>we finally get a Castlevania series, and the story is just a mishmash of all the games put together
FUCKfucking Alucard and Trevor Belmont together, what is this shit.
>>385896407
Nigger did you even play Castlevania 3
>>385896407
It's Castlevania 3 without Grant
It's somewhat accurate, even has Sypha being frozen by the Cyclops
>>385896407
Was going full retard part of your plan?
>>385896407
(You)
>>385896407
Masterful bait, you'll get people
>>385896407
Did we get more episodes or no?
I enjoyed it but I couldn't get any of my friends into it which kinda sucks. They don't know how to suspend disbelief and enjoy animated shit unless it's vidya I guess.
>>385896407
im more disturbed by the "quality" of the in between frames art, they really seemed to skip on a lot of work into animation, i hope they at least do twice the frames "next season"
>Never played Castlevania 3
>Thinks Alucard first appeared in SOTN
>Probably never played any non-metroidvania castlevania game
>Isn't actually missing much because those early games aren't very good by comparison to SOTN and its kin, but will be made fun of mercilessly anyway for not knowing about the game lore
>Deserves it for having called attention to his own ignorance in a public way
>>385896407
2/10 got me to reply
>>385896407
I'd literally be happy with anything as long as they don't validate Lords of Shadow by borrowing ANYTHING from it.
Well almost anything, I still want them to reference Leon Belmont as the first Belmont and maybe have an origin story with him and Drac as buddies during the Crusades.
Also it needs some musical le motifs, castlevania music is too damn good to sideline like that. At least give me a melody.
>>385896945
I think the second season's been confirmed, but those 4 episodes are all we get for now.
>>385896407
>>385896945
No, season 2 will be double the length of 1 but is slated for 2018New Voltron season soon though
>>385897184
Leon isn't a Lords of Shadow thing though. LoI establishes that Matthias becomes Dracula. LoS has Gabriel becoming Drac.
>last castlevania I played was SOTN
>look up how many games theres been since then
>Castlevania Chronicles
>Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
>Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
>Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
>Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
>Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
>Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
>Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
>Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
>Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
>Castlevania Judgment
>Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth
>Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
>Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
>Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate
>Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
>>385897184
The music choice was pretty disappointing for the show, mostly just generic Hollywood shit when Castlevania music is fucking fantastic
>>385897339
My phrasing was wrong, I don't want ANYTHING referencing Lords of Shadow.
And the bare minimum I want them to get right about the original timeline is Leon and Matthias, or at least a reference because I always liked it as an origin story.
It's a believable tragedy and betrayal that's almost on par with Romeo and Juliet.
>Hey Leon, my girlfriend died but now your girlfriends dead too - we can hang out all the time now!"
>>385897345
they're all fun except for the last 3
The Adventure ReBirth is a surprisingly fun classic-style romp with catchy aptly dated-sounding music as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGNSK7fdwQg
It's like one of those X68000 games that only millionaires in the early 90's owned.
>>385896645
>without Grant
wait for Season 2
>>385898169
I don't play castlevania b ut whose the guy in front with the medieval armor?
>>385897606
Don't think they are going with the Mathias origin. Think are using the actual Vlad Tepsh as the identity of Dracula in the show.
Which is much better than the whole Leon's dead girlfriend becomes the whip.
>>385898251
Leon, the first Belmont. He was a crusader and Dracula's childhood friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2uW5Y6rj0
>>385898169
>Trevor and Simon in the backrow
Whoever made that picture is a chode.
CHARLOTTE
>>385897345
>Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
It hurts bros
Why can't they just bring it to PC
>>385898357
Neat, thanks.
>>385897606
The whole Dracula not really being Vlad Tepes was retarded and I'm glad they aren't going with that route in the show.
>>385898315
He's hundreds of years old at this point it's possible he went by other names when he was a mortal.
I want to see what was his impetus to risk everything to study the forbidden sciences. Also a shout out to his "Anti-Soul Mysteries Lab" would be funny.
