1391: Akumajou Dracula (Famicom) \\ Castlevania (1) Japan-exclusive Easy mode playthrough! ]_] ^ _^
1Playing through the Japan-exclusive Easy mode of the Famicom version of Castlevania, "Akumajou Dracula," extracted from the Steam version of Castlevania Anniversary Collection and played in Mesen.
I used this Steam version ROM extraction guide to access the ROMs: https://github.com/farmerbb/RED-Project/wiki/Castlevania-Anniversary-Collection
My Castlevania playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzM6KlxivQ4Idb8De6IBYTfY
0:00 - why?
2:46 - what's Easy mode?
4:10 - Go!
38:53 - darn Death
47:13 - why does Dracula wear a mask?
50:28 - wrapping...
57:36 - III: difficulty vs English version?
"You played the greatest role in this story" at the end is NOT different from the English version, I was wrong about that! And the castles were the same. ":P
The differences in Easy mode, per https://tcrf.net/Castlevania_(NES)#Easy_Mode :
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- Your default amount of hearts is 30 instead of 5.
- You start with 9 lives per credit instead of 3.
- Less damage is taken from enemies and bosses.
- Bosses take double damage from regular attacks and subweapons.
- Getting hit no longer knocks you backwards. Instead, you just get frozen in place for a split second.
- You retain your subweapon and double/triple shot powerup upon death, though getting a game over will take away the latter.
- The double/triple shot powerups are retained when picking up a different subweapon.
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It was indeed relatively easy and I only abused save states slightly. ^_ ^ The end fight is quite easy now! I had the most trouble against the second-to-last boss, who still has all those darned whirling scythe blades, plus there's the long run-up to him where I always take stupid hits. : P
4/29/23
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