Castlevania Rondo of Blood turns 33 years old today. Can we get a Castlevania thread to celebrate?
Belmont's Curse is fun so far. Music is the only thing that feels like a step back
Belmont's Curse was awful. I don't understand how people are enjoying it, so many rocks for brains out there.
>>750663025where are all the real castlevania fans that i met during BC threads?
>>750663025I don't acknowledge the existence of Belmont's Curse, I've been playing Bloodstained and replaying through some of the classics again, been doing Adventure Rebirth recently, trying to get a hard 1cc run, very fun game.
>>750663025Fuck everyone else in this thread. Rondo is still the best Castlevania and I played it again last weekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZKsdWfUu_Y
>>750663025I loved BC and now I'm playing Chronicles and I'm loving it too but I'm getting filtered by this clock tower level, I can't hit the werewolf bitch at allhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Q8adTaR6QThis song is cool too
they need to make a full on open world remake of Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse. towns, smaller Alucard castle, huge Dracula castle, horses.
>>750663025>gameplay>visuals>soundtrackis rondo just goated?
>>750663025Castlevania more like Castlekino
>>750667567That werewolf boss is notorious for being hard to hit. Honestly it's one of those bosses where i can't tell what's going on but i just press buttons and she sometimes kills me and i sometimes kill her
>>750668863I finally did it thanks to the double cross and just jumping around like a fleaman. Boss is annoying and the runback too fuck those falling gears
>>750669336Epic
>>750669336>nearest neighbour
>>750668863Taking the axe helps, you can't actually hit her with a cross in the original X68K version, but you can throw some axes around and sometimes you'll just happen to hit her as she jumps around a bunch.
>>750663025>Saturn SoTN gives Richter a new spriteset.>None of ports after use itWeird.
>>750663416If you haven't already, try the Japanese voice acting. It's much better across the board.
>>750668598Linear level design that branches > "metroidvania" level design
>>750674709I liked Belmont’s Revenge’s Mega Man style stage select too.
>>750663025Por/CotM > OoE > AoS > HoD >gap like at the start of CotM > SotN first castle > DoS > Another Dimension > SotN inverted castle - what the FUCK where they thinking here
OoE > AoS > PoR > RoTN > SoTN > DoS > CoTM > HoD
>>750663025Didn't Jesus die at 33?
>>750664708Those are people who still know how to have fun, it's a foreign concept to us on /v/ but they exist
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>>750677901It's kind of amazing how great her design was in CotM and every redesign since has been a disaster of varying proportions.
Just started playing this.Enjoyable.
>>750679003To be fair she didn't show up that much after Circle of the Moon outside of Lords of Shadow (fine enough design) and Netflix (fucking terrible), it really seems like western devs give more of a shit about Carmilla than Iga's crew ever did.
>>750680380Why did they give the 12 year old girl such large tits.
>>750678893This is way better than how Carmilla's design actually looks like in Belmont's Curse.
>>750680670Because Japan is based.
>>750663025Symphony is a masterpiece, but Rondo was always my favorite. I really wish they'd put them both on Steam.
I never get sick of Final Toccata.
>>750677841Based>>750677738Contrarian
>>750680670Pretty sure there’s official art of her stuffing turtles down the front of her dress to give the illusion of big tits
>>750681642I've never seen that holy shit, based if true.
>>750668072How about no? In this day and age, it is going to be pulling from the Netflix cartoon and an open-world design isn't going to improve CV3. Just play Curse of the Moon.
>>750677841Classicvania ranking tooRondo/DxC > 3 (US) > Bloodlines > X68K > Adventure Rebirth > Bloodstained CoTM 1 > 1 > X > IV > BR > HCR > Haunted Castle > Adventure > Legends(Haven't gotten to Curse of the Moon 2 yet but plan to real soon)
>>750681851Honestly, DMC1 is probably the closest that a non-Castlevania game has gotten to a Castlevania atmosphere if you ask me.I always kind of thought that they would be a natural fit for each other.
>>750663025im playing belmonts curse and accidently got the bad ending where rose belmont gets dracula aids and she turns red
She's red for an amazing reason.
because its aids
>>750663416The gameplay is fun for a couple hours, then you realize there are only 5 enemy types in the entire game and they wiped their ass with the series canon. The retarded kaizo section in Notre Dame was the final straw for me. At least it was short though. Got the plat in 13 hours and deleted that shit
Been playing Lords of Shadow 1.I forgot how many canned animations were in that game and it's really annoying because I replay levels for those trials and when it comes to stuff like the mounted segments having to pause and skip every time I press RT to kill big werewolf fucking sucks
>>750663025YesMaria is playable in Dracula X for SNES with her RoB moveset https://youtu.be/b--rSyfuBnk?si=aBGS26QznyvnQll-https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/10159/And SotN Ultimate got released today!https://youtu.be/HN2__d9gN3s?si=xmMinf5SN2UkSsPChttps://www.romhacking.net/hacks/10241/
>>750685748Playing it on emulation, noticed some bugs
>>750681996Cotm 2 kinda sucked. The dog character was like completely OP
>>750686069I played it for a bit and I got my ass kicked in some of the later stages, if you don't use Hachi it's really fucking hard, probably rivals even CV3 US in terms of difficulty.
>>750684602>got filtereda loud minority are saying this
This threads just come and go
>>750663025castlevania got fucked in the assjust got alucard
It's kinda annoying that Richter is turbo gimped because Simon in smash.
>>750663416A true return to form, he's having a blast
>>750684602>Filtered by baby tier platformingI'd take anything in BC over CV3 stairs and medusa heads.
This room is fucking cancer.
>>750688271I didn't have many issues with it. I just spammed the axe, and I was golden.
