Do the 8 bit castlevainia games still hold up?

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Yes
They also still trigger childhood rage

Castlevania 1, 3, and Rondo? Absolutely. 4 isn't that bad either. The future of the series after Rondo is pretty sad though. They completely missed the point of Super Metroid and seriously dumbed down the series as a result.

CV3 is one of the best in the series

Play the nip version for an ear feast

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fucking nope
super, rondo, bloodlines and adventure rebirth are the FUN classic CVs

>>384596547
Yup

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Pretty recently got into them.

They definitely hold up in the art and music department. It takes a lot of getting used to difficulty wise, that's for sure. I like the design of having to be deliberate about how you place yourself, but it feels like there's a lot of unnecessary difficulty that could be resolved with slightly faster walking speed. I've really liked everything in 1 and 3 besides that.

>>384597317
With the translation hack of course.

The Japanese Famicom cartridge of Akumajō Densetsu (Legend of the Demon Castle) was installed with the VRC6 coprocessor, the western equivalent, the NES wasn't compatible with the VRC6 coprocessor so Castlevania 3 had to downgrade all the music to work with the MMC5. Luckily there are translated rom hacks of Akumajo Densetsu so you can play it in English.

>>384596715
>using crosses against Dracula
Well, of course you'd rage if you used the wrong weapon.

The original has some of the best level design and enemy placement ever. Literally the entire game is designed against someone being able to just steamroll a level blindly.

>>384599034
>Literally the entire game is designed against someone being able to just steamroll a level blindly.
You sound like you're comparing the game to I Wanna Be The Guy.

the nes Castlevanias are an odd anomaly where they act like they are janky and awkward to control but know exactly what they're doing.

https://youtu.be/1-RdjNFCYs8
https://youtu.be/TecRb1nYrSE

https://youtu.be/78706bv98S8
https://youtu.be/ptgaCJSF7j8

>>384597712
is adventure rebirth a good place to start with Classicvania?

>>384599564
I maintain that Castlevania was one of the first survival horror games, in a way, because design choices used in it were similar to those from Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil.

>>384596940
This man speaks the truth

how do you guys feel about Simon's quest with the dialog patch?

>>384599843
>survival horror
>with lives system and infinite credits
No.

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

Can't beat this track, had me hyped up as a kid

I recently played Symphony of the Night and I absolutely loved it. I had only played Circle of the Moon and Order of Ecclesia before, and now I feel like going through the entire series.

Is there any of them that I should just avoid, or are they all worth checking out?

Can they all be emulated on PC?

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I recently got into the serie, Castlevania 3 is a masterpiece.
>mfw they took the good ideas they had in C2, The Adventure and even Kid Dracula
>mfw the game has every meme trope I love
>mfw you enter the castle and this starts playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TecRb1nYrSE

>>384600482
avoid Harmony of Dissonance

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>>384596547
https://youtu.be/UwIQ3nBZ4Dw

>>384600240
It's a piece of buffalo diarrhea

>>384600482
You should play them in release order, even the worst castlevania games are worth trying.

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>>384596547
*tips fedora*

>>384596547
Hell yeah, 1 and 3 still hold up well to this day.

>>384599569
I like the US version better desu

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>>384600713
I said with the dialog patch you meme loving fuck.

Simon's Quest Redaction actualled fixes the game by removing the lies, and clarifying the hints and adding new hints

its actually pretty fun wehn you dont actively NEED nintendo power

>>384596547
Castlevania 1 is legit one of the best games ever and I'm not even in the nostalgia camp.

1 - Everyhting is great. Except for some cheap death traps.
2 - Gameplay is ok. Progression is dogshit.
3 - Definitely better than 1.
4 - Okay. Kinda easy desu with the whip control. My only issue is screen is too zoomed in.
Rondo - It's like 3 again but even better 10/10

>>384601320
WHAT WERE THEY THIIINKING

>>384600986
why are christcucks so easy to trigger?

>>384596547
yes 100%

Anyone else think Dracula X is unfairly shit on? It has better graphics and difficulty than Rondo

>>384601542
seriously, you'd think they would turn the other cheek

>>384601481
Rondo was good but could have definitely used more variety in levels. The fleamen on boulders and the river raft ride on alternate stage 4 were a cool ideas, but most of the levels were just flat with the occasional stair or platform to jump across.

>>384601512
that they wanted to fix CV2

>>384601753
>better graphics
highly debatable

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16 bit is where it's at

I only ever played 1 and Bloodlines.

>>384601980
bloodlines is the most underrated vania.

whys it never been rereleased?

>>384601980
>16 bit is where it's at
>btw, I never played the best 8 bit one

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>>384602035
Stop pushing your shitty meme

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>>384602195

>>384602195
its not a new meme

>>384602035
Keep fighting the good fight, Creaking Skull.

Should I play US of JP version of Castlevania 3?

