Castlevania: Rondo of Blood: Difference between revisions

* {{spoiler|[[Bishonen Line]]: In Dracula X Chronicles, when you defeat both of Dracula's forms, he reverts back into his human shape, only to go into a third form, unique to Dracula X Chronicles, which is basically just his human form, with six bloodstained wings. The ensuing fight is much harder than either of his other forms.}}

* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: The Great Armor (Armor Lord) at the end of the alternate path of Stage 2'. You also encounter ''two'' of them in the upper path of Stage 5'.

* [[Boss Rush]]: Stage 6, where Shaft resurrects the first four bosses from the NES Castlevania.

** Another unlockable Boss Rush was added in the PSP [[Video Game Remake]].

** Subverted with Carmilla; she coughs up a bunch of hearts instead, boosting your score.

* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Maria has a very small hit box, a [[Double Jump]] (one of the first, if not ''the'' first, characters with this), can abuse her slides and [[Sonic the Hedgehog|rolling]], and has four subweapons she has constant access to.

** Oh, Maria also has an insanely high-damage [[Invulnerable Attack]] Spell, although you need to know the input combination first.

*** This is an entirely different attack from the Item Crashes, which both characters have access to (though the Item Crash is different, depending on the subweapon - and Maria's subweapons are quite different from Richter's,) and which are also generally [[Invulnerable Attack]] moves which do high damage.

* [[Reformulated Game]]: The SNES version, ''Castlevania: Dracula X''. Since the SNES version was made on a 16-Megabit (2-Megabyte) cartridge, while the PC Engine version was a CD-ROM game (540-Megabyte), a straight port was pretty much impossible, so the stages were replaced completely to fit into the smaller ROM size. The plot is pretty much the same, except that Maria and Annette were now sisters, the other two girls are missing, and Shaft is nowhere to be seen. [[Demoted to Extra|Maria is no longer a playable character]]; when she is rescued, she simply wishes Richter luck.

* [[Secret Level]]: Stage 5', which is only accessed after beating the game at least once (in the PC-Engine CD version), or by defeating Death in Stage 5 (in ''The Dracula X Chronicles'').

* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: It starts at the serious end with Richter, but when you play as Maria it shifts to the silly side.

* [[Spooky Painting]]: The aforementioned Captain's Portrait in Stage 5.