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Post your top 3 Castlevanias
For me it's
Rondo
SotN
Bloodlines

>>10683823
Classic:
CV1
Bloodlines
Rondo

Metroidvania:
SOTN
Aria
Portrait of Ru-AAAAAGGGGHGGGHHH NOT RETRO

Combined:
SOTN
CV1
Aria

SOTN remains unbeaten :(

Love the classic games and hate what happened to it. Surprised at how many bugs and bad art choices people have patched out over the years. Series definitely has a lot of ups and downs. First game is my favorite overall.
>>10683872
I'm at the point in my life where I just assume those are men.

>>10684058
Worse, Germans. Or so they claim, but I'm getting huge east euro vibes. Also they seem to have disappeared off the internet around 2017. That image is already 12 years old.

Maria!

>>10683819

>>10683819
>Fuck you Dracula

>>10683823
1
4
Rondo

>>10683823
Harmony of Dissonance
Dracula's Curse
Symphony of the Night

>>10683823
3
Rondo
Circle of the Moon

>>10683823
SotN
Bloodlines
1

>>10684108
uoooh!!!

>>10683819
sotn
cv
bloodlines

>>10684108
lolitetona

>>10683819

Fuck me? Fuck ME? No, fuck YOU!!

>>10683823
Symphony of the Night
Portrait of Ruin
Circle of the Moon

>>10683819
Am I the only one that likes Simons quest?

>>10686083
No

>>10686083
Lots of people liked aspects of it which is why the fangame Lecarde Chronicles 2 was like it in a lot of ways.

>>10686083
The OST is the best of the NES trilogy imo
Yeah even above JP Dracula's Curse

>>10686275
Nice hitboxes konmai

>>10686083
i like simons quest.. for me its
CV2
SotN
CV4

I do like all the game boy ones and thought the infinite wep combos were interesting to play with.. but they never felt a full game to me.. pocket sized and packing punch.. but not a full fleshed out new thing :(

>>10686275
no way, i was always so careful there

>>10687615
It's actually pretty smart. Keeping the hitbox for the entire sawblade would be way too taxing so this is a nice workaround.
In fact, I played the game dozens and dozens of times (no exageration) and I never noticed this and I doubt I'd ever have found out on my own.

What's also nice to see in this video is how the hitboxes don't match the sprites at all, nobody ever noticed, nobody ever felt like hitboxes were off in this game (okay, except maybe for certain phases of the gear boss)... Yet when some low grade ecleb makes a YT video about the hit detection being off 2 pixels in NES TMNT in a way that's even less noticeable than this, people start going like "I've always known hit detection was broken in this game honestly!"

>>10683819
Is that physique achievable without gear?

>>10687674
Yes, I wasn't being sarcastic.
I was blown away as well as it legit didn't know the hitboxes in the sawblade are so small, yet they work perfectly and give the illusion of covering the entire blade.

Are CotM and HoD worth playing? I've played all the other games.

>>10684114
CV64 Drac went hard

>>10687802
Yes.

>Load into Simon's Quest for the first time and immediately blasted with the greatest NES music known to man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H58lhgcc-nk
idk guys I know its reputation but I'm feeling optimistic about this one

I am playing SotN now after playing all the other Igavania games and I honestly find it a bit overrated, the presentation is great but I just think most sequels were more polished and had more interesting mechanics

>>10683823
Classic
CV1
Rondo
CV3

Metroidvania
Order of Ecclesia
Symphony of the Night
Aria of Sorrow

>>10688554
Aria is almost better, has some semblance of difficulty and the Julius fight is kino.
I say almost because I still prefer SOTN more for its movement and because you don't have to stop everything to grind souls every once in a while

>>10683823
Classic: Rondo, Chronicles, SCV 4

Metroidvania: SotN, Aria, HoD

>>10688554
I thought so too upon my first playthrough, but years later I came to the conclusion that it's still the best overall.
Aria and Dawn are great doe.

>>10688554
I love Symphony of the Night but it's very unpolished. I'm confused as to how there isn't a ROM hack or updated release of the game that adds basic quality of life improvements considering how popular and acclaimed it is. Stuff like
>Rebalancing the difficulty
>Making the menu easier to sort and navigate
>Being able to use items without equipping them
>Slightly more detailed map
>Slightly faster walking speed
>New Game Plus feature
>More music in inverted castle
>Maybe scaling enemies and weapons

We're nearing 30 years since this game came out and I can't find any version of this game with shit like this

>>10689372
Because you can get most of that shit from playing Aria/Dawn/Portrait/Ecclesia so people just play those instead. All of which have their own problems, but that just spreads the people with the skills, time, dedication to do it thinner

>>10683823
Classic:
OG
Bloodlines
Rondo

Metroidvania:
Aria
Dawn
Portrait
>>10686083
People like it when they use the fan re-translation, the original release is is butchered.

Castlevania would not even be considered great if not for Castlevania 2. Imho.

IMHO
Because no one owned Castlevania but everyone owned Castlevania 2 IMHO

Fuck, you Dracula. Can't stand that sob

>>10683819
Castlevania has an incredible track record for how many good games the series has which makes it all the more depressing that it’s a dead franchise outside of Netflix adaptations. Most of the games are niche which is stupid

>>10689372
Is there a hack that adds Saturn content to PSX?

>>10689398
Consider when it was released.
1987 was a pre-Mario 3 world, you would have a very good argument that Castlevania was the greatest action game on the NES at the time.

>>10688539
Konami always has some of the best musics on the system, even their most obscure, mid tier title (not that there are a lot of "mid" NES Konami games) will have kick ass music

F u Dracula
You're a drunk.
Disgusting ghoul.
Make me sick.
What would your dad say, Dracula?

"I didn't teach him to suck necks!"

What Dracula needs, along with many, is a good WHIPPING

>>10683823
SOTN
4
3 (japanese version)

>>10687867
That's not him though

>>10683823
Classic: Bloodlines, Chronicles, Rondo
IGAvania: SOTN, Aria, Ecclesia

>>10683819
Am I the only one who thinks the “Van Helsing” movie could have been a “Castlevania” movie if not much were changed?

>>10683823
Classic: Rondo, III, X68000
IGA: Symphony, Aria, Portrait

>>10689793
Still none. I heard there's a Saturn hack that improves the performance.

>>10692442
the ps2 game is a dmc clone

>>10692442
The PS2 Van Helsing game references CV

>>10687674
They could have drawn a ray from the centre of the circular blade to its edge in the direction of the player and checked if the ray intersected the player's hurt box. A single ray.

>>10683823
Not retro:
Lords of Shadow
Lords of Shadow 2
Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate

Retro:
Castlevania 64
Castlevania The Adventure
Castlevania 1 (C64 version)