>>384602962
Jp with english patch

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>start series with AoS since it was what i was recommended
>beat death after god knows how many tries
>keep dying trying to progess and me trying to get the burtang weapon in the area because everything does crazy damage
>i literally cant do anything because im out of potions and medusa heads/harpies come out of every direction meaning im taking damage somehow

also i fucking hate how getting enemies powers is rng. who thought this was a good idea? I've restarted my save more than 5 times at the point and each run i either get no powers or ones that are from different enemies

>>384602962
Both. The differences are enough to justify playing both of them.

>>384603108
>>start series with AoS
found your problem
AoS is overrated by handheld babbies. It's a decent game, but SoTN is by far the superior game.

>>384603108
death's soul should help deal with most encounters for a while

Here's a tip, if you ever come across a flaming horse, farm that shit

>>384603315
i started with aos and didn't have any problems, it was fun

1 > Bloodlines > Rondo > 3 > 4 > Sharp > X > 2 >>>>>>>>> any metroidvania

I played the classicvanias some years ago for the first time and I'd say they hold up extremely well. You just gotta remember they're a different type of game than the metroidvanias

>>384596547
If you're playing Castlevania 1 for the first time you'll probably be getting pretty frustrated for awhile. Once you're good at the game it is pretty fun, but it is really short and inconsistent.

Castlevania 3 is still really punishing for a newcomer, but is a lot meatier and more well-designed. I fucking love this game.

Save yourself a lot of trouble and look up exactly how subweapons work. Triple shot holy water is your best friend in both of these games.

>>384596940
Played castlevania as a kid (1 and Simon's quest)
Recently picked up SotN. Metroid did the genre so much better, alucard feels slow as fuck and I rather have effective upgrades that double as helpful in combat and exploration as opposed to stats. Do other games follow this style? Or did it get improved upon?

>>384604384
I don't feel that it improved much until OoE, and that's mostly because it feels like they went "fuck it" with the exploration and made it almost entirely about combat and made leveling up so meaningless that Hard Mode lvl 1 is an actual mode in the game and not a self-imposed challenge. Classicvania is still the best, though.

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>>384596547
>mfw playing Castlevania 3 on my NES mini right now
This thing is simultaneously fun and bullshit. Fucking skeleton snake things. I finally got to the castle 10 minutes ago.

>>384596940
this man speaks the truth

>>384596547
Yup.

Shit, I'm playing OoE now and I'm loving how it feels like such a throwback to games like CV2.

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>>384596940
>guy who hates on the Metroidvania games doesn't recommend Bloodlines
What a shock

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what did he mean by this?

>>384600482
I feel CV2 is not worth it, even if it has some funky tracks you rarely see elsewhere. And Bloody Tears

>>384601753
I really like it for the dracula fight, way better than the one in rondo and one of my favourite final bosses of the CVs I've played

>>384599836
Of course not, are you fucking retarded?

If you have experience with challenging games, play the original. It's still the best by far. If you'd rather have an "experience" than challenge, play SotN.

>>384605971
why is that retarded? are you trying to say the original is harder or less hard than Rebirth?

Kid Dracula > Everything else

>>384600456
my melanin enriched brother

>>384603315
AoS was my first Castlevania game after CV64

>>384606092
You have the actual originals to experience, so why the fuck would you play awkward approximations? CV Rebirth to CV1 and 3 is what Sonic 4 is to Sonic 1-3.

>>384596547
No. Pretty much all NES games have aged like milk. The controls are clunky, the games are short and lacking of content and the shortness is compensated with difficulty which is often caused by things like "one hit kills everywhere, no continues" or just being overly cryptic. SNES is where it's at as those games have often aged very well and can still be enjoyed by new players even without nostalgia. See for example Super Castlevania IV, A Link to the Past and Super Mario World and compare those to the first games of their series. The difference is night and day.

>>384606463
>difference is night and day

agreed, CV1 shits all over CV4

>>384596547
Yep, 1 & 3 are probably the best "hard NES platformers". The 16bit games are pure ludo, even Dracula X is pretty good.

>>384606373
my bad I should have explained that first
I'm holding off on the S/NES Castlevanias because all I currently have is a Wii and I don't want to buy VC shit when the shop could be pulled soon, so I'll get them on the 3DS instead

>>384606463
>difficulty which is often caused by things like "one hit kills everywhere, no continues" or just being overly cryptic
What the fuck are you even talking about? The games have a health system, infinite continues, and are strict action/ platformers. You're fucking stupid. Jesus fucking christ.

>>384605334
>not emulating the japanese version
enjoy your shit music my man

>>384605971
I have no idea how someone could claim that the original CV is so much better than the others unless they are really bad at the other games.

Castlevania 1 to Castlevania 3 is like going from Sonic 1 to Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

>>384606373
You are a fucking idiot.

>>384606798
I was talking about NES games in general but I guess that was too hard for you to understand so you had to go into a tantrum. In Castlevania's case tho the difficulty comes mostly from the lack of save feature since you either beat the entire game in one sitting or you don't beat it at all.

>>384605334
did you take Alucard route to Sunken City? The boss their is fucking bullshit in the American version where you can only hit it's head to damage it unlike Japanese where hitting it anywhere counts.

>>384596547
i beat super castlevania iv yesterday.

