Castlevania thread

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>>384787484
Not my favourite but still fun. My favourite is pick related because I prefer Classicvania

>>384787484
It has by far the most content of the ds games all around at least. Even if a lot of it is reused.

>>384787484
The best is Symphony and my favourite is dawn of sorrow because it has the best ost in the series and music is my weak spot.

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>>384787484
Here's an interview thing I guess.
https://youtu.be/bWQsXHeMVYk

>>384787484
Is that game any good? I never gave it a chance because of terrible character designs.

>>384787668
>play SOTN
>"Wow, this is the best game in the series!"
>play Dawn of Sorrow
>"This is better than the one I found to be the best in the series (and still do)!"

Wtf my nigga

>Had the itch to play Dawn of Sorrow
>Can't find it anywhere
Life is suffering

>>384787484
Why does Jonathan have such a big ass tho?

>>384787930
Not him, but it's possible to like something more despite it being technically inferior

>>384788091
>eat red apple
>"This tastes amazing!"
>eat green apple
>"I didn't find this to be better tasting than the red one but i like it more!"

What the fuck, I don't know what's real anymore... I have bad clinical depression so forgive me

>>384787875
Yes, it's fun even though it's kinda unpolished compared to the other 2 ds games

>>384787663
>>384787484
Is the joke here we say the opposite of what any rational man would say?

>>384788409
Intellectually you can evaluate one as better than the other, in terms of gameplay/content/overall quality etc. Emotionally, you prefer the other.

It's hard to choose my favourite because I love a lot of castlevania titles.

Symphony of the Night : perfect OST, Alucard is husbando material, Richter my bias wrecker is also there. Gameplay is fun as hell even if it is really easy and not very challenging. looks and sounds great overall.

Lords of Shadow : You can say what you want about this one, it has a really special place in my heart. The game feels like the greatest adventure ever, Gabriel is a character I like a lot. The music and the art direction are amazing. I liked a lot that it teased that he became Dracula. They tried to do something different with Castlevania, a different tone and gameplay, and as a fan I liked it because the franchise was going nowhere for years. Too bad the sequels are shit.

Rondo Of Blood : Hype game, feels like the best classic castlevania, great music, Richter is my favourite Belmont. Bloodlines is probably my favourite music in the entire franchise.

Order Of Ecclesia : I loved that they mixed a bit the Classic Castlevania levels and the metroidvania formula. The design is great and even if it's not Kojima it doesn't feel anime-ish like DoS and PoR that I despise a lot.

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>attack cancels into crouch cancels into walk cancels into attack
>jump 8 times by kicking your girlfriend in the head
>happy couples can baseball slide around a castle at mach 1

>>384788939
>feels like the best classic castlevania
Can you explain why? People often say this but I cannot see any single aspect of it that is better than the NES titles except graphics and even then it isn't a good looking game for its hardware while the NES games were

It's perfectly good and better than 4, bloodlines and most of the more obscure ones, but I can't understand how someone who has experience with all of them could ever say it's the best one

PoR > DoS > OoE

HoD > AoS > CotM

>>384788876
So anon knows SOTN is the best Castlevania game he has ever played, but his emotions are telling him it's too mainstream to say SOTN is your favorite Castlevania game or something

>>384789134
hence DoS is his fave

>>384789058
The shitty levels where you walk to the right and hunt for villagers frozen in carbonite remind people of games they have never played.

>>384787597
I remember there were lots of secrets to discover, despite being linear. Are Classicvanias like this?

>>384787484
objectively the WORST castlevania
>dawn of sorrow was the best

>>384789328
Rondo has the most secret areas if I remember correctly.
Most Classicvanias are strictly linear with just wallmeat here and there. CV3 has branching paths at the end of each level tho.

SoTN is still the best.

SoTN is the living proof that fun gameplay does not have to be "le difficulty based"

Soulsfags is whats wrong with modern gaming

>>384788409
>>384788876
This

Imagine you have a gf for a few years. She is not perfect, she has big flaws, but she is someone you love to hang out with, sex is great, you can talk about everything, you can share anything with her. There's an alchemy. She is sometimes bad tempered. But the flaws made you break up.

Your next girl is perfect, she's faithfull, she is supportive, cute, plain, average in term of taste, you can talk with her, she is not particulary interested in the same things as you but she is respectful, but everything is going fine, she is indeed the perfect chick after all.

I geniunely had those 2 relationships, and of course my favourite is obviously the first one because as a whole it was more interesting and emotional than the perfect chick. This is why I like LOS a lot even if it's a flawed game, it's a gow clone, it's whatever you want. But the game felt like a journey and I liked this adventure.

>>384789538

oh come on man. I love playin muh castlevania games and im also a souls faggot, can't we all just get along

i haven' tried bloodbourne and also had not gotten to finishing DS 2 and 3 yet but i played the fuck outta demon souls and dark souls 1

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>>384790007

>>384790063

if it appeases thee

i played the fuck outta SoTN and OoE. just had not had the chance to go through cv 1 2 and 3 since sotn was babbies first castlevania


oh and i also think metroidvania is a shit term that should not even be used

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>>384790351
>thread suddenly got times better

post more

>>384787484
CHARLOTTE

>>384789058
It's actually a good question, and a hard one to answer. I know that the game is not that good looking (the snes port looks way better), even Bloodlines looks better. But the overall game was a blast. The gameplay was great and rewarding, it felt more story driven than the others classicvanias. I mean Rondo felt less like "hu gotta slain Dracula I guess". I'm probably a bit biased because I like a lot Dracula X Chronicles too or because Rondo Of Blood was my first Classicvania after beating C1 and Dracula's Curse ?

Dunno man, just love this game a lot.

>>384790602
>tumblr

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>>384790351
>>384790429
>>384790645
>>384790730

Don't mean to rain on your parade but best girl has existed since the NES days.

>>384791049
Nobody really cared about Sylpha her until the show tho
bunch of sprites

>>384791049
literally who

>>384787484
So do those two fuck or what

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>when you still cant get over Harmony of Despair never getting a port because its your favorite game

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>>384791049
Wrong. Here is the best girl, even Dracula approves of her.

>>384791153
The mother of all future Belmont boyz

I want to play OoE but its like $50 and I dont want to spend that much on a DS game. Am I missing out or is OoE a meme?

Main game is fun, but Richter mode is miserable to play.

>>384791273
True, anyone is better than Charlotte.

Charlotte is bottom barrel weeb trash.

>>384791345
If your looking for a metroidvania with some challenge to it then it's a good game.

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>waifushit in CV thread
This is what happens when you don't make it Castlemania thread.

>>384791267
l-lewd

>>384791345
Greatest DS Castlevania son, go for it, paid the same price for it and it was worth it. You will replay it for sure.

>>384787484
It had a bunch of sub-weapons and magic spells that were more fun to use than souls I think
>Not going full ZA WARUDO with time stop and knives

>>384791750
castlemania is dead anyway. it's leaked out to the internet at large.

>>384791691
All that food finally caught up to her.

>>384791121
>bunch of sprites

You just described every other Castlevania character.

>>384787484
The variety of environments, enemies, and unconventional playstyle option with Charlotte, though i wouldn't consider it the best by far. It's even with OoE for me as best

>>384787875
How dare you besmirch jonathan and charlotte!

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>Have tried multiple times to get into 2D Metroid over the years, never really liked it
>Ignored Castlevania since I figured it's more of the same
>Download Aria of Sorrow on my 3DS on a whim
>Fucking love it

Should I play other Castlevanias? Should I give Metroid another chance?

>>384791847
>the new anime is smash hit with season 2 on the way
>Konami is in deep discussions over a new Castlevania for Switch.

You jive turkeys need to get on the grove train.

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What's the best 3D Castlevania and why is it Curse of Darkness?

>>384787484
It's the worst on DS

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>>384791031

>>384792331
I'd play the direct sequel (Dawn of Sorrow) next

Then probably Symphony of the Night and then you can stop being a fucking babby and play the classic ones

>>384792364
it had gameplay

>>384792331
Super Metroid and Symphony of the Night are really good.

Start there.

>>384792331
Dawn of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia are both great. If you want babby's first metroid try Zero Mission. Super Metroid and Symphony of the night, while they do feel older (that's not a bad thing unless you're a faggot) they are fantastic games.

>>384792364
I prefer 64/LoD.

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>>384792356
>for Switch.
Yeah, if they want it to double flop lmao

>>384787858
Cool guy but he's really awkward. I wonder if its a cultural thing being from HK

I once comissioned an artist to draw a titty image of Charlotte from this game, with an upskirt revealing an itty bitty thong underneath. She had a lucious, thick bubbly ass and you could see her nips poking through the fabric of her top.

Should I find it and post it? It's kind of buried under a lot of shit.

>>384792726
Castlevanias usually have a good track record on Nintendo platforms.

Not to mention the franchise has been dormant since 2012. So a new game would definitely bring some attention

>>384792356
They're talking about a meme, you dip.
This meme, right here >>384792428

>>384793036
dumb weeb

>>384793036
do it... please

>>384793036
who cares? faggot

>>384793036
I'll gift you reddit gold if you find it :)

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>>384787858
Oh shit, didn't realize Dredd's producer was behind Netflixvania. That's neat.

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>>384794190
>We love you
>Let me kiss you
>[slurping continues]

>>384787484
Literally the only Castlevania game I didn't enjoy.

DoS and OoE are my favourites by far.

Does anyone have a big ass Castlevania music archive? From the NES to modern games, and the remixes in between, I need some of that strange funkish Gothic feel for the slow days at work.

>>384787998
Being an idiot must be suffering, indeed.

Can someone recommend which games I should play? Are they all canon?

>>384796068
You're playing the wrong game if you care about the story.

>>384796068
They're not all canon but you should start with

classic games

if you're not a pleb, castlevania 1. If you are a pleb, rondo of blood or dracula x chronicles. Then later play 3, 4 and bloodlines.

For metroidvanias

SotN or Aria of Sorrow first then whatever

>>384796218
>They're not all canon
at least mention there is like 1-2 official games that arent canon

You made it sound like half of them are bastard sons faget

What's the difference between Classic games and the Metroidvania games like SOTN or Aria? Do they play differently?

>>384794821

There's a music collection box with like 18 fucking CDs out there. I'm sure you can find it somewhere.

Trevor best Castlemania.

>>384796407
Classic games are very slow paced platformers which have a very unique control scheme/design and almost always have you playing as a whip using Belmont who are kind of the protagonists of the series

Metroidvanias are fast paced exploration games with RPG elements and generally have you playing as a sword using non Belmont, though there's one or two where that doesn't apply

They're very different, storywise they're connected but most people treat them as near different franchises

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>>384796068
>Are they all canon?
no

>>384787858
"Free PC Check" should be changed to "We Love You"

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best Castlevania ever

CHARLOTTE

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>>384798506
JONATHAN

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>>384794450
>[Bishop groans]

>>384799417
for who

>>384787597
who the fuck thought back flip is ok?

>>384800756
It's fun as fuck to use, though, hit a knight and before he goes for a jab, backflip outta the way

are we ever gonna get like a Castlevania collection? I really want to play them and have them all in one place. I'd pay top dollar for the classic games and the metroidvanias all in one place

>Decide to play AoS because of all the boneposting
>Beat the whole thing in one sitting
>One of the best games I've ever played
Anyone who thinks SotN is better is objectively retarded, I dropped that game at the Inverted Castle. Also which other of the Metroidvania ones are worth playing?

>>384801867
Probably not.

>>384802429
Opinions. The movements options in SotN just feel so much smoother than anything. The diagonal slashes, how fast you can backdash cancel etc The other Metroidvanias just can't compare in that regard. Also how you don't need to menuing to access your abilities like in the Sorrow games.
Aria is cool but I don't like how Soma has two million HP from the get go and he can tank hits for days.

>>384801867
>Konami
>Making video games (even if it's just port collections)
Pick one

>>384803048
>Aria is cool but I don't like how Soma has two million HP from the get go and he can tank hits for days.
This doesn't even make sense given that Aria is far harder than Symphony and it's not even that hard, Symphony is a good contender for easiest game ever made. There's nothing wrong with a game being easy but Symphony takes it a little too far.

>>384802429
All of them except maybe HoD

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>>384791750
Dear Jesus...what film is this?

>>384803446
Aside from the art style, what makes HoD so bad?

>>384792364
Because soundtrack. I also really liked the environments. I wish my toaster could emulate PS2. I still have my PS2 copy, but no PS2.

Gotta find a cheap PS2 or hope that the game gets eventually ported in the XB1 backwards compatible games now that OG Xbox games have been confirmed.

>>384787484
Nothing, but especially not the grinding. All the Igavanias have grindy bullshit in some manner, but PoR is by far the worst of the lot.
>Bullshit low drop rates for items and skills
>Bullshit high demands for mastering skills
>Have to grind out 1000 OAA kills on a single file to unlock the game mode when you'll only kill maybe 50 of them playing normally

I really don't know what the fuck they were thinking with a lot of the grinding the games required (and especially the DS games) and PoR makes me question that the most.

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>>384788409
What kind of retard prefers red apples to green apples?

>>384803589
Simplistic, easy and boring combat, massive amounts of backtracking due to two virtually identical castles and obtuse objectives.

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>>384797569
>Note from the developer: "A secret to explain the reason why a 16th century vampire somehow shows up in the 20th century is now being planned.

IGAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>384787484
The boss music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nfzAf9HLKY&index=9&list=PLDD11E75274B855BF

>>384804301
Superior boss music coming through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiSo9yL59Pw

>>384787484
great music, great castle, painting mechanic is fun
loads of subweapons and spells, two totally different characters that you can switch at any time along with a handful of extra unlockable characters
a fun quest system and great bosses
a couple of glitches that let you snap the game in half and sequence break fairly easily

it really is the "complete package" and it's definitely my favorite game in the series, i have no idea why it gets as much hate as it does.

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>mfw I accidentally got killed by a Skeleton butlet

>>384804598
Objectively superior track right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXIjWtf-CzU

I like Casrlevanis, but hate handhelds. Will they ever make them for home consoles again? I saw the Wii had one, but I don't believe in waggling so never had one.

>>384802429
All three on the DS, Circle and Harmony suck.

A reminder that the strongest CV characters are lolis.

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>>384805283
Yes.

>>384805359
You what mate

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>Play Curse of Darkness
>Ost is great
>Think to myself "game is boring, but let me just craft a neat weapon or level up my I.D before I drop it"
>Now at infinite corridors
Someone help me

>>384804651
Because the level design is shit, half the enemies are recycled from Dawn, the difficulty is massively unbalanced (bosses are easy as shit compared to many standard enemies), you have to grind the fuck out of enemies to get subweapons and then grind the fuck out of the subweapons to power them up, and the quest system wasn't fun in the slightest since half of the quests are telling you to grind and the other half are telling you to go to an area you've already been to kill an enemy you've probably already killed, plus the completely pointless five quest limit.

>>384805359
>Rondo Maria
jesus christ. literally everything about her is overpowered.

>>384787484
It's neither but it's pretty good.

>>384805085
Why is Trevor so fucking badass in all its incarnations other than judgement ?

Is it because he was the first Belmont to actually get shit done without Alucard's blood ?

>>384803480
It's Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. One of the few britcoms which are actually worth watching.

>>384805423
Excuse me, a proper one?

>>384805427
You heard me.

>>384805690
>Castlevania on the box
>Published by Konami
>Play as a Belmont

>Not proper

>>384806043
I think that by proper he meant a good game, not a god of war clone with nothing for itself other than Patrick Stewart's voice narrating.

>>384805462
Gotta catch 'em all, anon

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New Soma game when?

>>384797569
>Circle of the Moon
>Legacy of Darkness
>64
Wait a minute I thought those weren't canon?
Why are they on the line but not elaborated on?

>>384806295
hopefully never. Both sorrow games were boring and slow as fuck.

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>>384806578
You either:
>have no idea what the fuck are you even talking about
>you are trying to get (You)s
>you are EPIC TROLLING SO MUCH WIN TROLOLOLOLOLOLO
whichever it is, go kys

Which game has the best credits song and why is it Circle of the Moon?

>>384807618
Everyone knows there is only one answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FsFiBXOVK0

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Don't you guys love when this happens?

>>384807235
>gave him a (you) anyway

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>>384807934
>No soul to summon Creaking Skull

>>384806295
I'd rather see the return of the Belmonts if we ever get a new game.

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When did the creaking skull get so popular?

>>384809401
Years of Castlemania posting took its toll on us.

>>384807732
This track is unironically good, I only say unironically cause I've heard people hate on it; I don't get why they do

>>384787484
2nd worst metroidvania but still way, way better than Harmony of Dissonance.

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>>384811425
>Second worst
Aren't you forgetting something?

>>384811631
The best game? Of course not, who could forget it

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>Mfw comfy Castlevania thread
Which Castlevania has the most content in any series? Dracula X Chronicles does not count

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>>384811910
>best game
I didn't post AoS though.

>>384803048
The movements are so not smoother overall. SotN's backdash is basically useless for its intended purpose (evading) since it doesn't cancel attack animations like it does in Aria. Instead of awkwardly abusing backdashing you are simply given a speed dash in Aria. The bat form in Aria is an instant transformation and actually speeds you up, compared to SotN's which is a slow transformation that slows you down (the bat slam is also awkward). The superjump between these two games is also night and day in terms of comfort and use.

>>384812213
Sorry for what?

>>384804651
The castle is even worse than HoD's. Are you fucking crazy?

>>384812769
What speed dash? The black panther soul you get when you are done with 90% of the game?
To be frank, you have no idea of what you are talking about. I suggest you check some SotN and AoS speedruns and see how much faster you move in SotN overall. And yes, the skill ceilling for optimal movement is higher on SotN. That's not a bad thing.

>>384811631
No, that is definitely among my favorite ones. I replayed it a couple days ago and still totally love it.

>>384812173
Harmony of Despair or and Lords of Shadow

>>384813162
cool your tits autist

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>play AoS as my first metoidvania style castlevania
>love the fuck out of it, second favorite castlevania behind rondo of blood
>try SotN
>can't get into at all
Is it just me or is AoS much better then SotN?

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>>384813564
Yes, SotN has better OST and visuals but everything else goes to AoS and AoS has some killer tracks as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujYrDqliN9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU2D7GYcwtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ-0O-f_e4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQPr3ZcbtE

>>384798226
Is that 1 or 2?
Are they worth playing if you don't remember much about the series?

>>384813564

Just you

>>384813162
not really talking about speedrun exploits or any of that crap

The movement is Aria is a lot smoother and more well-thought out in most ways. SotN just throws a bunch of shit at the wall and hopes it sticks (or is just simply broken).

>>384813162
This nigger knows what he's talking about. It's the difference between Super Metroid and Zero Mission.

>>384813765
I want Yoko to tease my castlepenis

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Is this worth playing at all or is it the Other M of the series?

>>384813564
For as highly regarded as Symphony is, the unfortunate reality is its castle actually isn't that great. People often still rail on the inverted castle, but honestly the game NEEDED it. Without the inverted castle the environment is too small and too simple. At least with the inverted castle you're bringing in a respectably large recepticle for more enemies, bosses, music, items, and use for your mobility options.

>>384814261
it's very similar to the other metroid-likes, just lower quality in general compared to the other ones

it's worth playing if you're really just starved for more content I guess

>>384806341
That came out before Iga said they weren't canon.
It was barely official before that anyway, it was made up by Konami's US branch on their own.

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>>384814261
it's ok, kinda lacking in various aspects, but still decent, and gets way better once you learn to abuse L and R dashing, then the game becomes crazy

also has the best playable character in any Castlevania game, pic related

SHINRYUUUU
NIN

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>>384815230
What kind of a ninja character design is this?

>>384815740
looks more like a pirate to me
a ninja pirate

>>384792726
Bomberman did alright.

>>384787484
PoR is not my favorite castlevania title

>>384787484
>- 4 areas x 2
>- JONATHAN!! CHARLOTTE!!

No. Eccelsia is still best.

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>>384815952
Is it because of her?

JONATHAN!!

>>384815952
>- 4 areas x 2
Except that the reused areas are completely different in layout and enemies and there's still the actual castle as well. Meanwhile ecclesia is a bunch of linear hallways with enemies randomly put in them for the first half and then a mediocre castle at the end.

OoE > CotM > AoS > PoR > DoS > SotN > HoD
SotNfags fuck off, looks and music are the only things it has going for it. Gameplay-wise almost every game after it is vastly superior.

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>>384805359
Kokoro is an young lady, not a kid.

>>384814261
Don't forget to mute the game, unless you enjoy ear rape.

>>384816397
>Order of linearity is the best metroidvania
>Order of spam to win because MP regenerates is the best metroidvania
>Order of clunky as fuck movement because all you get is magnet for 90% of the game and shanoa has a shitty backdash is the best metroidvania
>Order of we brought back the quests from POR but we made the drop rate suck again and removed all the interesting ones is the best metroidvania

If the game didn't have an anime babe as the main character nobody would give it the time of day, it's the definition of style over substance.

>>384816327
CHARLOTTE!

>>384816142
stop posting your shitty drawing in every fucking cv thread

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>>384811631
Scrub detected.
I bet you only got to pic related and blamed the double-tap run mechanic to drop it. While people might have legitimate complaints against the game, you can't deny that the difficulty was pretty good if not the best of all metroidvanias.
Plus, the Colosseum and final boss were very challenging.

>creaking skull starting to make rounds on tumblr
Well, it was fun while it lasted, now it's going to be run into the ground.

>>384818402
Am I going to start seeing it on Facebook?

>>>384805585
Yes. He was THE Belmont to first slay post-Matthias Dracula.

Castlevania in general is pretty terrible

>>384805585
>without Alucard's blood
???

>>384805085
I didn't care too much for the PS2 games but both of them had amazing soundtracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLHDs9MK6U
>that SC4 reference

>>384818402
I don't know how tumblr works exactly but I searched both Castlevania and Creaking Skull and I didn't see any of the shit that's been in these threads, besides one old gif of him.

>>384818402
Normalfags don't care about castlevania, the meme will die quick if it gets out of /v/.

>>384811631
Circle is the number 1 worst anon.

>>384819509
I thought the series was pretty popular in the west but Japan hates it, both AoS and DoS sold pretty well.

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>>384819392
It's over
he's theirs now
we can never post him again

>>384819975
>not "when bones blog.png"
You had one job

>>384819712
It may be more popular in the west but the only games to go over a million sales were 1, Circle of the Moon, and Lords of Shadow.

>>384820372
Surprised not even SotN cracked one million. Guess I was overestimating how popular it was, guess these kinds of games just aren't very popular in the bigger picture which means we'll probably never see some sort of rerelease.

>>384817973
Muh afroamerican. Best final boss song and credits song in series too.

>>384788409
I'm with you, anon. Never understood people who say something is the best movie/game in a series but that they don't particularly like it. Surely there is a distinction to be made between technical proficiency and incompetency (e.g. this movie is so poorly made that it's entertaining), but it always seems that it's important for the person to like the thing for it to be good.

If it's the best in the series, why don't you like it best then?

me too

>>384820751
I think there is an interest that isn't properly reflected in sales. Symphony of the Night is a lot more popular and visible than it was when it was very quietly released originally, and the GBA/DS games were massively pirated/reproduced as bootlegs.

I mean, Bloodstained did have a pretty successful kickstarter showing. Konami is just cheap and stupid as all fuck.

>>384820751
sales != popularity

>>384821513
>Bloodstained did have a pretty successful kickstarter showing.
Does this have a release date yet?

>>384821756
2020. And they're thinking of doing split releases, like Shovel Knight.

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>>384820847
>Best final boss song and credits song in series too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLMU143vNUc
That moment where you are transported to the final fight and the music starts playing was awesome. It took me several hours to defeat Dracula for the first time.
Once you have most of the cards, it get easy, but the first experience is pretty good.

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>>384813564
>tfw Dracula is with his waifu again
See? Even god thinks he did nothing wrong and forgave him

>>384821886
>2020
On what fucking planet? It was 2018

>>384822632
They've restarted development since dropping Inti.
From scratch.

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>>384787484
sup

>SOTN ending has Dracula finally understand that he doesn't need to be evil and he dies in peace knowing his love's last words
>Still coming back to kill humans in games chronologically after SOTN
for what fucking reason

>castlevania died for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVYb6xeUcU

>>384806295
Julius needs a game before Soma gets a third

>>384822938
That's not how it happened at all.

>>384822992
Man I can't wait for this, I'm also hoping that the rumor of one of the online modes being something similar to Harmony of Despair is true.

>>384823038
Fuck that, we need to bring Sonia back.
Except let's have her not bang Alucard this time.
That was stupid.

>>384823130
that's exactly how it seemed to me. you telling me this nigga asked for his lovers last words and just disregards the message behind it despite it literally being "don't kill humans, love you dracula"

>>384822743
But it still says 2018 for the release date.

>>384806295
1999 game of Julius finally exterminating Dracula when

>>384823374
Haven't updated it yet.

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Does anyone know if Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth is playable on Dolphin emulator? When Eiiware discontinued I don't want this masterpiece to die.

>>384787484
Because Charlotte is best waifu

>>384822938
>>384823297
In what way is it implied that Dracula dies peacefully or accepts her request? He says "forgive me" which could just as easily be a reference to the fact that chaos has already consumed him and he can't stop killing humans.

>>384823484
played it on dolphin just a few days ago

>>384823484
Let me ask you:
Why would it not be?
A TAS was just published at TASVideos for that game, so I'm assuming the answer is yes.

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>castlevania

fucking casuals

This is what real men play: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/608881

>>384822743
Source?

>>384823681
How was it? Did it run smoothly? We're there any framerate hiccups?

>>384823448
Is this a backer only update?
>>384823484
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGs6qoJmVv4

>>384823809
played pretty much how you would expect it to run normally

>>384823820
The backgrounds are blinking white. The video is from 2013. Is the most recent version of Dolphin able to run the game smoothly with no graphical glitches?

>>384787484
How can I play a really good Castlevania on my PC? Not Lords of the Shadow... not that those count as very good.

>>384824132
That's good to know. Thanks. I really like The Adventure Rebirth. It's easily one if my favorite Castlevania games so its good to know I can play it on Dolphin when Wiiware shuts down.

>>384824317
Emulate the GBA ones. Turn your brightness way the hell down for HoD.

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Are there any other sequence breaks in AoS that don't require glitches besides going to the Floating Gardens early?

>>384824837
You can get into the back of Inner Quarters with Malphas and Flying Armor. That's the only other one I can think of.

Just started my first Castlevania game yesterday. It's Symphony of the Night and I'm having a blast.

>>384824837
Once you get the double jump you can easily go directly to the Inner Quarters from the upper portion of the Castle Corridor area. Just use the flying armor soul.

It's so easy that I can't believe they didn't expect it.

>>384825264
I'll have to check that one out, so is Headhunter an optional fight technically?

>>384824837
What am I looking at here?

>>384824837
That is pretty much a glitch, though.

>>384825439
Technically I don't think you even need Undine if you just do the other skip.

>>384825439
>is Headhunter an optional fight technically?
Not him, but I believe so. I've been replaying Castlevania recently and I just did AoS and I got to Headhunter from the 'wrong' side and didn't need to fight her for the soul she's guarding.

>>384825439
>>384825812
If I'm not mistaken, basically all of Inner Quarters and Dance Hall are unnecessary, and fighting Legion isn't necessary either. I'm not completely sure though.

>>384791049
I would drink her pee from a bucket desu...

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>>384787484
>currently replaying dawn of sorrow
>it's easy as fuck and i am breezing through

i did die to the boss on top of the tower just now, you know, the one where the floor breaks and you fall all the way down

>>384787484
It's the worst of the DS games. Character switching gimmick is shit, level design is mostly bad, reused area themes, and the only good boss is the last one.

>>384796407
Classic games are well designed whereas SOTN is poorly designed with superior music and art so good they reused it for 10 years in better games.

>>384790485
JONATHAN.

Am I wrong on this opinion?

The demons in the show didn't remind me of Castlevania at all. They seemed too generic. I want mummies,Medusa heads, skeletons, and golems too.

Not Clive barker shit

>>384811631
CotM is the best game in the series.

>>384826760
>Play DoS
>Don't do a challenge run
Here is your problem, the game is better when you do a drop only no grinding run, since the enemies don't really drop that many weapons you can sacrifice a soul (if you have them) to create a new weapon to use.

>>384789932

>imagine you have a gf

That's hard for a lot of us, anon.

>TFW Don't like Metroidvanias
>TFW Classicvania is amazing

>>384827396
i got lucky and got the mandragora from the second or so i killed, didn't grind for anything

just throw one of these fuckers out with some int equip and he nukes almost every enemy

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>>384826760
You should try DoS randomized.

>>384789102
>HoD over anything

>>384828328
>>384828328
i tried using it but don't understand what the fuck i'm doing. anybody got a rom of there randomized game

>>384829239
What don't you understand? Just run it, select your rom, select what you want it to randomize and click the Randomize button in the bottom left.

>>384829521
>bottom left
Bottom right, I mean. But hey, just consider that means I'm a retard and even I can do it, so you can do it too.

>>384787484
SotN is my favorite, I haven't played PoR yet, and won't get around to it for a while since after playing the Sorrow games I decided to just go with release order.
On a side note, why is CotM so damn hard?

>>384830426
>On a side note, why is CotM so damn hard?
Because the devs remembered they were making a Castlevania game.

>>384814261
I replayed this just recently after reading one of the threads and I can say it's got one good thing: The castle is cool as fuck. The audio and visuals are definitely shit and yet they still sell the atmosphere remarkably well. The whole castle is this mixture of uncanny, dreary, and melancholy elements. And it's much less linear than the other games. When I replayed it I skipped the first boss (Vampire Bat) and killed him last. And that's only to reopen the drawbridge at the start of the game. The details added in certain areas' backgrounds - blood splatter, lava, green skies, etc. also are really damn cool. The game shared development time with Aria and I'm guessing that HoD eventually just got pushed aside or given up on making it better.
>>384830426
Iga had no involvement with CotM so the combat isn't a total joke like in the other GBA games.

>>384787484
bumping for fun, cause I love PoR.

JONATHAN!

song not related: Demon Seed
https://youtu.be/KqyoTvZ5cOE?t=20m45s

Adolescence is worshiping SotN and DoS
Adulthood is realizing PoR makes moer sense.

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>>384787484
Because Jonathan's weaponry is only rivaled by Nathan (who had to use magic) and his subweapons are only rivaled by Soma (who is Dracula). Dude's just an unga bunga beat 'em down vampire hunter and I love that. IIRC he's one of 4 characters that can permanently kill red skeletons, as is Charlotte.

Man, all this talk about PoR makes me want to replay it but I remember enjoying it the least and am wondering why do some consider it the best?

>>384821886
Not true.
>>384822743
It's bullshit.
>>384823767
His foul, jaded asshole.

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>>384831461
it's a fun fucking game brah

>>384831225
Ascension is realizing that Metroidvanais are shallow compared to the classics.

>>384787484
Far from the best or my favorite, but I do love it. It just has a shitload of content to keep you playing.

