Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse – Cane and Rinse No.548

The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

Cane and Rinse

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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“The Belmont family has a long history of fighting evil.” Whether it's the third, fifth, sixth or even seventh instalment in the series, Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (Akumajo Densetsu) was the epic culmination of its Famicom/NES trilogy. Leon, Jon, Michiel and returning guest Ben Cartlidge of One Credit Classics thrash out what it takes to beat this notoriously challenging 8-bit instalment with one or more characters, plus we have memories and opinions from the community to share. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_548.mp3 Music featured in this issue:1. Prelude (Introduction) by Hidenori Maezawa/Jun Funahashi/Yukie Morimoto/Yoshinori Sasaki2. Demon Seed by Hidenori Maezawa/Jun Funahashi/Yukie Morimoto/Yoshinori SasakiEdit by Jay Taylor You can support Cane and Rinse and in return receive an often extended version of the podcast four weeks early, along with exclusive podcasts, if you subscribe to our Patreon for the minimum of $2 per month (+VAT). Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Canaan Rince podcast, Volume 11, Issue 548, and we continue our journey through the Castlevania franchise with three
0:30.8	Dracula's Curse, or Dark Killer's Curse, as I had it in the show notes earlier, which is quite cool, but incorrect.
0:37.5	Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, John Salmon.
0:40.3	Hello.
0:41.3	Mikiel Kroda.
0:42.8	Once again, this is going to sound terrible, but here it goes.
0:48.9	Yeah, that was awful.
0:51.6	Was that the Japanese or the US?
0:53.6	The US.
0:54.5	Okay.
0:55.7	And welcome back.
0:57.9	Regular, irregular guest.
0:59.4	One credit classics, Ben Cartlidge.
1:01.9	Hello, my friends.
1:03.7	A little bird told me he knows a little bit of something about how to play this notoriously challenging video game.
1:13.2	We lost out on Leah due to illness,
1:19.6	but we couldn't have a better replacement than Ben. So, Legend of Demons Castle is the original title of this one, Akumajo Densetsu, Castlevania Three Dracula's Curse to most parts of the world.
1:28.0	It is the third or the fifth or the sixth game,
1:30.7	depending on how you count them in Konami series of Gothic horror-themed 2D action platform games
1:36.2	and a prequel to the original Castlevania,
1:39.4	although most definitely a sequel in terms of scope and ambition, I would suggest.
1:48.0	We'll talk much more about that and we'll get deep and dirty into the mechanics and diversion differences and all that sort of stuff.
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