It’s not a port. It’s not a remake. What this is is a REMIX, literally. Bosses, stages and music themes from Rondo of Blood got put in a blender and that’s how we got the wonderful Castlevania Dracula X.
I know many people don't like this game, but I thought this was okay, not groundbreaking, but still worth my time. Though I would say play the Advance Collection version, it's more tolerable there.
At first I wondered why the video was so lengthy, and then as I went I realized there are three different endings, which I did went through on SNES9x back in 20 years ago!
@@matbob_ That's what I didn't know! I knew the boss was different but never wondered why😅. Now that I know, I think this makes the storyline more compelling.
@@AshleyLiang23 Absolutely! I was a bit surprised when I discovered that. I obtained the three endings but didn't realized about that fact until I was watching the long play. :D
@@matbob_ If I had played the game on a real Snes console, I think I would probably have noticed Annette turning into a boss. Getting so addicted to save & load on emulators and hoping to complete as many game I could, I definitely lost some real fun in there :(
The game's good, people seemingly parrot off of each other's opinions, some not even playing the game, but saying it's bad anyway without ever trying it. I have a copy, and I have Rondo on 2 consoles (Wii VC and PSP Drac X Chronicles), I happen to like both games, both quite a different experience.
I cannot beat this game without the rewind feature info the Advanced Collection Version, It' really hard, but I really liked it So you went for the three endings, that's great.
I played Drac X PCE CD after, yet I can STILL come back to this game without any issues. I bought my friend's copy for $60 a number of years ago, it's not money I regret at all. I felt it was a great purchase for my collection, and my SNES.
@@wallacesousuke1433 No meh about it, it's not as bad as people perceive it to be. The only reason the PCE CE version is so revered is because of the cost of an actual original copy of the game, and how long it stayed a Japan exclusive holy grail for the PC Engine. I mean I remember a certain GamePro magazine issue in 1993 saying we'd never see the game here, that only made me want to play it more, and I knew at the time there was no damned way in hell I would be able to. That is till I hit the emulation scene, and finally got a chance to play it. Yes, it is a great game for the PCE CD, but a bit overrated at this point, hell the magic of it being a hidden jewel disappeared the moment the game came to the west finally on the PSP, then the original Wii's VC, then newer consoles later on. Meanwhile this one, always has been accessible, albeit it's price has exploded, and people have warmed up to it when they realize this damned thing was never intended to be a remake of the PCE CD original, but a retelling of that games story, with a different perspective. I remember renting this game once it came out, and I liked it, enough to pay a friend $60 for his copy after the game already hit triple digits on places like Ebay, I had already played and sleptwalked my way to a 2 loop 1 life clear of SCV 4, the third loop not even seeming harder than the second loop, so I'd shut it off in boredom each time by that point (it was too damned easy). Meanwhile this game has just 1 loop, but quite a bit more challenge than SCV 4, the challenge that reminded me of CV 1 and CV 3 on the NES, a challenge I loved.
@@Bloodreign1 not bad, not great, like OP said, it's just a stripped down version of the superior, the masterpiece called Rondo of Blood. Soundtrack, graphics, animations, it's all a downgrade from RoB, also, what a terrible Dracula fight with those stupid platforms, pure artificial difficulty.
I always thought when you pressed the start button on the main menu that it sounded like someone ripping ass and laughing maniacally about it. Like I know its supposed to be like a creaky door/coffin lid, but yeah. Just saying, I could never unhear it. 2:02
@@SomeOrangeCat the music is good without a doubt, and so is the SNES soundchip but theres no denying the pce-cd was so much more capable in the audio department. It had a fantastic library of great games and great SOUNDING games, and was far from "lame"
All the time? lol and what do you expect? It's a game franchise, same plot, universe, etc. You're supposed to run into familiar enemies all the time, and they did a great job with many returning bosses, often giving them complete redesigns, patterns and moveset
I agree, the challenge of beating a boss with your guts and with limited resources is better than having tons of abilities at the same tine and resources to heal you
@@Jexel999 Simon, especially if you see the US artwork for the NES trilogy's covers.Hell Simon evcen looks badass on the cover of the X68000 Akumajou Dracula cover (the game re-released as CV Chronicles on PS1, where Ayama Kojima turned him into some flamboyant red haired ladyboy).
