Castlevania is an action platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Known in Japan as Akumajou Dracula ("Demon Castle Dracula"), this game is about a clan of vampire hunters known as the Belmonts hunting down and killing Dracula himself.

You play as Simon Belmont, and fight your way through Dracula's castle (known in English as "Castlevania", a portmanteau of Castle and Transylvania, har har). You have many weapons at your disposal. Your main weapon, the Vampire Killer whip has somehow been passed down through the Belmont clan for generations. You can get power ups for that (essentially changing it from a leather whip, to a short chain, and longer chain whip). You also have many sub-weapons, which require hearts to use. These include a knife, throwing axe, holy water, cross boomerang and stopwatch (which freezes all enemies on screen). You can only throw one of these in a certain period of time, unless you get the "II" and "III" powerups.

This Castlevania hack was created after many months of work as an alternate version of the original, increasing a little the difficulty of it but, instead of simply throwing more enemies like in the second run of the game, it has all the levels modified, colors and some graphics but done in a way that keeps the feel of what made this game so great.

You will face new puzzles, enemy placements, boss fights, alternate paths and other challenges. Test your whipping precision, jumping skills and timings. See if you can find all the hidden treasures this time before the fight against Dracula and his new trap!

For more details, watch this 4 minutes video of the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYbmRqCXD18

UPDATE v2.0

. Many level design changes, making better use of the available area on the screen

. Second stage boss, "Queen Medusa", puts up a better fight

. Bug fixed on the final stage by removing the elevated floor which caused Dracula's second form to eventually get stuck

. Changes in some levels design to prevent the Medusa Heads from having an erratic behavior

. Some enemies are better placed

. More puzzles included and others tweaked

. Graphical updates adding more visual details in many areas of the game

. Bug fixed on the bridge stage, with the physics of the character corrected if falling off

. More "flying candles" removed and better positioned

. Other minor adjustments throughout the game

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