Name a better Castlevania girl than Shanoa.

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CHARLOTTO

>>378496082
>>378496497
Female vampire hunters were a mistake.

>>378496082
not possible

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>>378496082
too bad the isn't much fanart of her

Which are the good GBA Castlevanias? I've got 3 available on my shitty phone emulator and I'm trying to decide between downloading them or the two gba Fire Emblems.

>>378497610
Aria is considered pretty dam good

I can't I hope Shanoa lives a happy life with her seamstress girlfriend

>>378497610
Aria, and if you don't mind the chiptune music, Harmony as well

Circle is too dated

>>378497610
Aria is generally well regarded but I think it's pretty mediocre, but still a fine game. It's the most well balanced of the three (in the sense of gameplay, not necessarily stat and weapon balancing).
Circle has a few glaring flaws, difficulty included, but is still enjoyable if you can work past those flaws.
Harmony has a lot of minor design flaws that add up, I'd say that if you really like the other two then you can play it as well but you'll be fine if you skip over it.

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>>378496082
I always thought this chick was hot

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>>378498073
>Iga wanted to make a OoE sequel for the 3DS but it got canned
What a terrible night to have a curse.

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>>378498420
>chick

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I always liked the Alura Une/Venus Weed enemies in SotN.

I used to let them hit me with their roses so they would turn red before killing them. I felt like I was allowing them to "feed" on me.

>>378499239
>Fapping to pixelated Alura Unes and Succubi tits when I was younger
>Discovering SotN's official art of the Succubus
Those were the days.

The answer of Carrie

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>>378499516

Yeah, the full image of this was a staple of mine when I was a kid.

Gentle reminder that PoR is the best DS Castlevania and OoE was the worst of the three by far.

Shanoa was a trash-tier protagonist as well. One of the worst in all of Castlevania period.

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>>378498456
Tell me the source of this because if is true I wanna cry like a bitch.

IS NOT FAIR

>>378496082
Too bad there was never decent porn of her.

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>>378500191

>>378498456

I'll take anything in the original continuity at this point.

I'd kill for a Castlevania 1999 game though. Playing as young Julius and fucking up Dracula once and for all sounds amazing.

>>378497610
They're all worth playing. AoS is the best, and the closest to SotN. CotM is great, and it's the most challenging. You might have to grind a little for the magic cards though. HoD is considered the worst, but it's still a good game.

>>378497610
Castlevanias are unplayable on a phone, go with FE

Also there's 3 GBA FEs, FE6 is translated.

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>>378500107
Saying that OoE is the worst "by far" is a bit harsh. It's got weak exploration and level design up until the castle, where it improves somewhat (though not a lot), but in my opinion the combat and boss fights are some of the best in the series and more than make up for the weak exploration aspects, and I say that as someone whose biggest draw to the CV series is the exploration.
PoR also has nicely varied combat and some unique exploration, but between the re-skinned second half of the paintings and how they're generally all self-contained and fairly linear (the castle especially feels like a one-way corridor when exploring), along with the really crappy quest system and awkward difficulty jump mid-game, the game overall feels like a bit of a jack-of-all-trades. It has good exploration and alright level design, good combat and okay difficulty, but it doesn't particularly excel in any one field; it's got a good balance of "good" aspects, but not necessarily anything that stands out as "great" or "amazing". I can totally understand why people consider it to be the best, and I agree that it's a good game (except for the quest system), but I just think OoE excels in a way that makes in much more enjoyable (extremely satisfying combat and boss fights) despite its flaws in exploration.

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>>378501098

I love these. Angry Weirdo Shanoa is tops

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>>378500109
Couldn't find a source, but I remember reading about it somewhere from other anons before, likely an interview with Iga.

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>>378496082
Carrie

>>378500109

Didn't someone once say Shanoa was based on his wife? Have we ever seen his wife?

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Charlotte a cute

>>378501779
she's about to give him a blowjob or what?

>>378501485
Yes he did, but we've never seen her as far as I know.

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can we take a moment to just recognize Johnathan as the best hero.

>No special destiny
>No magic blood line
>Masters every weapon through hard work
>Goes inside the whip itself and beats up every belmont to that point
>Beats up a vampire lord, rescues Eric LaCarde's cursed daughters, saves a priest
>Beats up Drac and Death in a tag team match

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>>378496497

>>378496497
first post, most correct post.

>>378502420
>Masters every weapon through hard work
After hours of grinding low-tier mobs for some shitty quests, sure.

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>>378502420
Nathan is pretty similar.
>no bloodline ties to the Belmonts
>uses magic cards
>uses a walmart brand whip
>saves his master and his dumbass son from Dracula

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>>378501354

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>>378496082
The one so awesome IGA had to turn around and make her game non-canon.

