Pachislot Akumajou Dracula is a pachinko slot machine whose narrative lives mainly between the reels: brief animated cutscenes fire off during play, disconnected from each other, requiring the player to piece together a story that the machine's designers never fully assembled in one place. Developer blog entries describe it as "another story"—a term suggesting a parallel world or alternate timeline. Much of the continuity is borrowed from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, and the events depicted—Trevor's campaign against Dracula, who has been resurrected with Angela's help—are also told across the sequel machines. The third game in the pachislot series is a prequel to the first two.