She has her own set of items instead of the normal knife, holy water etc. Some say that Maria is the easy mode of the game but I feel like both characters have their strong points and it depends on the situation and stage which character is the easy mode. Richter however has more health and is the stronger fighter. In the more platforming focused stages she is the easier choice over Richter and sometimes kind of breaks the game as she can double jump on platforms too high for Richter and skip big parts of some stages.
She can double jump, change directions in the air, slide like in Mega man 3 and she has a boomerang attack that is easy to use. So yes, Richter can be a little too stiff for some, but if you are having trouble or get frustrated with it you can always just unlock Maria the little vampire hunter girl and give her a shot. Bosses look great, are fun and very challengingīeing a PC Engine game it is limited to the controller that has the same amount of buttons as the NES so we go back to pressing up+whip to use the items which is not bad, technically SCIV didn’t really need the extra buttons but it was nice being able to use a weapon without accidentally start going up stairs like can happen in this one and the NES games. Like in SCIV you can jump and land in stairs so they won’t give such a horrible time like in Dracula’s Curse but these mechanics feel a lot better in Rondo of Blood than in SCIV. I would have liked them to either make the hit box wider or keep the defensive stance or maybe have both.
The hit box for the only one-directional whip in Rondo of Blood feels smaller for me than in earlier titles so hitting these small annoying enemies can be a bother. It did not break SCIV and was more often than not the wrong way to deal with enemies but it helps with birds and bats and flea men that are annoying. I would have wanted to keep the defensive stance. The backflip looks really cool so it makes you want to use it more than you should, sad truth is that it is very situational.
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You can also make the regular jump and then a shorter jump plus a backflip that can sometimes be useful but not very often. You cannot change your direction you are going in but you can turn around and whip back. How you can control yourself in the air in this game is a healthy middle for me between SCIV and the NES games. Now is this a bad thing? Yes and no… If you read my review on Super Castlevania IV(SCIV) i was not fond of the 8-directional whip, at least not combined with the level design which made the 8-directional whip broken. No 8-directional whip, no defensive whip stance and less control of Richter in the air (although it is better than in the NES games). Ok, i start playing and you notice something right away.
The first town from Simon’s Quest, i thought that was pretty cool. My first impression was very good to say the least. Richter looks great and the background in the stage looks amazing. Another benefit of the CD is that the music files are big and proper so the soundtrack sounds amazing, the theme for this game “Bloodlines” or “Opposing Bloodlines” sounds in the video and in the first stage and you can already see that here we have a pretty cool game. Damn it Dracula is such a dick… Richter then of course has to fight through Draculas’ minions to save the girls and slay Dracula once again.Īnd daaaamn does this game start off cool! Since Rondo of Blood is released on a CD for the PC Engine there is space for some wicked cool anime like sequences. Draculas’ minions are attacking the nearby towns and while at it he kidnaps four girls, one of them being Richter girlfriend. Seems like Dracula will always come back if there are still wicked people in the world. Dracula is brought back by the dark priest Shaft and his evil servants. In this one we actually get a new story woohoo! In Rondo of Blood we play as the young, strong and handsome lad Richter Belmont. Let’s see if it is worth the hefty price tag. You can buy that,or buy it on the PSP/Wii virtual console 🙂 The PC Engine itself costs about the same. A copy in good condition is being sold from around 160$, 110GDP or 150EUR. The reason it is so rare is because it was released only in Japan and only for the PC Engine CD add-on which was expensive and not as popular as the SNES in Japan. This rare gem is the Castlevania made for the Turbografx 16 or “PC Engine” in Japan.
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