Release
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Player score
78/100
Platform families
1
Editorial overview
Inside Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
What it is
A port based on Castlevania: Symphony of the Night's expanded re-release for Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles.
Jump, dash and slash your way through Dracula’s vast castle as Alucard while encountering a unique array of enemies and characters along the way. Rediscover the world of Castlevania through one of its most iconic and groundbreaking games.
Unique to the mobile port is a new Continue function, allowing you to resume progress right in the room where you died. The pause-menu screen has also been completely redesigned for a modern aesthetic as well as touch-screen optimization and high-resolution artworks/backgrounds. Choose between using an external controller, or the default touchscreen controls which provide convenient on-screen button-shortcuts for spells and transformations. Unlock achievements with hard-fought battle milestones.
The premise
It was Richter Belmont, the legendary vampire hunter, who succeeded in finally ending the menace of Count Dracula, Lord of the Vampires, who had been brought back from the grave by the dark priest Shaft in Rondo of Blood. However, one night 4 years later, under the glare of a full moon, Richter mysteriously vanished.
With no idea where to begin her search, Maria Renard set out to look for him. It was then that fate intervened. Castlevania, the castle of Dracula, which is rumored to appear once every century, suddenly materialized from out of the mist as if to show her the way.
Meanwhile, powerful forces were struggling for the soul of a man named Alucard. The very same Alucard who had teamed up with Trevor Belmont to battle his immortal father, Count Vlad Tepes Dracula. Alucard, in order to purge the world of his own cursed blood line, had submerged his vampiric powers and entered into what was supposed to be an eternal slumber. But now, he is awake and aware of the evil once again at work in his homeland.
The time has once again come for the forces of Good and Evil to engage in their ancient battle. Dracula's castle beckons you…
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