/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6429164
GBA is not /vr/, bro

>>6404458
>Not quite Castlevania
The fuck? Dracula X Is more Castlevania than IV, Bloodlines or Rondo were.
Granted, IV still is the most classic one because it still retains most of the original features (whip upgrades, numeral ranks, can't jump on stairs, etc), but Dracula X SNES has level design that is precisely Castlevania as fuck. Rondo, on the other hand, is more proto-SOTN, with a lot of emphasis on exploration and not very challenging.
These reviews are really dishonest. I feel these magazine reviewers just felt special for actually having played the PC Engine CD game (while most of the rest of mortals had to wait like a decade later for emulation), so they were being all hipsters about it. At least the guy who gave it a 6.5 mentions that it has different levels, that's at least better than the usual "it's a port" bullshit.

>>6280086
>the rest look like absolute shit.
I disagree.
Rondo's backgrounds aren't ugly, but very limited (mostly black screens, or colored bricks that look like something out of a NES game)

>>4830650
I know that the SoTN is technically superior and all but i kinda like the look of Dracula X more. I think the environments have more variety and allows the game to be visually interesting where as SoTN was inside the Castlevania and had less environmental variety to work with. Plus SoTN recycles some sprites which isn't that big a deal since the sprites were good to begin with so i feel like it loses some points on that too. Although it did have the best OST for the series.