And above all I was still struggling to understand why Konami was so intent on marrying Castlevania games to obscure or largely unobtainable systems like the PC-Engine TurboDuo (the Japanese version of the TurboGrafx-CD).īut it didn't really matter whether or not I was able to nail down the specifics of Richter's ancestral ties or grasp why it was that Konami was resistant to the idea of porting Rondo to viable 16-bit systems truly, these were actually minor quibbles when compared to the weighty, irreconcilable issue of Rondo sharing its values with Castlevania: Dracula X, a game I'd come to regard as a huge step back for the series.
I was further puzzled by the popular sentiment that Rondo's story might not even be canon (those who claimed authority on the subject were certain that the " Dracula X"-titled games constituted a spin-off series), the idea of which would render the subtitle's implication either contradictory or meaningless. I failed to see how a "Circle of Blood," whose connotation suggested some type of intricately weaved bloodline connection, related to the undeveloped, rather-vanilla Richter Belmont character. That was how the disgustingly uncultured 1999-era version of me felt about Akumajou Dracula X: Chi no Rondo, which the community's leaders had curiously labeled " Dracula X: Rondo of Blood."Īt the time, I couldn't make sense out of any of it.
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"How in the world can the game on which it's based be anything other than equally middling? How can the game that established this regressive mold possibly be considered a great series entry or more ridiculously 'the best Castlevania ever'? Hell-any game that evokes memories or even mere images of Castlevania: Dracula X can't be anything other than second-rate!" "Aren't these people painfully aware of Castlevania: Dracula X's unrelenting mediocrity?" I'd silently object, my hands gesticulating as if I were attempting to choke the computer monitor. "These cats must be crazy," I'd conclude any time I was reading through a message-board post within which hardcore Castlevania fans were raving about how this disturbingly familiar lost title was apparently amazing.
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