Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin (FDS)

Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin

Platform:	Famicom Disk System
Year:	1987
Developer:	Konami Industry Co. Ltd.

For other games in the series, see Castlevania.

Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin (or The Curse of the Seal) is an action game developed and published by Konami. It was released for the NES as Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES), but was reworked to work with the limitations of the NES.

In the game, it is revealed that Dracula's body parts are scattered all across the land, causing terror, chaos, and destruction to everything and everyone around them, and so it is up to Simon Belmont to rid the curse.

The game controls identical to the first game. However, the gameplay and storyline are completely different. Where Castlevania was a linear action-platformer, Noroi no Fuuin is more of a non-linear action-adventure game.

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Music

Dracula II has wonderful music, and it is helped by the expansion audio channel that the Disk System provides. About all the tracks were also used in the NES version, but had to be completely rearranged due to the NES not being able to support the Disk System channel. The music varies between suspenseful and rock, and combinations thereof. The song Within These Castle Walls is a suspenseful 6/8 ballad. The stage themes mostly consist of the rock elements to immerse the player into the action of the game.

The song Bloody Tears is one of the most popular video game tunes of all time, and is still remixed in the current Castlevania series to this day.

Though the game lists the staff names at the end of the game, no specific roles are given, and instead, it seems a bunch of random titles are given to each developer. Since only the surnames are listed, we have paired them up with composers who worked for Konami at the time, and the names reveal four different Konami audio staff: Yoshiaki Hatano, Satoe Terashima, Koji Murata, and Kenichi Matsubara.

While it is unknown the exact audio roles of each sound designer, it has been confirmed that Matsubara composed Bloody Tears while Hatano composed A Requiem.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Length	Download
01	Message of Darkness	Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima	0:42	Download
02	The Silence of the Daylight	Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima	1:08	Download
03	Bloody Tears	Kenichi Matsubara	1:09	Download
04	Monster Dance	Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima	0:56	Download
05	Dwelling of Doom	Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima	1:00	Download
06	Within These Castle Walls	Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima	0:47	Download
07	Last Boss	Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima	0:26	Download
08	A Requiem	Yoshiaki Hatano	1:57	Download
09	Player Miss	Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima	0:02	Download
10	Game Over	Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima	0:05	Download

Credits

Ripper: Chris Covell
Recorder: J
Game Credits:
- Sensitivity: Yoshiaki Hatano credited as Hatano
- Excellence: Satoe Terashima credited as Terashima
- Superiority: Kouji Murata credited as Murata
- Synchronism: Kenichi Matsubara credited as Matsubara

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Releases

Japan

Title:	ドラキュラII 呪いの封印 (Dracula II: The Seal of the Curse)
Platform:	Famicom Disk System
Released:	1987-08-28
Publisher:	Konami Industry Co. Ltd.