This is the underrated Castlevania.

The cards were a fun idea. Too bad most combinations weren't worth using.

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>>376371470
That's not Harmony of Dissonance.

>>376371679
>released a year later
>graphics, sound, and story/gameplay quality is significantly worse

Why?

>>376371679
The only issue i had with HoD was how fucking easy it was to get lost

>>376371753
It was still fun and addictive, even though it was the worst of the NDS/GBA games.

>>376371470
its shit

>>376371753
>released a year later
>is actually playable on the hardware

Why?

>>376371470

COM felt like a perfect mix of classic and Metroidvania gameplay.

SotN>DoS>CoM>OoE>AoS>PoR>HoD

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Wintervania.

>>376371679
Literally the worst Castlemania. KYS.

Agree with OP tho.

>>376371470
Circle of the Moon is GOAT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQeuBm2aIY

Yes I know this is originally from SC4

>>376372812
the sorrow games are great for the replay value alone

>>376372859
If you do not count the LoS series as part of a whole I will agree with you. Otherwise anything from those is worse.

>>376372812
Only castlevania with gibbing.

I love it.

Portrait was favorite.

>>376371679
I can't finish this game due to my cardiophobia. It's annoying.

>>376371634
CotM with revamped mechanics and card system when?
If they made card swapping as easy as swapping sets was on later titles it could work pretty well.
Also, add a fucking shop to the game.

>>376373273
*rattle rattle*

>>376371679
Not underrated, it's just shit

>>376371470
Fuck man i remember playing this shit as a kid. Great game. Never beat it though

>>376371470
CotM has the sickest basslines of the series

https://youtu.be/PhqSUlQiK9w

We could have had an amazing looking 2D castlevania on 3DS by now if konami wasn't such a pile of shitbags
>Crisp sprites a la Fire emblem Awakening overworld sprites
>Cool giant 2.5D bosses
>Better sound hardware than the DS for those beats
But no, more pachinko. Fuck.

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Best Ludovania of the Castlemania subseries.

>>376373602
my favorite updating of a classic track in the series. so much better than the original.

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*blocks your path

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>>376373384
Rattle me Loans. Because I get paid today.

>>376373850
fuck this piece of shit

i was literally fighting him for 45 mins straight because I had shitty card drops

>>376373850
that thing and the dragon zombies gave me fits.

>>376373693
it's really the only version worth mentioning tbqh

>>376372991
Never played 4 but the music in this game was hype as fuck and that hellish difficulty was beautiful

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>>376373989
*starts eating his bro

>>376371470
That's not Dracula X on SNES.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utl5udium0Q

>>376372991
Most of that game's music was redone classic tracks but goddamn did they pick some good ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUvFMk3Q97k

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This is the best metroidvania

>>376374121
>Never played 4

What are you waiting for? The next full moon is in 2 days.

>>376374212
COTM makes all those old tracks their own

Thinking of getting a castlevania for my 3DS. Which is the best (3)DS one?

>>376374367
the only 3DS one was that shitty Lords of Shadow spinoff.

As far as the DS games go, all three are pretty fucking good, I liked Portrait of Ruin the most personally. I really liked the 2 character thing alot.

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>>376372062
>CoM better than AoS

oh i'm laughin

>>376373850
Why is that goat in a gimp suit?

>>376374212
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W03tgtNtTvk
Aquarius will always be my favorite track. So goddamn good.

>>376371470
correct

>>376372062

SotN > AoS > CoM > OoE > PoR > HoD

Haven't played DoS personally, so I'm not putting it on this list.

>>376374367
The three DS ones are all good, the 3DS one I've not heard good things of so probably best to avoid that. And if you count them, you can of course play CV1-3 on 3DS, and IV if you have a n3DS

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>no divine bloodline bullshit
>shitty knockoff k-mart brand whip
>looks like the singer from a 90's punk band
>still kicks Drac's ass

is he the most underrated CV protag?

>>376371470
CotM is probably my favourite Metroidvania game but

Classicvania >>>>> Metroidvania

>>376371470
salt and sanctuary is a pretty good metroidvania

it feels like circle of the moon and demons souls had a babby

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So we can all agree that OoE had the best OST?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q69TIHgeJ38

>>376375003
He's the most non canon one.

>>376375104
She's alright, not the best Castlevania girl. Like Charlotte.

>>376375104
I'd put it just behind SoTN myself (not played them all though), but it's a bloody good OST. Crystal Teardrops, and Departed Way fit the areas they're in so freaking well, and Wandering Ghosts is just flat out amazing.

>>376375104
OoE has a great OST, better than average for the series, but I'd say Bloodlines is my favorite

https://youtu.be/Ncu6d24xM_Y

Sotn > AoS > Ooe > PoR=DoS>Cotm>>>HoD

Objective ranking right there.

A shame on HoD since the story and characters were great. Basically an improved Sotn story.

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Post Music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZOUJlbYYJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjAYc7NShR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMWFMiyzhzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX8bXapBUIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcizlIz3HsA

>>376375930
https://youtu.be/tZkWCE06Iik

>>376375708
>SotN
>Objectively good
It's objectively overrated shit

>>376376054
Explain why you think the best game is shit

People really fucking like this game? I was so into 100% completion when I did this and a lot of the cards are so hard to get. But you can use any card you want at the beginning by glitching so it's pointless.

