Castlevania
Castlevania

Castlevania

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A lone violin plays a slow, haunting take on "Bloodlines" from Rondo of Blood over the title screen, and it sets the tone perfectly. Castlevania on the Nintendo 64, usually called Castlevania 64, was the series' first step into full 3D, and Konami's Kobe team leaned as hard into dread and isolation as into action. Years later, Game Informer pinned its lasting pull on its "desperate lonely atmosphere," and that is exactly what stays with you.

You choose between two heroes. Reinhardt Schneider, heir to the Belmont clan, fights with the whip and a short dagger, while Carrie Fernandez, a young orphan with magical power, fires homing energy orbs and slashes with rings. Both can wield the series' classic sub-weapons, the axe, knife, cross and holy water, now fueled by red jewels instead of hearts, and both set out to stop a Dracula who has reawakened in 1852 after nearly a century of slumber.

What makes the game memorable is how much of it plays like survival horror. An internal clock drives a day and night cycle: some doors open only under the sun or the moon, vampires grow stronger after dark, and the vampire Rosa can only be met in the Villa's rose garden at sunrise. Take sixteen or more in-game days and Dracula's forces win out in a bad ending. The Villa's hedge maze, where you follow the boy Malus while enemies you cannot defeat stalk you, is a standout, as is the Castle Center's magic nitro run, where one jump, fall or hit means instant death. The Duel Tower is nothing but boss fights under a slowly descending ceiling, and GameSpot's review simply told readers to wait until they saw Death.

Reviews were generally positive, though many critics found the controls stiff and felt it fell short of the 2D classics. Time has been kind to its ambition: Yasuomi Umetsu's anime-style character art, a castle inspired by Mont Saint-Michel, a Villa modeled on French châteaux and nods to Rondo of Blood throughout. This is the original version of the adventure that Legacy of Darkness later expanded, with Reinhardt's and Carrie's levels as first designed and their voiced cutscenes intact, and the cartridge that opened Castlevania's 3D era.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1999
Publisher
Konami
Players
Single player
About the game

Take control of Reinhardt Schneider, a whip-toting Vampire Killer who has waited his whole life to meet his destiny, or Carrie Fernandez, a young girl with a strong magical presence who is mysteriously drawn to Dracula's evil Castlevania. It is their duty to seek out Castlevania and put an end to its residents' plans. What is your destiny?

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