Which one, /v/?

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>>383648273
neither. dawn of sorrow becau of the weapon systum!!

>>383648273
Personally, I prefer Aria of Sorrow, but I hot to give a lot of respect to Symphiny of the Night. Both are good.

>>383648503
This is the last time I phone-post. Holy shit.

Symphony

Better OST, main character and graphicxsx

Sotn is amazing but AoS plays better.

>>383648273
Both.

neither, Dawn is superior despite the character art for dialogue being bad.

it has by far the best castle in the series except maybe Portrait of Ruin, because that one is so vast due to the painting system.

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I choose Greatest CastleKino Ever.

>>383648683
Dog shit

Remastered metroidvania PS4 collection when?

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>>383648683

>>383648828
LOL

>>383648672
>AoS plays better
Fucking how?

>>383648734
>despite the character art for dialogue being bad.
Fixable nowadays.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3356/

>>383650267
Souls

I just didn't like the GBA/DS castlevanias. I'm not asking for a complete revamp between games, but to me it just felt like you played one you played them all.

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>>383648273
Portrait of Ruin.
Castlevania 1 blows every metroidvania out of the water though.

>>383648273
I prefer Aria. Wasn't this the first Castlevania to have New Game+? That feature combined with the soul system, chaos ring, and exclusive hard mode items to find made for a really satisfying game to explore and replay. I also love how surreal the environment and concept is, as well as how great the plot is.

Symphony does have a better Belmont Mode though. Julius is great and the fight against him is sooooo much better than Alucard vs Richter, but playable Richter has a lot more options.

>>383648273
Aria of Sorrow.

Aria. SotN is fantastic but the soul system is peerless.

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>>383648273
That horrible american SotN cover always cracks me up.

Aria.

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>>383651361
Hey man, don't hate on Le Mont Saint Michel. It's majestic.

>>383651985
foot it, cab it, Iron Horse it
You're leaving on your face, forfeit

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>>383648734
JONATHAN!

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>>383652585
Wrong image?

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>>383648273
Both.

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>>383651985
Noob, doesnt even having natural winter defense.

>>383648734
Dawn's castle is a cluttered fucking mess compared to SotN, AoS, or CotM. The only one that was even more cluttered was HoD.

>We will never get the 1999 CV game
I hate this timeline

>>383651361
I was going to post the euro cover but I knew some faggot would try to be clever with
>the one that's not PAL

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>tfw there will never be another classic platformer castlevania game, and half of the old ones out there are shit/mediocre

>>383654506
>there will never be another classic platformer castlevania game
There's enough of them out there. I'm even fine with no new Castlevanias ever.
>half of the old ones out there are shit/mediocre
Top pleb. 1, 3, 4, Bloodlines, and Rondo are all great.

>>383654506
The only bad classic Castlevanias are Adventure, Legends, and Simon's Quest.

>>383654716
>There's enough of them out there. I'm even fine with no new Castlevanias ever.
die monster, you don't belong in this world

>Top pleb. 1, 3, 4, Bloodlines, and Rondo are all great.
yeah, they are and i love them all dearly
i was referring more to dracula x, castlevania II, the gb ones, haunted castle, etc.

i guess most people dont even consider those but im so starved for another classic castlevania game that i do

>>383648273
Aria

>>383648273
CotM

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>>383648273

You guys should check hollow knight. I have been playing for mora than 15 hours so far.

>>383655107
Dracula X, Chronicles and Belmont's Revenge are pretty good.

>>383655357
>that art
You can tell that Konami stopped giving a shit about Castlevania.

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>>383655813

Super Castlevania IV

>>383655582
no, dat's gay

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>>383655813
Anime saga. This and Dawn of Sorrow suffered from it. Still great games but glad OoE went back to the old style.

Is SoTN hardtype from emuparadise any good?

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>>383655943

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It's just a prank, bro.

>>383648273
Just play both if you like the style, try OoE too and hell play Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin if you aren't bothered by muh animu style.
All of them are great games.

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>>383655995
>everyone and their mothers say SotN is best Castlevania
>AVGN says his favorite is Super Castlevania IV
>suddenly everyone start to parrot him
I mean, he's not wrong. It's an awesome game but holy fuck. No love for Aria?

>>383655995
Does that guy still post on /vr/?

As limited as Aria was by the hardware I still enjoy it more. The entire story concept is so unique and cool and some of the enemy designs blow the rest of the series out of the water.

That said my favorites are Dawn and Portrait.

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>castlevania comes out on netflix
>talk of the series i revived
nice

>>383656250
They are different genres.
IMO,
Classicvanias:
Rondo>C3>CIV
Metroidvanias:
SoTN, Aria, Dawn and OoE are all great.

>>383656250
But I'm not saying it's the best because some fuckwad said so, I'm saying it's the CASUALIST CASLTELUDO EVER.

>>383656581
Those are some goat sprites.

