I am sure I do not have to say, wikipedia is not a source for everything ( so says the power of college professors ). However, lets be realistic, without this game would Alucard, have been around for Symphony Of The Night? Seeing how death appears at the beginning, of both games, simular to magi-koopa in Mario world.
What we have to understand, their are many games, where the character has a chibi, SD, or even morphed appearance. This is how games are mostly on the 2d consoles, personally some games work better like this, then all being over sized fighter graphics or, "Prince of Persia" Graphics.
So far the problem I am seeing, is that the fan-base is playing it cool, when it comes to Kid Dracula, because of the abuse towards the idea itself, across western shores? Could it just be a western bias of Kid Dracula, or does people want to get drunk and forget about who Alucard is really.
What if he had the appearance of his Vampire self from the third game? what then? Of course I am talking about how the sprite looked, very much like an 1950's B&W movie dracula we all know from Halloween costumes, but that same appearance in SOTN? I believe that KD, appearance itself,
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About the futuristic worlds and all. 1797 pretty much equals 11797 and if that was the case ( this is from the Castlevania wiki ), chances are the development of the SOTN project revovled around the PSX game as a remix, of the Kid Dracula game, but they just made the entire game take place in the Castle, and the underworld. Is that not kinda odd, that without that one, one, the two years match up. Alucard awakens to stop evil, and death takes away his fathers items from him.
The only way that Alucard could not be, Kid Dracula is that if the "Time Reapear was sent from the future by, Galamoth. Oh wait a second Galamoth is that giant thing in SOTN, which takes place in 11797 - 10000. That is interesting, seeing how that boss, was their as well, because a giant T-rex, dressed up as an Egyptian, pulling a star-gate, kinda made no sense. Was this the boss that was chained down?
It just seems that SOTN, was sappose to be a sequel to Kid Dracula, because the official game, had went to the N64, leaving the PSX for open production of anything, Strange how the final boss of the PSX game is "Alien", and I am sure that "Alien" references are being made all over SOTN, in relation to Kid Dracula. So obvious, but we ignore it.
So Kid Dracula/Alucard is kinda like that loop-hole that makes no logical sense, but to make a teenish version of Dracula, for the PSX crowd............
And that is why Dracula X: Rondo of Blood is the last real CV game.....the end. Everybody ignores that because CV games are just so fun and cool looking, and Konomi needs money.
Yeah SOTN, one wacky game when you think about it, not the most perfect CV game, but a CV game that exploited the powers of high powered 3d game systems, not saying the PCE can't do it, I am saying, when you look it at from a KD perspective, very wacky game indeed. Like what Nintendo did with Kirby on the NES, after the GB games was a success.