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>>384839091
Why are we still here? Just to suffer?

>>384839091
when do I fight him?
Captcha was select every image with castle.

Okay, that crossover is neat.

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>>384839091

What is this meme that's in everybody's mouth about?

where is the skeleton?

>>384839325
>not using traditional captcha

>>384839091
i like this meme op thanks for posting it

Moshi moshi?

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>>384842732
Oh lordy...

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>>384842732

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>>384843252
>not wanting your bones to glow a healthy blue

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>>384843494
They lived happily ever after
The end

>>384839091
Best Kinovania

Which Castlevania is this?

>>384844478
it's a romhack

>>384844512
What's it called fagotron

>>384844560
i haven't thought of a name yet

>>384844478
Castlevanai: Aria of Sorrow, for the Game Boy Advance

>>384844672
Is it good?

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>>384839091

>>384844707
It's kino af

Played this fight today

>>384844707
very good

>>384844707
It's regarded as one of the best metroid style castlevanias if not the best so yes

I've played through it maybe three or four times

>>384844798
It's sad that the spritework in this game looks really nice and atmospheric and the actual portrait art is just so ass and clashes so much

I don't get it. He was posting the original picture for like two years trying to force it and now suddenly it finally took off. Someone please explain what happened.

I liked the gun in this even though it was really weak

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I would unironically like to play the game, or any game with this look.

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>>384845542
Don't worry anon, there are romhacks that "fix" the portraits! Pic related.

>>384845650
The same thing that happens with every meme

circumstance

>>384845869

Is that supposed to be Olrox?

>>384845650
OC happened

>>384845841
Reminds me of Angela Anaconda

I wanna start playing castlevania, which game should I begin with?

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>>384846003
Brauner. Can you guess who this is?

>>384846003
No, it is that faggot vampire of the paint in PoR, I forgot his name because he is such a faggot holy shit.

>>384845650
It's a gateway to castlevania discussion
We can all talk about how there will never be a good 2d sprite one again

>>384846128
Alucard?

>>384846121
Fore Classicvania games you can't go wrong with any of them except for 2. 1, 3(jp), IV, Bloodlines, Rondo of Blood, Chronicles, and Adventure Rebirth are all great. Even Dracula X is pretty good too.

For Metroidvanias it's more or less the same deal, you can't go wrong with any of them but SotN would definitely be the best starting point.

>>384846152

Oh right, I barely remember anyone from that game.

>>384846296
It's Wind/Eric.

>>384846152
Hey now, Brauner was one of the best antagonists in the series.

>>384846369
Whats the difference between classicvania and metroidvania? I've played a few and the terms just fly over my head

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>>384843494
This is the funniest thing I've seen this year.

>Played SotN a while back
>Dropped it at Inverted Castle

>Play AoS last night
>Beat the whole thing in a single sitting
Holy fuck this game is good, based bonesposters. Also that fight against Julius was kino as fuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiSo9yL59Pw

>>384845841
Looks better than Bloodstained.

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>>384845869
>>384846128
These are WIPs for portrait. Dawn's ones are done already

>>384843668
A E S T H E T I C

>>384846505
The classic games were platformers with stiff, deliberate movement that had a level by level progression while the metroidvanias are more fluid and metroid-like in their level design.

>>384846663
This Celia is pretty good actually, is it even the same artist as those other two abominations?

>>384846592
Go play Julius mode now.

>>384846784
Yeah, here's his deviantart
http://acediez.deviantart.com/

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I would put my bone in Soma.

>>384839091
>>384842732
>>384843160
>>384843252
>>384843378
>>384843435
>>384843668
>>384844108
>>384844798
>>384845841
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPUIrnivDRE

>>384846849
Will do, Julius had a pretty sweet moveset in the fight I'm assuming I get all of that too. Also what other ones are worth playing if I want more AoS?

>First came baneposting
>now comes boneposting

when will it end

>>384847197
Simon's Quest

>>384847197
DoS is the obvious answer

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>>384847329
When Bones beats Mother Brain.

How much further can we take this?

>>384847542
Until everyone has played AoS this should never stop

>>384847502
That's a sequel to Aria right?

>>384847197
Definitely Dawn of Sorrow. It's a direct sequel and the Julius mode is even better, doubly so if you're a fan of 3 and SotN.

