Castlevania: Symphony of the Night/XBLA

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night released on the Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360. The option to use enhanced graphics is available, which smooths out the pixels for use on a higher resolution screen. By default, the action takes place within a frame, though it is possible to expand it to cover the entire screen. Xbox Live Arcade standard features, such as Achievements and Leaderboard tracking has been added. The game is larger than a standard Xbox memory card, so a hard drive or 512MB memory card is required. The game was also released in disc format in Konami Classics Vol. 1, a compilation which features this game alongside Frogger and Super Contra.
The North American version plays identically to the PSX North American version of the game. This means that any items that were left out of the North American PSX version (such as the Nose Demon Familiar) have also been left out of this game. The dialog is also identical to the PSX dialog. The ending theme "I am the Wind" was removed and replaced by an instrumental called "Admiration of Clan". All FMV cutscenes are removed as well (although they reappeared for the Japanese release of the game).
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==Achievements==
Image	Name 	Description 	Gamerscore
 	Rampage 	Defeat 10 consecutive enemies using the standard weapons without getting hit.	5
 	Apprentice 	Defeat 10 consecutive enemies using only magic without getting hit. 	5
 	Weapon Master 	Defeat 10 consecutive enemies using special weapons without getting hit. 	10
 	Changeling 	Obtain the Bat, Wolf and Mist transformations. 	10
 	Familiar 	Collect all five familiars in the game. 	10
 	Demon Slayer 	Defeat Gaibon and Slogra. 	10
 	Bloodlines 	Defeat Dracula in the Bloodlines stage without getting hit. 	10
 	Warlock 	Unlock/Cast all eight of Alucard's spells. 	15
 	Topsy Turvy 	Unlock the Inverted Castle. 	20
 	Money Bags 	Collect a bank of $100,000. 	25
 	Seeker 	Explore 200.6% of the game. 	35
 	Belmont's Revenge	Finish the game, including the inverted castle, as Richter. 	45
==Leaderboards==
After beating the game once, the game will track the amount of time taken to get to certain objectives or a score at these times. These scores can be compared to your previous runs, your friend's runs, and global runs. Some of the Time Attack benchmarks are similar to those found in the PSX version, which did not feature online capabilities.
Conquering the castle:
*Exploration/Time
*Max Life/Time
Time Attack:
*Defeat Cerberus (monthly)
*Defeat Death (monthly)
*Meet Maria (weekly)
*Defeat Lord Dracula (monthly)
==Trivia==
*Although "I am the Wind" is discarded as the ending theme and replaced by "Admiration of Clan", the track is still present in all versions of the Xbox Live Arcade release.
==External links==
*Xbox360Achievements.org
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