Got the urge to play this guy again for various reasons, and so I did. What a nice little thing this was, especially now that we look back and know classic Castlevania was dead as shit then and remains to this very day.

Also I've actually played the Gameboy game now so I can see what was considered essential to the experience (rolling eyeballs) and what was not (climbing ropes). Seriously even Dracula shoots rolling eyeballs at you.

This is honestly good! It's not the biggest game in the series, and you need to unlock a difficulty with any bite compared to the others, but it would be nice if you wanted a simple CV game. I beat it in a little over an hour, continuing just twice. The music is fantastic, some of the bosses look super cool. Just a little snack of a game. A little morsel. It was a downloadable budget title after all. There's a bunch of paths and secrets to find but no wild unlockables or anything like that. A tasty treat of a game. Shame you can probably only emulate it now because of the digital hellscape we live in. Oh well.

Oh Dracula makes like, cat noises in this one for some reason. That's interesting.