Support this site:. Sponsor Message:. Released in , this game features the ability to save a player's progress, advances the plot via full-screen cutscenes, and utilizes CD audio tracks instead of the PC Engine's HUCard, producing a higher quality of musical audio. Set in the year , you play as Richter Belmont, a vampire hunter.
The dark priest Shaft has kidnapped Annette Renard, Richter's main love interest, and taken her to Castlevania along with a handful of other female victims. Wielding an ancestral whip imbued with holy powers to crush darkness, Richter heads out into the night alone to rescue the victims and deal out some justice, Belmont style. The game is divided up into multiple stages, some hidden, where the goal is to reach the end of each and usually face a boss monster.
Along the way you may collect hearts from candles to power one of 6 different subweapons; the dagger, holy water, axe, cross, grimoire, and stopwatch. Each subweapon has a specific style of use and special 'Item Crash' attack, which allows for an expensive but devastating super attack. Numerous hidden secrets may be found during the adventure, opening up pathways to new stages or leading to one of the four victims to rescue; one of which becomes a playable character after being freed.
Divided into several areas, Dracula X adds a new twist: Hidden stages are found in the lower levels on the main map that appears each time a stage is completed. They also contain the two women captives that must be rescued. While this provides a new challenge, the location of the captives is too obvious, leaving little incentive to re-explore the stages for other possible hidden goodies.
One of the highlights of the Castlevania games has always been the bosses. In Dracula X, however, the bosses are only so-so. Some have easy patterns, like the giant Minotaur, while only a few are challenging, like the grim reaper on the clock tower. The graphics are simple -- no knockout Mode 7 stages, no rotating rooms like in Castlevania IV.
Your character is also very small. The play engine feels like it's right out of the 8-bit versions only horizontal whipping is allowed , and only a few new abilities jumping onto staircases and picking which weapon to carry were thrown in. The controls are almost perfect; the only exception is a slight delay when you repeatedly use a special weapon. Fans of the 8-bit games will get a kick out of the beautifully reworked music scores.
The sound effects, however, are just average -- the snapping whip and occasional loud crashes fill in the other part of the soundtrack. It's a shame the bit Castlevania games had to end this way. Where the 8-bit editions gracefully exited with the excellent Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse , this last hurrah is a muted one. For an awesome alternative version of this title, you may want to check out the import-only PC Engine game.
Other than that, it's back to the grave for Castlevania. The Castlevania series has long been Konami's flagship series. The excellent gameplay and wonderful graphics throughout the years have won players over. The series finally goes Bit with the latest incarnation on the way to the PlayStation.
One look at the graphics, and it is easy to see how exciting this game is. Look for more info as it hits. It is still very early in development, but we managed to get a hold of a sneak preview!
Check out some of these pictures. The game looks and sounds great. If you're interested in seeing more, check out next month's issue of EGM3 for a lot more coverage on this long-awaited title from Konami. This game is older than Dracula himself. If you need a Castlevania fix, play Castlevania IV. Otherwise, get yourself a crucifix, some garlic and a sharpened stake, head out to that old haunted place on the edge of town, and drive that stake through this game!
The first thing you should know about this game is that it's NOT Castlevania VI, which would have made it a new game in the series. In fact, it's a pretty old game, related to the series. It's been a long time since I played a Castlevania game, but I think I'm gonna have to keep waiting. Dracula X is two years old and plays like it - a trip straight to side-scrolling hell. The graphics are pretty, but the animation is less than smooth, and it's in the control that the game really falls down.
Whatever generation Belmont this guy is, he's pretty sluggish, and there's no way to change direction while jumping, for instance. True, that's the way Castlevania has always been, but I never remember it bugging me before. Sure enough, same play mechanics, but a much better experience.
Dracula X is the sort of game where bumping into any enemy sends you hurtling into the bottomless pit that always happens to be nearby. It was released in Japan on October 29, A direct sequel to it, was released in The game was remade for the as, and the as.
In , the original game was released for the 's service in Japan and for the North American and PAL regions in The player-character Richter Belmont can use the Item Crash ability to attack enemies. The objective is to guide the primary Richter Belmont through nine stages, with four alternate routes, as he searches for his kidnapped beloved Annette and ultimately confronts Dracula in his castle.
Richter makes use of a whip as his main weapon and one of six sub-weapons: an axe, a dagger, holy water, a, a pocket watch, and a cross. Kadhalikka neramillai serial audio song. She is more agile, can do a double jump, and can do twice the amount of damage that Richter does in each normal attack because the doves she shoots out return to her and therefore can do a second hit of damage on the way back, but she takes much more damage each time she is hit than Richter does when he is.
Rondo of Blood incorporates elements from the earlier Castlevania games which typically featured linear gameplay and a member of the Belmont clan as the protagonist, and the later entries which emphasized untimed exploration of the environment. Rondo of Blood makes use of untimed stages with a clear beginning, but more than one ending to some levels; this then affects the subsequent environment, monsters, and that the player character encounters at the end of the level.
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