I would've loved was bloodstained was sprite based and not that shitty 3D look.

>>383654506
Konami was actully talking with nintendo about making a new castlevania game a few months ago

>>383648273
Aria of Sorrow is a lot more polished.

>WHY HAVEN'T THEY MADE A CLASSICVANIA SINCE SYMPHONY

Did noone play The Adventure Rebirth? That shit was awesome.

>>383656683
Bloodstained still plays amazing, though. Feels like Aria/Dawn. I can agree on the sprites, for sure.

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SotN is ridiculously good. It objectively is one of the best games ever made. I still go back to it regularly, and try out new challenges and run ideas.

That being said, I think Rondo of Blood is my favorite Castlevania. It's just got so much style and blood pumping action, with absurd amounts of alternate routes and secrets. There's just so much pure fun to be had with Rondo, whereas SotN can get a bit mindless as soon as you're powered up.

I also think Castlevania 1 is a perfect NES game. I love throwing it on during a lazy sunday afternoon and blasting through it. Can't be beat.

My only complaint with Aria is the first four bosses are just normal ass enemies pulled from later in the game.

>>383656878
No. Always wanted to but I don't own a Wii. l've got a Wii U, can I grab it with that?

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Would you?

>>383656608
castlevania IV has the same diffivulty as C3 or C1. CIV just doesnt have awful controls

>>383656878
And Legends. And Chronicles. And Dracula X Chronicles.

I'm not a fan of metroid's design so i didn't particularly enjoy SoTN and everything that came after it, i enjoyed 1 and Rondo a lot, Bloodlines and IV were great too.

>>383657067
Legends was shit just like the other two GB CVs, Chronicles is just a remake, and Dracula X is also just a remake.

>>383652585

>MAGA hat

Kill yourself nigger.

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>>383657194
>just like the other two GB CVs

Hey, you leave Belmont's Revenge alone.

>>383648273
SOTN>AoS>DoS
They're all 10/10 but Dawn gets the bottom of the three because fuck soul grinding in that game, I genuinely ragequit with how long it took grinding souls, only to find out the best weapons require you use boss souls, so I didn't pick it back up until 2 years later.

>>383657194
Still classicvanias. And both were remakes of games that were never released outside of Japan (heck, the X68000 itself was never released outside of Japan) so "new" for most people.

>>383648273
Have to go with SOTN because the animation and visual style is better and the extra weapons are way more creative and interesting. Are they necessary? No, but neither are over half of the souls and weapons in Aria of Sorrow, either.

Dawn of Sorrow (not picced) is closer, but was completely ruined by the shitty touch screen stuff. And unfortunately will always be ruined because after DS's disappear emulation is even more annoying to have to use the touch shit. If there is a way to map the right analog stick to it, then maybe but the bosses would still be impossible to make work without some kind of macro or just using the mouse.

>>383657358
Dumb princess.

>>383651118
Symphony also has some replay value with items. I think there is a ring and maybe some other drops that only unlock in second playthrough (meaning you have at least one completed playthrough on the memory card).

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The only issue l have with Dawn is it's shit final boss. So boring and bland. Julius mode however. Best boss.

>>383657194
cv2 on gameboy is as good as a gameboy castlevania could have been

>>383648273
>a console game vs. a handheld game
Gee I fucking wonder.

>>383657358
>>383657715
Okay you're both right, I booted it up and yeah it's alright. Guess my opinion was just skewed by how shit 1 and Legends were.

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>>383657049
It's okay everyone has their opinion, I like playing Rondo.

>>383655107
Did you play Odallus? It makes a good compromise between having metroidvania and just traditional castlevania gameplay. It's level based, but you have different unlock areas similar to Super Mario World.

>>383655107

Grab the lua scripts for CV2 and it's actually pretty good.

>>383657901
Not that guy but that game is like a really lousy Castlevania. Better off replaying one of them instead of that game.

>>383657875
yeah 1 and Legends are awful, though 1 has the excuse of having been rushed out the door to be one of the gameboy launch titles at least, but I still skip both of them whenever I marathon the entire series

SoTN and Super Metroid are the most poorly balanced, poorly designed pieces of shit ever made.

Aria of Sorrow is definitely and improvement mechanics-wise.

>>383657038
>I could pee in a bucket and see if he'll drink my pee, senpai.
Yeah, she definitely wanted to bang him

>>383657194
I highly doubt you've spent much time with Belmont's Revenge if you're going to lump it with the other two gb CVs

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>>383658129
What about animation wise?

>>383658080
I understand the first game being awful but what the hell happened with Legends?

>>383658129
>this shit opinion
Aria is just as "poorly" balanced. Most of the enemies hardly fucking fight back. The game is a fucking joke outside of maybe Death if you climb early. But that's the beauty of these games, make your own challenge.

>>383658150

I'm excited for the awkward sexual tension between all three members of the group.

