Ancient Belt

The Ancient Belt is a mystical belt in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow that improves many statistics, with an emphasis on defensive stats (+7 DEF, +5 CON, +1 STR, +1 ATK, +1 LCK. This is in contrast to the weaker Black Belt, which emphasizes offensive stats. Although it is equivalent in total power to Satan's Ring (which has the same amount of Defense, but whose other statistics are evenly distributed to +2 each and trades LCK for INT), it is more common and worth much less gold (750 vs. 5,000). The Ancient Belt was replaced with the Power Belt in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.
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==Trivia==
*The Ancient Belt is likely a reference to the Transformation Belts that appear in the Kamen Rider series, a popular Japanese action/sci-fi franchise. Transformation Belts are the source of power of the title protagonists from this series and the Ancient Belt apparently follows a generic design similar to those seen in it. Furthermore, the enemy that drops the Ancient Belt, the Kicker Skeleton, is also presumably based on the heroes from this series.
**Specifically, the Ancient Belt may be a reference to the Arcle from Kamen Rider Kuuga, given that it is an ancient stone used by Yusuke Godai, the protagonist known for his "positive attitude".
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