It's almost Halloween and no Castlevania thread? Lets f

I'm tired of Castlevania. The fanbase jerking Rondo and Symphony and, even worse, the thousands of indie pixel crap Castlevania clones made me tired of the franchise.
Most are just shameless ripoffs, and Metroidvanias became a plague.

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>>3592483
Are you tired of Metroid as well? While I do agree with you that there are too many poor quality indie metroidvanias I still enjoy the genre as a whole.
Also if it makes you feel any better (it probably wont) SOTN and Rondo are not my favorite.

>>3592479
Isn't that image a part of a comic? I've seen the image many times but not the comic, do you have it?

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>>3592530
1/3

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>>3592530
2/3

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>>3592530
3/3

>>3592479
>Aria of Sorrow
My nigga, first Castlevania I ever played
https://youtu.be/23yow3-TyUo

>>3592540
>Not the jeweler
The jeweler actually tries to flirt with Shanoa before she tells her "Fuck off" in the most polite way possible.

>>3592536
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>>3592540
>Those knuckles
Okay, it's really good for being tumblr art but come on, knuckles like that must be reserved for those huge realistic dolls.

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>>3592568
Same here ans it's still one of my favorites.

>>3592479
I've always wondered, what is Soma's ethnicity?

His official bio states that he is studying in Japan which implies he's foreign, but his name is written entirely in kanji. His white hair may indicate albinism making it even more ambiguous. Soma as a name is Hungarian, but Cruz would be found in places that speak Spanish or Portuguese.

I say he's Hungarian or Romanian, likely Romanian to continue the parallels with Dracula.

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>>3592672
Hungarian as an ethnic group seems to fit his physique fairly well, its also possible that he had a Hungarian father and a Portuguese mother or vice versa making him mixed. That would at least somewhat explain the name.

>>3592527

Reminder to take your pills

>>3592707

nice samefag.

That looks more like Rondo, where you can also control your jump mid-air, and has an actual ship level.

Come to think of it though, there were never any crocs in CV that I can remember.

>>3592717

>Zelda

?

Come on australia-kun, take the damn pills.

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>australia-kun has been on a crusade against Castlevania IV for almost 2 years now

>>3592672
>>3592685
Japanese game protagonists must have at least some Japanese genes. This is an unspoken law of the industry. There's no way Soma is not at least 1/16th Japanese.

>>3592479
> Posting non-retro Castlevania as OP
You blew it

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Just what I was hoping for.

Looking to buy the Double Pack for GBA but a little weary. Seller sent through some photos, can anyone tell if this might be fake or not?

>>3592773
its real

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>>3592768
>>3592775
The point I am trying to make is that I thought aria of sorrow was old enough to be acceptable, if i chose a picture without that consideration it would be order of ecclesia since that is my favorite of the bunch.

>>3592781
No one wanted to know what you thought. The rules apply to everyone equally. The last Castlevania allowed for discussion here is the one for N64. For everything else go elsewhere. Period.

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This thread needs more charlotte

>>3592797
Charlotte is completely useless except for the Speed Up spell.

>>3592802
Not bad, huh?

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>>3592806

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Came to /vr/ to start this thread, time to post best Mode 7.

>>3593059
While that's pretty good, the BEST mode 7 is found within the Super Star Wars trilogy.

>>3592797
Jonathan!

>>3593238
CHARLOTTE!

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>>3593249
JONATHAN!

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>tfw I can 1cc castlevania 1
>tfw I finished Castlevania 3 and probably can 1cc it in the next couple of weeks

So this is the feeling of being decent and video-games?

>>3593386

>decent at*

The effects of barely sleeping.

>>3592672
Soma is Japanese. His actual name is Souma Kurusu, and he was Japanese in the original version of the game. When the game was localized, they decided to make him a foreign exchange student for no real reason, and changed his name to Soma Cruz.

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>>3592809
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>>3593385
>tas stopped using "charlotto jona-san" method of transportation for less entertaining method that is faster

>>3592483
I saw on wiki where someone labelled Abe's Odyssey as "Metroidvania". It's like people throw around that term all the time, and even worse, consider SMetroid and SoTN as great games.

