What is the best Castlevania game?

[Anonymous No.3044532]

I'm new to the series so I've been looking for some advice on which one to start out with. I've heard Symphony of the Night is better than everything that came before it, but also that Super Castlevania 4 would be a pretty good choice too. What do you think, /vr/?

[Anonymous No.3044538]

Oh boy, a Castlevania thread about which one is "best".

If you're not baiting, start with the first one, plain and simple. Work your way up from there.

[Anonymous No.3044543]

>>3044532

Don't tell.

For the love of God don't tell me.

That Simon Belmont is based on King Conan as played by Arnold. The similarities in dress, clothing, and style are impossible to miss now.

Because that would make yet ANOTHER video game character inspired by Arnold, or an Arnold film.

[Anonymous No.3044562]

>>3044532
Rondo is GOAT. Avoid the ones that play like Metroid unless you're a casual shitter. IV isn't very good because it runs slow and is boring. After you 1cc Rondo you should play New Generation next.

[Anonymous No.3044569]

>>3044532

The highpoint of the series was likely the Iga and Hagihara developed games.

Rondo of Blood
Symphony of the Night

They make a nice little mini-series with a mostly contained plot. Play those.

Other highlights:

>CV1
>CV3
>Bloodlines
>Aria of sorrow

[Anonymous No.3044582]

>>3044543
All the similarities are pretty eerie now that you pointed it out....

[Anonymous No.3044593]

>>3044532
I'd recommend starting with the classic series. If you love 1, move on to the spectacular 3 afterward. If 1 kicks your ass, try 4 instead. If you're cruising through the classics, don't forget to try Rondo and Bloodlines.

2 is alright, but it's not for everyone. It's like an early attempt at what SotN and later games do more in depth.

For the first few non-retro ones: Circle of the Moon is a great bridge between classic and exploration. Harmony of Dissonance is alright, but it's too easy. Aria of Sorrow has an excellent balance of variety and challenge.

[Anonymous No.3044608]

My advice is to play every game starting from the first one but skipping Simon's Quest, that one isn't worth it.

[Anonymous No.3044612]

>>3044593
What do you think of the MSX Vampire Killer game? Personally I really like it.
but Aria of Sorrow is probably my favorite castlevania game, I really can't get into the older more linear console titles, they are just too slow and clunky for me, and yes, I did grow up at the time.

[Anonymous No.3044621]

>>3044562

[Anonymous No.3044626]

>>3044532
Play the mainline games in order. Each game tries something different from the other so you can't really pinpoint which one is the best of the best.

[Anonymous No.3044632]

>>3044532
Almost all the /vr/ ones are really good but fags will fight about this without end

Or perhaps THAT WAS YOUR PLAN

[Anonymous No.3044638]

>>3044562
so hardcore

[Anonymous No.3044639]

>>3044608
Isn't their a fan hack that fixes most of the issues with Simon's Quest?

[Anonymous No.3044643]

>>3044543
we need to make a list image of all classic games with Arnie inspired characters in them.

[Anonymous No.3044647]

>>3044562

Rondo is way too easy, same with "New Generaton" (if by that you meant Bloodlines).

OP should just stick to 1 and avoid any of the others, it's the only good Castlevania.

[Anonymous No.3044659]

>>3044643
yes
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/868/

[Anonymous No.3044669]

>>3044659
also, I almost linked this one as well because I thought it sounded interesting until I read the changes, lol, why... just why...
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/95/

[Anonymous No.3044670]

All are good but Simon's Quest is fucking trash do not recommend at all

[Anonymous No.3044676]

I love 2 : Belmont's revenge. It's not one of the highly regarded titles, though I think it holds as maybe the best for music. The levels are very immersive. Motion is very limited, but not clunky. You feel like a power hitter just whipping and trudging his way through which is very akin to the Conan character type that op referenced. You're able to do so much with so little.

a live rendition of three of the songs. jump to 2 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MixMHw2je98

[Anonymous No.3044678]

>>3044670
come on Mike, how many times does James have to tell you that the game isn't that bad and he exaggerated for humor.

[Anonymous No.3044690]

>>3044669
>Colors fixed for Nesticle v.0.43
What? Why?
>Hack Release Date 22 February 1998
Oh.

[Anonymous No.3044693]

>>3044690
oh... I thought there was a newer one.. let me look again...

[Anonymous No.3044697]

>>3044693
>>3044690

oh... you were talking about that old shitty one that was probably made by a 13yo that I linked after

[Anonymous No.3044704]

>>3044697
also...

