ITT: worst castlemania

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>>385167801
Memes aside, this game is utter garbage.

>>385167801
>That Tree

<25 need not apply

wtf I hate castlemania now lol

>>385167936
I do think it's the worst Metroidvania in the franchise but I still got a lot of enjoyment out of it.

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>>385167801
But best Ludovania
A so so Castlekino, however.

>>385167936
It's not amazing but it's still pretty good.

>>385167801
Is this skeleton a meme now?
I keep seeing him shooped in different games.

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>>385168224
It's just a Creaking Skull, anon.

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>>385168106
This is the most kino moment in the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiSo9yL59Pw

>>385168106
Is this sequence of events actually from this game or is this some kind of edit? because it's fucking hilarious.

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>>385168646
The bat squashing yeah, but not the skull

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>>385167945

>>385168851
Which website filter does that.

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>>385168916
The one called pure undiluted anon autism for castlemania

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>>385168851
The heck are you doing posting a thumbnail?

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>>385169248
The sad part is, Soma looks better there than he does in DoS.

>>385169381
I still don't get what the fuck where they thinking
It's fine to want weeb art but at least it could have been quality animu art
That and the one from pos literally look like deviant art beginner tier trash

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>>385167936
I'm playing all of them. Beat 1, skipped 2, Got to Dracula with III, beat Rondo of Blood and SonT, I want to jump to AoS but someone said I should play them in release order so I'm playing Moon first. Should I skip Harmony? I here it has TWO Castles!

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>>385169774
TWO CASTLES???

>>385169671
>I still don't get what the fuck where they thinking

Castlevania games do not sell, especially in Japan. For them, this is a budget series that's a bit obscure. They wanted to boost sales. Time for experiment with anime style for the weebs and kids.

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I'm the anon who said he didn't really use souls very often last night.
Acting upon your comments, I decided not to buy shit from Hammer (except potions) and just use what I found.
I'm honestly having more fun this way, since I'm using more equipment.
I'm still kinda being stingy with soul usage though. I think it's hard-wired into me at this point, though I am using them more. Since I found the Rune Ring I broke out Creaking Skull and have been pummeling shit left and right.
Also I'm doing a Skeleton Soul Only Run.
So, thanks for those comments.

So I started CoM after I beat AoS and while it's not too bad I hope to god that HoD plays a bit more smoother than this.

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>>385169671
Was AoS the last game Kojima worked on as an artist?

>>385169671
>>385169919
Plus, they couldn't get Kojima to do the art, she was busy with other stuff.

>>385169881
TWO
WHOLE
CASTLES

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>>385169979
You made the mistake of starting with the best one. HoD is a little, not sure how else to say this, special.

>>385169979
If one there's one thing HoD gets right its the movement, forward and back dashes form the moment you start are glorious
At the very least its not as clunky as CotM that's for sure

What do I use to darken the GBA Castlemanias?

>>385169983
No, because she returned for Harmony of Despair.
I think.

>>385169774
SotN, AoS and DoS are considered the "golden" trilogy. They're all also loosely connected.

>>385170480
I've played SotN and AoS and preferred the latter, does DoS improve upon it at all? More importantly is there something more fun than Julius mode in AoS?

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>>385170654
>preferred the latter

STOP HAVING DIFFERENT OPINIONS
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>385170826
Inverted Castle and backtracking through uninteresting corridors filled with nothing but enemies alongside being insultingly easy held back SotN in my opinion and AoS fixed all those issues more or less.

>>385170239
No, Harmony does not have good movement at all. Dashing doesn't translate momentum into your jumps (as opposed to the Mega Man X and Zero games which do it right). Juste's jumps also feel floaty and awkward, and his super-jump inexplicably reverts back to the weird input from Symphony.

>>385170981
Everyone who values gameplay the most thinks that.

>>385170654
DoS is pretty much "more of the same, but bigger."
As for Julius mode, there isn't. DoS also has a Julius mode but you have three characters to play as instead of one.

>>385169924
Is not using souls the same mindset as preserving potions until boss fights?

>>385171278
I use potions everywhere but boss fights.