>>750688271wtf am I looking at
>>750688384It's a reference to tower of dolls from X86K
>>750688384Castlevania Revamped(fan remake of CV as a kind of metroidvania). To the left is a save/heal point, this room has those dolls, four annoying fucking bats that blend into the background, a couple of skeletons that shit out projectiles and endlessly respawning fireballs coming in from the bottom. On its own its fine but this room is leading up to a boss(one I'm struggling with) and I need to be at full health for this shit and needing to spend 30 seconds clearing out the room every attempt is annoying.
>>750688620Oh neat, I'll check it out.
Why the fuck does bloodlines have so many bosses? bro that ending gauntlet is ridiculous. But the game is pretty fucking kino.
>>750688620That's the not leigon boss in that area right? That one is horse shit.
When you people say CoTM, you're talking about circle of the moon or curse of the moon?
>>750688726I don't know but I like that about it, reminds me of how Contra Hard Corps or Gunstar Heroes were basically boss rush games, maybe it was a Genesis thing.
>>750663416I hate France and the French devs that made it I'm glad that France is now going to tax people per terabyte of data of bandwidth and tax people for riot insurance
>>750688774Nope, it's the mirror/fake belmont fightI eventually won after I got sick of trying to whip him and instead went full bitchmode with the upgraded holy water and double jumping.
>>750688795I would always assume Circle unless they add Bloodstained in front of it
>>750663025I'm playing Circle of the Moon right now, I enjoy it so far, but I hope the person who designed this castle got fired
>Migami's next game is inspired by Super Castlevania 4Lecarde Chronicles 1 and its musket skeletons still haunt my nightmares
>>750672324None of the stuff from the saturn version ever shows up again, even the playable maria from the PSP version is completely different from the saturn version
>>750690960Cause the Saturn sprites were horrible and the Saturn version was horrible.
>>750663025konami must pay
>>750692378>Saturn sprites were horribleFiltered.
Should i play Rondo?Ive only played SCIV
>>750692539Rondo is one of the best games in the series, definitely give it a shot.
>>750692539Yes
>>750692539SCIV plays completely differently to most Castlevanias, that's why it's a terrible game to start with and why SCIV fans usually aren't real Castlevania fans.
>>750692539Rondo's great, you'll enjoy it. Ignore this guy >>750693650 and his schizo posting. SCV IV might have aerial adjustments after a jump and an eight-directional whip, but the rest of the Classicvanias won't be some miserable, alien experience for you. Just keep in mind that most Classicvania games want players to be much more committed to jumps and subweapons are the main way of attacking in different directions and you'll be fine.
>>750693847he is right though, 4 is fucking ass.
>>750663025What's a Rondo?
>>750692539It's my personal favorite classic one. Highly recommend giving it a shot
>>750692539You should honestly probably play Castlevania 1 and Castlevania 3 (JP version with a translation patch) first, they're the start of the series after all. They're also just better games, Rondo I think is genuinely one of the worst designed classicvanias in terms of level design. It's got good boss fights and that's about it. For as much shit as 4 gets I don't know why Rondo gets jerked off so much, at least 4 has good and interesting level design, I find it much more fun to replay. Though Bloodlines is probably my favorite classicvania.
>>750694307Ron does nuts
>>750690278>I hope the person who designed this castle got firedI'm replaying CotM for god knows which time because it has one of my favorite castles in the series, I can't understand your sentiment. You haven't seen a bad castle until you've played HoD, believe me.
>>750694246But it has whip swinging and its incredibly badass.
>>750694246SCV IV is a good game, whether or not it's typically seen as among the best Castlevania games.
>>750695191SCIV's whip swinging is incredibly basic and it can only be done on designated swinging points. Bloodlines' whip swinging is a fully context-insensitive mechanic, since it can be done from the underside of any platform with no handholding.
>>750695917>Bloodlines' whip swinging is a fully context-insensitive mechanic, since it can be done from the underside of any platform with no handholding.Its too bad PoR doesn't ref this. I believe it could be possible with a QCF + Attack input.
>>750694307Some music bullshit for nerds
>>750694470Rondo's branching paths and alternate stages are cool.
>>750692539You can cool backflips and summon Jesus, so yes.
>>750694878I just dont like how there's a lot of vertical platforming and lot's of rooms that just have a heart or MP upgrade
Just finished replaying Bloodlines, truly the best classicvania
>>750695219Even if it does not have the best gameplay or stages, the atmosphere is unmatched.
>>750663025I love Rondo, but the Dracula fight is better in Dracula X, because it's so bullshit.
>>750696617CotM is very paired down, there's no weapons to find and the DSS cards are enemy drops exclusively, so the hidden rooms only have MP, HP and heart upgrades as rewards, but sometimes they also have unique monsters with unique drops. The vertical platforming is kind of prevelant throughout the game but there's plenty of corridor zones too.
