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 patch completely changes the pallets, rearranges the levels and it also relocates certain items from the original Castlevania game for the NES. In doing that, it provides you the player with additional challenges and at the very least a great alternative to the original game if not a completely brand new experience. Are you up to the challenge? you better be up to the challenge! and you better have your leaping skills finely tuned too and your trusty whip ready as a plethora of pitfalls and a new horde of relentless enemies await.

Additional Info:
-player now begins with 5 lives
-player now begins with 10 hearts
-1 small heart equates to 2
-1 large heart equates to 7

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