Name: 悪魔城ドラキュラ (ファミコン) - アイコンが生まれた - IMPLANTgames (Castlevania (NES) - An Icon is Born - IMPLANTgames)
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My favorite part about Castlevania is that it came out in 1986.

I’m often told NES games didn’t have enough space for detailed backgrounds.

Well, Castlevania does and it came out in 1986.

I’m often told games in the 1980’s didn’t have infinite continues.

“It isn’t fair to criticize an NES game’s questionable hit detection.”

That is not to say Castlevania is a perfect game, but it is clear the developers were

not going to use the excuse of limited hardware to make a sloppy product.

Castlevania is remarkably polished, audibly, visually, and mechanically, and many of the

structural philosophies can still be found in modern gaming.

Perhaps this is why the game remains so popular among certain gaming circles.

While the North American manual fails to give the game much context, the player assumes

the role of Simon Belmont, a vampire hunter wielding the Vampire Killer, a holy whip passed

The goal is to defeat Dracula, who has been resurrected along with his castle in Transylvania.

In addition to Dracula, Castlevania uses many other classic monsters that have fallen into

the public domain, like Frankenstein’s Monster.

More mythical creatures like the Grim Reaper, Medusa, and Mummies are also featured.

Despite the primitive hardware and sprite limits, Castlevania does an commendable job

portraying these classic monsters on the 8-bit hardware.

Another interesting touch is the cohesiveness of the game world.

The opening cinematic shows Simon at the property gates, with Dracula’s tower way off in the

The 6 levels of the game do an admirable job creating a realistic path from the gates to

the tower, and it doesn’t take much imagination to understand where Simon is.

While the graphics are not realistic, there is a level of detail found here which other

The ambitious style certainly aids in the game’s uniqueness and continued popularity.

Of course, a unique visual style and monster-movie set-pieces are not enough to make a game good.

So let us take a closer look at the gameplay.

Castlevania is a linear action game, with the player having to battle an increasingly

hostile set of enemies through 6 increasingly difficult stages.

While the whip is the primary weapon, Simon is able to utilize 5 sub-weapons to aid in

Unlike the whip, these are limited use items, with the player needing to collect hearts

The first thing I really dig about Castlevania is how most of these are shown to the player

The watch temporally stops time, freezing all enemies in place.

The dagger is a projectile weapon, firing straight across the screen.

The ax is another projectile weapon but at an arc allowing one to hit enemies above Simon.

The Holy Water ignites a small fire on the ground, while also freezing enemies.

And lastly, the boomerang fires across the screen, and returns, allowing for multiple

hits when used strategically, but isn’t showcased until the second stage.

Castlevania does a reasonable job with item placement on the opening stage as well, offering

the Holy Water in a convenient location, showing its utility in damaging enemies at a lower

More famously is the ax, the last item offered before the first boss.

Assuming a first-time player breaks every single candle in the stage, the ax is the

weapon one should end up with when encountering the first boss, which is incredibly efficient

As a whole, Castlevania’s first stage does a great job easing the player into the action

Candles are placed in the air, encourage players to jump and attack, a crucial skill needed

Plenty of stairs are presented, letting players familiarize themselves with how to climb up

and down them, without there being an onslaught of enemies to try and avoid while coming to

And finally, players are encouraged to explore, with both wall meat and a double shot being

Sadly, like many games of the time, there is no real clue to which blocks can be broken.

One initially just has to swing the whip at everything and then memorize the locations

Thankfully, as Castlevania is a sidescrolling game, rather than overhead, there are limited

possibilities as to which blocks might contain goodies.

But still, later games handled it better.

Moving along, Stage 2 ups the difficulty significantly.

Castlevania’s notorious bottomless pits are introduced here.

While the first stage has a certain flow to it, where one could mostly press forward with

little regard to the terrain, players now need to stop and assess the situation.

One might want to attack an enemy before leaping across a platform for example.

The initial one thankfully has a platform underneath it, reducing the possibility of

a mistimed jump, but the margin for error decreases as the stage wears on.

Pressing the button longer will not yield a longer jump versus a quick tap.

Simon either jumps straight up into the air or makes the same arced forward jump, no matter

While a dated concept for sure, there isn’t anything particularly wrong with the approach.

The lack of any control basically eliminates any sort of debate on if the jump is too floaty

Simon has a predefined arc, and that is that.

Thankfully, the level design in Castlevania is designed around the specific arc and never

requires more from the jump than what is available.

Platform spacing is uniform, moving platforms always have a decent width allowing for some

slop, and enemy behavior never requires additional precision.

While I found the arc somewhat rigid when I first attempted to play the game, it is

something I’ve grown accustomed to and it honestly feels like second nature.

I never found myself longing for more control, as the game is expertly designed around the

So, if the first stage is an item tutorial, and the second a jumping tutorial, then it

only makes sense the third stage is a combat tutorial.

While the zombies in the opening stage were mostly harmless, things really pick up in

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