I raged so hard, was cool

>>384606893
3 is relentlessly hard and cheap to its detriment and Sonic 3 is very easy

>>384602562

he didnt say it was, he said it was shitty

and it is

>>384605334
How are you playing it on the nes mini? did it get hax

>>384606842
>implying I didnt
Anon, Castlevania 3 isn't on the NES mini unless you hack it.

>>384607308
>unless they are really bad at the other games.

called it. and nice job completely failing to grasp that analogy.

As someone who is actually good at CV3, the only truly cheap part of the game is the rising water segment in hard mode specifically. You basically need Alucard and you need to get lucky (ridiculous bat spawns on both sides). The changes to the bone tower enemies in hard mode also make a couple of stairs-focused segments sort of inconsistent to get out of unscathed. The regular game though is utterly fair.

Also you must be really forgetting how the death and frankenstein battles are. They are heavily, heavily luck-based unless you've had the prior knowledge necessary to freeze them with powered-up holy water as soon as you reach them. Those fights a certified bullshit without taking that very specific approach.

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Speaking of Castlevania, is Castlevania ReBirth any good?

>>384608382
It is widely liked.

>>384608382
Its good

>>384608382
Better than Adventure, for sure. Only play it if you've gone through every other Classicvania.

>>384608382
It's really good but a bit on the short side. Music is the best in the franchise. Definetly get it.

>>384608382
Its very good. You can even use the wiimote as a whip too.

>>384608536
why's that?

>>384608259
no it isn't, the whole game is an endurance round which doesn't work well with how little life you have, and that's beyond all the death pits and stairs. the ninja gaiden type bosses and difficulty doesn't mesh with the movement mechanics either, it's the most memorization heavy castlevania. a it's not tuned at all and being more difficult doesn't mean it's better, see double dragon 3

>>384605597
How dare you

>just got my Sharp X68000 emulator up and running on RetroArch and will be playing some Castlevania later

>>384608259
Are you talking about CV1 Death? That's not bullshit. Even you can't get to him with holy water to cheese him, you can get the cross along the way from the checkpoint and the little sickles sometimes drop the II and III items when you destroy them. It's the kind of fight that gets easier the longer it goes on, since pretty soon you'll have triple crosses and will be dealing a ton of damage. It's the hardest boss in the game for sure, but there's no bullshit there.

The first one does.

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What's the best Classic castlevania game?

>>384609329
Rondo of Blood

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name ONE stair climb section better than this

>>384606330

I feel bad for you

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>>384609329

>>384609505
Why? I've played almost every game in the series since, and I didn't buy any of the Mercury Steam games. So I'm in great shape.

>>384600541
>even the name registration has top-tier soundtrack material

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i think my emulator's bugged

>>384609591

I mean that you had to start with CV64

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>when Creaking Skull doesn't drop his soul

>>384609127
Of course I'm talking about thr CV1 bosses there. And no, the fight is still bullshit. You may not be completely helpless with the cross but you still have to get pretty lucky. CV1 Death and Frankenstein are so well beyond anything else in what you're expected to deal it that it becomes a glaring balance issue.

If you couldn't trivialize them with holy water they would sort of break the game themselves.

Metroidvania:
Aria > Symphony > rest

Classicvania:
Rondo of Blood > III > Bloodlines > rest

3Dvania:
all shit

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>>384609796
Why? I didn't hate it, and the atmosphere was incredible for a N64 game. Plus it eased me into the horror genre of games.

I mean, LoD was better but its not like 64 was dogshit.

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Who was in the wrong here?

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>>384609958
>Lament of Innocence
>Curse of Darkness
>shit
PLEB ALERT PLEB ALERT

Tell me what is shit in those games outside of the garbage level design?

>>384609938
I think I've only made it to Death with the holy water once and I never felt that the game was broken. The cross is really all you need. As long as you focus on breaking the sickles and you don't catch your own cross and let it fly, Death just takes damage from your cross flying through the room while you're focused on the sickles. And it really is just a matter of time before the double and triple items start dropping, at which point you pretty much already won.

>>384610049

Great, now you're manually reminding me that we have never hacked SotN at all, and created remixed levels/stages, including adding in enemies from the handheld games.

>>384596547
1 is solid. It's a game worth completing and getting good at. I still run through it every now and then.

Everyone says 3 is so good, but I wonder how many people actually bothered to complete the game. There is a lot of bullshit in the later stages. The first 4 stages of the game is baby mode, but from stage 5 and onward it's just artificial difficulty.

I also wonder how many people actually tried 2, or if they just get their opinions from the AVGN.

>>384609329
God Tier
>3

Excellent Tier
>4
>Bloodlines
>Rondo (remake included)

Great Tier
>Chronicles
>Rebirth
>Belmont's Revenge

Good Tier
>1
>Dracula X

Bad Tier
>2
>The Adventure
>Legends

>>384610080
>outside of the garbage level design?
I haven't played them yet, but....isn't this a huge fucking issue that can practically ruin a game?

