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''[[Castlevania]]: Rondo of Blood'' (originally released in Japan as ''Akumajō Dracula X: Chi no Rondo'') was released for the [[TurboGrafx-16|PC-Engine]] Super CD-ROM-ROM in 1993. Initially, [[No Export for You|it was only released in Japan]] but was finally ported to the [[
In 1792, the evil priest Shaft resurrects Dracula. In a [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|rare flash of brilliance,]] Dracula immediately attacks the current Belmont's hometown and tries to kill him right off the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bat.]] Richter Belmont was luckily out of town training. So, Dracula goes for plan B: [[I Have Your Wife|kidnap Richter's fianceé Annette]], a distant relative of the Belmont Clan named Maria, and two other villagers.
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* [[Japanese Sibling Terminology]]: Maria calls Annette "onee-chan" (big sis) and Richter "oni-chan" (big bro), despite not being directly related to either one. But since the SNES version turned Annette and Maria into actual siblings, it's easy to think otherwise.
* [[Joke Item]]: The Key is the strongest subweapon in the game, but it is very hard to hit anything with it. Also, see [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moments]] in the YMMV tab and [[Cherry Tapping]] above.
* [[Jump Physics]]: Your jumps aren't as clumsy as the NES trilogy, but aren't as controllable as [[Super Castlevania IV]].
** Richter's [[Double Jump]] is instead a very finicky (yet sexy) backflip. [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman|It's amazing how many attacks can be backflipped over, or how many ledges can be backflipped onto.]]
* [[Kaizo Trap]]: Defeated bosses would perform one final attack upon defeat. It could not defeat you, but it could ruin your vitality score and deny you the extra life you'd normally get for finishing the level with full health.
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* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Probably why Maria wears pants instead of a dress and has her hair tied back in ''Dracula X Chronicles''.
* [[Nostalgia Level]]
** Stage 1 is the Town of Veros from ''Simon's Quest'', combined with a portion of Stage 1 of ''Dracula's Curse''.
** Stage 2, as usual, is the Castle Entrance Corridor from the original NES game.
** Stage 4 is mostly taken from Stage 5 of the original game, though fortunately without the [[That One Level|horrifying Axe Armour/Medusa Heads corridor]], and without [[That One Boss|Death]] at the end.
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* [[Spooky Painting]]: The aforementioned Captain's Portrait in Stage 5.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: ''Dracula X'' was literally the tenth Dracula game released by Konami. Before this, there were the three NES games (3), ''Vampire Killer'' for the MSX2 (4), the arcade game ''Haunted Castle'' (5), the two Game Boy games (7), ''Super Castlevania IV'' for the SNES (8), and the X68000 version of the original ''Dracula'' (9).
* [[Title Drop]]: While the [[Alternate Character Reading|furigana]] in the game's subtitle reads ''Chi no Rondo'' for "Rondo of Blood," the literal reading is ''Chi no Rinne'', meaning "Metempsychosis of Blood." The latter is the title of the game's final stage (although the English version of the [[
* [[Unique Enemy]]: The man-eating plant/stone rose only appears once in a corridor in the village. Going in that direction is entirely pointless though, as it's a dead end. It's much more common in other games though.
* [[Updated Rerelease]]: ''Dracula X Chronicles'', which doubles as a [[Compilation Rerelease]], because it also includes the original version of the game, a slightly improved version of ''Symphony of the Night'', and even the joke mini-game ''Akumajo Dracula Peke''.
* [[Virgin Sacrifice]]: The introduction to the game, where a group of cultists, led by Shaft, sacrifices a woman to revive Dracula.
* [[Wasted Song]]: Arguably the ''Dracula X Chronicles''' remix of Poison Mind, since unlike the original it is only used for the final stage (and not Stage 6 bosses before Shaft), which is just a hop, skip, and jump to Dracula.
** However, the fact that you can use any unlocked song from the game in any level averts this.
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