Castlevania: Dracula X (Super Nintendo Entertainment System, 1995)
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Great old school Castlevania!
Only problem with this games is the price. It is best to buy a repro or digital release and save yourself some $. I don't know of ANY retro game that is worth $150-200 truly. If you like the old school NES Castlevania games then this one is for you! It controls exactly the same as those games with updated graphics. This is also not simply a port of Rondo of Blood but rather it's own game so people comparing them are not accurate.
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While by no means great, this stripped re-imagining functions just fine.
While the Rondo of Blood certainly evaded those of us outside of Japan, it's Super Famicom re-imagining, under the title of Dracula XX, did find its way back to the English-speaking folks a world away. Although XX shares a few elements of the PC-Engine classic, those familiar in any way to the original version are sure to give this a cynical and critical eye unlike those who merely stumbled onto its existence at the local rental store or, later, online. Castlevania Dracula X (NA release), and Castlevania Vampire's Kiss (PAL region) retain many animations and enemies from the original, but very little in terms of other design elements: the stages are quite long at times, sometimes frenetically arranged, and the difficulty level can be obscene without practice (with a final boss that tries patience). that said,it's still not a particularly frustrating game once the player acclimates themselves to the controls and enemy patterns. The difficulty is still below Bloodlines in terms of traps, but above Castlevania IV, if only by a few notches. Two maidens to save, as opposed to the original's four. No Maria to play. The inability to retry without resetting or inserting passwords if you fail to clear a certain area without falling into a path-inducing pit. These are only a handful of things that take the game backwards from the intended greatness. While the designs are sometimes decent, the actual stages are quite static, and lack any sort of flair. In fact, a few stages are ripped, layout-wise, from other Castlevania games, giving it a somewhat dull aesthetic. But there's this charm - this classic old-school build to the game that is difficult to describe, and even with its cheap enemies, traps, surprise attacks, and numerous pitfalls... there's still the semblance of something greater. While this may not be able to rebuff much of its criticism for understandable reasons, it can hold its own as a good and purely functional Castlevania game. The samples are cleaner than its PCE counterpart as well, so what little voice and sound effects there are, they sound clean enough. Even the music is fairly good, with most all tracks rearrangements of the original redbook audio from the original game. So, the game has some good things going for it, but the player will be the one to really decide if it's worth playing, let alone owning. The NA version fetches a price, yet the Japanese version yields a more reasonable fee. As a collector of Castlevania games, I now own both NTSC versions, and it must be said that the Japanese version is only slightly superior, and it would be a much better bargain to go for it if you intend to actually play it instead of the NA version, unless you are a collector.Read full review
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