>>384847197
The only real difference is the cross move is much smaller

Julius Mode is good in that game, he's very fun and you can basically tackle the castle in any order you want. There's no experience, you get stronger the more bosses you kill.

Julius is sadly not nearly as fun in the next game, but you can play as Alucard and Yoko in that too, and have a different final boss and it has a different (if extremely sparse) story in that it takes place after the bad ending

>>384847678
Yeah, it is. They changed some things for the better and some for the worse but it's certainly worth a shot if you like aria

Rundown on this spicy memery?

>>384847759
ITT: Worst Castlemania ever

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>>384847759
An anon emulated Aria of Sorrow and didn't care for it (imagine having taste that bad) and so he would spam threads day after day with Creaking Skull in the OP saying 'ITT: WORST CASTLEMANIA/KINO EVER'.

People would then parody it by adding filters and such to it then one anon got creative with Creeking Skull himself and the rest evolved from there.

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>>384847759
>creaking skull appears at various times throughout history
>always blocks your path
>is the guardian of castlemania
>undoubtably pure kino
>you may already have skelatals creaking in you right now

>>384847759
it's basically a pseudo-general since it always devolves into one. just like how monster hunter shittalking thread turns into a mh general

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WHAT IS THIS MEME?! I DONT UNDERSTAND!

>not any megalovania edit

>>384848145
fuck now i want art of this meme done in this style

>>384848217
one upon a time some faggot decided to constantly post that one picture of soma standing in front of an enemy while spouting nonsense
for some reason he actually managed to force his meme and now you can't talk about castlevania without mongoloids posting that stupid shit all over the place
the end

>>384845841
>typical texture pack

Get this tumblr shit outta here

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did they fuck?

>>384850697
Better idea: Bones replaces Cranky.
Bonus points for webm of him hitting DK like Cranky does.

>>384841106
What is that?

>>384845542
You have shit taste. That's your own fault.

How the fuck did kino work its way to /v/? Fucking /tv/fags need to be exterminated.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laeq3KfIJXY

>>384850360
JONATHAN sees CHARLOTTE as his little sister. Since this is a japanese game, and the fact they have such hard-on for screaming each other's names like they are fucking, the obvious answer is yes.

>>384848584
the recent resurgence of this meme has brought about some of the best castlevania threads this site has had in years. it's video games, it's a fun little meme, there's really nothing to complain about in my opinion.

>>384851280
SCP 93 fan art.

>>384850697
Do one with the jumping skeletons in OoE if you haven't already.

>>384851871
It's been done.

What are you guys using to emulate AoS to get 4k resolution?

>>384852479
mGBA. Or Retroarch.

>>384852660
I'll check them out, thanks.

>>384845869
Is this the hack on Romhacking? I was happy for a moment until I looked at the screenshots. They're still bad, just for different reasons. Oh well, at least I never need to draw seals again.

>>384847329
When the two combine.

>>384839091
Castlemania

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>>384851871

>>384845869
Hed 2 smol

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>>384851871
>>384854678

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Defend this

>>384855485
this is what kyoma demon was for

>>384855485
Stop being so stingy and drink a potion.

>>384855485
Can't you just use the bat to get across it? That being said I do agree that that is incompletely indefensible, the funny thing is is that the other two are complete jokes in terms of difficulty.

bump, ranked vanias incoming

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>>384857437
>shit taste incoming
bring it on

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choices are made. be not afraid.

Guys I really really don't get this meme

Love me some AoS though. It was my first Castlevania and in someways I feel a little unlucky for my first to also be the best

>>384857768
>>384848217
>>384847759

fuck how hard is to just enjoy a meme without needing to know every damn detail behind how it came to be

>>384857768
some guy posted worst castlemania with the original screenshot for years and i guess it suddenly got OC?

