/vr/ - Retro Games

>captcha: VGTRY

Nice try but I'll stick to vr

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In fact, these games even got me to rethink my opinion of the N64 as a whole and since then I'm been beaten other N64 games like the 2 Goemon ones and I've been starving for similar games

Anyway, my recommendation is to play the original before LoD. I don't think LoD "replaces" the original and I think it's better to at least make a playthrough with the Belmont in the original version before jumping into LoD.

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This opinion needs to stop imo, LoD in many ways assumes the player has already played through the original

I've beaten LoD now, great game overall and many of the new levels were great

I appreciate how they tried to fix the wrongs of the original game, for instance like you know how in most Castlevania games they give the player time to get used to the controls and only throw them in real platforming segments from the second stage onward? CV64 didn't give a fuck, the game starts, BOOM bossfight! Followed by platforming! You die there? Do the boss again!

The boat stage addition makes a great intro stage before all that happens.

However, I really dislike what they Castle Wall (having to climb one of the towers a second time, really?) and Villa (god what a mess).

Also the game's structure is less cohesive, it feels like you get teleported around from level to level with wild theme differences (I didn't know Egypt was in the middle of Transylvania); and it really lacks that Castlevania feel at times, it felt more like I was playing Tomb-vania

And finally the protagonist is OP as fuck. It's ridiculous how strong he is, so ridiculous the game ends up unfun because everything is a pushover. Reindhart and Carrie should have been unlocked from the start, and hard mode as well (is this game meant for people who know the original or is it not?).
So I really don't think it "replaces" the original, in fact many things feel like they're cooler to experience if you've been through the original.

Either way if you never played these two games because you've been memed into thinking they're shit, think again.