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	Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse Review
		Many of the sound effects were taken from previous Castlevania games, but some are new, such as the groans of the boss monsters when they're defeated, and Dracula's evil laugh on the password screen.
		Castlevania 3 also earns some brownie points with me for having an opening sequence with a film-reel that explains the game's backstory, and some of the dialogue is kind of cheesy, such as, "Dracula wanted to create a bad world filled with evil."
		Castlevania 3 is a challenging, fun, and long-lasting game that has tons of replay value.
	www.flyingomelette.com /reviews/nes/castlevania3.html (1380 words)

	Dracula (Castlevania) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Dracula of Castlevania is loosely based on Bram Stoker's character, which was in turn based on the infamous Vlad Ţepeş of Wallachia.
		The Castlevania Dracula draws some history from both, but instead of preying on maidens this one threatens whole realms with his armies at the least, and at worst is presented as the very embodiment of evil.
		Dracula did not receive much characterization aside from being a generic evil vampire in the earlier games of the Castlevania series, but in later games he is depicted as arrogant, disdainful of humanity (whom he regards as petty and greedy), and somewhat abusive towards his own minions.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Mathias_Cronqvist (1963 words)

	Gamingredients - Issue 11 - History of Castlevania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Like the original Castlevania, the game was really tough, although it had a better balance thanks to the addition of the password system and the 3 new characters.
		Castlevania was a step forward in the saga, and some might even claim that it set the path for the excellent Symphony of the Night.
		Castlevania is an ancient series with a long history, and so is its story, which you can read all about in our accompanying History in Castlevania article.
	www.gamingredients.com /features/historyofcastlevania (2286 words)

	Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin is an action-adventure game in development by Konami, and is the next title in Konami's Castlevania series of video games.
		Jonathan Morris is the son of Castlevania: Bloodlines' hero, John Morris, and thusly the grandson of Quincey Morris from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
		Since the events taken place of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night in 1797, the Morrises have inherited the legendary "Vampire Killer" whip from the Belmont family; as their lineage is not of direct Belmont blood, they are unable to use the power of the whip conventionally.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dracula_Castlevania (677 words)

	The Jaded Gamer > Reviews > Nintendo Entertainment System > "Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse"
		The third game in line took the classic gameplay that earlier Castlevania titles were known for and refined it into a masterpiece that is still a blast to play today.
		Castlevania III introduced many new elements such as branching level paths and multiple characters that helped it stand well above the competition it had at the time.
		The playable characters include a traditional Castlevania whip-bearer, a mage, an agile pirate who can cling to walls, as well as the fan-favorite, Alucard, who would later star in his own Castlevania game.
	www.thejadedgamer.net /review_nes_castlevania3.shtml (838 words)

	GamingWorld X - Castlevania: Lament of Innocence Preview
		The Castlevania franchise has got to be one of the longest-running properties in videogame history.
		Only this time around, the franchise is making several twisted changes to the tried-and-true Castlevania gameplay, and also plans to reveal exactly how the whole struggle between Dracula and the Belmonts came about in the first place.
		Set in the 11th Century (when Dracula becomes a vampire), Lament follows the story of one Leon Belmont, a warrior trained in the sword to serve a local baron.
	www.gamingworldx.com /ps2/CastlevaniaLamentofInnocence.shtml (1217 words)

	Dracula (Castlevania) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Castlevania Chronicle, as a Black long hair and Huge Goatee, long robe of sort in Castlevania: Dracula X.
		This was not the end of Dracula however, as it seems that after death his soul had been reincarnated into the soul of an innocent young man named Soma Cruz.
		Dracula was one of the racers in Konami Krazy Racing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dracula_(Castlevania) (1973 words)

	IGN Boards - Castlevania Storielines!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dracula rises from his hundred year hibernation, sure that his plan had worked and that he no longer had to fear the Belmont family.
		I know castlevania 64 was at least available for rent in 1997 or 1998 because it was one of the first games I played for the system, and I got it in 1996 when it came out.
		castlevania dungeon is also wrong about the msx game being first, which popular gaming site gamespot mistook as fact when they made their poorly written and heavily dungeion ripped-off 'history of castlevania'.
	boards.ign.com /Message.aspx?topic=7680355 (3798 words)

	"CASTLEVANIA: CIRCLE OF THE MOON"/ a game review from Christian Spotlight
		Dracula sees them and proceeds to capture Morris to use his soul to bring himself back to full power and he dispatches Nathan and Hugh.
		Anybody who has played a "Castlevania" game should be familiar with "COTM", which is a side-scrolling action/adventure with your main weapon being a whip with which you defeat enemies.
		The Castlevania series are born from the Dracula stories and media, and therefore if they do not offer such "occultic" (note the quotes), the game will be very much off course from what it is designed to represent.
	christiananswers.net /spotlight/games/2001/castlevania.html (1274 words)

	Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
		Castlevania III- Dracula's Curse joins these great games in that it, too, pushed what the NES could do.
		The third installment of the NES Castlevanias is also the last one to come out for that System.
		The story, as described in the nice movie reel style Intro describes the Belmonts as a clan of people with super-human powers who were banished from the countryside of Transylvania by the townspeople.
	www.inverteddungeon.com /Games/cv3.php (2040 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Castlevania: Dracula X for Super Nintendo at Epinions.com
		Castlevania originally came out for the NES, and then some of the later games in the series drastically changed the feel to the game.
		After several years, Dracula comes back to life and he wants revenge on the Belmonts (the family that killed Dracula in the first Castlevania game).
		No, new school Castlevania fans, this is not like the GBA versions for the new school players.
	www.epinions.com /content_271905951364 (964 words)

	Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse
		The plot takes place 100 years before the original Castlevania (or so the manual states - the official Japanese timeline says differently.) The Poltergeist King has blessed Trevor Belmont with his whip and several weapons, of which he has to defend his home town of Warakiya from the advancing hordes of Dracula.
		Much like the original Castlevania, however, it is rather difficult, although balanced a bit better.
		Some segments are just poorly thought out (like a section in an underground level where you must wait for bricks to fall for several minutes so you can climb them) and the enemies become too powerful a bit too quickly.
	castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com /Games/cv3.html (484 words)

	Curmudgeon Gamer - First Impressions: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
		Dracula X is not as good as SoTN by a longshot, but it fills in a few pieces of SoTN's background story.
		Castlevania shares a whole lot in common with two other games of that era (though it predates both of them), Rare's Wizards and Warriors and the NES version of Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden.
		Castlevania III was definitely innovative for its time, while carrying on the CV traditions of quality art and music.
	curmudgeongamer.com /article.php?story=20031204202209750 (3348 words)

	Kid Dracula - Castlevania Wiki - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kid Dracula is a pair of video game titles by Konami released during the early 90s.
		Since Kid Dracula is a vampire, he has the ability to turn into a bat and fly.
		The Japanese name of the series is Akumajō Dracula, which is also the name used in most of the Castlevania games in Japan (but recently abandoned), suggesting a relationship between the two.
	castlevania.wikia.com /wiki/Kid_Dracula (519 words)

	Castlevania Dracula X ROM - Castlevania Dracula X SNES Console Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dracula now plans to get revenge on his old enemy through his descendants by locking Annet, the girlfriend of Belmont's great-grandson, Richter, and her sister, Maria, in his dark gloomy castle.
		Castlevania Dracula X was a great addition to the Castlevania series.
		Unfortunately for Dracula X they got rid of the special weapon having its own button, and the ability to throw your whip in any direction.
	www.consoleclassix.com /gameinfo_castlevaniadraculax_smc.html (415 words)

	Dracula X - Digital Press Online
		This was a game that was heralded by most as the best Castlevania ever made, and the fact that it remained import only really pissed a lot of people off.
		Ever since I tracked down a copy in late 1995 (coincidentally, I got it the same week that Castlevania: Dracula X was released, so I was able to compare them simultaneously), it's been one of my favorite games (it made #5 on my Top 100).
		However, there is a very real possibility that Dracula X may become a part of the Castlevania Chronicles line (as of this writing, only one game has been released in the line, which was Akumajou Dracula X68000).
	www.digitpress.com /reviews/draculax_2.htm (1147 words)

	CastleVania Games
		A.D. he first 16-bit SNES CastleVania, Super CastleVania IV could be largely considered a remake of the original CastleVania in everything but the storyline (though the Japanese version remakes even that), taking full advantage of Mode-7 graphics and superior sound quality.
		A.D. he only CastleVania game to be released for Sega (outside of the Japan-only Sega Saturn version of Symphony of the Night and the aborted Sega Dreamcast Resurrection), Bloodlines offered a fast-paced epic quest that could very well be considered the best in the series so far.
		Dracula X ability to use bursts or "items crashes" of the weapons you collect; multiple paths depending on which character you choose.
	www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/davros/57/cgames2.html (1358 words)

	WORTHPLAYING - - All about games !
		Told in true Castlevania style, this action-packed tale of betrayal and revenge takes players on a journey through an expansive world filled with formidable foes and beautifully rendered environments to the ruins of Dracula’s castle.
		Is there a hidden wing of Dracula’s castle that’s entirely dedicated to the care, feeding, construction, and breeding of new monsters to replace the ones you’ve been hacking to bits?
		With Dracula “dead,” at least for the time being, a curse was placed on the nation of Vallachia, plunging it into an unnatural darkness.
	www.worthplaying.com /article.php?sid=25801 (852 words)

	Castlevania: Dracula X
		Note: This is a HTML adaptation of the Castlevania: Dracula X FAQ authored by Tim D. Calvillo.
		Veteran Castlevania players should be accustomed to this level of difficulty as it's consistent with the past games on the NES and Bloodlines on the Genesis.
		Dracula appears and disappears very quickly and in only a fraction of that time is he vulnerable to damage.
	www.megagames.com /megacheats/files/castlevaniadraculaxstrategy.htm (6261 words)

