Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse an action platforming game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This game is known in Japan as Akumajou Densetsu.

A new feature added for this game, there are three bosses that the player can recruit: Grant DeNasty (a pirate who can climb walls and is an expert dagger user), Sypha Belnades (a magic user, with various types of magic sub-weapons and a staff) and Alucard (Dracula’s son, who uses Fireballs and can change into a bat). Do note that you can only have ONE of these people on your team, and if you want a different one you have to exchange him/her for your current party member.

Another new feature is the “Choose Your Path” feature. After each stage, most of the time you are given a choice between two new stages to go to next.

Collection of small patches to improve the experience of playing Castlevania 3.

Version 1.4
-Added faster whip/fireball powerup pickup.
-Fixed castle map graphic glitches a few US patches have.

Version 1.3
-Added Remove Monster Subweapon Drops Japanese version.
-Small improvement to Faster Door Animations both versions.

Version 1.2
-Added Faster Door Animations for Akumajou Densetsu.
-Fixed Faster Door Animations US patch so it works with all doors.
-Slightly better compatibility for Improved Controls US patch.
-Removed Improved Controls from Castlevania 3 Improvement patch.

Version 1.1
-Added all in 1 improvement patches that applies all patches for both US, and JP versions.
-Added reduced knockback, faster point countdown, and improved controls with Water Dragon fix patch for JP version.

Version 1.0
-Start out with, and swap between all 3 partners.
-Disable all enemy item drops including the annoying subweapon drops.
-Drop old subweapon on new subweapon pickup.
-Faster animations when entering doors.
-Faster animations switching between your partner.
-Bonus points start counting down immediately after touching crystal.
-Reduced knockback on hit.
-Improved movement, controls with fix for Bone Dragon King fight.

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