PC Engine Longplay [016] Akumajo Dracula X - Chi no Rondo 

Close, but wrong on the elementals.

Wind of Air Fart

More like: Genbuu, The Black Tortoise of the North (Water) Seiryuu, The Azure Dragon of the East (Wood) Suzakku, The Vermilion Bird of the South (Fire) Byakko, The White Tiger of the West (Metal) Also, there's Maria's "Guardian Knuckle" attack, which represents the idea of the Golden Quilin at the Center of the Earth being connected to humanity where the other four represent the four types of animal natures (shell, scale, feather, fur respectively). Yes, future games that feature the quartette would go on to attribute different, more RPG-practical elemental properties to them such as the ones you describe, but at core it should bear remembrance that the elemental system of the Chinese Wu Xing is fundamentally different from the one widely popularized by Western Alchemy. ...... Yeah, you must forgive me. I'm kind of a total metaphysics nut... ^_^"

I would say it has the best music for a castlevania game which also puts it in my top 3 as well

Logan Stromberg she's even more OP in SOTN.

Yeah I guess you get better with age unless you're playing the PSP version on the Dracula X Chronicles

Wow, she acts like she's 7 or 8, though!

She’s 12. Blame Japan!

He wouldn't have died still.

+J. Craig Anderson It's really sad to see the japanese devs from 80s/90s agonizing nowadays. I miss the "colourful" diversity of games we had. PS2 was the last console to have such variety with quality.

I still prefer PS2 over PS4

it's not konami's fault. they'd still be developing games like rondo of blood if the videogame market hadn't degenerated into a 3D obsessed, hyper-realistic open world swamp of generic western-developed crap. the majority of active gamers was born post-playstation takeover in the late 90s; they don't know any better.

don't forget they're also making games for mobile and they look terrible

vozone nope, it totally is their fault, don't act like it isn't, financially successful games are still being released without having to rely on micro transactions and konami still chose to release a grindy buggy mess of a game based on one of their most beloved franchises, and when _that_ didn't work they ended up selling castlevania pachinko machines to casinos, meaning the only thing keeping konami afloat is pachinko machines and yu-gi-oh booster pack sales; Also the videogame market isn't a "3d obsessed hyper realistic open world swamp of generic western-developed crap", I don't even know where you got that idea from, either you're misinformed or your nostalgia is blinding you from seeing all the good games released each year, also, I've read a few articles and it actually seems like most gamers were born in the pre-psx days. So yeah, overall pretty awful comment, infinitesimal/10, would rather pour bleach in my eyes than read this again

+Luiz Almeida In japan it did well enough.

Awesome advertising.

Actually this game is a bridge between Dracula's Curse and Symphony of the Night. Super Castlevania IV was just a remake of Castlevania 1(NES).

+moviemetalhead Well...shit. :)

+Eight Virtues :) So in other words this IS Castlevania IV. I love how this series ties together.

Are you talking about the wrong Hucard screen? The real intro to the game isn't until the German introduction.

By the bridge between IV and SOTN, I assume he meant gameplay wise, not chronologically. Also, this game's intro is spectacular, really sets the mood for the game.

He wasn't Dracula in this one, he was in Symphony of the Night in Japan though.

We all can dream of. But i doubt this will ever happen again. Many Former Konami Devs are not at 505 Games as they were very unhappy how Konami did thread them. Most Prominent was Hideo Kojima which was known for the Metal Gear Series.

Yes!

And she's giving you the bird 🤣🤣🤣

Not a chance in hell. Super Castlevania IV for SNES and SOTN on PSX are a completely different animal. The sound quality and graphics, when compared to the SNES simply do not compare. Konami really screwed up when they didn't make a carbon copy of Chi no Rondo on the Super Famicom.

@@XX2Media From a pure gameplay and level design standpoint, Rondo surpasses both those games.

grzesiekromcio My favorite stage.

Leandro Rosa and I think his theme song (the version from this game) would totally fit into a Street Fighter game.

