{"id":1660,"date":"2025-08-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:43:25","slug":"anniversary-the-first-ds-castlevania-game-turns-20-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/anniversary-the-first-ds-castlevania-game-turns-20-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary: The First DS Castlevania Game Turns 20 Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sorrow won&#8217;t Dawn here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new dawn of Castlevania started 20 years ago, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/castlevania_dawn_of_sorrow\">Dawn of Sorrow<\/a> first launched on the Nintendo DS in Japan on 25th August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Following on directly from the final Castlevania GBA title, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/castlevania_aria_of_sorrow\">Aria of Sorrow<\/a>, Dawn of Sorrow had big shoes to fill; a shift in art direction and the implementation of the touch screen meant that it&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t as well loved as its predecessor, but the game ultimately kick-started another handheld trio that, arguably, is the finest era for the series.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/anniversary-the-first-ds-castlevania-game-turns-20-today\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorrow won&#8217;t Dawn here. A new dawn of Castlevania started 20 years ago, as Dawn of Sorrow first launched on the Nintendo DS in Japan on 25th August 2025. Following on directly from the final Castlevania GBA title, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow had big shoes to fill; a shift in art direction and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}