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Summary of powers
Collection of game info and documents
MANUAL TEXT
English
(Storyline)
It was the Middle Ages in Transylvania. One man came into possession of an evil power, and the Prince of Darkness was born. Before long, this being had used his new-found supernatural powers and the magic powers of his followers to spread his plague of darkness and despair throughout the European continent. He was Count Dracula. Even to mention the name of this Prince of Darkness was to cast fear into the hearts of the people in the land, who were powerless to do anything save voice their concern. However, at about the same time a baby girl possessing special powers was born to a family living in a remote area of the country. "Your powers are meant for a higher purpose and not only for yourself," she was often reminded as she was growing up. The plot of this girl's fate began to develop one night in her seventeenth year when she met up with the enigmatic Alucard, who was on a journey to search for the father that had deserted him. The young girl's name was Sonia Belmont, and she was the first of the vampire hunters in the Belmont family to become legendary.
(Sonia)
Sonia Belmont
17 years old
This young woman was the first of the Belmont family to leave her name to posterity as a vampire hunter. She was taught how to handle a whip by her grandfather and learned at an early age of her ability to sense the presence of beings physical and spiritual that cannot be seen by ordinary humans.
Japanese
(Storyline)
Transylvania in the Middle Ages...
One man obtained the powers of the Devil, to change this world into one of darkness, and to gain eternal life...
Not long ago, that man, who became the Demon King, used his supernatural powers and loyal followers of evil called forth from the Otherworld to spread darkness and despair across all of Europe.
...Count Dracula. The people feared the name of the Demon King, yet they could do nothing but voice their worries of a Dark Age the likes of which have never been seen.
Meanwhile, a young girl with mysterious powers was born to an aristocratic family in the countryside. Surprisingly, the girl had special powers that the townspeople couldn't understand, that they called supernatural. The girl was raised by her grandfather, who was the first to notice her strange powers, telling her, "You must not use your powers only to help yourself..." One night, when she was seventeen years old, while searching for her departed father, she met a mysterious young man named Alucard, and the wheels of fate slowly began to turn...
However, without warning, tragedy suddenly struck. Her mansion was attacked by Count Dracula's monstrous underlings, and upon returning to the town at the foot of the mountains, she only found her grandfather, breathing weakly. "Now is the time to make use of your powers..." Repeating her grandfather's last words in her heart, the young girl took up his whip and turned toward the Demon Castle. The young girl's name is Sonia. She is the forerunner, who leaves behind to this world the name of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters.
GAME TEXT
Opening
This is a tale of a young girl's struggle to single-handedly provide Transylvania, a place ruled by madness and despair, with the light of hope.
Sonia and Alucard
Alucard: Sonia! I didn't think it was true, but its you!
Sonia : Alucard! I could say the same, what are you doing here?
Alucard: Listen to me, Sonia, this is no place for someone like you.
Sonia : But Alucard....
Alucard: This problem concerns only me and my father. I've come to fight the lord of this castle. I cannot let my father, Count Dracula, to get away with this. I must do this for my mother and the world she dearly loved. Please understand. I am the only one who can make amends for the sins commited by my father and there is no reason for you to get involved in this battle. Sonia, I could not bear to lose you. Now turn back!
Sonia : Thank you, Alucard, you-you're probably right, In fact you have always made the right desicions. But I have no intention of going back now. Just as your father was granted strength from the evil deity to conquer the world, I have been granted strength to fight your father. I will not run away. We all decide our own fate. It was you who taught me that, Alucard.
Alucard: All right, Sonia, then show me this strength you belive so strongly in, for I too want believe. Let us test this strength on me. Prepare yourself!
(after Sonia beats him)
Alucard: Ooww! I had no idea you had become this strong.
Sonia : Oh, Alucard...
Alucard: It looks like this time I learned a lesson.
Sonia : Alucard, did you purposely...
Alucard: No, Sonia. You have made me believe in your strength
Sonia : Alucard, I'm so sorry.
Alucard: Do not trouble yourself about it, Sonia. Now I must sleep. I fear I shall not meet you again. Farewell my beloved, my beautiful vampire slayer.
Sonia : Alucard!! I will never forget you. Farwell dear Alucard.
Final battle with Dracula
Dracula: You have done well my girl. In fact you are the first human to come this far. You have my praise.
Sonia : You are the Prince of Darkness. Because of you many people have died, many people have suffered.
Dracula: Oh no, my dear. I have merely done what you humans wished for. Fufilling your insatiable desires.
Sonia : People must fufill their dreams with their own power. You have been consumed by the power of evil. You no longer have the strength to determine your own fate.
