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Post by Cyno on May 12, 2024 17:11:04 GMT -5
Castlevania 2 is a decent game once you figure out how to play it. That's probably its greatest failing: it's very much a "dump you at the beginning of the game and don't explain a single thing" setup that a lot of early NES games that weren't linear liked to do. And I'm not sure how much or how little the instruction manual helped in that regard. Though I think the hate the game got was way overblown and it's only because of AVGN blasting it in one of his earliest videos. It was always a dark horse of the series, but there was a ton of hate that came out of the woodwork after the AVGN video. Really came off like "AVGN hates CV2 so I'll hate it too!"
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Post by tirtefaa on May 12, 2024 19:05:17 GMT -5
I hate being that guy but 11 year old me loved Castlevania 2 You don't need to 'hate being that guy' since most people who hate the game hate it based off his review of it. A game by any other name would have still been praised, but much like The Adventure of Link, it's always compared to it's predecessor, despite being a great game. Want to see a disappointing departure? Look at Double Dragon. No, not Double Dragon III, but Double Dragon V, which decided it needed to be a lame tournament fighter that is a blatant Street Fighter II ripoff. A game so disappointing that the franchise never recovered from it, and Tradewest would shut their doors soon after. I'm actually surprised he hasn't reviewed this one yet. |
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Post by Cyno on May 12, 2024 19:34:08 GMT -5
I hate being that guy but 11 year old me loved Castlevania 2 You don't need to 'hate being that guy' since most people who hate the game hate it based off his review of it. A game by any other name would have still been praised, but much like The Adventure of Link, it's always compared to it's predecessor, despite being a great game. Want to see a disappointing departure? Look at Double Dragon. No, not Double Dragon III, but Double Dragon V, which decided it needed to be a lame tournament fighter that is a blatant Street Fighter II ripoff. A game so disappointing that the franchise never recovered from it, and Tradewest would shut their doors soon after. I'm actually surprised he hasn't reviewed this one yet. Castlevania 2 and Vampire Killer for the MSX2 were interesting departures for the time. While the execution wasn't perfect, they obviously provided some inspiration for other less linear games in the series like Rondo of Blood and the Metroidvanias. So the ambitious design eventually paid off in spades. |
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on May 12, 2024 20:07:13 GMT -5
LOL @ almost nobody actually talking about the episode.
I've only dabbled in Castlevania games, mainly Symphony of The Night on Playstation and the one that came out on Genesis
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Post by ERON on May 13, 2024 19:29:05 GMT -5
Symphony of the Night is not only my favorite Castlevania game, but my all-time favorite game, period.
Also, happy 20th anniversary to AVGN.
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Post by BorneAgain on May 13, 2024 19:35:35 GMT -5
This video actually got me to go back into SotN.
It's a really enjoyable game. Especially when compared to many of the Classicvanias, I think part of its initial popularity is that you could make Alucard strong enough to really counter what had been really dickish enemies in previous games.
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Post by saneiac on May 14, 2024 1:49:01 GMT -5
None of the Castlevania games on the NES were any good. Way too hard. I much prefer the fourth one. Strong disagree. I didn’t own 1 or 3, but I played the hell out of both and still remember them well. I actually owned 4, and remember almost nothing about it other than it had better graphics. The gameplay was bland and the bosses were too easy to be memorable. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 14, 2024 2:32:47 GMT -5
Ok video I guess. James just shave that head.
As far as my favorite Castlevania.. Keep in mind I started the series with the first gamee and haven't really played many of the Metroidvania games besides the few released for the DS.
1 is still my favorite of the entire batch I have played. Yes it is hard. But back when you maybe got 2 games a year a hard game was just something you played over and over until you got good.
After that I would put Bloodlines,prefer it to 4. And then 3 then 2.
Somewhere's I got the first Gameboy Castlevania game.
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Post by The Barber on May 14, 2024 7:27:26 GMT -5
None of the Castlevania games on the NES were any good. Way too hard. I much prefer the fourth one. Strong disagree. I didn’t own 1 or 3, but I played the hell out of both and still remember them well. I actually owned 4, and remember almost nothing about it other than it had better graphics. The gameplay was bland and the bosses were too easy to be memorable. Fair enough. I got knocked back enough times in all three of them that I decided to do the same to the cartridge in my Nintendo. The NES is weird with me. I can beat Fester's Quest without taking much damage in one life, but can't play Castlevania for crap. BTW, there is no excuse for Castlevania 2 (or any game, really) for being that cryptic. Yes that means you, PC games where you had to do shit that no one in their right mind would do to progress further. |
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Post by tirtefaa on May 14, 2024 9:12:59 GMT -5
As much as I love the series, each game has something I don't like about it
First game has a glitch I've never heard anyone talk about, and it's possibly one that was patched in later releases, but if you have the boomerang and it hits a boss' projectiles, it will hardlock the game. I learned this the hard way when I got to Dracula and my game froze, then it happened again against Death.
Simon's Quest isn't necessarily the cryptic nature of how to play since that was just part of gaming back then, and having those school conversations with classmates as to what to do was always fun, especially if someone told you the secret. Only issue I have is the hidden time limit in which you don't know what ending you got until after you beat it.
Dracula's Curse has quite possibly one of the hardest levels ever in a game. Level 7 has a section of auto-scrolling stairs in which you have to keep going up while dodging enemies that appear out of nowhere. Then you have three bosses to fight, usually when you have very little health left. Both paths are tough, but one of them is impossible for me, and it forced me to give up with Sypha and take the other path with Alucard, which is the only way I ever beat the game, and actually beat Dracula on my first try.
Fourth game as someone mentioned is just kind of bland, I don't know how to describe it. I like the music and the atmosphere is good, but there isn't any particularly innovative gameplay. As a kid, I constantly confused this game with Super Ghouls N Ghosts, which remains one of my favorite games while this one is just kind of middle of the road.
Dracula X is even more bland that IV. I once had some weird soft lock where if you fall into the underworld, when you fight the boss and beat him...you remain stuck there. Unlike the previous games, this game doesn't have a time limit...so you're absolutely stuck and the only way out is to reset. Lesson being... don't ever fall into the underworld. I also hated that stupid werewolf boss.
Castlevania SOTN has a few areas that can be frustrating. The first is where I would be roughly 30% into the game, and no path provided me any progress. I probably played this game a handful of times before I somehow figured it out and was able to move forward, but this was my first experience with the game, and it's a giant puzzle that required me to look things up years later in order to effectively continue. I don't mind cryptic whatsoever, but the game is so expansive that it was difficult to understand what I was doing wrong, and quite frankly I still don't since I would usually always start a new game if I got stuck. Anyways, the real issue with the game isn't lack of progress I used to have...it's those ANNOYING imps. I have no idea how I figured out how to beat them, but if they touch you, your character starts going nuts and flinging his weapons around...and the first time it happened, I turned the game off since I thought it was a glitch...but no! You have to mash the buttons in order to get Alucard to stop spazzing out. How the heck was I supposed to figure that out? The game is amazing though.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on May 14, 2024 9:16:35 GMT -5
Personally my favourite will always be Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
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