April 11th, 2010 • Stephen Munn
Part 2 of the ThatGamingSite Castlevania Retrospective has been published. This one covers Belmont’s Revenge, Super Castlevania IV, Rondo of Blood on PCEngine, Bloodlines, and Dracula X on SNES.
I was all ready for them to bash Bloodlines a bit, which happens a lot, but thankfully they had lots of praise for that great game. They also [...]
March 19th, 2010 • Stephen Munn
Virtual Console title screen of Rondo of Blood from Nintendo.com
The release this week of Rondo of Blood on Virtual Console in North America has got me thinking about Castlevania game naming conventions. While they’re pretty haphazard, I’m pretty anal about consistency on things and I would rather things be pretty directly translated. There are some [...]
March 19th, 2010 • Stephen Munn
Rondo of Blood screenshot taken from Hardcoregaming101.net, shown 2x size
One of the things that’s so exciting about Rondo of Blood‘s arrival on Virtual Console is also one of the things Nintendo has taken some criticism for over the years: an almost universal unwillingness to allow developers to “fix” the games before their release. Localization problems [...]
March 17th, 2010 • Stephen Munn
I was careful to avoid watching videos of Adventure Rebirth before I beat it, but I don’t feel quite as much concern over Rondo of Blood. That’s probably because it’s an older game, and I’ve already played through the PSP remake, which is, at its core, the same game.
This YouTube video shows a complete Stage 1 [...]
March 17th, 2010 • Stephen Munn
When I complained that the North American VC release of Rondo of Blood wasn’t localized from the Japanese version, it turns out I was lying. Someone noticed that the German dialog that the game begins with is different in the North American edition, not only featuring a different voice actor, but somewhat revised dialog as well. [...]