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>>384609329
>Soma's hair when he becomes Dracula
Jesus Christ he's so fucking hot

>>384610080
>button-mashing in featureless square rooms: The Game
>button-mashing in featureless square rooms: The Game 2
>not shit

>>384610080
>what's bad about the game aside from the thing that ruins them single-handedly

also they're ugly

>>384609329
4
Rondo is good but overrated here

>>384596547
Played through OG Castlevania for the first time in a long while and actually managed to finish it for the first time recently, and I'd say yeah. The NES sucks, and there's some bullshit in there, but it's still pretty great.

Also, any of you fuckers beat second phase Dracula without holy water? Shit seems impossible if you don't lock him in place with holy water.

>>384609329
>>384604040

only real bullshit attacks in Rondo are the one where the minotuar throws like 5 undodgeable stones in the air or when second form death counters your cross.

How are the 3DS eshop ports? I've got some prepaid cash in my account.

>>384606720
Why don't you just fucking emulate them for free on your Wii or 3ds lol

>>384610610
>>384610685
Shit taste detected, CoD and LoI are both good games.

>>384611048
I don't like emulating
I know VC is emulation too, but fuck it I prefer the small fee because it's less hassle

>>384611021
They're just emulated and display a bit darker than they should. They're fine otherwise.

>>384611021
Probably fine, I know CV4 is great if you have a New3DS.

Remember that time a Castlevania game used an actual Bach piece?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYcI1ikUi4

>>384610975
If I recall right those minotaur stones always fall in the same spread and can be reliably dodged

>>384602030
fucking THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxb7Zfay0dY&t=451s

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>>384600986
Really makes you think...

>>384611073
thanks you changed my mind

>>384604040
You are even worse than the 2D metroid fans.

>>384600986
First of all, Sypha was sent by (wait for it) EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH, not Roman Catholic.

Second, Dracula became Dracula because God allowed his pure wife who did nothing wrong at all to die.

>>384602030
>whys it never been rereleased?
Konami never released any of their Sega stuff on the Virtual Console for some reason.

>>384611709
Orthodox doesn't speak latin

>>384611709
Mathias was fighting in the Crusades, right? So he was super loyal to God at the time and viewed it as a huge slap in the face that his innocent fiance would die from horrible a disease.

HYDRO
STORM

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>>384611970
Yes, and?

>>384599034
i watched the youtube video that said that too
high five

>>384612221
In the netflix series they chant latin right after they kill mina teppes.

Maybe on the games it will be the eastern Orthodox church but on the series is the Roman church.

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Why is it that Sony hasn't ported all the old Castlevania Games on to the PS4? Why is it that Nintendo hasn't ported the rest of the Castlvania games on the Switch or Wii U?

Why do you still have to buy the old fucking consoles just to play these games? i had to by a PS2 just to play SOTN and Lament of Darkness. its crap. I wish they would make something that didn't require me to drop 500$ so much.

>>384611676
imitation isn't flattery

>>384612537
PC?

>>384612537
Do you know what emulation is, anon? It will open your eyes and destroy your penis.

>>384599034
>>384612385
Was that an egorapter video? I can't remember but I swear I watched something that said the same thing.

>>384612429
>Mina
You mean Lisa? Mina was Soma's animu highschool girlfriend.

>>384612537
Imagine being so fucking stupid that you don't know what emulation is.

>>384612768
My mistake.

>>384599843
Survival Horror isn't about the controls.

>>384601761
It's really rare that I see anyone bring this up about Rondo. You're totally right, though.

Guys what are the essential castlevania titles?
I never played a castlevania game before and want to play a few before I watch the show

>>384613131
If only there were people talking about good Castlevania games in this thread

>>384613131
1, 3, Rondo, SoTN.

>>384607923
oh, alright
don't mind me then, keep enjoying the game and try not to throw the controller out the window

>>384613131
I'd start with classic NES ones like 1 and 3, as they hold up really well, then go to genesis/SNES for Bloodlines/Super Castlevania, then go for Rondo and Symphony.

>Soma Cruz is an exchange student
>he's also childhood friends with Mina Hakuba
???

>>384613346
yeah, about that one...

>>384613437
Pretty sure its because Soma is just a Japanese student in the Japanese version and they changed it in the NA release.

>>384613346
Well, He is basically the Chad of castlevania so he can be at any place at any time.

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>>384612627
>>384612836
>Emulation

NO! i don't wan't to buy a medium good computer for this shit, i just wan't them on a console so i can play with a controller.

>>384613346
He's simply a Japanese dude in original script.

I don't mind the inconsistancy since Soma being Japanese just feels like a really pitiful attempt to make the game more popular over there.

>>384609005
even forgetting

>>384613346
Turns out some people literally don't give a shit about consistency when they localize games.

>>384613670
hahaha nigga, just buy a controller and an adapter hahaha

>>384613674
That's exactly what it was. Konami was trying everything to get Japanese people to buy the game, hence the animu art of DoS and PoR, PoR upping the sex appeal, and OoE having a waifu main character.

>>384613670
Imagine being so fucking stupid that you think you need a medium good computer to emulate PS1 and older games, or that you need a console to use a controller.

