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''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}: The Dracula X Chronicles'' is a compilation release for Platform/PlayStationPortable from 2007, featuring [[VideoGameRemake a 2.5D remake]] of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'', the original ''Rondo'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''.

This version of ''Rondo'' closely follows the original game's story, but with additional cutscenes added. It also includes English voice acting, both for the remake and the original game.

For the examples concerning the original ''Rondo of Blood'' and ''Symphony of the Night'', see their respective pages.

!!''The Dracula X Chronicles'' remake provides examples of:

* TwoAndAHalfD: All entities and environments are rendered using 3D models, but the game still plays like a typical 2D ''Castlevania'' platformer.
* ArtEvolution: Richter wears his coat from ''Symphony of the Night'' buttoned up alongside his gloves, and Dracula wears [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/87/2b/1c/872b1c4ee307aaa5c87b3ee579e0e80c.png his outfit]] from ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness Curse of Darkness]]'' though [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/be/78/1e/be781ee767aec2e29f4ad31ba34fe6bd.jpg his face is much younger-looking]].
* BishonenLine: When you defeat both of Dracula's forms, he reverts back into his human shape, only to go into a third form, unique to ''The Dracula X Chronicles'', which is basically just his human form, with [[GoodWingsEvilWings six bloodstained wings]]. The ensuing fight is much harder than either of his other forms, and can only be fought if you rescued Annette, see MultipleEndings below.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The character redesigns of Annette, Tera, and Iris fit this, as opposed to their original 90's anime WorldOfTechnicolorHair appearance in ''Rondo of Blood''.
* BossRush: Beating the game once unlocks the Boss Rush mode, with 4 different sets of bosses depending on the path(s) you chose in the game.
* BrutalBonusLevel: The alternate Stage 5 has been completely reworked, cannot be accessed in the first playthrough, and isn't required for the best ending at all. It's also far more difficult than any other stage in the game.
* CallForward:
** The new OptionalBoss, the Hydra, is extremely similar in design and execution to Scylla from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'', complete with fighting one of the snake heads before fighting the main boss and three flunky heads.
** Shaft has some new dialogue before facing him and says a line that's either familiar to those who have already played ''Symphony'', or a further clue that not all is well with the lord of the castle in that game.
--->'''Shaft:''' Servants, come forth from the gates of Hell! Attack! Rid my master's castle of this pest!
* CallingYourAttacks: [[TheQuisling Shaft]] will helpfully say "Shaft of (some element here)" before using his orbs to attack you with ElementalPowers.
* CurseCutShort: Richter starts staying "You son of a..." before cutting himself off while saving Maria from Shaft.
* DownerEnding: If you fail to save Annette, Shaft's Ghost will save Dracula by blocking your finishing blow and teleport away with him.
* EmbeddedPrecursor: The original ''Dracula X'' games, which have to be found in the main game to be unlocked. Finishing the BossRush mode enough times unlocks the joke minigame ''Akumajyo Dracula Peke''.
* FanservicePack: Played straight with Annette, Terra, and Iris, who have all been given an upgrade to fit the BuxomBeautyStandard. Inverted with Maria, who now actually looks like a little girl rather than the [[YoungerThanTheyLook bizarrely busty beauty she was before]].
* GottaCatchThemAll: The game has collectable CD's which not only let you listen to the music in the SoundTest, but which can also be used to change the background music to customize your playing experience. They are necessary for the HundredPercentCompletion.
* GuideDangIt: ''Symphony of the Night'' and the original ''Rondo of Blood'' are not available from the start, but must be unlocked by performing specific actions in specific stages of the ''Rondo'' remake. You will almost certainly need a guide to find them.
* HeroismMotiveSpeech: Richter gives one after beating Dracula's third form.
-->'''Dracula:''' [[ThisCannotBe Impossible... You've beaten me?]]
-->'''Richter:''' I'm a Belmont. That's my job.
-->'''Dracula:''' [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil H-Humanity will call me back again. It always does. Its desire is insatiable...]]
-->'''Richter:''' [[VillainHasAPoint You're right. We never learn.]] But we'll have to someday. And in the meantime, if you do come back, someone like me will be waiting.
-->'''Dracula:''' Amusing... [[WeWillMeetAgain We shall meet again]], blood of Belmont!
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: As a demon hunter, this is Richter's justification [[MercyKill for killing]] [[TragicMonster vampire Annette]] if he fails to rescue her.
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: Dracula's reaction when defeated by Maria.
-->'''Dracula:''' [[ThisCannotBe Completely impossible]]! Beaten by a little girl!
* KarmaHoudini: Dracula becomes this if you fail to rescue all of the girls. Right after defeating his second form, the Prince of Darkness gets away with help from Shaft. Maria and Richter even express disappointment that Dracula got away.
* LastDitchMove: Almost every boss will try to hit you one last time in their death throes.