>>750665605Wow shocking. All the trannies that shilled BC dont actually care about castlevania
>>750663416
>>750699368>he thought the culture warriors hating on BC were actual castlevania fansJust look at the state of this thread, hope you realized you were psyopped into hating everything. They're now onto PBZ threads
>>750702629>the faggot who keeps trying to push "culture warrior" as a thing in 2k26 is still hanging aroundget fucked, Belmont's Curse was SHITCurrently checking out an AI-assisted recomp of CoD, hopefully someone will incorporate the enhanced mod soon because goddamn using cheatengine is janky
Im not having a blast but neither hating it so farI just entered Dracula's castle after jobbing against Death and killing Isaac 's first encounterI dont like the levels, the fact that you need to find more powerful weapons since i can't use my favorite current weapon since i found the tier 2 sword which deals double the dmg than the tier 1 weapons However my main complaint is that Rose isn't very agile, im used to these type of games to be a bit faster yet Rose feels pretty slow/clumsy; maybe it will be better once i unlock other movement shitppl complain that the game messes with castlevania canon but since i know fuck about shit i dont really mindthats all, carry oninb4 t. shill shillington the third
>>750704321>I dont like the levelsi mean leveling up, not the maps, those have been okAlso also, i thought that the whip was gonna be just for traversal, i understand a castlevania has to have a whip weapon so when i got the movement skill i thought it was pretty bold to remove the whip as a weapon and keep it only for movementWas surprised when i actually found the whip as a weapon
>>750663416Belmont's Curse is alright. Getting a new full-blooded metroidvania is always nice. Presentation-wise it's solid aside from the music (which is admittedly a major negative). There's some cool ideas like having tarots act as both sidequests and spell unlocks. But there's a lot of things holding it back.For me I think the biggest complaint is that it's structured to be challenging but the actual content isn't.On the default difficulty you only have 3 potions and have to backtrack after you die, okay sure. But almost all the bosses are a total pushover. The one somewhat challenging boss in the game is the Joan refight. It really disappointed me that of the four stained glass windows, only one of them was a boss, and she is the first one you unlock.There's different weapons but once you get Vampire Killer (which you get during the story) you have no reason to get anything else, it's far and away the best.The charms are mostly garbage and there's only a handful that actually feel like they do anything. You never unlock any extra charm slots so you're never incentivized to experiment.There's no higher difficulties, only the option to customize settings in the menu which is fucking stupid. Why should I have to design the difficulty instead of the developer? It's such a lame copout.The powerups are on the whole uninspired and poorly justified. For example after defeating Death, Rose is suddenly able to double jump because Leon tells her she's powerful enough to do it now.Also I found the story overbearing. Most of the dialogue is very cliche and on the nose and could have been cut.
>>750704321Belmont's Curse has pretty lame movement tbqh she never gets fast or especially agile.Like genuinely you move faster in The Lost Crown from the start of the game than you do in Belmont's Curse in the end-game.
>>750663025Is dead by daylight worth playing if I wanna be dracula? I only just learned because of spooky season horror threads that he's in that game. I just like vampires, and it's really only in Elin that I get to play as one.
>>750705167>Like genuinely you move faster in The Lost Crown from the start of the game than you do in Belmont's Curse in the end-game.FuckIt even sucks just walking forward and jumping doesnt even carry full momentum, she makes a small stop before the jump, it just so awkward
>>750705227sure, you transform into a wolf bat and mistit's a unique game like nothing else on the market so maybe you'll become one of the autists with 10k hours or you'll drop it in 10
I finally played PoR. Best game in the series. Unironically my goty.Charlotte best girl.
>>750663025I don't think a single game has outdone Rondo's soundtracj. Some have come close but never beaten it. Faggots were trying to bullshit that the Dead Cells, Tv Show and BC OSTs were great but it s all bland orchestral shit that sounds like those retarded LE EBIN [SONG] MIX you see on youtube.
>>750663025>>750663416This game is a trip and it's freaking huge. I still haven't beaten it but I've got to be on the cusp at this point. Tried my best to play completely blind so the bulk of that playtime comes from exploring and trying to solve puzzles. When you discover certain things it's really like "damn they really hid the fck out of this..."Without a guide, the game really does take a long time to figure out. I still had to look up a few things. Last night I finally completed all the stained glass challenges after realizing there were arcanas I just straight up didn't have and had to go hunt them all down. The map seems to be completely explored and I'm pretty sure all I need to do now is fight dracula... but I have no idea where he actually is so today I have to go hunt for him.
HOW THE FUCK DO I DEFEAT IT AAAAAAA
Yeah Chronicles is my favorite classicvania, I can't believe how much my tastes differ from the general opinion
>>750688774Holy fuck I just reached the legion fight. It was genuine horseshit but eventually I just picked up a bible and got lucky with critical hits and the frost whip.
>rondo>symphony>ariaall are musical terms, hence forming an unofficial trilogy
>>750707368Found him. Ok time to finally get this over with.
>>750694307>>750707926
>>750684864Finished it recently and holy fuck that was a terrible game. I don't understand how it managed to get a sequel.
>>750663025Why is he flipping the bird?
>>750708092It was the best selling Castlevania in history. And it was not that bad, Belmont's Curse is 10x times worse and the bots are still defending it.
>>750663025I should replay Dracula X, it is fun and very easy
>>750680380>>750680670ROB Maria >>>>> SOTN Maria
>>750708140My thoughts on the demo were mostly positive and I cannot for the life of me imagine how it could get bad enough to be worse than LoS1 or mirror of fate.
>>750707926Just like Mega Man with its Musical References >Rock & Roll>Blues>Forte & Gospel>Beat, Tango, Reggae>Quint, Ballde, Punk>Tron Bonne (Trombone)
>>750708538Bad as it is, Lords of Shadows 1 is still a Castlevania. BC isn't.
This is why we need AI. Modern artists simply don't try anymore.
>>750707618Work on the eyes in spots where you'll have a comfortable amount of room to dodge without their projectiles being launched, then focus on the black core. The Bone Dragon King flying around is invincible, so just avoid it.
>>750663025Rondo is the GOAT Castlevania. Admittedly there's a number of games I need to check out but I really can't imagine anything topping it. The controls, the music, the branches, the secrets, the difficulty curve (with 5' being a NG+ only gauntlet that knows it's hard enough to not even need a boss). Dracula being stupid easy is really its only issue but the way Symphony retells it as Richter & Maria curbstomping him together while Alucard's fight with him is by far the hardest thing in that game kind of makes up for it.
