Castlevania: Rondo of Blood

In Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, the player takes control of Richter, the Vampire Killer, guiding him through a total of nine stages filled with treacherous traps and hidden secrets. Using the legendary whip passed on from generations of Belmonts and a powerful selection of Item Crash attacks, it is up to the player to destroy Dracula and his evil horde. Rescuing Maria at some point in the game lets the player use her as a playable character as well. The game is a single-player, side-scrolling action platformer with a horror theme, developed and published by Konami. It was first released in 1993 for the PC Engine CD and later came to the Wii and the PlayStation Portable. The story begins with the rebirth of Count Dracula, the lord of Castlevania, a hundred years after he was last defeated. He can become a bat, a wolf or mist at will, lives in the night and drinks the blood of young maidens.