Rondo vs Dracula XX in detail

[awack]

This is from the prologue, there is no snes counter part...obviously!

[shubibiman]

Why did so many SNES games look so pale?

[awack]

I have always thought that Drac xx had some of the best graphics on the snes,  but i think that the graphics in rondo are more ambitious in design and interesting to the eye.





Number of enemy sprites....... rondo:     Dracxx:
                                         52          27

Number of bosses..................rondo:     Dracxx:
                                          15          9

Look closely at the transparent effect below and tell me if you see something odd about the snes shot.

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[Tom]

Look closely at the transparent effect below and tell me if you see something odd about the snes shot.

 Hahah - that's super funny. Those fools

[Joe Redifer]

How does he appear on the SNES version?  I assume he is in front of a different background and that they accidentally kept the fake "transparency" from the PCE version when porting the sprite?  That deserves a mighty face palm for sure.

[awack]

How does he appear on the SNES version?

Its completely different, the only thing behind him are the curtains.

[Arkhan]

Maybe hes wearing marble tile knee pads.

[Tatsujin]

now, this makes the drac xx not even a budget drac x but a super cheap 90% off summer bargain sale.

[awack]

I'm not showing every death frame of the giant skeleton from Rondo, just giving an idea.

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This is to show how the fire will trail behind Richter and not just stick to him like it does in Dracxx.

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Animation of shaft and his Dracxx counter part, not counting the last screenshot of shaft, there is only one duplicate frame(normal standing frame)


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[esteban]

now, this makes the drac xx not even a budget drac x but a super cheap 90% off summer bargain sale.

AB-SO-LOOT-LEE.

These comparisons are so much fun.

[Arkhan]

when i was little we had drac x and i thought it was the best thing ever.

and then my uncle who gave me his turbo had him some drac x (Pirated WOOOO) and let me play that and im like "this is the same game, only better? OK!"   lol


I learned early on that PCE was king

[awack]

Holy water and stop watch.

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Dracula XX stop watch item crash spins around Richter causing damage to enemies, Rondo's stop watch item crash will home in on enemy characters causing damage.

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DracXX holy water item crash just appears on screen as you see in the screens below, Rondo's holy water item crash starts out starts out slow and then fills the screen, look at the last Rondo screen, there is actually about double the rain on screen when viewed in motion, it alternates between two set of sprites, giving it a transparent effect.


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Rondo's rain will set enemy characters on fire.

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[Necromancer]

And now for your viewing pleasure, some animated gifs:

    

   

The PCE version is on the top, right where it belongs.

[Arkhan]

that last one is so funny.

its like 40 frames for PCE and 3 for SNES

[awack]

Just to put things in perspective, this is comparing rondo and castlevania IV.

A few frames might be missing from the castlevania IV death, a hell of a lot are missing from the rondo death, like blood, rotating scythe and cycles.

I might add a few more shots of comparing rondo to SCVIV and that will be it.






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