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The PC-Engine used a CD-ROM, so ''Rondo of Blood'' had red book audio and the cutscenes had voice acting. This bump in production value led to Konami upping the values for their subsequent games.
A [[Reformulated Game|loose port]] was released for the Super Famicom titled ''Akumajō Dracula XX'' (as in "Double X") in 1995, which was released for the American Super NES as ''Castlevania: Dracula X'' and in Europe as ''Castlevania: Vampire's Kiss''. While the basic plot and game system remained identical to the PC Engine, the stages were all-new and a lot more linear (with only two hidden stages) due to the lower memory capacity of the cartridge format, and unlike the PC-Engine version, only
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** In ''Dracula X Chronicles'', she's wearing pants, so this trope doesn't even come up.
* [[Mana Burn]]: During the Carmilla Boss Fight, her assistant Laura will [[Personal Space Invader|grab you]] and drain your Hearts. For Richter, this attack looks like a [[Kiss of Death]], but on the shorter Maria, it looks more like [[Marshmallow Hell]].
* [[Motionless Chin]]: Appears in the animated cutscenes; most prominent in
* [[Multiple Endings]]: How the story ends depends on whether you save any or all of the [[Damsel in Distress|Distressed Damsels]] from the evil clutches of Dracula.
** In ''Dracula X Chronicles'', you need to save both Iris and Terra in order to save Annette! If you do not save all of them, sorry, [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]. If you do, [[Everyone Lives]] [[Happily Ever After]] before ''[[Symphony of the Night]]'' comes -- at least those who survived the events. Maria is not required to get a good ending. If you don't save her, she won't appear in the ending shot.
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* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Maria's dress.
* [[Rain of Blood]]: Dappen's death animation is this. Also, in the ''Dracula X Chronicles'', {{spoiler|one of True Dracula's attacks is a blood storm}}.
* [[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
* [[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'').
* [[Shout-Out]]: The [[Captain Ersatz|Dogether]] boss is named in reference to ''[[Bastard!!]]'''s Suzuki Dogezaemon, and naturally the original [[Dungeons & Dragons|Beholder]].
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