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Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness – Cane and Rinse No.705

The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast · March 17, 2026

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[Music] Hello everybody and welcome to the Cana Rinse Podcast, volume 15, issue 705. Today we're going to talk about Castlevania, Legacy of Darkness. And joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, Brian Edwards. ...

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... [Music] Hello everybody and welcome to the Cana Rinse Podcast, volume 15, issue 705. Today we're going to talk about Castlevania, Legacy of Darkness. And joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, Brian Edwards. Currently crying bloody tears, Leon. Yes, I'm here. You should get that checked. Chris Worthington. How do? And Leah Haidu. Hello, hello. Hi, everyone. So we can't tell the story of Akuma Jo Dracula, ...

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... So we covered this a little bit before, but worth mentioning again in respect to this game with Castlevania Legacy of Darkness was, of course, present within the series original chronology from its original release in 1999 until 2002 when a timeline published on the official Japanese Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance website omitted it, as well as several other Castlevania games from the series continuity. ...

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... And I think my answer is probably, yeah, I would have. I would have found my way through it. I would have, I maybe would have saved scummed a little bit more, you know, and robbing myself of kind of that traditional experience. But yeah, I think Castlevania Legacy of Darkness is a really cool, like, time capsule of what 3D action games were doing at that time and what they would eventually turn into. I think they have some great ideas. I do think that some of the parts where this game is at its best is where…

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Castlevania N64 unboxed for some reason. I guess I just saw it cheap or something. And now I can't remember if I actually ever had Legacy of Darkness or not. I kind of hope I didn't because looking up on eBay today, how much it would cost to buy a boxed Legacy of Castlevania Legacy of Darkness, £426. If I did ever have it, I sold it for considerably less than that, probably under £50. ...

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it was the first console that I ever purchased with my own money, and I had it in my dorm room at college. So I had things like Paper Mario, I had things like South Park Rally, I'm pretty sure, but I didn't ever actually play Castlevania 64 or Legacy of Darkness until much, much later. ...

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... But I never, I had never touched the legacy of darkness version until preparing for this recording. So I'd played all of Castlevania 64, Castlevania 1999. But I hadn't touched legacy darkness until this recording. So in preparation for this, I also played an emulation. I much likely I have the original cartridge for the original, but not for legacy darkness because of the cost of it. And I ended up playing through three of the four heroes, much likely I also did not play Reinhardt. But I played Cornell, Henry…

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