Do you dare chase the shadow of Dracula?
Dracula: Resurrection is a series of point-and-click adventure games published by Microidsnote between 2000 to 2013.
Two of the games serve as follow-ups to the original novel Dracula, while the remaining three follow a story premise all their own with different characters involved.
The series is listed as follows:
- Dracula: Resurrection - Taking place seven years after the events of the novel, Jonathan discovers that his wife, Mina, is gone, and travels back to Transylvania to find her. The only clue he has to saving her is a mysterious artifact called the Dragon Ring.
- Dracula: The Last Sanctuary - An immediate sequel to the previous game, Jonathan returns to London with Mina to launch an investigation into the nature of the Dragon Ring. Along the way, Dracula keeps trying to collect the ring and hindering Jonathan's search for a way to save Mina from becoming a vampire once and for all.
- Dracula 3: Path of the Dragon - Father Arno, a priest of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, arrives in a local village to canonize a recently deceased doctor who dedicated her life to helping others. However, he stumbles upon strange events and legends of vampires that raise cause for concern...and questions as to whether Dracula is involved.
- Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon - The first part of the sequel to Path of the Dragon. Ellen Cross, an art restorer with a rare blood-related illness, is called to investigate the authenticity of one of the paintings supposedly lost at sea turns up in Budapest. Her investigation leads her to meet Adam Stoker, a descendant of the author Bram Stoker, and a mystery behind a strange sixteenth painting.
- Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy - The second sequel continuing where Shadow of the Dragon left off. Returning to New York, Ellen Cross works to investigate the painting when events transpire that lead to Istanbul and Chernobyl, where she uncovers a secret society led by Dracula's brother Radu, placing her in the middle of a conflict between the society and Dracula's followers.
Shared Tropes
- Cain and Abel: Dracula and Radu, the brothers that have been in conflict with one another.
- Dracula: Wouldn't be an adventure game without him involved, right?
Dracula: Resurrection
- Cool Plane: One designed by Leonardo da Vinci, which Jonathan uses to escape the castle with Mina in tow.
- Stripperiffic: The Brides, to the point their breasts and butts are very visible to the audience.
- Tap on the Head: Jonathan knocks out one of the thugs in order to acquire useful tools.
Dracula: The Last Sanctuary
- Actually a Doombot: The mechanical Draculas that hinder Jonathan's progress in the Theater Styx.
- Bat People: The first enemies Jonathan had to contend with while searching Carfax for clues.
- Dying as Yourself: Dr. Seward blows up the Theater Styx along with himself, preferring to not succumb to vampirism.
- The Renfield: Hopkins. However, he helps Jonathan more than once in his quest to stop Dracula.
Dracula 3: Path of the Dragon
- Actually, I Am Him: Arno meets a young nurse named Maria, who currently works as the doctor in place of the late Martha. He comes to discover that she is actually Martha, having accepted Dracula's offer of immortality in order to be beautiful again.
- Good Shepherd: Father Arno
- Lone Survivor: Arno was involved with a unit in World War 1, in which a shell killed all but him.
- The Many Deaths of You: If the player's not careful, Arno can get killed in many ways throughout the game.
- Taking You with Me: In a last-ditch effort to take out Dracula, Arno used the explosives to destroy the catacombs. Dracula survives, though.
Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon
- Famous Ancestor: Adam is descended from Bram Stoker in the game.
- Recurring Dreams: Ellen experiences these, implied to be one of the symptoms of her blood disease.
- Start to Corpse: The game intro has Ellen visiting a prison to acquire information from an art thief only to discover the man dead in his own cell.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Discussed by Ellen with the doctor in the intro.
Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy
- Anomalous Art: Dracula's painting, which acts like a mirror that allows him to observe the outside world.
- Big "WHAT?!": Ellen's reaction when she's informed by a stranger her friend Gerry was found dead in his apartment.
- Chernobyl: The Chernobyl exclusion zone is where Ellen travels to in order to find Dracula and the stolen painting.
- Mr. Smith: Lucy Murray is Ellen's forged identity provided by a mysterious "friend" to get out of the country without drawing attention.
- Multiple Endings: Ellen's fate is determined on how to respond to Dracula's offer of eternal life.
- If she rejects, Ellen knocks away the goblet of blood, only to be killed by Dracula, in which the blood reaches Adam and he awakens as a vampire.
- If she accepts, Ellen drinks the blood offered by Dracula, which brings about her change into a vampire.
- Surprise Pregnancy: Ellen gets quite a shock when Yanek points out to her she's pregnant with Adam's child.
- Wham Line: Ellen drops a bombshell on Adam after calling him out on the troubles she went through, including one detail that she found out from Yanek.
- Ellen: I'll die because of my illness, and you'll die because of the radiation you've been exposed to since your arrival. And I haven't even gotten to the child yet.
- You Remind Me of X: Adam attempts to exploit this on Dracula. He doesn't deny it, but he knew Adam was trying to get an opening to kill him.
