Four years after Richter Belmont destroyed Count Dracula in Rondo of Blood, the vampire hunter vanished without explanation. Maria Renard set out to find him. Then Castlevania — the castle of Dracula, said to appear once every century — materialized out of the mist as if to guide her. At the same time, Alucard — the dhampir son of Dracula who had fought alongside Trevor Belmont and then entered eternal slumber to suppress his own cursed lineage — awoke. The forces of good and evil are moving again, and the castle is waiting. A landmark action-RPG from Konami.