>>750707930>not crossing legswhat is this shit man
>didnt beat 5 bosses >walk through some gay dream sequence accidently on my way to the ginger fag >get bad ending in belmonts curse dracula gives vampire aids cutscene cant do shit but lose >see creditsi beat the game you cant tell me otherwise
>>750695219SCIV definitely feels like a game built to take advantage of the hardware primarily since it was a retelling of the first game. Swinging, rotating rooms, chain dangle, visual effects, more mobility overall, moving platforms, insane use of sampling in the OST. I think it has high highs (Simon's Theme kicking in on the final phase of Drac is still one of the best moments in the series) but it also is a bit too long with a slow difficulty curve and once its cool tech sets in they kind of feel like gimmicks compared to what Rondo & Bloodlines did. Granted Dracula's Curse also kind of has a similar but less-pronounced problem where they got vertical scrolling and multiple characters working and leveraged too much into that; Sypha, Grant & Alucard can just trivialize different parts of the game for you even on the skewed US difficulty with Trevor only being useful for brute-forcing skeleton heads and axe armors without using hearts (which really only matters if you're saving them for Sypha to delete bosses or Alucard to skip platforming). They're both great games but lack the focus of the original or the refinement of Rondo/Bloodlines (granted yes Maria is just Sypha with a better basic attack in exchange for more expensive subs but you commit to using her only instead of being able to swap back to the Belmont whenever for more health and range).
>>750685748SOTN SNES Demo released today!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZbrsOnN2bkhttps://kaffeeware.itch.io/sotn-snes
>>750707648This is my post, yet I did not post it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtR94bqABzk
>>750713680Based, for me it's this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Q8adTaR6QAll the arranged remix songs are good
>>750713810god tier taste anon. Have a happy halloween.
hot take ricther theme is better on the dracula x version than the rondo of blood version
>>750677901she looks like vampire reimu
>>750679003tbf this is CAMILLA not CARMILLA
>>750714682Hot take, his theme is better in the 2hu version than in the rondo or dracula x versions.https://youtu.be/-9YiA5Bu2w8
>>750713810this is really good
which one is your simon?
Are we posting soundtracks now? I love this version of Beginninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPzUNZP-0TI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0HVTx0gVhohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3EJjxMKeI
>>750663416>Belmont's CurseNah i want real Castlevania
>>750715939>he can't sage properly
>>750715616The only rendition of Beginning I like is the NES version. No, not the Famicom version, the NES version.
>sotn and rondo still not on switchthis is terrorism of the highest degree
>>750716714Blame the voice actors guilds and unions.
>>750712548how does this make any sense?
>>750715394The narcissistic asshole from Captain N
today I learned sotn is on saturn and has exclusive content
>>750716714>>750717307I thought the reason Requiem wasn't ported was because it used Sony's PS1 emulator instead of something Konami made.
>>750717352what do you mean?
>>750717831IIRC, it has Maria, but she doesn't play like Maria.t.Didn't play it.
>>7506963193 did it first and better.
>>750709932I wish Dracula X Chronicles looked better because it legitimately fixes the issue of Dracula being too easy by giving him one of the coolest fights in the series (his third phase), also Stage 5' is much better in DXC imo, in Rondo it was an asset flip but in DXC it's a brand new stage (which is harder) and the Hydra is one of the coolest Classicvania bosses pre-Curse of the Moon.
>>750699325Well my issue with the upgrades is less that that they're not unique weapons or anything like that and more that more often than not, the rooms are just dead ends
why are castlevania threads so comfy?
>>750721875more old games than new games so you don't have the usual suspects here
Is it me, or Requiem Maria is bustier than Saturn Maria?
>>750663416For me it's definitely the music that's been fucked. Story is whatever and background color should get some variety, but it's been an okay 7/10.
>Saturn content with Japanese dub can finally be played on DuckstationFinally.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN2__d9gN3s
>finer controls in an action are...le badWhy are anti4fags like this? Just play on the second loop if the game is so easy to you.
>>750723210Something about 90's era JP soundtracks. This, Streets of Rage, Capcom vs SNK and 3rd strike
>>750717920Doubt it since its built off the PSP version and, its been ported to Android and 360 with no issues.
TOASTER!!! :DDD
>>750723925All the second loop does is add bats.
>>750663025Ritcher plays the eletric Guitar and this is canon
I'm interested in this.
>>750723925IV is great, I like it more than any of the NES ones.
>>750717920It uses their psp emulator.
>>750724719It adds more enemies and a stricter time limit on levels, I would say it does a pretty good job upping the difficulty.>>750724947I get it not being someone's favorite, X68K is mine, but I just feel like the complaint that IV having perfected the controls being somehow bad is such a bizarre complaint. It's beyond stupid I almost feel like people hate on IV since it became a popular discussion piece after the AVGN video series. A lot more people then I ever expected seem to have been introduced to the series that way.
>>750725626It's a nice one-off but it didn't perfect the controls, I think Bloodlines and Rondo feel better to play even if they lack the full directional whip.
>>750725626>IV having perfected the controls being somehow bad is such a bizarre complaintThe enemies are designed for a straight whip. You can kill a ton of them before they even pose a threat.
https://x.com/chrisdejoya/status/2112050399444398341BC has so many unused enemies wtf. What did Konami do
LOL
>>750720068Not really. Grant's stage is a distraction at best and the Alucard stages suck ass. Rondo has multiple paths within the stages themselves, alternates bosses within a stage, and then the alternate stages themselves which also have alternate paths. 3 doesn't even compare
>>750726892I think the designers knew the whip was going to be able to hit in all eight directions before making the game actually.
>>750725626>IV having perfected the controls
>>750712548>Thag Secret of Mana Dark Lich Ambiance Thank you for the spook anon
>>750663025Why didn't they include this masterpiece in the Castlevania Anniversary collection?
>>750663025Richter is so cool. Igarashi should get punched for making him into a loser in SoTN
>>750731389I think it's because the only available dubbed version is the Dracula X Chronicles one, which was exclusive to PSP, and Requiem uses a PSP emulator, I suppose Konami is just too lazy to make another redub.
>>750729848Want to post an actual argument?>"the game is too easy"Cool, what does that have to do with the actual controls? You can dislike the level design but IV feels the smoothest.
>>750731389Effort? From MY Konami? Reminder that the collection uses the US 1.0 rom, famous for crashing in the fifth level. They fixed this in later reissues of CV1 but still never updated the rom to one of these.
