Castlevania Bloodlines - All Bosses (No Damage, Expert) for Sega Genesis. 'Castlevania: Bloodlines', known as 'Vampire Killer' in Japan and as 'Castlevania: The New Generation' in PAL regions, is. Castlevania: Bloodlines (1994) was the first Castlevania entry produced for a Sega console, the Genesis, and was not re-released until 2019 on the multi-platform Castlevania Anniversary Collection. In 1997, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Castlevania Legends were launched for the PlayStation and Game Boy, respectively.
.: December 1993.: February 1994.: March 1994.: 18 March 1994Mode(s)Castlevania: Bloodlines is a developed and published by for the. It was the only video game released on the Genesis.The game's storyline concerns a legendary named, who is 's niece, suddenly appearing in the 20th century.
Plotting a sacrificial war in order to bring her uncle back to life, she orchestrates the beginning of. Quincy Morris' son, John, and his best friend Eric Lecarde, vow to take up the fight against evil. Together they manage to prevent Dracula's full resurrection.
Each player-character has special controls and abilities. Using the, the player can attack enemies diagonally up as John Morris.As with most early Castlevania games, players proceed through each level, defeating enemies and collecting gems (hearts in previous games) to power special weapons (in this game, the axe, boomerang, and holy water).
Each stage is sectioned, and has a sub-boss battle in the middle, with a main boss battle at the end. Some items will increase the power of the characters' weapons. Some portions of the game split into different paths, depending on which character is chosen. John is able to swing past huge gaps with his whip, whereas Eric must use a different route by performing high jumps by using his spear.In addition to the first level (Dracula's castle in ), there are another five levels set in other countries —,;,; a weapon factory in; the, in; and the fictional Castle Proserpina in.Bloodlines is also noteworthy for its abundance of special effects, such as the Atlantis Shrine's water reflections, the swaying tower of Pisa, and large multi-jointed bosses. The final stage even uses effects to add challenge, such as playing upside-down or playing while the screen divides up into sections. The 'Item Crash' feature (from ) makes its return in Bloodlines.Plot. The cast of characters.In 1897, the long war between humanity and Dracula came to an end, as Dracula was laid to eternal rest by, a distant descendant of the Belmont family.
Peace was restored to Europe, until the outbreak of the First World War, which transformed the continent into a dark world filled with massacre and violence. At the beginning of the war, in June 1914 at, the Crown Prince of was assassinated. It was said that a strange beautiful woman was involved, within the shadows. The woman was Elizabeth Bartley, who, in order to revive her uncle, Count Dracula, had conducted an unholy ceremony which caused the war, giving her possession of human souls from Europe.The game itself takes place in 1917. The characters are John Morris, a distant descendant of the famed Belmont and Morris families who obeyed his fate to fight vampires day and night, and Eric Lecarde, whose girlfriend was transformed into a vampire when Elizabeth was revived.
After resurrected Elizabeth Bartley by using black magic (Drolta is a subservient witch of Elizabeth), they traveled across Europe to conduct the resurrection of Count Dracula. John Morris and Eric Lecarde followed them. Even though the resurrection of Dracula was a success, the vampire hunters defeated him, and his allies.Development and release The game was originally released as a side story of the Castlevania series. The packaging artwork for the North American version was created by Tom Dubois, who also designed the packaging for many other Konami titles outside Japan. In the version, Eric's facial design appears more masculine in the intro, but in the Japanese version, his facial features are more feminine (i.e., ). Although his masculine face was retained in the intro of the European and versions, his feminine face was kept for the cover.Castlevania: Bloodlines underwent censorship during to PAL regions in Europe and Australia. The word blood was kept out of the title at the time.
Therefore, the title was altered to Castlevania: The New Generation. When the game starts, the blood from the bottom of the title screen was changed to water. Another thing that was changed for the title screen is that the North American and Japanese versions had blood dripping effects from the title to the blood pool, but in the European version, the title screen just faded in through pixelated text and had no blue water dripping effect. The zombies were changed from pink to green to make them less gruesome. In the European version, Eric's spear does not impale him after he dies.