>>384613670
NES controller is literally 2 buttons and a cross.

>>384613670
Only CoD and LoI could give you some problems if your PC is shit the rest will be emulated just fine, and there are lotsa PC controllers.

Also you can even play mods for the games and shit.

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>>384613907
and it was the best controller ever. Your point?

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I just want another Classicvania Konami.

>>384613670
>medium good computer
My computer is from like 2010 (not even a gaming rig) and I still emulated both PS2 castlevanias without any issues. I just had to get rid of the shadows in Lament of Innoncence because they only showed up on a specific setting that was a bit too much to handle for my CPU.
Even if your computer is from the stone age the only games you can't play are the PS2 ones and it's not a big deal because while they're OK games, they're nothing to write home about.

>>384598828
the holy water makes this game insanely easy

>>384610263
Hacking PS1 stuff is a pain in the ass desu.

>>384599569
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luxL5ufVTZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VVGlQDF42g
This is the only theme I like better in the NES version. That 0:28 part is kind of dry in the original in comparison.

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>tfw

I enjoy Harmony of Dissonance and none of you can convince me its a shit game.

>>384614579
>Hacking PS1 stuff is a pain in the ass desu.

I know. But some Symphony hacks would be worth it.

>>384614703
It's the weakest game in the series but I still like it, it's just way too easy and a bit confusing.

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>these recent Castlevania threads
FUCK YOU /v/ I AM 100%ing ARIA RIGHT NOW
I COULD BE PLAYING A NEW GAME BUT NOOO
FUCK

>>384614701
Really adored the character designs of DXC, Maria in particular looks awesome.

>>384614862
>Weakest game in the series
Nope, Mercurysteam games exist

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In general Tansakuvania news, the rumor is that Inti-Creates have been fired entirely from Bloodstained.

>>384614986
We're talking about Castlevania games here.

>>384614876
I'm tempted to do the same. Its been ages since I last played it and I really want to play another Castlevania.

>>384615076
Even in that case, CV2, Haunted Castle, and the original GB games exist.

>>384615056
What, seriously? What the fuck happened? Bloodstained looks pretty fun by everything I've seen.

>>384614881
>Really adored the character designs of DXC, Maria in particular looks awesome.

I love the art design of DCX. Which is why I hate that it's a remake. I love the deisgns, but they're just not Ritchter and Maria. They look different.

Iga fell for the Remake meme. He should have made a game for the PSP that's a SEQUEL to Symphony. These characters could be the children of Richter.

>>384615205
Yeah you're right. I usually think of Classicvania and Metroidvania as two different things so I don't think about those when I say stuff like that.

>>384615294
>I love the deisgns, but they're just not Ritchter and Maria. They look different.
lolwut?

>>384615205
>original GB games
Adventure and Legends did suck, but Belmont's Revenge was great stuff.

>>384615056
That's not a rumor, it's fact. They have a new team picking up the slack because Inti-Creates is not good with 3d development.

>>384615105
I know, its even worse for me because I recently beat Chrono Trigger DS (I beat the SNES one at least seven times by now) and I am really trying to stop playing the same games over and over so I won't get the too many hotdogs effect

But fuck it I am doing it, AFAIK the only soul you can miss is the legion so it can't be that hard

>>384599569
I can't even tell a difference, they both sound like bloopbleep shit.

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>always thought metroidvanias and SotN in particular were the peak of the series
>mfw took the classicpill and can't go back

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>>384615494
This is your fault

first evens names my save file

>>384615738
Grant

>>384614701
>no headband or ripped sleeves
it's shit.

>>384615738
Creakjr

>>384615738
Bongus

>>384615738
creaking(skull)

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Castlevania II, Final Fantasy II, and Zelda II were the best of their respective franchises on the NES. And if you disagree, you must concede that their soundtracks were superior.

>>384615494
What triggers that you can't get legion soul anyways? sometimes I get it and others I don't.

>>384615738
Do a drop only no grinding challenge run anon, shop is forbidden too so only the potions/food you find can heal you.

"Nigger"

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>>384615286

Reading between the lines, you can tell that development is really troubled.

>Pick Unreal Engine touting it's quick development and tournaround time
>Iga announces a massive delay
>Two entirely new companies part way through production
>cited the need for experience with Unreal engine, programming, and wanting to make the game look like a modern console game
>Inti's logos vanish from all preview material, including trailers
>look around the office video showed Dico employees, and no Inti staff
>Wikipedia user claims to be an employee for the publisher and posts: "Inti Creates is no longer involved with the project. They are developing the prequel minigames. Lastly, DICO is programming the game, but design and direction is all coming from Artplay)

The last part really clarifies everything. The new teams weren't there to assist Inti-Creates, but to completely replace them. They've been kicked off the project since Nov 2016.

>>384616076
Break all the armor off

>>384616049
You're out of your gourd if you think FFII is the best of anything but I agree about the music so there you go.

>>384596547
I believe so, currently playing through castlevania 3 and its really hard

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>>384615994
Alright thanks, see you guys in a couple of weeks

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>>384612067

HYDROOOOO

THUNDER!