>>750704321(me)I have played a few hours more this evening.Mapped a fuck ton of Dracula's castle and eventually found Talos for ground slam and the artist.Also got the bad endingIm right now in the planetariumAlso backtracked with the ground slam and have unlocked the boss that required the 3 eyes relics but he was dealing a lot of dmg (and frankly even clearing the eyes took a lot of effort) so i guess he is somewhat of a later (optional?) bossThanks for reading my blog.
>>750733194What a bunch of assholes.
>>750708146>Dracula X>EasyWat
>>750733115SCIV didn't perfect jack shit, it scrapped the OG controls in favor of something else entirely, and what's worse is the thing it came up with was more boilerplate and less interesting. If you want to name a game that evolved the NES controls then you could have named Rondo or Bloodlines instead.
>>750708146How come John Morris skipped leg day?
>>750733194On PC the collection also seems to have sound issues that haven't been fixed yet, even worse, you can't rebind the keys when playing on keyboard, and the default control schemes for games like IV and Bloodlines are kind of awkward.
>>750692539someone link the PC port for this anon
>>750663025Finished Aria yesterday just in time for today, already got the Valmanway from the boss rush which is admittedly easy as fuck if you have the chaos ring and every soul
>>750672324>>750690960It's because of the sprite size difference between both versions, essentially they'd have to remake the saturn sprites for everything released afterwards and I guess they were too lazy to do it
Man, 3 (US) is no fucking joke, why'd they make it so fucking brutal?
>>750734123Play the JP version. Its not only easier it sounds better.
>>750692510nta but you're an idiot
>>750733428What the fuck are you even talking about? You're seriously pissed subweapons have a dedicated button now? IV controls great, you're insane.
>>750692539How the fuck have you not played it? It's the best game in the series.
>>750734459>Superior 2d platform>Fuckup like thisHow?
>>750707926>hence forming an unofficial trilogyNo that's not how trilogies work you fucking retard.
>>750714727>tbf this is CAMILLA not CARMILLAThat was a genuine translation error, the Japanese name is the same, unchanged from the rest. Though it's not the most embarassing translation error in the series when stuff like the hindu goddess of destruction is obviously called "Curly".
>>750708676Just like Mega Man with its Musical References All of that was invented by localizers.
>>750663416It wasn't perfect but the game was fun and had SOVL.I hope it makes enough money to get us more Castlevania games.
>>750724772Alucard BRED this
>last achi>speed run the game in 4 hoursI should be able to ask for a refundfuck this game
>>750734989Too many spike rooms and a garbage fast travel system are too much for you, anon?
achievement hunting truly is the lowest form of gaming
>>750664708I'm 41 and played every Castlevania game released. Belmont's Curse looked nice, played nice, told a smaller scope but interesting story and was enjoyable.The music wasn't as stand out as other games, the weapon system/upgrades were lame, and the battle/puzzle rooms to get trinkets were serviceable but I could see why people don't like them.Not perfect but still worth releasing.
I can't believe the saturn exclusive content in sotn is still saturn exclusive almost 30 years later.
>>750735042Look up, someone ported saturn content.
>>750735148It's not very good.
Belmont's Curse just makes me sad because it more or less confirms that Castlevania will always be viewed as a budget series to Konami. Never worthy of a proper budget, just a series to have whoever can make an entry like Silent Hill.
>>750735625isn't that basically every konami series at this point?
>>750663025Are there any Castlevania characters you find annoying? I can't stand Juste Belmont because he's so arrogant yet he never actually fought Dracula. And I find Charlotte extremely annoying due to her bragging about her beauty. Reinhardt also frustrates me because he has reservations about killing enemy women and such while Carrie from the same game has no such weakness.
>>750733713Crissaegrim is not even the best weapon this time around, I mean holy damage is kinda bonkers.
I like that Bloodstained is an honorary Castlemania.
>>750735691Except maybe YuGiOh.
I've been punishing myself by finally getting around to playing Lords of Shadow 2, I am equal parts baffled and pissed off.
>>750735908i don't really mind alucard, but he's no D. he needs a cool hat at least
>>750734479>pretending not to understand basic things>moving the goalpostsIf this is bait then gg, you got me to respond. If this is your genuine attempt at an argument then fucking kill yourself.
>>750735625They've always viewed Castlevania as a joke and worthy only of table scraps for a budget.But they keep turning a profit so they keep making games.
>>750735908I think Dracula being given a second chance by God despite everything goes to show that in the end he was wrong to denounce him and go on his millennia long vampire larp
>>750736303Doesn't help that its always sold better in the US.
>>750735801isn't juste the first belmont to wield magic? his aura is so strong he has a constant blue hue around him, he can be arrogant
>>750735910As far as vidya goes, Yugioh is getting nothing but remakes, ports and rereleases.
>>750736814Canonically he doesn't succumb and ends up growing beyond it because him and Mina are not a thing at least as of the novel that takes place after Dawn and he's still just a guy and not a grief-stricken psycho
>>750735801I can't imagine taking the lore of this series seriously, in my mind every game is just about a Belmont having to Zzkill Dracula except when it's not like the Sorrow games, in which case I don't even pay attention.
I'm the only one that prefer dracula X music over rondo?
>>750736141You still haven't made an argument why whipping in eight directions is less interesting.
>>750737337You are simply a faggot with poor taste
Mirror of Fate has the best Simon design and I'm tired of pretending it doesn't
>>750737559https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzrvBANyArs>Dissing Snes soundchip.
>>750737559No, he's right.
>>750737894https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR0UjAQIX6EThis is better
>>750737894>>750737921He's not right at allSNES has ok imitations but they're just worse versions of Rondo
>>750664708I'm not a fake fan so I've played most CV games and BC doesn't even come close to being the worst so I had no issues with it.
>>750738365FUCK THE NIGHTFUCK VAMPIRESAND FUCK YOU
>>750735625The only way they'd put money into it would be to go 3D again.