There was a rearrangement of enemy placement as well, making the difficulty either easier or harder depending on where in the game the player is.The game was released in most regions in 1994.On May 16, 2019, the game was included in the Castlevania Anniversary Collection, released for, and, marking the first time that the game has ever been re-released in any form.On September 19, 2019, the game was included in the (Sega Mega Drive Mini in Europe and Japan). Audio The music of Bloodlines was composed by, who later garnered acclaim for her score for and subsequent handheld Castlevania adventures. Though she once admitted to have worked under extreme pressure and deadlines, this soundtrack met the standards of the previous entries and is highly regarded on its own for its gloomy atmosphere. The music for the second level, titled 'The Sinking Old Sanctuary,' was reused in later Castlevania games, for the, and, for the.The main themes for each of the first levels of the three NES Castlevania games ( Vampire Killer, Beginning) are accessible in-game with a code, can be played in the sound test and one will be chosen randomly to play when the player obtains the maximum weapon power level.
Also, Nothing to Lose (the Castle Keep theme for the NES Castlevania) was played in the final part of the first stage. Theme of Simon (from ) plays after defeating Elizabeth and before the battle with Dracula.Reception ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScore83.50%Review scorePublicationScore28/40Japanese game magazine gave it a score of 28 out of 40.named Castlevania: Bloodlines the 8th best Genesis game of all time out of a list of 25. 's Tim Turi praised the level of gore relative to other Castlevania titles at the time. He also called it 'one of the most overlooked treasures in the franchise.' In a 1997 Castlevania retrospective, said that while the graphics and sound were not as impressive as those of, it was a strong game by Genesis standards. February 1994.
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Konami sought to bare its Genesis fangs with the debut of its longest-running and most critically acclaimed series of all time, Castlevania. Mournfully, veteran vampire hunters will find that Castlevania suffered a heavy loss of game play, as well as visual and audio appeal, during the jump from the immortal SNES version,.
Descended from GreatnessThe continent: Europe. The date: June 1914. The evil: Dracula.The immortal Count's niece, Elizabeth Bartley, has been resurrected. Elizabeth's no stranger to blood-letting, having slain more than 800 young women in her 15th century vampiric heyday. Secretly she precipitates the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, touching off World War I. She plans to use the souls of the slaughtered bodies from the war to bring her uncle back to life. Gruesome, eh?
Would this kind of story line ever appear in a Nintendo game? The skele-dragons only turn around if you hit them.
Fearless Vampire HuntersOne of Bloodlines' more unique features is your ability to play as either John Morris or Eric Lecarde. Morris packs the familiar whip.
He can strike horizontally or diagonally, and he has the ability to rope-hook the ceiling and swing across. Lecarde carries a versatile spear, which can strike horizontally or vertically, and it can also be used to attack surrounding enemies in a cool back-and-forth motion. Lecarde's also got a Spear High Jump, which resembles the Super Squat Jump from.The format of game plays identical to the classic NES games. You run and jump over platforms, whipping any power-up weapons are usual: Boomerang, Axe, and Holy Water. In Bloodlines, if you pick up a weapon more than once, you increase its strength.
Unfortunately, some of the best power-ups from the previous games are now missing (such as the Shot Multiplier, the Pocket Watch, and the Dagger).Due to the limited continues, Bloodlines is more challenging than its predecessors, even though it has only half the levels of other Castlevanias. Replays can be infuriating, since you must enter the entire icon-based password every time you lose a game if you wish to conserve the precious continues. In this weird multi-scrolling room, watch the placement of your feet to calculate the jumps. In Level 2, you can walk underwater, but don't let the screen drag you or you'll take a hit.Haunted Graphics and SoundsBloodline's graphics look like the 8-bit colors and have all the quality of an NES game. The small characters and somber, often limited backgrounds leave you wanting more. However, the game does have some cool effects and big, bold scenery in places, such as the giant collapsing skull bridge, the upside-down room, and an innovative multi-scrolling technique that moves the platforms at different speeds.While the music and sounds are pretty good by Genesis standards, they are a definite downgrade from the orchestral, near-CD quality of s SNES audio. For Castlevania fans, it's a downer.
