Her father, on the other hand, was depicted in a very exaggerated (though not necessarily in a bad way) manner with a strong emphasis on his masculine physical traits. It’s a double standard, because Rose’s own feminine features aren’t treated with that same level of focus.

In the game, Joan of Arc, a Catholic Saint is corrupted by Dracula. In her lifetime, Joan of Arc was extremely devout; according to the accounts of her life, there was never any sign of impurity in her... but in Castlevania, she is corrupted in a way that disregards all of that. Even though the devs talk about creating attractive characters, they must be referring only to the men, since most of the women are either androgynous or ugly. Carmilla has a very strange face she’s the only one with breasts slightly larger than the others but otherwise, everything is androgynous. Even the succubus herself has very little in the way of a figure... a succubus with almost no curves... She honestly looks like she walked straight out of *Hazbin Hotel*.

And to my surprise (not really), the church bishop turns out to be corrupt... This whole "evil church" or "corrupt church member" trope is so overdone by now that I don't even know how people still put up with it. And to think that classic Castlevania or at least up until Symphony of the Night was a work that actually highlighted the positive aspects of the Christian faith, rather than just showing rotten people. I can't recall if that held true up through Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow, though. There’s also that same old bullshit trope of portraying men as incompetent or weak, while women rarely fail and are the ones who end up cleaning up the mess. Hector bears 50 percent of the blame for the shit that goes down in this game; they even retconned things so that he essentially just kicked the can down the road, leaving a cursed forge in the care of the Church.