SNES Longplay [314] Bram Stokers Dracula

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[@manuelnavarrete23]

Tengo 33 años y vengo manejando mi tráiler.. me vino este juego a la memoria y verlo de nuevo me trajo nostalgia de cuando lo jugaba a los 8 años 😢😎 viejos y buenos recuerdos por siempre.. saludos bros!

[@donaldshaw8710]

37:04 Oh my god, it's Fred Fuchs.

[@LadyCoyKoi]

He is in everything! I wonder if James Rolfe will ever have a chance to interview this legend who doesn't even know he is famous throughout the video game community at this time. LOL XD

[@mr.nobody8288]

Reminds me of that one game where you journey through a haunted castle to destroy the evil count dracula with a whip. You know, Kirby's Dreamland.

[@creev80]

😂

[@JadenMoon1475]

*Castlevania* you empty headed, half witted nimrod!! In *WHAT* branch, of *WHAT* time-line, of *WHAT* dimension is "Journey through a haunted castle to destroy Count Dracula with a whip" the description for *ANY* game - *KIRBY'S DREAMLAND ESPECIALLY* - that's *NOT* Castlevania?!?!?!?

[@namcoshinAkuma]

The intro used to scare the shit out of me when i was a kid.

[@antoniojesusdiazmartinez3267]

According to the movie, It should have been impaled corpses & not flags, but they wanted to be a lil "family friendly"🙄

[@nathanmasters115]

This game didn't follow the movie at all, but the music in it is awesome.

[@car2004]

Agreed! I loved playing this when it came out. My memories are fond over the music. It's the best version, based on what I have seen from other platforms, so I consider myself lucky to have play this game on the super Nintendo.

[@wolfgangsebastian8357]

Nathan Masters That's quite ironic because the movie didn't really follow the book as well.

[@ChewyThomson]

Also agreed. That opening music was always so creepy.

[@mrcat3493]

The music is great. Anyone know who did it?

[@willie1886]

Neither did the Sega Genesis version this was more like Castlevania version of the 92 movie but Gary Oldman wouldn't have did the film if the game had a movie out instead of Bram Stoker's Dracula

[@GenXtasy]

the title screen and music is the best part of the game!

[@Curly4000]

Exactly like the movie. Crazy how close this game is to the movie. Blows my mind

[@VGMrawk]

That character has the most casual sword slash I've ever seen.

[@xlr81999]

he fights with the bravado of a man watering his garden

[@chilomine839]

@@xlr81999 The progenator of the guy who whips the supernatural.

[@warpath6666]

Looks like Guile's sonic boom, now that would have been funny 😄

[@OmegaManZX]

I love how there's literally explosion sound effects for everything EXCEPT for Harker's rifle.

[@bizmarkie9112]

Awesome job. You can tell you've played yhrough this one too many times before. This is one of those games I ended up having as a kid and it scared the piss out of me with the creepy music and images.

[@Centerstrain01]

To think these are the games I had growing up..This makes me feel old

[@antoniojesusdiazmartinez3267]

Makes ME feel good & pride for the best generation

[@Popexify]

Same here, I'm 36, back then I used to play it a lot.

[@riccohansen3683]

Allso me but im happybi grow up with this game.

[@rabbitttz]

@@antoniojesusdiazmartinez3267you’re not wrong!! Millennials are the best generation. :)

[@metodoinstinto]

Fred Fuchs, everybody's checking your game, man!

[@sunilkrishna2591]

36:50 Thank you for including the game over credits. God bless you Fred Fuchs, wherever you are.

[@sauronsnose219]

Ah yes, my favourite passage from Dracula, the part where Harker encounters a giant flame-breathing dragon.

[@sforti01]

Hey the sound effect of the roar was pretty good!

[@StriderRyu7]

While many people don’t like this game,it has many fun elements that made enjoy it back in the day.The music,the atmosphere…It has charm. 24:18 You’re human after all!!! Your run up until this point has been amazing. Love this longplay.

[@DarkJusticeMetal]

Oh my god, Fred Fuchs.

[@townescentury]

In this game you play as a bartender who goes around whipping drunk customers and their dogs with a towel.

