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When it was used in 2018 on "Arino no Chosen" in the TV programme GameCenter CX, it was being sold at the high price of 64,800 yen, so it was played after being borrowed through the goodwill of the used game shop Super Potato.
A 2016 guide listed it as selling for 30,000 yen with just the cartridge, and 100,000 yen with the cartridge and box.
In 2018, stores reselling copies of the original game could sell the game for prices as high as 58,300 yen to 69,800 yen.
Stuart Hunt of Retro Gamer praised the game saying "It's wonderfully atmospheric and amazingly detailed, exhibiting the same impressive attention to detail that Konami afforded to early Castlevania games.
They described the game as "Castlevania with a Gun", and questioned why the game was not released outside of Japan.
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