Famicom Mini Akumajou Dracula on GBA, the original Castlevania in Japanese version. Brutal and iconic, still just as intense to play through. A must for any franchise fan.
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Compilation1 player12+
Description
GBA version of Akumajou Dracula released on Famicom Disk System, published by Nintendo in Japan in August 2004. Simon Belmont faces the six stages of Dracula's castle with his sacred whip and sub-weapons - holy water, axe, knife and pocket watch. The legendary difficulty of the Famicom original faithfully reproduced, formidable bosses and two possible endings based on completion time. Known in the West as Castlevania, twenty-ninth number in the Famicom Mini series.
Famicom Mini 29 - Akumajou Dracula review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
2/5
Story
★★★★★
"Classic"
Replaying the original Castlevania means rediscovering "Vampire Killer" and its cousins, among the finest chiptune melodies ever written. These heroic, anxious themes, etched into a whole generation's memory, stick to the whip-cracking action. An 8-bit sonic treasure replayed with undimmed pleasure.
Gameplay
"Solid"
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Engaging"
Difficulty
"Easy"
Lifespan
"Short"
Technical info
💾0,99 MB📅10/08/2004
Published by Nintendo
Famicom Mini 29 - Akumajou Dracula (GBA) price, value & rarity
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Collector interest
GBA reissue of the first Castlevania in the Disk System Edition of the Famicom Mini collection, a sub-series with a shorter print run. Konami's 1986 Disk System game founded one of the great gothic action-platforming franchises, laying down the whip, the sub-weapons and the climb of Dracula's castle. Its presentation reproduces the original disk's dress. Its collecting interest rests on this relative rarity of the Disk System Edition and on the status of the starting point of an emblematic Konami saga.
