Kid Dracula
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yamamanama67 days until the vernal equinox
And I'm back with two more days of Horrormas after a bout with the stomach bug. Or something. I have no idea what.
This is basically Parodius but for Castlevaina.
Parodivania, in fact.
It’s equal parts remake and sequel to the Famicom version, which wasn’t released outside of Japan not due to Japaneseness but due to sorcery.
the main theme is based on Claude Debussy’s Golliwogg’s Cakewalk, which is itself a parody of Wagner. Citation needed but yeah, I can hear it.
The cutscenes took twenty screenshots a pop because they can only fit so much on the screen.
I mean, you get a time limit, but yeah.
Also, Death has a D on his cloak. That’s how we know he’s Death and not just skeleton Igor. The manual calls him The Cross Eyed Creep but that’s just a euphemism.
the music in this stage is a happy version of a tune from Castlevania III.
The obligatory zombie corridor. They’re not called anything special in the manual, or indeed, anything at all. Maybe the The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies was too obscure for them.
is he Alucard? Probably not because he’s over 10,000 years old. Or maybe the implication is that this game is set in the future.
The knights throw their lances at you.
We’re just kind of skimming over all the features of Dracula’s Castle. This game isn’t about it.
This guy is Frankenpunk and not just Abby Normal.
The jump is too far. Whatever shall we do?
Press select to change spells.
Hitting an enemy with a charged attack yields a coin.
he’ll jump really high a few times and then shoot a fireball at you.
And he’ll run away when he takes some damage.
he shoots three fireballs at you.
these guys had the symbols on their foreheads removed because of their unintentional (excuse me?) resemblance to the KKK. They also show up in Lost Word of Jenny, which was not made by Konami. I don’t know if there’s something Japanese I’m missing.
This guy’s staff makes him impervious to attacks from the front.
But he eventually collapses in exhaustion. Treasure was founded by ex-Konami employees so I think they reused that “dodge old man’s attacks until he collapses” thing for Dynamite Headdy.
These guys are called The Ghosts of Halloween Past, Present, and Future, if you were wondering.
It’s probably the best attack in the game. it hits overhead and it’s a charged attack so you get a coin.
Let’s check out the coin minigame.
Crimson Coin Collection Game. You’ll have to take their word on that because the Game Boy is y’know, monochrome.
These guys throw knives at you.
The owls swoop at you.
Don’t be fooled by this game’s cutesy style, it can be pretty hard in places.
Shades the Kid-Eating Plant is just a name.
You can see Percy Pinchaloaf lurking in the tree.
Don’t let the owls grab those Shades.
This is The Trout That Wouldn’t Die. Except he’s easy to kill.
you have to fly over the bridge halfway because that’s all the time you have and then as soon as you land, jump and turn back into a bat.
it sure is lucky we stumbled on this old abandoned summer camp.
you think you’ve beaten him when he retreats back into his cabin but then
he pulls out a shotgun.
And now he’s defeated.
She’ll shuffle the spheres around.
Just watch them carefully. I’m going to show them all off, which is why I made a save state here.
In the manual, it gets the much more impressive “Magical Skull and Romanian Battle Swords Sweepstakes” but that won’t fit.
it’s basically Pop Up Pirate, although the new version seems to imply that your objective is to be the one who frees him from the barrel.
After the minigame, we go into the sky.
This is Rod Lightning.
You can duck under the ufo or hit it with bats.
Eventually Rod Lightning will destroy one of your cars.
He’s not the boss though. The Spirit of the Last Fried Chicken You Ate is the boss.
he’ll fly overhead and spawn his babies for easy coins. His last revenge is an egg which hatches one last enemy.
It’s like falling to the ground and missing, except in reverse.
AKA Bat Snatch Challenge.
Some people call it the easiest of the minigames.
But what if we did Poppin’ Ghostloons with your Fangstick Fandango?
Totally misinterpreted this as “jump to the top of the screen using the balloons like this was Winterbells or something” but what you actually want to do is pop the light colored balloons for lives and avoid the dark balloons because they just waste time.
Or the Transylvanian Version of Rock, Paper, Scissors?
Which works a lot like the regular rock, paper scissors except you bonk your opponent when you beat him
or defend when you lose.
Note that it happens way too fast to take screenshots and play effectively at the same time.
This is Witchy Wench.
he can’t be hurt when his shield is in front of him.
the skeleton bowls his head at you.
A lot like Monster in my Pocket but he doesn’t regenerate his head immediately after.
Donkey Kong must be here. I know it’s a Konami game but he shows up in Symphony of the Night and that wasn’t even on a Nintendo console.
there are some fake floors in this area. Well, not really fake floors because you can walk back and forth on them to your heart’s content but if you fall on top of them, they’ll do a flip and send you through.
the witch acts sort of like Death, that is to say, throws a scythe at you in an arc.
