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Table of Contents for Gekkan PC Engine #02 (February 1994) ▲ 01 Cover: Snowball Fight. The strategy guide takes a familiar, hand-drawn image of Richter Belmont and throws him in front of a (crudely PhotoShopped) photograph of a gothic church-initially I viewed this as a poorly-executed excursion in mixed-media, but now I find it somewhat endearing. But, the more I wrote, the more I began to appreciate the strategy guide for at least attempting to create something "new" and not simply regurgitating, wholesale, existing Dracula X/Castelvania artwork. PCE COVER: Can the art, typography and layout of the strategy guide compete against those of the PCE cover?ĪRT CRITIC: My first impulse was to criticize the composition of the strategy guide and praise the PCE cover (indeed, I promptly wrote a lengthy paragraph analyzing the two covers). So, now we are left with one final question: which cover is aesthetically superior-the strategy guide or the PCE cover? Judge for yourself… It turns out that the original Japanese title is pronounced as "reincarnation", but Konami designated "rondo" as the official pronunciation of the kanji in the subheading. Was this a simple typographic error, or was Reincarnation of Blood an alternate title? Or, perhaps Reincarnation of Blood was simply a working title used internally amongst the PCE development team at Konami?ĭEMYSTIFICATION: The confusion surrounding the the title "Akumajou Dracula X–Chi No Rondo" can be explained, however. NO RONDO, LITERALLY: Keen eyes will note that the subheading for Dracula X reads " Reincarnation of Blood" instead of the familiar " Rondo of Blood".
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Akumajou Dracula X–Chi No Rondo (¥1,400). Pictured below are strategy guides for two of the greatest PCE games ever released: Ys IV–Dawn of Ys and Akumajou Dracula X–Chi No Rondo (folks outside of Japan may be more familiar with the title Castlevania–Rondo of Blood)…ĬASH MONEY: Ys IV–Dawn of Ys (¥1,200).
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Has anyone compiled a complete list of all the strategy guides published for the PC-Engine? If so, I have yet to see it.