/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9693364
Not sure what's your problem but I hope you get better soon.

It's a very good Classicvania. If you're a Rondo fan, you should like it. Same gameplay but with totally different level design and new bosses (and some of the re-used bosses from Rondo are more challenging here, since for example the water serpent on Dracula X doesn't have the slowdown Rondo has, so it's faster).
I think there's 2 issues regarding its reputation.
First, it came out in 1995, rather late for a 4th gen game, and while it looks and sounds great, it's still a traditional 2D game, no fancy CG pre-rendered graphics or anything too crazy other than the mode 7 background on the 1st stage, so back in the 90s, people were cynically ignoring games like these (just look at the contemporary SOTN reviews and how reviewers trashed it for being 2D).
Fast-forward to the internet mainstream era of the 2000s and people were now aware of this Japan-only "hidden jaym" called Rondo of Blood for the exotic PC Engine CD-ROM2 and suddenly everyone started crying about "omg! we got negated this AWESOME japanese masterpiece and instead we got a dumbed down port!".
Now, you can find some scans of 90s magazines that mentioned Rondo, and some of them were already preaching this narrative of "Dracula X on snes is a bad port", mostly reviewers who had access to the PC Engine CD and the game so they were feeling extra hipster about it since they knew so few people outside of Japan had played it, but it wasn't until the 2000s and the widespread internet that this narrative became normal among video game fans.
I think it wasn't until the 2010s (late 2010s, probably) that finally SOME people started realizing that Rondo and DX are different games, but many still believe the port narrative, sadly.

>>8110971
>you will always be an autistic manchild who refuses to grow the fuck up.
Ironic coming from another console warrior.

>tfw zoomers only hear the 2000s/2010s dry "sega." with a man voice instead of the choral "SEEEEE GAAAAAAAA" of the soul era

why is it always sony fans who are so antagonistic for the N64? shouldn't be the other way around? if playstation "won", why are their fans so obsessed with the competition? i also saw a lot of sony fanboy shitposting on saturn threads.

*double jumps in your easiest classicvania game*
based maria making purist elitist retards mad

1 - 8/10
3 - 9/10
4 - 6/10
Bloodlines - 7/10
RoB - 10/10
SOTN - 10/10
Chronicles - 7/10

>>4628974
>totalitarian mods
You're not only a shitposter but also a huge pussy lol
Hot news: your opinions are worth shit.

This was meant to be a reply on >>3900159

>mfw australia-kun grew up playing shitty 50hz ports of japanese games

>>3737297
I dunno, I like both Rondo and Kojima's designs.
Rondo also has a special place in my heart because of the zany 90s character design, and also I have nostalgia for them because the american manual of Dracula X on SNES used the Rondo portraits.
But Kojima's designs are good in their own right, Maria looks like a younger version of SOTN Maria.