Castlevania - Bloodlust Curse
A downloadable game
Step into the shadow of the hell house! You're back at Transylvania on business!
After defeating Dracula and destroying Castlevania, Simon Belmont decided to rest the whip.
As time passed, he became sick from an unknown illness that no one knew how to cure.
But... one day, while visiting the grave of his family on the Hill of Angels, a woman appeared out of the morning mist, and told him that he, and by extension, all of Transylvania, were cursed by Dracula, for his bodily parts were scattered all over the land, still carrying his influence and evil presence over this plane. The only way to fix this is gather the parts in an altar at the Castle ruins, bring Dracula back, to then have a final showdown with the Count.
Simon decides to take the whip back into action, and travel through the countryside, to put an end to the curse, once and for all.
He's not alone, as he has his two best friends along for this journey: Agnes, a very capable healer sent by the church, and Vincent, his arch-rival vampire hunter.
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This is a castlevania 2 expanded remake.
+ choose your own path: multiple choices, and 16 possible outcomes can be achieved(done)
+ castlevania 1 mini-game: called "Dracula's memory", a randomized version of CV1 can be played and rewards can be obtained. No playthrough will be the same(Done)
+ side-quests based on real Transylvania lore(unfinished)
- graphics by Thaddeus / Wilker
- music by optomon
- engine by Obivanhelgen
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Cool looking reamke, Great graphics work. The controls are, well, clunky? Simon glides ever time he jumps. I like the use of the salesman sprites from Vampire Killer MSX. Optomon's music is great as always.
Thanks for the kind words. I agree, the controls aren't the best, but I did design the game around it in a way that it would work, so that the dificulty is a challenge but not impossible. Still, thanks for checking it out.
I quite enjoy this game so far, I'll take anything to see the sprite work from thaddeus in action, and I appreciate the work put into this game, but I was wondering if it's possible there's a setting that would alter the controls.
Right now it isn't possible to change the controls, but i believe there are more buttons on the keyboard that work besides the ones mapped, like, i'm mostly sure space also works as an action button. Can't remember the other ones.
And it's cool to see someone else that also knows Thaddeus art. If you get stuck in some dungeon, just take your time, analyze the puzzles and save alot.
where can i find the engine for this game? is it a private engine shared between you and obivanhelgen?
The engine, properly saying, it's really just the regular rm2k3 engine, but modified to work as a platformer. He created it and i worked on the finer details, improving here and there, translating most of the code to english, as it was originally in german.
There are no external plugins or any of that, it's all internal code within the game. You can check the files and the code with the regular rm2k3 tool. There are some test maps in there, i believe.
If you want to study how it works and use it to make your game, feel free to do it. Just having credit for the both of us would be appreciated.
ok,so i can edit the game,would you mind if i made some kind of public engine base?
and why does the player die when the starting position is different
oh wait its a switch
No prob, if you can simplify it for anyone to be able to use it. Still, as you may have seen, most of it just works if all of the switchs needed are present on the maps and organized properly.
Hey, checked out this game after playing Elegy of the Curse. From what I gather, this was made with EasyRPG, correct? The story, the NPC interactions, and the graphics are really good. I do think that there are much better engines to make this sort of game, as the controls are quite rough, most notably the jumping. You definitely put a lot of great work into this and I think if it played smoother it would be a top tier Castlevania fangame.