>>384857590
you know it senpai

>metroid-like
Aria of Sorrow > Symphony of the Night > Order of Ecclesia > Portrait of Ruin > Dawn of Sorrow > Harmony of Dissonance > Circle of the Moon > Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate

>classic
Super Castlevania IV

>3d
Curse of Darkness > Lament of Innocence > Lords of Shadow 2 > Lords of Shadow > Castlevania (1999)

>not played or didn't finish
Castlevania (1986), II: Simon's Quest, The Adventure, III: Dracula's Curse, II: Belmont's Revenge, Chronicles, Rondo of Blood, Bloodlines, Dracula X, Legends, Legacy of Darkness, The Dracula X Chronicles, The Adventure ReBirth, "that fighter one on the Wii"

>>384857912
You haven't even played half the series, you can't make a rank list like that

>>384857912
If you've only played 4 than don't even bother posting.

>>384855485
I just finished Aria of Sorrow today, this bit made me so fucking mad.

>>384858124
A cubist kind of kino

>>384857912
>Harmony of Dissonance above anything

>>384858124
Wow, link me to the itch.io page for this indie masterpiece.

>>384858021
>>384858020
but I don't like 1,2 and chronicles I didn't even want to finish them, the classic one don't interest me (I did grow up with 4 though)

>>384845841
Braid?

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Name a more kino moment.

>>384841106
show me what you got lmao

>>384856231
You don't have the bat yet at that point in the game. I played that part just today

>>384848014
>>384848145
Why are you guys calling it CastleMania? Is this the next wrestling event? Is Death and Dracs going to go tagteam again and suplex Johnathan and Charlotte for the welterweight belt?

>>384860153
But Balore is on the floor right below, what's stopping you from fighting him and then going back?

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>>384858435
>dont interest me

do you think this is a mother fucking joke?
go play rondo and bloodlines, and then finish 1 and 3 someday.

also dont you dare forget the gameboy games.

>>384860647
He's an Aria shitter, no point in trying to reason with him.

>>384857912
Out of the way, brainlet. REAL list coming in.

>IGAvania
SotN > Aria > Circle > Waifu of Ruin > Harmony > Dawn > Order > Lament > Dog shit > Curse > Technically 2

>Classicvania
Rondo > Bloodlines > Adventure Rebirth > 3 > 1 > Chronicles > Dog Shit > ALL of the gameboy ones (yes, even Adventure II) > Drac X > Cat Shit on top of the Dog Shit > 4 > 2 for reals this time.

IGAvania >>> Classicvania

>>384857876
>enjoying forced "memes"
>"meme" that is literally being posted every day, multiples times
how low has this board fallen

>>384861004
This is the opposite of a forced meme.

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anyone else replaying for some reason?
its weird, is like looking back and remembering you used to care about this series.

didnt really liked the show but its good to see so much talking again.

>>384859082
Best theme too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWZbpYoK96g

>>384861093
Really, it's a corollary meme. It was a pushed meme that became a meme not in the way it was pushed, but because it was pushed and is being made fun of.

>>384860942
>IGAvania >>> Classicvania
Get a load of this turbo-teen.

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>>384859082
>Don't Wait Until Night remixed and combined with Heart of Fire
>that item crash destroying and sucking everything

fuck it was AWESOME, specially for my 13 year old self

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name me a game with a soundtrack as good as Harmony of Despair

please let me know if this is at least respectable

>metroidvania
AoS = SoTN > OoE > DoS > CotM > PoR > HoD

>classic
Bloodlines > Rebirth = Rondo > 3 (JP) > X > 1 = 4 >>>>>>>>>>> 2

I like both the old Castlevania style and the Metroidvania style

>>384861536
me too

>>384861536
>Liking games on /v/
Bold move.

>>384861525
Metroid Prime

>>384861534
you're alright man

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>There will never be a game where you play as all the Castlevania protagonists to take down a time displaced amalgamation of all the incarnations of Dracula fused into one

That shitty multiplayer game that nobody played doesn't count.

>>384861534
>4 equal to 1
correct
>that fucking low and under 3
yeah no.

>>384861536
but do you respect people with different tastes/opinions?

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>keep seeing these threads
>decide a third playthrough is in order
>still so fucking good
Currently at death, doing a no potion run in hard mode and he is actually kimd of kicking my ass a bit, pretty fun.

I actually never have played any of the other metroidvanias, every other one I have tried is a classicvania. Other then SotN are all the others as good? I know they don't use the soul mechanic which is a bit of a downside to me but still.

>>384843494
Genius

>>384861709
That's fair. I mostly love 3 due to the amazing soundtrack. Outside of my favorites in each category, I feel bad putting anything under anything because I love almost every classicvania game desu, some just more than others

>>384861852
they all suck, sorry.

