Dracula II: Noroi no fûin (1987) (VG)

Director:

H. Akamatsu

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror

Tagline:

A nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to die there.

Plot:

In Castlevania II, Simon Belmont discovers that, even though he defeated Count Dracula in the original Castlevania, he is now under Dracula's curse and must collect Dracula's body parts and fight him again. |

Plot Keywords:

Dracula | Castlevania | Sword And Fantasy | Death | Stake

Also Known As:

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (USA)
Legend of Dracula II

Country:

Japan

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Company:

Konami Corporation

Trivia:

The often vague and non-specific hints of townspeople led gamers to believe the game suffered from a poor English translation. When one of the programmers was interviewed, however, he stated that this was not the case, and that the townspeople were deliberate liars, to make the game harder.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When you get one of Dracula's body parts, the word "possess" is misspelled as "prossess." This is corrected in later ports of the game like the Castlevania/Contra PC anthology.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Gamesmaster: (#1.1)" (1992)

Simon returns in an interesting Castlevania.

I actually won this game and did not win the first one. So Simon may have defeated Dracula in the first game, but I sure did not. The game is also very different than the first game and a lot easier as I could only get so far in the original. It also has a role playing aspect that was not present in the first game as Simon can visit a town or two and talk with people learning the location of various Dracula body parts. Which is the objective of the game, seems poor Simon is cursed and he must gather these parts to break the curse or face death. The fighting is quite like the first in some aspects, but different as it is a much easier game. You go through graveyards and stuff like that in the outer world and then you go into mansions to retrieve the body parts. The game also has a day/night changing in it too as the towns become infested with the undead and such when the night comes. You get certain skills too when you get the body parts, skills that are mainly used to help you proceed deeper into the quest and at the end two or three endings await you. I got two of the them, one somewhat happy the other quite sad.