Dracula: Silence! On the contrary, I am just the one to use this power, and I will be king who rules over the entire world! Give yourself to me young lady. There may be merit in having your presence.
Sonia : My strength will be used only to protect the entire world! Lord of dark prepare to suffer for trifling with so many lives!
Dracula: As you wish, girl! Then it is your fate to kneel before my power!
(Sonia beats his first form)
Dracula: Well, well.. You are worthy of me. You have lasted me longer than most!
Sonia : Prepare yourself!
Dracula: I've just been toying with you so far. But now its time to get serious.
Dracula's defeat
Dracula: Ohh, no! Me losing to a woman?
Sonia : You poor man. It must be difficult to understand why you, who possess eternal life, are about to perish. Humans are granted such a previous short life in comparison to yours, but in that short time we are able to love and to live for someone else. There must have been a time when you too cherished the bonds with the ones you loved. We humans are not so foolish as to throw away all of that in exchange for the power you received. There is no place in this world for the likes of you. You were already defeated when you accepted the power of darkness.
Dracula: He he! HAH HAH HAH! Don't let it go to your head, girl. Do you really think that the likes of you can destroy me? You're a fool just as Alucard was. Listen to me. Darkness will never die out as long as there is light in the world. I am the ruler of that darkness and I will rise again and again, as long as people like you are alive. Again and again, I tell you. HAH HAH HAH!
Sonia : When that happens, someone will appear before you to take my place. If it is my fate to again be a vampire hunter, I will be ready! No, I will gladly accept that destiny. So, until your soul is saved, until all the evil desires in the world are exhaused, goodbye, ruler of evil. Good bye, o woeful Prince of Darkness.
Ending
Thus, the fear of darkness that continued to envelop the world was lifted single-handedly by a young girl. There are as many legends in the world that deserve retelling as there are stars in the night sky. But this story marks the beginning of the Belmont family legend that has been passed on through many ages. And there is not a single person now who knows when the next legendary fight between another Prince of Darkness and human will begin.
After some time, the young girl of our legend became a mother, whose child would carry on the fate and tragedy of the Belmont family, and the bloodline of dark ways. A child burdened with a cursed fate. And yet this child, once content in the love of its mother, will also rise to fight courageously against the Prince of Darkness, who will return once again. This child, who will one day be praised by all the people as a hero...
But that's another legend...
Collection of game info and documents
MANUAL TEXT
English
(Storyline)
It was the Middle Ages in Transylvania. One man came into possession of an evil power, and the Prince of Darkness was born. Before long, this being had used his new-found supernatural powers and the magic powers of his followers to spread his plague of darkness and despair throughout the European continent. He was Count Dracula. Even to mention the name of this Prince of Darkness was to cast fear into the hearts of the people in the land, who were powerless to do anything save voice their concern. However, at about the same time a baby girl possessing special powers was born to a family living in a remote area of the country. "Your powers are meant for a higher purpose and not only for yourself," she was often reminded as she was growing up. The plot of this girl's fate began to develop one night in her seventeenth year when she met up with the enigmatic Alucard, who was on a journey to search for the father that had deserted him. The young girl's name was Sonia Belmont, and she was the first of the vampire hunters in the Belmont family to become legendary.
(Sonia)
Sonia Belmont
17 years old
This young woman was the first of the Belmont family to leave her name to posterity as a vampire hunter. She was taught how to handle a whip by her grandfather and learned at an early age of her ability to sense the presence of beings physical and spiritual that cannot be seen by ordinary humans.
Japanese
(Storyline)
Transylvania in the Middle Ages...
One man obtained the powers of the Devil, to change this world into one of darkness, and to gain eternal life...
Not long ago, that man, who became the Demon King, used his supernatural powers and loyal followers of evil called forth from the Otherworld to spread darkness and despair across all of Europe.
...Count Dracula. The people feared the name of the Demon King, yet they could do nothing but voice their worries of a Dark Age the likes of which have never been seen.
Meanwhile, a young girl with mysterious powers was born to an aristocratic family in the countryside. Surprisingly, the girl had special powers that the townspeople couldn't understand, that they called supernatural. The girl was raised by her grandfather, who was the first to notice her strange powers, telling her, "You must not use your powers only to help yourself..." One night, when she was seventeen years old, while searching for her departed father, she met a mysterious young man named Alucard, and the wheels of fate slowly began to turn...
However, without warning, tragedy suddenly struck. Her mansion was attacked by Count Dracula's monstrous underlings, and upon returning to the town at the foot of the mountains, she only found her grandfather, breathing weakly. "Now is the time to make use of your powers..." Repeating her grandfather's last words in her heart, the young girl took up his whip and turned toward the Demon Castle. The young girl's name is Sonia. She is the forerunner, who leaves behind to this world the name of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters.