>>378497610
Unless you have physical buttons don't bother. Touch screen is awful for action games.

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Who do you think Dracula's favorite Belmont was? Least? Least was probably that faggot who kept moving all his chairs. I mean fighting off your undead legion is one thing, frankly it's understandable and even respectable, but who just moves all your furniture around for no real reason.

>>378498331
I just really hate how dogshit the music sounded in Harmony. I feel if the soundtrack was better I'd feel more positive about it

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>>378501183
LC2 has pretty good map design. The first half is like Simon's Quest, where you're exploring the countryside and entering mansions and caves. Then you get to the castle, and except for backtracking to get stuff you couldn't before, the rest takes place there.

>>378503856
I think the only one he had a soft spot was probably Leon. He probably doesn't care about the rest

>>378503856
He was BFFs with Leon before the end, so I'd say he was his favorite.

>>378503976
Some of Harmony's music is actually really well composed, but the crappy NES-style sound font ruins a lot of it.
Example of a really good song that's weakened by the sound font:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQxs-WEFRJY
And here's something that just sounds like it's straight out of VVVVVV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtAG611Z73c
Honestly, Harmony and Circle both could really use remakes; they have a lot of potential to be much better games if placed in the right hands.

>>378504083
Looks like it takes inspiration from OoE's minor areas, but instead of ten small areas it does three medium sized areas. Those minor areas seem to suffer from quite a bit of straight-hallway corridors, though.
>Remains of Ancient Rome
>What looks to be a 20x3 map space
How lame, with a title like that (and presumably a cool area theme to match) I'd expect it to be a much larger area.

>>378498456
Maybe he shouldn't have made the first one so damn hard. Who was the audience for that game?

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>>378504630
>Who was the audience for that game?

People who aren't pussies.

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>>378496082
Sypha.

>>378504630
>OoE
>hard
Are you fucking serious? I realize OoE was the only metroidvania game with any kind of challenge, but come the fuck on.

>>378504540
Rome is just the tutorial area. The rest of the game takes place in France.

As for the straight paths, it makes sense given the setting. They were going for a "good" version of Simon's Quest. There's no reason why two distant mansions would happen to be interconnected. Besides, I never got bored walking those trails. It's not as if each of those is just a flat walkway with nothing in it.

DIE SHANOA

>>378504630
I think the difficulty was about right.

I like the Ys philosophy on boss design. You should almost certainly die the first time you fight a new boss. You should have to learn its patterns, its attack windows before you can actually beat it. It shouldn't be a matter of sitting in one spot wailing on it till it dies, or dodging one easily-dodged attack and hitting a weak point a few times.

If you want a real challenge, try OoE on hard mode. I actually had fun getting all the boss medals (the bosses actually have new attacks and patterns instead of just increased stats). I will say the Skeleton Cave can fuck right off, though.

And if you're a masochist, try OoE on level 1 hard mode.

>>378496082
Any girl done by kojima

>>378505227
ARE YOU FORGETTING

>>378505292
>attempt level 1 hard mode
>make it to the shadow beast in Dracula's Castle
>Die repeatedly

I made the attempt, at least

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STUPID DISCIPLE!

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>>378496082
SISTER!

READY SISTER

>>378505470
I SHALL KILL YOU

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>>378505227

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>>378504630
OoE is pretty tough at the start because you're weak and deal very little damage, but once you start getting armor from the blacksmith, platinum armor especially, as well as progress further to get new glyphs then it gets a bit easier. The end-game bosses are still probably going to kick your ass or die trying, rightfully so, but the general environments become a lot less difficult after acquiring decent armor so you don't die in a few hits. I still want to finish the game on hard mode with all boss medals. Also obligatory get good.

>>378505292
>try OoE on hard mode
I tried OoE on hard level 1. Got to the point in the lighthouse with the Frankenstein monsters before dropping it.

>>378505227
GLYPH

>>378498148
Harmony is a rehashed pile of shit, even by Metroidvania standards.

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>>378505523
Hell yeah, Shanoa cosplays.

>>378505432
ANSWER ME DOMON!

>>378505292
I don't know, man. I don't find the game very fun, because of the challenge. Mainly, I have a problem with hitboxes. You have to get close to hit anything, but enemy movement is always so erratic, that they're constantly just moving into you. I can appreciate a good pattern. But not when there's bad tells, and wacky hitboxes.

I ended up quitting the game part way through, and don't have it in me to keep going.

>>378505569
Also, Nitesco.

>>378496082
HERALD
SHIELD
GIRL

>>378505470
to this day I never played that mode because of the touch screen gimmick.


C'mon the include a richter mode but not another way to play with the sisters?

>>378505659

ZENSHIN!