>>385898357
>Leon, the first Belmont
Whoa there friend, think your forgetting someone.
>>385897345
Thanks for giving me the tracklist to the latest Dark Tranquility album
>>385896407
Imagine:
Rondo and SotN animated. After that skip to 2036 and animate AoS and then DoS.
Perfection
>that one time they got the Bleach guy to redesign all the castlvania characters
>>385898707
Wait, you're missing the oft-lauded Castlevania 64. We need that animated asap.
>>385898506
Yeah, a remastered version on modern platforms with new levels and characters would be awesome.
>tfw people would still farm with Soma
>>385898707
I want Simon's Quest after Trevor's era.
>>385898793
It's the Death Note guy you goonKubo unironically would've actually been better
>>385898707
I want to see Simon's crouching and facing a wall until a tornado takes him to the next town.
>there'll never be a "Castlevania HD Collection" that has literally every game updated and able to run on modern shit just fine
>has literally everything
>options to play the games in release order, or in chronological order with the timeline
>>385899282
>Castlevania as a franchise doesn't have a recognizable name attached to it
Wrong.
>>385899048
>Wanting Konami to remaster CV when they can't even remaster one of their flagship horror games
I wouldn't be surprised if they lost majority of the source code for all their games at this point.
>>385899281
>why can't Castlevania crawl?
>>385897345
And people compare this endless, shit-spewing pustule to Metroid. mfw
>>385899135
>>385898315
She isn't a whip, she was became a vampire and sacrificed herself willingly to imbue the whip with anti vampire powers as a final gift to Leon.
She isn't a whip! You're misrepresenting the plot. This isn't Skyward Sword an you're making my gorge rise.
>>385898573
Retcon man is a retcon and we will not refer to him by any other name.
>>385899281
>>385899505
Soma's Jeans are easily over $100 he's not going to dirty them by crawling.
>>385899878
How much are these boots?
>>385898841
>played it for hundreds of hours on both 360 and PS3
>never got a single Valmanway+1 or Muramasa+1
>>385899743
>"If my soul can save others, then I will not die in vain"
Sounds like Fi, all over again.
>>385900024
Did he just walk around like that normally in japan?
>>385900224
To be fair that's a retcon, Kojima Soma was canon before nu-Soma showed up.
>>385900191
Keyword here is die. She's very dead.
>>385900024
255k
>>385898205
pretty sure Grant not being included was confirmed before release, and with the last episode so far being a wide shot of the entire main cast with no Grant, it seems pretty obvious they're leaving him out
>>385900361
>Soma Cruz
>Cruz
There's some joke here about Argentineans seeing themselves as being this white...
>>385900361
I'd fuck Soma no homo
>>385896407
On the other hand it's a better berserk anime than the berserk anime
>>385896945
Yes and its double the length.
Before it was a series, the lead writer wanted it to be a movie and to do Castlevania 3, then go through the timeline in chronological order. So maybe they'll do that. Hard to say though since people might get attached to the current cast.
>>385900521
They could easily write him in as a master thief instead of a pirate.
Trevor and the gang could bump into him on the way to Dracula's castle.
>>385896407
>>385897345
I would seriously play even the lords of shadow games again just to play another castlevania game, it literally feels like something missing when you don't have one to play and you've played some of them at least.
/ Sotn, Lament, Curse, and the lords of shadow games are the ones I played
All those fuckin games and not ONE of them is on ps4's psn. -though he hasn't signed up for psnow so he doesn't know if any of them are in there-
>>385900546
>I'd fuck a man if he was somewhat feminine looking
but that's literally gay
I think you guys are looking too broadly and how much of the series they're going to reference. At best we might get some nod at some prophesy of Simon as one of Trevor's descendants, but otherwise it's gonna be strictly CV3 with some SotN throwbacks for Alucard's stuff
>>385896645Isn't it impossible to get all 3 members in one run?
>>385900727
Soma's not feminine looking though.