It's a decent game on its own, no shit it's not an exact port of RoB, making a one to one port of a PC Engine game to the SNES would've been really difficult to pull off.
More of a retlling of the games events, with some changes made to the events, like Maria not being playable, or showing personality (or being a little beast with her animal abilities).
I know this is ALWAYS compared to RoB(for obvious reasons), but to me it’s apples and oranges. I think the biggest gripe I have when playing this (and RoB, for that matter) is that richter feels soooo sluggish when moving
@@boiiii4257 SCV 4 suffered from a little something though, no actual challenge. It has atmosphere and is a great game (I own a copy, played it to death, could 1 life clear 2 loops, shut the game off by loop 3 as it NEVER got any harder), but boy oh boy is it too easy, especially considering when a game around the same time that Konami also released, Contra 3, would shred you apart with difficulty.
The second form is what trips up many a player. His first form is doable, a good item crash with the boomerang helps. In general the boomerang is a life saver, has always been since the first game, despite the Holy Water being cheap on Drac's second form, as well as Death.
@@901aerol Hahahaha no, even Sega fans felt Konami half assed that game, especially with the stair walking animation, where it looks like Morris and LeCarde were walking INSIDE the stairs. Plus the unneeded connection to Bram Stoker's book, the MAIN thing I didn't like about Bloodlines. Sure it's a fun game, but a major step down from SCV 4.
This is a severely butchered port of Rondo Of Blood. They could've done much better on the SNES but the passion clearly wasn't there with the developers. The soundchip on the SNES is truly amazing, though. Most of the themes are surprisingly close to their CD counterparts.
In terms of graphics and sound, Dracula X is a definite improvement over Rondo of Blood. It has sharper sprites, cleaner animations and the overall level of visual detail is noticeably higher. Seriously, put them side by side and the difference is immediately apparent. The audio -- outside of the missing voice acting -- is also better, from much more crisp sound effects to just a generally bigger variety of sounds. In Rondo of Blood, you don't even get a whip crack or impact sound when you hit something. That being said, in every other department, Dracula X truly is inferior to Rondo of Blood. The game is much shorter and more linear which translates to far less replay value -- and you can't play as Maria. The voice acting is gone and they even butchered the plot. Finally, the level design and difficulty are all over the place with numerous cheap deaths and terrible design choices. A butchered port through and through. A shame really.
I'll say it again, the Genesis CV is not all that, some of you rate that game far too high on a pedestal it does not deserve. It's half assed at best, not a bad game, but very, very overhyped by some fans. As for this game, it was too tall a task for Konami to port a CD game to a cartridge format (Super Valis IV versus Valis 4 is another one, though the SNES one is awesome, some great music in it too). I knew right away, when Nintendo Power covered this game, no way was it going to be able to replicate a CD game, a CD game I saw prior in GamePro magazine, the same magazine that said no way would this game ever come to the US (they were halfway right, till eventually, it DID). But I'd rather a Belmont yield the whip, then some guy related to a guy in a Bram Stoker novel, yuck. At least in this game, a Belmont indeed yields the whip, Simon's grandson.
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Love that "bass guitar" twang on the first level. Great music.
Who still don't realized yet, he is playing to get different ends
It’s not a port.
It’s not a remake.
What this is is a REMIX, literally.
Bosses, stages and music themes from Rondo of Blood got put in a blender and that’s how we got the wonderful Castlevania Dracula X.
Awful*
I know many people don't like this game, but I thought this was okay, not groundbreaking, but still worth my time. Though I would say play the Advance Collection version, it's more tolerable there.
Dracula's Devil Castle: Rondo of Blood Redux
At first I wondered why the video was so lengthy, and then as I went I realized there are three different endings, which I did went through on SNES9x back in 20 years ago!
I also realized that, if you don't save Annette, she becomes the boss in Clock Tower!
@@matbob_ That's what I didn't know! I knew the boss was different but never wondered why😅. Now that I know, I think this makes the storyline more compelling.
