Besides the opening intro, Dracula X: Rondo of Blood has a second, mission-starting introduction scene.
As Richter looks over a map of Castlevania that soldiers gave their lives to create, he looks deep into the foreboding distance through the window, burdened by his destiny.
Boarding his horse-pulled wagon, Richter hurries toward the town limits where the dead have already begun coming alive.
Dracula's evil army has begun pummeling the town, sending villagers scurrying for their lives--one of which is Annet Renard, Richter's sister-in-law. Richter shows up, and he's angry at these happenings.
Watching the destruction from afar, Richter decides that now is the best time to intervene with affairs.
Richter gears up, grabs the mystic whip, and focuses on the task at hand. He practices a bit by destroying a few skeletons.
Having watched Richter destroy one of their own, a whole group of skeletons surround our hero. Unleashing his unbridled power, Richter calls upon his item-crash ability to clear the area of all evil.