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''Castlevania'' (Japanese: ''Akumajō Dorakyura Mokushiroku'', "Demon Castle Dracula Apocalypse"), [[SuperTitle64Advance commonly referred to as]] ''Castlevania 64'', was the [[VideoGame3DLeap first 3D entry]] in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' franchise, one that was later given an UpdatedRerelease known as ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness'', which both included a prequel sequence, somewhat expanded and remixed levels, and improved upon the controls.

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''Castlevania'' (Japanese: ''Akumajō Dorakyura Mokushiroku'', "Demon Castle Dracula Apocalypse"), [[SuperTitle64Advance commonly referred to as]] ''Castlevania 64'', was is the [[VideoGame3DLeap first 3D entry]] in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' franchise, one that was later given an UpdatedRerelease known as ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness'', which both included a prequel sequence, somewhat expanded and remixed levels, and improved upon the controls.
controls. ''Castlevania 64'' debuted on January 26, 1999 in the USA and shortly thereafter was released in the other regions.
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* CameraScrew: Almost a given for early 3D platforming.
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* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: You're tasked with fetching a flask of nitroglycerin to blow open a crack in a wall, which requires you to go to the laboratory and back. Jumping or getting hit sets off the explosive, requiring you to not only be extremely careful but choose your route very carefully.
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* StockSubtitle: Used for the Japanese title, which translates to ''Demon Castle Dracula: Apocalypse''.
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Most players think the games hit the PolygonCeiling really hard, especially in light of the 2D critical darling, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''. [[WordOfGod Koji Igarashi]], himself, effectively struck them from his official canon at the same time he disowned ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegends'', but he seems to have warmed up to them significantly in later years -- they were both included in the more recent publications of the ''[=CV=]'' timelines (though [[BroadStrokes minus the descriptions]]), and ''Legacy of Darkness'' star Cornell has roles in both ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment Judgment]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow Lords of Shadow]]''.

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Most players think the games hit the PolygonCeiling really hard, poorly handled their {{Video Game 3D Leap}}s, especially in light of the 2D critical darling, ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''. [[WordOfGod Koji Igarashi]], himself, effectively struck them from his official canon at the same time he disowned ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegends'', but he seems to have warmed up to them significantly in later years -- they were both included in the more recent publications of the ''[=CV=]'' timelines (though [[BroadStrokes minus the descriptions]]), and ''Legacy of Darkness'' star Cornell has roles in both ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment Judgment]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow Lords of Shadow]]''.
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** Lizardmen armed with [[ProngsOfPoseidon tridents]], [[DualWielding dual weapons]], and swords and shields are an encounter in the Underground Waterway and inside Dracula's castle.

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** Lizardmen armed with [[ProngsOfPoseidon tridents]], tridents, [[DualWielding dual weapons]], and swords and shields are an encounter in the Underground Waterway and inside Dracula's castle.



* NoNameGiven: The Fernandez Warrior Carrie fights is never named.

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* NoNameGiven: The Fernandez Warrior that Carrie fights is never named.
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* PantyShot: Carrie in her Pink dress edition.

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* NoFinalBossForYou: [[spoiler:For Reinhardt or Carrie, if you spend too much time fiddling around in the game, Charlie Vincent, who you meet in the Villa, will get turned into a vampire (this can be hard to do normally, but abusing the Sun and Moon cards ''will'' result in this happening). Charlie will then stop you one room before you reach Dracula's Crypt and force you to fight him, and he dies at the end of the fight (it's possible to fight both him and Renon if you were also a heavy spender at Renon's shop). Should this fight take place, you'll only fight the first form of the FinalBoss, Dracula's Servant, and the game will end with the real Dracula, Malus, surviving and, for Reinhardt, Rosa does not come back to life and is essentially sentenced to Hell. For Cornell, you'll get a second and last fight with Dracula's Servant after defeating his first form no matter what the situation.]]



* NoFinalBossForYou: [[spoiler:For Reinhardt or Carrie, if you spend too much time fiddling around in the game, Charlie Vincent, who you meet in the Villa, will get turned into a vampire (this can be hard to do normally, but abusing the Sun and Moon cards ''will'' result in this happening). Charlie will then stop you one room before you reach Dracula's Crypt and force you to fight him, and he dies at the end of the fight (it's possible to fight both him and Renon if you were also a heavy spender at Renon's shop). Should this fight take place, you'll only fight the first form of the FinalBoss, Dracula's Servant, and the game will end with the real Dracula, Malus, surviving and, for Reinhardt, Rosa does not come back to life and is essentially sentenced to Hell. For Cornell, you'll get a second and last fight with Dracula's Servant after defeating his first form no matter what the situation.]]