@@AshleyLiang23 Absolutely! I was a bit surprised when I discovered that. I obtained the three endings but didn't realized about that fact until I was watching the long play. :D
@@matbob_ If I had played the game on a real Snes console, I think I would probably have noticed Annette turning into a boss. Getting so addicted to save & load on emulators and hoping to complete as many game I could, I definitely lost some real fun in there :(
@@matbob_ Is it possible to save Annette, but not Maria..?
I think a certain hedgehog would disapprove of this decision, but who is going to tell..?
While I love Super Castlevania IV the best overall, this one is way underrated. The only thing I don't like is how you can't use your whip diagonally.
That's the ability of another Belmont..
@@Nostalgicguy2242 Richter Belmont has it too, only not here
For being a knockoff port from Rondo of Blood for Hardware limitation and being ballbustingly hard, it's actually quite an okay game
Many aspects is better. Not the music though.
@@classicgameplay10 Music is fine, it's what gets praised the most for this game.
The game's good, people seemingly parrot off of each other's opinions, some not even playing the game, but saying it's bad anyway without ever trying it. I have a copy, and I have Rondo on 2 consoles (Wii VC and PSP Drac X Chronicles), I happen to like both games, both quite a different experience.
@@Bloodreign1 the composition aspect, yes, but the snes version has less quality when compared to the PC.
@@classicgameplay10it’s nowhere near as good as rondo of blood
the kickass music makes 90% of the game
The hardest of this game in my opinion is stage 6 boss if saved 2 women in this game.
Nice job. Thanks for showing all the different endings 👍👍
I cannot beat this game without the rewind feature info the Advanced Collection Version, It' really hard, but I really liked it
So you went for the three endings, that's great.
After you play Rondo you can’t come back to this one. Stripped down version that gets owned badly by SC IV
I think they had the B-team make this version
I played Drac X PCE CD after, yet I can STILL come back to this game without any issues. I bought my friend's copy for $60 a number of years ago, it's not money I regret at all. I felt it was a great purchase for my collection, and my SNES.
@@Bloodreign1 meh
@@wallacesousuke1433 No meh about it, it's not as bad as people perceive it to be. The only reason the PCE CE version is so revered is because of the cost of an actual original copy of the game, and how long it stayed a Japan exclusive holy grail for the PC Engine. I mean I remember a certain GamePro magazine issue in 1993 saying we'd never see the game here, that only made me want to play it more, and I knew at the time there was no damned way in hell I would be able to. That is till I hit the emulation scene, and finally got a chance to play it. Yes, it is a great game for the PCE CD, but a bit overrated at this point, hell the magic of it being a hidden jewel disappeared the moment the game came to the west finally on the PSP, then the original Wii's VC, then newer consoles later on.
Meanwhile this one, always has been accessible, albeit it's price has exploded, and people have warmed up to it when they realize this damned thing was never intended to be a remake of the PCE CD original, but a retelling of that games story, with a different perspective. I remember renting this game once it came out, and I liked it, enough to pay a friend $60 for his copy after the game already hit triple digits on places like Ebay, I had already played and sleptwalked my way to a 2 loop 1 life clear of SCV 4, the third loop not even seeming harder than the second loop, so I'd shut it off in boredom each time by that point (it was too damned easy). Meanwhile this game has just 1 loop, but quite a bit more challenge than SCV 4, the challenge that reminded me of CV 1 and CV 3 on the NES, a challenge I loved.
@@Bloodreign1 not bad, not great, like OP said, it's just a stripped down version of the superior, the masterpiece called Rondo of Blood. Soundtrack, graphics, animations, it's all a downgrade from RoB, also, what a terrible Dracula fight with those stupid platforms, pure artificial difficulty.
Great game series one of my favorites 😊😊
💀
2:30 Bloodlines
I always thought when you pressed the start button on the main menu that it sounded like someone ripping ass and laughing maniacally about it. Like I know its supposed to be like a creaky door/coffin lid, but yeah. Just saying, I could never unhear it. 2:02
Secret Wario cameo…
Lol
21:59 “But the Princess is in another castle!”
LMAO 😂
Absolutely stunning game playing it now 😊
1:04:06 Screw Annet, I just love a whole stage of listening to the great Opus 13!
