I've played a lot of Castlevania this year, played Adventure Rebirth, Bloodlines, Circle of the Moon, and Legends. I thought why not, let's try out the Famicom game called Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula-Kun. This is basically a parody game similar to when they would make Parodius which was a parody on Gradius. I'm not too sure why they made this? Maybe it was because Akumajou Densetsu (Castlevania III) supposedly did poorly in Japan? Well regardless of that, how is the game? Well, it exists.
This game is is your simple action game with some themes you would never really expect from the series. It's even got some high action thrills which again is something that is pretty different for the series. Sadly that's about as interesting as the game gets. Don't get me wrong, it is fun but it's not like amazing fun.
You can also get new powers after the first 6 stages but a lot of them are situational and the only one I got a lot of use from was the homing orbs ability. Maybe I just wasn't testing them enough. I really want to like the bat ability but it feels too situational. There's also bonus stages at the end of each stage with stuff like doing the lottery and guessing the girls...shorts? Are they shorts? You can get a lot of extra lives doing this like I had 12 lives at the beginning of Stage 2.
The bosses are nothing to write home about (wait is that how you say that?) They are just your standard hit them till they go down and avoid easy to dodge patterns. Even the final boss is a joke, why is he so easy? Also whatever you do, do not play the game without knowing japanese unless you're playing a translated version because one of the bosses is a quiz section and it's all in Japanese. Though if you don't feel bad you could just spam save states too if you have the option.
This game looks fine but Idk I'm not really impressed by it either if I'm being honest. I like a lot of the cute sprites but none of the environments do it for me. The music is also your typical Konami polish but far from their best work. I do like the remix of Beginning for the first Stage.
While this game won't amaze you in any way, it's still good and not something to pass up. There is also a GB game though idk how different it is so maybe I'll play it someday. Sadly he never caught on though maybe that was never intended, who knows. Maybe casuals could get into this more but I think there are better games to play. It's hard to compete with the polish the other games in the series had.
This game is is your simple action game with some themes you would never really expect from the series. It's even got some high action thrills which again is something that is pretty different for the series. Sadly that's about as interesting as the game gets. Don't get me wrong, it is fun but it's not like amazing fun.
You can also get new powers after the first 6 stages but a lot of them are situational and the only one I got a lot of use from was the homing orbs ability. Maybe I just wasn't testing them enough. I really want to like the bat ability but it feels too situational. There's also bonus stages at the end of each stage with stuff like doing the lottery and guessing the girls...shorts? Are they shorts? You can get a lot of extra lives doing this like I had 12 lives at the beginning of Stage 2.
The bosses are nothing to write home about (wait is that how you say that?) They are just your standard hit them till they go down and avoid easy to dodge patterns. Even the final boss is a joke, why is he so easy? Also whatever you do, do not play the game without knowing japanese unless you're playing a translated version because one of the bosses is a quiz section and it's all in Japanese. Though if you don't feel bad you could just spam save states too if you have the option.
This game looks fine but Idk I'm not really impressed by it either if I'm being honest. I like a lot of the cute sprites but none of the environments do it for me. The music is also your typical Konami polish but far from their best work. I do like the remix of Beginning for the first Stage.
While this game won't amaze you in any way, it's still good and not something to pass up. There is also a GB game though idk how different it is so maybe I'll play it someday. Sadly he never caught on though maybe that was never intended, who knows. Maybe casuals could get into this more but I think there are better games to play. It's hard to compete with the polish the other games in the series had.