May have been a bit easy.
he has eyebeams and an extendo arm. you have to hit the head.
We’re not going to need this in the next stage.
Get equipped with Umbrella Lagosi (they meant Lugosi as in Béla.)
The bat umbrella is completely impervious to damage. Good thing Dracula didn’t have this when fighting the Belmonts.
what is this, some kind of tube?
Step on the platform. that’s right. we’re going into space. It’s time for Kid Dracula 3000.
Bob Dole doesn’t need this.
the robots walk back and forth
the astronauts stop midway up the screen and then continue upwards.
It’s a rather short level.
Garamoth shows up with his darksaber
and can launch a wave at you which you can duck under, though it may singe your hair a little.
The game can’t be that short.
It’s just Trance Fusion, one of his minions. I guess trance music existed in the 1980s. He throws those mini weapon powerups from Mega Man at you.
Wait, this isn’t Super Mario Land 2.
And now we’re on another planet.
i guess even though he’s a vampire, he can go inside the sun itself.
that’s how you know it’s by Konami.
the umbrella can protect you from the pyroclasm.
It’s a My Little Manticore.
the platforms lower and you want to go in to avoid his attacks.
Galamoth has brought Abby Normal back to mine space mithril or whatever.
This is where the bombs start being useful.
“I am not a robot master.”
You can get crushed by these walls.
use the bombs to launch bricks at Metal, The Heavy, and dodge the bricks he shoots at you
and then do the same thing on a ladder,
which might be easier.
He looks familiar but I can’t remember what game I’m talking about. Lolo, maybe.
Phyllis Drillers look like Roberto.
stand back, I gotta practice my drillin!
This is The Illegal Alien from Planet X.
Just run through the corridor with the umbrella out.
final boss is your typical slogfest of that era.
In Symphony of the Night, he looks less like an alien and more like an Egyptian deity with the head of a Tyrannosaurus instead of some local wildlife but hey, aliens and ancient egypt go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
Anyway, you can only hit him when his mouth is open.
Roll credits.
But wait, there’s more! I didn’t actually know about this scene until I looked up some stuff afterwards. Good thing I saved during the credits, huh? Anyway, no idea what he means by that because there’s no sequel or bonus fight that I’m aware of.
burning question: but where are the moai?
And I'm back with two more days of Horrormas after a bout with the stomach bug. Or something. I have no idea what.
This is basically Parodius but for Castlevaina.
Parodivania, in fact.
It’s equal parts remake and sequel to the Famicom version, which wasn’t released outside of Japan not due to Japaneseness but due to sorcery.
the main theme is based on Claude Debussy’s Golliwogg’s Cakewalk, which is itself a parody of Wagner. Citation needed but yeah, I can hear it.
The cutscenes took twenty screenshots a pop because they can only fit so much on the screen.
I mean, you get a time limit, but yeah.
Also, Death has a D on his cloak. That’s how we know he’s Death and not just skeleton Igor. The manual calls him The Cross Eyed Creep but that’s just a euphemism.
the music in this stage is a happy version of a tune from Castlevania III.
The obligatory zombie corridor. They’re not called anything special in the manual, or indeed, anything at all. Maybe the The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies was too obscure for them.
is he Alucard? Probably not because he’s over 10,000 years old. Or maybe the implication is that this game is set in the future.
The knights throw their lances at you.
We’re just kind of skimming over all the features of Dracula’s Castle. This game isn’t about it.
This guy is Frankenpunk and not just Abby Normal.
The jump is too far. Whatever shall we do?
Press select to change spells.
Hitting an enemy with a charged attack yields a coin.
he’ll jump really high a few times and then shoot a fireball at you.
And he’ll run away when he takes some damage.
he shoots three fireballs at you.
these guys had the symbols on their foreheads removed because of their unintentional (excuse me?) resemblance to the KKK. They also show up in Lost Word of Jenny, which was not made by Konami. I don’t know if there’s something Japanese I’m missing.
This guy’s staff makes him impervious to attacks from the front.
But he eventually collapses in exhaustion. Treasure was founded by ex-Konami employees so I think they reused that “dodge old man’s attacks until he collapses” thing for Dynamite Headdy.
These guys are called The Ghosts of Halloween Past, Present, and Future, if you were wondering.
It’s probably the best attack in the game. it hits overhead and it’s a charged attack so you get a coin.
Let’s check out the coin minigame.
Crimson Coin Collection Game. You’ll have to take their word on that because the Game Boy is y’know, monochrome.
These guys throw knives at you.
The owls swoop at you.
