
But Thou Must!: You can fail to save the girls, save only Maria, or save both of them. Death's blood is changed from red to white - unfortunately, since the red is part of Death's palette, it results in the pendant around his neck being awkwardly miscolored as a result. The Item Crash for Cross in the original game has Richter summoning a giant crucifix that sweeps up across the screen repeatedly, whereas in here, he simply calls a bunch of boomerangs that fly randomly around the screen. Dracula is defeated and the day saved, but Richter looks solemn and saddened for not being able to save Annet and/or Maria. Bittersweet Ending: If you fail to save one or both of the girls. Battle Amongst the Flames: The background of the boss fight against Cerberus in the first stage, since it takes place among the blazing village. Dracula X also describes the setting as being "The Middle Ages" and notes that Simon Belmont lived "hundreds of years ago." Officially, Simon fought last fought Dracula in 1698, less than 100 years before Richter took up the whip in 1792.and the Middle Ages ended in the 1400s, making this version basically incompatible with any sort of official timeline. Alternate Continuity: In Dracula X, Annet is said to be Maria's older sister note while Maria does refer to Annette as onee-chan in Rondo of Blood, this was intended as a term of endearment as she also refers to Richter as onii-chan.
While he wasn't exactly an important character in the original Rondo of Blood, it made The Reveal of him being the mastermind behind the events of Symphony of the Night less impacting than it should have, as most overseas players who went into Symphony of the Night from Dracula X had no idea who Shaft was.
Adapted Out: The Dark Priest Shaft is nowhere to be seen in the SNES Dracula X.The story was also altered enough that it became incompatible with the main timeline, so the game is treated as being in an Alternate Continuity.ĭracula X / Vampire's Kiss provides examples of:
The voice acting is gone, the game is much more linear due to overhauled level design removing the original version's branching pathways, the difficulty is ramped up (likely to compensate for the lessened replay value), and Maria is no longer playable. Many changes were made when the CD-based Rondo of Blood was turned into Dracula X due to the smaller storage capacity of SNES cartridges.
Richter then must follow his ancestors' footsteps by taking the horrors of castle by himself. Vampire's Kiss) is a remixed port of then PC Engine-only Rondo of Blood for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, released in 1995.Įvil men resurrect Dracula, who then proceeds to kidnap Richter Belmont's girlfriend Annet and her younger sister Maria and hides them in his castle.