15 Video Game Series Defined By Their Incredible Music

Castlevania

Long before Doom made metal music in video games cool, the Castlevania series was serenading us with guitar riffs and brutal drum beats as we progressed our way through Dracula’s latest gauntlet. When the game wasn’t taking us through sound waves and castles of metal, our ears were gifted callbacks to beats and melodies more reminiscent of 80s music than anything else.

It’s impossible to nail down one single song that defines this series, especially when the catalogue is filled with well-known classics, but one song we know that is just as famous as the term metroidvania or any other kind of mechanic Castlevania instilled in video games is Bloody Tears.

A certified banger, Bloody Tears always has and always will — as the kids say — slap.