>Trevor and Alucard want to beat each other up again
>Sypha can't handle how impossibly handsome Alucard is
>Trevor and Sypha find each other annoying but lovable

It's gonna be great.

>>383648606
haha dumb mobile poster

>>383658303
>love triangle
not this meme again. Why does every decent show have to do this shit?

>>383658303
nigga don't forget Grant

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>>383658303
>They meet Grant
>Grant wants to do Da Nasty

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>>383658456
WORST CASTLEKINO EVER

>>383658276
I don't know, it is playable but it's just so boring. The origin story of the belmonts being all children of Alucard was also retarded. To this day I hear people shit on Igarashi for "retconning" Legends when Legends did not fit at all in the first place.
I can't remember 100% off the top of my head how the teams were structured, but I'm pretty sure the Legends team was the same who went on to work on the N64 games

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>>383658514
now post gif of charlotte or face the wrath of squidward

>>383657038
does anyone have any pictures of sypha peeing
just for laughs haha
i wonder what it would taste like haha

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>tfw this was my first Castlevania
Never touched the series till I picked this one up around the time the GBA launched.

>>383648273
CotM is best.

Between those two? Symphony.

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>>383658456

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>>383658640
BEST CASTLEKINO EVER

>>383658680
This game has the song with the best video game bass line I've ever fucking heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njEP03Tb6v0

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I've played and beaten Castlevania 1 on NES. It was pretty good.

Where should I go from here?

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>>383648273
Aria

>>383659035
castlevania 3. Don't play 2, ever.

>>383659035
Simon's Quest or Dracula's Curse.

>>383648273
SotN
and DoS is better than AoS

>>383659035

Rondo of Blood or Ecclesia.

Then CV3.

>>383659101
>hating on Simon's Quest
It had flaws, yeah, but it's still a good game.

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>>383659073
Is that...the Shiny Rod!?

>>383658913
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ1BUJaz1uk

>>383659254
>Stand here in this arbitrary corner to proceed
If there was ever a case for an objectively bad game, Simon's Quest would be a top contender.

>play dawn of sorrow
>try to to replay aria of sorrow
>not able to upgrade souls, so fun ones you get early on become useless
>headhunter is the only passive soul you should ever be using because it upgrades every stat
>special soul combinations in Aria are useless
Fuck I ruined Aria by playing Dawn

>>383659254
CV II just needs a good remake to fix the flawed designs, it had a lot of potential.

>inb4 OoE

but it's no simon's quest reeeee

I've never played a castlevania game desu

>>383655357
Before I liked Castlevania i knew that this art didn't fit it at all. If only they stayed in that Gothic/Anime mix.

Is the psp version of RoB worth trying?
Looks slower compared to the OG, though fighting Annette seems cool

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>>383659545
That's not even its final form.

>>383655943
The first song when you enter the castle is a billion times better than Bloody Tears

enjoyed my time with aria of sorrow.

>>383659414
>>383658913
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR0UjAQIX6E

>>383659519
I wonder if someone would do a AM2R style remake. That would be good.

Is there a Castlevania move more useless than Richter's SotN backflip?

reminds me of smt sprites

>>383659675
Google how to unlock the original game within the PSP version, you can do it by the 3rd or 4th level. The original is 100000x better, but it might be worth playing through those first few levels of the remake for the sake of comparison. Plus you can take an alternate route in the original if you REALLY don't wanna play the same few levels again (but better).

>>383659675
almost same shit with Rondo tbqh with just improved visuals and 2.5D

plus i prefer Ayami Kojima art on DXC than the 80s anime look on Rondo

>>383659920
The jump kick in Aria, you get it at almost the end of the game and it's not even as fun as in SotN because you can't really use it to sequence break

>>383658129
Super Metroid has bad balance how?

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WELCOME

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who best belmont

>>383660163
It's the best thing ever in this though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfkJpzBoJ-M

(skip to 7 minutes)

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>>383659846
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sX3fjpkFwk
This one has a fat bass line.

>>383659035

Super castlevania IV, then get a PSP emulator and Dracula X chronicles. Then SOTN, circle of the moon, aria of sorrow, dawn of sorrow, portrait of ruin and order of ecclessia.

PS2 games are optional but I'd say you should avoid them. N64 games are non-canon but the first one is a good timekiller.
CV3 if you want, but it's ridiculously hard

Avoid at all costs:

>Vampire's kiss, its a dumbed down port of Rondo for the SNES
>Simons quest, absolutely atrocious game design that literally requires a guide to be beaten.
>Harmony of dissonance, a poor man's SOTN that sucks at everything, everything.
>lords of shadow 2, it fucks everything up, also part of a different canon.

>>383660417
That has to be one of the funniest looking animations I've seen when it's spammed like that.

I hear CotM is really good. That true?

>>383660163
Bouncing off zombies in the first hallway and trying not to touch the floor is fun. You can't make symphony richter's backflip fun.

>>383661020
>Dracula X is a Rondo port
When will this meme end? The stages are totally different.