[@thadevilzadvocate]

I dont recall seeing a dragon in the movie.

[@TGOTYZero]

Dracula, son of the dragon

[@LadyCoyKoi]

They got the idea from Draculas' name which means son of dragon. Dracul was his dad which meant dragon in the old medieval Romanian times. It was also a title given to the Order of the Dragon. Really cool knight society name. They were a class of knights who fought under the Christian flag to fight against the Muslim invaders. You could say without Vlad Dracula we would all be Turks and be a bunch of cave dwellers. Europe wouldn't have the later Renaissance such as Leonardos' inventions and skilled art works, no Michelangelos' Sistine Chapel, No advance Science, Medicine, technology... forget about the internet, computers, etc. Love the consistution? Equal rights? Ok that was white men, not Islamic extremists. As a woman who enjoys Science, Medicine, having the internet, being able to go to college and play video games, Islam can kiss my ass! I'm glad Vlad push those backwards bastards where they belong.

[@MushroomCloudful]

Thank you, relived my hard days of work as 5 yo behind the snes!

[@knuclear200x]

Bram Strider's Dracula

[@DARKKIRBYSUCKSAUTTPAVGCPAVGNCH]

*stoker

[@phj9894]

DARKKIRBY8976 SUCKS!! AUTTP AVGCP AVGNCHWE his word means that it's similar to capcom's strider.

[@DARKKIRBYSUCKSAUTTPAVGCPAVGNCH]

hijong park I'd be better off with Strider Hiryu from Strider.

[@NintendoPsycho]

Yes... yes it is.

[@clresseg]

Amazing music, and different for each level! I would have loved this game as a kid who was obsessed with the movie (I didn't have a SNES at that point unfortunately, just a Game Gear).

[@christianbobb1852]

Me, too.

[@christianbobb1852]

Hahahahaha, all bosses defeated without HP Loss... I did that this time...

[@openskiesmedia]

The Game Gear version is a totally different game, but it’s great!

[@casualcrypto3477]

This game was scary, the dracula boss that shot lasers was where I put it down because he killed me and I was too scared to get back to that point lol

[@killingjoke535]

Never played this but I remember the commercial on the Dracula vhs tape. Being a kid in the 90s was awesome

[@healingasmr4986]

The nuns crying/praying and intro used to freak me out when I was a kid lol

[@theblueoctopus4494]

20:39 I never realized that Sadie Frost was twice the size of Keanu Reeves

[@CureOptimismForHumanity]

I played this game as a kid and didn't get anywhere, but even today that intro is pretty bad ass.

[@zenicehero9154]

Fun Fact: This is Canon to the Castlevania games one of Jonathan Harker allies, Quincy Norris is the father of John Norris The Protagonist of Castlevania Bloodines n Both men used th Vampire Killer whip against Dracula

[@ketchupkatsup9805]

Nah this game or movie isn't but the original story is as they tied it into Bloodlines/TNG. Later Castlevania would be directly inspired by this movie though by having Dracula's origins pretty much exactly the same as this movie (a good knight who loses his wife and succumbs to evil)

[@NinjaKurosai]

I had a dream about this game as a kid, although in my dream it was more like a visual novel ala Snatcher. And it was fucking badass

[@gameboy8425]

That intro theme... 👌👌👌 10/10

[@rogeliolarronda]

Film from 1993. Game from 1993. Longplay from 2013. And I’m watching in 2023.

[@wicked6696]

I love this game and I still have it and all my cool Nintendo games

[@tylercalhoun6407]

5:10 I swore that there was no way to bypass that corridor without bum-rushing through at full health. Now I know how to safely get past there. Saved me lives and the continue there.

[@MrCodeerror]

I always used to think he was wearing a helmet or hat.

[@rickylucas6503]

You mean he's not?

[@MrCodeerror]

Ricky Lucas, If you look closely his hair is very shiny

[@DSMTheEditor]

BEWARE (of cartridge load times)

[@LEATHERrebelJUSTICE]

I use to love Castlevania

[@maxsayo]

that's the most anemic looking sword strikes right there.

