3/10
The first Mature Rated Castlevania game with bloodbath decapitation scenes.
7 May 2019
I've been a Castlevania fan I've played the NES games of Castlevania 1, 2, 3 and I've even played Super Castlevania 4 and Castlevania Dracula X and Rondo of Blood. Yes there was a small amount of blood and violence but not compared to Symphony of the Night.

I know it was a horror themed video game but this Playstation 1 game has alot of bloody violence like Mortal Kombat or Gabriel Knights, or Space Quest games. But this is very shocking to me that this game got a T rating while Metal Gear Solid got an M rating but has no blood, seriously ESRB rating company you have screwed up your rating for this game.

While this game is regarded as the greatest classics, I couldn't finish this game since it was so graphically violent and offensive even more than profanity, also another game Oddworld Abe's odyssey also was rated T and yet it was also graphically violent which should've been rated M.

Yes while it is in 2D and the gameplay is an excellent platform game and plays like Metroid with level grinding, the music was also very beautiful, and there's an ending theme song by the Jazz composer Jeff Lorber which I enjoyed. Unfortunately, the bloody decapitation of zombies and blood gushings made me very sick to watch and I turned off the game and got rid of it from my Playstation 3 download since my family doesn't allow M rated video games.

Be warned to parents and sensitive people, this game is very much like Mortal Kombat or Conkers Bad Fur Day, or Grand Theft Auto, you'll run into bloodbath deaths as Alucard kills monsters with his sword. Meantime I'll play a less violent Castlevania game that isn't M rated probably a Nintendo version. I'm so disappointed with Konami choosing to make this Playstation game a very violent video game.
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