The major differences are the better graphics and larger color palette and the inclusion of a (short) FMV intro.īut it is obvious that the game designers used the PlayStation's power to enhance, but not change, the basic game at heart in fact, once you look past the graphics, you might swear that you are playing a classic 8- or 16-Bit game that you've grown up loving.
Symphony of the Night has the same traditional side-scrolling action as found in the previous games in the series. To the delight of Castlevania purists (at least here-in our offices). So you set off as Alucard to figure out what's going on. Being that this ancient castle only appears once each hundred years, you realize that strange events arc at work here. Castlevania mysteriously reappears out of season.
After Dracula is killed, you find out that Richter mysteriously disappears. The game starts out with you reliving the final events that happened in Dracula X as Richter. Although Alucard (Dracula spelled backward, in case you didn't figure it out yourself) is the main character, you will eventually find a way to play the entire game from the start as Richter Belmont as well. who was recruited in Castlevania 3 to help kill his evil pappy) is woken up from his self-induced eternal slumber to fight evil once again. In this installment Alucard (Dracula's son.