The disappointment of Belmont's Curse only made me feel more excited for Bloodstained Scarlet Engagement, I'm so sold on that game after beating Ritual of the Night.
>>750738818
>Ton of castlemania per year>Everyone complains about games being same>Konami finally pull the plug when sales reach bottom despite games being cheap to produce thanks to mostly reused assets.>Now everyone begs for more games.And same thing happened with Megaman.
>>750740131>saturate market>"the market is saturated!">stop making games>"there are no more games!"
>>750740524Anon, everyone want constant releases like before. Otherwise franchise is "dead".
>>750663025>yesterday found out that someone released ROM hacks for Castlevania 1 and Dracula X that let you play as Rondo Maria>not even a peep on here about either of them
>>750740778Too busy with the ultimate symphony of the night that just came out. Funny it came out today 2 weeks after I finished my first ever playthrough of the game on Saturn (and in general)
>Finally try Haunted Castle>Give it a fair shake, really try and learn the levels>Discover that instead of total dogshit...it's just kinda badChasing it with Revisited, holy fuck I love you M2.
>>750741383I just find it very boring
>>750663025Rondo of Blood was my favorite until a couple of years ago when I finally saw the light and realized that The Dracula X Chronicles is the best classicvania.>>750663416I've been listening to Belmont's Curse's soundtrack and, even though I admit is not as good as what we were used to, it's not as bad as some people have been clamoring, either. Most themes about the actual areas of the game (like Streets of Paris, Catacombs, Clock Tower, etc) really carry the whole thing for me.
>play adventure rebirth>wonder why the game feels kind of easy>beat it>look in the options>I accidentally turned on easy mode when my dpad was schizing out in the options menu>can't be fucked playing the game again
We need another Simon gameKeep reimagining Castlevania 1 until the end of times
>>750741806many are saying this
>>750741782Hard mode Rebirth with classic controls is one of the toughest games in the series, it's actually really fucking hard.
>>750741939Is it a damage taken thing like CV3 US?
>>750741975It's mostly the level design changes, extra enemies like Medusa Heads in some rooms, and changes in enemy behaviour, like the Red Skeletons only last 2 seconds dead before they revive.
>>750741782ReBirth is one of the most replayable games in the series, the way it expands the Rondo key mechanic to actually branch paths within stages in meaningful ways makes sure of that. Plus you could use Classic Mode since it makes it control more like the 8-bit games and limits the subweapon lineup to what Belmont's Revenge had.
>>750742187I'm generally pretty shit at classicvania so it will almost definitely filter me, but I'll give it a go next time I'm in the mood to play it
>>750742193I kinda like Haunted Castle Revisited more.
>>750741715I know people meme on the Library, but it's pretty comfy to listen to while running through the level. It's definitely not a song to listen to outside of the game though.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxrnXe5bL1E
I can’t bear CV3 US version and I feel like a fraudDid any other CV feature such difficulty disparity between US and JP releases?I know Konami did this shit constantly with Contra
why on earth didn't Harmony of Dispair let you hold all the subweapons
*Dissonance
>>750663025KYRIEEEE ELEEEISOOON
>>750663416The devs have a fucking fetish for spikes and saw.I hope Iga keeping the roots in bloodstained 2
>>750742521It sounds like a remix of a diarrhea recording.
>>750733197i liked how his moveset was the different traps on each eye
Leon!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlb0ZVq6Bmw
>>750742521At first I didn't like the song at all, but it grew on me. I don't like it as much as the ones I previously mentioned, but it's serviceable. Again, I think some people are dunking on the soundtrack way too much.
If you beat Rondo of Blood using Maria, you didn't beat the game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBnMbOD_H04
>>750741806Genuinely and unironically this.The way people complain about how many games are about Simon is bizarre. It's not like all the games with him are 1:1 copy pastes, why the fuck does it matter if the game is just "Dracula is back, Simon has to kill him now" again?
>>750742565Sort of. Bloodlines US normal mode is Japan's hard mode and the US version's hard mode is exclusive to it.
>>750742193The Bloodstained Curse of the Moon games handled alternate paths in a similar way.
>>750743783Yes, you did. Maria isn't an easy mode even if some retards claim otherwise. Richter has twice as much health so he's easier to face mash through the game with if you know how to abuse i-frames.Maria's double jump makes platforming easier, that's her main draw. If you're good at platforming and don't need that as a crutch, then she's not better than Richter.
>>750744078t. Lolifag buttmad his waifu is always only an easy mode inclusion
>>750743834Give me the actor Simon Belmont, the 1950s descendant instead. There's got to be some fun shit they can do with that era, especially with Hollywood.
>>750744128You're genuinely retarded. If Maria was an intended easy mode she would be available at the start. You have to play through two fucking stages to get her.Calling her an easy mode would be like calling the partners in Castlevania 3 easy mode because most of them are better than Trevor.
>>750744163I don't know if the series would benefit from going meta/winking at the player with Universal monsters stuff.
>>750715394
>>750744226Nigga, is this a goddamn joke?
>>750715394Middle. I could accept most blonde Simons, though. He absolutely does not have red hair.
>>750744236>Dresses skellies up like Juste's grandpaWas this just because Maxim knew it would fuck with him or was Drac or Death feeling extra vindictive?
>>750744202>Calling her an easy mode would be like calling the partners in Castlevania 3 easy mode because most of them are better than Trevor.lollmao even
>>750744078That's not the only advantage she has, you larping nigger.
>>750663025I always get to the shipwreck grim reaper boss fight and then he proceeds to violate me. What am i doing wrong?
>no video game of the most powerful belmont to ever exist>shitty 2000s mobile game insteadtotal tranny death
>>750743834I do like that Simon's the Belmont that Drac dealt with the most and has the most hatred for even if Leon, Trevor, Richter & Julius are more pivotal.>>750744163I really want to see games that fill in the gap between Portait & 1999, more than even a 1999 game itself. Maybe some canon 1800s games as well since the only ones set then are 64/Legacy & Circle.
