Dracula's Curse is beaten, though I may do one more playthrough to get Sypha's ending and see how badly she breaks the game. This game was pretty intense and the final stretch within Castlevania itself was pretty brutal due to some tricky platforming I often skipped thanks to Alucard's bat transformation and the sequential boss fights. The two most brutal boss battles in this part had to be the one with a spirit that summons three different bosses for you to fight in a row, and then Dracula himself who also had three phases. Outside of skipping annoying platforming sections and being a cheaper way to deal with diagonal placed enemies, Alucard was pretty useless in the fighting department for all of this.

I'll probably tackle Belmont's Revenge next before jumping into the 16-bit era Castlevania titles.