>>3593386
No, it's the feeling of being good at a single game. A platformer that requires enemy memorization, at that.

>>3593584
Flashback is now a Metroidvania

Shanoa > young Maria >>>>>> Shit > Sypha > Yoko > older Maria >>>> shittiest shit > Charlotte > the rest

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>>3593624
>Shit-talking Old Axe Armor

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Is this the best way to play the X68000 game? Other than buying an obscure japanese computer for 1 game, I mean.

I have so many options
>original mode
>arrange mode with changes for the playstation port
and then sound
>X68000 FM Synthesizer
>MIDI Roland LA
>MIDI Roland GS

Knowing /vr/ I would assume you guys prefer original mode with a code-set system date and the FM audio. The default arrange mode audio is decent as heck so far.

Favorite Castlevania song?

Definitely An Empty Tone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKD1KvUKNSo&list=PL2DCDC5CD908248C6&index=31

Second would definitely be RoB's version of Vampire Killer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBxBVIqr75Y

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>>3593662
>arrange music is decent

>>3593674
cool anime! I'm playing as a purple haired short shorts wearin belmont with midi sound and there's nothing you can do about it.

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the only true 4th gen kino

So is /vr/ still turbo autistic about Castlevania in general?

>>3593682
Just one guy who samefags his own thread to start fights

This was a bad idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bc2WmNdLhM

>>3593662
The best way to play X68000 Castlevania is to throw it in the trash where it belongs.

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>>3593386
>tfw I try to reach 999999 points in CV1 but once it maxes, it resets back to 0
FUG

>>3592483
>i let other people's opinions influence how much fun i have with games
Brilliant

I recently bought CV II to give it another try, since I haven't played it since I was 6. So far it seems... still not that good. What should I know that the manual doesn't tell you? I don't want to know everything, just the essentials (such as how to use the fucking holy water).

>>3592483
Sounds like a personal problem.

I for one like most incarnations of Castlevania. Even Lords of Shadow.

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>>3592797
Charlotte is shit, portrait of ruin would have been better with two Jonathans

>>3593624
This nigga gets it.

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Curse of Darkness was okay, the best I can say about it was voice acting, great music and a somewhat addicting monster class system.

Castlevania is easily in my top 5 franchises. To this day I still listen to the music weekly, every week I become obsessed with different song this week is Cross A Fear

https://youtu.be/uVSF5h92558

>>3594013
The game would be improved if the Wolf's Foot relic from the previous game was brought back.

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>>3594097
I think most castlevania games that don't have a sprint ability would benefit from it, also aria of sorrows black panther soul and other like abilities could have been remapped to a double tap an the dpad.

>>3593868
1. The holy water is used by pressing up and the attack button(too lazy to even go to GameFAQs for that info). HOW it's supposed to be used is to check for destructible walls/floors or fake floors. The annoying part is that you can spend a good deal of time in mansions throwing a glass at each-fucking-stone.
2. If you come to a lake/cliff, select your current crystal(color does not matter), and kneel. If nothing happens after a minute or two, it's a real dead-end, and you should try another path.
3. Don't waste time trying to get everything. The whip upgrades particularly will be obsolete within two towns or so(aside from the last two).

Those are the biggies, at least.

>>3594149
Juste's dash was an awesome thing to have. So was the fact that his slide was fast and did damage.

How many times can I play Symphony of the Night in a week before it becomes too many?

>>3594560
once, the game is trash

>>3593835

How many hours it takes to do it? That should be funny.

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>CV3 falling blocks stage
>stair sections
Who the hell thought that was a good idea?

Legacy of Darkness is underrated.

What ethnicity is Sypha Belnades?

Is she hispanic?

>>3595673
>hispanic
>a race

Fuck off libcuck.

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>>3594272
Justie's dash was god tier, to bad the it required both L and R buttons on a system that was already lacking in the buttons department, I would have loved Justie's dash system on one of the ds games.