>>384616076
I might do a challenge at some point, I did a Jojo mode on Dawn where I was only allowed to use fists and blue souls that fought for you, with armor being luck based

>>384616209
>Weeks
I started yesterday and today I'm already in the coliseum after killing legion, the game take about 2 days to finish anon.

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>>384615397

Rondo, Symphony, and DCX all have different designs for the cast.

Rondo = Ryu Belmont
Symphony = Hair metal Belmont
DCX = Gentleman Belmont.

>>384616679
I think thats just more to Kojima's art style not looking like fucking garbage, like the original heavy 90's animu style that Rondo used.

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>>384616209
The time has come

>>384616878
Filterkino

>>384616878
>Soma kills Creaking Skull instead of just leaving through the hole in the left
What an asshole

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>>384616826

I love each and every design just as much as the last.

Ryu Belmont is great.

>>384602035
Poor Creaking Skull, I hope he gets to see his master again

>>384617195
Its passable, but I'm not going to pretend Maria's design looked good.

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>>384616878
Remember to make friends with him so he can help you reach stuff later.

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>>384617146
>Soma travels to Zebes just to kill Crocomire
Is Soma a serial killer?

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>>384617274
>hating Rondo Maria
are you homosexual?

>>384617338
He's not happy with just the monster souls on earth. He wants the souls of monsters from other worlds too.

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>>384617274
>oppai loli Maria
>bad

fag

>>384617274
The girl have huge fucking tits

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>>384612067
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrv8-VW_qtU

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>>384617450
He just wants their hides for camouflage.

>Creaking Skull boss
>"ICE to see you!"

>>384596547
2 is cryptic bullshit: the game
>NPCs give you tips on an already-cryptic game
>Half of them are fucking lying and there's no way to tell
>Some of what they lie about are critical things

>>384618128
But they stand out even more then he would.

>>384596547
played 1, didn't really like it
played 3, enjoyed that a lot more but it was hard as horse cock

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>>384601542
>>384601759
why are islamfags so easy to trigger?

>>384596547
Yes. I thought they were nearly impossible as a kid, but I just beat CV3 and it wasn't as hard as I thought it was. You just have to hold on to the holy water for bosses that walk around. The falling block/dripping acid rooms aren't as bad as people make them out to be either. It's just a simple pattern you have to memorize.

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>>384618232
Not if you know what you're doing.

>>384618361
>memorize.
or just skip using grant to climb the walls or alucard to fly over.

>>384617891

I just wasted three minute of my life plus 30 sec watching some fag scream HYDRO STORM

Prefered watching ASS TO ASS tho

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>>384616878
And after three dozen soften resets I finally got the damn thing

To honor creaking skeleton I will 100% this game using only his soul plus any other skeleton related souls

>>384618351
Low IQ people are easily angered.

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>>384618928
It's the best one anyways.

>>384618928
There's a Creaking Skull later on as a normal enemy that you could've farmed instead of resetting.

>>384619194
where's my game about this?

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>>384619194
That's Julius, motherfucking Belmont for you.

>>384619219
memes aside I actually got a connection with this soul in particular, the first time I ever played Aria I was just a kid and I got it by pure luck (judging by how long it took me this time it was a lot I guess), getting the soul this early was a personal thing

Fuck now I want to do another Jojo run with the skeletons, what the fuck am I doing

>>384596940
This. SOTN was fun just because of the great setting, walking around the castle is cool. The sprite art is great. The actual gameplay is pretty casualized though, too easy and progression isn't equipment based which is why Super Metroid was so great.

>>384619453
Fuck this I am doing a Jojo run, time to punch zombies in the dick for half an hour again

>>384599569
the JAP versions sound like a muddy mess to be honest.

Judgement was such a missed opportunity:

>weird designs that look nothing like the characters
>Wii only

A PROPER Castelvania fighter could be amazing.

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>>384620015
>He don't know
Anon I...

>>384601980
He needs to work the legs some days, jeez

I'm actually making a game HEAVILY inspired by the old Castlevanias at the moment, and I might need some input from you fellas. I'm having trouble coming up with a save system.

What I was thinking was having a password given to you at the start of each level (there's probably gonna be 6-10 levels). You can begin the game from the start with 3 lives, OR enter the password to immediately jump to that level with only 1 life. The problem with this, I've realised, is that losing all lives would simply restart the level with 3 lives, so the best thing to do after entering a password would be to immediately kill yourself to get 3 lives back, making the 3 lives starting game advantage null.

Can anyone else think of a better solution? Try to think of how you'd implement a save system in Castlevania 1.

>>384621640
Rondo did it the best. Just let the player select the level from the start screen, level passwords are an outdated concept of the past and there is literally no reason to force someone to remember them.

>>384621640
Have a selectable "Arcade Mode" for folks that want the challenge. Normal save system otherwise. Passwords seem cool for nostalgia's sake, but are awful relics that should stay back in that era.

STOP!

Use this as your 4chan background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2lKRktcD00

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__ ____ __ _____
____ ___ _____

>>384622305
I don't think the spacing on the second line is correct.

