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I've played the Adventure an unreasonable amount of times and reached the third or fourth loop. Not too sure why. Maybe it's the game being short and simple while something like Dracula X is more of a commitment. Maybe there's something vaguely satisfying about beating the second stage boss.

The GBC port cuts down on some of the slowdown and makes Christopher handle more like Simon and Trevor. I haven't played that one as much but it did feel a bit more like a consolevania; just takes a while to adjust to how jumping from platform to platform works there.