GAME TEXT
Opening
This is a tale of a young girl's struggle to single-handedly provide Transylvania, a place ruled by madness and despair, with the light of hope.
Sonia and Alucard
Alucard: Sonia! I didn't think it was true, but its you!
Sonia : Alucard! I could say the same, what are you doing here?
Alucard: Listen to me, Sonia, this is no place for someone like you.
Sonia : But Alucard....
Alucard: This problem concerns only me and my father. I've come to fight the lord of this castle. I cannot let my father, Count Dracula, to get away with this. I must do this for my mother and the world she dearly loved. Please understand. I am the only one who can make amends for the sins commited by my father and there is no reason for you to get involved in this battle. Sonia, I could not bear to lose you. Now turn back!
Sonia : Thank you, Alucard, you-you're probably right, In fact you have always made the right desicions. But I have no intention of going back now. Just as your father was granted strength from the evil deity to conquer the world, I have been granted strength to fight your father. I will not run away. We all decide our own fate. It was you who taught me that, Alucard.
Alucard: All right, Sonia, then show me this strength you belive so strongly in, for I too want believe. Let us test this strength on me. Prepare yourself!
(after Sonia beats him)
Alucard: Ooww! I had no idea you had become this strong.
Sonia : Oh, Alucard...
Alucard: It looks like this time I learned a lesson.
Sonia : Alucard, did you purposely...
Alucard: No, Sonia. You have made me believe in your strength
Sonia : Alucard, I'm so sorry.
Alucard: Do not trouble yourself about it, Sonia. Now I must sleep. I fear I shall not meet you again. Farewell my beloved, my beautiful vampire slayer.
Sonia : Alucard!! I will never forget you. Farwell dear Alucard.
Final battle with Dracula
Dracula: You have done well my girl. In fact you are the first human to come this far. You have my praise.
Sonia : You are the Prince of Darkness. Because of you many people have died, many people have suffered.
Dracula: Oh no, my dear. I have merely done what you humans wished for. Fufilling your insatiable desires.
Sonia : People must fufill their dreams with their own power. You have been consumed by the power of evil. You no longer have the strength to determine your own fate.
Dracula: Silence! On the contrary, I am just the one to use this power, and I will be king who rules over the entire world! Give yourself to me young lady. There may be merit in having your presence.
Sonia : My strength will be used only to protect the entire world! Lord of dark prepare to suffer for trifling with so many lives!
Dracula: As you wish, girl! Then it is your fate to kneel before my power!
(Sonia beats his first form)
Dracula: Well, well.. You are worthy of me. You have lasted me longer than most!
Sonia : Prepare yourself!
Dracula: I've just been toying with you so far. But now its time to get serious.
Dracula's defeat
Dracula: Ohh, no! Me losing to a woman?
Sonia : You poor man. It must be difficult to understand why you, who possess eternal life, are about to perish. Humans are granted such a previous short life in comparison to yours, but in that short time we are able to love and to live for someone else. There must have been a time when you too cherished the bonds with the ones you loved. We humans are not so foolish as to throw away all of that in exchange for the power you received. There is no place in this world for the likes of you. You were already defeated when you accepted the power of darkness.
Dracula: He he! HAH HAH HAH! Don't let it go to your head, girl. Do you really think that the likes of you can destroy me? You're a fool just as Alucard was. Listen to me. Darkness will never die out as long as there is light in the world. I am the ruler of that darkness and I will rise again and again, as long as people like you are alive. Again and again, I tell you. HAH HAH HAH!
Sonia : When that happens, someone will appear before you to take my place. If it is my fate to again be a vampire hunter, I will be ready! No, I will gladly accept that destiny. So, until your soul is saved, until all the evil desires in the world are exhaused, goodbye, ruler of evil. Good bye, o woeful Prince of Darkness.
Ending
Thus, the fear of darkness that continued to envelop the world was lifted single-handedly by a young girl. There are as many legends in the world that deserve retelling as there are stars in the night sky. But this story marks the beginning of the Belmont family legend that has been passed on through many ages. And there is not a single person now who knows when the next legendary fight between another Prince of Darkness and human will begin.
After some time, the young girl of our legend became a mother, whose child would carry on the fate and tragedy of the Belmont family, and the bloodline of dark ways. A child burdened with a cursed fate. And yet this child, once content in the love of its mother, will also rise to fight courageously against the Prince of Darkness, who will return once again. This child, who will one day be praised by all the people as a hero...
But that's another legend...