Some of the tracks are rearranged and featured in CDs like Perfect Selection Dracula Battle (1991) and Perfect Selection Dracula ~New Classic~ (1992). The music of the game has been commercially released several times and is featured in CDs like Akumajō Dracula Famicom Best (1990), Castlevania 20th Anniversary Deluxe Music Collection (2006), Akumajō Dracula Best Music Collections BOX (2010), and Music from Akumajo Dracula Kuro (2021). She was credited as "James Banana", a parody of James Bernard, the composer of the 1958 film Dracula. Castlevania was both her first project while employed at Konami, and first composing experience. The very first soundtrack in the series was composed by Kinuyo Yamashita (with Satoe Terashima), which is her only score provided for the series. Players often refer to this as a "second quest" or " hard mode". This time, however, they face stronger enemies. Extra lives can be earned through gaining enough points.Īfter beating the game, players return to the first stage while retaining their weapons and score. The amount of points gained at the end of a stage depends on how quickly it was completed. Players are rewarded with points for killing enemies and clearing a stage. Simon can only carry one sub-weapon at a time. Aside from the whip, Simon uses sub-weapons that have varying affects, such as the Boomerang (Cross), which Simon throws straight ahead and crosses the length of the screen before returning and going past to the point where it was thrown, and the Stopwatch, which halts enemy movement for a short period of time. Upgrades and items are found by striking candelabras or by killing enemies. The Vampire Killer can be upgraded to boost attack strength and length. Simon's primary weapon is his whip, the Vampire Killer. As players progress further into the game, the enemies will deal greater damage, eventually to the point where Simon will be defeated after taking four hits. Many enemies will try to take advantage of these, as Simon is knocked backward when he takes a hit. Throughout these stages are pits and other traps that cause instant defeat. Players begin the game with four lives and five Hearts. Castlevania is an action-adventure platformer that emphasizes precision and timing. The stages represent areas of Dracula's decrepit castle, and the enemies are typically taken from horror literature, lore and films. Ĭastlevania consists of six linear stages with a boss at the end of each stage. He rests in the castle's highest floor, awaiting the arrival of the Belmont Clan. Peace returned to the countryside of Transylvania for one hundred years, but when exactly one century had passed, the power of Christ weakened, and the hearts of men turned black, praying for the resurrection of Count Dracula. The last time he was brought back into the world, it was completely covered in darkness, but his ambitions were crushed when Christopher Belmont set out to defeat him. Though Simon prevailed in ridding the world of the scourge of Dracula, he was terribly wounded by Count Dracula in the process, setting the stage for Simon's Quest. Simon proved himself a mighty vampire hunter by withstanding the monsters and traps of Dracula's castle, and in the end, destroying Count Dracula himself. He took the very same whip Christopher used to kill Dracula one hundred years before and entered the castle alone. The Count was said to grow in strength with each resurrection, but Simon pressed on. Simon Belmont, the descendant of Christopher Belmont, knew that as a member of the Belmont Clan and the current wielder of the Vampire Killer whip, it was his duty to bring peace and stability back to Transylvania by destroying Dracula. When the Count returned, his castle, which had fallen one hundred years prior, reappeared in Transylvania, and his legions of loyal minions reformed. A bolt of lightning enveloped the monastery where they held the rite, signaling the resurrection of Count Dracula. The men succeeded in bringing their master back in 1691. While the Easter celebration carried on with a grand carnival, evil men gathered in a monastery at the edge of the village and conducted a black mass to resurrect Count Dracula. During this time, they sought to revive Count Dracula so he may spread chaos and ruination throughout the world. The people of a Transylvanian village were enjoying their fortune with an Easter celebration in honor of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but every one hundred years, the power of Jesus weakened, and the hearts of men turned black as they yearned for chaos and destruction. In the year 1691, exactly a century after the events of Belmont's Revenge, Transylvania enjoyed a century of peace thanks to the legendary hero, Christopher Belmont, a vampire hunter who vanquished Count Dracula one hundred years earlier with a holy whip named the Vampire Killer.
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