Don’t be fooled by this game’s cutesy style, it can be pretty hard in places.
Shades the Kid-Eating Plant is just a name.
You can see Percy Pinchaloaf lurking in the tree.
Don’t let the owls grab those Shades.
This is The Trout That Wouldn’t Die. Except he’s easy to kill.
you have to fly over the bridge halfway because that’s all the time you have and then as soon as you land, jump and turn back into a bat.
it sure is lucky we stumbled on this old abandoned summer camp.
you think you’ve beaten him when he retreats back into his cabin but then
he pulls out a shotgun.
And now he’s defeated.
She’ll shuffle the spheres around.
Just watch them carefully. I’m going to show them all off, which is why I made a save state here.
In the manual, it gets the much more impressive “Magical Skull and Romanian Battle Swords Sweepstakes” but that won’t fit.
it’s basically Pop Up Pirate, although the new version seems to imply that your objective is to be the one who frees him from the barrel.
After the minigame, we go into the sky.
This is Rod Lightning.
You can duck under the ufo or hit it with bats.
Eventually Rod Lightning will destroy one of your cars.
He’s not the boss though. The Spirit of the Last Fried Chicken You Ate is the boss.
he’ll fly overhead and spawn his babies for easy coins. His last revenge is an egg which hatches one last enemy.
It’s like falling to the ground and missing, except in reverse.
AKA Bat Snatch Challenge.
Some people call it the easiest of the minigames.
But what if we did Poppin’ Ghostloons with your Fangstick Fandango?
Totally misinterpreted this as “jump to the top of the screen using the balloons like this was Winterbells or something” but what you actually want to do is pop the light colored balloons for lives and avoid the dark balloons because they just waste time.
Or the Transylvanian Version of Rock, Paper, Scissors?
Which works a lot like the regular rock, paper scissors except you bonk your opponent when you beat him
or defend when you lose.
Note that it happens way too fast to take screenshots and play effectively at the same time.
This is Witchy Wench.
he can’t be hurt when his shield is in front of him.
the skeleton bowls his head at you.
A lot like Monster in my Pocket but he doesn’t regenerate his head immediately after.
Donkey Kong must be here. I know it’s a Konami game but he shows up in Symphony of the Night and that wasn’t even on a Nintendo console.
there are some fake floors in this area. Well, not really fake floors because you can walk back and forth on them to your heart’s content but if you fall on top of them, they’ll do a flip and send you through.
the witch acts sort of like Death, that is to say, throws a scythe at you in an arc.
May have been a bit easy.
he has eyebeams and an extendo arm. you have to hit the head.
We’re not going to need this in the next stage.
Get equipped with Umbrella Lagosi (they meant Lugosi as in Béla.)
The bat umbrella is completely impervious to damage. Good thing Dracula didn’t have this when fighting the Belmonts.
what is this, some kind of tube?
Step on the platform. that’s right. we’re going into space. It’s time for Kid Dracula 3000.
Bob Dole doesn’t need this.
the robots walk back and forth
the astronauts stop midway up the screen and then continue upwards.
It’s a rather short level.
Garamoth shows up with his darksaber
and can launch a wave at you which you can duck under, though it may singe your hair a little.
The game can’t be that short.
It’s just Trance Fusion, one of his minions. I guess trance music existed in the 1980s. He throws those mini weapon powerups from Mega Man at you.
Wait, this isn’t Super Mario Land 2.
And now we’re on another planet.
i guess even though he’s a vampire, he can go inside the sun itself.
that’s how you know it’s by Konami.
the umbrella can protect you from the pyroclasm.
It’s a My Little Manticore.
the platforms lower and you want to go in to avoid his attacks.
Galamoth has brought Abby Normal back to mine space mithril or whatever.
This is where the bombs start being useful.
“I am not a robot master.”
You can get crushed by these walls.
use the bombs to launch bricks at Metal, The Heavy, and dodge the bricks he shoots at you
and then do the same thing on a ladder,
which might be easier.
He looks familiar but I can’t remember what game I’m talking about. Lolo, maybe.
Phyllis Drillers look like Roberto.
stand back, I gotta practice my drillin!
This is The Illegal Alien from Planet X.
Just run through the corridor with the umbrella out.
final boss is your typical slogfest of that era.
In Symphony of the Night, he looks less like an alien and more like an Egyptian deity with the head of a Tyrannosaurus instead of some local wildlife but hey, aliens and ancient egypt go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
Anyway, you can only hit him when his mouth is open.
Roll credits.
But wait, there’s more! I didn’t actually know about this scene until I looked up some stuff afterwards. Good thing I saved during the credits, huh? Anyway, no idea what he means by that because there’s no sequel or bonus fight that I’m aware of.
burning question: but where are the moai?