>>385171428
Same, Id rather get good enough to survive the fight rather than cheese it

>>385170981
I never understood the "too easy" meme. The difficulty is fine if you don't farm the crissaegrim

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>>385170253

VBA-M

>playing AoS today
>get Cutall
>take a good look at it
>finally realize it's a Katar
>it's translated wrong
fucking hell that's funny

>>385171620
Is right side what you're supposed to see on an actual GBA?

Playing Simon's Quest for the first time right now and it's honestly not terrible with a map.

>>385171518
>The difficulty is fine if you don't farm the crissaegrim
SotN is incredibly easy to break even without it. The combat knife, fist weapons, and holy water are just too fucking ridiculous.

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>>385167936
All memes aside people fucking jerk the cock of Circle of the Moon because of muh difficulty and because it was the first castlevania they played

>>385171258
>"more of the same, but bigger."
Intersting, I get the feel from lurking in these threads that most people still prefer AoS to it. Guess I'll try it out, does it play fine on an emulator? I remember someone complaining about having to draw or something for bosses.

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>>385171745
His is boobooo this is the real kind.

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Post superbosses

>>385171879
It's not even that difficult, just clunky. I'm playing through it for the first time right now.

>>385171808
Yet you can choose not to use the broken weapons.

>>385171884
It plays fine on emulators but the touch screen stuff is annoying with a mouse. If you're planning to emulate it definitely use the AR code that autocompletes seals after boss fights so they don't regain more of their health and prolong the fight because you weren't fast or precise enough due to using a mouse.

0201C5A8 E3A00000

You still have to draw the first part of the seals but it'll make your experience a lot more painless.

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>>385172115
Fuck off to /pol/

>>385172105
Even if you don't use the broken stuff the game is still too easy because bosses have barely any HP.

>>385172138
Thanks.

>>385172235
>because bosses have barely any HP

this nigga serious?

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best ludomania

>>385172115
fucking retarded

>>385172324
Outside of Dracula and Galamoth, yes. I don't remember any of them breaking 1,000 except for maybe Beelzebub.

>>385172543
Not really.
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Symphony_of_the_Night_Bestiary

>>385168886
>scaled up adult zelda game image perfectly to prevent mixels

Whatever anon did this put more effort in this than they should have

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>>385171992
Galamoth is a tough ass boss if you don't know the secret trick to beating him.

>>385172423
>Says 'Creaky' instead of 'Cranky'
It's the small things.

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>>385172943
Spamming that spell you can easily learn by accident?

>>385172850
Looks like I was wrong, several of them have more than 1,000 hp. But even then they felt way too weak especially compared to the bosses in later Metroidvanias.

>>385172943
The best way of fighting him is to fly behind him and just punch him in the face. It might not be the fastest way, but it's definitely the most hilarious way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmbdEgQ-aUg

>>385171884
Bottom line is, the gameplay of AoS is faster than DoS
Your sword in AoS swings twice as fast as it does in DoS, and your movement is a lot more floaty, which makes DoS feel clunky altogether

I don't even remember if you get the black panther soul in DoS either, but that made AoS go from fast to turbo speed

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>>385173156
>Fifth boss in AoS is harder than any boss in SotN

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>>385173354
>People still meme that Death is a hard boss fight

>>385173289
just use katanas, you slug-ass faggot
>>385171884
they're idiots with vague statements, the only that is actually worse in DoS than in AoS are the animu character portraits

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Best kinavania

>>385173743
>they're idiots with vague statements, the only that is actually worse in DoS than in AoS are the animu character portraits
I'd argue that the lower drop rates are pretty bad too but other than that and the portraits I think DoS is the better game over all.

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>Soma Cruz will be born this year

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>>385173623
harder than anything in SotN, at least

>>385173902
well, most drops are optional anyways, you just need 3 souls to unlock Aguni to proceed iirc

now, if you wanna talk about low drop rates...

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>>385173623
>he's not hard, I spent hours memorizing his patterns and finally beat him so he's not hard

>>385173623
He's not difficult but definitely a step up from the previous snorefests whose attacks require no more than one evasion to avoid

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>>385173904
How old is Yoko right now?

>>385173623
AoS Death isn't exactly a total ball-buster (unless you're doing a fresh hard mode run and then he absolutely is) but that fight is easily trickier than any SotN fight. That's how bad Symphony's bosses are and how overpowered Alucard is.

