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* RuthlessRooftops: The game is set in Victorian London. In section 3 of Stage 2, the Wax Museum, the player has to jump over the blue rooftops of Victorian houses, just as he has to avoid ghost ladies clad in green, bats, and men with black suits and hands in their pockets.
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''Master of Darkness'' is an action platformer video game developed by Creator/{{SIMS|CoLtd}} and published by Creator/{{Sega}} for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and the UsefulNotes/GameGear (though it was called ''Vampire: Master of Darkness'' on that system) in 1992 and later released for the 3DS Virtual Console in 2013.
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''Master of Darkness'' is an action platformer video game developed by Creator/{{SIMS|CoLtd}} and published by Creator/{{Sega}} for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Platform/SegaMasterSystem and the UsefulNotes/GameGear Platform/GameGear (though it was called ''Vampire: Master of Darkness'' on that system) in 1992 and later released for the 3DS Virtual Console in 2013.
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''Master of Darkness'' is a video game developed by Creator/{{SIMS|CoLtd}} and published by Creator/{{Sega}} for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and the UsefulNotes/GameGear (though it was called ''Vampire: Master of Darkness'' on that system) in 1992 and later released for the 3DS Virtual Console in 2013. It's a platformer starring a psychologist named Ferdinand Social, who gets a weird message:
"Killer vampire. Go to Thames. Caution, caution, in the wake of Dracula!" And he must now clear five stages and defeat the vampire. The gameplay is really similar to ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'', with it involving classical horror and the gameplay being almost identical, but it has some other tweaks.
"Killer vampire. Go to Thames. Caution, caution, in the wake of Dracula!" And he must now clear five stages and defeat the vampire. The gameplay is really similar to ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'', with it involving classical horror and the gameplay being almost identical, but it has some other tweaks.
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''Master of Darkness'' is a an action platformer video game developed by Creator/{{SIMS|CoLtd}} and published by Creator/{{Sega}} for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and the UsefulNotes/GameGear (though it was called ''Vampire: Master of Darkness'' on that system) in 1992 and later released for the 3DS Virtual Console in 2013. It's a platformer starring a psychologist named 2013.
In Victorian London, fear grips the populace. A rash of unsolved murders have people huddling in fear, with whispers that the victims were killed at midnight, their bodies drained of blood. Dr. Ferdinand Social,who a psychologist and amateur paranormal investigator, is consulting his Ouija board when he gets a weird message:
"Killer vampire. Go to Thames. Caution, caution, inmessage, warning him of a vampire behind the wake evil, and that he should start his investigation at the Thames River. You then take control of Dracula!" And he must now clear Social, who travels across five stages going from Victorian London, to a [[WaxMuseumMorgue wax museum]], a [[CreepyCemetery graveyard]], a castle converted into a laboratory, and defeat finally stopping the vampire. The evil at [[HauntedCastle Dracula's castle]]. You begin with only a dagger, but can acquire more powerful weapons like axes, sabers, and staves, while picking up sidearms like stakes, pistols, bombs, and [[BattleBoomerang boomerangs.]]
While [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent very similar]] in gameplayis really similar to ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'', with it involving classical horror and themes to ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}},'' the gameplay being almost identical, but it game still has some other tweaks.a decent reputation and has enough new tricks to be enjoyable to classic gamers.
In Victorian London, fear grips the populace. A rash of unsolved murders have people huddling in fear, with whispers that the victims were killed at midnight, their bodies drained of blood. Dr. Ferdinand Social,
"Killer vampire. Go to Thames. Caution, caution, in
While [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent very similar]] in gameplay
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* AntagonistTitle: The title obviously refers to Dracula, who is the BigBad.
* BadassNormal: Ferdinand has no magical powers and uses ordinary weaponry, but he can still defeat Drac and various other monsters.
* BarrageOfBats: The vampire lord himself is the final boss. Among his attacks, he uses a circular barrier of three bats that flies around him and he releases at the player character.
* BigBad: {{Dracula}} is back and at it again. He has moved stop terrorizing Transylvania and moved his dealings to London instead.
* BigBoosHaunt: Given that this is a game where Dracula is the main antagonist, each level has at least a little bit of this.
* AntagonistTitle: The title obviously refers to Dracula, who is the BigBad.
* BadassNormal: Ferdinand has no magical powers and uses ordinary weaponry, but he can still defeat Drac and various other monsters.
