Overview
- Also Known As
- Dracula Legend ReBirth (Japan)
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
Wii Shop
- 28th Dec 2009, 1,000 points
- 26th Feb 2010, 1,000 points
- 27th Oct 2009
- Series
Reviews
Review Castlevania The Adventure ReBirth (WiiWare)
Vampire killing with a nostalgic twist!
We've already seen Konami resurrect two of their most popular gaming franchises with WiiWare’s Gradius and Contra ReBirth, so it comes as no real surprise to see them giving the same treatment to yet another much-loved classic series: Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth. Despite its title, this actually has...
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Castlevania The Adventure ReBirth News
News Emulation Specialist M2 Discusses Future Development Plans For Nintendo Switch
Retro revival
M2 is best known in recent years for handling Sega’s 3D Classics line on the 3DS and modernising iconic series like Sonic the Hedgehog, Out Run and Fantasy Zone. Having now made the transition across to the Switch, the developer recently sat down with
Rumour Konami Is Bringing Its WiiWare ReBirth Series To Switch
Castlevania, Contra and Gradius could all be coming to the eShop
WiiWare wasn't exactly inundated with quality games but it had a few solid-gold gems, three of which were part of Konami's ReBirth series. Developed by emulation experts M2, Gradius ReBirth, Castlevania The Adventure ReBirth and Contra ReBirth adopted a classic 16-bit visual style and...
News Animal Crossing and Metroidvania GDC Talks Now Available For Your Viewing Pleasure
New Leaf and Castlevania devs discuss the intricacies of game development
Many of the presentations at last month's Game Developers Conference are now available to view for free on the GDC Vault website, including Animal Crossing: New Leaf producer Katsuya Eguchi and co-director Aya Kyogoku's "How to Turn a New Leaf at the Animal Crossing" and...
News Koji Igarashi, Best Known for the Castlevania Series, Departs from Konami
"I've decided to break out on my own"
It's possible that gamers relatively fresh to Nintendo hardware won't know much of Koji Igarashi's work, but Castlevania fans that enjoyed the terrific series entries on the Game Boy Advance and DS — in particular — may mourn the formal passing of an era today, even if it's been on the cards for a...
Round Table Let's Talk About Castlevania
25 years of memories
This week has been Castlevania features week. We’ve picked our top ten games from the series, reviewed an awful novelisation of Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest, and provided some tips for wannabe Dracula hunters. One thing that has become clear amongst the team is that this series is packed full of memories and nostalgia, as...
Feature Castlevania - The Terrifying Ten
Our favourite Dracula quests
As the dreaded night of Halloween continues to loom ever closer, we are now turning our attention to the Castlevania franchise, which recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary. All of this week there'll be features looking at the series, as we join the hunt to take Dracula down once and for all. In previous features we've...
Nintendo Download 26th February 2010 (Europe)
The Virtual Console is still nowhere in sight, but at least there's Castlevania!
Believe it or not, this is the sixth week of this year in which we haven't gotten any new Virtual Console games. The amount of weeks in which we have is actually lower! Nintendo partially makes up for it by releasing a ton of games on the other services, but the...
News Castlevania: The Adventure is Reborn in Europe Next Week
Get your Belmont on
Good news, vampire slayers. The release date for Konami's WiiWare undead party Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth has snuck onto the Nintendo Channel in Europe (spotted by Nintendaan), revealing that you'll be able to take on Dracula and his cronies on February 26 for 1000 Wii points. Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth is the...
Nintendo Download 28 December 2009 (North America)
Ten new games to celebrate the advent of 2010!
Nintendo have updated their weekly North American downloads for the last time in 2009, and the year is going out with a corker of an update! Not only is Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth out today but also PilotWings to boot for Virtual Console fans. This is in addition to eight other ones released...
First Impressions Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth
Worth getting your teeth into?
The Castlevania series of action platformers is widely regarded as containing some of the best games on the Famicom, and indeed home consoles full-stop, with top-notch instalments on Super Famicom, PC Engine, Playstation and handheld platforms to name a few. Needless to say the news that the first GameBoy game was...
Previews
First Impressions Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth
Worth getting your teeth into?
The Castlevania series of action platformers is widely regarded as containing some of the best games on the Famicom, and indeed home consoles full-stop, with top-notch instalments on Super Famicom, PC Engine, Playstation and handheld platforms to name a few. Needless to say the news that the first GameBoy game was...
About The Game
Another 100 years has passed since the death of Count Dracula, but the revival of his curse has emerged once again within the realms of Transylvania.
Play the role of the ultimate gothic hero from the long lineage of vampire hunters, the Belmont clan, and rid the universe of Dracula's legion of darkness and doom. Based on the classic 1989 original Castlevania: The Adventure, the WiiWare version will allow players of a new generation and older fans to experience one of the most popular games within the storied Castlevania timeline from a new perspective.
Features
- Revamped graphics for the Wii: Completely new graphical presentation designed for the Wii platform while simultaneously staying true to the original GameBoy version.
- Quintessential Castlevania Action: Combines fast-paced 2-D side scroller action/adventure immersing players into the world of Dracula as players assume the role of Christopher Belmont, great-grandfather of Simon.
- Upgradable Weaponry: Progressively enhanced weapons, most notably the whip and various versions ranging from standard to flame.
- Originally designed by the master, Koji Igarashi: The man that has been behind the storied franchise on various Nintendo platforms for years brings his latest vision to the Wii.