[@pedrosepulveda1777]

you the Sega Cd version

[@christianbobb1852]

The cutscenes from the Bram Stoker's Dracula Movie in this Bram Stoker's Dracula Video Game are really hard to make out because its pixelated... It's called an FMV or Full-Motion Video...

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

That funny little "Beware" message in this version reminds me of the WARNING messages before boss fights in Mega Man games starting with X4.

[@rossm9413]

i really wanna do a doom metal cover of the intro music to this game

[@NotEnoughSound]

I don't know what it is, but did this game share any staff members with the team that worked on the Castlevania Arcade game?

[@thebatmanover9000]

This game is so true to the movie!

[@damoncrannell156]

The music sounds so real

[@AucheysAdventures]

I passed on this game for 8 and talked the dealer down to 8 for Prince Of Persia on the SNES instead... did I make a good choice?

[@Wishbone4evr]

The male screaming in background matches the Renfield boss 'cuz well in this version of Dracula, Renfield was played by Tom Waits. XD

[@JadenMoon1475]

Is that grunt as he takes damage, the same grunt as Grant from the Sega Genesis Jurassic Park Rampage Edition game???

[@MG-oj7rr]

Muaic and atmo made this game, i totally randomly remembered this game... ahh

[@Fingdiabolical]

My favorite part in the film was when the 11 foot tall Tom Waits exploded and this game captured that poignant scene so well.

[@NyteMyre]

Man, for some reason i had this game as a kid. Never completed it it seems since i can't really remember the later levels

[@lug3266]

First video game I ever played:)

[@FabiozBarbosa]

well that a castlevania fan could use the sprites and musics of this game and make a castlevania game.

[@Doommaster1994]

37:03 - "Wait, who's this? Fred Futchs... Fred Fuchs? FRED FUCHS?! Fred Fuchs! Oh my God, Fred Fuchs! Oh my God, it's Fred Fuchs! Oh, ho, ho, ho, Fred Fuchs!"

[@DTSephiroth]

This game brings up so many questions... so... many... questions... Why does everything explode? Why are zombies the only thing that doesn't explode? Why do you have to talk to some random guy before you can go to the exit? Why does the exit explode? Why is Renfield 20' tall? Why do you suddenly need a key half way though the game to proceed? Is Dracula gay? If not, then why does his castle have a bunch of statues of dudes holding balls? Why do projectiles fly at a brisk walking pace? How small is the hit box on the spikes anyway? Why is all this furniture flying around? Why is Harker such a badass in this game? I don't remember that in the movie. Why isn't the protagonist Van Helsing instead, or that dude with the cowboy hat? Where the heck is Mina? Why are there so damn many bats? But probably the most pressing question... Why do so many movie games suck?

[@gspendlove]

Missionary of the Adepta Sororitas My question is: Didn't the creators realise their game was a complete ripoff of Castlevania?

[@DTSephiroth]

gspendlove Apparently not, because... it exists.

[@DTSephiroth]

+TheArchHeretek Very much so now that you mention it. Very very rushed.

[@sorwoggpm]

+Missionary of the Adepta Sororitas Okay yeah, but it's fun. I mean the colorful and fuckin' wacky graphics, the dope ass 8-bit sounding music, and the mood of the whole thing just make it... fun. Or maybe that's just nostalgia, I don't know. But nonetheless, I play this game all the way through every year or so.

[@ancientone5903]

