/vr/ - Retro Games

My favorite Castlevanias are honestly Aria Of Sorrow and Dawn Of Sorrow.

I liked Symphony Of The Night and Order Of Ecclesia quite well, and I think Harmony Of Dissonance is quite alright, even if it apes Symphony rather closely, it has some very nice aesthetics and designs. Circle Of The Moon I feel balances quite decently between classic and Metroid style, it gets rather hard at places, I've never once managed to beat Dracula, he's hard as a motherfucker in that game, I've beat lots of the other games but man that guy wipes the floor with me.

Of the classic ones, it's honestly Super Castlevania 4, sure, the enemies are kind of easy, but the gameplay is really fun because of the super smooth controls, whip in all directions, crawling on your knees. I could do without twirling the whip but if it's there, whatever. It's also a pretty good early tech demo of what the SNES could do, it does a bunch of stuff with Mode 7 which I find interesting. The sound quality isn't stellar, but a lot of the tunes and tracks are just fantastic, such as the main theme and the Castle Treasury theme.

I like Dracula X, even if it's just a discount Rondo (which I never played, because I don't have a PC-Engine), but the controls regressed to older ones, which I didn't like as much, you can only whip forward, and you can't move even close to as smoothly.
If Dracula X had the controls and movement of Super, it would probably have been my most favorite Castlevania game of all time. It's still dear to me for a lot of it's style and atmosphere, music is top notch.

Of the older ones, the first one is fine, but it's rather basic, and it takes a lot of practice to get good at it, though it is still fun, the games get more interesting and advanced as it goes. I liked the Chronicles Remake, but it's much the same in terms of difficulty. Had a kickass soundtrack.

I never played the N64 ones, PoR, Sega, 3, or the new ones, but they didn't look much fun to me (except PoR, which I haven't seen).