Konami, Symphony of the Night manual

Cite as: Konami, Symphony of the Night manual
Original: https://archive.org/details/castlevania_symphony_of_the_night_english
sha256: 9833adf8c764e23c56e53b3673c20e175493da21bcd37cbb680e8fa61948afba
Archived: https://archive.org/download/castlevania_symphony_of_the_night_english/castlevania_symphony_of_the_night_english.pdf
Accessed: 2026-10-22
Licence: proprietary; manual scan hosted by Internet Archive
Credit: Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
Notes: North American PlayStation edition, English manual, scanned as an image-only PDF; locators give the PDF page.

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The player is Alucard, Dracula's son, who explores Dracula's castle after Richter Belmont, the hero of Rondo of Blood, has vanished.	`PDF p. 6, Characters, Alucard`	Manual
Alucard fights mainly with swords, not the Belmonts' whip. Igarashi says that not wanting to reuse the story of a holy whip-wielding Belmont was probably the game's biggest change from the series.	`PDF p. 6, Characters, Alucard`	Manual
Relics hidden around the castle give Alucard new powers, among them turning into a bat, a wolf, or mist, and some rooms can't be entered until he has a particular relic.	`PDF p. 10, RelicsPDF p. 10, RelicsPDF p. 10, Relics`	Manual
Defeating enemies earns Alucard experience, and each level raises his attributes. He keeps his weapons and items in an inventory screen.	`PDF p. 8, Rules`	Manual
A map fills in each room as Alucard enters it, and GameSpot's reviewer found it extremely similar to Super Metroid's.	`PDF p. 9, On Screen Display, Map screen`	Manual