The second stage was extremely similar to the first stage of the first Castlevania game! You fought ghouls and you were inside the castle and it looked the same! Just better graphics DĪll of a sudden though I got chased by this giant beast! That freaked me out.īut I got away, and looked back to find that the giant beast had run into a wall. You still collect orbs after each boss battle at the end of the stage like in the first game: The first boss was a fire breathing flying purple dragon-thingy, a step up from the bat ^_^ You control Richter Belmont, and he has a whip just like Simon and the others, and you collect hearts to use your special weapons, like the knife, axe, holy water etc. The graphics were stunning, you can really tell that they used the full potential of Super CD-ROM! D It’s a big difference from the HU-card games. Good thing for me though, since I can’t read kanji fluently but I can understand German! :D Then I realized it was only released in Japan and seeing the japanese subtitles made me come to my senses and understand that this was the way it was supposed to be. I recorded a movie of the intro, it’s awesome! And odd!! There’s a German voiceover, which made me think I had bought the wrong game. that’s what I’ve been playing tonight, and damn this game is good!! :D First time starting up my PC Engine Duo and it works perfectly! Also I was able to capture gameplay footage through the Elgato! :D Yay!Īkumajou Dracula X Chi no Rondo.

Rondo of blood pc version