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1. CASTLEVANIA DRACULA X RONDO OF BLOOD PC ENGINE CD SERIES
2. CASTLEVANIA DRACULA X RONDO OF BLOOD PC ENGINE CD PSP

She can't take many hits as Richter but because of her mobility she is considered the game “easy mode”. She uses doves to attack but the range of it is very short differently from Richter's Vampire Killer and weaker as well. She has a cat, a turtle, a red bird, and a dragon sub-weapons each with its animation and different Crash ability as well. We also have the addition of a new character as Maria Renard she is a small children but very powerful witch who has the protection of the Four Sacred Beasts. Each has its animation and Crash ability. The sub-weapons are the silver knife, the axe, holy water, holy book, stopwatch, and the cross. But now he has a backflip to evade attacks and he can use the Crash of the sub-weapons that consists in a powerful magic that changes the animation of attack, can cause much more damage and spend more heart as well. He walks and plays the same as the Belmonts of the past.

CASTLEVANIA DRACULA X RONDO OF BLOOD PC ENGINE CD SERIES

Richter Belmont is the classic whip man of the series but in CRoB he has some new abilities. You them to he music store to hear them later and they also add to your exploration percentage ratio.

CASTLEVANIA DRACULA X RONDO OF BLOOD PC ENGINE CD PSP

The SNES is not left behind because of the Sony sound chip many songs are almost at the same level of the original.Īs a bonus you can take the songs as items hidden in game on the PSP version. Most songs were rearranged and added new instruments which gave them a more pop rock feel but add to the final quality. Every song is unique and fits its purpose well. The CD-quality music of CRoB is used with care and respect for the songs. The classical Castlevania tune is here and the list is amazing. The bosses are the same but they are more natural now and every time you enter the boss arena you see a cutscene presenting the boss for you using the 2.5D ambience and camerawork. The characters were redesigned with new clothes and new action movements. Many details were added on the characters, bosses and background. The number of Stages are the same but they seem are little shorter.īut the presentation shines on the PSP remastered version. It lacks some animation from all the characters and enemies and the stages are very different too. The SNES counterpart has almost the same graphics as the PC-engine version. The Wyvern flies and the Werewolf howls on the background before you fight them.

And the bosses have an initial animation that adds to the atmosphere of the game. But it has a good parallax effect in many stages. Sometimes it is very simple and repetitive like in the first stage.

The background is what needed are little more polish. For example in the Bone Golem transformations you can see almost every bone and skull that attaches to form the boss. The high number of frames for each character makes it quality soar.Īll the bosses have lots of color and movement they are as big as the screen can let them be and you can see all the details that form them. The characters' movements are very smooth and natural thanks to the CD size used to its maximum. CRoB shows a lot of colors and very good light effects. The PC-engine was the first 16-bit console on the market and has the capacity of 512 colors and max of 482 on screen. You prepare your Holy Whip, the Vampire Killer, and go into the village to save as many lives as you can. You are in your lands when you hear about the city being attacked. They capture four maidens for that purpose one of them is Annette your own fiancée and her little sister Maria Renard (who is a playable character in this version). And they need the sacrifice of young women to make him even more powerful. Dracula has been awake again by evil men who wish to pay him tribute. You are Richter Belmont and your mission is to defeat Dracula and his acolytes. And you can also unlock the original PC-engine game and its sequel Castlevania Symphony of the Night in game. It has the same plot as the others but this time some changes are made to add to the experience. In 2007 the game was remastered for the PSP with 2.5D graphics as Castlevania the Dracula X Chronicles. Maria is not a playable character this time. It was launched in 1995 and it had so many changes that it doesn't look like the same game. The SNES version was a downgrade from the original. The game was also launched on the Super Nintendo as Castlevania Dracula X in USA. It is an action platform game with horror themes developed and published by Konami (in a time where they cared about quality). This will be the first part of a series of the Castlevania versus review where I'll talk about the original game and the differences between it and the remake and/or ports.Ĭastlevania Rondo of Blood was launched in 1993 in Japan on the PC-engine CD console, also known as TurboGrafx-16 CD.