/vr/ - Retro Games

it's perfect

I fucking HATE the term Metroidvania so fucking much. Metroid was always like Metroidvania from the very first game. Metroid created the genre. On the other hand Castlevania has a shitload of games on the NES, GB, SNES, Genesis... that are all straightforward linear platformers. There is no back tracking. There are no abilities you gain to access certain areas. You also had 3D Castlevania for the n64 which was something completely different while Metroid always stuck with that gameplay formula. So if anything those games should be called Metroid likes or whatever.

Not even a NESfag but this is the closest thing to the platonic ideal of a video game I've ever played.

Did anyone ever really care about Castlevania's story? To me it was a classic horror and mythology funhouse until the N64 games got all melodramatic.

Holy shit the controls fucking suck. What were they thinking?

therefor im justified in using a save state.

Zoom-zoom here, when people say they "beat" Castlevania, do they mean both loops or just the first loop?

This is the most fair and challenging NES game I've played and beaten. Are there NES titles with limited continues/no passwords that are done right (save Contra)?

Say what you want about that game OP but you cannot deny that pic related is one of the GOAT NES games.