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Born in Nintendo's Famicom Disk System peripheral (a floppy disk/diskette drive for the japanese NES) in 1986 as a rather standard action-platformer with (in?)famously stiff gameplay, the original Akumajou Dracula was a surprise hit, receiving ports for the MSX2 OS (under the name of Vampire Killer), arcades (under the name of Haunted Castle) and finally a cartridge conversion (which was re-released much later in Japan with selectable difficulty levels) for the western NES, whose success made the Castlevania name stick to the franchise like industrial glue, at least in non-asian territories. The fact that this is a quality release for the Turbografx/PC-Engine is especially nice since in the west the system didn’t really get the range of high quality/profile titles it deserved in it’s lifetime.Castlevania - Rondo of Blood (english translation) Review by: pollution_skunk - 10/10 HOT RICHTER-ON-MAIDEN ACTION! If there is one videogame franchise that transitioned perfectly between different eras and hardware while successfully mixing things up considerably between each installment, it's Konami's classic Castlevania/Akumajou Dracula (Dracula's Demonic Castle) series. The attention of detail put into this specific reproduction, the age of the game and time between the original and repro release, and spotty release history in the west are all important factors to consider in my eyes when assessing the ethics and validity of a game getting a reproduction and in the case of Rondo of Blood all of these factors are favorable. So in this particular case, I’m giving the ethical wonderings of this repro release a pass. It’s a special circumstance of a piece of hardware getting a release it should have been afforded roughly twenty years ago. Also, the platform of choice for this release is a dead system to begin with, one that never got an official release of Rondo of Blood in the west anyway. However, we aren’t talking about modern system releases right now, or to be honest, a well operated Konami.