* BarrageOfBats: The vampire lord himself is the final boss. Among his attacks, he uses a circular barrier of three bats that flies around him and he releases at the player character.
* BigBad: {{Dracula}} is back and at it again. He has moved stop terrorizing Transylvania and moved his dealings to London instead.
* BigBoosHaunt: Given that this is a game where Dracula is the main antagonist, each level has at least a little bit of this.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The manual has an extended plot featuring a fellow occult investigator and psychic named Julia Arkham being abducted, and Jonathan Harker as a good friend giving advice, but that doesn't play out in the game, only starting with Social consulting his Ouija board. The ending only briefly mentions Harker in a way that makes it seem like he was living in Transylvania at the time.
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: This game is inall essence a ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' game made for the Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear without Creator/{{Konami}}'s involvement.
* AntagonistTitle: The title obviously refers to Dracula,who is the BigBad.
though he's more of a GreaterScopeVillain
* BadassNormal: Ferdinand has no magical powers and uses ordinary weaponry, but he can still defeatDrac vampires and various other monsters.
* BarrageOfBats: Thevampire lord himself is the final boss. Among boss, among his attacks, he uses a circular barrier of three bats that flies around him and he releases at the player character.
* BigBad: Though {{Dracula}} isback and at it again. He has moved stop terrorizing Transylvania and moved his dealings often mentioned, the main villain is Count Massen, channeling the powers of Dracula to London instead.
haunt England.
* BigBoosHaunt:Given that this is While most levels certainly have a game where Dracula is haunted undertone given the main antagonist, each level has at least game's theme, Stage 3 takes place directly in a little bit of this.graveyard.
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: This game is in
* AntagonistTitle: The title obviously refers to Dracula,
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* {{Dracula}}: The vampire Dracula himself serves as the villain. There aren't any Belmonts to take him down here, but fortunately Dr. Social is up to the task.
* EvilOverlooker: The game's cover art depicts Dracula as such, though it's different for each version. The Master System version's cover art depicts an illustrated Dracula looking down at Dr. Social as the former summons an army of monsters from within his cape to attack the latter, while the Game Gear version's cover art depicts a photo-realistic Dracula looking down at his castle.
* EvilOverlooker: The game's cover art depicts Dracula as such, though it's different for each version. The Master System version's cover art depicts an illustrated Dracula looking down at Dr. Social as the former summons an army of monsters from within his cape to attack the latter, while the Game Gear version's cover art depicts a photo-realistic Dracula looking down at his castle.
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* {{Dracula}}: The vampire Dracula himself serves Often mentioned as the villain. There aren't any Belmonts to take him down here, but fortunately Dr. Social is up to true source of the task.
evil, though not it's guiding hand. Count Massen is channeling Dracula's power, and appears to be gaining his abilities as well.
* EvilOverlooker: The game's cover art depicts Dracula (Or at least a vampire) as such, though it's different for each version. The Master System version's cover art depicts an illustrated Dracula looking down at Dr. Social as the former summons an army of monsters from within his cape to attack the latter, while the Game Gear version's cover art depicts a photo-realistic Creator/BelaLugosi like Dracula looking down at his castle.
* EvilOverlooker: The game's cover art depicts Dracula (Or at least a vampire) as such, though it's different for each version. The Master System version's cover art depicts an illustrated Dracula looking down at Dr. Social as the former summons an army of monsters from within his cape to attack the latter, while the Game Gear version's cover art depicts a photo-realistic Creator/BelaLugosi like Dracula looking down at his castle.
* InsistentTerminology: The manual calls one primary weapon the stake, though it looks more like a cane or walking staff, while the secondary weapon that does look like a stake is called the 'projectile.'
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* OuijaBoard: In the opening cutscene, Dr. Social is seen using one that tells him to go to Thames River, where Dracula was last seen. You see it again in the continue screen, and finally during the closing credits.
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* OuijaBoard: In the opening cutscene, Dr. Social is seen using one that tells regularly communes with a Ouija board for advice. The beginning of the game has it giving him to go to Thames River, where Dracula was last seen. You see it again in the continue screen, message to start his investigation at Thames. It's also used for the [[PasswordSave password screen]] and finally during the closing credits.end credits.
* PasswordSave: The Ouija board is used to input a password to take you to the later stages, though you start without any powerups.
* PasswordSave: The Ouija board is used to input a password to take you to the later stages, though you start without any powerups.