The SNES's audio chip really shines in this game. "CD-Addon? Never heard of her, but she sounds expensive and lame!"
And yet almost everyone agrees the cd game this was based on blows it away
@@joeyjo-joshabadu9636 Revisionists maybe, but in the US market we didn't even have access to the PCE-CD version.
@@SomeOrangeCat Revisionism? What??? Just coz it didn't come out in the U.S. doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
@@joeyjo-joshabadu9636 It also doesn't mean that the music in the SNES version is just as good as the PCE-CD version.
@@SomeOrangeCat the music is good without a doubt, and so is the SNES soundchip but theres no denying the pce-cd was so much more capable in the audio department.
It had a fantastic library of great games and great SOUNDING games, and was far from "lame"
At least I have the original Rondo of Blood. But this one is also fun despite it being difficult too.
Got it 😎
Trilha sonora desse jogo e perfeita.... esse jogo todo é perfeito assim como o lendário Super Nintendo foi e ainda é ate hj.... ❤😍🔥
I always liked this one
The gameplay is better in IV but I really like the look, atmosphere, music and sounds in this game.
Recuerdo que cuando lo jugaba de pequeño me daba cierto sentimiento de miedo, pero aún así lo jugaba porque me gustaba 😂❤
How deep in series do they ever change enemy types
All the time? lol and what do you expect? It's a game franchise, same plot, universe, etc. You're supposed to run into familiar enemies all the time, and they did a great job with many returning bosses, often giving them complete redesigns, patterns and moveset
Este es el mejor juego de super nintendo sin lugar a dudas.
(Unpopular opinion) I’ve always preferred classic castlevania over Metroidvania super castlevania IV for the win S/o James ifykyk
Classicvanias kinda suck, their gameplay and combat is horseshit
I prefer the original CV formula as well, backtracking is my biggest pet peeve in gaming, something the Metroidvania's are known for.
I agree, the challenge of beating a boss with your guts and with limited resources is better than having tons of abilities at the same tine and resources to heal you
SNES Longplay no. 006? What happened to the other SNES longplays?
Graphically it reminds me of a gba game
Say what you will about this version of RoB but that music is LIT 🔥
Curioso que el chip de sonido de Super Nintendo lo fabrico Sony, esto le dio ventaja sobre la competencia Megadrive.
Be careful when typing “Bloody Tears”… Wii don’t need another instance of the “Bloody Teats” fiasco…
Nah
At least it isn’t “Bloody Bears”… That would be TERRIFYING… The ONLY thing more so would be a “Sanguinous Rex”…
@@TrueSolunar bro are you fucking with me or am i having a stroke
I just noticed that Richter didn't need to upgrade his whip. He always starts with a chain whip instead of the leather whip.
The game sure does gives us players the fun and hard thrills of cult classic in the castlevania franchise
CastleVania Rondo of Blood: Deluxe Edition
Richter is the best Belmont !
No.
@@chrisbailey9377 who’s better ?
@@Jexel999 Simon, especially if you see the US artwork for the NES trilogy's covers.Hell Simon evcen looks badass on the cover of the X68000 Akumajou Dracula cover (the game re-released as CV Chronicles on PS1, where Ayama Kojima turned him into some flamboyant red haired ladyboy).
This game is cruelty difficult. It was made by Dracula himself. I love and hate this game.
Very best rondo of blood
AKA the bastardized "Rondo of Blood".
Still interesting, one of the better Castlevanias and worth playing. :)
Y por eso me cae tan mal ROB
It's a decent game on its own, no shit it's not an exact port of RoB, making a one to one port of a PC Engine game to the SNES would've been really difficult to pull off.
More of a retlling of the games events, with some changes made to the events, like Maria not being playable, or showing personality (or being a little beast with her animal abilities).
@@MexicanSheepMan
PC Engine CD game to be exact, which made very easy for developers to add much more content.