	Castlevania: the Legacy
		This is a cool fangame based on Simon's Quest (Castlevania 2).
		The original concept has been heavly extended and now you are in front of a new, very long, intriguing adventure: collecting the 7 relics and destroying Count Dracula once for all.
		Castlevania Quest Horror is the 3D version (with some modifications) of Castlevania Quest.
	www.castlevania.nzone.it /download.html (95 words)

	The Lost Castlevania Legend
		Also, keep in mind that this is the same man that dismissed Maria's role in "Dracula X: Rondo of Blood" as "a silly, cute aside", and Maria's inclusion as a playable character in the Japanese-exclusive Sega Saturn port of "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" is noncanonical; she has to storyline.
		In Bram Stoker's novel, "Dracula", Jonathan Harker notes "I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.
		In Bram Stoker's novel, "Dracula", Jonathan Harker notes "In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North.
	supergirl.741.com /Legends/index.html (8945 words)

	Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse for NES - MobyGames
		He is also assembling a massive army of undead creatures to sweep the Earth clean of life, so obviously Trevor has a double incentive to take out the vampire lord.
		The gameplay is very similar to the first Castlevania game, and for the most part the status bar is very similar to the one in the first game as well.
		The first is the ability to acquire and play as a character other than Trevor at any time during the game, and the second is a new stage select feature.
	www.mobygames.com /game/castlevania-iii-draculas-curse- (359 words)

	Akumajo Dracula MIDI Collection : SoundtrackCentral.com
		Track 8 is a cool arrangement of the town music featured in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, and "The Silence of Daylight" is a livelier version of the same song featured in Super Castlevania IV (Super NES).
		Track 15 is from the PC-Engine version of Dracula X (stage 1), and is not unlike the version on the Dracula X original soundtrack.
		The highlights of this soundtrack are the two piano-arranged versions of "Lost Painting" (Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight) and "Beginning" (the tune from stage one of Castlevania III).
	www.altpop.com /stc/reviews/dracmc.htm (996 words)

	GameSpy: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
		The third game in the Castlevania franchise is set 100 years before the first outing for Simon.
		Count Dracula is building up an army of evil that is set to conquer the land.
		Since Simon isn't born yet, a new Belmont by the name of Trevor is introduced.
	cheats.gamespy.com /nes/castlevania-3-draculas-curse (211 words)

	Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse
		Led by the immortal Count Dracula, the greatest army of evil ever assembled is
		Dracula is young at heart, and it will take more than a stake to
		Once the second fake Dracula arises, whip the lower two faces repeatedly until they're killed.
	www.playersc.com /castlevania3nes.html (418 words)

	Darkhugh's Den Guide to Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
		Castlevania 64 is slated for a fall release!
		This latest Castlevania adventure has been compared to Metroid: The castle is one, big, non-linear world that you can explore at random.
		The only unique one of these is the Dracula armor, and it's not even that great, but if you get it early on, it makes a nice temporary suit of armor.
	members.aol.com /HughSterb/reviews/drac/draculax.htm (4818 words)

	RPGFan Soundtracks - Dracula - Castlevania: Circle of the Moon/Concerto of Midnight Sun OST
		This CD contains the full soundtracks from the two Game Boy Advance Dracula games "Circle of the Moon" and "Concerto of the Midnight Sun" (the latter one apparently to be called "Harmony of Dissonance" upon it’s forthcoming release in the West).
		Why this is I have no idea, especially if we take into account the fact that this CD comes from Konami who is well-known for putting out high quality soundtracks not only compositionally, but also in regards to sound quality and mastering.
		Of course, there are marvelous breakings of this rule; the two most notable being "Offense and Defense" and "Successor of Fate," both bound to go down in CV history as classic action tunes.
	www.rpgfan.com /soundtracks/dracula-gba/index.html (1053 words)

	Castlevania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Demon Castle Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, considered by many Castlevania fans to be the "Holy Grail" of the series due to having been released solely on the Japanese PC Engine CD console, still easily sells for over a hundred dollars, as does the original Japanese version of the MSX installment, Vampire Killer.
		Subsequent Castlevania games have followed this new style, with the replacement of the secondary weapons by complex magic systems in which spell components are collected from enemies or found in the castle.
		Prior to the release of Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, every game in the series was accepted as canon, with the original versions of certain games (such as the original Castlevania and Dracula X) usually accepted as the canonical interpretation of certain events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castlevania (1929 words)

	Dracula Music Collection : SoundtrackCentral.com
		This is no half-hour excursion into the world of Castlevania; at 73 minutes, you get to feast from almost, if not every, Dracula/Castlevania game made at the time of its release, including games that never made it to the states.
		Interspersed from here on are other stage musics, such as "Bloody Tears" from Castlevania II or fan-favorite "Clock Tower" from Castlevania III.
		I can see why they were included - they're genuine Dracula music - but they don't really follow the mood set by the rest of the CD.
	www.altpop.com /stc/reviews/dracmusc.htm (596 words)

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