Gameplay from Castlevania - NES. The Castlevania video game series is about a war between the vampire hunting family of the Belmonts and Dracula. Almost every hundred years, Dracula is resurrected and the Belmonts must defeat him before he takes over the world. Though most series games involve the Belmonts or their descendants, some protagonists, such as Soma Cruz and Shanoa, are completely unrelated. The series is loosely based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. The novel is included in the official timeline of the series, with Castlevania: Bloodlines taking place shortly afterwards. The connection even goes as far as to claim that Quincy Morris, a character from the novel, is in fact a Belmont descendant.