Also the control was awful. HoD was slighter better by adding dashing and AoS perfected the movement.

Debate me.

>>376371470
I've always liked this one a lot.

>>376371679
>sounded like shit
>looked like shit
>played ehhhh
I wanted to like it so much.

>tfw Harmony of Despair will never be on Steam
It was honestly fun, if only there were more than 6 levels in the base game.

>>376376054
>ebin contrarian
have a (you) so you keep coming here and eventually commit suicide

>>376376370
Why did the Mexican players always choose Soma?

>>376376671
because soma CRUZ


or as I like to call him, SOMA CRUISER.

>>376376671
Because Soma was probably Mexican
Also Julius is the patrician choice

>>376376132
>Damage scaling is ridiculously low
>Can access some of the best weapons in the game near the beginning breaking the game
>Overrated soundtrack (Only Lost Portrait' is memorable
>Animation style a direct rip of Castlevania X
>Unnecessary addition of old castlevania powers
>Fighter game input for special attacks.
All of the DS games and AoS shit all over SotN.

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>>376376787
>tfw we never got a Julius Beltmont metroidvania

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>>376371470
>>376371679
>>376375003

Most underrated Castlevania is Castlevania 64. There is no debating this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfhjabNF8CQ

>>376371470
>>376371679

Literally babbys first castlemania.

Circle of the moon is terrible, and was stricken from the canon.

Harmony of dissonance though, if you got that gba bundle pack with them both was a good game mainly because you were buying aria of sorrow but got this dinky little castlevania throwback game too.

Best castlevania games are the last ones.

Aria of Sorrow
Portrait of Ruin
Dawn of Sorrow
Order of Ecclesia

No particular order as they are all great games for their own reasons.

also if the anime artstyle put you off, some autists made a hack of dawn of sorrow to replace the art with art more in line with aria of sorrow

theyre also doing it for portrait of ruin

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>>376377001
>>Overrated soundtrack (Only Lost Portrait' is memorable
If I read this post in order this is where I would have stopped.
>>Animation style a direct rip of Castlevania X
It's literally a sequel to that game you twat.

>>376371679
I can feel my ears bleed from just looking at that picture.
Just face it: it's a bad copy of SotN

>>376371470
Dash boots prove you so fucking wrong it's not even funny.

Literally how to ruin a game with one stupid, pointless and useless design decision. Double tapping to have the privilege of SPRINTING single handedly ruins the entire game.

so SotN is the Man of Steel of the castlevania series?

>>376377867
It's a spiritual successor.

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>>376374220
> The next full moon is in 2 days

Everytime there's a full moon the urge of replay a Castlevania game rises. I just listen to its OST

>>376371679
This game gets so boring after a while, no variety at all

>>376377115
I really loved the soundtrack in 64/LoD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ATdAAYrqSs

>>376377753
>Can only nitpick two things and gets them wrong
>Cedes everything else
I accept your surrender.

Also the fact they just ported assets is laziness. They didn't do that with AoS and DoS.

>>376371470
Harmony of Dissonance is the true underrated Castlevania. Top tier atmosphere, exploration, and content.

>>376374167
>kill one head
>get murdered by the other shortly after

>>376374460

CHARLOTTE

>>376374460
I liked how much content that game had. Seven different playable characters was pretty radical.

>>376371679
Harmony isn't that good, but I liked the unique and gruesome monster deaths. Like the giant armor that you can crush in spinning gears to get his weapons. Or https://youtu.be/5Tm5U0NVeyU?t=5m42s

>>376377971
>character is a Belmont
>looks and moves exactly like Alucard

Nah, it's a ripoff.

>>376373989
My favorite bosses! Adramelech is so much fun to no-hit. The dragons are a little more tedious.

>>376375185
That'd be Sonia Belmont

>>376381219
At least Sonia enjoyed a few years of canonicity before getting shelved.

>>376373090
Bloodlines would like a word with you

>>376371679
The worst part of Harmony was the constant backtracking and that it didn't tell you maxim's bracelet opened that one door.

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Best Classicvania.

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>>376371679
HoD is utter shit and has only ONE (1) good song. I'll trust all of you know which one I'm talking about.

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What's your favorite out of the three DS games?

>>376383627
Successor of Fate?

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Nobody has posted the true underrated castlevania.

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>>376374601

Bear in mind that the margin here is extremely small. Like, I'd rate these all between a 7.5 and a 9 out of 10.

I fucking love Castlevania.

I wonder if the show will be shit.

>>376372859
>Agree with OP tho.
You replied to the OP.

>>376371470
>>376371679
>>376372812
>>376373273
>>376373934
>>376381896
>>376383556
>>376384102
Same asshole.

>>376384657
see you at tha crossroads so you won't be lonely

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>>376375250
CHARLOTTE

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Has anyone tried the AoS soul/item randomizer? It's kind of fun to go through the castle out of order and experiment with whatever stuff the game gives you.

>>376371679
It's no Aria/SotN, but I enjoyed it. I don't know why it gets so much shit when things like LoS and Judgment exist.

>>376384745
stop posting tiny games in huge fullscreen resolutions, it looks ridiculous.
please.

>>376386591
and we pray and we pray and we pray


every day every day, but I'll think about it.

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>>376385654
How can anybody compete with bestgirl?

>>376377706
Do you have a link or name to search for? I'm curious to see how well they've pulled it off.