The Entertainment Software Ratings Board may have left slip news on an upcoming PlayStation Network release with Konami’s Castlevania Chronicles for the PLAYSTATION 3 and PSP recently rated by the organisation. Castlevania Chronicles, for those not intimately familiar with their Castlevania remakes, was a PlayStation release from 2001, bringing the Japanese Sharp X68000 game AkumajÅ Dracula to North America for the first time. AkumajÅ Dracula was actually a remake of the original 8-bit Castlevania for the Famicom/NES.
The U.S. version came late in the PlayStation’s lifecycle and at a relatively high price for what was basically a remake of a remake…of a remake? It’s confusing. Regardless of how many layers must be peeled away to get to the source, the game’s addition to the PlayStation Network should give Belmont Clan fans a chance to take a crack at this old-school action-platformer.
It should also give Konami a chance to drum up more hype for its PSP release of another remake, Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles.