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>>9340209
Thats Castlevania for you baka gaijins,

SotN IMO.

One of the best games I've played.
I am trying to make a game influenced by it, I'm still learning a language though.

>>9340245
Back in its day, SOTN was a gorgeous game full of detail and fun to play.

New Castlevania games have tried to follow it, but they fall short since they lack the proper gothic atmosphere it had. Too much fabulous, I would remark.

>>9340266
>Too much fabulous
SotN is the most fabulous game I know. Nothing wrong with that

>>9340266
>the proper gothic atmosphere

What are you, 13-19 years old?

I preferred generic animu-style characters to BELTSBELTSBELTSBELTS.

Would fuk Shanoa. She has the best double jump animation I've seen in 2D history.

>>9340266
Go suck a cross dude.
ever heard of Ecclesia?

``I come to /jp/ to discuss anime and video games.''
　　　　　　　　　－Zunbar, best poster on /jp/, 2012

>>9340331
hey !bar have you beaten the Training Hall and Large Cavern? The tinmen&trolls in the latter drive me up the wall

on topic, wud fuq Soma but only with this weapon

>>9340331
Gotta go with Zunbar on this one. That fucking back.

Charlotte and young Maria are good too.

>>9340331
Maria is the kawaiiest girl and you know it.

>>9340375
Well chosen.

Also Rondo of Blood is the best Castlevania.

>>9340331
those lewd glyphs.
best Castlevania female of her decade, both looks and gameplay

>>9340298
You have to admit that SotN art is the most beautiful though.

>>9340375
>>9340379
>>9340387
I miss when Castlevania was bright and fun like this. Hell the first one was BRIGHT BLUE AND ORANGE and parodied classic horror movies.

Now it's all DARK and SERIOUS and BROODING. Fuck that noise, I just want to whip shit and have fun.

>>9340391
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UJ7PTQe-EM&feature=related

OoE was a very good game, Shanoa and Albus made me like it. I've never been very big on Metroidvanias though.

Too bad these games never sell too well... The genre is pretty much for those in the early and mid-20's after all.

The last real metroidvania game was stupid disciple, and that was like 2008.

ecclesia'd be fine if it wasn't reusing the same 3-5 rooms for the majority of each area. worst example's the entrance hall, you'll see the same room design over and over.

as for fuck, i kinda liked the desu sisters. too bad they were pretty much the only thing i liked from that game.

>>9340372
>CHAROTTO
Vampire sisters were cuter. and the Leraje enemy had a sexy voice...OoE and PoR were full of appealing female enemies.

>>9340396
What do you call that application everyone uses now to make their pictures look all old-timey and saturated?

Because that's what SotN looks like.

>>9340402
>I just want to whip shit and have fun.

My thoughts exactly!! The metroidvanias just don't have that kind of feeling to them.

>>9340402
Pal, Castlevania 3 was my favourite game, and I never once thought it was happy and funny because of bright colors...actually, it was my favourite thanks to the brooding gothic imagery.

Normally I hate internet comedy celebrity people, but Castlevania 1 was the best Castlevania and egoraptor explained why perfectly.

>>9340432
Castlevania 3 should have been your favourite because of that SWEET ASS VRC6 CHIP.

Seriously, if you haven't played the Japanese version go get the ROM or something. Most modern emulators can emulate the VRC6. The music is just amazing.

>>9340433
to speak the truth I laughed like a fucking retard with that video.

>>9340416
having a huge arsenal of weapons and spells makes metroidvanias superior in my opinion. Being a demon lord is absolutely sweet

>>9340375

the original Marisa

>>9340432
It was, however, about whipping shit and having fun. That's the important thing.

Most of the metroidvanias(in my opinion) are more character-driven than gameplay-driven, and most of the characters are brooding faggots.

>>9340459

>>9340459
It bores me. I just want to be a vampire hunter. The holy powers are enough, I mean you can throw a cross and it's a boomerang! Eat my righteous fury, children of the night!

I guess I can understand that though. Everyone likes something different.

>>9340414
The soundtrack in ecclesia wasn't the greatest either, and it hasn't been for quite a few games. Underwater segments felt slow and clunky, all the item-finding and hoarding was also reduced drastically from previous games.

Stage design also felt uninspiring because there was little to work when it comes to large, open areas. You can't just throw in platforming death ledges in metroidvanias, nor can you design platform-hopping because there's literally no sky stages. Stage design was only in the classic style for the first stage and the castle near the end.

Fucking hell, the magnet glyph? Used 4 times within the first 2 stages and then scrapped, only to come back for the dickwad obstacle course bonus stage. Design team literally got lazy,I guess.

>>9340465
dialogue is absolutely sparse in any metroidvania (never played the 3D ones), what little there was was easily disregarded in favor of the excellent exploration, how is that character-driven

>>9340459
It's kind of pointless though. The best example I've played was Aria of Sorrow. You grinded for all these powers or whatever and you were basically a god, but then you just found a couple you liked and stuck with them. I get that everyone has their own preferences, but in my eyes the best weapons and subweapons have existed since the very first game.

>>9340487
More character driven than the other castlevania games are, with the exception of maybe Rondo of Blood with it's cinematics.

If you're going to tell me that Portrait of Ruin and the Sorrow games didn't have a bunch of dialogue, though, you're wrong.

>>9340502
everyone has their own preferences. I for one absolutely loved hurling electric grenades in CotM or spitting Water at a giant fire demon in DoS

>>9340487
In the GBA ones there was a lot of dialogue. It was mostly exposition, though.

I know I'm going to sound like a nostalgic ADHD manchild, but I preferred it in games when things just happened. Like the villain wouldn't say MWUHAHAHA I AM DRACULA INCARNATE I AM STEALING THESE SEVEN RELICS TO RESURRECT MY TRUE POWER but there'd just be some two second scene where the enemy flies past and visibly steals shit. Even if it's supposed to be dark and realistic, you could at least consider it an abstraction of how things "actually" turned out.

>>9340476
Actually I became a master at using axe and dagger because I never liked the whip.
also, I liked Dracula and his horde of monsters, not the annoying hero with the power of priesthood -yes I'm from a catholic family - so I have good reasons to like more the metroidvanias
well
actually
uhm,
there's a /castlevania/ somewhere?
HIGA said once that if you die in a castle or a church during a full moon night,
you'll not really die
you'll open a portal
TO CASTLEVANIA
like Gensokyo
I NEED IT
GIVE ME THE PORTAL
I'M WAITING SINCE I'M EIGHT YEARS OLD
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
CASTLEVANIAwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwwwwwwww

>>9340537
sparky, I'm serious--the fact that you're Catholic both explains a lot about you and raises some worrying concerns.

>>9340537
and then you'll end up as a villager/townsperson in a random town and get owned by a skeleton.

sotn is the best castlevania.

if you disagree you deserve to be killed.

>>9340543
Wait, what?! I'm not sparky, dammit! those are bats, BATS!
>>9340545
CRAZY!!!!!

Pretty off-topic question, but does anyone know where I can download a copy of Dracula with the *original* soundtrack?

I found a DVD rip on Demonoid but there was this weird buzzing throughout the whole thing. I thought maybe it was just the best restoration job they could do, but the comments seemed to suggest it was a problem with that particular encode.

>>9340543
EYE did not post this

>>9340578
GOTCHA!

*reports u 2 da mods*

>>9340568
i don't, but i'd be interested if you find it. so don't forget to share a link when you do.

>>9340568
>created by bollocks77 2 years ago
this one?
from the comments everything looks fine.