Last April, Castlevania fans felt their hearts do cartwheels as a Castlevania Judgment trademark was discovered in the vaults of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Database for Konami. After that, we were met with a placid calm.

That calm is about to get frenzied as we hear news that Nintendo Power has in its hands not only details, but actual screenshots for the game. And what do you know, it does have surprises in store for us, and we're sure it's just the tip of the iceberg.

So, what do we know so far? Well, for one, said trove of treasures were found in the latest issue of Nintendo Power, so what we can obviously abstract from that is that Judgment will be headed for the Wii.

Apart from those, they also revealed the characters that will be gracing the little white console, as well as weapons and a general environment of the world it will be set in:

• Characters: Dracula, Simon, Alucard, Shanoa, Maria Renard
• Classic subweapons: holy water, magic spells, dagger, boomerang
•     subweapon use still depends on hearts
• Remixed classic Castlevania tunes
• Set traps, destroyable environments, enemy monsters interfere with battle
• Nunchuk controls character movement, Wiimote used for motion attacks

Interesting, interesting, don't you guys think? Anyway, we'll leave you to your own mulling over this. But before you do, let us leave you with one of the images (shown above) from Nintendo Power "proving" that Castlevania Judgment is upon us.