Not bad,for a game for SNES
I know this is ALWAYS compared to RoB(for obvious reasons), but to me it’s apples and oranges. I think the biggest gripe I have when playing this (and RoB, for that matter) is that richter feels soooo sluggish when moving
best cv game for snes. it was lit
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this game looked mushy and awful. the sfx was lame and underwhelming. nice try@@boiiii4257
@@boiiii4257 SCV 4 suffered from a little something though, no actual challenge. It has atmosphere and is a great game (I own a copy, played it to death, could 1 life clear 2 loops, shut the game off by loop 3 as it NEVER got any harder), but boy oh boy is it too easy, especially considering when a game around the same time that Konami also released, Contra 3, would shred you apart with difficulty.
Got it 😎
I Play Japanese Version of this!
Because Blood from My Breast gone away
I have my cartrige yet ❤️
Those castlevania brothers has always had the (whipper whopper) appeal lol
Bom demaiis poder rever esse jogo 🥹💗
Joguei muito !
Classic.
Played rondo of blood
Pity they couldn't make it into Dracula XXX.
That dracula battle was just too easy.
The second form is what trips up many a player. His first form is doable, a good item crash with the boomerang helps. In general the boomerang is a life saver, has always been since the first game, despite the Holy Water being cheap on Drac's second form, as well as Death.
I hate damn Spear guards this game.
❤
The snes has potential
I would like them to recreate the Snes as a patch :3
👏👏👏🔝💪🏻⚔️😎
Being a Sega Genesis guy , I feel robbed 👺
Probably felt that way alot ......snes was far superior.
The Genesis game was better.
@@901aerol Hahahaha no, even Sega fans felt Konami half assed that game, especially with the stair walking animation, where it looks like Morris and LeCarde were walking INSIDE the stairs. Plus the unneeded connection to Bram Stoker's book, the MAIN thing I didn't like about Bloodlines. Sure it's a fun game, but a major step down from SCV 4.
Bloodlines is better than either SNES Castlevania game tbh.
Pra min a saga castlevania é a melhor tras o castlevania circle of the moon dps tmj man 🗿🍷
I understand what you are saying about those games but if it weren't for the original games we wouldn't have the metroidvania games.
@@chrisfall896 he never mentioned Metroidvanias or compared them to Classic games, he just said that the CV saga/franchise is the best
This is a severely butchered port of Rondo Of Blood. They could've done much better on the SNES but the passion clearly wasn't there with the developers. The soundchip on the SNES is truly amazing, though. Most of the themes are surprisingly close to their CD counterparts.
6:47
Very unfinished looking
In terms of graphics and sound, Dracula X is a definite improvement over Rondo of Blood. It has sharper sprites, cleaner animations and the overall level of visual detail is noticeably higher. Seriously, put them side by side and the difference is immediately apparent.
The audio -- outside of the missing voice acting -- is also better, from much more crisp sound effects to just a generally bigger variety of sounds. In Rondo of Blood, you don't even get a whip crack or impact sound when you hit something.
That being said, in every other department, Dracula X truly is inferior to Rondo of Blood. The game is much shorter and more linear which translates to far less replay value -- and you can't play as Maria. The voice acting is gone and they even butchered the plot. Finally, the level design and difficulty are all over the place with numerous cheap deaths and terrible design choices. A butchered port through and through. A shame really.
This game sucks compared to the TG16 and Genesis Castlevania games.
I'll say it again, the Genesis CV is not all that, some of you rate that game far too high on a pedestal it does not deserve. It's half assed at best, not a bad game, but very, very overhyped by some fans.
As for this game, it was too tall a task for Konami to port a CD game to a cartridge format (Super Valis IV versus Valis 4 is another one, though the SNES one is awesome, some great music in it too). I knew right away, when Nintendo Power covered this game, no way was it going to be able to replicate a CD game, a CD game I saw prior in GamePro magazine, the same magazine that said no way would this game ever come to the US (they were halfway right, till eventually, it DID). But I'd rather a Belmont yield the whip, then some guy related to a guy in a Bram Stoker novel, yuck. At least in this game, a Belmont indeed yields the whip, Simon's grandson.
Yeah the original Rondo is absolutely phenomenal. But bloodlines is ass
@@LocalChoker stay away from drugs, kids
@@wallacesousuke1433 you know from experience?
@@LocalChoker What's so "ass" about Bloodlines? Skill issue mayhaps?