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>>385167936
Yeah, way too short.

>>385174250
Is Maxim the most powerful character in the Castleverse?

>>385174024
>well, most drops are optional anyways, you just need 3 souls to unlock Aguni to proceed iirc
That's a very good point but I have an autistic drive to 100% Castlevania games when I replay them. I guess it depends on the player.

>now, if you wanna talk about low drop rates...
I missed out on Harmony of Despair sadly, how bad was the grind?

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>picking up Claimh Solais

>>385174250
And I thought the CotM tas was insane.

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>>385174447
Name a better fucking weapon, highlight of every AoS play through is picking this bad boy up.

>>385171879
Also because it has the best bosses, best OST, and best castle. But yeah actually having a challenge is a big plus. The rest of the games are pathetically easy, including OoE.

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need a quick rundown on the creaking skull

>>385174404
*teleports behind you*
pshhinryu
nothinin

>>385174024
Keep hating on SotN; maybe you'll fit in.

>>385174753
I don't think he or anyone else here actually hates SotN. It just isn't a difficult game in the slightest, especially when comparing it to the Classicvanias and the Metroidvanias that came after it.

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>>385174484
That's not the TAS. The TAS is shorter.

>>385174896
SotN is no easier than Harmony or the Sorrow games.

>>385167936
worst fucking castle ever
also they tried too hard to be SotN instead of trying to be better than SotN

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>>385174753
>hating on SotN
but I don't hate it

>>385174946
but it is, specially thanks to
>shield rod shenanigans with alucard shield, medusa shield, and skull shield
>crissaegrim
>other OP weapon I forgot the name
but most of all
>Soulsteal

as well as having the shittiest boss patterns in the series

saying it's the worst of the series is one thing, do not mistake it for calling the game bad

>>385174447
>>385174592

My first playthrough was so funny since I was so hyped to get into the Forbidden Area, only to get the piece of shit Joyuse in the end. Felt like I had been had.

I didn't find the Claimh room until after I had already beaten the game. Pretty cheeky of them to actually hide the actual reward of that place like that.

>>385174896
SotN isn't as easy as people make it out to be. Like the other guy said, as long as you don't farm for or make it a point to use broken equipment, bosses still put up a good fight.

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>>385175138
>worst in the series

Now you're going full on retard.

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>>385174143
6 years old

>>385167936
Harmony would have been a lot better if there was a way to use magic without locking out sub weapons

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>>385175245
even HoD is a better game than SotN among the Metroid-like Castlevania games, unless you put presentation over gameplay, and no amount of laughing or smug anime girl reaction images will change that

>>385175138
Harmony is a far easier game. Aria and Dawn are equally easy.

>>385175508
Harmony is a mediocre game with weak bosses, terrible level design, and Zero difficulty. It's barely better than Mirror of Fate, let alone Symphony.

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>>385175527
>Aria and Dawn are equally easy.
Name a boss in SotN harder and more hype than this.

>>385168886

Truly meme kino

>>385175148
You can break it just by finding crap laying around like the combat knife, jewel fist, shield rod, or holy water. I'm barely scratching the surface here as this isn't even the best stuff. Sure you can choose not to use it but having to purposely limit yourself just to make a game difficult means that it's a cakewalk normally.

Part of it has to do with the openness of the game I think. Because you can go to so many areas in whatever order you wish the bosses and enemies had to stay relatively weak as opposed to scaling properly in difficulty like they would in a more linear game. That or they could've been making up for how weak Alucard was in 3 by making him overpowered here.

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>>385175527
>>385175617
>easier than recovering your entire health with Soulsteal while fucking destroying the boss with damage, as well as using elemental armor to become flat out immune to a ton of shit

SotN is the easiest game in the series, and the one game where I don't have to even try to dodge bosses' attacks in the series

>>385175694
>it dropped so I have to use it

wut

>>385175618
>equally easy
I can't name a harder one because there aren't any. Most are just as difficult though. It's a cool fight but not a challenging one.

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>>385169983
She also came back for dracula chronicles x to give us factually best richter

>>385175508
You really are fucking retarded. I forgot this was /v/ - contrarianism.