>>750744493>>750744527I've speedrun Rondo in multiple categories you nigger, I know the game better than you do, I can guarantee that. Richter is only bad (and Maria a crutch) if you're bad at the fundamentals of Castlevania. You can intentionally facetank stuff with Richter in a way Maria can't. Learn to use your i-frames.
>>750743783I had to use Maria for the boss rush but that was it. Still ashamed about it.
>>750688271>>750688620I cheesed this boss by continuously wall jumping and letting the bird familiar do all the damage. If you don't want to do that then switch to the bible so you can get through that room with little trouble
>>750744640>>shitty 2000s mobile game insteadHey, Order of Shadows is okay.
>>750744754stop it silly.
>>750735342>PSP Dracula X Chronicles English dub and revised scriptFuck outta here with that shit.
>>750744673>I've speedrun Rondo in multiple categories you nigger,post your runs then or else you're full of shit
I've finished nearly every classicVania game (except Legends which I haven't played), finished SotN, finished the 2 PS2 games, and finished Belmont's Curse. The only castlevania games I haven't played at all yet are the N64 ones, the GBA ones, and the DS games. I played a small amount of Judgement and it was midI've been considering playing the N64 games next, but if LoD is a remake + prequel of the first game, is there any good reason for me to play the first N64 game?
>>750744941Yes. IIRC there is less voice acting in Carrie's and Reinhardt's stories in LoD. I personally like their campaigns better in 64
>>750741782I'd replay ReBirth on a regular basis just for that godlike soundtrack alone.>>750741806>We need another Simon gameI wouldn't mind that as long as it's Kojima's design with the red hair ;)
Enjoying it so far, I will say I think this should look a little shaper on PS5 Pro.
Just finished replaying all the GBA games from the collection.I used to think Harmony of Dissonance was better than circle of the moon. But hell no FUCK that game. Aria of sorrow mogs the other 2 easily though.
>>750744202Built for Alucard
>>750743476>some people are dunking on the soundtrack way too muchno, they aren't, it's called having standardsmaybe objectively they aren't the worst shit ever, but in a series that is a iconic music behemot such a as CV?shitting on it is not just rightful, its an obligation
>>750708092I remember it being a fairly enjoyable little game if you were willing to give it a chancethe sequel though is irredeemable dogshit holy FUCK is it bad
>>750744754Fuck you, Tyrone.
>>750740962Speaking off. v1.2 is out.https://gofile.io/d/VgP23mY7
>>750734580>unofficiallearn2read
Richter mode is a lot of fun so far, the uppercut is so stupidly fun to pull off it feels outright broken
>>750707794>le self improvement is cringe>embrace nihilism and blame all your problems on women being sluts who never put out insteadWhy are gen Z and A so mentally unfit?
>>750746079Holy cow, thanks mate.
>>750663025Remember when they remade this entire game in three dimensions just to have an elaborate way to unlock a butchered port of SotN?
>>750707794I don't understand what this image implies. BC was about Rose going through the Fool's Journey and reaching self actualization like a typical Persona-shit game. How is that a bad thing?
Just finished ReVamped. It's okay, even good for a fan project. Can't really say it's a good metroidvania, more like linear levels with some crossroads. Controls sometime feel wonky (I've played Switch version). Finished 100% run, not even gonna bother with 2 hours and 15% run.Going back to finishing Anniversary Collection. Held a really high hope for finally understanding what people find so compelling about SCIV but gameplay feels.. I don't know, whatever. Yet the art direction and soundtrack are really great. But I've lost all the interest somewhere near the dungeon level and just savescummed through the rest of the game.
>>750747315>>750747530>out of nowhere, two replies malding at ignored 14h old postmake it less obvious
>Some Anon points out retarded post so more people take notice of it and respondFirst day on /v/?
>>750707368> 50 hours yet not finished> guideHOW IN THE FUCK
>>750747315>self improvement is when you cuck out your ideals in a misunderstood attempt to become a "better person" (which mostly benefits your enemies)
>>750747394Welp you can play now this >>750746079
>>750747880So how does that apply to BC? Because Rose still fucking vaporizes Dracula.
>>750747530people got PTSD from the netflix series
>>750747930It doesn't apply. These kids are fucking retarded. They hate everything because they gave up on themselves. Easier to blame everything and everyone else for their personal failings than man up.>>750747683Take your meds.
>>750747657Did you play revamped 2: simon's quest? There's also a Castlevania Chronicles 2: Simon's Quest as well. I really don't know why someone decided to make 1 a metroidvania. I mean, I guess Vampire Killer MSX was the first attempt, but that was more so a stage-based thing where each map kinda loops around, akin to something like Pharoah Rebirth, but way earlier.
>>750747880Nigger. Kratos had no ideals. He was a nihilistic fucking psycho killing every thing and every one because he lost everything and gave up.You're shitting and pissing yourself because he DEVELOPED ideals over caring for someone again.
>>750747719Now you have a better idea of the "audience" for that game.
>>750748321Not him but trying to give redemption to a character like kratos is fucking stupid.
>>750748398A far more valid argument than the forced grifter yarn about white genocide starting with your digital cartoon characters losing their fucking idealism and thus, the need to turn to scorched earth accelerationism.Black pilled doomers and groypers have ruined this Goddamned hobby.I ALSO want GoW to be a fun mindless hack and slash with visceral action and not a fucking moral play but these retards have poisoned the goddamned well with their constant diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain.
Damn this thread was so nice before the culture war faggot turned up.
>>750748475Yeah it's like adding tragic backstories to every villain to "explain" their motivation. Bro, sometimes people are evil because they're evil, just leave it at that. And it's not just Vidya, it's movies, TV etc.. Everyone wants to give out moral lessons about how everyone can be redeemed or whatever.