>>384861534
I don't fully agree with the classic section but that Metroidvania one is pretty spot on. Personally I may put CoTM up a little higher. That game has grown on me a lot over the years. Shit story and characters but everything else is good and it actually manages to be challenging unlike all the other games.

I wish all the other metroidvanias could have been as challenging as OoE or CoTM. They felt just right instead of being too easy like AoS or SoTN.

It feels like I see more love for Bloodlines with each new thread. Really makes me happy since it's my favorite game in the series.

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Name a better soul, I'll wait.

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>>384860304
i had one too many chuckles off this

why didn't that anon from the last thread post his charlotte pic

dig it up asshole

>>384861525
>some and friends
>not julius

>>384860942
>Curse below dogshit

Hey, fuck you, buddy.

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>>384846128
That spear guy who got turned into an androgynous bishounen on Judgement. Speaking of, I unironically like this Grant design, maybe not for a pirate I'll admit.

Nothing like a meme to really make you question how many people in the thread have actually played a castlevania game

>>384862624
If it was toned down a bit maybe. This makes him look like he's some kind of doll monster, his form doesn't even look human.

I'm also unreasonably upset that Judgement tainted any opportunity for there to be an actually good Castlevania fighting game. Even a smash clone would have been preferable to what we got.

>>384861202
I replay Rondo and 3 like every week. They're both really good but I feel that 3 is maybe 1 stage too long.

>>384862074
Abbadon. That shit shreds everything.

>>384862074
valkyrie
>early availability
>covers like half the screen
>hitbox lingers for a moment
>does a shitload of holy damage
>swings upward while your own weapons swing either forward or down
>dat ass

curious about something...

http://www.strawpoll.me/13509457

>>384863945
damnit, I fucked it up, you're supposed to only choose one answer

>>384863712
>dat ass
and tiddies bounce, wish I had the gif right now

>>384864048
You really shouldn't have told me that.

>haven't played Super Castlevania IV in years
>have good memories of it and defend it when people shit on it
>decide to play through it again to refresh my memory
Wow what an unfun, sluggish, floaty piece of shit. People who praise the multidirectional whipping can go fuck themselves. It's the reason why everything takes ages to die and why the only source of difficulty is one hit kill traps. It made killing enemies a damn chore even if you're doing well.

>>384863945
shit poll, wheres the option where you have no opinion one way or another for Dark Souls?

>>384864397
don't like doesn't mean dislike, if you don't care about it, you select NOT

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>>384864125

>>384864376
don't blame the multidirection for that, just how enemy hp is balanced

better controls are better, damn tragedy that it's the only game that uses it

>>384864764
>better controls are better
They aren't better though, just different and more flexible.

>>384864764
The poor HP balancing is a direct result of the stupidly overpowered whip that can reach anywhere and cover you if enemies get close. There's simply no way to preserve any challenge without buffing enemy health or changing the game to be something completely unrecognizable.

>>384864764
Another unsung tragedy is how few of the games use a dedicated button for subweapons.

>>384865085
Is this a IV fag meme? I can't think of a single time when this was an issue.

>>384864983
being more flexible is not better?

>>384865085
this as well

>>384865278
>being more flexible is not better?
No, not always. It's dependent on what the game calls for. I enjoy Mario 3 and onward, but I honestly couldn't imagine a world without Mario 1 or it's strict momentum controls.

>>384865278
Judging quality of controls in a vacuum is idiotic. Any control scheme is good when paired up with suitable level/game design. And the most immediately comfortable control scheme in the world will be shit if the game design isn't balanced for it.

the Bible is overrated in my opinion.
Cross and Holy water have better item crashes and don't use 3 hearts for each use, making them more viable for the boss rush in Rondo.