[Anonymous No.3044726]

>>3044532
Castlevania 1 (NES ver., avoid inferior Chronicles version)
Castlevania 3
Rondo of Blood (avoid inferior SNES ver. called Dracula X)
Bloodlines
Super Castlevania IV
Then go for Symphony and the GBA games.

[Anonymous No.3044746]

>>3044726
>avoid inferior Chronicles version
Castlevania Chronicles? It's rad as fuck, vastly different to the NES game, and well worth playing.
>avoid inferior SNES ver. called Dracula X
Drac X isn't the SNES version of Rondo, it's a different game.

Stop parroting dumb youtubers, and dissuading people from playing perfectly good games.

[Anonymous No.3044754]

>>3044532
God Tier:
Castlevania III

High Tier:
Rondo of Blood
Castlevania Chronicles

Mid Tier:
Castlevania
Adventure ReBirth
New Generations
Belmont's Revenge

Low Tier:
Castlevania X
Super Castlevania Bros.
Legends
The Adventure

Shit Tier:
Haunted Castle

Metroid Tier:
Castlevania II
Symphony of the Night

[Anonymous No.3044757]

>>3044754

>Haunted Castle
>shit tier

You're such a casual, australia-kun.

[Anonymous No.3044762]

III's a pretty great one, four characters, different paths, great music.
One thing to remember is that the NES version is way harder due to memory issues, but the original is no slouch either. Go for the Japanese version if you can.

[Anonymous No.3044775]

>>3044569
>Rondo of Blood
>Symphony of the Night
>highpoint of the series
I respectfully disagree.

[Anonymous No.3044778]

>What is the best Castlevania game?
The one you dislike the most due to your irredeemable taste.

[Anonymous No.3044780]

>>3044647
3 and X68000 are great, too. I don't know why you wouldn't like them if you like the original.

It's not as if you have to play as the other characters if that's your problem anyway. I personally don't. Trevor's the most fun to play as for me.

[Anonymous No.3044782]

>>3044676
Belmont's Revenge is pretty well-regarded by those that have actually played it. I frequently see it mentioned in lists of the best GB games. It's a great game.

[Anonymous No.3044784]

>>3044780

X68K has too many gimmicks and III is mostly fine, but it's not as good as 1.
Neither of them feel like real Castlevania, they should have been different games.

The only true castlevania is the first one.

[Anonymous No.3044787]

>>3044746
Chronicles looks and sounds worse imo

[Anonymous No.3044793]

>>3044775
No anon, just disagree. The poster is /v/ tier and doesn't even know it.
>popular opinion
Sotn ruined the series by taking it into a direction that eliminated need for skill.

[Anonymous No.3044802]

>>3044784
>X68K has too many gimmicks
What gimmicks would those be?
>III is mostly fine, but it's not as good as 1.
The original is more brisk and compact experience, but III has much greater variety, sounds better, looks better, and the bosses are at least on par with the original. It does have a few meh levels, but they're few and far between.
>The only true castlevania is the first one.
Well that's fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.3044803]

I love how OP never replied back.

Gee I wonder if OP really was new to the series and if he really was wondering where to start.

I don't think he just wanted to start another shitposting CV thread where tryhards try their hardest in order to appear hardcore and shit on other people's tastes, right?

[Anonymous No.3044807]

>>3044754
does this board not know about Vampire Killer anymore or something?

[Anonymous No.3044808]

>>3044802

Get off my board, casual.

[Anonymous No.3044809]

>>3044787
Maybe, but it's still a very different game. They're not comparable aside from a few callbacks and a borrowed plot. X68000/Chronicles is distinct game that does its own thing. It's not a straight remake at all.

[Anonymous No.3044816]

>>3044793
retarded everyone must have the same hivemind opinion shit like your post is what is /v/ tier.

[Anonymous No.3044818]

>>3044807
it's listed there as New Generations

[Anonymous No.3044821]

>>3044808
>spewing hardcore vs casual shit on here
gb2 /v/

[Anonymous No.3044824]

>>3044818

He's talking about the original Vampire Killer, not Casuallines.

[Anonymous No.3044827]

>>3044816
>calls someone hive minded
Buzz off and mind your own bees wax.

