/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6444960
I like the Netflix adaptation.

>>6444960
>Belmont
Maria!
>side character
Maria!
>Non-Belmont
Maria!
>Boss Battle
Maria!
>Song
Mary Samba!
>Game
Bloodlines

>>6444960
Threadly reminder that 4, Rondo and SotN ruined the franchise.

>>6445002

>>6444979
Both cringe and based

>>6445002
Simon's Quest ruined it, then III ruined it again by adding a bunch of non-Belmont faggots.
IV is based, as is X68000. Then they ruined it again with Rondo and Bloodlines.

>>6444960
>Favorite Belmont
Simon
>Favorite side character
Grant, shame they never made a wall-crawling character again
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
Alucard (SOTN)
>Favorite Boss Battle
Death (CV1 NES)
>Favorite Song
It's a tie between Simon's theme and Dance of Gold
>Favorite Game
Don't make me choose... I guess a tie between 1, 4, Bloodlines and SOTN

>>6445363

>>6444960
>Favorite Belmont
Simon Belmont
>Favorite Side Character
Terra (Rondo of Blood)
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
Eric Lecard
>Favorite Boss Battle
Death
>Favorite Song
Vampire Killer
>Favorite Game
Castlevania NES

>>6445371
Some people have nothing to live for except collecting (You)s.

>>6445446
That's fair.

>>6445002
How?

>>6444960
>Favorite Belmont
Simon
>Favorite side character
Maria
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
Nathan Graves (CotM)
>Favorite Boss Battle
Death (Rondo of Blood)
>Favorite Song
Maria's boss battle theme from SOTN (Saturn)
>Favorite Game
Circle of the Moon

>>6444960
>Favorite Belmont
Based Richter
>Favorite side character
Based Death
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
Based Soma
>Favorite Boss Battle
Based Granfaloon
>Favorite Song
Based Cross A Fear
>Favorite Game
Based Castlevania: Order of Shadows for Java Platform: Micro Edition. Nah, I kid, it's actually the original Castlevania for NES.

>>6444960
not gonna keep that list retro on purpose.

>Favorite Belmont
Juste Belmont
>Favorite side character
Yoko Belnades
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
I guess Hector. Soma is too Mary Sue for my taste and too effeminate.
>Favorite Boss Battle
I hate bosses, that's why I always kill them. I guess any Legion battle.
>Favorite Song
Baljhet Mountains, Dance of Pales
>Favorite Game
SotN

>>6444960
>Most incredible underrated soundtrack wasted on a mediocre game
Lament of Innocence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izj8elq1o1Q

Someone should romhack all the tracks from Lament of Innocence into the inverted castle in SotN, so it has proper music.

>>6447113
that is a great soundtrack indeed.
Hail from the Past in PoR was so good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRIum3YdzyU

>>6444963
>Isaac is black
>Hector is a pussy.

yeah, no thanks.

>>6447081
>4
Muh casualised gameplay for retardos.
>Rondo
Muh weeb aesthetics and unskippable cutscenes.
>SotN
Muh Metroid level design and cancerous RPG elements.

>>6447761
>Muh casualised gameplay for retardos.
That's basically all Castlevania after the first, though. All in all, 4 is still among the most traditional ones, along with CV III (if Trevor-only) and Sharp X68000.

>>6447761
Getting filtered: the post

>Favorite Belmont
Richter
>Favorite side character
Maria (sotn)
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
Alucard
>Favorite Boss Battle
I always enjoy the doppelgänger fights in the various games
>Favorite Song
Iron Blue (portrait ver)
>Favorite Game
the first one on nes & rondo

Trevor

Maria

Eric Lecarde

Death from Castlevania III

Man, can't really choose one, from the top of my head :New Messiah from castlevania rebirth or pillared corridors from cv4

Castlevania III

>>6447784
Regardless, IV still has the easiest controls out of all the Classicvania titles.

Bloodlines is low-key the best 16-bit CV in terms of gameplay because it removed air movement, so you have to commit to your jumps like the NES games.

>>6445363
this is the correct answer. IV and X68000 were return to form and the real castlevania.
Everything else is pointless trash full of gimmicks and cringe side characters like gary stu alucard.

>>6444963
I think it really sucks.

What I want out of a Castlevania anime is hardcore, balls-to-the-wall action where I get to see a Belmont (and possibly some company) whip the ever-living shit out of legions of demons to some classic Castlevania music, not some juvenile, half-baked political drama and/or romance. Castlevania games are primarily about the action, I don't see why the show should be any different.

>>6449189
I like the show's Trevor and Sypha. I wish the show was about them and Alucard and Grant slaughtering monsters on the way to Dracula's castle and building rapport, instead of OC vampires quipping at each other while Belmont spends the season doing nothing in a random location before pulling out the whip in the last twenty minutes.

>>6447784
CVIII is still baby easy if you're playing the jap version but it's still more fun to me than replaying 1. I pop CVIII whenever the fuck I want.

