Castlevania Aria of Sorrow/Castlevania Akatsuki no Minuet (キャッスルヴァニア ~暁月の円舞曲) The Castlevania II Simon's Quest (C2SQ) release on the Nintendo Entertainment System, part of the 1987 onslaught of sequelsthatwententirelydifferentdirections , was part of a concerted effort to make games more "epic" in scale