Castlevania Legends
| Castlevania Legends | |
|---|---|
North American box art | |
| Developer(s) | Konami Computer Entertainment Nagoya |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Director(s) | Kouki Yamashita |
| Designer(s) | Tsukasa Hiyoshi |
| Programmer(s) | Yoshiteru Yamaguchi |
| Artist(s) | Kazunobu Uchida |
| Composer(s) | Kaoru Okada Youichi Iwata |
| Series | Castlevania |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Action, platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Castlevania Legends is a 1997 action-platform game developed and released by Konami for the Game Boy. The third Castlevania game released for the system, the story follows Sonia Belmont, a vampire hunter battling the first incarnation of Count Dracula. The game was conceived as a prequel to all other games in the Castlevania series; however, it later became recognized as non-canon.
Castlevania Legends was released in Japan on November 27, 1997 and in Europe and North America on March 11, 1998. The game received mixed to negative reviews, with criticism directed towards its lack of difficulty, short length, technical issues, and unoriginality. The game received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Classics service on October 31, 2023.