>>378496082
HOW FUCKING DARE YOU

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>no old axe armor

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>>378496082

Can't be done, Shanoa is the best.

>>378500107
PoR is a meh sequel to a great Classicvania.

>>378505774
KEIRETSU!

>>378506204
>EXCEPT the Bad Ending corrupted girlfriend of Richter.

wait what now?

>>378505667
What enemies in particular have wonky hitboxes? The only ones I can think of are Blackmore's shadow, and maybe the crab boss (though you can't kill him through damage anyway). Honestly, I got quite skillful with back-dashing after maximizing the amount of attacks I could get in before the boss' attack, and it was quite fun doing that; striking multiple times, back-dashing or ducking, I even fought Dracula with Rapidus Fio active the entire time simply because the speed boost felt more natural to fight with and allowed me to get more attacks in while making a safe getaway, even protecting me from minor fireballs for more hits so long as I was moving. Attack tells were also really obvious in most cases, I rarely ever had problems with that, though I did struggle with figuring out safe spots for certain attacks (one of sand fish's attacks, Blackmore's triple claw, Dracula's bats).

>>378502420
>Hey-hey HEY! Wind! Did you know my dad beat up Dracula and lost his life from it? Im sad ... did you know MY dad, a non Belmont kill Dracula, Wind? How crazy is that?!

>>378506262

TEMPA KYORAN!

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>>378506508

Quincy Morris is gonna fuck you up

>>378506510
LOOK, THE EAST IS BURNING RED!

>>378504106

Yeah, he even asked Leon to join him in his crusade against god.

>>378506447
>What enemies in particular have wonky hitboxes?
NI can't remember very well, because it's been a long time. And it's not like they're hitboxes are bad. It's just that when their behavior is so erratic, it's like having back hitboxes. Since one second they're in one place, and the next second they're inside of you.
I'm just sick of this "the enemies are lava" bullshit mechanic. It's really just a supplement for shitty enemy behaviors.

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I really wish there more games or movies based on the actual book Dracula, though I guess it's rather hard to adapt conventionally

>>378506391
>julius destroyed dracula "for good"
>just kidding people can randomly be born with his powers because fuck you
did they even try to come up a plot that makes sense? why even bother mentioning that julius whipped him so hard he died "for good" if it's not true?

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How do you lot feel about the upcoming Netflix show? Any hopes or ideas for what might happen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIMrFnl5NiA

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>>378507097

Wait is it a show or movie. Also Warren Ellis fuck yeah!

>>378507097
It actually looks pretty good. Surprised it was an American production based on the anime style.

>>378503976
>>378504284
>Harmony of Dissonance remake never ever

Think of all we could have gotten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouwGpIW9Twk

All these remixes are amazing

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>>378507317
>He is right.

I mean, he's not wrong but a dude going around punching giant monsters in the dick isn't much more realistic. We sort of threw that card out the window as soon as someone wrote down the word vampire. How much physicality goes into swinging a whip anyways? Seems more like an issue of finesse

>>378507317
>Iga said Sonia being a woman who fights monsters and being a hero is unrealistic. He is right.
No he's not. It's not any more unrealistic than a man fighting monsters.

>>378507554
>I mean, he's not wrong but a dude going around punching giant monsters in the dick isn't much more realistic.
No, he's 100% wrong. Look, a gorilla is as strong as 10 men. If a man ever got into a fight with a gorilla, he'd get his limbs torn off in an instant. The difference in strength between man and beast is gigantic, dwarfing the difference between man and woman.

>1 person said Sypha
You'll cowards don't even castlevania 3

>>378507808

Wait till the movie comes out and then see who's saying what

>>378506808
Not him but get good. OoE is easy compared to classical Castlevania.

>>378507937
>implying I give a fuck what a bunch of bandwagoners who never actually beat the game, or if they did it was on an emulator with save states think

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I still regard Sonia as first Belmont

>>378508126
>emulator with save states
You don't seriously except people the game in one sitting do you?

>>378506918

The game literally explains that Julius just sealed the castle inside the eclipse, disabling dracula power to revive, so the force of chaos was forced to seek another way to bring dracula back.

And yet people misunderstood this, and went on thinking Julius was the greatest belmont alive who killed dracula for good, which makes no sense, what kills dracula is not the belmont himself, but the vampire killer, and the vampire killer never had the power to permanently destroy dracula, only to banish him.

>>378508471
You wanna try that post again?

>>378508471
I did as a kid. Let me rephrase, they can do it like, after a stage and such. But you know I meant like mid stage, or like before a boss or some shit like the fucking weak ass children they are.

>>378508471
It's a NES game, it's not that long.

>>378507808
She was a playable character in 3 and judgement, also has a fake clone boss in SOTN.