[Anonymous No.3044829]

>>3044818
The MSX game you dolt

[Anonymous No.3044831]

>>3044532
>this meme again

[Anonymous No.3044837]

>>3044639
the only issue is that you have to know when and how to use the blue and red crystals. the rest of the game isn't too terribly difficult; even blind

duck for few secs w/blue at the big lake to the right and much later with red at cliff/wall to the left

[Anonymous No.3044842]

>>3044827
well it's also my sexual fetish so ok
*crawls back into the hive*

[Anonymous No.3044851]

>>3044837
you morons need to learn that improving gameplay isn't a bad thing as long is it doesn't interfer with the original game, jeez

[Anonymous No.3044854]

>>3044787
>looks
nigga you high as shit

[Anonymous No.3044856]

Super Castlevania Bros. is fucking shit.

>long overpowered whip
>slowest Castlevania game
>all the bosses are easy as fuck
>level design is gimmicky as fuck

If you want to see a proper remake of CV, look no further than the X68K game.

[Anonymous No.3044861]

>>3044856

Good try, but X68K is just a gimmicky game with shitty gimmicky stages like pic related. LOL, riding a log and mashing the whip against mindless merman is so much fun, I totally remember that on the original Castlevania.

Fuck off, play the original Castlevania or die, casual.

[Anonymous No.3044862]

>>3044861

Is Somon wearing a soccer outfit?

[Anonymous No.3044863]

>>3044856
Super Castlevania isn't a remake, it's a different game with the same story. It's a reboot before hey were called reboots.

[Anonymous No.3044867]

>>3044863

X68K isn't a remake either.

It has weird shit like >>3044861 or a fucking stage that was like some girly dinsey shit.

[Anonymous No.3044868]

>>3044861
stop repeating casual as if it means anything here. Actually, never mind, please do, it makes it easy to identify your shitty troll posts.

[Anonymous No.3044873]

>>3044868

"casual", "easy as fuck", "gimmicky", "see-guh" all ways to identify shitposting on CV threads anyway.

[Anonymous No.3044874]

>>3044867
>oooo I can't be seen playing a level with girly colors oh my, I catch teh gay
grow up

[Anonymous No.3044875]

>>3044851
improve it all you want; it's not the same game when you do.

do you improve ghosts n goblins with triple jump ninja flips and sonic rolls?

what does that even mean, improving gameplay on a nintendo game? it's two buttons and a dpad.

I'm all for cleaning up the sprites but nintendo slowdown was a legitimate mechanic. It's bullshit, but if you git gud can just pretend your Neo and use it to emphasize badassery with slo-mo stunts.

[Anonymous No.3044880]

>>3044861
>>3044867
Disney section and Raft section are still more tolerable than waiting 5 minutes for a room to rotate just to show off muh mode 7 grayfix.

[Anonymous No.3044881]

>>3044875
all the hack changes is some wording and some very minor elements, fuck off

[Anonymous No.3044882]

>>3044880

>5 minutes

more like 15 seconds.

No, the raft section where you just have to wait and mash buttons is worse and longer, and anyway I don't see why you'd want to play either IV or Chronicles, or any other game in the series when the perfect Castlevania 1 exists.

[Anonymous No.3044889]

>>3044754
Shit post tier: this

[Anonymous No.3044894]

>>3044861
Simon's sprite was so shitty in that game, another reason to avoid it.

[Anonymous No.3044895]

>>3044880

>a short intermission that doesn't take more than a minute on an otherwise good level is worse than a whole level that looks like Barbie in Wonderland

Eh...

[Anonymous No.3044902]

>>3044882
Just face it, Tech Demo Slowdownvania IV was the weakest entry of the 16-bit games. There was nothing redeemable about the game at all.

[Anonymous No.3044904]

>>3044895
>whole level
It was half of a level, go play the game before you decide to shitpost next time.

[Anonymous No.3044905]

>stop liking what I don't like: the thread

[Anonymous No.3044906]

>>3044902

I don't need to face anything, I don't like any Casualvania outside of the original, everything else is casual trash.

Hipsters like to claim Rondo is the best in the series? That game is short as fuck, easier than ANY other Castlevania, and has that god awful animu aesthetics that don't fit Castlevania at all.

If you like any Castlevania past the original, you have mental issues, or are not very good at video games.

[Anonymous No.3044914]

>>3044905

Sounds like Castlevania general alright.

By the way it's always the same of us here in these threads, I already know all the routines.

Have you guys ever thought about having an IRC room? That way we could plan the shitposting beforehand and maybe the skits could be more variated.

