The PC Engine version was released in Super CD-ROM format, so Rondo of Blood has a redbook soundtrack and voice-acted cutscenes. You can enhance your subweapons into an Item Crash that usually fills the screen with large projectiles. The ending depends on which girls you rescue, and you can play the game as Maria if you find her. However, you can also find hidden exits to reach alternate paths through the stages to fight different bosses. Rondo plays similarly to previous Castlevania entries, mostly linear. So, Dracula goes for plan B: kidnap Richter's girlfriend Annet/Annette, a distant relative of the Belmont clan named Maria Renard, and two other villagers. Richter Belmont was luckily out of town training. In a rare flash of brilliance, Dracula immediately attacks the current Belmont's hometown and tries to kill him right off the bat. In 1792, the evil priest Shaft resurrects Dracula.

Initially, it was only released in Japan but it was finally ported worldwide to the PlayStation Portable with Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, and subsequently to the Wii Virtual Console note Like all imports, however, this one does not have any English translation other than what was in the game to begin with., to the PlayStation 4 as part of the compilation Castlevania Requiem and to the PC Engine Mini/TurboGrafx-16 Mini note Like the Wii release, the version on the Turbografx model has no further English translation.

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (originally released in Japan as Akumajō Dracula X: Chi no Rondo) was released for the PC Engine in 1993.

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