Is adventure rebirth available in one of the many CV collections out there?
>>750748598yeah it was going great for the the several dozen posts where BC was being ignored by actual CV fans
>>750748689Unfortunately not, it is really easy to emulate though, I'd recommend it, it's a really fun game, even if some of the levels drag on.
>>750748287I think I downloaded it and than just forgot I did. I'll give it a shot some day but I'm not the biggest CII fan to be fair.
>>750745198>I think this should look a little shaperThis is what anti aliasing looks like without FSR and DLSS
>>750748704Dang it, I must have confused it with haunted castled, that's the one that got a remaster with one of the igavania collection right?
>>750748798Yeah, that's the old arcade game that got a remake on Dominus, the remake was by the same guys who made Adventure Rebirth.
>>750747904>God I wish the recomp gets a 1.0 faster and there will be some sort of Saturn content mod, the amount of hacks this version has with each being some flavor of buggy mess or a hackjob of trying to force the shitass PS1 dub into this is staggering and I want this era of SotN romhacking to be dead and buried.What this guy's problem??
>>750748879What are you in about?
>>750749102someone on retrogametalk said that Ultimate is a buggy mess
>>750748734I just tried both myself and Chronicles 2 actually feels kinda decent, and a bit more akin to normal castlevania with hearts as subweapon ammo,but both EXP and money being their own separate things. You also start with a knife subweapon and you can slide. Townsfolk dialogue is different and a bit more useful, and map layouts are also altered a bit (there's no death pits via the starting town waterways for one). I can't tell, but I think Chronicles 2 also doesn't use a day/night cycle weirdly enough? I got shitwrecked trying to get past the damn fishmen in the river, so I'm not sure how the rest of the game fares or if I am right about the day/night aspect or not. Simon's Quest Revamped fucking sucks though, it plays like a literally worse version of the NES game, which I didn't even think was possible. It's also way too faithful for its own good, save for having save points (which Chronicles 2 also had). One thing that kinda sucks about both is that neither has the option to quickly drop down stairs by holding down+jump for about 2 seconds, which was in the NES release.There's also a 3rd fangame I just now learned about, called Simon's Quest Rebitten, and the dumbfuck who made it is actually charging 25 bucks for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdVbC-xALd8 Seems like it makes a bunch of weird and dumb decisions just for the sake of doing so, like sharply reducing visibility during night, and making simon's walk cycle look like those fucking "higher frame count" gifs/webms that get parodied (and yet the enemies and NPCs have the same 2 frame cycles from the NES). Like come on, Rebitten dev. Get the fuck outta here with this bullshit.
Is the PSP version any good?
>>750668072No, that sounds awful.Unironically kill yourself you filthy nigger faggot.
>>750749359It's a good remake, I think it adds a lot to the experience, Stage 5' is better than Rondo's, and the new final boss is one of the best fights in the series, also since the game is 2.5D it experiments a lot more with camera angles, like in the raft sequence in Stage 4', that said the game looks way uglier than Rondo by comparison and doesn't feel as good to play imo, I'd say try it out though, I think it's worth it.
>>750749359Gameplaywise is great and add some extras, but suffer from real is brown.
>>750663025Is harmony of despair ported to PC yet?
>>750681642knowers know the turtles are the illusion of an illusion
>>750749359If you can get past the ugly graphics it's better than Rondo of Blood. That's not to say RoB isn't great, but the gameplay improvements of DXC take it over the line for me. That last Dracula fight is incredible.
>>750733197>(me)>(me)Happy to see the thread is still upI just finished planetarium (didnt know i was so close yesterday before going to bed)Got air dash, tempted to backtrack for a bunch of shit i have marked but i assume some of those still miss more tools (double jump?) and since world movement is so limited with the ferryman i dont want too spend 10 mins going to a mark only to find i miss something stillThanks for reading, have a great day
Beat Belmont's Curse and got the true ending. Gotta say, the game was pretty ass.I don't know if it were paid shills or what that were peddling the idea that this game is hard, every boss got owned by me spamming the fist arcana and took no more than 2 tries (thank fuck, the runbacks seem awful), it's definitely easier than PoR and OoE.Music is an absolute travestyI swear that nobody playtested this game outside of short individual segments, the sheer volume of spike rooms, forced combat encounters that spam the same enemies over and over again, the horrific hall of mirrors warp system. Surely if someone on the dev team experienced this in full they'd think twice about keeping it the way it is.The weapons outside the whip and straight sword feel pretty bad, especially the twin blades and fists.Exploration doesn't feel very rewarding since the trinket slots are so limited and most of the trinkets are boring and shit (wow just like Blasphemous).I honestly hope this game bombs and kills the series. I'd rather Castlevania not get another game if this is how it's going to be. If this game is gonna copy Hollow Knight instead of being an actual Castlevania game, it could have at least had the decency to be a good HK clone.
>>750749341Thanks for the breakdown, definitely gonna try some of that stuff.I think the best fan games I've played is LeCarde Chronicles 1 and 2. I think they're pretty famous among the fans. First one is janky af especially in terms of controls but feels like a proper Castlevania. Can't remember if I've managed to beat the final boss tho cause that fucker was buggy and not well tested. The second one is good metroidvania.
If it wasn't for the Kickstarter stretch goals we would have got a Bloodstained sequel 2 years ago
Can't wait to consume some more new Castlevania products!
>>750748879>shitass PS1 dubhe's a braindead zoomer
Going back to Rondo after playing with Richter anywhere else is kinda jarring. Specially if you know how to abuse his moves.
Just been playing Castlevania LoD on N64. Didn't realize this thing was basically a recycling of C64 but with new levels + character.
>>750663025The series peaked here. It was all downhill after
>>750745198Game has visual & input lag issues on PS5 in general
I am mad that Belmont's Curse doesn't have any Sub-Weapons.>Legends and AdventuresThanks for confirming all bad Castlevanias don't have sub weapons.
