Game:

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (1993)

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Let's Play

Duration: 5:55:43

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Originally Recorded/Aired on October 28th, 2023

Happy Halloween! This entire month on #SuperOldGameSaturday, we've been celebrating the coming of Halloween today with our October Halloween block of games and, to conclude our offerings for 2023, we have the month's viewer request that, thanks to ElecVerse, is our next game in Konami's Castlevania franchise and our debut of a new system on the show. We're playing 1993's Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, the PC Engine Super CD-Rom2 game that we celebrated the 30th anniversary of with this show, but we used the port in Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles on the PSP. This great game was the debut of Richter Belmont in the series, as well as Maria Renard, and it's up to them to rescue Richter's lover Annette from the clutches of Dracula, who was resurrected by the dark priest Shaft in 1792, travelling through a group of levels with branching paths to reach the titular castle of Dracula that has also returned. As joined by ElecVerse and the best chat on Twitch, we gave this horror platforming classic the full treatment by going through every level and every path as we showed off both Richter and Maria's gameplay, all of the cutscenes, all of the bosses and much more as we shared all of our thoughts and memories on this game, the series, other things Konami (not all of them good, it must be said), the great music and atmosphere of this game and much more, including deep discussions on the voice performers in this version (in particular, David Vincent, Michelle Ruff, Jessica Straus, Karen Strassman and Tony Oliver), other projects of theirs like Persona and Diablo, the Castlevania Nocturne anime that's connected to this game, how we're able to run PSP on this show now with the best possible quality and much more. This was a terrific show for a terrific game and I thank ElecVerse for the request and for the input of him and the chat on this show and look forward to our return to this series in the future and for next year's Halloween block. Until then, I hope you all enjoy our play (and the extras I added in the edit here) of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and have a happy Halloween today (and if you like what you see, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag to see these streams live and join/help drive the conversations on what we play each week and also, to see the schedule for our next show, which is this Saturday, November 4th at 7PM EST)!

Also, here's the Link List, linking to everything myself and the chat referenced on this show:

A link to our full playlist of Halloween Block Shows (perfect for Halloween today), including our past Castlevania game plays of Castlevania Bloodlines and Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y9SpYgpxHY_yIdoLKgBUnu7

A link to an article by Alex Fuller describing the new English voice cast for the upcoming remake of Persona 3, that being Persona 3 Reload, courtesy of RPGamer.com:

https://rpgamer.com/2023/07/persona-3-reload-trailer-debuts-new-english-voice-cast/

A link to video showing the new voice actors for Persona 3 Reload speaking original quotes from the original Persona 3 games, provided by ElecVerse and courtesy of BuffMaister on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPq5tOxcCR4

A link to a playlist of every Johnny Vs. Castlevania video from SomecallmeJohnny on Youtube, provided by ElecVerse with the playlist courtesy of BCMaster on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA3usirRqhj2ZS4GEWOFZeoCi0VVBpAmd

A link to both of the Smackdown Sunday shows of The Super Gaming Bros. channel dedicated to Castlevania Judgment on the Wii, courtesy of The Super Gaming Bros. on YouTube:

Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpu1GqgqXis

Part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRZYztIb6c

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