Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth

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Castlevania:
The Adventure ReBirth
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Developer M2
Publisher Konami
Directors Toshiyasu Kamiko
Akihiro Minakata
Keisuke Koga
Producer Koji Igarashi
Designer Keisuke Koga
Composer Manabu Namiki
Series Castlevania
Platform WiiWare
Release
  • JP: October 27, 2009 [1]
  • NA: December 28, 2009 [2]
  • PAL: February 26, 2010
Genre Platform
Mode Single-player

Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth [a] is a 2009 platform game developed by M2 and released by Konami for the Wii as a WiiWare title. It is a remake of the 1989 Game Boy title Castlevania: The Adventure and is the third game in M2's ReBirth series, following Gradius ReBirth and Contra ReBirth . The setting of the game is a century before the original Castlevania title, where the player controls an ancestor of Simon Belmont named Christopher Belmont, who must defeat the vampire Dracula. [4]

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Gameplay

The player-character Christopher can collect whip upgrades, with the last one allowing him to shoot fire balls. CVReBirthScreen.jpg
The player-character Christopher can collect whip upgrades, with the last one allowing him to shoot fire balls.
Castlevania series fictional chronology
Original series

1094 - Lament of Innocence
1450 - Legends ✝
1476 - Dracula's Curse
1479 - Curse of Darkness
1499 - Belmont's Curse
1576 - The Adventure
1591 - Belmont's Revenge
1691 - Castlevania (1986 video game)
1698 - Simon's Quest
1748 - Harmony of Dissonance
1792 - Rondo of Blood
1797 - Symphony of the Night
1800 - Order of Ecclesia
1830 - Circle of the Moon ✝
1844 - Legacy of Darkness ✝
1852 - Castlevania (1999 video game) ✝
1917 - Bloodlines
1944 - Portrait of Ruin
2035 - Aria of Sorrow
2036 - Dawn of Sorrow

Lords of Shadow series

1047 - Lords of Shadow
1073-1101 - Mirror of Fate
1102-2057 - Lords of Shadow 2

✝ = Retconned
Sources: [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

The Adventure ReBirth consists of six areas that the player has to complete in order to finish the game. Toward the end of each area is a boss the player has to defeat before advancing to the next stage. [14]

The player's main weapon for attacking in-game enemies is a whip, which can upgraded by collecting orbs. The last upgrade lets the player shoot fire from Christopher's whip for a short duration. [4] Unlike the original Adventure title for the Game Boy, there are sub-weapons which are powered with items called hearts. There are five sub-weapons and each has a different use. [14]

Audio

The game's soundtrack was composed by Manabu Namiki, who worked on the other titles in the ReBirth series. The music consists of remixes of previous Castlevania tracks. [15] The official album was released on March 24, 2010 in a compilation with Contra ReBirth's music. [16]

Reception

The Adventure ReBirth garnered positive reviews, achieving a Metacritic score of 78/100 based on 22 critic reviews. [18] Game Informer 's Tim Turi praised its audio and noted that it was a better game than Castlevania: The Adventure though still felt it was "unforgiving". [19] In 2011, Robert Workman of GameZone ranked it as the 10th best Castlevania game and complimented Konami for making this game in light of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow . [20]

Notes

  1. ↑ Dorakyura Densetsu: ReBirth (ドラキュラ伝説 ReBirth; The Legend of Dracula ReBirth [3] )

References

  1. ↑ "ドラキュラ伝説 ReBirth". Archived from the original on 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
  2. ↑ "NintendoWare Weekly: Castlevania ReBirth, Pilotwings, Oregon Trail| Joystiq". Archived from the original on 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
  3. ↑ Perfect Selection Dracula ~New Classic~ (Media notes). King Records Co., Ltd. 1992. Archived from the original on 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  4. 1 2 Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. : Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth Archived 2009-11-30 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "Konami Castlevania timeline 2007" (in Japanese). Konami. Archived from the original on March 18, 2013. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  6. ↑ Castlevania The Timeline. 20th Anniversary Pre-Order Bundle. Konami Digital Entertainment Co. Ltd. December 2006.
  7. ↑ "Lords of Shadow Interview for PS3". VideoGamer.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  8. ↑ Kalata, Kurt (July 26, 2006). "Tales from the Crypt: Castlevania's 20th Anniversary Blow-out". 1UP.com . Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved July 13, 2008.
  9. ↑ Vasconcellos, Eduardo. "Castlevania: Order of Shadows Q&A". IGN. Archived from the original on May 7, 2012.
  10. ↑ Fletcher, JC. "Castlevania's last 'Rebirth' – as a pachinko machine". Joystiq. Archived from the original on November 12, 2012. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Konami Parlor Entertainment's blog – February 28, 2012". Konami Parlor Entertainment. Archived from the original on August 18, 2016. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Konami Parlor Entertainment's blog". February 28, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. ｢悪魔城ドラキュラ 闇の呪印｣が元となっています (Pachislot Akumajo Dracula is based on Curse of Darkness). ラルフ側から見たもうひとつの物語が､ パチスロ版の悪魔城ドラキュラI･IIのストーリーとなっています (Pachislot Akumajo Dracula I&II story is "another story" from Ralph's perspective).
  13. ↑ "Castlevania Storyline". The Castlevania Dungeon. Archived from the original on July 18, 2009. Retrieved August 2, 2007.
  14. 1 2 "Castlevania the Adventure Rebirth Review – Wii Review at IGN". Archived from the original on 2010-04-11. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
  15. ↑ "Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth screens pop up- Destructoid". 13 October 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-01-22. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
  16. ↑ "ドラキュラ伝説ReBirth ＆ 魂斗羅ReBirth オリジナルサウンドトラック : KONAMIのショッピングサイト | コナミスタイル(konamistyle)". Archived from the original on 2010-02-06. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
  17. ↑ "Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth".
  18. 1 2 "Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth for Wii Reviews". Metacritic . CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 2018-10-30. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  19. ↑ Turi, Tim (2012-04-04). "Ranking The Castlevania Bloodline". Game Informer . Archived from the original on 2013-05-07. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  20. ↑ Workman, Robert (2011-09-27). "Happy 25th Birthday Castlevania: The Ten Best Games In the Series". GameZone. Archived from the original on 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
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