
If you’re crazy enough to try it, is available on the SNES and is generally not expensive on Amazon or Ebay from the listings I’ve found. The game’s overall design is subpar as far as Castlevania games go, and it mostly serves as a very strange piece of history. There is also the non-canonical SNES game Dracula X that retells R ondo of Blood’s story and reuses that game’s assets, doing a decent job of adapting them to the more technically proficient Super Nintendo. Portrait of Ruin also features a mode in which you can play as Richter and Maria. Defeating him unleashes the whip’s true power and makes it one of the game’s strongest weapons. Richter appears again in Portrait of Ruin as an optional boss who inhabits the inert Vampire Killer as its last true wielder. There was a radio drama in Japan known as Castlevania: Nocturne of Recollection, starring Richter and Alucard, which takes place shortly after Symphony of the Night. Richter is very upset and shaken by being taken advantage of. Alucard deals with his father personally, and afterwards, the Belmont bloodline goes a bit dormant for awhile. Alucard, with some help from Maria, manages to snap Richter out of the spell, but not before Dracula is once again revived.

Richter becomes a very hammy antagonist, highly atypical for a Belmont, during the game’s first half. It’s then up to Dracula’s son, Alucard, to take the role of main hero.

Shaft (having avoided death in Rondo of Blood) possesses Richter, who becomes the Lord of Castlevania.

Below are spoilers for Symphony, so beware!