+Missionary of the Adepta Sororitas To answer those questions are simple... Question 1: Why dose everything explode? Answer: Welcome to the world of video gaming logic. Question 2: Why are zombies the only thing that doesn't explode? Answer: Well, welcome to the world of video gaming logic. Question 3: Why do you have to talk to some random guy before you can go to the exit? Answer: Because the creators of the game made it that way. Question 4: Why dose the exit explode? Answer: See answer for question 3. Question 5: Why is Renfield 20' tall? Answer: Because Dracula in the game is capable of making people people and animals over twice there size, it just never showed it in the movie. Question 6: Why do you suddenly need a key half way through the game to proceed? Answer: See answer for question 3. Question 7: Is Dracula gay? Answer: I don't ever recall, I think he just loves the statues for how they are made. Question 8: Why isn't all this furniture flying around? Answer: Because Dracula can make it that way in the video games. Question 9: Why is Harker such a badass in this game? I don't remember that in the movie. Answer: Because the game designers for the video game versions of Bram Stoker's Dracula thought it would be totally awesome to have Jonathan Harker defeat Dracula's legions by himself even to the point where you can have him kick Dracula in the face in the Sega CD version like the hardcore badass he is. But even then he can't compete against Simon Belmont who is specifically known to be "The Most Craziest Mother@#$%#$" ever known as he eats the meat hidden in the wall after breaking the wall down with even just his whip in order to refill his own health! Question 10: Why isn't the protagonists Van Helsing instead, or that dude with the cowboy hat? Answer: See question 9. Question 11: Where the heak if Mina? Answer: Very good question . . . maybe the game was rushed or maybe they forgot to add her for if they realize they did then its already too late . . . so yeah . . . Question 12: Why are there so damn many bats? Answer: Dracula can control bats to the point where he will instruct them to attack Jonathan Harker, which makes sense because Dracula can also call forth wolves to attack Jonathan Harker as well as other individuals if given the chance as well.

[@TalkSickMass]

Crazy to believe this was Jon Burton's second game.

[@NinjaKurosai]

Actraiser meets Strider meets Castlevania IV

[@matt_canon]

15:37 around this part with this music and the zombies, I was wondering: "Is this still Bram Stokers Dracula or Return of the Evil Dead?" This game did have good music though

[@RedmageAdam]

I will admit I'm in the minority here, but I thought the game was worthwhile enough for me to play it through to the end. It's not the best game, but at least to me, I feel that it's at least a decent game. Maybe a 6/10 or 7/10 from me. I didn't mind playing this to kill half an hour or so as a kid.

[@Barbe]

***** Minority? How? Because you know Fire-Blizzard-Thunder-Water-Cure?

[@christianbobb1852]

It could be the FLUX magazine...

[@cilonrs]

"I'm in the minority here" "this game a 6/10 or 7/10" wat?

[@reynaldolopez8902]

Buen juego con excelente música.

[@bradydavis5791]

The last boss is basically running away because he turned off the kitchen light and he's scared of the dark.

[@heroteen16]

That final boss, not even sure what to think. are you supposed to tank him during the final fight or something?

[@marcellogama1414]

Minha infância como joguei esse jogo 🤩🤛

[@FranciscoMartinez-kn4wu]

I remember playing this as a kid and sometimes the game would end early. I guess there was different ways to complete it.

[@mrmeeseeks_2109]

Love this game

[@glennjosechristman4612]

Konami should have been chosen as the main developer for "Bram Stoker's Dracula" games, thanks to their experience in making "Castlevania". I was curious about why Coppola, Hollywood, America, and Japan never thought about looking for better game companies to make better game adaptations based on "Bram Stoker's Dracula" until I found out about the "SEGA-CD" version of this game (which was actually more different than this) and then saw this video. The "Batman" movie (1989) had games based on it, and one of them that was developed and released to be played with the "Sega Genesis" console was my favourite. Maybe Coppola and the others never really had any interest in making better video game versions based on "Bram Stoker's Dracula" than this "SNES" version.

[@TweedProductions]

Oh yeah I remember this! This is that game where you fight a gigantic chimney sweep and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart isn't it?

[@clintdrelich696]

I just bought this game for my horror collection😎👍!! its actually a descent game 😁👍... the music is excellent👍!!

[@nicholaspiazza8687]

34:17 Fred Fuchs?!? Don't you mean FRED FUCKS?!?

[@akiradevilmanfudo]

How come my game have totally different enemies and the boss strategies dosnt work? Genesis and snes are soo different?

[@Evil_Teddy]

I love World of Longplays. ----->No friggn talking.

[@robnelms1418]

Man, when games were as simple as going from left to right, blowing everything up in front of you with a sword!!! Didn't matter if it was humans, vampires, rats, skeletons, or mosquitos!! It all goes BOOM!!! HECK! EVEN THE EXIT SIGN!!! BOOOOOOM!!!!! BUT, the music is awesome. Probably the only real reason I played so much as a teenager. It's so memorable in fact that whenever I think of an asylum, I get the music from Caffax Abbey in my head.