>>385900521
For what fucking purpose
>>385900760
CV3 has four characters altogether and you can only have one partner at a time. You always have Trevor, and whatever partner you recruit replaces whatever one you might have had previously.
>>385900848
He's very Michael Jackson looking.
If you saw him in person you'd probably feel ill, he's a bizarre yellow eyed albino.
>>385900721
You should grab some roms of the older Vania games.
>>385900867
There's a litany of reasons why a character like Grant wouldn't be included but after actually seeing the show I'm gonna say budget constraints. Also the show seems to be establishing a lot of unique characterization for the main cast and they might have figured there's not a whole lot they can do with someone like Grant.
>>385900931
that's Ayami Kojima's art for you
bitch draws art for Japanese romance novels when she's not working on CV, welcome to what Japanese women find attractive
>>385900931
>He's very Michael Jackson looking.
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Is it possible to play this on an emulator or is it one of those games where the touch screen is explicitly required?
>>385900539
Weon qliado xd
>>385901156
You can use a mouse just fine, but it'll be annoying.
>>385901156
Haven't emulated it, but touch screen only comes into use to "seal away" bosses. should be perfectly playable outside that and is probably manageable with a mouse
>>385901001
You're telling me there's nothing, absolutely nothing they can do with a smartass rogue prince that got turned into a monster slave and then turned back to normal to join a quest to kill a vampire lord?
Top. Fucking. Kek.
>>385901253
>>385901375
Alright I'll give it a try, how does this stack up against AoS? I absolutely loved that game, played through it four times ever since all those Creaking Skull posts popped up.
>>385901156
Possible with a mouse and savestates. The seal drawing is really annoying with a mouse.
>>385897184
>I'd literally be happy with anything as long as they don't validate Lords of Shadow by borrowing ANYTHING from it.
They're already using the Belmont family crest from Lords of Shadow instead of the one from the original timeline.
>>385901451
Story and artstyle are laughable, the new antagonists fucking suck but since most of the time they fuck off to let you explore a giant castle, it's pretty good.
Have you checked out the randomizers? There's one for AoS and an all-in-one for the DS games, but I can't get OoE to work with it.
>>385898573
That's an alternate universe.
>>385901687
No I haven't, how do those work anyway? I might just be having a hard time visualizing it but I don't understand how it's possible to beat the game starting with any random upgrade.
Hey, /v/? My Castlemania is looking kinda weird today. What do I do? Should I take it to the doctor?
>Harmony of Dissonence grades you on how well you can jump whip while collecting boss orbs
that is really cool
>>385901987
>Harmony of Dissonance is an absolute mess in every aspect
That's not cool at all.
>>385901783
>any random upgrade
They're designed so that you get at least one necessary movement ability in the first area. Might be Flying Armor like usual, or it might be Black Panther. In AoS's case in particular, though, it's actually pretty darn easy to beat the game randomized, since all you really need is Skula and Giant Bat or Hippogryph, and a lot of the game is flat out skippable even in normal runs. DoS has a bigger map with more progress ability checks, but from my experience with the randomizer, it manages to place things so that it's always beatable, assuming you don't use any experimental options.
>>385900521
>>385901001
Ellis already said Grant was going to be in the movies after the first one back when this was going to be a film trilogy. He'll be in the next season.
>>385902153
Damn I didn't know you could do that, so technically Dance Hall and Inner Quarters are entirely optional?
>>385901783
The DS randomizer is a bit buggier in my experience, but it's way more robust. It can randomize enemy spawns, stats, souls, item drops, weapons, and even where a room's entrances take you. The randomized weapons and enemy placements are the most fun for me, it feels like a whole new game.
>>385902153
How exactly was this done? Just really good jump timing, or is the wall involved somehow?
>>385902059
How'd they go from this to >>385901079
>>385902256
Yeah, Dance Hall, Inner Quarters, and Underground Cemetery are all optional.