So is Kid Dracula actually part of the Castlevania timeline? I heard someone say that.

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Did she and Soma fuck?

What's the best way to play Rondo of Blood? PC emulation?

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>>385168224
>now

>>385175901
your mother

Are Castlevania II and III worth playing?

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>>385168453
>no Grand Cross with the castle collapsing in the background
0/10 webm

>>385174250
My nigga Charleon

I originally didn't care about this skeleton until lately. Goddammit, /v/.

>>385176068
>that image

stop it
you'll summon christfag

>>385175138
being easy doesn't make it bad, though
it still has good area design, memorable dialogue, fantastic music, and really smooth gameplay
being able to chain back dashes and angle weapon attacks downwards and whatnot feels really satisfying, i can't think of a castlevania game where you're more mobile and fluid than you are in SotN. while there seems to be a lot of oversight when it comes to difficulty, the mechanics of the game feel really polished in a way that the later games don't. SotN is far from my favorite but it's definitely more well designed and fun to play than HoD and OoE

>>385171004
It has way better movement than CotM and once you get a hang of your jump momentum its totally fine.

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Draw Soma Cruz.

>>385176159
Nah /pol/fags moved on just like we all knew they would.

>>385174592
What was a sword of incredible holy power doing inside a lord of darkness's castle?

>>385168106
>giant bat cock

>>385176185
>nuh-uh the post

>>385176239
You already did.

>>385176329
I'm not going to humor that poster and pretend Circle of the Double Tap to Run has better movement than HoD.

>>385175953
I believe you can emulate the Wiiware version with Dolphin. Either that or using Retroarch would be the easiest way of emulating it.

>>385175985
2 tries some new things that would later be refined in SotN and later games. Some things are good but a lot of it is iffy. It's worth checking out but you can also skip it entirely.

3 is one of the best games in the series. There are some notable differences between the JP version and the western one. The JP version has higher quality audio due to having 3 more sound channels to work with but whether you prefer the JP soundtrack to the US is a matter of opinion. The US version made several changes that make the game much harder than it already was such as making enemies in the later levels much stronger it also removes a checkpoint or two, a notable checkpoint that gets removed is the one right before the final boss. Play the JP version first and if you want to replay it with more challenge then definitely try out the US version too.

>>385176176
>t still has good area design,
this is how I know you're deluded, the game is full of long-ass corridors with 1~2 enemies that barely provide any challenge

>memorable dialogue,
for the wrong reasons, but I agree

>fantastic music,
presentation, but yes, it's great

>and really smooth gameplay
present in every other Metroidvania from AoS to OoE, CotM's stiffness and HoD's different movement (being way better to fight on the ground for once) are different design choices

in fact, maybe if Alucard's movement wasn't so perfect the game maybe wouldn't be this fucking easy

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>>385176176
>i can't think of a castlevania game where you're more mobile
*blocks your path*

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>>385176378
You aren't fitting in yet.
Keep trying, though

>>385176461
You get to use it for all of like 20 minutes.

I just picked up Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness and know literally nothing about them.
What am I in for?

>>385176617
>T-t-that doesn't count
Literal non argument.

>>385176682
One decent game and one mediocre one.

>>385176378
>the absolute state of Aria shitters

>>385176365
You ignored basically all of my points just to insist otherwise. Sorry you're so hung up on the running like some people seem to be. It's hard for me to take such people seriously.

>>385170654
>More importantly is there something more fun than Julius mode in AoS?

Yes. Axe Armor mode in Portrait of Ruin.

>>385176682
I haven't played them but I can tell you you're in for some really great music.

>>385176461
I absolutely LOVE the Black Panther soul in AoS and DoS. I just wish you could get them earlier without using glitches and skips but I understand why they're only available so late.

>>385176682
Okay games with amazing soundtracks.

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>>385176797
>/v/ still perpetuating the 'SotN is better than AoS' meme

>>385176838
>mfw I still haven't unlocked Old Axe Armor Mode.

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>Metroidvanias

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>>385176506
>>385176797
so, will you ever try to argue, or are you just going to keep dismissing everything? if so, why even reply? what's the point of going "NUH UUUH" ? and why would you even call me "Aria shitter" when I like PoR and OoE more than the Aria games?