But it's a "Greatest Hits" of sorts, so it can't help but get a constant "I've done this before" feeling.

>>384787930
Not him, but something can be a favorite without being the best, generally for personal reasons.

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Super Castlevania 4 was the last decent Castlevania game, though I prefer the original NES game. I despise the Metroidvania formula they've fallen into, and wish the game was still about forward progression to one goal with thought out enemy placement and level design. I don't hate the Metroid formula, I just liked what Castlevania was before it became what it is now.

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>>384831842

>>384793036
what are you waiting for, anon?

I overall like PoR, though it does have some bad

>that horrendous art style
>dialogue is really shit
>harsh segmenting off of areas and reusing areas, major sins in a metroidvania
>the good ending requirement essentially wastes a really good boss fight

>>384831942
play rondo then, and then you will know it was the last best classicvania. I recommend the Dracula X chronicles remake personally. It is a remake of Rondo, and you can unlock classic rondo, and sotn in the game buy getting hidden collectable items, like stage 4 and 6.

has boss rush mode, level select after you beat them, and alternative level options, like split paths, that eventually lead to one.

>>384789102
So exactly how to NOT rank them?

How can HoD rank over anything? And PoD over DoS OR OoE? I'd understand OoE over DoS and PoR if only for not liking the anime style, but you clearly don't mind it.

>>384831942
hurrr yeah lets ignore Rondo, Bloodlines, X68K and Adventure Rebirth. Probably only played the first one and 4.

>>384789538
I love the Souls series but never really cared about their difficulty one way or the other, but I do recognize that if something is TOO easy it becomes a bit unrewarding.

I love SotN to death, but honestly the lack of any sense of challenge at ANY point in the entire game does get a little bland. I don't need it to be hair ripping levels of infuriating or anything, but SOME resistance on the enemies' part without me having to intentionally nerf myself with weak equipment would really up the enjoyment factor.

>>384787930
Think of it like this. My favorite 2D Mario game is Super Mario World. I love it the most because of the charm, the colors, the sound effects, the little gimmicks, and the overall feel it gives me.

I fully recognize Super Mario Bros. 3 to probably be the better game objectively, though. It has more content, overall more polish, and feels, in a way, perfect. But I still enjoy Super Mario World more.

>>384832329
I haven't played those, so I dunno. I only grew up with Nintendo consoles, and they switched straight to the Metroidvania once they hit gameboy advance (Circle of the moon, right?), and thats the last I remember playing any Castlevania games. I mean, I tried SotN, but I just didn't enjoy it. I liked 64 even though I know its technically a shit game, but didn't like Legacy of Darkness.

>>384789538
SoTN being too easy was a common complaint long before Demon's Souls was even a thing

>>384831942
>I despise the Metroidvania formula
>I don't hate the Metroid formula

>>384831128
>Iga had no involvement with CotM so the combat isn't a total joke like in the other GBA games.
Personally I only find the combat to be a joke in SotN, AoS and DoS gave me a good amount of challenge, mainly in boss fights.

>>384833272
>I haven't played those
What a surprise. How about you actually play the series the death of which you're lamenting instead of just playing the mainstream titles and then making nonsensical claims. All of the games I mentioned are good and more faithful successors to classicvania than 4 ever was.

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Name a better fight.

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>>384787484
I could never find a version that didn't randomly freeze five minutes into the game and the only patch that fixed the issue also removed all sound so I ended up losing all interest and forgetting about it.

>>384833297
sotn definitely needs a difficulty reboot version for current consoles. Not just HP sponge, but currency nerf, and enemy ai difficulty, bat form nerf, nerf the rod and sheild. crissagrim should be ultra rare.

>>384833505
The shadow man in OoE

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>>384833510
uh torrent it or go to rom site? I recently dl'd it and it works fine.

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>>384833505
SotN Richter in your first playthrough.

Julius a shit.

>>384833613
>crissagrim should be ultra rare
That shit is already ultra rare.

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so seriously they fug right?

>>384834019
>tfw you leave the room

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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>>384833409
Let me rephrase. I hate that Castlevania has fallen into the Metroid formula. I don't hate the formula, just liked Castlevania more before this phase.

>>384833473
I guess you missed the part where I said I grew up with Nintendo consoles. I'll definitely try out Dracula X and the others, but at the time that was all I had. And you make it sound like I cry every night and I go to sleep dreaming of what Castlevania could have been, and that I live and die by Castlevania and should know everything about every game thats come out in the series. Big surprise, I don't. Do you know how many games there are in the series spanning over every console ever released? You're bound to miss some. But keep being a dickhead on /v/, see where that gets you in life.

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>>384833510
here is me playing PoR on my hacked DS lite, try harder

>>384833510
I have the version than don't get fucked up, I know because it used to freeze too but this one runs perfectly and has been proved by doing several runs, maybe your SD card have something to do with it feezing, but I'm not completely sure.

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>>384833878
>>384834479
>>384834754
Fellas, you know that I was trying it when the game was still hot and new and then simply forgot about it, right?
I'm more than aware that it's likely has been fixed for ages now.
I'll get back to it. Eventually.

>>384834019
but it's farmable, it should be random rare.

>>384834980
Why not right now? you will love Charlotte.

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>>384835246
Who doesn't love Charlotte?