>>3595664
It's not underrated it's unanimously hated. I hated it then and I still hate it. I won't deny that there is SOME measure of charm in it, but not enough that I would prefer it over anything other than Haunted Castle.

>>3595818
Not really, the X and Y buttons in the DS games were pretty much the buttons tied directly to that game's gimmick. HOD didn't really have a gimmick so it wouldn't have benefited from extra buttons anyway.

Though I can say this if you consider Juste's magic a "gimmick"; pressing up+L/R rotates through spellbooks, and down+L+R toggles the equipped spellbook on or off.

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>>3596083
Soma's critical attack could have been a double tap on the dpad + attack then A could have been used for the guardian souls.

Shanoa's glyph sleeve could have been remapped to up+L+R then A could have been used for the back glyph.

not to mention that the ds had a fucking touch screen that could have been used for more then playing connect the dots or the boss won't die, the glyph sleeve and doppelganger soul would have been fine as on screen buttons.

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>>3592802
She can break at least two bosses in half and annihilate another bunch.
She also has far more luck gear, and stage 2 luck-up
Changing spells constantly sucks, though, wish she had a OoE style switch.
Also the best double jump animation on the series.

>>3595673
Her surname is a romanization of Fernandez, a common Spanish surname.
They pulled the same with Eric Lecarde.

>>3596157

>Fernandez

I thought it was "Bernardes", although in the japanese version is something like "Velmundes", that actually sound a very broken way of saying "Fernandez".

Is maybe ""Sypha" a way of spelling "Silvia"?

>>3592730
There'll be shitposting either way, it barely matters.

>>3593584
>and even worse, consider SMetroid and SoTN as great games
Aren't they?

>>3596809
They are, except to contrarians.

>>3596825
Oh right, I forgot, people do that here.

>>3596827

do you think someone would do that?
go on the internet and say something is bad?
just to get replies?

>>3596835
Nah, I'll stay out of spite.

>sage as a downvote

>>3596834
Autism is one hell of a drug.

>>3593059
You know despite the impressive visual effects, this corridor is actually pretty boring.

What about Castlevania Adventure?
Never really got into it and I have no plans to do so in recent future. Maybe I should change my mind?

>>3597230

I like it and I think it gets too much flak and I still don't get why.
Anyway if you don't like it, move onto Belmont's Revenge. It's actually pretty good and a step up from the first game in every way.

>>3597230
There's a remake of Castlevania Adventure for the Wii called Castlevania Adventure Rebirth.
I don't know the differences because I haven't played both, but why not try it if you can emulate Wii / have a softmodded Wii.

>>3596279
>Is maybe ""Sypha" a way of spelling "Silvia"?

Sypha's name is サイファ (Saifa) in katakana. Silvia would be シルビア (Shirubia) or シルヴィア (Shiruvia), depending on how they wanted to render it in Japanese.

She's officially known as Sypha Belnades in Japan and the US, as far as I know. That raises a more important question, though: How in the world do you get Belnades from ヴェルナンデス (Verunandesu)? Vernandes would be a direct way of handling it, and you could BS it into Fernandes or Fernandez, which is what they did for Carrie's last name in Castlevania 64. The fact that Belnades completely drops a hard N sound from the katakana (Veruna*n*desu) is really strange, and has always bugged me.

Even Japan sticks to Belnades as the official English spelling, though.

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>>3594692
It takes less than 1 hour if you are experienced with the game.
Last time I did that was back in 2013, not really hard. The real dick move was the fact that the bats respawns infinitely after you beat for the first time.

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You fuckers all need to play lecarde chronicles

http://the-mig-page.wifeo.com/castlevania-the-lecarde-chronicles-2013.php

>>3597420
Well, "n" sounds becoming "l" sounds is not unheard of. Just look at Cantonese. I know it may be a stretch thinking like that, but it isn't impossible.

>>3592536
What were you supposed to do in that room anyway?

There was something resmbling a dpad there but I never managed to get it to do anything

>>3597865

I tried to play it but it crashed on my pc for some reason. It was very fun.

>>3597420

>Verunandesu

They dropped the ball so hard it's unbeliavable, to be quite honest.