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I'll be on the lookout for this one!
This game is a must-buy for me!
This is awesome!
I can NOT wait
Completely amazing news, lots of Nintendo Life users predicted this one and had it on their Wii-sh list. Konami must have listened, so 'job well done' everyone
If anyone knows Jedi mind tricks, persuade Konami for 'Axelay ReBirth' and 'Sunset Riders ReBirth', for me please.
Cheers.
WOWOWOWOW. Can't wait. I want to see some screenshots soon!
@JamieO: Don't forget the get nintendo life users to persuade konami to give us rondo of blood
It'll be interesting to see how the do this.
I just wish they would do another Castlevania game that was as good as SOTN. That still has the most fluid and fun control for the main character that I have seen in any of the Castlevania games.
Instant download for me. I think this will be 1000 Wii points and will be a 5 level 16-bit remake of the original GB game. Color me happy
I just hope they take out the rope climbing and add steps
YESZ!!!!
@Tony - if it were a 16bit remake of the original game it'd have 4 levels I honestly hope they go for a bit more...it'd be good to have another 8-level Castlevania like 68k Castlevania or another branching-paths thing like Drac's Curse...but yeah these Rebirth games tend to be the shortest in their respective series (unless it's the FF4 sequel...but that's priced like 4 games anyway)
Need screens and videos.
Come out tomorrow please I beg you
Hmmmm,
Seeing the latest screens it looks a little bit like DS graphics scaled up to fit on a standard TV which is not quite what I would have liked.
I was really hoping for something that looked as detailed and and polished as the likes of Symphony of the Night.
There's a timer?? Awwww!!! Oh well, so far of what I've seen here, Castlevania Adventure Rebirth (GB, 1989~WW, 2009) looks a beautiful 16-bit title to me. I wonder when it'll come out.
It also makes me wonder when Konami will release the Rocket Knight Adventure games on VC!
Ok, now that I have seen the complete game via youtube I can say it looks pretty good.
Classic Castlevania, although that means it still has some of the issues that are present throughout most of the series such are as sluggish movement and control of the main character (SOTN seemed to fix this much more than any other Castlevania game so I have no idea why they don't use that model for fluid player movement) and some annoying hit detection when you simply bump into certain enemies or parts of bosses that really shouldn't hurt you, but it looks pretty solid overall.
Classic!
This should come out the 30th. That would make November such an epic month not counting this past week.
The early Castlevania games are designed around the way your character moves, though, Kirk. The focus is on the level design rather than the enemies themselves, and their placement is always very metered and considered - always making you think carefully about your next move ("When should I jump to that high platform so that I don't get trapped or knocked back by that skeleton and suffer my third death-by-recoil of the evening?"). If you were given Alucard's or Samus Aran's fluid movements, it would all fall apart. These days, you don't have to put much thought into your movement and can make sloppy jumps all over the place, because falling down from somewhere simply means you have to waste a bit of time climbing back up again.
ReBirth does come to a compromise, though, by giving you two control schemes to play with. 'Normal' allows you to correct your jumps in mid-air, sort of like in SMB, whereas 'classic' forces you to commit to them, and basically gives you Richter's movements from Rondo of Blood, minus the backflipping. I think you'll still enjoy this game either way, mate.
PS - don't worry about the timer, StarBoy. You get a good ten minutes or so to do each level, which I've found is always plenty. You'll usually reach the bosses with at least 3 minutes to go.
I like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Castlevania: Bloodlines. Other than that, I don't care so much for the series. But, I'd download this anyway.
So are they going to give us a date anytime soon? I've been playing Dracula's Curse nonstop to prepare for it, but I'm starting to feel like I've been stood up, dagnabit! If I get New Super Mario Bros Wii before this I might never get around to getting it. I kind of have an obsessive mentality until my next flavor of the month arrives.
This game is going to be awesome
SOTN kills this, rebirth can't even hold a candle to the GBA games
@Orgone. I'm assuming since Castlevania Rebirth is out today that you've played it to back up that comment.
Just downloaded Castlevania III the other day.. looks like I need to get me some more points for this too now lol
This game is pretty good. Worth it, IMHO.
I will download this once Europe gets this but 1,000 pts is a lot?
I hope there is a Metroid ReBirth, that first game was so hard to enjoy.
This game is AWESOME!!! Highly recommended.
@pie4prez
Unless Konami buys the Metroid IP(that's never going to happen btw) a ReBirth of that series is unlikely to be made.
Can't wait for the review!
Looks AWESOME!
The Metroid ReBirth is coming...only it is tentatively known as, "Other M". :]
I love this game, it's my favorite Wiiware title!
for those who have played it, how difficult is it compared to Mega Man 9?
Very high difficulty. Continues do help.
Not as difficult as Mega Man 9, esp the last stage. MM9 is more about memory anyway.
this is great news,ive been waiting for this for ages.
Downloaded on friday 26 feb, am enjoying playing the game and like the old remakes of the music, shame their no password system to carry on when you don not carry on.
Thanks Konami, when will their be rebirth of track and field and penguin adventure from the msx days?
adam
This is pretty fun. The first level uses music from Bloodlines, which I love.
This game is very playable and has great atmosphere. I especially like the design of the enemies.
i'm really tempted to buy this, but the lack of saving/password is an obstacle...
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