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''[[Castlevania]]: Rondo of Blood'' (originally released in Japan as ''Akumajō Dracula X: Chi no Rondo'') was released for 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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* [[Cherry Tapping]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwwJF4QT0gQ Somebody has actually defeated Dracula with the key.]
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: If you've been playing as Maria for a while and switch to Richter, there's a good chance you'll back-flip off a cliff or into an enemy at least once while attempting to double-jump.
** If you started playing Richter in ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Iris, Terra, Annette, and Maria Renard, the last of whom later [[Took a Level In Badass]] as she becomes a playable hero after you rescue her.
* [[Fingerless Gloves]]: Richter wears ''one'', just to handle his whip.
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* [[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'').
* [[Shout-Out]]: The [[Captain Ersatz|Dogether]] boss is named in reference to ''[[Bastard!!
* [[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.
* [[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 [[Play Station Portable|PSP]] port simply renders it "Bloodlines" to tie in with ''Symphony of the Night'' doing the same, dropping a [[Castlevania Bloodlines
* [[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''.
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