[@jakefields7664]

Sound track is badass

[@DanTheMan1985ful]

No matter how hard it tries or competes against... IT HAS NOTHING ON AKUMAJOU DRACULA/CASTLEVANIA!

[@maximilianobentancor2277]

Amazing Game 💪🤙👋

[@nicholaspiazza8687]

37:03 Fred Fucks

[@christianbobb1852]

Here's my own Bram Stoker's Dracula High-Score List 1. CDB 1,112,255 (SNES Version) 2. CDB 187,440 (Game Boy Version) 3. CDB 107,500 (Sega Genesis Version) 4. CDB 19,650 (Sega Game Gear Version) 5. CDB 11,350 (NES Version)

[@murilofilho2218]

What about the Sega CD version.

[@coldnightmare199]

imagine flexing in a 25 yr old game

[@JanneFlinck]

i like the double base :)

[@dnmstarsi]

LOL Fred Fuchs...

[@Dieci-9]

Fred FUCHS! :D

[@user-od4xk9rl8h]

rip studio Liverpool ( 1984-2012)

[@mrcat3493]

They really went for a castlevania ripoff, I was expecting Keanu Reeves to eat some wall meat here.

[@Toxie90210]

Is Jonathan Harker wearing a bicycle helmet?

[@cfhcowboy2127]

Karma Android no its cause hes narkaleptic lol

[@phoenixfirex]

5:35 To quote AVGN... "What the fuck?!"

[@donwagner8661]

Why does Keanu Reeves look like he's wearing dental head gear?

[@Spindler2007]

Its odd how in the game intro, the poles have flags on them rather than impaled bodies much like in the movie.

[@SaitohYatate]

Call it SNES era censorship. Back then Nintendo of America was a little touchy with the subject of graphic violence; at least it was that way until the ESRB came into action.

[@NewToCool74]

SaitohYatate correct, also Sega wasn't all touchy with the graphic violence, they have impaled bodies in the intro for the sega version of this game.

[@MAFion]

The only way to make it true to the movie would be to play as Dracula.

[@betterine]

This is wrong, the game's real name is Hogan's Castle.

[@Explosion_Mage]

i see im not the only one here for that

[@aiedne]

Bram Stoker's Dracula CHEATS Level Select After completing the first level, immediately press X+Y to skip levels. How does this code?

[@sinisternightmare]

His sword looks like a wet towel. x´D

[@debrehsan6301]

Hardest game.

[@HelloFade2]

Is this game made by the same people who made the "Shadow of the Beast" games, cause there certainly are some similarities?

[@nicholaspiazza8687]

Tony Seyffer Yes, it is developed by Psygnosis itself.

[@fedzciulla]

A lot of gfx and animations are from Leander.

[@christianbobb5500]

I liked how the FMV cutscenes are so pixelated and hard to make out... How can you get the Bram Stoker's Dracula FMV?

[@sforti01]

In the words used by AVGN to describe his anger… “Fuck this game!”

[@christianbobb5500]

I played my Videogames for Sailor Sedna, Jordan Van Dyk, Missionary of the Adepta Sororitas, Smile.DOG, Shadowrunner1985...

[@CadaverJunky8]

7 year old me was TERRIFIED of this game lol

[@invaderhim23]

what the hell is your character wearing on his head?

[@RetroRupp]

I think it's supposed to be his hair. In the movie it turned mostly gray from excessive stress and trauma while Harker was held prisoner in Dracula's castle.

[@nicholaspiazza8687]

Yeah, who programmed this thing? Maybe it was Fred Fucks.

[@ProfRenderer]

FRED FUCHS

[@eazye088]

I'll just stick to my Castlevania.

[@kyleryancooperify]

Is this Hogan's castle?

[@Bebodiarreia]

What the name of all bosses?

[@adamalderman2264]

These boss fights seemed so, so difficult to 8-year-old me. lol

[@lirahbaril5807]

Same I would give up and get my brother to play for me😅

[@lirahbaril5807]

This and Super Ghouls and Ghost

[@adamalderman2264]

@@lirahbaril5807 At least you had a sibling that would play. (jealous kick air)