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>>383661159
Some of the best Casteludo out there.

>>383661159
Yes, shitters will say it's bad because it has manual running, but ignore them. it also has the unironically hardest final boss in the entire series IF YOU DON'T CHEESE IT WITH THE POISON CLOUD DSS, I've actually never even beaten him without that trick

>>383661371
Is there such thing as an ironically hard boss?

>>383661316

Alone in the dark for the PS2 was almost a completely different game from its 360 version and it was still called a port, a dumbed down port at that. Just like Vampire's kiss

>>383661159
Not really. Easily the worst nu-vania.

>>383661443

A boss which isn't hard per se but which requires you to apply certain mechanic you're not good at

>>383661526
Does Castlevania have any of those?

>>383660417
>>383661048
someone please make a gif of him going through the hallway at 7:17

>>383661516
Is 'nu-Vania' anything post AoS?

>>383661516
Harmony of Dissonance exists though

>>383661619

For me that cleopatra bitch from PoR, It's a cake walk if you only play as charlotte but I insisted on using jonathan

>>383661696
CotM is pre-AoS

I bet they mean metroidvanias (and are just baiting anyways)

>>383661696
First don't listen to that guy, CoTM is amazing, the absolute worst post-SOTN CV is harmony of dissonance

And no, COTM came before AoS, a gba launch title actually.

I don't really know what he's talking about with "nu-vania" since COTM was the game that came after SOTN

>>383661816
I just beat her earlier today as Jonathan, just use a lance or whip and time your backdashes right and she's a piece of cake

>>383661371
>CHEESE IT WITH THE POISON CLOUD DSS
You mean to deal with the bats around the eye in his final form? I used the ice shield for that, but I don't know if I'd call it cheesing it to use a shield ability.

>>383661762
Still better than the trash heap that is CotM.

>>383661371
>>383661965
I just spammed Thunderbird and that worked pretty well.

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>>383661927
Take that back.

>>383661516
Harmony is easily the worst. CotM has great player movement and an interesting castle with a bunch of secrets, which I can't say about Harmony at all. Much better bosses and replayability in CotM, too.

>>383661965

No he has a skill that's like a meteor rain which is extremely hard to avoid and every meteor hits you for like 20% of your hp. The poison cloud DSS, well it lets you become a poison cloud so you're untouchable for the duration

>>383661371
>L-jump to avoid the kamikaze Dracula husks
>spam Thunderbird summon on Eye Core
It's not so bad

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>>383661997
>cotm worse than hod
you sure we played the same games?

>>383660060
>hating headband sleeveless Richter
end urself

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>>383648420
This. The art style improved bigly and sealing the bosses with the touch screen glyphs felt immersive and natural.

>>383662097
don't forget that CotM is still one of the best looking GBA games while HoD looks like a fucking abortion of garish neon puke

>>383662129
Oh, I thought you meant the poison cloud shield one. To get past his difficult to avoid attacks, I usually just used the Unicorn summon. IIRC it didn't take up too much magic, and it restored health and you were invincible for the entire duration of it.

>>383652969
Shame, you must not get many visitors.

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>>383661682
Realistically, who could beat Soma in a race?

>>383662163
This reminds me

>SotN: awkwardly super jump with up+jump
>CotM: comfortably superjump with L
>HoD: inexplicably back to up+jump
>everything after: comfortably super jump with L

>>383662552
Alucard. Duh.

>>383662552
>not just the hallway with the red background looping over and over

thanks anyways

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>>383660369

>Most powerful Belmondo
>Gets mindfucked by some nig he killed twice

>>383662628
Soma would beat him in the long run due to black panther taking less mana than the bat and wolf

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>>383662697
not him but I tried

>>383662552
In Harmony of Despair, neither Sonic Boots nor kickjumping can keep up with a dodge-canceling, magnes-climbing Julius

>>383662579
Meant down then up+jump

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>>383662697
Better?

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>>383662097
>COTM is still one of the best looking GBA games

Not at all, I fucking love COTM but it really doesn't even goes into the top 50 best looking GBA games, it's a launch title. But at least it wasn't actually nausea-inducing like HoD.

>>383662163
I just feel it's too cheap.

>>383662459

The unicorn and black dog were both rare drops that could only be obtained in the arena, and you can only run the arena once per playthrough, it's also the hardest part in the game, so not many people had those cards

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>>383663037
>that cut to black
it's so close

>>383657194
X68000/Chronicles is its own game. It reuses the story of CV I but has entirely new levels, enemies, and boss fights.

>>383663481
> doesn't even goes into the top 50 best looking GBA games
You're overestimating how many good-looking GBA games exist

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>>383663512
I'll be honest, I don't know how anons get these webms and gifs as smooth as they do and at 60 FPS. I just Googled 'YouTube gif maker' and tried my best.