[Anonymous No.3044928]

>>3044914
We could spice things up a bit and talk about the most underappreciated Castlevania game.

[Anonymous No.3044930]

>Your favorite Castlevania game is shit
>No yours is shit
>Yours is shit because it is casual
>Yours is even more casual
>How can you even play that Castlevania game, it is easy
>All Castlevania games are casual babby shit compared to this game
>That game is casual shit compared to this game
Thanks mates.

[Anonymous No.3044935]

So Chronicles is inferior to the original? Cool, let's move on.

[Anonymous No.3044936]

>>3044928

The last Castlevania thread we had, which was about that game, was probably the most civil Castlevania thread I've seen on /vr/. Shitposting was kept to a minimum and people just discussed the series. Of course there was some classic vs iga shitposting but it was kept to a minimum.

[Anonymous No.3044938]

>>3044902
Cocksucking faggot right here.

[Anonymous No.3044941]

>>3044930

And the guy who says all Castlevania games are for babbies and that Ghost and Goblins is a game for real men hasn't even posted yet.

[Anonymous No.3044949]

>>3044906
But X68000 and III are both more difficult than the original Castlevania.

[Anonymous No.3044954]

>>3044949

Keep telling that to yourself, but it's just not true.

The only game harder than Castlevania 1 is Haunted Castle.

[Anonymous No.3044963]

>muh snes tech demo childhood
Bloodlines for life

[Anonymous No.3044972]

>>3044954
>but it's just not true.
I've played through all three games countless times as they're my favorites, and I'd say it is true. I'd also say most people would agree with me, but I can't know that for sure.

[Anonymous No.3044978]

>>3044963

>muh easy castlevania with shitty hit detection and autoscrolling stages for babbies

Castlevania 1 or burst.

[Anonymous No.3044982]

American Castlevania 3, both loops, lower routes only, no partners, no subweapons, no whip upgrades is the best CV game.

Runner-ups: Haunted Castle, 68K+six loops, Simon's Quest without a guide, Castlevania X on SNES

4 and the Metroidvanias are for pussies.

[Anonymous No.3044989]

>>3044982

[Anonymous No.3045024]

To crush your enemies
See them driven before you
And to hear the lamentations of their women

[Anonymous No.3045029]

Are the Goemon games worth playing if I want more hardcore platformers like Castlevania?

[Anonymous No.3045063]

>>3044978
you don't even know how to use >muh correctly, how pathetic

[Anonymous No.3045070]

>>3045029
the Goemon games are nothing like castlevania, is this some sort of weird meme/troll?

[Anonymous No.3045140]

>>3044612
>What do you think of the MSX Vampire Killer game?
I've actually never played it, but I've been meaning to try it at some point.

[Anonymous No.3045147]

>>3044989
whoever made that pic should've replaced the 4 with a 2

[Anonymous No.3045179]

>>3044930

The Castlevania fanbase is split.

[Anonymous No.3045381]

>>3044643
Make a YouTube video about it and have blacks sex your wife

[Anonymous No.3045384]

>>3044538

thread should have /threaded here

[Anonymous No.3045597]

>>3045179
You mean shit.

[Anonymous No.3045638]

>>3044608
[REPORTED FOR EXCESSIVE FAGGOTRY]

[Anonymous No.3045642]

>>3044690
Because Nesticle used to be a boss ass emulator way back when. That severed hand cursor was the fucking shit! Also, you could edit sprites and palletes on the fly. Really cool stuff.

[Anonymous No.3045921]

>>3044906
Calm down autismo.

[Anonymous No.3045957]

Why don't you guys play a game for real men like Ghosts 'n Goblins?

[Anonymous No.3045961]

>>3044532
Simons Quest was the last Castlevania game that even remotely captivated me. I loved the soundtrack.

I haven't played that game in 20+ years but I can remember all of the music.

[Anonymous No.3045962]

>>3044608
Is not liking Simons Quest a meme?

That's a pretty gay meme.

[Anonymous No.3045980]

>>3045179
Why is it like this? I don't think I've seen this level of divisiveness in any other fanbase. Everybody has their favorite and any game that isn't their favorite is complete unplayable garbage. What's wrong with you people? You're lucky enough to have a long-lived series with fairly consistently high quality entries and you can't just be happy with that.

[Anonymous No.3045989]

Rondo of blood is the best classic style Castlevania.

[Anonymous No.3046325]

>>3045957
too busy playing codename viper instead.