>>385177108
Sorrow games*

>>385176975
Unlocking it is a massive pain unless you use cheats but it's so fun, novel, and fairly challenging that it's completely worth it.

>>385177001
I never understood the "SoTN is just a bunch of hallways" arguments. Literally every room in every castlevania is a hallway. Having the option to take different hallways doesn't make them any less of a hallway.

>>385176972
dump nep poster

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>SotN can't even read
worse/worst =/= bad, you mongrels

>>385177210
It's about the Flintstones-inspired level design. It's made for docile retards to just turn their brains off and walk through the same hallway over and over again with three of the same enemy copypasted at equal increments.

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>>385177398
No matter how many times you post, nothing will fix your shit taste.
>Preferring PoR and OoE over the Sorrow games

And that seals the deal for your shit taste

>>385177636
>you like thing I don't like
ur taste bad my taste good I win, unga bunga

>>385177856
Not him but I refuse to believe some prefer OoE to AoS or DoS.

>>385176068
I love AoS and I only now realize that's not his foot. I thought he was some chicken-like thing.

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>>385175962

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>>385178126
the only thing I prefer from AoS and DoS is the attack system, I'm not a big fan of the glyphs from OoE, otherwise I love OoE
>cool story ending
>awesome art
>my favorite soundtrack in a Castlevania game, rivaling Harmony of Despair and Super Castlevania IV (and I really like almost every soundtrack in the series)
>great background variety
>great pixel art
>good difficulty and curve

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>>385176682
Both are pretty solid, just watch out for some shitty level design. Curse of Darkness in particular has this really fucking cool demon raising system that livens up combat a lot.

Two of the most god tier soundtracks too, LoI is extremely atmospheric and CoD is rocking.

>>385178643
Dracula's Castle is so fucking hard. Blackmore was a hell of a fight but Eligor was just tedious.

>>385171879
No you just have shit taste.

>>385167801
>When bones eat your babysitter

>>385167936
Fuck outta here it's decent to good. Honestly can't say the same about CoTM.

They're both ass compared to Aria though.

>>385178325
It's just a normal skelly arm, with the wrist and hand disappearing into the background because it's bent to support himself.

>>385179506
wat game

>>385182234
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that's the opening scene from Metroid Fusion.

>>385182541
I don't understand this

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>>385171787

>>385182729
It was a different time

>>385172186
>Scan lines
STOP

>>385167801
Castlevania 2 : Simon's Quest

>dude you were Dracula all along!

What was your reaction to this twist?

>>385183412

it's a dot matrix

>>385169248
this image annoys me because of the shortened forearm. It's supposed to be normal length, just receding slightly into the background.

>>385184765
>hey soma's new portrait is cool
that's about it, who gives a shit about the plot in these games?

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>>385171992

>>385171787
And I just beat it. It's not a very good game, but I was able to enjoy it somewhat.

>>385171808
Rod shield is more cheese than even crissagrim cause you dont have to farm it. Equip them and hold a button and kill any enemy in a few seconds when they touch you.

>>385172935
he didnt convert to 16 bit color for the tree tho

>>385174617
Unfunny forced meme

>>385189565
all memes are forced now days. and memes before werent as natural as you think

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>>385189674

No we get quality memes from time to time and they're not forced by definition. A forced meme is when a person or a very small group insist on shoving something as a "meme" but they're the only ones who end up using it and nobody else ever adopts it or finds it fun or makes sense of it.

There is absolutely no reason for a standard enemy from a Castlevania game to cause people to get so fucking hysterical, I mean with shit like "No way fag" even if I didn't think it was very fun I could see the appeal because of the whole comic and original drawing, but these creaking skull faggots are literally just laughing their asses off because some dude photoshop the enemy into another stage.

next forced meme is going to be some shit like using caps lock i nthe middle of a paragraph

>>385189565
>>385190106
the entire definition of meme is that it's forced.
there's no such thing as a meme that isn't forced.

>>385169248
>Old games with high res texture packs

>>385190250
no dumbass, the definition of a meme is an idea or behavior that spreads from person to person "virally".