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* WaxMuseumMorgue: Stage 2 is a wax museum. It's alluded that the evil wants to kill Social and make him into an animated wax doll to replace Jack the Ripper.
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* BarrageOfBats: The vampire lord himself is the final boss. Among his attacks, he uses a circular barrier of three bats that flies around him and he releases at the player character.
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''Master of Darkness'' is a video game created developed by Creator/{{SIMS|CoLtd}} and published by Creator/{{Sega}} for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and the UsefulNotes/GameGear (though it was called ''Vampire: Master of Darkness'' on that system) in 1992 and later released for the 3DS Virtual Console in 2013. It's a platformer starring a psychologist named Ferdinand Social, who gets a weird message:
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* EvilOverlooker: The game's cover art depicts Dracula as such, though it's different for each version. The Master System version's cover art depicts an illustrated Dracula looking down at Dr. Social as the former summons an army of monsters from within his cape to attack the latter, while the Game Gear version's cover art depicts a photo-realistic Dracula looking down at his castle.
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* BigBoosHaunt: Given that this is a game where Dracula is the main antagonist, each level has at least a little bit of this.
* ClockworksArea: Act 3 of Round 3 takes place in a clock tower. You see spinning gears in the background and travel across pendulums, and at the end of the stage, you fight Count Massen atop clock hands.
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* OuijaBoard: In the opening cutscene, Dr. Social is seen using one that tells him to go to Thames River, where Dracula was last seen. You see it again in the continue screen, and finally during the closing credits.
* PowerUpLetdown: The dagger is the main melee weapon you start out with, and can only do one point of damage. Stronger melee weapons in the game can do more damage points[[note]]sabers do two, but have the longest reach, stakes do three, and axes do four, but have a shorter reach than sabers and stakes[[/note]], so if you have one in your inventory and collect the dagger, you're back to using it until you can find another stronger melee weapon.
* PowerUpLetdown: The dagger is the main melee weapon you start out with, and can only do one point of damage. Stronger melee weapons in the game can do more damage points[[note]]sabers do two, but have the longest reach, stakes do three, and axes do four, but have a shorter reach than sabers and stakes[[/note]], so if you have one in your inventory and collect the dagger, you're back to using it until you can find another stronger melee weapon.
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* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: Played literally; Round 5 starts you off in the dungeon of Dracula's castle before navigating a maze that leads you to Dracula himself.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is the first boss.
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''Master Of Darkness'' is a video game created by for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and the UsefulNotes/GameGear (though it was called ''Vampire Master Of Darkness'' on that system) in 1992. It's a platformer starring a psychologist named Ferdinand Social, who gets a weird message:
"Killer vampire. Go to Thames. Caution, caution, in the wake of Dracula!" And he must now clear five stages and defeat the vampire. The gameplay is really similar to ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'', with the mechanics and atmosphere being similar.
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!!This game provides the following tropes:
* AntagonistTitle: The title obviously refers to Dracula, who is the BigBad.
* BadassNormal: Ferdinand has no magical powers and uses ordinary weaponry, but he can still defeat Drac.
* BigBad: Dracula.
* {{Dracula}}: Serves as the villain.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The axe is the best melee weapon (it deals high damage despite it's short range) and the stake is the best ranged weapon (it deals high damage but isn't found until endgame).
* MeaningfulName: The psychologist's name is Ferdinand '''Social'''.
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''Master Of Darkness'' is a video game created by for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and the UsefulNotes/GameGear (though it was called ''Vampire Master Of Darkness'' on that system) in 1992. It's a platformer starring a psychologist named Ferdinand Social, who gets a weird message:
"Killer vampire. Go to Thames. Caution, caution, in the wake of Dracula!" And he must now clear five stages and defeat the vampire. The gameplay is really similar to ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'', with the mechanics and atmosphere being similar.
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!!This game provides the following tropes:
* AntagonistTitle: The title obviously refers to Dracula, who is the BigBad.
* BadassNormal: Ferdinand has no magical powers and uses ordinary weaponry, but he can still defeat Drac.
* BigBad: Dracula.
* {{Dracula}}: Serves as the villain.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The axe is the best melee weapon (it deals high damage despite it's short range) and the stake is the best ranged weapon (it deals high damage but isn't found until endgame).
* MeaningfulName: The psychologist's name is Ferdinand '''Social'''.
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