Compared to others she didn't have that much screentime. Plus her design isn't waifubait

>>378508803
>a playable character in the best castlevania
>design isn't waifubait
And I ask again, why don't you fags here like her?

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>>378508872

You assume that just because she's not our favorite we don't like her at all

also she's pretty damn waifu. The only difference is she doesn't get to talk much and thats more a sytem limitation than a design one

>>378502420
For someone who claims he's the best, you didn't even bother to spell his name right.

>>378509014
>You assume that just because she's not our favorite we don't like her at all
I assume that no one liked her because only 1 person mentioned her in a thread about castlevania women.

I unironically enjoy her judgment design, I actually like the death note art style they went with in that game.

Too bad it wasn't fun to play

>>378509121
Nigga, she's not popular because not a lot played classicvania. Wait until the show starts and see how many will claim her as the best waifu in the series or whatever.

>>378509358
I already responded to that here
>>378508126

>>378509358

A lot of us played the game but she doesn't have a lot of character in that game and her sprite isn't sexy. Her whole story is

>Hi Im a wizard Im gonna tag along with now.

>>378509424
>Hi Im a wizard Im gonna tag along with now.
You make it sound like NES games had a lot of story to begin with. Shit I loved guardian Legend and all I got for that was "Hey this thing is going to earth, turn into a fucking plane and stop it"

>>378509485

Sonia was at least the main character in her game. You can go the whole game of 3 without Sypha

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>>378509424
yeah and we have this one or two autists who keeps sperging on how she's not popular. There's a better belnades anyway

>>378507160
Was supposed to be a movie, now going to be a 4-part show

So am I just the only one who liked Julius or what?

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>>378509834

J's rad. It's just hard to really get into him as a character beyond how awesome he is because we never saw his quest. Which is maybe for the best because at this point no matter how good it is 1999 won't live up to anything we have in mind

>>378509834
Richter is the superior Belmont.

>>378509806
Many companies went the way in the 3D in PS2 era. Having HD Pixel art cost a lot of time and money

>>378509834
Nigger, how many threads you haven't seen where many anons want the 1999 game? Discussing that shit got old so now we are just waiting for the show and wanting Bloodstained to be good

>>378509975
Simon*

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>>378509975

if he's so superior why'd he get punked by Shaft and need Drac's pretty boy son to bail him out

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>>378509975
You're goddam right

>>378509975
>Julius is the guy who actually destroyed Dracula
>Canonically the most powerful belmont

richter is a bitch compared to him

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>>378510118
this

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How is it there are so few references to the actual novel anyways

>>378510614
Julius is an old man and Richter has great hair. Checkmate, atheists.

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>>378511056

Julius has an awesome beard, Richter can't even grow stubble

>>378505826
裸, はだか [英] naked; nude; uncovered; partially clothed

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>>378503456
Came here to post this.

>>378511520
Glad to know Shanoa's an exhibitionist.

>>378510614
Julius didn't destroy Dracula. Just tossed him into an eclipse forcing Chaos to resort to a loophole.

Really what Julius should be credited with is being the first Belmont to realize that just whipping Dracula until he's down was ultimately getting nowhere and thus being the first Belmont to try a more long term solution.

Julius would beat every other Belmont not because he's the most powerful, but because he'd be willing to cheat and do it some other way than getting into a whip fight.

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>>378511928
>He didn't kill him he just threw him into the fucking sun

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>>378512075
>calling out their own names instead of each others'
you had ONE FUCKING JOB

>>378512154
You'd be amazed at how much punishment Dracula takes over the series.

>>378511620
Getting butt naked didn't make anyone play that game.
Couldn't even interest anyone in making porn of it or cosplaying her without konami paying people.

Game was trash, heroine was trash.

>>378512154
But magically entrapping someone's spirit into an eclipse (somehow, fuck you it's magic) isn't the same as throwing someone into the fucking sun. Dracula's soul was basically locked into a prison it couldn't escape and ergo couldn't resurrect from, but chaos itself found a way to work around this imprisonment as that anon had said. Dracula's soul itself isn't dead, just locked up extra tight.

>>378512342
I'm really sorry for you shit taste, anon.

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>>378512342
I'd hardly say she was butt naked, and the game and Shanoa were both excellent. The lack of more quality art and porn though is a damn shame.

>>378496082
What purpose, Dracula would make draculina from her, by turning her into vampire.

>>378512468

Castlevania porn in general is pretty scarce. I know there's only a handful of girls but still.

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>>378509975

And yet he got creamed by an average Johnny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6mORAZMbbU

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On a Nintendo Power cover Johnathan had a bit of a main

>>378513129
I thought she had a really pointy nose from the thumbnail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTqEiOP4XWM

Warren Ellis on the project.