[Anonymous No.3046337]

>>3044856
>X68K

you mean castlevania chronicles? srsly dude, unless you're an organic rice disposal unit and call this series "akumajou durakura", I doubt you've actually had any experience with "X68K" castlevania.

[Anonymous No.3046343]

>>3045980
final fantasy is pretty bad too.
Zelda I'd say as well.

But IMO, Castlevania definitely takes the cake.
It's a mix of people wanting to show off how hardcore they are ("this game is better because it's harder") with console war ("this game sucks because it's on nintendo/sega/playstation").

[Anonymous No.3046362]

CV1 - Muh flawless classic
CV2 - Muh horrible curse
CVIII - Muh branching paths
SCIV - Muh wrglglgllgl whip
Bloodlines - Muh blast processing
Rondo - Muh annamay

[Anonymous No.3046460]

>>3045962
It's just e-celeb kids that think it's cool to suck IV's dick and shit on II.

[Anonymous No.3046461]

>>3046460

But James likes Castlevania II, so I think it's okay to hate on II.

[Anonymous No.3046463]

>>3046337
Chronicles is the butchered censored western name for 68k, you should call it by its proper name.

[Anonymous No.3046468]

>>3046463

Akumajou Dracula?

Or Akumajyou Dorakyuura?

[Anonymous No.3046487]

>>3046461
Yeah but most people still think he hates it because of that review, like how they think Egoraptor hates 4.

E-celeb kids are too stupid to think outside the memes.

[Anonymous No.3046494]

>>3046468
>Dorakyuura
It's Dorakyura, actually, but only weebs spell out loan words in Japanese Romaji instead of writing them how they are intended to be written.

[Anonymous No.3046497]

>>3046494

Thanks sempai, will try to wasurenai that.

[Anonymous No.3046676]

Super Castlevania IV

[Anonymous No.3046683]

>>3044928
I I don't get the carrie friends,there's just this strange power to be felt with reinhardt's whip

Henry's pistols are also kickass.

Cornell is okay tier.

[Anonymous No.3046690]

Just play the fucking games, OP.

Do you need someone to tell you when to wipe your ass?

[Anonymous No.3046714]

>>3046676
>recommending the worst Classicvania to OP
For shame, anon.

[Anonymous No.3046749]

>>3046714

>implying OP wanted recommendations and didn't just want to start shit

Anyway I like both IV and Bloodlines, and I think Rondo is overrated. Fight me.

[Anonymous No.3046769]

>>3046749
IV is definitely more overrated than Rondo. Rondo at least has interesting stages and challenging bosses compared to Super. People only cream themselves over IV because >muh whip.

[Anonymous No.3046805]

>>3046769

At this point, IV is getting underrated, people saying it's outright a bad game and what not.
Rondo is good, don't get me wrong, but I think it's overrated due to its hipster/cult "japan-only" status (that finished back in 2007 when the game got released on PSP and Wii, by the way, but many people still treat it as a cult game).
I don't really think it has more interesting stages than IV.
IV's stages are way more interesting, longer and more challenging (before you cry "too easy!", I'm not just talking about the first level, I'm talking about all the levels in the game, the last 4 levels are probably some of the hardest levels in classicvanias).
Rondo's levels are short and easy. The first level is basically a walk in the park (even literally). Subsequent levels get some more challenging, but they're still all pretty short and easy. The branching paths somewhat balance this, but you can't play all the alternative levels in one single playthrough, you have to start over to take the different routes.
The bosses are a mixed bag. While some of them are pretty good (Werewolf probably being the most fun), most others are just mindless and boring. Dracula X on SNES did bosses better.
IV's bosses are also mostly mindless and boring, but just like Rondo's werewolf, it also has some fun ones, like the dancing ghosts, or Slogra/Gaibon.

Not to mention Rondo's dracula fight is disappointingly easy and anti climatic.

>People only cream themselves over IV because >muh whip.

Well if we're gonna trivialize, I can do it for Rondo too.

People only cream themselves over Rondo because >muh western-neglected masterpish

[Anonymous No.3046837]

>>3046690
PRO TIP: After you poop.

[Anonymous No.3047206]

>>3044881
>wording
ganon
gannon

who would do such a thing?

>elements
like what?

even the mona lisa has flaws.
embrace teh imprefections for a truly unique experience.
as if the half screen despawn glitch didn't save all our asses

I really don't mean to sound like an ass, but all those unforgivable glitches are part of the nes era experience. Patch them out and it's no longer a nes game. Embrace the glitch.