>>385902403
Good timing for maximum height, and moving onto the side of the platform. Platforms have rounded corners, so you can actually clip onto them from a bit lower if you move in from the side. Nothing to do with the wall.
>>385898927Aside from Simon I actually liked most of his designs...It was pretty decent for a SC clone anyway
>>385899048
>All those amazing Dracula designs
>Then this trash comes along...
The fixed it with OoE but good god who greenlit this turd?
>>385896945
>Did we get more episodes or no?
Why would you want to? It was objectively pure shit. Everything Warren Ellis touches turns to pure shit. /v/ has absolute shit awful taste in anime/cartoons so I'm not surprised at all.
>>385902641
*blocks your path*
Nothing personnel Dracula.Did Konami have Kojima killed by the Yakuza?
>>385902059
It's may not be the best game, but it's enjoyable.
Also you have to admit that's pretty cool.
>>385902641
I thought he was ugly as sin in OoE too.
>>385902834
You know what's not cool?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhQgp4rkVs
>>385902919
Goddamn I hate this song.
>>385896963
Hey I'll take anything other than the 2016-2017 Berserk.
That shit still has me depressed
>>385902919
>>385902964
Most of the music isn't that great.
For some reason, I actually like Successor of Fate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHAgObH6JE
>>385902748
What really fucking gets me about PoR's shitty anime direction is that there was this whole campaign BEFORE release for other artists to put up their own work, and a ton of it is miles better than the direction they took.
>>385902834
You know what's crazy? The difference in audio quality between the credits and the rest of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tuci49S4AQ
>>385896963
I thought it was clear they were working within really limited means, and still managed to do a pretty good job. I'm excited for thefar offnext season now that it's already drummed up a lot of attention and is likely to get more dosh behind it.
>>385903157
Successor of Fate is the only really good song from HoD. At least they gave the main character a decent theme song. I like how all of the Belmonts seem to have their own theme songs. Are there any Belmonts that don't have one?
>>385903263
They probably used up all their space with the credits and that's why everything else is junk
>>385901156
>>385901253
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3408/
Gotcha bbs
>>385903370
>Successor of Fate is the only really good song from HoD.
Personally I thought Offense and Defense was better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3y7S6YmUFg
>>385903370
The real question is who has the best one and why is Julius?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxFWgilSyAE
>>385898448
JONATHAN
>>385903460
>The soundtrack and game itself are both awesome. It has one of the most unique atmospheres of the entire series; like some eerie, psychedelic experience.
Sometimes I forget YouTube can be more contrarian than /v/.
>>385903471
Julius doesn't have his own theme at all, they just recycled an old theme.
>>385903370
I think only Simon, Juste, and Richter have themes.
>>385898573
1. not a belmont, just an orphan who was named after the belmont mountains
2. hes fucking dracula lol
>>385903471
>that entire section from 0:54 to 1:24
>best
>>385903640
Then why does Heart of Fire replace Ruined Castle Corridor in Julius mode?
>>385903698
Beats me.
>>385903640
Leon also has a theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyjmWC6Ebdk
>>385903698
That's a good question. A better question is why does Ruined Castle Corridor replace the Clock Tower theme in Julius mode.
>>385903767
Could it be because it's Julius' theme? It also plays during the boss fight against him.
>>385903820
Right. They composed Julius' theme a decade before they invented Julius.
>>385903774
>Tfw this theme plays in the last part of the castle
Castlevania games almost always have great music
>>385903879
>Google 'Julius' theme Castlevania'
>Heart of Fire comes up
>>385896407
>>385904015
Look, the fact of the matter is it existed long before Julius did.
>>385904071
I understand but I don't see how it can't retroactively become his theme. It's his boss music and replaced Ruined Castle Corridor when you play as him, I think it's fair to call it his theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayaWIKM9iRE
>>385903879
that sounds way more reasonable than you probably think.
>make some character
>eh I'm going to put him aside for now but I'm going to keep him in mind whenever I write for continuity
>"hey do you still want that julius theme?"