>>384865580
>>384865573
I'm sorry anons I just can't agree, I don't enjoy a lot of older games now because I can no longer stand their controls

if you take something like the Resident Evil Remake HD PC port that has 2d controls, it's just feels like a major improvement to me, the game balance wasn't changed at all to accommodate this, yet It felt awesome to me

in fact, if I could play the old classicvanias with controls like Apotheon, I would actually like them this time around

>>384865973
>the Bible is overrated
it is? I never liked that subweapon, regardless of the game

Cross (not boomerang) is my favorite, I just save up it's massive heart consumption and unleash it on bosses

>>384866014
So even though the games are clearly worse because of the controls, it's fine because you like it? Personally I like the controls of 1 and 3 far more than 4. The movement is fast, the actions have weight and impact, the whipping doesn't have janky fuckery to it because you held down the button for a little bit too long so it went limp. They just feel better to play, and work with the enemies and level design.

>>384865973
Axe is pretty good too for some bosses

>>384866014
>if you take something like the Resident Evil Remake HD PC port that has 2d controls,
Okay, now I know you're talking nonsense here. Resident Evil requires tank controls because the camera angles are constantly changing in a confined closed area. Playing Resident Evil without tank controls is outright lunacy. And yes, before you ask, I have tried it before.

>>384866265
I like what Circle of the Moon did by just having normal castlevania whipping but holding down the attack button makes him spin it around in a circle to easily take care of nigger bats and medusa heads.

>>384866265
>the games are clearly worse because of the controls
>The movement is fast
>the whipping doesn't have janky fuckery
>They just feel better to play

>>384866601
>Playing Resident Evil without tank controls is outright lunacy

anons I just feel the complete opposite, I guess it's just a question of what you're used to

but then again. I did grow up with the same games, as I discovered games which felt better to me, to old ones are no longer acceptable

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>>384845841
>texture packs

>>384866853
What are you trying to tell me with that greentext? In your examples the games are worse because they're not well balanced around the controls by your own admission, and yet you defend it still just because it FEELS better to you. Which is fair enough but not a very convincing argument, especially to someone like me who prefers the feel of CV 1 and 3 to 4.

>>384845841
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DtFCA_DoTw
Don't give them any ideas.

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I played the GBA Castlevanias in 2004 when I was 18 years old on a modded Xbox.

Please indulge me with at least one (you) from a person who did the same.

>>384866853
>anons I just feel the complete opposite, I guess it's just a question of what you're used to
It's not a matter of what I am used to, it's a matter of what's best for the game. I HATED tank controls when I first tried RE2. I had it rented from ye olde blockbuster, popped it in, and immediately died to a zombie within literally 20 seconds just trying to figure out how to handle the control scheme. I BEGGED for a 2d control scheme, and didn't touch RE2 again after I returned it for months.

Then, I wound up renting it again, and this time I actually learned how to play the game. Resident Evils 1-CVX play much, MUCH worse without tank controls. Whenever the camera changes, your controls are no longer relative to what you're doing, and cause accidents, which lower your rate of survival in a survival game. MANY RE fans will outright defend tank controls on those games to death, including speed runners. People who make it their jobs to be autistic about playing the game in the most efficient way possible.

>>384867123
I'm just saying I feel the opposite, how controls feel is not really arguable, just like taste with food, it's not like you can convince someone something tastes/feels better

there's nothing really to say

>>384867317
I still do it sometimes
I never beat any of them in the xbawks but sometimes i liked to mess around with them

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>>384848145

Ok, I got this.

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>>384839091
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>>384867451
One of the best yet

>>384867317
>right in the toodles

gotta hurt that one.

>>384845841
looks like one of those shitty 3d modeled european porn platformers

>>384867591
the katana guy should have white hair

>>384867317
I have never gotten far in Circle of the Moon because you start out as the punk kid in the middle of Dracula's Castle fighting middle of the game enemies. Seems like Nathan should have just immediately died.

>>384867437
>I'm just saying I feel the opposite, how controls feel is not really arguable, just like taste with food, it's not like you can convince someone something tastes/feels better
Lemme put this in a more accurate way for you to understand. What you're talking about isn't a matter of taste, it's complacency. You're not picking 2d controls because it's a better way to control the game, you're picking them because you don't understand why you should learn the control scheme of the game and choose to stick with what you know so you don't have to adapt to something new.

It's like you're learning how to play guitar, but you're refusing to hold the guitar the way every professional guitarists learns it and doing your own thing. It's not impossible for you to become a great guitarist this way, but you're needlessly weighing yourself down and then having to learn to overcome your own burden as opposed to learning how to play the right way and having an easier time nailing the harder chords and solos.