It is your density.

[Anonymous No.3047285]

>>3046805
>Not to mention Rondo's dracula fight is disappointingly easy and anti climatic.

But Rondo's Drac has multiple forms. IV's Drac doesn't even have phases, he is probably the worst Drac in the whole series.

[Anonymous No.3047406]

>>3046769
I agree about the bosses, but overall I'd say IV has more interesting stages. A lot of Rondo's levels are pretty flat and a little dull.

[Anonymous No.3047546]

>>3047285

Yeah, visually Rondo's Drac is better, but gameplay-wise and climatic-wise, I prefer IV. Dracula's 2nd form on Rondo is pathetically easy, and I'm not trying to sound hardcore, I don't meant it has to be impossibly hard, but given how slow and easy his 2nd form is, and how fast it dies, it's anti-climatic. A shame because graphically it looks great.
They fixed that by giving him a 3rd form on the PSP remake, but I digress.

[Anonymous No.3047761]

>>3045980
Happened over time on /vr/. Before when /vg/ use to have a Castlevania general it was actually a lot more civil outside of classic Castlevania vs. Metriodvania.

[Anonymous No.3048327]

Castlevania threads on /vr/ are legit cancer, why is this?

[Anonymous No.3048339]

>>3048327

Castlevania is a pretty good series overall. It has everything: gameplay, design, art direction, music, and it's famous for being a hard game series (but in reality it's very accessible which is why it's popular).

The shitposting comes from people trying their hardest to show other fellow anonymous than they're more hardcore than the rest, coupled with console wars.
That's it really.

I'm just talking about the classic series shitposting though. The igavania vs classicvania shitposting is mostly due to generational gap, people who grew up playing the classics vs people who grew up playing SOTN/the GBA games.
Of course this is only relative because many of the classicvania "fans" are just 00s kids who got into the series through emulation and save state scummed their way to Dracula, then claimed hardcore cred online.

[Anonymous No.3048346]

>>3048339

All I remember from the last thread was this was all somehow Sega's fault for the 32x failing, otherwise we would have GOAT CV games like Bloodletting, and surely Bloodletting would have been the best game ever and better than SotN by a long mile.

[Anonymous No.3048359]

>>3048346

Surprisingly igavania vs classic isn't really a hot topic on /vr/, it's more common on other boards (/v/ or otherwise).

/vr/ seems more concerned about settling which classicvania is the most hardcore and the lapidation of holy cows like IV or Rondo.

Also I forgot, e-celebs.

You like IV, and you're an AVGN fanboy.
You dislike IV, and you're an Egoraptor fanboy.

[Anonymous No.3048372]

>>3048359
It's because the actually good Castleroids aren't retro.

SotN is overrated.

[Anonymous No.3048449]

>TFW can't figure out how to make Rondo of Blood emulate because I've never emulated a PC Engine game before

[Anonymous No.3048542]

>>3048359

>Igavania

Don't trigger me. Rondo was directed by Toru Hagihara. He directed most of Symphony before leaving. Those games are really his. Iga played a major role in Symphony, but it's reaslly Hagihara's game.

Igavania implies he created the concept, and games, which is giving him too much credit at the cost of others.

[Anonymous No.3048552]

>>3048542
Fair enough, I just wanted to use a short therm without saying "the kind of games that started with SOTN and followed with the GBA games", since "Metroidvania" also trigger some people.

[Anonymous No.3048560]

>>3048372
>mfw trying to play this right after finishing SotN
The controls are so fucking wonky, jesus fuck.
>>3048449
http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Dummies_Guide:_RetroArch

[Anonymous No.3048613]

>>3044793
This whole fucking board is now /v/ tier

[Anonymous No.3048623]

>>3048560
Neither emulator recognizes .iso, .bin, or .cue files as valid ROM images, that link doesn't answer anything

[Anonymous No.3048679]

>>3044543
>>3044582

Is this bait?

[Anonymous No.3048956]

>>3044532
each plataform have great games, also there are a lot of difference in the evolution of castlevania.

>NES - castlevania III
Castlevania I is also great, and Castlevania II have great concepts but poor execution, it could be a great experience if you are a fan.

SNES - super castlevania IV
The rest are good, but this one is the one that represent the best stuff that the snes can do, and also is the last of the classic in my opinion

PSX - symphony of the night
betwen the snes and this there is a transition, you should look for what happen before symphony to understand why this is such an important title

from this onwards all things change, in early games you beat stages and just kill and advance levels. on symphony you get more explorarion and RPG aspects.

