BotNS references in Castlevania

Christopher Culver · 26 Mar 2002, 05:19 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: Christopher Culver <christopher_culver at yahoo.com>
Subject: (urth) BotNS references in Castlevania
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:19:18 +0100
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Marc Aramini wrote:

>One of my friends was talking about the "Castlevania: Symphony of Night" g=
ame=20
>for the Playstation and mentioned the sword Terminus Est.  I guess it is a=20
>poison sword in the game.  Anybody played it?  Other Wolfe references in t=
he=20
>game? (I guess most of the people on this list probably don't play video g=
ames=20
>... I'm tempted to get the game just to see it).
>
It's been about three years since I played that game, but besides=20
Terminus Est I remember that one of the swords was called an estoc, a=20
rather obscure word that the designers could have picked up from the=20
BotNS. I wonder if it was like that in the original Japanese version, or=20
just the product of the whimsy of the English translators. Has the Book=20
of the New Sun been translated into Japanese?

Christopher Culver



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