The skeletons regenerate in the Munitions Factory. To defeat these eye-patch soldiers, keep your distance and throw Boomerangs.Simon Wouldn't Be ProudThe ghost-hunting, undead- busting action in Castlevania satisfies the average blood- lust, but for Castlevania crazies it's more of a sip than a gulp. Missing in Bloodlines are Castlevania IVs more refined whip techniques: using your whip as a shield, whipping in eight directions from any position, and ample opportunities to swing from your whip.Also, Bloodlines has only two warriors; even for the NES had four. Additionally, in III you could swap between characters in midstage, and that's not possible in Bloodlines. Be very careful when you copy down passwords. Try devising an A-D and 1-4 grid and coding each entry on the grid.
That way you can write passwords down by hand. Hit the Level 2 boss from below with axes and your whip to cut him down to size. Use the slowdown to your advantage and dodge the falling rocks.Down for the CountBloodlines is a satisfactory action game, but it belongs in the lower reaches of the Castlevania lineage. One wonders how Konami could make games so perfect in heart, body, and soul as through IV, and then drive a stake through the Genesis version. The Bloodlines run dry.
Machine: Genesis;. Manufacturer: Konami;They keep killing him, and killing him, and killing him, but he won't stay dead! Count Dracula's back - again - and this time he's terrorizing Genesis owners. Lucky for us, those trusty Belmonts are back, too, this time in the form of John Morris and Eric Lecarde, two descendants of the famous vampire-killing family.Unfortunately, the Count's got help, too, in the form of Elizabeth Bartley, a female vampire who awaits our heroes along with the usual assortment of zombies, ghouls, and the rest of Drac's undead army. Can our brave adventurers prevail over such horrible dangers? Sure!We've been waiting for this one, and I'm extremely pleased to say that it was worth every second.
Fans of the earlier Castlevania games will love Bloodlines, with its mixture of classic Konami game play and new-fangled 16-bit wizardry. The special effects is fantastic!However, as good as the game is, it could have been better. The graphics occasionally look a bit stale, with dull, flat renditions of stages from early 8-bit Castlevania titles. And although the hero of Super Castlevania 4 was enhanced for his move to SNES, the guys in Bloodlines (you choose the one you want to portray) are back to being the same little characters from the NES games. There's nothing wrong with them, but they're so tiny that they look a little out of place on a 16-bit machine.Aside from a few rough spots, Castlevania: Bloodlines is a real winner. Konami evidently labored over each and every inch, and there are new surprises around every turn. There's even a little blood n' gore - zombies splatter in half and blood drips from the ceiling.
Bloodlines is great for fans, and if you haven't tried a Castlevania game, now is a great time to jump in. Manufacturer: Konami.
# of players: 1. Difficulty: Moderate. Available: 1st qtr.
'94. Theme: ActionCastlevania is ready to enter the Sega lineup of titles! This time around, the descendant of Simon Belmont, named Johnny Morris, teams up with his spear- wielding friend Eric Lecarde, to rid the world of the possible curse of Dracula once again! The villain this time is a noble lady who gathered all the evils over the world and is going to start a ritual that will revive the Count into this world, and you must be able to stop his forthcoming or the world will see doom and disaster once again!This version of Castlevania will have a much more dark and foreboding tone to it, giving a much more horrific presence to the game. Also, there is plenty of gore to feast your eyes upon, everything from dripping blood from the ceiling to dead bodies being gnawed on by birds and flies. Also, you can power-up your weapon four times as well as increase the power of your special weapons via spheres of energy. The specials can be boosted up to two times their normal power.Be warned, these screen shots are only preliminary, and still have a lot of tweaking and backgrounds still to be dropped in.
So, hopefully, these additions will be made so that this title may become the best and bloodiest Castlevania to date! So, even though your whip can't go limp, it still has the power to do, the damage!. ActionKonami is bringing yet another of their great video game series to the Genesis.
The newest game in the looks to be hot! Subtitled Bloodlines, look for an all-new quest for our favorite vampire slayer! Once again, our hero is armed with his trusty whip and a few items he finds along the way.
