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Trevor Belmont can take Sypha, Grant, or Alucard onto branching roads in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. The pirate's climb, the mage's spell, and the dhampir's attack rewrite a corridor the whip alone would fail.
Konami forks the map so a chosen partner locks some stairs and opens others. The clock tower and the marsh are not a single mandatory march, which is the expansion beyond the first castle.
The game arrived in 1989 and is often treated as the peak of the 8-bit entries. Trevor's whip remains the spine, and the partner is what makes this late NES Castlevania wider than a straight ascent.
Same series is the tight name match. Same franchise is the wider family. Same platform is other games on the systems named above.
The series list above is the whole family set in this catalog.
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