General Information
COUNT DRACULA CHALLENGES YOU... ARE YOU UP TO THE TASK?
DISCLAIMER: dialogs contain a few swear words.
Hooper, a real life French videomaker, regularly streams video games playthrough, with a special tradition: each December 31st, to celebrate the new year, he plays a new episode of Castlevania. Since he started in 2009, he has already kicked Dracula's ass a dozen of times!
This time, however, Dracula has had enough. Using his mystical powers, he fusions his world with Hooper's, and challenges him to a fair one-on-one fight.
Now, it is your time to shine! Play as Hooper wielding the whip of the Belmont Family to thwart Dracula's plans once and for all in a hommage to both the Castlevania series and retrogaming as a whole!
Use your deadly whip to get to Dracula and defeat him for good!
GAMEPLAY
HooperVania's gameplay is pretty close to those of the original Castlevania series (before Symphony Of The Night). Move, jump, crawl, use the whip and other secondary weapons to vanquish your foes!
Gamepads are commonly supported, but the game comes with JoyToKey to allow you to fully customize your experience. It is also playable on the keyboard just fine!
Default controls and abilities are detailled in the instructions booklet bundled with the game!
Dracula will not be the only monster on your way, as he sent many large beasts to stop you from reaching his castle!
DEFAULT CONTROLS (Keyboard/Gamepad)
- Move: Arrow Keys / Left Stick or D-Pad
- Jump/Validate: X / "A" Button on X360
- Whip/Cancel: C / "X" Button on X360
- Secondary weapon: B/"B" Button on X360
- Fury: V/"Y" Button on X360
- Change secondary weapon: + or - (numpad) / "RB" and "LB" trigger buttons on X360
- Pause: Return / "Start" button on X360
These controls can be remapped in the Options menu.
One of the many subweapons available throughout the game.
FEATURES
- An 18-stages long adventure, and you can go back in any stage at any time!
- Large bosses that will put your talent to the test!
- Many subweapons to find hidden in the levels!
- Buy upgrades of your armory to vanquish your enemies!
- Level Editor to create your own stages!
- Secrets to find!
- Voice clips of Hooper during gameplay that you can mute at any time (should you not fancy some French in your ears)!
- An easy mode and three different save slots!
- A Boss Rush available once you reached the end of your quest!
LANGUAGES
Being a French game, HooperVania comes in both French and English version. The game lets you choose between the two after launching it!
Last thing: the Install version is recommended for first-timers as it has a chance to prevent a directX issue upon launching the game for people who never played a GameMaker Studio game beforehand, but everything about that issue is detailed inside the instructions booklet.
HooperVania is not just old crumbling castles and haunted mansion, as you will go through 18 diversified stages!
ENJOY THE GAME! AND DO NOT LET DRACULA'S MINIONS STOP YOU...
NOTE: Artworks were added as bonus content locked behind a password. Once you got it, the artworks are available in the "Bonus" folder where HooperVania is installed, as a zip file protected by a password. Enter it to extract the hi-res artworks and admire them at your leisure!
Itch.io page of the game : HooperVania by Linky439 (itch.io)