>"yeah sure just put it in as some random shit"
>>385900914
He means you can either find sypha or alucard, not both
>>385903774
It's fucking godlike too, just like all of LoI's soundtrack despite being a pretty mediocre game.
>>385903584
A lot of people love HoD's soundtrack, probably because it isn't half bad. The sound quality is shit allegedly to give the cartridge more memory for closer-to-SotN graphics, but that doesn't stop the composition from being pretty good.
>in the anime Trevor Belmont is basically Dante
>>385904223
That's wrong, though? You can recruit Sypha far earlier than Alucard and then replace the former for the latter when you get to him. You can skip Grant entirely by not doing the clock tower at all.
>>385897345
WOWO IT'S ALMOST LIKE 20 YEARS PASSED OR SOMETHING
>>385904239
The arrangement is half a song, the Chocobo theme from Final Fantasy is a pretty good composition but this arrangement of it is genuinely awful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGIN2jkZVjE
>>385903640
More like they remixed three themes together.
At least, I think it's three.
Heart of Fire, Don't Wait 'Til Night, and I swear one more, unless they just made a new section to bridge the two songs.
>>385901156
Only required for sealing bosses and making familiar-type souls more useful
>>385896407
Alucar and Trevor were in both AoS and DoS and you could play as them.
>>385904325
Get out of here with this false equivalency shit. You just don't like chiptunes from a later era than they originated. HoD has a great soundtrack.
>>385904391
You could play as Alucard in AoS?
>>385897184
From Conan the Barbarian to weebshit.
The natural evolution.
>>385904248
I also thought he was pretty cray
Kinda like DMC1
>>385904391
I'm actually proud it took this late into the thread for someone to fall face first into the bait
>>385904223
I'm rereading this and realizing you failed to comprehend that my reply was an elaboration on his point and not a rebuttal. Please read more.
>>385904520
You can with a hack.
>>385904391
Alucard was in both but only playable in DoS. Trevor wasn't in either.
>>385904520
Yes
>>385904296
Uh, no.You have to choose either the forest (leads to Sypha) or the marsh (leads to Alucard)
Getting Sypha is followed by the ghost ship, which leads to the castle tower, completely skipping Alucard's cave
>>385904190
>killed skully and headhunter even though you don't have to
Why? Just for the slightly better stats?
>>385904557
No, I'm perfectly aware of the intention of your post and it was incorrect. He was asking about the availability of the partners, not getting more than one, which you talked about.
>>385904591
Well damn I sure am glad you hit Google just to prove me wrong. Being that I only played the game to completion, it slipped my mind that Grant is the one you replace by getting Alucard.
>>385904637
Probably, doesn't Julius only get power from killing bosses?
Aside from the lack of Grant, the few bits of overblown stereotypical Warren Ellis dialog, and the super anti-church stance, the show is about as good as we could have hoped for, accuracy wise. Not an exact adaptation of Castlevania 3, but enough pieces are there that I could geek out about.
As a long time Castlevania fan, I was reasonably pleased with it.
>>385904718
What are you even trying to imply here? That it's bad that I'm right? This is some weird damage control.
>>385904562
Trevor, Julius, it's all the same shit. Just the guy with the whip that plays like shit.
>>385904721
Yup.
Funny enough but when the game first came out, I didn't even know this and wondered why the fuck it took me so long to beat Graham and why he hit like a fucking truck. Then I got the internet.
>>385904721
Yeah, every time he gets the orb after every boss fight.
>>385904785
>Just the guy with the whip that plays like shit.
I'll concede that Julius plays a bit like shit in Dawn but in Aria he's crazy mobile.
>>385904768
This simplification of points that are clearly made in plain text may as well be autism, though I'm no doctor.
>>385904723
I wasn't too fond of Trevor being so detached and cold for a man who was BRED to fight the undead in the name of holy justice, but the universe seems to play it off pretty well. I like it.
