Castlevania is a beloved series and received a number of games over the years, including Java games. With the Java gaming scene back in the day, there was also a lot of bottleg titles and that is where Castlevania Reincarnation, a Java bootleg from the Chinese studio Singing Cicadas, comes in. Castlevania Reincarnation was originally released for Java phones in China under a different title, “秦殇之千年轮回”, translated as “Prince of Qin – Millennium Reincarnation“, and was later partially translated into Russian, which is where it started to become known under its alternative title.Recently, it was announced that a new English translation patch has just been published online for the game, so more can try it out.
Castlevania Reincarnation is a game that was inspired by Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Aria of Sorrow, and sees a character called Moran — who is basically a combination of Alucard and Soma Cruz — embarking on a mission to stop a great evil that has been resurrected. In Prince of Qin – Millenium Reincarnation, this is listed as being the Dragon Emperor, but in the remake this is instead Dracula. The game has occasionally been favorably compared to Konami’s official Castlevania entries for Java phones by fans online and even been mistaken in the past for a real entry in the series.
This new patch for the game comes courtesy of the hacker/translator Oersted (along with PirateSephiroth, Shinovon, St1ka, and Saya Hyouseki) and translates almost the entirety of the game, though a few UI elements remain untranslated. It can be downloaded now from archive.org.
The Castlevania bootleg, Castlevania reincarnation finally has a full English translation pic.twitter.com/UixI8E1145
— St1ka (@St1ka) January 18, 2025
