Dracula X on pc engine and saturn

[T]

This may be stupid question but

Is Dracula X the same on pc engine and saturn?

[ManekiNeko]

Nope. The Saturn version of the game picks up where the PC Engine version left off, just like the Playstation game. You'll find a little more content in the Saturn version of Castlevania: Nocturne in the Moonlight (including two hidden areas and a new playable character), but overall, the Playstation version is better.

JR

[Dire 51]

The PC Engine game started the whole Dracula X storyline. The PSX/Saturn games (being pretty much the same, the Saturn version is just like a soecial edition of the PSX game) are the conclusion.

Dracula X for the SNES falls right in between the PCE and PSX/Saturn games.

[Ed Oscuro]

I wouldn't say Dracula XX (Dracula X SNES) fits anywhere in particular. Though logically we might assume that given how it was made after the original Rondo and people think "Richter gotta save the women again," but there's no storyline clues to tell us when. My Akumajo-sense is tingling, and it tells me that this is just more of what we saw throughout the games Castlevania, Haunted Castle, Akumajo Dracula x68000 and Super Castlevania 4: as those were all the same game (with perhaps an argument against Haunted Castle) simply remade, Dracula X is simply Rondo remade. The manual, as usual, is simply Konami US staffer nonsense.

[maxlords]

Yeah, I'd say that SNES Drac X is a trashy remake of Dracula X: Rondo of hte Blood for PC Engine. And I also wouldn't say that Symphony of the Night/Drac X Saturn picks up where Drac X for PC Engine leaves off. They're basically unrelated in the storyline really, one with Richter BELMONT, and one with a half-vampire, Alucard. Symphony of the Night was really more of a departure from the flow of the series, one that has since continued IMO.

Also, in case you're wondering:

PC Engine: Dracula X - Rondo of the Blood
Saturn: Dracula X - Nocturne in the Moonlight
Playstation: Castlevania - Symphony of the Night (same as Nocturne)

The only difference between the Saturn and PSX ones, I'm told, is an extra section in the Saturn version. Personally, I prefer the Drac X Duo style of Castlevanias.

[E Nice]

That's not the only difference just the most noticeable, but it has two new areas, one of which has a mini-boss. Saturn's version has some new music, a Maria boss battle, Alucard has new boots (I think), the ability to hold three items (as he now has three hands to hold things with :hmm: ), Can play as Richter or Maria from the start of the game, Sound Test doesn't have to be unlocked, a voice test that has be unlocked (not sure if PSX had that or not) where you can hear the games entire dialogue, including the fabled 5th ending.

[jaydubnb]

Yeah, I'd say that SNES Drac X is a trashy remake of Dracula X: Rondo of hte Blood for PC Engine. And I also wouldn't say that Symphony of the Night/Drac X Saturn picks up where Drac X for PC Engine leaves off. They're basically unrelated in the storyline really, one with Richter BELMONT, and one with a half-vampire, Alucard. Symphony of the Night was really more of a departure from the flow of the series, one that has since continued IMO.


How can SotN not be unrelated to Rondo? Richter may not be the star of the game, but he is in the intro battling Dracula, is a boss later on, and is capable of being used. I haven't played in a while, but wasn't he lured back into the castle by Shaft..? Plus lil Maria is all grown up (and looking quite whippable, i might add).

[Ed Oscuro]

How can SotN not be unrelated to Rondo?

This is essentially the case. In the beginning of SotN you play Richter in "Final Stage Bloodlines." It's a straight remake of the ending of Rondo, and even the secret staircase is there, though the way you activate it has changed slightly (fun Ed trivia: I played Rondo of Blood and found the staircase before I ever played SotN).

The words "Final Stage Bloodlines" are a mystery, since Rondo...wasn't called Bloodlines. It could be a reference to Rondo's stage 1 music, which is called Bloodlines. This music also plays (in slightly altered form) during the intro scene where Richter's bashing a bunch of skeletons and therefore you might say Bloodlines is his theme music.

Dracula X SNES was an interesting piece, and I like some of the levels a great deal (especially the hidden level, which was pretty darn cool). Level design in places is taken straight from Castlevania Bloodlines (there's that word again! Know, however, that it's just called that in America; in Japan it was "Vampire Killer," in English, no less), just fixed slightly (i.e. no falling off the staircase!) and made much harder.

Dracula X SNES even the movement glitches found in Rondo (he might appear to jump less high due to a different screen resolution found on the Super NES), and a clever arrangement of hanging platforms at the start of the game lets you do just about anything glitch-related you could think of. A while back I made a zSNES movie, actually...

[jaydubnb]

How can SotN not be unrelated to Rondo?

The words "Final Stage Bloodlines" are a mystery, since Rondo...wasn't called Bloodlines.

Prehaps because Rondo was never released here, Komani tried to make US gamers think that Sotn was the direct continuation of Genesis' Bloodlines...? That would be odd considering Bloodlines had different heroes.....

[Ed Oscuro]

Not a chance. The only "coverup" I know of is that Dracula XX was released here as Dracula X to replace the no-show of Rondo (and I can't blame them as the TG-16 version wouldn't have sold well enough). The use of "Bloodlines" is in the Japanese version, too...at least the PlayStation The Best version...crappy...anyhow, the thing which bugs me most is why CV Bloodlines is called Bloodlines and not something else. Maybe the Konami USA staffers had the Rondo OST and saw this nifty title track? Maybe the guys at Konami sent them a message? It's a mystery, and I doubt Iga knows the whole truth himself.