Am I mistaken or X68k damage scales with level?

>>3597947
It's just an easter egg, and is good for farming souls

>>3598161
To be fair the entire series itself swapped hands so many times until we got to the... period of Iga's metroidvanias following CotM.

As far as I know we still don't even know the name of the original creator of #1 itself.

>>3598219

I shouldn't be surprised after they changed the name of Ralph to Trevor, but still.

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Anyone else feel that the inverted castle in symphony of the night was lazily put together? There were some interesting traps, but there was no reason that those couldn't be new areas altogether, it almost seems like the team that was working on the level art just got up and left at that point.

>>3599681
Actually the very fact that it works without having to rely TOO MUCH on flying is amazing.
There is some smart design in there, like some platforms which may come off as a little weird in the main castle but become crucial in the reverse one.

>>3599681
Yeah inverted castle is the stupidest shit. Could have made a new few areas. At the very least give different music per area. Listening to the same theme the entire way through is not good.

>>3599681
I feel Harmony Of Dissonance did a better job with two castles, even though it felt like it kind of copied a lot of what Symphony Of The Night was, beat for beat.

>>3599681
Nah, I had a blast with twice the amount of castle.

>>3600128
Not surprising considering IGA was the producer.

>>3600326
Is that why the rest of the game was rubbish.

Credit where it's do the adventure rebirth was a fun return to form with difficulty settings that actually are worth a damn.

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CotM > PoR > OoE > SotN > HoD > AoS > DoS

>>3600379
Here's another one.
Castlevania > Shitcastlevaniafans

>>3600387
Butthurt Sorrowfag detected.

>>3600379
I honestly don't rank them. I just pick whatever game I'm in the mood for.

>>3600334
IGA had nothing to do with ReBirth other than funding it. A bunch of literally who's at M2 worked on the ReBirth games.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/wii/973241-castlevania-the-adventure-rebirth/credit

>>3600379
I respectfully disagree with your opinion and have downvoted your entire post history on Reddit.

OoE > COTM > POR > AOS > DOS > SOTN > HOD

>>3600405
>putting hod as worst
>putting the most linear one as best

pleb as fuck tbqh pham

>>3600391
I dislike metroidvanias in general jackass, nice try. But see, the difference between you and I is that I don't invalidate somebodies tastes inside a franchise I like.

>>3600404
Go figure. The more you know. Wish those literal who's would come back for adventure rebirth 2, but they're probably long disbanded.

>>3593884
>LoS
I tried to like it so bad.Got it last week knowing it was a God of War clone, but fuck me, atleast God of War games are well paced. This game has so much padding in every sense. Animations are way too lengthy (the hitstop on parries is fucking insane), no attack canceling, cinematic camera pans and animated take-downs are too frequent. It is a really nice looking game, but it's a chore. The music is also extremely unmemorable.

>>3600410
Name as many sequence breaks in CV as you can.

Hard mode: No bug exploits.or out-of-bounds.

>>3600462
Not him, but he's probably referring to the way many OoE stages before the castle are laid out. They often straight, linear hallways with little to no verticality.

>>3600470
Barely any nonlinearity to the previous ones either.

>>3600471
Share an example of another CV game with as many straight paths as OoE

>>3600445
I can understand if people didn't like it. I personally had a good time with it, but I also like the God of War games.

>>3600473
I said "barely", OOE is the most linear but to try and act like you had a massive sprawling completely open castle that had everything open from the get-go is revisionism

>>3600387
>muh classicvania ;__;

>>3592730
that image is older than you are, child
show some respect

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>>3599950
Exactly, by the time you get to the inverted castle you have already explored most of the normal castle so there is nothing new to really discover at least in terms of new areas.

>>3599763
Now that I think about it, you have a point. So it was probably not made the last minute because the level design team fucked off, but if they wanted something disorienting they should have borrowed some inspiration from super castlevania 4, see
>>3593059

Also Final Toccata, Final Toccata everywhere.

>>3601240
>Final Toccata, Final Toccata everywhere.

As much as I love SOTN I have to agree with you on that one.