Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth | |
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Developer(s) | M2 |
Publisher(s) | Konami |
Director(s) | Toshiyasu Kamiko Akihiro Minakata Keisuke Koga |
Producer(s) | Koji Igarashi |
Designer(s) | Keisuke Koga |
Composer(s) | Manabu Namiki |
Series | Castlevania |
Platform(s) | WiiWare |
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Genre(s) | Platform |
Mode(s) | 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]
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. [5]
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. [5]
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. [6] The official album was released on March 24, 2010 in a compilation with Contra ReBirth's music. [7]
Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | 78/100 [8] |
The Adventure ReBirth garnered positive reviews, achieving a Metacritic score of 78/100 based on 22 critic reviews. [8] 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". [9] 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. [10]