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* NoFinalBossForYou: [[spoiler:For Reinhardt or Carrie, if you spend too much time fiddling around in the game, Charlie Vincent, who you meet in the Villa, will get turned into a vampire (this can be hard to do normally, but abusing the Sun and Moon cards ''will'' result in this happening). Charlie will then stop you one room before you reach Dracula's Crypt and force you to fight him, and he dies at the end of the fight (it's possible to fight both him and Renon if you were also a heavy spender at Renon's shop). Should this fight take place, you'll only fight the first form of the FinalBoss, Dracula's Servant, and the game will end with the real Dracula, Malus, surviving and, for Reinhardt, Rosa does not come back to life and NoNameGiven: The Fernandez Warrior Carrie fights is essentially sentenced to Hell. For Cornell, you'll get a second and last fight with Dracula's Servant after defeating his first form no matter what the situation.]]never named.


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* ReadTheFinePrint: Renon put a special clause into his contract with you- [[spoiler:spend more than 30,000 gold and your soul is forfeit]]- but put it in a demonic script that humans can't read.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Carrie, Malus, and Actrise.
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* StockSubtitle: Used for the original Japanese title, ''Demon Castle Dracula: Apocalypse''.

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* StockSubtitle: Used for the original Japanese title, which translates to ''Demon Castle Dracula: Apocalypse''.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Certain bosses are characters with a just cause turned into vampires, including Fernandez Warrior and and Charlie Vincent in the path to the bad ending.

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Certain bosses are characters with a just cause turned into vampires, including the Fernandez Warrior and warrior and Charlie Vincent in the path to the bad ending.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The [=N64=] games are the first games (and still one of the few) in the franchise to have vampires as common {{Mook}}s, and vampirism is even a [[StandardStatusEffects status effect]]. If you contract it and it's not healed in time, you get a NonstandardGameOver after watching your character sprout an angry face and fangs.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The [=N64=] games are the first games (and still one of the few) in the franchise to have vampires as common {{Mook}}s, and vampirism is even a [[StandardStatusEffects [[StatusEffects status effect]]. If you contract it and it's not healed in time, you get a NonstandardGameOver after watching your character sprout an angry face and fangs.



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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In the intro to the game, Malus plays a haunting song on his violin. The song is actually a DarkReprise of "Opposing Bloodlines" from ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood Rondo of Blood]]'', with a slower tempo.



* ThemeTuneCameo: In the intro to the game, Malus plays a haunting song on his violin. The song is actually a DarkReprise of "Opposing Bloodlines" from ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood Rondo of Blood]]'', with a slower tempo. The franchise's "Big Three" songs, Vampire Killer, Bloody Tears, and Beginning, also reappear, although never in the form of a full remix.
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Huge stretch. The time limit is 16 days, and the fact that this can be reached with 4 uses of the cards plus normal progression is just coincidence.


* FourIsDeath: [[spoiler:One of the ways to turn Charlie Vincent into a vampire and erase any chance of confronting the TrueFinalBoss in a playthrough is to speed up the clock by using four Sun or Moon cards; taking too long in the game will trigger the transformation, and that's considerably easier to do if you use the cards for any time where you're not really required to expend one. If you don't turn Charlie Vincent evil, you can have up to 4 bosses in the final area if you still spend too much on Renon and break your contract with him. There are also four mini-bosses in the Duel Tower, which has a semi-Asian feel to it.]]

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* FourIsDeath: [[spoiler:One of the ways to turn Charlie Vincent into a vampire and erase any chance of confronting the TrueFinalBoss in a playthrough is to speed up the clock by using four Sun or Moon cards; taking too long in the game will trigger the transformation, and that's considerably easier to do if you use the cards for any time where you're not really required to expend one. If you don't turn Charlie Vincent evil, you can have up to 4 bosses in the final area if you still spend too much on Renon and break your contract with him. There are also four mini-bosses in the Duel Tower, which has a semi-Asian feel to it.]]

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