>>383663441
now it needs a name

>>383662579

>HoD: inexplicably back to up+jump

Believe it or not that's because HoD was designed as being "SOTN for the GBA", not even kidding that was the actual dev vision, which is why there are so many reused assets from SOTN, guess the controllers also made it back

it was also the game's downfall, for real, since the GBA couldn't deal with the SOTN assets so they had to use an extremely inferior soundchip and dumb down on everything else

>>383663441

No, it needs to be redone with 100% stamina so that the regen doesn't fuck the illusion of continuity

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>>383663441
fucking perfect

>>383663674
>VERY fast dracula divekicking at incredible hihg speed

>>383648683
>>383649375
http://vocaroo.com/i/s10geQEOkgwx

>>383663481
>once per playthrough
Stop lying

>>383663690
I guess that explains why HoD also has the worst save rooms in the series, being a half-baked version of the SotN ones.

>>383648273
Game on the left is good and is a castlevania game. Game on the right is good but is faggot anime.

Symphony of the night is superior in every way EXCEPT it is easy as fuck all.

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>>383664003
>Game on the right is good but is faggot anime.
>Has the exact same artist and art style

>>383664157
I assume he saw soma and immediately jumped to DoS

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So what's the consensus on Dawn of Sorrow?

>>383664186
>by far the most unique and best looking area in the game
>grand total of 10 minutes spent there

at least PoR got to be way more creative with its areas

>>383663690
It's honestly clear as day how badly the game wants to be SotN with how much it tries to ape it.

>copious amounts of enemy sprites gba-ified from their SotN/Romeo originals
>alternate castle (that's arguably even lazier than symphony's)
>the save rooms
>Adrian Fahrenheit Belmont

It wouldn't surprise me if Igarashi and a lot of the devs didn't even look at CotM.

>>383656160
I unironically love this game
It's got such a great atmosphere

>>383664157
>>383664193
I confuse the sorrow games. The one that takes place in the future is gay anime shit.

>>383664259
cool weapon upgrade system (outside of occasionally requiring boss souls) but other than worse than AoS in just about every single way.

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>>383662729
>Most powerful Belmondo
>implying

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>>383663871
Amazing work, Anon.

>>383663949
Wasn't it like that? It's been like 15 years since I beat that game, so my memory might be fuzzy, but I remember if you tried to go back the doors were closed.

>>383664259
better(expanded julius mode/soul fusions) or worst(more grinding/mandatory touch controls) than AoS depending on who you ask. I'm the latter, glad they made touch controls optional in the later titles

>>383664259
Honestly one of my favorites. Yeah, the portraits are bad. Yes, the drawing is unforgivable. But if you were to take those out it's just phenomenal. Just the right amount of soul randomization that each playthrough I end up trying some new things, (something OoE also managed to do pretty well.)

There are a few other annoying bits (Give me two item sets to swap instantly between, but put mandatory movement bullshit like puppetmaster in the game to fill those slots up) but I genuinely enjoy all the areas in the game. And honestly I like the plot of it, sue me. The main twists are good. Julius mode ties in nicely.

It's not the best game. I am not claiming that. It just is not the best one, for reasons I already mentioned. I just think it's really good and gets tossed out the window too hastily.

>>383664375
They take place in 2035 and 2036 respectively

>arguably even lazier than symphony's
It's not arguable. It's 100% lazier than symphony's. It's the exact same layouts again with different enemies in them.

He ain't called Juste "fuck my shit up" Belmont for nothing.

>>383664375
>The one that takes place in the future is gay anime shit.
So... both?

>>383664375
They both take place in the future you stupid shit.

>>383659707
i thought that one was better though

>>383664557
meant to quote >>383664345 as well

What ya'll think about Lords of shadow? I honestly really liked the first one, hated it for the first 2 levels but then it started growing on me. Visuals were great for the time and the animations were cool. Gabriel was a nice character.

I also really liked the story minus the ending because I feel it fucking nullifies everything that happened. The story was about Gabriel redeeming himself and restoring his trust in God to beat satan, and he throws it through the window by becoming Dracula.

>"I will have such pleasures with her soul!"
>"Her soul will go only to Him!"

truly one of the best castlekino moments.

LoS2 was fucking garbage though

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>>383664791
>truly one of the best castlekino moments.
Let's not get hasty here.

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>>383656583
Holy shit, a good opinion, and on /v/ of all places. Have yourself a (you), my good man. You've earned it.

>>383664791
Lords of Shadow is a game with great aesthetics and poor...everything else, more or less, but that's MercurySteam in a nutshell.

who is the best bonus character and why is it OPTICAL SHOT MAX SHOT YEAH

>>383664595
>>383664619
Well the fucking one where the main character can use multiple weapons instead of just the whip

>>383664910
Why are people excited for the Metroid 2 remake again?

>>383664259
Has a lot of technical and gameplay nuance (both intentional and not), looks nice, great bosses, awesome bonus mode. Much more balanced than the metroidvanias before it.

