Anyone still clambering for a Castlevania depicting Julius' battle against Dracula was never paying attention. Julius is the apex of the Belmont clan. THE soldier of God himself. The whole bloodline was leading up to this guy. He's the hardest boss in Aria, bringing down the castle around him, while both past his prime, and sandbagging you. He was the hammer of divine justice against the Antichrist. He didn't deliver A defeat to Dracula, he KILLED him. He's the reason Castlevania's story has a conclusion. Depicting the war of 1999 ruins the mystique. We get flashes of what may have gone down, but in the end it was two unfathomable powers duking it out, and good won in the end. Won soundly, too. Julius bears no scars from that battle, no missing limbs, just some mystery amnesia. Hell, just to convey how unfathomably powerful the guy is, they modeled his appearance after the director of the whole damn series. You couldn't do him justice while sticking to the Castlevania formula. There's no upgrading Julius Belmont. Julius Belmont does not give a fuck about Medusa Heads, or bats, or Death itself. It took such a force to bring down Dracula once and for all that it wouldn't make a good video game anymore. The whole game would be the first few rooms from Symphony of the Night before Death swipes your equipment.