>>384867815
Yo, you realize that changed from HP to MP, right?

>>384867437
Fair enough, there's no problem with you prefering one style of controls over another. I only have a problem with people who claim it's outright better without providing any arguments.

>>384868031
Yeah, and it also changed fish into noodles. Also the uncurse potion cures poison instead of curse.

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>>384867815
That's RNG for you.
Some notable finds in my run:
>Phantom axe. Attack animation isn't tied to model, it's a fast weapon and can do 3 hits in 2 seconds.
>Abbadon is fire Elemental and has a lighting orb model. One of my first souls too.
>Hammer sells Dracula Tunic with a 10 or more increase for all stats.
>Zombies drop Claihm Solah but it's shit. OK for farming and selling though.

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>tfw Shanoa will never suck your dick with her glyph suck

>>384867963
you sound triggered

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>>384867963

>>384861704
Serio's Castlevania fighter exists you know

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I love Yoko.

>>384868718
YOKO IS FOR _______?

>>384867856
I understand your point completely anon but I just disagree

It's absolutely true that I don't want to learn and adapt to something else but that because I believe it's inferior and so it's not worth the effort

I do know why tank controls are the way they are, I just think you lose far more than you gain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d92LJiXwLTw

maybe you're right and I just need time to swallow the pill but in this case it doesn't really matter

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>>384868815
Stabbing.

>>384868847
>I believe
>I feel
>Just disagree

Look, I argue with a lot of anons on here. A lot of shitstains that just aren't worth anything more than keeping my debate skills sharp. But this isn't why I'm arguing this point with you. The reason I'm keeping on you about this is because I think you're one of the few anons on here who can learn to improve themselves. Learning to adapt to a different control scheme isn't just going to make you better at games, but it will be a small stepping stone to teaching yourself how not to be complacent and to adapt and learn even if it makes you uncomfortable and running away from that into the comfort of familiarity is so much easier. Keep improving anon. People who stand still in life will never get anywhere.

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>>384867963
Is this better?

>>384868847
>reddit spacing

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>>384869396

>>384839091
>>384868787

get in here bones brothers

>>384869482
>how to spot a buttblasted redditor that was just found out

>>384869492
This thread isn't even anywhere near the bump limit

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>>384844018
Christ

>>384869189
>People who stand still in life will never get anywhere.
that's me though, I don't want to get into it, it's complicated and RE 3d vs 2d is already off-topic, no need to go even more off topic by talking about my personal life/philosophies

I appreciate your attitude towards me though anon, this is 4chan after all, not exactly to best place to be respectful, thank you

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>>384869525
>he honestly believes that

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shout out to the guy that went left while everyone went right

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Name a better weapon.

>>384869189
Fuckin hell now that's some autism

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>>384870003
holy fuck

I've had no internet for the past 3 months or so

can someone explain the castlevania bones meme to me

is it just pictures of the bones guy or is there more to it than I'm not seeing

>>384870940
There's a little more to it, but it's ignorable background fluff.
Basically yes.

>>384870060
final sword
are you a retard

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What is a PoR? A miserable little pile of the best Castlevania game

why would you scale a 240x160 gba game up to 4k
what is the fucking point

Can someone that likes 1 and 3 tell me why they like them? They just feel so stiff and unfair to me

>>384867317
>get hit by ice spear from off screen
>get hit by another
>50% of your life is gone

the armors just felt like cheap shit

>>384871507
I like sidescrolling action games

>>384871315
>what the fuck is fucking with images to shitpost on a chinese tricycle circus board

I don't know bud.

>>384871601
1 quits being fun around Death's hallway, and 3 quits being fun around the aqueduct, or the falling block segment if you went for Alucard.

>>384871594
Getting through the area with the ice armors wasn't that bad if you used the card combo to absorb ice damage. Of course, one of the cards you need for that is dropped by ice armors, but still.

>>384871770
I dropped CotM around the area with Holy Armors. Got real old getting hit for 200+ damage from offscreen

>>384841106
>Swiss cheese men
Is that what that laser cheese wall from that comic evolved to?

I love Metroid games so I tried to get into Castlevania because people always compare it to Metroid

I tried Symphony of the Night but I got bored like 2 or 3 hours in and never picked it back up

Are the other games worth trying or am I just a hopeless pleb

>>384872118
Aria of Sorrow has better gameplay and level design than SotN but worse art and music.

