Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, known in Japan as Dracula II: Noroi no Fūin , is an action-adventure role-playing platform game produced by Konami. It was originally released for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan 1987 and for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America in 1988. It is the second Castlevania title released for the NES, following the original Castlevania. Set sometime after the events of the first installment, the player once again assumes the role of vampire hunter Simon Belmont, who is on a journey to undo a curse placed on him by Dracula at the end of their... previous encounter. The gameplay departs from the standard platforming genre of the first Castlevania, and instead uses an exploration system. Simon, controlled by the player, can travel to towns and dungeons. This makes the game more similar to the nonlinear gameplay of the second Castlevania game, Vampire Killer, as well as Metroid, though more open-ended than both, with several exclusive elements such as a world map the player is free to explore and revisit.
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| Release date: | 1987 |
| Genre: | Action-adventure game |
| Publisher: | Konami |