He must do battle with the creatures of the night, and bring peace back to Transylvania.Castlevania: Bloodlines is definitely a top-notch cartridge. Like its predecessors, it features highly detailed backgrounds and a chilling soundtrack.
Now Genesis fans can get a taste of what Super NES players have been drooling about. Castlevania: Bloodlines is on its way! Castlevania fared well on the Genesis. Set in the early 1900s, Bloodlines has two vampire killers to choose from: the whip-toting John Morris (a Belmont descendant) and his friend, the lanceman Eric Lecarde. Lecarde's the more powerful of the two and easier to beat the game with.
This time there's also a female vampire queen to deal with.Bloodlines' graphics and sound aren't on par with 's, though the game does have its share of cool visuals, including ascending a rocking tower, battling across a lake that turns to blood, and a dynamite opening cinematic. The Belmonts are back with a blood lust for the baddest biter around. That's right, look what the cat Drac'd in, folks. It's an interview with a vampire, and with so much at stake, the Count had better take it to heart (ouch!). Fangs for the MemoriesGenesis owners have been waiting breathlessly for Konami to bring its classic Castlevania series to the Sega systems. Castlevania Bloodlines, an action/adventure side-scroller with graphics and game play similar to the rest of the games in the, brings new blood to the popular series, as well as a lot of new bite.The story's hero is John Morris, the great grandson of Dracula-slayer Quincy Morris, and a dedicated vampire hunter himself. You can also play as Eric Lecarde, a young man who wants revenge against the witch who turned his girlfriend into a vampire.
During the adventure, you travel through castles, haunted ships, and more as you search for the father of all vampires, the Fang Sinatra of bloodsuckers. Dracula.John is armed with the patented Belmont whip, while Eric uses a spear. The spear-tossing Eric can also super jump, and both characters collect weapons, life bar power-ups, and more to fortify themselves during their. Tooth or DareKonami's first Castlevania foray for the Genesis looks to be filled with ghoulish fun, lots of thrills, and plenty of excitement in the true Castlevania tradition. Castlevania: Bloodlines is the first and the only game released for Mega Drive/Genesis, 17 years ago, on March 17, 1994. The game was developed by Konami, company which is well known today for developing Pro Evolution Soccer, and was released for the first time in North America, but releases followed in Europe and Australia.
Though the game had only a 'GA' rating, it contained too much violence and a lot of blood and gore, so the game was censored in Europe and Australia, and renamed to.As in all the games of that period, Castlevania was based on levels as well. The hero had to pass through each level by defeating enemies and collecting different medals, called gems. Each stage has different levels of difficulty, but there is always a sub-boss battle in the middle, and a big boss battle in the end, to pass to the next level. There are two characters the gamers can choose, John and Eric. While the first one can swing past huge gaps, the second one must use different routes by performing high jumps.The game is also known for its high amount of special effects, with Atlantis Shiner's water reflection or the tower of Pisa.The story of the game starts in 1917, 20 years after the war between humanity and came to an end.
The First World War transformed the peaceful world into a dark one, full of violence. John Morris and Eric Lecarde are the two main characters of the game.John Morris has been summoned to stop the Countess Bartley before she manages to fulfill her plan. He is a smart and skilled vampire. Eric Lecarde is a master lanceman, whose actual reason for joining Eric is the fact that the Countess turned Gwendolyn, his love, into a vampire. John does not know Eric's real reason, and believe Eric joined voluntarily.The action does not happen in Dracula's castle, and not even in Romania, unlike most Castlevania games. The action happens in Athens, Pisa, Germany, Versailles and England, in the fictional Castle Proserpina.
The player, however, is placed in the same environment as in the previous versions of the game. He is still in the middle on now-archetypal designs, though the exact places have changed.The game was received well by the critics, and got a lot of good feedback, but unfortunately there are not many statistics on the internet regarding the number of sold copies. Sega 16 offered a 9/10 rating, Game Informer offered 8.5/10, Game Pro gave 3.5/5 and Electronic Gaming Monthly rated the game with 8.25/10. Overall the game was received well and it was fairly popular back in 1994.
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