Reminder that one single anon, through sheer force of will, memed several people into replaying Aria of Sorrow.

>>384622718
Yep, I didn't played AoS like for 5 years, maybe more, and honestly I think that DoS is actually better now.

>>384622718
>memed several people into replaying Aria of Sorrow.

It's like Deus Ex, Vampire. It's a good game, with good replayability. It's not like it's some random game, we already liked it first.

>>384619219
Eff that, I always restart bosses like Manticore if I don't get their soul.

>>384622247

Fucking Hell Order of Ecclessia is GORGEOUS. Great pixel art, great music, great everything. I want to replay it.

I have an arcade stick, which I've found PERFECT for 2D games in general, not just fighting games.

>>384623578
I'm replaying it now, outside of some shitty level design its pretty fantastic. Shanoa is an absolute blast to play as and having magic work like stamina is a great idea.

>>384623737

>Konami: We're cuting your budget by half btw. You still have to make the game on time.
>Dev team somehow still makes a game better than the other ones

>>384621640
What's the point? Just balance it around a 1cc. People who want difficulty will go for that or a no death run. Let the others use their 3 lives. I guess you could also let them keep their subweapon and upgrades if they continue with 1 life, so there will be a good reason to not kill themselves if they have a fully powered up holy water or cross or something. Passwords are shit though, don't use them.

>>384599569
The "bass" in the jp one gives me a headache

>>384621793
>>384622014
>>384624014
Alright, thanks for your input guys. I'll probably just have a traditional level select with an optional arcade mode for people who want to clear it in one.

>>384624307
It's just a simple sawtooth wave though

>we will never know the story of the development of Castlevania 1-3

That's a shame.

>>384624463
Just make sure to clear arcade mode yourself many times to make sure it flows well together, isnt too long, doesnt have timewasting shit like lengthy boss intros, etc. A lot of arcade modes are an afterthought, some don't even reset scores on game over or give extra lives.

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Improved Creaking Skull's transparency in this one, now it looks much cleaner.

>>384625216
It's beautiful

>>384600986
Oh come the fuck on, the previous Castlevanias hint at it and the newest one straight out says it is a problem? 8/10 bait I replied

>>384619512
Is there anything Creaking Skull can't do?

>>384599836
It's Classicvania at it's easiest.

>>384625568
walk

>>384623938
Tell me about it. Just killed the huge crab, kind of an overly long fight but crushing it with the elevator was so rewarding.

>>384601481
>still nobody even mentions Bloodlines

>>384625216
Man I wish I wasn't dogshit at making stuff like this it, you're a talented memester.

>>384622718
AoS has always been both the best and /v/'s favorite, bonesposting is just the icing on the cake.

>>384625585
It's definitely more challenging than Rondo and 4.

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>>384625914
Care to explain this then?

>>384596547
3 does. The rest are kind of eh...

>>384627041
How did creaking skeleton lost his legs?

>>384610461
My ebonics-speaking person of color

>>384627150
the war

>>384600482
Simon's Quest is a great game despite what people say. The biggest problem with it is the script that isn't really helpful at all, which can be fixed with romhacks.

>>384600587
Fuck you, Harmony of Disonnance is great.

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>>384627516
>Simon's Quest is a great game
>Harmony of Dissonance is great

>>384627150
>he hasn't fought the secret AoS boss, Creaking Legs
Wow, I knew /v/ was casual, but this takes the cake.

>>384627808
They are.

>>384600986
i like how this made people so mad over something so dumb

the bishop is clearly evil, but they make that very apparent. religion by nature is not evil in the world, but the bishop himself is corrupt and is taking everything in the wrong direction. not once does it say the people are evil for their worship, or that the people as a whole are responsible for everything bad. the only person who says that is Dracula, who is resorting to extreme conclusions and not thinking from the perspective of an individual - the pressure of the church and the bishop's power wouldn't allow the ordinary citizen to speak up against this wrong practice

the belmonts literally have christ on their side, and a priest even makes holy water

god is cool, but he's genuinely disgusted with the evil dude and how he's been misleading the good people and twisting their religion, who by the way totally isn't Shaft from SOTN

>>384596547
I'd say 1 and 3 still hold up extremely well. It strikes a solid balance between challenging and fun. They're tough, but not too frustrating. Ninja Gaiden is much more difficult, for example. I can't recommend Castlevania 2 at all, but it did try some interesting and noteworthy things.

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>>384627391
More specifically, the Great War of Zebes.

>>384627974
>Mother Samus
lewd

>>384627808
They're okay, not bad but not exactly as good as the rest of them

someone make a pic with the what a horrible night to have autism text with the pic of the giant skeleton

>>384620116
I really enjoyed this, and it's really impressive for being made in the mugen engine
I just wish the game got a better artist for the portraits

Symphony of the Night is fun

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>take pic because of meme
>get soul immediately afterwards
MEME MAGIC BOIS!

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So I'm replaying AoS with the rando mod but totally forgot how to access the room in pic related since its been awhile

>>384632085

Part of the Teleport gardens.