From NINE fucking years ago

>>378513479
Jeez, this looks like DeviantArt tier shit.

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What a horrible night to have a bump.

Are there any extremely busty/breast expansion pics of Shanoa? I guess any Castlevania lady works too

>>378516828
I think there's a few but some of them are futa. Shanoa doesn't have much porn anyway, just look up some r34 and you'll get a page or two to look through.

>>378505227
HOW DARE YOU

>>378518089

EVEN FORGETTING

>>378514861

yeah I much prefer the finalized art

>>378518123
WHO RAISED YOU

>>378518174

YOU...

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WRONG. ALL OF YOU.

THIS IS CASTLEVANIA BEST GIRL

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>>378518208
STUPID DISCIPLE!

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>>378518375

>>378518264
>Im going to fall in love with an emo vampire I spoke to twice and run away to follow him for no reason

you know I know it's never really the point but Castlevania should just avoid romance altogether.

I mean Trev and Sypha is one thing because they traveled together and it was all in between games and he's not a cursed half breed who's probably going to nap for a few centuries

And however you want to define Albus and Shanoa they knew each other for some time before the game and their shit was all based on that so that's okay.

Johnathan and Charlotte don't really have that vibe either and the game never even really teases outside of an easter egg

But expecting me to buy Alucard and Maria is just plain far fetched

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>>378496082
they ruined her in judgement

>>378497062
Franchise lives and die by the amount of porn they get

No porn means the franchise will die, and how do you get porn? Female characters

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>>378518581

honestly out of everyone she got off the easiest.

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>>378518493
Those old Robotnik comic memes were the best.

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>>378518624
Lack of waifus wasn't the problem with Castlevania.

>>378502860
I'm sure Charlotte helped him mastering the cream pie subweapon.

>>378502420
Portrait of Ruin had a pretty likeable cast.

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>>378518952

>Darn it, Johnathan. You need to warn me next time.

>>378518661
Alucard was alright, the SotN version is just too iconic and makes everything else look bad by comparison.

>>378505470
PLEASE OBSERVE

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>>378519108

Yeah, Castlevania doesn't always do characterization well either. Lot of stoicism generally among the heroes but PoR was a nice divergence even if it was pretty silly. Got some pretty good bants between the cast and they where all pretty memorable. Even Vincent the Jew priest had his little curse thing that left an impression

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>large cavern
>double hammers
>the amount of damage they inflict just from fucking TOUCHING THEM
>mfw

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>>378508803
>>378507808
>>378509014
my favorite partner in my favorite castlevania
still. like others said.

Sypha doesn't get much character , her re-designs can be pretty bad. even left out of the CV3 sequel game they made.
She doesn't have much luck

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>>378519331

Im not gonna hold her Judgement design against her but what was up with that pachislot outfit. It's like they forgot she was supposed to be incognito and just went full magical girl.

Her SoTN sprite was a pretty GOAT design.

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>>378519309
>Training Tower
>It's pretty difficult, but I finish it after multiple attempts and even master it completely through muscle memory, to the point of being able to speed through it near flawlessly in just a few minutes back to back for farming the treasures
>Large Cavern
>So many high-damage enemies that take so long to kill that I just cheese the whole things with wings and the rebounding energy glyph
>Didn't know that hitting the boss with the rapidus fio speed force after killing it would reactivate it, get confused and die to it almost immediately and have to start the cave all over again
Large Cavern must be a fucking nightmare on hard mode. Training Tower was much more bearable because it was pure platforming skill instead of "hope you like cheesing enemies for five minutes".

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>>378519612
>It's like they forgot she was supposed to be incognito and just went full magical girl.

Magical girl Sypha . I thought the same when i first saw her. The incognito part was pretty much thrown aside.

>Her SoTN sprite was a pretty GOAT design.
It's weird how Fake Sypha probably has the best design

>>378519813

Not gonna lie, I would be pretty happy if some eager fans gave Castlevania 3 the fan remake a la AM2R

are there any fan games? You'd think there'd be a shit load

>>378519740
Double nitesco makes the game ez modo.

>>378519612
>but what was up with that pachislot outfit. It's like they forgot she was supposed to be incognito and just went full magical girl.
Yeah she's cute but feels like she's lacking a more mysterious look or anything considering her backstory. Although the pachinko title is pretty wacky so I guess that while she doesn't fit CV3 she fits the pachinko game if you know what I mean.

>>378519930

I guess it was still better than mirror of fate

>>378519881
>You'd think there'd be a shit load
There are, I haven't played any but I'm sure I've seen at least a couple, some rom hacks and not-castlevania indie titles.