Illustrated art obviously looks like crap, Yoko and Hammer are almost totally different characters now, and several parts of the castle feel pretty uninteresting in terms of layout, art, and atmosphere. The soul forging system is weird as fuck.

Chaos Ring nerf was utterly unnecessary.

>>383665003
So... both?

>>383664994
YOU CANT HIT ME

>>383664557
I say arguably since some rooms are actually totally different.

>>383665020
The last official Metroid game was Federation Force.

>>383665227
Point taken but have Mercury Steam made anything good? Even worse is that their current legacy is shitting up one of the two titans of the genre.

>>383648503
>I hot to give

Why am I laughing so much?

>>383664791
First game is competent if derivative. Mirror of Fate has a lot of cool ideas but makes a lot of weird and bad decisions, and LoS2 is a fucking mess.

Their problem was never not being "Castlevania enough" (whatever the fuck that means); it was in how hard they blundered their potential.

>>383664791
I actually liked all of them. I would even say that Mirror of Fate is kind of underrated and looked gorgeous in 3D.

It is still a shame that LoS2 turned out how it did since a lot clearly went wrong during development. The castle, combat, and especially the DLC were pretty cool though (although that last one was short and I would have liked to use Alucard elsewhere).

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>>383664791

>tfw went into LoS2 expecting an amazing plot since I really liked LoS1
>it's some extremely convoluted shit with literally unexplained plot points like the castle and characters pulled out of nowhere with also formerly insignificant characters such as carmilla being given major roles

Fuck I remember like the game director or some higher up at mercury steam getting all assblasted saying that the bad reviews were only from hardcore fans who hated them because it was a new castlevania story, because according to him the game had such high production values it was impossible to consider it bad.

>>383665020

Holy shit MS is making return of samus?

>>383665020
Because Nintendo's designing and directing it.

>>383665128
You're both smart guy.

>>383664259
IS THAT A...

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>>383665343
>have Mercury Steam made anything good?
No, never. If the game turns out to be shit we get a cool amiibo at least.

>>383665530

I hated the encounters in 2 because there wasn't a standard weak enemy they could throw in hordes. Every enemy was decently powerful and the encounters involved very few enemies, it was annoying because you couldn't combo right when every enemy could parry or knock you down. Also hated the enemies with guns, there was no viable way to approach them, too many shit interrupting the flow of combat

>>383661371
YOu could do that?
Man, i had the hardest time hitting him with crosses and whip

>>383664259
The plot was such a let down, holy shit. Literally nothing happens, there's no character development, and everyone is exactly the same as they are at the end of AoS. The cult was extremely lacking and they cockblocked us with the Dmitri fight.

>>383665631
To add to this, Return of Samus has had some lengthy showcases already that don't raise many (if any at all) red flags.

>>383665621
>Holy shit MS is making return of samus?
They're developing it but Sakamoto is producer.

>>383661997
You're one of those people pissed about the dash function. That and you most likely got bodied by the necromancer

>>383665935
Not him, but I played CotM at launch. Not sure if you're old enough to remember this, but CotM on the original GBA was a nightmare to play with how dark and samey the backgrounds were.

>>383662018
I couldnt play that game due to the music samples being worse than a gamgears sound samples. The neon coloring also huty yo look at

>>383663481
It is a great looking game. Many of the creature are well detailed. It's problem lies with animation frames

>>383665983
I think japanese GBAs had brighter screens. I had one and it was considerably brighter any other GBA I have seen so CotM wasn't overly dark when I played it as a kid.

>>383648273
Dawn of Sorrow, you dumb fuck.
OoE is also much better than SoTN and AoS.

>>383664337
yeah, and then you had yo run through them in reverse. which sucked

>>383663871
https://streamable.com/zqc04

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Is this the best Castlevania track?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8JGNPE4ayw

>>383665983
I'm well aware how daark the game was. Was my first true GBA game, and the game that hooked me into the series

>>383664259
Being able to upgrade souls is a godsend

>>383666325
no, but it is the grooviest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHpMdgM0Sb4

>>383666403
>being able to grind souls and have them get a bit stronger is a godsend
PoR did the soul system better than DoS by having them level via use.

>>383664259
Best Castlevania and/or best game ever made.
Too bad they were forced to jam a touchscreen gimmick into it by uncle Nintendo.

>>383656608
SoTN is the definition of casual

>>383666479
OoE did it better by tying your skills to elements. Leveling 120+ souls by use would be a nightmare.

>>383666479

And it ended up with a system where you can only master like 2 subweapons per playthrough without a tedious amount of grinding .Which wouldn't be too bad if there were only 5 but there's like 30 of them

>>383666403
I don't think it really amounted to much. You couldn't upgrade them in Aria sure, but a lot of souls in Aria were already potent (if not overpowered) on their own.

>>383666618
As opposed to needing to grind to master every single Soul in DoS. You're not making a compelling argument.

