Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (2024)

Table of Contents

Gameplay

  • Items
  • Characters
  • Enemies
  • Bosses

Appendices

  • Passwords
  • Secrets

Walkthrough

  • Early stages:
    • Stage 1: Wallachia Village
    • Stage 2: Clock Tower of Untimely Death
    • Stage 3: The Mad Forest
  • Underground stages:
    • Stage 4: The Murky Marsh of Morbid Morons
    • Stage 5: Alucard's Cave
    • Stage 6X: Underground Catacombs
    • Stage 6Y: Sunken City of Poltergeists
    • Stage 7: Abandoned Mines
  • Surface stages:
    • Stage 4A: The Haunted Ship of Fools
    • Stage 5A: Curse Tower
    • Stage 6A: The Moat Bridge of Peril
    • Stage 7A: Castle Courtyard
  • Devil Castle stages:
    • Stage 8: The Main Hall
    • Stage 9: The Inner Halls
    • Stage 10: Dracula's Final Clock Tower
Castlevania: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
Year released1989
System(s)NES, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U
Preceded byCastlevania II: Simon's Quest
Followed bySuper Castlevania IV
SeriesCastlevania
Genre(s)Action, Platform
ModesSingle player
Rating(s)
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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, released in Japan as Akumajou Dorakula Densetsu (悪魔城伝説? lit. Devil Castle Dracula Legend), is an action-adventure platform game developed and published by Konami for the NES. It was released in Japan in 1989, and in North America in 1990, and in Europe by Palcom in 1992. It was later released on the Virtual Console for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U.

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is the third installment in the Castlevania video game series. While the previous game contained more open world exploration, this game returns to the more linear side-scrolling formula established by the original. It is a prequel to the original Castlevania, set a few centuries before the events of the original game. The game's protagonist is Trevor C. Belmont, an ancestor of the original hero Simon Belmont.

The game is chronologically the first game after Lament of Innocence. Trevor may be accompanied by Alcuard, the son of Dracula, Sypha Belnades, a witch captured by Dracula, and Grant DaNasty, ghost of a pirate killed by Dracula. The game departs from the original by offering multiple paths to get from the beginning of the game to Dracula's castle. The routes vary significantly in difficulty, allowing the player to choose how hard the game is as they play.

Story[edit | edit source]

In-game introduction
(official localization)
Translation from Japanese
(by Vice, 2003)
During 15th Century Europe, there lived a person named Dracula.

He practiced sorcery in order to create a bad world filled with evil.

15th Century Europe. In this dark age, an evil person named Vlad Tepes lived in Transylvania.

Having reached the limits of his power, he revived dark gods, and used their power to terrorize the nation of Wallachia.

He began taking over the Continent of Europe, changing countries from good to bad.

The good people of Europe tried to fight off Dracula, but none was able to survive.

Driven insane by his own greed, he planned to take over all of Europe.

The Holy Church called out to arms and sent an army to stop Tepes, or as he called himself, Dracula, but none of them returned alive...

Finally, the Belmont family was summoned to battle Dracula's vile forces.

The Belmont family has a long history of fighting evil.

Seeing that their efforts were futile, the Church decided to hand the task of slaying Dracula to the Belmond family,...

...known "vampire hunters" for many generations.

The townspeople became afraid of the Belmonts super-human power and asked them to leave the country.

Fortunately the people found a mighty Belmont, called Trevor.

...But they were feared because of their power. They vanished and have not been heard of since.

The Pope never gave up, and at last found one young man: Ralph Belmond.

The curse of Dracula has begun. The fate of Europe lies with Trevor.100 years before Simon Belmond, Dracula and mankind's battle begins...

Table of Contents

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Gameplay

  • Items
  • Characters
  • Enemies
  • Bosses

Appendices

  • Passwords
  • Secrets

Walkthrough

  • Early stages:
    • Stage 1: Wallachia Village
    • Stage 2: Clock Tower of Untimely Death
    • Stage 3: The Mad Forest
  • Underground stages:
    • Stage 4: The Murky Marsh of Morbid Morons
    • Stage 5: Alucard's Cave
    • Stage 6X: Underground Catacombs
    • Stage 6Y: Sunken City of Poltergeists
    • Stage 7: Abandoned Mines
  • Surface stages:
    • Stage 4A: The Haunted Ship of Fools
    • Stage 5A: Curse Tower
    • Stage 6A: The Moat Bridge of Peril
    • Stage 7A: Castle Courtyard
  • Devil Castle stages:
    • Stage 8: The Main Hall
    • Stage 9: The Inner Halls
    • Stage 10: Dracula's Final Clock Tower

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Castlevania series

First chapter and retellings:

  • Castlevania
  • Vampire Killer
  • Haunted Castle
  • Super Castlevania IV
  • Castlevania Chronicles

Main universe:

  • 2: Simon's Quest
  • 3: Dracula's Curse
  • Bloodlines
  • Harmony of Dissonance
  • Lament of Innocence
  • Curse of Darkness
  • Portrait of Ruin
  • Order of Ecclesia
  • Judgment
  • Harmony of Despair
  • Grimoire of Souls

Legend of Dracula:

  • 1: The Adventure
    • ReBirth
  • 2: Belmont's Revenge

Dracula X:

  • Rondo of Blood
  • Dracula X
  • Symphony of the Night

Soma Cruz:

  • Aria of Sorrow
  • Dawn of Sorrow

Alternate universe:

  • Castlevania Legends
  • Castlevania 64
  • Legacy of Darkness
  • Circle of the Moon
  • Order of Shadows
  • The Arcade

Compilation(s):

  • Konami Collector's Series
  • The Dracula X Chronicles
  • Castlevania Requiem
  • Castlevania Anniversary Collection
  • Castlevania Advance Collection
  • Castlevania Dominus Collection

Sub-series:

  • Kid Dracula
  • Lords of Shadow

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