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>>378519813
>>378519612
>>378519331

>>378519881
something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0-Fw1egaA
No idea how good / bad it is though

Still. I would love a good Castlevania 3 remake

>>378519959
Explain. I don't know too much about that title other than the awful idea of making a GoW combat for a 2d game.

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>>378519881
>are there any fan games? You'd think there'd be a shit load
the only castlevania fan game that is somewhat known to me is Serio's Castlevania fighter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfrfRUhW0_c

>>378520245

gets killed becomes a ghost

also Mirror Trevor is Alucard. Because that makes sense.

>>378520368
Damn, that's awful.

>>378520367
>that succubus
Oh my.

>>378519959
the reboot pretty much screwed over CV3 so badly..

>>378519881
Lecarde Chronicles 1 and 2. Also the "touhouvanias" Komajou Densetsu and the recently funded Forsaken Castle.

>>378518540
>Castlevania should just avoid romance altogether
At first I actually wanted Maria and Alucard to be a thing, if just because the poor guy needs some rest and she's hot as fuck, but after putting through that awful, awful CD drama of what happened with them after the game I just wish Japan stopped doing romance at all.

>>378520562

It fucked the ENTIRE franchise to a state of nigh complete disrepair. I really don't see how Castlevania can bounce back even if the netflix movie goes well.

I really like that Shanoa is actually portrayed weaker than your typical Belmont, to a point Dracula messes around during their fight and pretty much toys with her by trying to kick her or hit her with his cloak.

>>378520643
This is an alternate fact, Order of Ecclesia is what killed castlevania by selling like absolute shit, despite being the best in the series.

>>378520628
>awful CD drama
How bad is it?

>>378520697
Sypha and Maria were also physically weaker. I don't know, seems like typical japanese "women should be weaker" mentality to me, which doesn't make much sense since Simon dies to 4 hits in the later stages of the original and chronicles.

>>378520712
That's the problem with milking a franchise so hard. After a while a lot of people will look at it as just another title even if it's actually good.

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>>378520712

bah a low selling hand held is a drop in the bucket. It's not going to ruin shit. They probably made it with only short term profits in mind that it turned out good is just a plus.

Lords of Shadow was a massive undertaking and a huge console release and completely fucked the lore

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>>378520507
>>378520367
pachislot castlevania knows their fan service

>>378520729
>"Ow gee, why is Alucard so moody all the time? I'm gonna run away crying! Oh no! I'm getting kidnapped! Save me, Alucard!"

Also, for some reason they decided to make the Devil familiar a permanent thing who keeps acting as comedic relief whenever Alucard is on scene.

>>378520883
Would whip with the D.

>>378520832
I don't know, Monster Hunter and Kirby seem to be doing fine.

The issue is that Castlevania was never popular in its native country and for some reason this is just fucking death for all such franchises. Metroid, Mega Man, us westerners don't mean shit.

>>378520883
>EROTIC VIOLENCE

>>378521037

Monster is funded by OCD psychos and kirby is funded by children and is a first party title.

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>>378521037
japanese IP not being very popular in Japan tend to struggle after a while

>>378520883
>>378521118
Trevor and Sypha beat her by orgasm

>>378520893
Yeah that sounds potato.
>>378521037
How were the sales of the last MH title compared to the previous one?

>>378521220
>Trevor and Sypha beat her by orgasm
A fitting way to beat a semen demon.

>>378521243
Several millions despite just being an expansion pack AND only being released in japan. It's really good too, but OoE was also really good so that can't be it.

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Fuck castlevania, where's my nigga Goemon?

CV64 is kino.

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>>378504879
This, maybe that's why OoE it's my favorite igavania game. and maybe PoR also has some difficulty, but holy shit i can't even play SoTN anymore because it easier than a mario game

>>378521372
Maybe the marketing for OoE was subpar, since CV doesn't sell that well in Japan they can't save it with tie ins and merchandising which are an important thing there.

>>378521243
>How were the sales of the last MH title compared to the previous one?
Low... for portable MH, which means better than anything not called Pokemon. It was the Ultimate version of a game that was basically "MH: Greatest Hits" with some controversial gameplay additions though.

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>>378521220

>>378521363
truly the most fitting defeat

>>378521429
>where's my nigga Goemon?
Pachislot too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6XF-AWjUyg

>>378521674
>truly the most fitting defeat
Is there any video with that scene?

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>>378521524
>marketing for OoE
never saw any real marketing for it aside from a trailer... or for any handheld castlevania for that matter

>>378504879
I remember Circle of the Moon being pretty tough but maybe its because I was 8 when it came out

>>378521674
>>378521750
bad quality but..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3PU-cXDDew

>>378496082
B A C K
A
C
K

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>>378501458
>Carrie

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>>378521940
He doesn't finish her off? That's pretty neat, I hate seeing cute bad girls dying.