>>383666479
PoR is my favorite castlevania and the sub weapons system sucks because of how weapons level. Can't have fun with any subweapon you find mid/late game because they almost deal no damage in front of the weapons you've been leveling since the beginning, and leveling took way too much time

>>383665983
>CotM on the original GBA was a nightmare to play with
It's why the SP made it better because the OG Advance was always dark as shit. It's the Advances fault, not the game.

>>383648273
There the same dudester. Everything is the same dont you know. what are you stupid.

>>383664259
The only one I didn't bother to finish.

>>383658913
>This game has the song with the best video game bass line I've ever fucking heard.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njEP03Tb6v0
Meh

>>383666618
You could buy extra copies of the same subweapon from Vincent to level up a few of them. For some reason it doesn't work when you get extra subweapon drops from enemies though.

>>383666646
But if you upgraded the mini devil soul it turned into a cute girl

>>383666816
why did you post the same song?

>>383656838
Don't you fuckin' lie to me like that.

>>383666968
And your vacuum cleaner turned into a cute maid that was way worse than the vacuum.

>>383657518

In the ds emulator you can use a cheat code so that each retarded seal will complete with a single link, much easier and faster than simply trying to complete the whole thing legit.

>>383666968
Dracula was into some kinky shit

>>383666968
>equip mini devil soul and guillotiner soul
>it makes 2 guillotines spawn, doing double damage if you line it up right
>or, since you can move the mini devil with the stylus, you could make the guillotine spawn anywhere
Felt good steamrolling all of the bosses with my mini waifu

>>383658427
I don't think that's what he meant, necessarily. Sypha will probably find Alucard attractive (how could she not?) but I doubt she's going to actually fall for him. Especially not with Trevor around. At least I hope not, because I agree that love triangles are shit.

>>383664842
That fire effect is so ugly too look at

>>383667321
I can't imagine it being a love triangle. If anything it will be played for laughs that Sypha thinks Alucard is amazing and Trevor finds himself getting a little jealous.

I mean, we did get her blushing about the prophecy, she knows she fucks Trevor.

>>383667003
No I just quoted/greentexted it

>>383659707
That's BETTER, though. It's still 100% generic anime which sucks, but at least whoever drew that knows how to draw.

>>383667575
>Dawn of Sorrow's art style
>better than Portrait of Ruin's art style
Holy shit, what are you smoking?

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>>383667618

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>>383667690
That's ingame you doofus, I was obviously talking about the character artwork. All the CV spritework looks solid.

>>383655813

That's funny because PoR is actually one of the best games in the series. I'd say it's the best on the DS and the best metroidvania in general.

Also, like the guy here posted >>383655875
Castlevania had anime designs before. they didn't hire Kojima until SOTN

>>383667912
What an annoying enemy

>>383667912
>kino
get banned you aren't funny or clever

>>383660369
Richter is my favorite but I feel like Julius is probably the strongest one. in general it feels like the Belmonts get strong as time goes on.

>>383657038
SILKY SMOOTH ANIMATION

>>383657679
DoS should've just been Julius Mode, imo.

>>383658303
Fuck off, tumblr.

>>383657679
To be fair Aria's wasn't that good either

>>383658680
Same, only I played it on the Micro.

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>>383668261
The battle with Julius was great, and it was cool having your souls stolen at the start of Chaos, but yeah, not the best.

At least we got this 10/10 boss design.

>>383668393
>not the best.
What is? Most Castlevania final bosses aren't particularly great from my experience.

>>383668460
Dracula X Chronicles for the classic games.

Order of Ecclesia for the castlevania games (although I'm very fond of Dracula's gigantic demon cape in SOTN).

>>383667618
Anon, just look at the characters' faces and proportions. DoS is undoubtedly better-looking.

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>>383668579
Nope. You're telling me you think THIS looks better than Jonathan?

Anybody else loves the outer wall of the castle?
>All that mist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbvxzw20fPw

I hope they use more castlevania enemies instead of generic demons in the show

>>383668641
Yes. It does look better. It's generic as all hell but the proportions, linework, clothing folds, etc are all better than any of PoR's character art.

>>383668741
We absolutely need to see Death. I need to see a scythe versus a whip.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for fleamen, mummies, and Medusa (given that we've already got the Cyclops, it seems greek mythology is fair game).

It's a shame that saturn SotN often runs so poorly since some of its quality of life improvements are really nice. Unlimited bat-dash and Alucard's speed shoes in particular.

The color-shifting cloak is really cool, too.

>>383668774
Look at his fucking chest. Is his black shirt supposed to be tight or loose fitting? You can't tell because the horrendous coloring.

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>>383668641
*blocks your path*

>>383668876
THICC

>>383668876
Super akward pose but yeah, this art looks more visually pleasing, better than Soma. Its also the worst character art in the game.