I love castlevania, and i don't think that this series get enough love, you should play every game that you can get your hands on.

Happy hunting.

[Anonymous No.3049421]

>>3044532
all of the entries in each subgenre (classics and metroids) all play about the same.

[Anonymous No.3049552]

>>3046683
The whip feels more powerful but realistically, you can just charge the orb and take out an entire room. Or at least a shitload of skeletons. No aiming. Don't even have to stop. Just charge and release.
Cornell is kind of the middle ground between Carrie and Reinhardt. Still has to aim but has all of the range in the world.
Henry's gun is crazy fun. Makes Cornell and Reinhardt look like shit. Too bad he doesn't get a full campaign because his gun was almost cheating.

[Anonymous No.3049625]

Here's the simple way to tell which Castlevania will be your favorite.

It all depends on which you like more, classic horror movies or anime.

Horror Movie > Anime = Super Castlevania IV

Anime > Horror Movie = Symphony of the Night

Horror Movie = Anime = Rondo of Blood

Basically the way a person's favorite Castlevania is chosen is based more on aesthetic than gameplay.

[Anonymous No.3050318]

>>3049625
>Horror Movie = Anime = Rondo of Blood

Rondo of Blood is 100% anime. Fuck, it even it anime cutscenes. It even has a loli mage as your sidekick.

The fucking plebs I share these generals with.

[Anonymous No.3050398]

>>3044754
You have good taste.

[Anonymous No.3050416]

Castlevania Chronicles and Bloodlines are my fav

[Anonymous No.3050491]

>>3049552
Doesn't feel that fun honestly.

Probably why I prefer Reinhardt, I don't really get much enjoyment out of merely running in circles and winning.

Also amazed nobody has made some kind of romhack to allow henry to have his own story or something hell. even just swapping him out with reinhardt would be enough.

[Anonymous No.3050498]

>>3050398

>Rondo on High tier
>Dracula X SNES on low tier
>Haunter Castle on shit tier

You share your taste with a casual

[Anonymous No.3050503]

>>3050398
You have shit taste.

[Anonymous No.3050516]

>>3050498
>casual
I hate /v/ words. You play video games casually, why the hell do people keep saying that?

[Anonymous No.3050840]

>>3050498
>le tryhard poser

Also Castlevania X is easy except for the last boss. HC is just garbage. Have you even played these games before?

[Anonymous No.3050845]

>>3050516
Playing them professionally reeks of "10 year old autistic fantasy" as far as I'm concerned.

[Anonymous No.3050913]

>>3050840

Dracula X SNES is on par with the NES Castlevanias in terms of diffculty, the only handicap it has is that it inherited the item crash mechanic from Rondo, but the level design is a lot tougher. On the very first level you have some tricky platforming and even medusa heads, compare it to the first level of Rondo which has practically 0 challenge.

I find it strange how a lot of people love Castlevania 1 and 3, but hate Dracula X.

[Anonymous No.3050942]

>>3050913
Dracula X is my favorite Castlevania of all time with 4 being the second best. I don't understand the hate either.

[Anonymous No.3051950]

>>3050942
That's some shitty taste you have there.

[Anonymous No.3052629]

>>3051950

If you don't like Dracula X not only your taste is irremediably bad, but you're also a babby casual that probably prefers the casualfest that is Rondo.

[Anonymous No.3052713]

>>3052629
>muh hardcore gamer cred
Also, if you're the same Anon as before, then you're a hypocrite, since SC4 is your second favorite.

[Anonymous No.3052734]

>>3052713
>muh hardcore gamer cred

isn't that true for pretty much everyone who posts in these threads?

The only castlevania threads that don't suffer from tryhard hipster gamer cred syndrome are the ones that center about music. The "what's the best castlevania game" threads are always full of poser tryhards since every time it's "Your favorite game sucks because it's 2ez"

[Anonymous No.3052745]

>>3044532
Either III or Rondo.

[Anonymous No.3053049]

Hi /vr/ am I supposed to beat CV3 in one sitting?

[Anonymous No.3053078]

>>3053049
Back then? Probably not, hence the save feature. Nowadays though you probably can if you take the sypha route and know what you're doing, then about an hour. The Alucard route I think is harder so it might be longer.