>>378521940
Dracula looks a bit asian.

>>378497610
CotM is fucking GOAT no kidding, specially the sequence breaking

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>>378521940
Alucard kicking Trevor's ass

>>378522547
pachislot doesn't want to waste tits and ass

>>378522747
you know drac. always trying new looks.
Heard he was just reborn as some white haired teen not too long ago

>>378520808
I donno, becuase of that OoT fight. I figured that maybe Shanoa was lower on the power level totem pole compared to the Belmonts, Sypha, and Maria

>>378496082
MUH
DICK

>>378523019

>Sequence breaking
Tell me more.

>>378505656
>painted nails
1/10, trash cosplay, trash woman, trash human, would not even rape.

Castlevania series on Steam when?

>>378523442
I'm assuming he's referring to using the card glitch to use certain combos super early and skipping portions of the game, probably the ice weapon card combos.
If you didn't know, if you hit the button and as Nathan is glowing, you can pause the game and switch cards, even highlighting card slots you don't own, and then when you resume gameplay you'll activate whatever you had selected. Pretty rad glitch

>>378523554
If you goard some potions and use Jupiter + Mandragora for Underground Waterway you can skip Death.

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>>378496497
good taste

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>>378525191
That's pretty neato

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>>378500962
>>378501098
>>378501223
they really had some weird official 4koma comics

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>>378525802

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>>378522491

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>>378519813
>>378519612
>>378519331
lets hope the new series does a decent job with Sypha

>>378520587
The touhouvania games are superb
Shame the studio went bankrupt

>>378530724
She looks ok so far.

>>378499239
>That Alura that hugs Soma in Dawn of Sorrow.

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Soma's miko girlfriend was a qt

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>>378530724
>>378531102
>She looks ok so far.
so far. yes.
Still. we only got a trailer with a few seconds of footage
too early to tell if they will do a good job or not with Sypha

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>>378531829
true

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>tfw Lords of Shadow 2 killed castlevania

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>>378504694
What's under those robes, more robes or nothing?

>>378518879
Sniper lady is mai waifu.

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>Ctrl+f
>"Julia"
>Zero results
Step aside casuals, best girl coming through

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>In Akumajou Densetsu, the Bone Dragon King can be damaged by weapon contact anywhere rather than just the head
>The Axe Armors take six hits to kill with an upgraded whip in Akumajou Densetsu, eight hits in Castlevania III
>Sypha's Thunder spell moves slightly faster and has slightly better homing ability in Akumajou Densetsu. It's also a lot more powerful, where it can destroy many bosses in just two hits.
>The pendulum room before Dracula is free of enemies in Akumajou Densetsu. In Castlevania III, bats spawn in this room.
> in Akumajou Densetsu and his final form's beam attacks are much shorter and never travel upward, in Castlevania III, the beams are fired at your location, no matter where you're at.
>Dying at Dracula's Room in Castlevania III will boot you all the way back to the room below the pendulum room. Akumajou Densetsu resets you at the last flight of stairs before Dracula's Room instead.
>he bottom left and right blocks where you fight the Mummies, Cyclops and Leviathan on Block 7 were removed from the international release in order to make the battle a bit tougher.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH CASTLEVANIA 3 WAS HARD ENOUGH WITHOUT THESE CHANGES.
best game in the series though

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>>378535861
just holy flames , ice and thunder

which castlevania has the best OST?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxHgrQSaXkg

>>378537438
3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiazILmn0vQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHwhxS-gG50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyCXhfUqU88

>>378537438
RoB, SOTN or OOE

the last castlevania game I enjoyed was Harmony of Despair

>>378507097
please don't be shit
I'm wary of that show, surely they won't disregard entirely the whole OST of the games right? I at least expect a shitty remix of the most iconic songs

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>>378496082

>>378511562
>>378503456
what's so awesome about her? the only plus I see is that she's blonde

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>>378503013
isn't he non-canon? regardless, still pretty badass, despite defeating half-revived Dracs (which ironically felt like one of the most powerful incarnations of himself)

>>378502420
he did have help from a sorceress, also
>saves a priest
a JEW, you mean, who called himself a priest

>>378519612
pachinko games are simple cash grabs. they designed something that'll draw in more people. konami doesn't care about fanbases anymore, just milking money out of gambling addicts.

>>378513479
>Glam Rock of the Night

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*blocks your path*
medusa heads aren't hard at all once you feel the rhythm and understand the range of the whip.

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>>378518540
>>Im going to fall in love with an emo vampire I spoke to twice and run away to follow him for no reason
you really don't know women

also
>emo vampire
are you talking about Alucard? because he's not emo

>>378520712
wasn't it because konami tried to can castlevania, and they were trying their hardest to fuck iga over by giving him unrealistic deadlines and shoestring budgets to make him fail and rationalize why should it die, like all their other franchises?

and yet he still delivered several games that sold pretty well, while konami just wanted to pull a kojima/mgs on him to change markets.

>>378520712
OoE is one of the few Castlevania games I actually own.

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>>378535734

Thanks Kojima

>>378518540
1. Alucard wasn't emo. At all. Ever. The closest you can use is "Stoic".
2. Upset that Maria chased after a dude she only met and spoke with a handful of times? You don't know jack about women. They are fickle, impulsive, and greedy.

>>378543360
She IS 12, right?

>>378498456
Imagine a detailed Shanoa sprite/character model.

Sweet Jesus.

>>378505523
STUPID SEXY DISCIPLE

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>>378541463
He got back in actually.

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>>378535895
Great taste, anon.

>>378545671
Would give her a hamburger and pet het head.

>>378545671
I SEE YOU

>>378544107
Yes, she just developed early.

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>>378507097
new poster

>>378546180
Developed early only to lose them later.

>>378546229
Looks neat.

I'm glad Castlevania threads still exist

>>378545671
That head was made to pet.

>>378546358
Sadly so.

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>>378543360

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>>378543360
>>378548650

>>378547684
Would take her home.

>>378496497
fpbp

trying out Castlevania 3, is Grant supposed to be completely broken? You can skip like half the game and enemies just by climbing walls and makes a few of the levels a complete joke. How do Alucard and Sypha compare?

>>378551286
Alucard can fly

>>378551286
Are you playing the American or Japanese version? He's broken af in the Japanese one.

>>378551515
American. I might switch to jap in later playthroughs after I beat it though since the jap music is better

>>378507097

I need this to be good

I need it

>>378551680
American is harder, playing both is the best way to experience it imo.

>>378508471

It has a fucking password system you fucking mook

I think the FDS version had saves

Am I allowed to still be hopeful for Bloodstained?
I really do think it looks pretty promising. But /v/ is like on a campaign with a mission to thrash anything with a relation to kickstarter.

Kickstarter is pretty terrible though for what it's worth.

>>378552754
Sure, I'm hopeful for it too

>>378552754
The demo released about a year ago got mostly positive reviews, so its probably safe to be hopeful.

Is there any good fanmade Castlevania games?

I'm playing one called the Lecarde Chronicles and is quite ok

>>378505470
CRESCENT MOON

>>378551680
Some music sounds better in japanese, some sound better in english

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>>378552754
i'm getting a copy so i might as well hope it turns out well

>>378554597
>dat ass
shame for that broken spine though

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>>378525367
>>378521798
>you will never vacuum charlotte

>>378505389
I WILL TAKE YOUR SHADOW

I just got the bad end at OoE, then I rescued the villager in the waterfall that I didn't find
How much I am close to the end?

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>>378505389
>new game hard mode lvl 1
>can't past the forest

>>378555310
After you get all the villagers, then you actually get to go to the real castle

>>378555310
Just play the game faggot

>>378505389
>OoE level 1 Hard mode
I managed to beat it, just fucking barely
it is really brutal in that mode

playing through harmony of dissonance and I am not quite sure what to do
I can't get into the centre of the castle, I skipped a maxim encounter that was supposed to happen earlier and I have no fucking clue what to do or where to go

>>378555774
Go find maxim and after you fight him then you use his bracelet to open some door. It's bullshit, I know

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out of all the forms drac transforms into
which one was your favorite?

>>378555889
but he's not there when I go back

>>378555310

About 2/3rds

>>378555983
PoR

>>378555983
circle.

>>378555983
symphony of the night or maybe aria of sorrow

>>378498331
What about the difficulty? It seemed fair, my memories are from 2002 or 2003 though.

>>378546229
Weird that Trevor is copying Simons pose but don't matter. Don't dig the fur in the trailer so thankfully he won't be wearing it often.

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>>378507097
hope it's good

>the show will debut on July 7
not too long a wait

>>378559668
I think it's because the Castlevania 1 box art is considered the most "iconic" in the series
Also possibly a hint that they'll cover the the first game eventually

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>>378555171

>>378562091
>they'll cover the the first game eventually
oh boy, can't wait to see the giant bat, the twin mummies and franky & igor

>>378552754

Demo was good

Unless you're autisitic about the lighting on roof tiles I see no reason not to expect a good product.

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>>378555983
speedo akumajo durakura demon castle equis incarnation

second place going to CotM's regular form glorious beard, one of my favorite designs ever

>>378505389
watch the man's movements to know what the shadow's going to do preemptively instead of trying to just dodge the shadow