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* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Tiamat may be a horrifically powerful half-snake [[Reality Warper]] with eleven monstrous children, but man, she is hot. Also Girtablilu, the naked scorpion-woman in the Dimensional Corridor.
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: Lots. There's a large amount of ancient religion-style symbolism and [[Freud Was Right|implications]] in several levels and puzzles, and {{spoiler|the final boss is all over this}}. The [http://la-mulana.com/en/blog/problem-of-faith.html official blog] expressed concern over this for the WiiWare port, but fan response has been overwhelmingly supportive of keeping all of the symbolism intact, misguided as it might be.
* [[Freud Was Right]]: [http://lamulana.super-turbo.net/wiki/index.php5?title=Image:4_A5.PNG Spring of the Sky, map A-4]. Look at the background murals, and notice that there are two legs, and something between them. Though this is desquickified by background information, as Uonin (this species of fish-men) have the habit of carrying an iron air tank in their crotch. It's still as suggestive
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: If the number of comments on [http://la-mulana.com/ the official blog] are any indication, the game has a larger English-speaking (and [http://la-mulana.com/en/blog/de-espana.html Spanish-speaking]) fanbase than it has Japanese. And the PC original is a tribute to the MSX, whose fanbase was mainly centered in Japan. Oh, the irony.
* [[Goddamned Bats]]: Pretty much everything. Of course, the bats themselves are ''particularly'' annoying, especially when they blend in with the background. Which they do much more often than you'd think, as a surprising number of areas in the game have blue backgrounds, including Hell Temple. This may have been deliberate. But almost everything eventually becomes a goddamned bat.
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** There is no MSX game with the name ''Castlevania''. The game was released in Europe (though not North America) under the name ''Vampire Killer'', but translator Ian Kelley calls it ''Castlevania'' in-game because it's a more recognizable name. ''Uranai Sensation'' got renamed to ''Diviner Sensation'' to make more sense to non-Japanese speakers.
** Some of the items in the remake's official English translation have different names. For instance, the Flywheel has become the "Cog of the Soul", presumably because a flywheel being used to create life seems a bit strange. The Wedge is also now called the "Djed Pillar", which is appropriate because it basically is one in appearance.
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