A "forced meme" is when a small group of people plaster their "Meme" idea into a bunch of places, but never get any 3rd party source to keep replicating the meme outside of the original place

>>385190106
grats on knowing what a forced meme is. every meme is forced though, give one example of a non forced meme. what youre confusing is quality of memes (which really went downhill once they started to be called memes and became cancerous once meme culture exploded).

>>385190431

Like I said "No way fag" was a forced meme. Some dude created the comic, another dude shared it on /v/ in a RE4 thread, people external to those 2 dudes started replicating the comic outside of that thread, then new people get on board and before you know you got like 300 no way fag edits and a completely viral presence that's not only present in RE threads.

Now look at this creaking skull shit, it's literally just in castlevania threads and I'm 100% sure it's the same group of 5 people making a fuckload of "edits" (which just consist on pasting the monster in another stage, like "DUDE LMAO LOOK AT THIS THE CREAKING SKULL WHO WAS AT THE CASTLE'S ENTRANCE IS NOW AT THE MOUNTAINS FROM OOE HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA" and I'm really being generous assuming it's 5 people because it honestly could be just one.

And now add to the fact that this group of people insist on everyone findign this meme funny

Case in point is that you will NEVER see creaking skull shit outside of castlevania threads or even /v/

How about "full of shit", is that a meme?

>>385182234
Castlevania: Fusion

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>>385190708
>Being this mad
Why can't we be friends?

>>385190708
>Case in point is that you will NEVER see creaking skull shit outside of castlevania threads or even /v/
So for a meme to not be forced it has to be "popular" like being used by normalfags?
Fuck off back to ledit newfag

>tfw no game set in 1999

>>385190708
As much as I hate this shit meme there's a bunch of castlevania threads these days and most of them aren't completely flooded with this shit, there's actually people talking about the games. I can ignore these faggots so whatever, just let them force their flavor of the month meme if they want.

Under 25 tree was much superior to this meme.

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>>385171992
>Get the accessory that turns lightning damage into healing
>Stand at a good distance so he keeps spamming the electricity attack
>Use any weapon with good reach for when he puts his foot forward
I am your god now

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>>385171992
hey man

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>>385175816
Her Richter is pretty good but nothing can top blue Ryu.

>>385190708
like i said, give me an example of a non forced meme

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>you will NEVER see creaking skull shit outside of castlevania threads or even /v/
Too late.

>>385191275
>get the one that turns fire into health
>final guard does his fire attack once
>heals you almost completely

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>>385191402

>>385167936
Pretty good
It's just the the weakest metroidvania

>>385191402
Who?

>>385167936
it's not best kino but it's worst of the ludos

>kino
Cringe

>>385174250
That has to be TAS what the fug

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Best CV is IV

>>385193542
Okay this meme is officially dead to me.

>>385193438
It's not even better than 1, 3, Bloodlines, or Rondo.

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>>385193438
I want someone to do Simon's theme in SMW instruments.

>>385168453
I wish they gave him the sub weapons earlier. That's when the fight got intense because ducking could get you holy watered, jumping could get you axed. Backing away could get you crossed. It made the fight hard but by the time he starts doing that, it feels like the fight just ends.

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>>385174592
Go home.

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>>385168440
>Dawn of Sorrow sprite
God they fucked up the art in every aspect of that game.

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Question, what does the "kino" part mean in these posts?

>>385194185
That's Aria Soma though.

>>385167801
Which game had the best collection of bosses?

>>385194252
Nothing, some retard spammed it everywhere for months. If you see someone say "X is kino" it never means anything.

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>>385194252
>>385194330
In my day we called shit like kino, what it was. A forced meme.

>>385194252
It started from that flick/movie/film/cinema/kino meme from /tv/ where kino is supposedly the highest and most artful form of the medium. It's pretty old stuff by now.

>>385194252
It's german for "Cinema" but on /v/ its shitpost for "game I like." Just filter them.

>>385167936
Nah. I used to believe that. Then I admitted the truth which is that circle of the moon IS the worst castlemania

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>>385195916

Thank you, I will.

Where's the version with a skeleton fighting a Big Soma with no legs?

>>385196634
Probably somewhere on 9gag at this point.