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Playing through the Japan-exclusive Easy mode of the Famicom version of Castlevania (see entry 1571), "Akumajou Dracula," extracted from the Steam version of Castlevania Anniversary Collection (see entry 1570) and played in Mesen (see entry 1536).
I used this Steam version ROM extraction guide to access the ROMs: https://github.com/farmerbb/RED-Project/wiki/Castlevania-Anniversary-Collection
"You played the greatest role in this story" at the end is NOT different from the English version, I was wrong about that! And the castles were the same. ":P
The differences in Easy mode, per https://tcrf.net/Castlevania_(NES)#Easy_Mode :
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- Your default amount of hearts is 30 instead of 5.
- You start with 9 lives per credit instead of 3.
- Less damage is taken from enemies and bosses.
- Bosses take double damage from regular attacks and subweapons.
- Getting hit no longer knocks you backwards. Instead, you just get frozen in place for a split second.
- You retain your subweapon and double/triple shot powerup upon death, though getting a game over will take away the latter.
- The double/triple shot powerups are retained when picking up a different subweapon.
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It was indeed relatively easy and I only abused save states slightly. ^_ ^ The end fight is quite easy now! I had the most trouble against the second-to-last boss, who still has all those darned whirling scythe blades, plus there's the long run-up to him where I always take stupid hits. : P
This Japanese cartridge version came out after the US version, and fixed the crash bug in that version. Before this one, Japan had the original version, for the Famicom Disk System. "Easy" mode was new to this JP cartridge version. |
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| | | | Akumajou Dracula for FDS was 1986; the Famicom version didn't come along until 1993! |
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| | | | The stodgy action kind of fits the Gothic romance theme. |
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