Because that's how he looks. Better question: why does Symphony of the Night's Richter appear to be a bishonen?

early 90s was all about the headbanded hard-training male protagonist with boiling blood Then around late 90s, the game has changed to bad-boi metrosexual guys

Why? Dracula has to be brought back by blood sacrifice, like in the Hammer movies. The intro to Castlevania Chronicles is similar. Shaft rips the heart out of some poor soul in front of a huge pentagram! All that was missing was Slayer Raining Blood 😆

It becomes less disturbing, when you're fluent in german. For one specific line: "Er schlürft das Blut von jungen Frauen." More specifical, it's the word "schlürft (schlürfen)", that cracks me up every time. Dracula slurps the blood of women. The PSP-Remake thankfully replaced "er schlürft" with "er trinkt". Making the lien far less silly.

Not sure why the rest is in Jappo. Should be Romanian or Hungarian.

Translation, German Imperialists, and Vampiric rides. Oh and the Church too. But never mind that, why isn’t the transcripts and drawings written in Latin! This is the best language but either way non-fitting for this game or series. Th-Whack!

Neo-Geo was good for fighting games, aside from that there isn't much going on it.

Marcel Weber Oh yeah! but I was just talking about it's 2D abilities or capabilities. Metal Slug, Magician lord and Blue's Journey were some that weren't fighters though

Aloan Moreira 2D-wise the Neo Geo wan't that good, it's hardly as powerful as a CPS-2 and just a joke compared to stuff like CPS-3. For the time it was fairly decen't though.

+Marcel Weber the CPS2 came out in 1993 four years after the Neo Geo, the CPS3 came like 6 years later..not a fair comparison...

Omega Rugal My point was that it's hardly the pinnacle of 2D.

Get the emulator on wii and plug it in your crt tv and you have all the games there

It was also on the original Wii VC, that and the PSP are two ways I own this game (I never touched the remake after beating it, but the original I go back to now and again).

PC Engine Core Grafx consoles work perfectly in the US with a Genesis Model 1 power supply and A/V cables. The older PC Engines use the same power supply, but have only RF output. 3rd party replacement Genesis accessories are cheap. HuCards are really small, and cheap to import. So, what's stopping you?

Indeed, the SNES soundcard was put to excellent use for that version of the game.

She's even more OP in the Saturn version of Symphony of the Night. She's downright broken in that game, so Konami rebalanced her for the PSP version on Drac X Chronicles (an unlockable).

Twon Jonson that town is the Belmonts hometown.....

Opus 13.

Couldn´t agree more.

Up until Super Smash Bros Ultimate in which this version of Richter is used again.

One of the music programmers, Michiru Yamane, also worked on the Twinbee games. One of the Twinbee cast reminds me of Maria, the blond girl with pigtails, Madoka.

Michael Paoletti Also Metal Gear, Sparkster and Bomberman

There are three Bomberman titles for the PC Engine. Regarding Metal Gear and Sparkster, in the case of Metal Gear the series entered an hiatus after Metal Gear 2 for the MSX2 and until Metal Gear Solid. They probably should have taken Metal Gear 2 to the 16-bit consoles of then, but probably they would have taken it to either the SNES or the Mega Drive (or both) to also approach the western audiences. Same thing with a Sparkster game, there was little sense in releasing that in the PC Engine when the main audience of that series was in North America and Europe.

It was translated, on the PSP in Drac X Chronicles. I'm sure when it gets re-released again, it will likely have the option for original, and translated and dubbed, like the PSP version.

Yes, but this is the original.

turbohusque best classic castlevania: rondo of blood best metroidvania: symphony of the night RoB and SotN are equals in quality but if we compare them based on gameplay, that just isn't fair as both games are completely different in terms of gameplay, like, you have a linear platformer in which you go through multiple stages each with branching paths in order to destory Dracula Vs a 2D RPG in which you cast magic spells, transform into animals, explore an entire castle, fight a variety of monsters, find familiars that do various things, equip a variety of weapons and armour, learn a bunch different abilities and last but not least *drum roll* collect alot of magical relics that help you progress; see? It's best to compare them based on execution and not gameplay, so if we do that we see that RoB executed the classic style best, while SotN executed the metroidvania style best, and now I don't know how to end this comment... Ummmm fuck castlevania 2,I guess.