/vr/ - Retro Games

why hasn't been a castlevania game better than 4?
why don't they bring back the whip controls?

Stage 8 is bullshit. Fuck this game.

>>8795976

Why did they make it so easy?

You really got filtered by this masterpiece? Lmao shit board

This game feels like a bit of a downgrade from the NES games. It's a bit too easy overall, with a few bullshit spikes of difficulty (e.g. stage 8 towards the end). The whip felt really strong, like it could deal with most situations easily. One of the things I liked most about the NES Castlevanias was coming up with strategies for specific parts, this meant memorising where side weapons would drop which helped make levels memorable. Even though I've just beaten C4 I find it hard to recall individual levels as easily.

Also it looks kind of ugly/bland for the most part. Music is just servicable too, with only 1 or 2 standout tracks, which is a downgrade from the NES games where every track was catchy and memorable.

>>7211848
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWMN91gMD_4

>>6900925

SCIV is a good game.

Was kinda disappointed with the difficulty in this game. Even though CV1 was harder, CV4 was more infuriating because you have to go through long treks of very easy encounters before you get to the challenging parts. Given the sparse checkpoints, whenever you do die you have to spend at least a minute droning through the piss-easy parts of the level before you can practice the hard bits.

The third and final levels are the worst offenders of this, level 3 in particular takes about 3 minutes to get to the part where the player has to actually do stuff; getting a game over on level 3 is incredibly boring.

The final stage was pretty long and Death was a difficult boss, so what's the payoff? A Dracula fight even easier than in SotN LOL, what the fuck was that shit

Great game, but they should've either either made the whole game hard or not put checkpoints a kilometre away from the hard parts

took 6hrs to beat with infinite lives.

Castlevania 4 is obviously a great game, some consider it the best in the series

but i feel the stream-lining of the controls kinda
takes away the need for items so why even collect hearts? your whip is all you need, especially that the whip covers 25 percent of the damn screen, if they just shortened the whip size items would definitely be viable to use, the whiping in 8 directions can stay

Just started this jem, any tips?

can we finally admit that this is the castlevania game for people who don't really like castlevania?

How did this game earn a reputation as easy? I'll admit that most of the bosses are wimpy and the eight-directional whipping results in some useless enemy placement, but the platforming is excessively lethal and frequently includes traps at the end of segments that force you to rush that'll kill you if you don't know they're there. That aspect of the game felt a lot harder than most other CV games I've played recently-ish (namely 1, 3, and Bloodlines).

Favorite level from this masterpiece?

When in the 16-bit generation did game developers decide "yeah, we're gonna make games really easy from now on."?

Alright, so it seems that there is a tie between what is considered the best Castlevania game. So, is it pic related or SOTN?