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A playthrough of Konami's 1987 action-adventure game for the Nintendo Famicom, Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin (ドラキュラⅡ呪いの封印, lit. "Dracula II: The Seal of the Curse").
Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin, released in the fall of 1987 for the Famicom Disk System, is the original Japanese version of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (youtu.be/HJ-wR_D48uE), which was localized and released for the NES in North America in 1988 and in PAL territories in 1990.
Simon's Quest is my favorite game in the Castlevania series, and I wanted to do something special with it for this Halloween season. I haven't tried any of the fan-made translation patches that are out there so I can't speak to their quality, but to give the game the royal treatment, I rolled up my sleeves and translated the entire thing myself. (Please note that this is not a game patch. All of the text was superimposed over the footage in a video editor.)
The official English version of the game regularly gets blasted for the quality of its translation, and while it does have its share of glaring errors and omissions, it's more faithful to the original script than people give it credit for. I think what hampers it is how terse and literal it is, and how that tends to obscure important information. With this translation, I did my best to address those issues while staying true to the Japanese text. I hope you find it as interesting to watch as I did to work on.
The soundtrack in this version is also pretty neat. The music is the same, but the FDS's wavetable channel gives it a very different character to what we heard on the NES. I prefer the NES versions of the tunes - the sampled drums give them a lot of oomph - but the FDS music is very good in its own right.
(The loading screens are a bit of a pain, though!)
In this playthrough, I finished the game in seven days for the best ending, but I also included the normal and bad endings at end of the video, starting from 1:45:06. The endings were already in "English," so I've left them untouched.
I hope you guys enjoy the translation, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on how this version compares to the NES game!
(And if you like Castlevania music, perhaps you'd like to check out some of my arrangements done on original SNES hardware! You can find one of my SNES remixes of the town music at youtu.be/Yd4p2EX5WyM, and a compilation of several of my Castlevania SNES mixes at youtu.be/KQLqelPbwZc)
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A playthrough of Konami's 1987 action-adventure game for the Nintendo Famicom, Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin (ドラキュラⅡ呪いの封印, lit. "Dracula II: The Seal of the Curse").
Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin, released in the fall of 1987 for the Famicom Disk System, is the original Japanese version of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (youtu.be/HJ-wR_D48uE), which was localized and released for the NES in North America in 1988 and in PAL territories in 1990.
Simon's Quest is my favorite game in the Castlevania series, and I wanted to do something special with it for this Halloween season. I haven't tried any of the fan-made translation patches that are out there so I can't speak to their quality, but to give the game the royal treatment, I rolled up my sleeves and translated the entire thing myself. (Please note that this is not a game patch. All of the text was superimposed over the footage in a video editor.)
The official English version of the game regularly gets blasted for the quality of its translation, and while it does have its share of glaring errors and omissions, it's more faithful to the original script than people give it credit for. I think what hampers it is how terse and literal it is, and how that tends to obscure important information. With this translation, I did my best to address those issues while staying true to the Japanese text. I hope you find it as interesting to watch as I did to work on.
The soundtrack in this version is also pretty neat. The music is the same, but the FDS's wavetable channel gives it a very different character to what we heard on the NES. I prefer the NES versions of the tunes - the sampled drums give them a lot of oomph - but the FDS music is very good in its own right.
(The loading screens are a bit of a pain, though!)
In this playthrough, I finished the game in seven days for the best ending, but I also included the normal and bad endings at end of the video, starting from 1:45:06. The endings were already in "English," so I've left them untouched.
I hope you guys enjoy the translation, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on how this version compares to the NES game!
(And if you like Castlevania music, perhaps you'd like to check out some of my arrangements done on original SNES hardware! You can find one of my SNES remixes of the town music at youtu.be/Yd4p2EX5WyM, and a compilation of several of my Castlevania SNES mixes at youtu.be/KQLqelPbwZc)
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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![Castlevania II: The Seal of the Curse (Famicom) Playthrough [English]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xlcOtFgMDC0/mqdefault.jpg "Castlevania II: The Seal of the Curse (Famicom) Playthrough [English]
A playthrough of Konamis 1987 action-adventure game for the Nintendo Famicom, Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin (ドラキュラⅡ呪いの封印, lit. Dracula II: The Seal of the Curse).
Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin, released in the fall of 1987 for the Famicom Disk System, is the original Japanese version of Castlevania II: Simons Quest (https://youtu.be/HJ-wR_D48uE), which was localized and released for the NES in North America in 1988 and in PAL territories in 1990.
Simons Quest is my favorite game in the Castlevania series, and I wanted to do something special with it for this Halloween season. I havent tried any of the fan-made translation patches that are out there so I cant speak to their quality, but to give the game the royal treatment, I rolled up my sleeves and translated the entire thing myself. (Please note that this is not a game patch. All of the text was superimposed over the footage in a video editor.)
The official English version of the game regularly gets blasted for the quality of its translation, and while it does have its share of glaring errors and omissions, its more faithful to the original script than people give it credit for. I think what hampers it is how terse and literal it is, and how that tends to obscure important information. With this translation, I did my best to address those issues while staying true to the Japanese text. I hope you find it as interesting to watch as I did to work on.
The soundtrack in this version is also pretty neat. The music is the same, but the FDSs wavetable channel gives it a very different character to what we heard on the NES. I prefer the NES versions of the tunes - the sampled drums give them a lot of oomph - but the FDS music is very good in its own right.
(The loading screens are a bit of a pain, though!)
In this playthrough, I finished the game in seven days for the best ending, but I also included the normal and bad endings at end of the video, starting from 1:45:06. The endings were already in English, so Ive left them untouched.
I hope you guys enjoy the translation, and Id love to hear your thoughts on how this version compares to the NES game!
(And if you like Castlevania music, perhaps youd like to check out some of my arrangements done on original SNES hardware! You can find one of my SNES remixes of the town music at https://youtu.be/Yd4p2EX5WyM, and a compilation of several of my Castlevania SNES mixes at https://youtu.be/KQLqelPbwZc)
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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Were a little over halfway through Desert Bus: Baseball Edition! Woo!
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Part 3 (46-67): https://youtu.be/anuJt4T0oko
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Sunsoft put a fair amount of effort into optimizing the game for the 50Hz PAL standard. In the NES/SNES era, PAL games often had huge black screen borders and ran much slower than their NTSC counterparts, but that was not the case with Festers Quest. The PAL versions image fills the screen (though with some garbage at the top and bottom edges thats not hidden in the overscan area), it runs at the same speed, and the music (including the digitized samples, most of the time) plays at the correct pitch.
But they didnt stop there. The core gameplay was tweaked: Festers gun is now more powerful, and his shots travel through walls and obstacles. These two changes have a huge impact on the games flow and difficulty balance, turning what was once a reasonably challenging game into a walk in the park. With an auto-fire controller, you can casually stroll through most areas without ever taking a hit, and the bosses can be torn through like a wet square of single-ply toilet paper.
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If you were someone who found the NTSC version impossibly difficult, youll likely love the PAL version. If you enjoyed the challenge posed by the NTSC version, youll probably dismiss the PAL version as an abomination that completely destroys the integrity of the gameplay.
I love Festers Quest, and while I cant say that this is my preferred way to play it, I think its nice that theres a version that makes it more accessible to those who prefer frictionless gaming.
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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