So if I never really played a Castlevania game and want to go trough the series I should just play them all in order right?
Any ones that should be avoided?
>draculas got electricity and lightbulbs and shit while everyone else is burning oil on sticks
>>385905121
Simon's Quest and HoD are skippable.
>>385904248
Dante would have had more fun
Alucard in his younger years. This is canon, by the way.
>>385905137
I read that in his voice
>>385905137
There are electric demons and (unseen) mad scientists, it's not too weird.
>>385899281
>>385901079
>>385901987
>>385902059
>>385902153
>>385903471
>disgusting non color-corrected emulation
Fucking neanderthals.
>>385905467
I'll take true colors over emulated backlight-less look any day.
>>385905538
Not for HoD you wouldn't.
>>385905623
Wanna bet?
>>385905137
Is he still dancing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8V9FDDtniU
>>385905623
>not using a couple of hacks to fix things
an anon posted them in another thread
heck, I think >>385901987 is using them
>>385905204
That's not canon.
THIS is canon.
>>385905839
Wait, that's canon?
>>385905830
dunno, looks painfully oversaturated to me
what are these hacks?
>>385905963
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2689/
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2671/
Thoughts on Yoko?
Do all of the changes to SoTN on the Saturn version make it worth playing?
>>385906169
Shittiest character in Harmony of Despair
>>385902919
Apologize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9H_JJqjFWg
>>385906226
Saturn version is actually considered the worst
>>385906515
Being the best SotN version right now its like being the best character in the Barney the Dinosaur Show.
We need an actual remake for this game
>>385906169
never understood why she's supposed to be of Japanese descent but looks as aryan as my high school english teacher
Anyone knows how to use COTM perma run cheat on the latest version of vba?
Game's a bitch to play without that and every single code I put in doesn't works.
>>385896407
>James was right that SOTN brought in all the secondaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no6x0KCOAU4
>>385906623
"JUST PLAY BLOODSTAINED, FAGGOT."
>>385906925
Fuck off back to whatever shithole you crawled out of, you pussy.
>>385907296
Discussion about cotm on these threads always include the auto run thing among one of the worst things in the game and how people go around it, way to out yourself as a newfag
>>385896645
Gambit:
You can have Grant, but he's a Shinigami
>>385900361
The coat is still ridiculous but the turtle neck and blue jeans I can buy
>>385896407
>I'm this new, please rape my face
>>385906226
Play the Dracula X version (which itself is a remake of Rondo of Blood, with ported versions of the original Rondo and SoTN)
SoTN specifically lets you play as a more 'canon' Maria, who uses her animal spirit subweapons like in Rondo. However it's missing the rest of the Saturn content I believe, and it's also redubbed if you give a shit about that.
I tried to watch the first episode and got bored and just turned it off. I thought Castlevania was about a bad dude named Belmont whose family line kept staking Dracula across the ages, not >dracula a gud boi he invented lightbulbs and steampunk n sheeit >the catholic church is the real evil they burned his wife for being a witch because she had electricity in 1500.
>>385907843
tbqh I fucking loved this disco shit especially for it taking place in thenow not too distantfuture, 10/10 character design
>>385907958
fuck all these fags who keep telling people this. the infamous English dub is a huge part of SotN. PS1 original or bust.
>>385908231
enjoy your meme dub while I enjoy my actually fun to play maria
>>385907189
>playing as girls
No thanks Ive learned about menstruation in my 6th grade sexual classes
>>385896407
>watch preview thing
>see some character throw a shit ton of knives
>"awww shit it's grant"
>turns out it was just Trevor
Still mad.
>>385908341
maria contributes 0 to the game and the new dub is terrible in a way that's not even entertaining
>>385908341
I fucking loved playing as Maria in HoD.
>>385907958
>>385908186
I never understood the hate for the new dub. Everyone should've already played this game to death, the new dub is just alternate take on that you can enjoy once in awhile. Iga knew this.