Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

The game's story takes place during the year 1797, 5 years after the events of Rondo of Blood. The story begins with Richter Belmont's defeat of Count Dracula, mirroring the end of the former game. However, despite Dracula being defeated, Richter vanishes without a trace. Castlevania rises again five years later, and while there are no Belmont's to storm the castle, Alucard, the son of Dracula, awakens from his self-induced sleep, and decides to investigate what transpired during his slumber.

Meanwhile, Maria Renard, Richter's sister-in-law, enters Castlevania herself to search for the missing Richter. She assists Alucard multiple times throughout the game.

There are four separate endings to the story. If a certain sequence of events is followed, Richter is revealed to be under the influence of the dark priest Shaft. After the latter is defeated, an upside-down version of Castlevania, the Inverted Castle, appears from the heavens. This castle contains another entire series of adventures, crowned by the ultimate face-off between Alucard and his revived father, Dracula himself.

The Castlevania series was always in the back of my head. This game changed my childhood. Monumental memories drive me to never get bored with this game. At this point in my life the music I listen to has changed. Dubstep had just found its way into my heart and there was no stopping the two combining. Castlevania has the perfect 2D graphics to merge with Dubstep. The sprites in the game are smooth and the monsters are unique. I set out to show YouTube how special this game was and fulfill my urge to create videos. This is the first video I made from Castlevania: SOTN

I worked hard, so I thought, and brought the story line together with music. Dubstep is tricky and fast.

 The second video I made from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was a revamped version of the first. I incorporated more clips at far greater speeds and added more boss fights. The story line is essential to the videos so I won't miss a thing. Being a Dubstep series, naturally I had to use Skrillex. Two videos is enough so I will not be using Skrillex anymore. Also with this series I made the transition to a better Capture Card! Yay! The Hauppauge PVR 2 Gaming Edition is down right SICK! It is the best of the best and I use it all the time. Having it allowed me to learn so much about video editing. It comes with Arcsoft Editing software that is very useful. This video however I used Cyberlink Power Director 11 http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-deluxe/features.html And brother I'm telling you... Awesome!

I learned over my travels of YouTube that having an inviting thumbnail and keyword placement will get you far. Enjoy the video and it is flashy so don't go epileptic on me. Expect more from this series... far more than I have time for. 

Ending my Skyrim series... sadly

Yes it was sad to see Skyrim go, but alas, it will be missed. Maybe one day when I get better I will come back and show Skyrim true justice. The final video I made did play out nicely. The effects and speed clips worked to my advantage. This video showed me what I was capable of and where I should continue. All of the Skyrim videos had dragons as the main plot, but I was growing tired of seeing them. So, I branched off a little and explored the game further. I have Hearthfire and Dawnguard Skyrim DLC's. I never got to incorporate them into the videos but i shared a glimpse or two. The music I used is from Rod Zombie, and yes it did get me banned in Sweden.

I am very proud of this video. 

Continuing my Skyrim series

Having a Diamond GC500 was nice but they kinda mislead me of a few things. One, it was HD pass-through only, that means it doesn't record in HD. Two, it was composite/component only. I was a little upset at first but it was just to get my feet wet. So by this time I had Skyrim going full blast, Recording all that I could, and Meag's computer doing whatever it wanted to. I managed to produce some weird videos. Them being my baby, I had no idea that they were... weak, lets say weak. This video is prime example of that.

Now before you judge or just say WTF, the premise of this video is when the dragon breaths fire on me, I time shift. Well good idea but it never reached the greatness that my mind wanted.

Another video I made was modeled around the Benny Hill theme song, you know, the British comedy song that they always played while giving chase at high speed. Well again it did not come out the way I envisioned it. None the less it was still satisfactory.

I did the video like I thought British comedians back in Monty Pythons day would make it.

Naaslaarum and Voslaarum

This is where it all started. My passion for music and games are combined. It was a difficult and new thing, editing and recording, but very gratifying. I had the wholesome support of my girlfriend and a slow computer. My first game for this undertaking was Skyrim. I actually used Windows Movie Maker like a noob. Because I used music, there was copyright issues and YouTube made it where it could not be watched on mobile devices. This video was a tremendous experience. Please give it a shot and see how I started.

The Mario underwater song was GENIUS!

The begining

I guess I should start with me and my love of games. Gaming has always been my escape and I have seen some beautiful things in my days. I decided to make my YouTube channel reflect my passion and knowledge of games and music. I wanted to share some of the incredible things I have done. Recently I invested in capture cards. It has changed my life! The true purpose of this blog is to share my videos and the stories behind them. Wondrous as they are to me, they are nothing without the family of YouTube. My name is Joseph Stokes and this is my life's work... video wise.  https://www.youtube.com/user/PWNjoeFTW