>>384835331
Maria and Charlotte are the two best castles

>>384833923
Richter was a joke even on my first playthrough. The Julius fight by contrast was very memorable.

SC4 > SOTN

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>>384835331

What are some good games with whip users that isn't PoR or classicvanias? I want a metroidvania but with whippin shit

>>384836881
los1

>>384836881
HoD, CotM?

>>384836930
That dogshit isn't metroidvania

>>384836881

Circle of the Moon nigga

>>384836986
I misread, thought he didn't want metroidvania, also it isn't dogshit, you probably never played it, let alone finished it, it was a solid game.

>>384837156
I finished it, it's actually terrible

>>384835058
>random rare
What does that even mean, and how would it somehow make it unfarmable?

>>384837156
>Fail a QTE
>Lose the boss fight
Into the trash it goes, couldn't make it past the third area it was so bad.

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>>384836818

>>384837230
what I meant by random rare, and this is what I think about all games, that there should be a 1% chance for the ultra rare shit to drop on any monster/mob

anarchy online did this, sure there were some things that had a higher percentage, but there should ALWAYS be even a .o1% chance the most ultra rare item could drop.

That's what creates amazing stories for players, it's like winning the lottery.

>>384837265
sorry you are bad at pushing 1 button, and timing.

don't ever play classicvanias, you will not be good at timing.

>>384837524
Nice strawman, I love both Classicvania and Metroidvania with Super Castlevania IV and Aria of Sorrow both being in my top 20.
Lord of Shadows is just complete detritus.

Is harmony of Dissonance as bad as people say? I knida want to play it and Juste looks neato

>>384837265
you would have never finished the puzzles in the game probably either without looking them up on youtube if you only got to the 3rd boss., I assume you mean the lake ice boss that is like a shadow of the colossus boss., the game doesn't even show you how awesome it really is until after that, it's like a pleb filter.

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>>384837768
Visuals and sound, it's about as bad as you can get but other than that it's a solid 7/10 but don't play it unless you've played all the others.

>>384837674
>>384837674
>>>384837524 (You)
>Nice strawman, I love both Classicvania and Metroidvania with Super Castlevania IV and Aria of Sorrow both being in my top 20.
>Lord of Shadows is just complete detritus.

there are only like 25 castlevania games you fucktard, it's in your top 20? wow

>>384837862
>sound
I usually have sound off when I'm playing games nowadays anyways so that's not a problem

>>384837956
>there are only like 25 castlevania games you fucktard
Good thing there around 25 million games though.

>>384837768
the title itself is a clue that it is "off", it was made to be like that, don't ask me why, but it's suppose to be different for a reason. The whole musical score is mostly in minor chords.

>>384837443
Okay... but its still farmable then, you just get to grind any enemy for it instead of only one.
Plus the winning the lottery feeling is still there even if you can only get it from one enemy, I'm sure there are a couple people who probably got the crissaegrim off of the first few schmoos they ever killed.

>>384838187
But is it fun is more what I'm wondering

>>384837970
>I usually have sound off
Why? Castlevania games are known for top tier musical scores, SotN's OST is the only reason people pretend it's anything other than an above average installment.

>>384838093
nice deflection of your innept accusations of LoS1 being bad, you probably should play those other 25 million games instead of enjoying good ones that you can't defeat the 3rd boss in a hack and slash.

I heard zelda was made for manchildren, you should check it out.

>>384838365
I dunno. I just listen to other stuff nowadays. So I really dont care for vidya music anymore

>>384838407
Lord of Shadows killed the series for a very good reason, you aren't fooling anyone.

>>384838467
What about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhQgp4rkVs

>>384838313
I haven't finished it, the offness made me leave it for a rainy day, so I haven't finished it, I don't lie about finishing or not games, maybe the appropriate response is, it didn't "resonate" with me.

>>384834437
The problem is that you're making pants-on-head retarded statements like Castlevania 4 being the last good CV while ignoring not just some games, but close to half of the classic series. Don't cry when someone calls you out on it.

Who is objectively the strongest Belmont?

What are there power rankings?

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If I want to play AoS for the first time now, shoukd I use mednafen or mgba?

>>384838496
no LoS2 and Mirror of Fate killed the series

Konami farmed out LoS = big hit, highest selling CV ever, then forced MoF, and then made LoS2 with what feels like 2 dev teams and they mashed the game together to create a shit sequel.

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>>384838741

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Inti Creates was removed from Bloodstained project on Nov 2016. At the time the news was that they were just getting help from other teams, but now it's been revealed that they were entirely replaced. This project is a dumpster fire.

>>384838990
treyarch is now the face of CoD and it's the most popular game franchise ever, so time will tell

>>384838792

Old, busted, doesn't have his own game

>>384838792
what julius mode like in Aria and dawn? is it dumbed down/shortened like richter in SoTN or do you go through a good majority of the game?

>>384839134
that anon is probably referring to the fact that he actually killed dracula

>>384837832
>the game doesn't even show you how awesome it really is until after that
Why are you lying? It has another shit-tier colossus fight and then a very mediocre western boss fight. Not to mention everything in between is just the same mind numbing easy combat, Uncharted style climbing and brainless puzzles. Or what does it get better after a couple of hours even though everything up until that point has been very mediocre at best?

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>>384838764
It's still seen as a major step down in quality from both critics and consumers.

>>384838365
>not listening to Ghost while playing Castlevania