Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, released as in Japan, Europe, and Australia, is an action-adventure

Action-adventure game

An action-adventure game is a video game that combines elements of the adventure game genre with various action game elements. It is perhaps the broadest and most diverse genre in gaming, and can include many games which might better be categorized under narrow genres...

 video game developed by Konami

Konami

is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

 for the PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

 console. Belonging to Konami's Castlevania

Castlevania

Castlevania, known as in Japan, is a video game series created and developed by Konami. The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986, with the release of for the Family Computer Disk System , followed by an alternate version for the MSX 2 platform on October 30...

video game series, it is the first installment of the series on the PlayStation 2 and the third to make use of a 3D

3D computer graphics

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 style of gameplay. It was released in Japan and North America in late 2003 and Europe and Australia in early 2004.

Lament of Innocence takes place in the fictional universe

Fictional universe

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 of the Castlevania series.