Castlevania (1999 video game)
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| Developer(s) | Konami Computer Entertainment Kobe |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Director(s) | Yuji Shibata |
| Producer(s) | Etsunobu Ebisu Shigeru Umezaki |
| Composer(s) | Masahiko Kimura Motoaki Furukawa Mariko Egawa |
| Series | Castlevania |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64 |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Castlevania, also referred to as Castlevania 64, is a 1999 action-adventure game developed by Konami's Kobe branch for the Nintendo 64. An expanded version of the game, Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, was released later in the same year.
Castlevania is the first 3D game in the Castlevania series. The player selects one of the game's protagonists to control: Carrie Fernandez, a young orphan gifted with magic powers, or Reinhardt Schneider, the whip-wielding heir to the Belmont clan (the series' recurring protagonists). Carrie and Reinhardt set out on a quest to stop Count Dracula's impending return to power after a century of dormancy. The characters travel to and explore Dracula's grand estate in their mission to defeat the count and his horde of undead minions.