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** But in the good ending of ''Dracula X Chronicles'', the castle does fall whether you are Richter or Maria.
* {{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
** In Stage 5, there's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRUtoJjA1Eg Captain's Portrait], which takes a couple of hits to kill. If the portrait catches you (and your subweapon doesn't kill it fast enough), it will [[One-Hit Kill|kill you in one hit]].
* [[Boss Rush]]: Stage 6, where Shaft resurrects the first four bosses from the NES ''Castlevania''.
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* [[Rain of Blood]]: Richter'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 Richter luck.
* [[Secret Level]]: Stage 5
* [[Shout-Out]]: The [[Captain Ersatz|Dogether]] boss is named in reference to ''[[Bastard!!]]'''s Suzuki Dogezaemon, and naturally the original [[Dungeons & Dragons|Beholder]].
* [[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
* [[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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