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I sometimes forget that I only became as good as I am at videogames because of the formative butt-kickings of my youth. Nowadays, I can blaze through most standard-length platformers in a single sitting—my blind playthrough of Mega Pony is proof enough of that—but every once in a while, I’ll be reminded of what it took to get this far. Such was the case with Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, which started as a lazy Monday evening conquest and ended a full two weeks later.

On the surface, Rondo (I’ll call it Rondo, rather than RoB, to avoid confusion with Dracula’s other curse) is your typical classic-style (read: nothing like Metroid) Castlevania game. As Richter Belmont, descendant of whichever Belmont it was who passed down his hereditary robot legs, you’ll take on a resurrected Dracula and his army of monsters—gargoyles, bats, ghosts, golems, harpies, a minotaur, a sea serpent, even Death himself—who are terrorizing the populace out of contractual obligation. There is a castle. There might even be a vania somewhere. It’s hard to tell when the game is inconsiderate enough to speak a language not everyone on the planet can understand. The game’s not really named Castlevania: Rondo of Blood; that’s just what we call it in parts of the world where we can’t pronounce Akumajou Dracula X: Chi no Rondo (literally, “The Mojo of Dracula 10: Rondo of Chi”).

Evidently, this town buries its dead without pants.

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The story is told primarily through Japanese voice-acted cutscenes, with a little bit of German thrown in (no doubt to cater to the “I want to feel doubly alienated by only speaking English and Spanish” crowd). Even without having a clue what anyone is saying, it’s obvious that Richter’s quest also includes ~~rescuing a little girl, a nurse, a nun, and his girlfriend~~ picking up chicks, as far as I can tell. There’s also a kindly ferryman who speaks in Japanese text, so I guess I have no basis for determining he’s kindly. Fortunately, the words “GAME OVER” are written in English, so the part of the story where you’re an utter failure will be clear enough.

Rondo is tough as nails in a coffin, but it is surprisingly fair: our less-than-nimble hero suffers from what I like to call “Richter mortis,” but quick reflexes aren’t the focus of the gameplay. The game is all about pattern recognition and good timing, with a dash of creative problem-solving—it’s a puzzle game that plays out like a platformer. Can’t move quickly enough to dodge projectiles? Try knocking them out of the air with your whip. Keep getting hit by an enemy with long reach? Try smacking them once and retreating instead of trying to take them down before they strike. There are no cheap deaths or impossible challenges, just a lack of practice and experimentation. Well, aside from in Stage 5′, which looks like one of the developers let their kid play with the level editor without telling them there were more challenges available than “long, boring hallway with the same enemy over and over” and “randomly generated enemies knock you into a hole every time you jump”.

More like Rondo of Blub.

Without realizing I had a wide array of moves and attacks at my fingertips, I started off playing the game as a moron. Mash buttons until it dies! Don’t avoid attacks until you see them coming! It shouldn’t have come as a shock that I had multiple playing sessions where I didn’t clear a single stage—I was so hung up on what Richter couldn’t do that I had a hard time working a strategy around what he could do. As soon as I started looking things up and understood the full scope of his strengths and limitations, the challenge became figuring out how best to approach each situation, instead of figuring out why Richter was so dumb.

So you’ve got your standard-issue 300-something-year-old whip, which your ancestors used to obviously not kill Dracula well enough. With a little bit of finesse when you strike, you can double-tap the control pad to extend the reach of your Drac-thwapper. Whipping candles and suspicious-looking walls will reveal everything from money (which can be used on the menu screen to purchase hint videos) to life-replenishing food (eating meat that’s sitting in the wall of a dank castle is obviously good for your health) to bright red hearts and the versatile sub-weapons they power. It’s the usual assortment of Castlevania armaments—a boomerang cross, a high-arcing axe, flammable gag-gift holy water that is a riot at baptisms, and so on—but unlike previous entries in the series, you’ve got a few moments’ grace period to recover your old sub-weapon after picking up ~~that stupid stopwatch by accident~~ a new one.

Richter is about to be fired, while the wyvern will soon be getting the axe. Castlevania: Portrait of Unemployment.

Sub-weapons consume a modest number of hearts with every use, but you can expend a…um…what’s the opposite of modest? A promiscuous number of hearts to execute an Item Crush attack. Richter unleashes a deluge of daggers, a barrier of Bibles, or a flagellation of flames, depending on what he’s got equipped, and these powerful attacks are great fun to watch. Rounding out his move set are a backflip, a duck (the crouching kind of duck; attacking with an animal would be silly), the option to hop up stairs or intentionally Gerald Ford his way off them, a moonwalk to keep him in attack position as he retreats from enemies like a smooth criminal, and a mild midair course correction that might make him the first Belmont in history to jump like a normal videogame character. Richter is an exemplar of archaic gameplay refined to its limit—anything more, and you lose that classic Castlevania feel; anything less, and you remember why you hate playing classic Castlevania.

Cross my heart and hope to…make everything else die?

Despite my aversion to patience and strategy as requirements for basic survival in a platformer, I soon embraced Richter’s style of gameplay, in large part because the level design makes it work brilliantly. Rondo features some of the most thoughtfully and deliberately crafted stages I’ve ever seen in a Castlevania game—and yes, I’ve played enough of them for that statement to mean anything.

There’s at least one good opportunity to use all of Richter’s moves and powers, including the stupid stopwatch. There’s a superb learning curve that starts you off fighting cannon-fodder recruits in otherwise child-safe locations, graduates you to basic platforming with slightly stronger and trickier enemies, and culminates in challenges such as an entire stage that’s nothing but boss battles, a race across a crumbling bridge with flying enemies constantly at your back, and a really long staircase that’s completely uneventful but looks terribly exhausting to climb. Checkpoints are well-placed, as are the various items you can get from whipping walls and candles—search hard enough, and you’ll almost always find enough health or the right kind of firepower to give you a fair shot at getting to the next checkpoint alive. The types and combinations of enemies and