>>384632152
Is that the room to connects to the chaos realm right?

>>384632552
Yep.

>>384632085
>managing to map almost everything without the Black Panther.

Brave soul

>>384632679
I'm using the randomizer mod so I got the BP soul in like the 1st 15 mins of playing, so it was no problem filling the map. Sucks that I was stuck with the muramasa tho, had to wait till now to get the best weapons like the Longinus' Spear and the like due to the randomizer

>>384631761
Is Creaking Skull /ourguy/?

>>384618232
That's what he wants. His GBA has no backlight.

>>384610461
I like X68000 and ReBirth more than Rondo and the original would be higher on my list, but good on you for recognizing how great Belmont's Revenge is. It's easily the most underappreciated game in the series.

>>384596547
1 and 3 are good shit.

No idea why people think they're balls hard, though. 1 in particular is pretty middle of the road for NES.

Fucking hell this thread is still here.

Castlevania has been quite popular around here lately, is it because of the netflix show? Will Konami make a new game?

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>>384635594

>>384635569
Probably because people try to rush through the game when its designed for you to take your time on each section.

>>384635594
>is it because of the netflix show?
Probably.
>Will Konami make a new game?
Most likely, though they might outsource development.

>>384635594
Netflix started it and skeleton posting is maintaining it, but it will die soon.

>>384596547
Did you post this on /vr/ OP?

>>384608259
Cv3 death is easy if you use Sypha with bubbles

>>384610380
>Everyone says 3 is so good, but I wonder how many people actually bothered to complete the game. There is a lot of bullshit in the later stages. The first 4 stages of the game is baby mode, but from stage 5 and onward it's just artificial difficulty.
Play the jap version, US NES games were bugged on purpose to discourage rentals.

>>384635569
3 is quite tough by NES standards, but yeah 1 being difficult is mostly a meme. Same thing happened with Contra, one of the easier games on the system but is constantly called brutally difficult regardless.

>>384634217
Explain this meme to me.

>>384636534
Where does Adventure of Link rank in NES difficulty because I was genuinely too casual for that game.

>>384610380
>artificial difficulty
The only thing baby mode here is you, anon. The American release is more punishing because of the way the game handles damage, but it's still pretty fair.

>>384636520
It's not "bugged", it's just more difficult thanks to the enemy damage scaling. It's still a very doable and fair game for the most part, if you can beat the jp version then you can beat the US one too. The only bullshit thing is them removing the checkpoint

>>384596940
>4 isn't that bad either.
au contraire, it's the best one of the classic games, what it lacks in difficulty it makes up in perfect controls and presentation

>>384636120
Belmont + double or triple holy water roasts both forms for free. In my experience Sypha's lightning bubbles have a bad habit of uselessly meandering about the screen in this fight, at least in the american version.

>>384603315
sotn is too easy and the upside-down castle sucks

>>384635569
Slow movement, fixed jumps and delayed whip strikes are murder. I got all the endings in Contra: Hard Corps but I have yet to beat a pre-SotN Castlevania

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Positron Rifle is way too fun

>>384636801
Upping the damage on the bone towed skulls is a pretty shitty move tho

>>384600587
Ignore him, Dawn of Sorrow is the worst with its sealing bullshit.

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>>384637426
At least DoS doesn't look like someone puked neon colors on the screen.

From what I see here.m, there are a lot of classic fans that don't like metroidvania style gameplay. Do you people also not hate the 3ds game as much as the metroidvania fans? I don't think it was great but, I also don't think it deserves the hate it gets. I nice throughback to linear progression

>>384596940
>leaving out Bloodlines
PLEB

Is the psp game any good?

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>>384637778
>Do you people also not hate the 3ds game as much as the metroidvania fans?
They did though.

>>384637271
>awesome futuristic weapon in Aria
>bog standard rpg launcher in Dawn
I was so disappointed.

>>384614876
However you view the Netflix series, be it positive or negative, they have brought a good thing back to /v/.

>>384637996
This is a picture of a ds game tho. I'm talking about Mirror of Fate, the mercury steam game for the 3ds.

>>384637778
I didn't love Mirror of Fate but the series has seen worse. I like the Meteoidvanias too; just not nearly as much as the classic games.

>>384637778
It's neither a classic nor a metroidvania style game so I can see why neither camp would be too big on it. It's also a pretty short and small game.

I did still have a good time with it and occassionally will start a file and blitz through it in a couple hours. The combat can be fun and the bosses are cool. My biggest gripes are that you can't restart individual chapters (the Trevor one is by far my favorite but it's at the end) and that the performance isn't great on 3DS.

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If Konami approached you rIGHT NOW and asked, what kind of Castlevania you want for the next game, what would you pick?

Classicvania or Metroidvania?

>>384639212
can I kick Konami in the nads instead

>>384639212
How about a good game?

>>384625216
>there are animations now
I love this meme.
If you wanted to improve it even more, you'd keep Soma's lifebar consistent.

>>384639212
Classicvania, but I'm okay with the series staying dead. I don't think video game series need to go on for eternity.