Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth is a liberal remake of the original title, Castlevania: The Adventure, the first Castlevania title released for the Gameboy almost 20 years ago. This much is clear: it is still set in 1576, whips can still shoot fire, and you still play as Christopher Belmont, Simon’s grandpappy.
But grandpappy’s got sub-weapons now, and he’s migrated over to the warm glow of 16-bit styled graphics. Plus, he’s got to use stairs because he’s getting too old to climb ropes; in 20 more years, ReReBirth will swap out stairs and replace them with wheelchair ramps.
Joking aside, Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth also offers new enemies, new traps, new music (well, new arrangements of the Castlevania themes we know and love), and modified level design. All in all, Konami is breaking tradition from their more true-to-form ReBirth remakes of Contra and Gradius, and blending more elements from other games in the Castlevania series.
As translated from the Famitsu text, it will be available for Wiiware in Japan on October 27, 2009. At 1000 Wii Points, it might be worth checking this out. With Halloween around the corner, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a North American release in the near future as well.
