Talk:Camilla (Castlevania)

message: I've been trying to find out if the skull sorceress in Castlevania: Dracula X for the SNES is named "Camilla," "Annette," or something else (in Japanese). She looks like Camilla atop the skull, but sites say that she is either simply a skull sorceress or Annette. (If you don't rescue Annette you will fight the skull sorceress instead of Death in the clocktower.) I'm not sure if the popular idea that "the sorceress is Annette turned into a witch because you failed to save her" is speculation or is based in fact... but I can't find the character's Japanese name anywhere. It doesn't help that I haven't played the game itself since I was a child, lol. Any help would be very welcome. Guermantes 03:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I can't find anything either. I'm pretty positive they wouldn't make her Camilla, since they changed Shaft into the Cloaked Sorcerer (Ghost in Japan) for CV:DX. Since the manuals don't mention anything, I guess we'll need to find the official player's guides. Buzda 21:52, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello. It seems like you two have been doing a lots of things on several Castlevania articles. Good job. As for that monster being Camilla or not... I'm really not sure. I've never played this game, just Rondo, but it does make sense that she could be a "Camilla that's not really Camilla". Just some monster that didn't get the name in the end. Was this really the case with that Cloaked Sorcerer and Shaft? Then it could really be that.--Kaonashi 07:06, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Camilla in ''Castlevania: Dracula X''?

message: The 13 clues of Dracula (the hidden red books throughout the game), offer something that brought my attention. For clue #11 (as it is numbered as on this page ), it states "Dracula's evil knife blurs Camilla's vision." Also, a section to the left of Laruba Mansion, which is where Vampira is, is called "Camilla Cemetary". I guess it's called "Carmilla Cemetary" in the Japanese game.
I have no idea if they are actually referencing Vampira/Female Vampire as Camilla, since much of the text in this game seems to be mistranslated. I wonder what the text in the Japanese FDS game states... Buzda 10:26, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been told that the Japanese game does use the the name Camilla for the Cemetary. I'll put "look around for a ROM and grab a screenshot of the text" on my to-do list. Guermantes 21:33, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Excellent. This had me looking closer at the Simon's Quest manual, and indeed the map (on page 17) has "カミーラ" (Camilla) Cemetery. However, I'm not sure if this will allow us to chalk up another name for Camilla... Unless the clue ends up saying something like "Camilla can be found in Laruba Mansion" it might be best to put it in the Trvia section. (Although, many of the Japanese sites go ahead and call her Camilla. Maybe there's something we're missing...) Guermantes
I'm very curious what the Japanese manual's description for the character reads. Also, I must have overlooked it before, but above 女吸血鬼, there are very small Japanese characters above it. Buzda 04:40, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More info about Simon's Quest and Camilla...