Anyways
>>6444960
>Favorite Belmont
Trevor
>Favorite Side Character
Grant
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
Hector
>Favorite Boss Battle
Shaft's entire boss rush including Shaft himself
>Favorite Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msJcSs6vj_Q
>Favorite Game
Castlevania the Adventure Rebirth

>>6447135
I'm okay with a melanin enriched Isaac since the only thing I care about is what they do with the character. But Hector's started cool but is slowing turning shit, Alucard is shit, Dracula was turbo shit, Zead was shit, St Germain was cool, "blah blah prophet blah blah", pacing is shit, Carmilla et all are shit, "magic obedience crystal" etc etc

At least the showrunner is up front about knowing absolutely nothing but Castlevania. Season 2 was losing me but Season 3 ensures I'll miss the bullet that will be Season 4. Never had I encountered such miserable banter between two leads.

>>6448829
But you can still turn quickly mid-air (not on the NES games), and the land detection is WAY more generous than on NES games. Bloodlines might be the easiest 16-bit vania after Rondo.

>>6448829
The only time the jumping can be a problem is exactly in that section you posted with the rotating spheres

also

>they don't know how to collect this 1up

Casuals

Been attempting to do a no death playthrough of Drac X on the good ending route. Already did it on the bad ending route several times, which was much easier.

I think my best attempt so far was 3 deaths, but now that I've learnt Death properly and now that I have a good tactic against every problematic enemy in stage 4 when you have to hold to the key, it should be doable.

>>6447761
>muh some dumb bullshit because I can't write a nuanced opinion
>>>/v/

Does anyone know in Dracula X (SNES) what dictates whether or not you can throw several subweapons at the same time?

Sometimes you can throw 3, sometimes only 2, sometimes only 1.... I think it may depend on how many hearts you have left but I'm not sure.

>>6450476
I figured it out

>hearts between 1 and 20: 1 subweapon at a time
>hearts between 20 and 30: 2 subweapon at a time
>hearts between 30 and more: 3 subweapons at a time

Does not apply to knifes where it's always 1 throw at a time afaik. I wonder if it's the same in Rondo? I never paid attention.

also, beating the game without dying on the good ending route [x].

>>6444979

Looking at the beta version of Rondo, I think it's pretty obvious that some of the late scrolls were actually unfinished.
You know the ones I'm talking about, the ones which are pretty much straight lines with drab orange bricks backgrounds.

>>6450950
>I wonder if it's the same in Rondo?

Only tested with the axe so far but it seems to be the same though the numbers differ

>hearts 1 to 20: 1 subweapon
>hearts 20 to 50: 2 subweapon
>hearts 50 to 99: 3 subweapons

>>6450964
Many of Rondo's environments are boring in general despite how good the sprites are.

>>6444960
Juste or Simon
Yoko
Charlotte or Johnathon or Shaona or Cornell
Legion
Iron Cross
Harmony of Dissonance/Eclessia
Not retro I know, sorry

OP here, might as well post mine
>Favorite Belmont
Julius
>Favorite side character
Maxim
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
Eric Lecarde
>Favorite Boss Battle
Death (CVIII)
>Favorite Song
Really difficult but I'm thinking it's Aquarius
>Favorite Game
Again really difficult but I'm going with SCIV

>>6444963
>Alucard not in old retro design
>Never bone army
>muh big bad crunch

No thank.
>Lisa inaccuracy death

>>6448829
>where SNES port

>>6453357
GameCube exclusive too

>>6449578
I not okay with redheads turning up terrible wokeness.

>>6453357
Whatever it is that you're trying to do is not working. You suck at forcing memes

>>6453369
>not a meme

>no dmg bonus against Death
>without using item crash

Who's raping who now, bitch.

One thing I don't like about the X68K version is that the Simon doesn't move faster when jumping.
It's a staple in the series, it helps avoid hits and it's also a risk/reward factor, move a little faster but put yourself at risk.

It doesn't have to be as bad as in Drac X where the difference of speed between walking and jumping is insane, but if it's just as subtle as in CV1 or Rondo that'd be enough. It makes the game feels a little more sluggish than it should be otherwise, not to mention you have more reasons to jump with the downward whip attacks.

I think a really cool idea for a Castlevania would be if it had a stage map like SMW or DKC with branching paths. That way you can pass it off as having Metroidvania characteristics, but each stage would be a Classicvania with no levelups or things like that.

Is the soundtrack good

>>6444960
>Favorite Belmont
Simon
>Favorite side character
Maria
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
Nathan Graves
>Favorite Boss Battle
Death
>Favorite Song
Vampire Killer
>Favorite Game
Circle of the moon

my first CV was CoTM on the GBA. Broke my CV cherry. more of a Castlevania fan tho can appreciate the classics. the Wiiware Castlevania rebirth was great.

>>6455705
Castlemania** my bad

>>6455705
Castlevania Rebirth lacks focus imo. Level layouts and enemy placement are all over the place, feels very random. The game goes into all directions at once and it gives it a "bad fan game" vibe.
It's a shame because it had potential otherwise.

>Favorite Belmont
Simon
>Favorite side character
Renon
>Favorite Non-Belmont Vampire Hunter
Sypha
>Favorite Boss Battle
Dancing spectres
>Favorite Song
Wicked Child
>Favorite Game
tie between 1 and 4