These Video Game Villains SUCK!

Woah woah woah, before you get out the pitchforks and try and stab me in the head with stakes and such, let me put this as clearly as possible:

The iconic villain Dracula from the even more iconic Castlevania series IS a brilliant villain from a design perspective, and his Machiavellian plots to overthrow and enslave mankind are ones for the ages.

HOWEVER, when you take this and put it into practice, things tend to fall apart like wet cake.

For you see, as much as the game likes to hype up this fanged foe as being the greatest of all great evils, he's been put down so hard you'd swear the Belmonts were very angry vets as well as being vampire hunters. Time and time again.

Dracula has been left sucking his own blood thanks to whips, crosses and a whole host of holy water spam attacks, and when you consider that Dracula's demise usually occurs just as he's been ressurected thanks to the world over knowing exactly when this will happen, he never even gets a chance to BE evil.

The man literally wakes up in a crumbling castle, picks out his favourite high collar suit, checks to see if his throne still has his butt mould and BOOM, the doors kicked in and a Belmont is getting shiraz on the carpet again.

The toothsome trouble maker may look the absolute business but in practice, he's done before he can even get going!