>>383657038
I would, you know what fuck the container i'll drink it straigh out while its warm

>>383660369
Trevor
>Dracula's curse
>Curse of darkness
>Symphony of the night
>Judgement
>Netflix
You name it, he kicks ass and he doesnt afraid of anything
First to kill dracula also adds mágic to the bloodline marrying sypha

>>383668579
it's faggot shit

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Or perhaps he's wondering why would they trust mad man of stupid disciple.

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>>383657038
She looks exactly like my crazy ex.
I would in a heartbeat

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If the Church is evil how come they're good in Simon's Fetch.

>>383660369
>hydro storm animated never

>>383670332
>they're good in Simon's Fetch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P40_kd-mS8

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>>383670452
NUMBER ONE
they let you rest your health i think
NUMBER TWO
that's BOOBOO NIGGA BOOBOO

>>383648828
>everyone watching the CV show is getting in the mood to play some CV
>not a single one of the CV games people actually like is available on any of the current major platforms
Is konami the most retarded company in the industry? I mean EA can compete as far as being evil, Acti can compete as far as being greedy, and Square and Ubi can compete on sheer incompetence, but Konami really seem to just be complete idiots who have no interest in making easy money.

>>383648273
I've never played a Castlevania game in my life. Which ones should I play?

>>383648828
Seriously that should have been a tv show tie in promo

>>383670962
Start with the first one and play almost every game besides Lords of Shadow

>>383661371
Spam summons crockactile

>>383666467
>worst area in the game has the best music
Why did they do this?

>>383670962
save Aria of Sorrow for last.

>>383667965
Just use soul steal. That thing is like a giant free health recovery item.

>>383667965
just spam the spirits. I'm playing the game for the first time and I've learned that early on you can just spam that spell just when an enemy is far enough to not be aggroed and win most encounters. I've also learned that shield rod + iron shield is fucking OP and cuts through every boss (so far) like butter. No other shield rod + shield combination has come close so far.

>>383670332
the church did not approve of or support the Belmont family before Trevor defeated Dracula in 1476, they started supporting them after that
In the game I guess it was implied that it also happened because Trevor married into the Belnades/Fernandez family which had connections to the church, but in the show she is a Speaker so it'll probably just be about the new bishop coming to see Trevor's eroic acts or some shit, with the old bishop becoming Shaft

>>383671739
>the old bishop becoming Shaft
Isn't Rondo like 200 years later?

>>383670962
If you like action platformers, start at CV1 and play 1, 3, 4, and Rondo.

If you like Metroid, start at SOTN and play COTM, AOS, DOS, POR, and OOE.

>>383655116
Patrician taste

>>383672274
yeah but I assumed he was going to get turned into a spirit of some sort, Shaft already appears as a ghost in Rondo after you kill him and again in SotN, he's clearly supernatural and the show is already taking some liberties with the source material, the priest looks too much like shaft to be a coincidence I think

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>>383672335
>No bloodlines

>>383672551
Well there's also the issue that I don't think Drac would be too pleased about his Wife's murderer trying to ride his coattails

>>383672623
Always forget Bloodlines exists.

>>383672641
do we ever see Shaft interact with Dracula in SotN? I always just got the impression that he was a demonic priest who wanted to resurrect him, not that he was his minion. I thought that's where they were going with the whole "we love you because we're out in the world thanks to you" thing

>>383658680
Same. Replayed it like 6 months ago and it held up shockingly well. The only downsides are the need to double tap to run, some of the bosses being mediocre, and the cards being tied to grinding enemies and not knowing which enemies drop what.

>>383662552
Albus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Icu_UvaUeM

>>383673328
>Overworld map
What is this garbage?

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CotM is surprisingly good for one of those completely non-cannon games.

>>383673819
>CotM non-canon
It's literally the best one. It got me through so many road trips with family.

>>383673819
>non-cannon
I can confirm that there are no cannons in CotM.

>>383673952
But there is a gun.

>>383673895
it was intended as non-canon since the beginning, there was a dev interview on a japanese magazine confirming it, I can find it if you want

>>383670110
Hardest one by far.

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>>383674131
本作のストーリーは、今までのベルモント家やモリス家とは異なる時間軸で流れていく。
"This story is a time axis different from the former Belmont family and Morris family"

>>383661159

It's my personal favorite.

>>383648273
Why not both?

is playing The Adventure Rebirth as a beginner to Classicvania a good idea?
plan on playing SOTN first though, buying the US version from the PS Store

>>383673819
it's probably the hardest castlevania game since the originals. The card system was fun as hell IMO. Lots of crazy shit you could do. Lots of easter eggs.

>>383661159
It's great. Good mix of difficulty and classic Castlevania elements, easily one of the best Metroidvania titles in the series.

Shits got issues though, the double tapping to run is annoying and some of the bosses are real mediocre, including the final one.

any of you fagets tried Demon Peak that is on steam? i want to hear your opinion of it

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>>383660369
I've got to go with Richter.
He always looks incredible, I like item crashes, and Rondo is my favorite game.