was recommended to play this version instead of the version of castlevania 3 released in the west... not sure if i like this or castlevania 1 more but damn the musical and graphical upgrades the famicom disk system adds are incredible for the time. both kicked my ass but gotta give 1 some brownie points for putting a checkpoint right at dracula. for this game's dracula fight i used my one and only save state bc a game over puts you right back at the beginning of the level instead and i wasnt about that shit. forgive me.... my goofy ass probably couldnt handle finishing the western version at all... i'm a fake gamer ahh....

EDIT: it was the VRC6 chip responsible for those upgrades not the famicom disk system..... i'm even more of a fake gamer now ahhhhhh.......