If you can't get into AoS or SotN then you should give up with the metroid-likes.

>>384868958
maybe im just seeing things but graham really reminds me of kira

>>384871113
nice

>>384872409
Good thing AoS's OST is fantastic and the game looks great for being a GBA game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJAh5NCByWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkj9OztbxmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiSo9yL59Pw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujYrDqliN9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKBoAjbLaf4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlG6vmhVtfY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VntNJICWkUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23yow3-TyUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jealkvvDWlY

>>384841106
Is this from that SCP, the mirror stone thing?

>>384870060
>>384871061
>>384868318

I really hope you guys pronounce it the correct way - Cleave Sollish

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>>384872746
I just call it 'that powerful sword in the reservoir', has a nice ring to it.

Why the fuck did this game have guns?

>>384864764
Forcing a player to have to think about their approach or how they position themselves relative to an enemy is a good thing.

In SC4 an enemy can come at you from any angle and you can be sure to hit him. It's brainless.

>>384873067
it's set in the near future so why not

>>384873067
It takes place in the 2030s.
Technically speaking Portrait of Ruin should've had guns, too

>>384873067
>>384873193
Speaking of guns how do you get the one in the Underground Reservoir?

>>384873067
>shoot stuff with a gun
>turns out brass knuckles are stronger

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>>384872654
I really wanted an arrange OST of this game. The only thing that come close is this and it's amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBaH76TIo8g

>>384873276
turn into a bat and fly to it

>>384873232
isn't the nation of fools a twisted carnival crossed with an italian city ravaged by WW2?

>>384873350
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brh1biuL2VU

>>384873370
The game takes place during WW2 as well.
Bloodlines takes place during WW1 while I'm at it.

>>384845869
JUST

>>384873232
Even fucking Rondo of Blood has musket-wielding skeletons in purple robes, and plenty of later games (PoR included) do too

>>384873350
Some guy on YouTube rearranged the whole OST and it sounds great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAtl9AUKUFM

When the fuck is Konami remastering AoS for Switch with improved audio and visuals?

>>384873284
>a pseudo-vampire that can go toe to toe with massive demons and not get 1-shot can do more damage with a punch against a zombie than a 9mm bullet

>>384873573
>pseudo-vampire
Soma is a human.

>>384873573
>9mm

no wonder it's so weak, might as well chuck bones at the enemy

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>>384873649
You act like bones don't do a ton of damage in this universe.

>>384873620

When he goes evil he gains vampire powers. Presumably he's got some of those vampire powers even when he's normal. He steals souls, and that's a distinctly vampire ability from what we've seen in the games so yeah, he's a pseudo-vampire.

>>384848407
KINO can now be HYPER KINO

>>384873758
what about a gun that shoots bones?

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I'm fucking awful at this game.

>tfw no Metroidvania called Margatroidvania with Alice as the main character

>mimic just laughs at you
why

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>>384873904
The bosses just take practice -- which is pretty reasonable for a game using characters from a bullet hell. Most of the bosses have safe spaces or simple places you can just repeat one or two actions safely.

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Best castle.

Where the fuck do i get a Mouse in OoE?
I thought i would be a drop from the lady cat enemy but

>>384874620
Boat in the early reef

>>384874712
Boat?
What boat?
You mean the sunken ship?

>>384874765
Yeah down at the bottom where you found I think the clothesmaker girl

>>384874824
Thanks, man
Some of these quests are bullshit

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>>384841106
>>384839091

it's very poorly written but the design of the monsters is just so damn good and spooky that you can't help but remember it for the rest of your life.

OP image is fantastic. now I'm wishing I could play a game that spookily introduces things in the background, just like that. anyone have any recommendations?

Started replaying the DS vanias today after like a decade and a half. Wish me luck.

>>384854678
>>384854923
It's getting frisky in here

>>384873904
Wait, what? Where'd this come from?

>>384875265
You don't know Touhouvania? They're pretty old games at this point.

>>384875409
The art looks pretty good.

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>>384875464
Yeah it's Banpai Akira, heavily inspired by Kojima stuff so it looks incredibly authentic to GBA Igavanias.

