the CD mode of the Sony PlayStation 1 or Sony PlayStation 2.]

Quotes (PSP version) [edit]

Konami. Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles. Konami. PlayStation Portable. (in English language). (Oct 23, 2007)

(Richter Belmont arrives in Dracula's chamber)

Richter: Dracula. Dice now, and leave this world! You'll never belong hither!

Dracula: Oh, simply this world invited me. Your ain kind chosen me forth with praise and tribute.

Richter: Tribute? You're a thief. You steal men's souls, their freedom...

Dracula: Liberty is always sacrificed to faith, good hunter. Or are you truly hither past choice?

Richter: All I'k hither for is yous. To hell with your heresy! You're nothing just a blight on mankind.

Dracula: Ha! Mankind. (flings his wine glass aside) A cesspit of hatred and lies. Fight for them, then, and die for their sins!

---

(Alucard is met by Death)

Decease: Ah, Alucard. What is your business concern hither?

Alucard: I've come to put an finish to this.

Death: Ever the insolent boy... only at that place'll no games hither. If you will not behave, begone.

Alucard: I volition do neither. Step bated, former human.

Death: Ha! Such arrogance. Very well... but I shall see you very before long. (Death steals Alucard'southward equipment and vanishes)

---

(Alucard and Dracula run across face-to-face)

Alucard: Father...

Dracula: Well met, my son! It's been a long time.

Alucard: Not nearly long enough. I can't allow you to exit here, Male parent.

Dracula: Do you yet side with humanity? Have you forgotten what they did to your female parent?

Alucard: You think I would forget such a...! No. Just neither do I seek revenge against them.

Dracula: Enough of your nonsense! Abroad with your humanity! Stand up with me as Prince of all the world!

Alucard: You lot will never touch this globe again. In Mother'due south name, I swear it!

Dracula: (approaches Alucard on what appears to exist a demonic throne) Tremble earlier my true course!

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(Afterwards defeating Dracula)

Alucard: Go back to the abyss! Problem the soul of my female parent no more than!

Dracula: H-How?! How could I have lost?!

Alucard: You lost your heart. Your soul. You'll never win without them.

Dracula: Ah, how poetic. So I tragically sacrificed all I held dear in a search for power, did I?

Alucard: Did you not?

Dracula: Hmph. Tell me. What... What were Lisa'south last words?

Alucard: She said, "Practice not detest humans. If y'all cannot live with them, then at least do them no harm, for theirs is already a difficult lot." ...She also said that she would love y'all. For eternity.

Dracula: Lisa, forgive me. Farewell, my son.

---

[Alucard arrives to see Richter and Maria standing outside]

Alucard: So you fabricated it.

Maria: Alucard! You're all right!

Richter: So you had to fight your ain father? It's my mistake. If I hadn't been and so weak, we wouldn't be here.

Alucard: Non so. I had my own reason to face him.

Richter: Withal... It couldn't have been easy.

Alucard: It wasn't. But remember "The just thing necessary for evil to triumph..."

Richter: "...is for good men to do zippo."

Maria: So, what at present, Alucard?

Alucard: The blood in my veins is cursed. It'south best for the world if I disappear, now and forever.

Maria: I encounter.

Alucard: Farewell, and so. We'll not run into again.

Maria: Alucard.

Richter: Well, are you going after him, or not?

Maria: I'm sad. I take to follow him. I can't simply--

Richter: It'southward all correct! Hurry up and catch him. If anyone tin can salvage him, you tin can.

Maria: Thanks, Richter. For everything.

Richter: Thank you... Maria.

Nigh Castlevania: Symphony of the Night [edit]

• Not wanting to use the aforementioned story with a holy whip-wielding fellow member of the Belmont clan was probably the biggest change. On meridian of that, Simon Belmont has a manlike image, but this time we chose a more refined, artful await.
  • Koji Igarashi, Symphony of the Night – 1997 Developer Interview, shmuplations

Come across also [edit]

• Castlevania (series)

External links [edit]

• Official website on Xbox.com

clarktherromes.blogspot.com

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