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Aug 27, 2009 Also known as: Castlevania - Rondo of Blood Also if you wonder, the intro is in German. The first 1.5 minutes is a secret minigame that shows up when you play the game with a System Card 1 instead. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (悪魔城ドラキュラX ~血の輪廻~, Akumajō Dracula X: Chi no Rondo?, lit. 'Demon Castle Dracula X: Reincarnation of Blood') [2] is a platform-adventure video game developed by Konami for the PC Engine 's Super CD-ROM² System directed by Toru Hagihara.
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Ash rates this game: 5/5Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (AkumajÅ Dracula X: Chi no Rondo) is a 2-D side-scrolling platformer with a gothic horror theme. Released in 1993, 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 1792, 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. The victims Richter is able to rescue will affect which of the multiple endings you will see. Even if a maiden is missed, however, the player can return to any unlocked level later and take another shot at discovering any secrets they may have missed via the main menu's stage select.
In summary, Rondo of Blood treats the player to some great looking graphics, serves up multiple endings, plenty of secrets to discover, offers a decent difficulty level, and a delivers a quality soundtrack to keep you company while slaying the creatures of the night. If you enjoyed the other Castlevania entries in Konami's series, you're bound to love Rondo.
mininous rates this game: 1/5It is one of the best Castlevanias ever made. This version is a remake of the original version released for PC engine.
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Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.Konami made it official today that the PlayStation 4 is getting a bundle of classic Castlevania games Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood. The collection comes out on October 26. You probably know about Symphony of Night. It’s one of the best 2D games ever, and it helped define the Metroidvania genre with its RPG influences and nonlinear world.
But if you’ve never played Rondo of Blood, you should be excited now.
Rondo of Blood’s mechanics aren’t as ambitious as Symphony of Night, which is its direct sequel. It plays more like the classic Castlevania games of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras. Levels are linear, and your character doesn’t dabble with RPG mechanics like experience points and equipment. But as for as those traditional Castlevania games go, Rondo of Blood might be the best. It has some of the best sprite animations and backgrounds of its time, its bosses are exciting and memorable, and the soundtrack is energetic.
So why have you probably never played it? It’s because Rondo of Blood only came out in Japan. And even then, it released on the relatively obscure PC Engine CD console. The system did have a U.S. equivalent, the TurboGrafx-CD, but it struggled to compete against the Genesis and Super Nintendo, even with its superior hardware. Konami did not bother bringing Rondo of Blood to the TurboGrafx-CD.
Instead, Konami remade Rondo of Blood for the Super Nintendo as Castlevania: Dracula X. This version has a similar plot and used many of the same art assets as Rondo of Blood, but it has redesigned levels and plays differently. Really, it’s a different game than Rondo of Blood, and it’s not a better one. It came out in the U.S. in 1995, late into the SNES’s life, making it a rare and expensive cartridge to track down now.
Our first real chance to play Rondo of Blood came when Konami remade it once again, this time more faithfully, with Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles for PSP in 2007. This remake replaces the original’s sprites with 3D polygons. It doesn’t look as sharp or charming as the original, but Dracula X Chronicles also comes with a port of the PC Engine CD version. So if you aren’t feeling that 2.5D aesthetic, you can just play the original. Wii owners would also get to play Rondo of Blood in 2008, when Nintendo added it to the Virtual Console service.
These days, few people have a PSP or Wii handy. Even if you do still have a Wii, the Wii Shop Channel is closing on January 30, so you won’t be able to buy that Virtual Console version of Rondo of Blood anymore.
That’s why I’m excited about this new collection for PlayStation 4. This will be an easy way to access one of the best Castlevania games. Well, two of the best. And it will introduce Rondo of Blood to a lot more people.
I just wish the collection was coming out for Switch. The console’s portability makes it the ideal place for retro games. Maybe Konami will port it over in the future, but you’d think publishers would realize by now that these projects would benefit by launching on Switch.
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