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>>384845841
Closest I can think of is The Desolate Hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJdpOLm7Fg

We will be vampires and such

>>384859082
>>384861224
is julius canonically the strongest belmont?

>>384876810
I don't even know how you would go about measuring that honestly. Maybe the war of 1999 was some shit, but we never see it so who knows. If you're going by in game abilities, it would be either him or Richter.

>>384877030
I thoug he was because he was the only belmont who could end dracula for good.

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I've played SotN and I'd like to get into more Castlevania games, but the sprites in the other games seem really lackluster.

Why are they all so small in comparison? Are there any others with comparable sprite work to SotN?

>>384877147
You literally play as Dracula and fight Julius in Aria though. I mean it's Japanese bullshit nonsense and Soma is a good guy, but he's still fucking Dracula.

>>384877219
>Why are they all so small in comparison?
Because they were made for a handheld rather than a home console.

>>384877268
Whait SOMA IS DRACULA?!
Fuck dude thanks for the spoilers
jk

Is the Kicker Skeleton a fucking joke?

>>384845841
never noticed the skull on his back

>>384877806
Yes.

>>384872528
he does look him

>>384867643
IS THAT

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I'm doing a fresh hard mode run of Portrait and holy fuck is the first boss a massive wake-up call.

>>384879805
Killed it with 12 health left. Fucker backed me into a corner and used its projectile sequence four times in a row. Had to use holy lightning invulnerability.

>>384867591
This
>>384867737
And remove the other guys.

truly the most kino vidya

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>>384839091
Post the Metroid Fusion one.

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Why are people so ignorant that they buy (mostly below average) metroidvania indiegames when older games like Metroid and Castlevania did it better and with had a bigger budget.

>>384884031
>when older games
Because we already played those games you faggot, we want new games.

I don't like metroidvanias at all, mainly because I hate falling into the "where do I fucking go?" lameness
Besides Order or Eclessia and Portrait of Ruin, what other castlevania games are also on the vein of being a bit more linear?

>>384884127
I don't mean you people (/v/ included). You know that a bigger part of consumers do what I mentioned right.

>>384861534
>Portrait of Ruin that low
Pleb taste

>>384884312
Those people want to play newly released games rather than old games on old systems they probably don't have and don't want to emulate.

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>>384873904
I fucking love the game

specially the voice acting

>>384884418
>they just want to play the worse but newer (pixel) games instead of good but older pixel games
Nice answer. Fuck off.

>>384871101
I dont know if its the best, But definitely one of my favourites. Also fuck what Iga says, Johnathan and Charlotte were definitely fucking, they're so cute together

>>384884618
Too bad the story is shit, but it's a Touhou game and the stories are always shit so it's par for the course. Kinda wish you could play as Reimu since the controls are much better than Touhouvania 1 but whatever. I like that the voice acting and designs make the characters feel mature rather than "Hey look this character is literally 8 years old" which makes me hate most Touhou shit.

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>>384845841
replying to an hours old post but this reminds me of Abyss Odysee. It plays similarly to castlevania but it's roguelite and best in co-op. Genuinely fun game if a bit short. This random screenshot I googled doesn't do it justice, the games artstyle and aesthetic is quite nice.

>>384877219
>but the sprites in the other games seem really lackluster.
CVI looks pretty good overall and CVIII has a lot of excellent visual design, and Rondo has a lot of good spritework even if the environments are sometimes lacking. I wouldn't call X68000 or Bloodlines ugly games either, but they don't have the pretty sprites of SotN.

The GBA and DS games are handheld games that had limited power to work with and also have quite a bit of sprite reuse, but they still look great.

I just started OoE and died 5 times to the skelly boss in the prison before beating him.
Should I just kill myself instead of going any further?

>>384885497
Order of Ecclesia is actually hard so don't worry about it. Level 1 hard mode in that game is one of the most brutal in the entire series.

There are also special medals for doing no-hit runs of bosses.

>>384884968
although I don't share your tastes in hating touhou designs, I must agree with you in the rest of your post, like the good design and controls

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>>384855485
>crossing this corridor using only the fists

I heard there was a patch that fixes Harmony of Dissonance's color and sound issues. Is that hopeful thinking deluding me or does such a fix actually exist?