* MagicPants: Played straight with the Werewolf this time around, as he suddenly wears a little black loincloth when he turns back to human.
* MostDefinitelyNotAccompanyingUs: The revamped scene where Richter rescues Maria has him arguing with her that she's absolutely not accompanying him to fight Dracula. It takes a glimpse of her power for him to reluctantly change his mind.
-->'''Richter''': "Such power this girl holds." So this is what he meant. [...] You just won't take no for an answer, will you? All right. Fine. Come with me. [...] But promise me you'll run if things get too dangerous.
* MultipleEndings: You need to save both Iris and Terra in order to save Annette. Fail to save even one of the two and you gotta ShootTheShaggyDog for the DownerEnding. If you do save all three of them, then EveryoneLives HappilyEverAfter before ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]'' comes — at least those who survived the events. Maria is not required to get a good ending, and if you don't save her, she won't appear in the ending shot.
* MythologyGag:
** While the game's undeniably a ''Rondo of Blood'' remake, one element from the SNES ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaDraculaX Dracula X]]'' did make it in. Fail to save Annette, and she'll be vampirized and fought as the boss of Stage 7 in place of Shaft's Ghost. This leads to the DownerEnding.
** [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight "Behold my true form, and despair!"]] is present as a line Dracula can randomly say when entering his new final form in the main game. This isn't a CallForward because that line was retranslated in this game's ''Symphony'' port.
* {{Nerf}}: The subweapons and item crashes do much less damage than in the original game. Dracula's first and second forms were also made slightly easier (he stays vulnerable for longer in his first form, and his jumps are easier to dodge in the second), possibly to make way for his third form.
* NoFlowInCGI: Why Maria wears pants instead of a dress and has her hair tied back.
* OffWithHisHead: Grave Keeper enemy has a new death animation, where his head flies off while spurting blood.
* OminousLatinChanting: The boss theme from the original game is remixed into a fast-paced track featuring Latin vocals.
* OneWingedAngel: [[BigBad Dracula]] does this twice: the first time he changes from his human form into a big blue demon thing. Once you beat this form, if you've saved all the people in order to get the GoldenEnding, he turns into his "true form", which looks like his human form, but with six blood red wings.
* OptionalBoss: The Hydra in the alternate Stage 5 is one of the only three bosses in the game not present in ''Rondo of Blood'' and the only alternate boss who can't be fought on the normal stage.
* PetTheDog: It's a bit unclear, but Dracula himself may have this in Maria's route. Upon defeating him in the GoldenEnding path, he tries to tell her that power is the only thing that matters, yet she simply tells him that while she doesn't understand what that means entirely, he hurt too many people and that in itself is wrong. In a tone that seems both a mix of mockery... but also genuine admiration, depending on your interpretation of his tone of voice, he remarks that while the world decays, innocence "lives on in eyes like [Maria's]".
* {{Railroading}}: You ''will'' fight Death in the first playthrough. If you try to get a blue orb (which takes you to lower-path stages) in Stage 4 or 4', Death will appear (accompanied with an EvilLaugh) to change it to red, sending you to the GhostShip level where he resides.
* RainOfBlood: Dracula's opening move in his third form is a blood storm. You have to hide under him to avoid it.
* RealIsBrown: While the PC Engine version was very bright and colorful, the remake's environments are primarily dark shades of brown and gray. Downplayed in some areas though, especially in the castle.
* RemakeCameo: Creator/KiyoyukiYanada, Shaft's Japanese voice actor in the original ''Rondo of Blood'', plays Richter Belmont in the remake.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Richter's new design wears his headband as a white scarf.
* SequentialBoss: The final battle goes as thus: Dracula in the Throne Room -> Demon Dracula in a trippy vortex -> winged Dracula in [[FinalBossNewDimension a weird distorted dimension]].
* TheSwarm: Both Lesser Vampire and Dracula's third form have moves that has them attacking you with swarms of bats.
* TragicMonster: If you haven't rescued all the girls, Richter is forced to fight his girlfriend Annette at the end of the Clock Tower. The catch is that [[spoiler:she's turned into a vampire]].
* TrickBoss: A single Water Hydra with the usual boss life bar threatens you at the end of Stage 5', but when you kill it and climb above it, you find out it was just one head of the four-headed Hydra, and to take the monster out you must destroy its heart.
* TrueFinalBoss: Dracula's third form can only be fought after you rescue [[DamselInDistress Terra, Iris, and Annette]]. See MultipleEndings above.
* UpdatedRerelease: Also doubling as a CompilationRerelease, because it also includes the original version of the game, a slightly improved version of ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]'', and even the joke mini-game ''Akumajyo Dracula Peke''[[note]]Originally, this appeared if you tried to play the original game on a PC Engine with the CD attachment without using the "Super System Card", which contains version 3.0 of the BIOS needed to play this and other "Super CD-ROM2" (pronounced "Super CD-ROMROM") games. Playing it on a PC Engine Duo solves this problem, since it has the 3.0 BIOS built in.[[/note]]
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