[Anonymous No.3053080]

>>3052734
pretty much. Honestly I prefer SotN simply for having more gameplay. Even if you only count each room once, there's more rooms than in most classicvanias, as well as many, many more boss battles, as well as more options for self-imposed challenges. The time between a speed run completion of classicvania and a normal run is at most a few minutes. The gap between speedrun and 100 percent in SotN is huge in terms of time.
That doesn't mean I don't like the classicvanias. The boss gauntlet in the final level of Super is a much more satisfying conclusion than the Shaft-Dracula fights in SotN. Super, X and Bloodlines all push the limits of their respective hardwares in enjoyable ways that were always ambitious and enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.3053089]

>>3053049
The password system is there for a reason.

[Anonymous No.3053091]

>>3053089
Save system makes the game ridiculously easy cause it forces you to use 10 lives.

[Anonymous No.3053092]

>>3044532
> What do you think.

Start with Castlevania 3. Like that? Dabble back into 1. It has clunkier controls but you'll probably still enjoy it.

Then I'd recommend moving onto 4 (which is a re-make of 1 on the SNES) and X.

SoTN plays entirely different from the 8 and 16 bit entries. It's also substantially easier because they overload your character with so many weapons and abilities that you become god-tier midway through the game.

And if you want something with more of an RPG flair to it, play Simon's Quest.

[Anonymous No.3053096]

I once made a thread that showed the room sizes of each metroidvania, but the janitor got triggered at the acknowledgment of the DS and deleted the thread. Here's the list.

Symphony of the Night: 1,890 squares (both castles)
Portrait of Ruin: 1,846 squares
Harmony of Dissonance: 1348 squares (both sides)
Order of Ecclesia: 1,335 squares
Dawn of Sorrow: 1023 squares
Circle of the Moon: 980 squares
Aria of Sorrow: 928 squares

Super Metroid is 1409 squares (with a margin of error due to diagonal rooms), Super Metroid Redesign is 2849.

[Anonymous No.3053098]

>>3053092
Why the fuck would you play 3 before 1?
3 is harder and has more content.

[Anonymous No.3053103]

>>3053096
>Super Metroid is 1409 squares
That's kinda surprising. It always seemed to me like it's less than half the size of SotN.

[Anonymous No.3053105]

>>3053103
Have to remember that Samus moves really fast, runs and guns, and can access areas far sooner than Alucard would be able to.

[Anonymous No.3053106]

>>3053096

I remember that thread but didn't remember its deletion. What a shame

[Anonymous No.3053273]

>>3053080
Quality > Quantity

I'd take Classicvania's clever level designs over Igavania's copypaste hallways any day.

[Anonymous No.3053275]

>>3052629
It's not that I didn't enjoy it, but that there are so many better installments to choose from. You're just trying to be a special snowflake by praising Dracula X SNES because everyone else hates it for being an inferior demake of Rondo.

[Anonymous No.3053345]

>>3053275

Not him, but stop calling Dracula X an "inferior remake/demake/port of Rondo of Blood", it's an old, bad meme.
I also prefer Dracula X because I think the level design is better and it has better boss fights, but I also still like Rondo a lot even though I find some of the levels a bit short and forgettable. It's not even about difficulty, I think the difficulty on Rondo is actually pretty balanced and Dracula X has some bullshit, but it's the design that I like more.

Anyway I've noticed lately a lot more people are giving Dracula X the deserved recognition it deserves after years of being unfairly accused of being a "bad Rondo port", which isn't the case at all.

[Anonymous No.3053505]

>>3053345

The hipster like nature of these threads has reached peak.

[Anonymous No.3053516]

>>3053505

What are you talking about? Castlevania has always been a hipster franchise.

>muh Japan-only exclusive cult flawless classic Rondo of Blood

[Anonymous No.3053523]

>>3053091
It doesn't force you to use 10 lives, only if you type the help code

[Anonymous No.3053586]

>>3053516
Maybe before SotN, but after the fifth gen Castlevania became a household name like Mario and Sonic.

[Anonymous No.3053628]

>>3053586
I'm pretty sure Castlevania regularly graced the covers of magazines way before SOTN

[Anonymous No.3053670]

>>3053628
I meant sales-wise. Sure Castlevania had buzz amongst gamers, but games didn't start selling in the millions of units until Symphony of the Night.

[Anonymous No.3053694]

>>3053670
Where are you getting those numbers of yours?

[Anonymous No.3053731]

>>3053694
SotN sales:
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/327/castlevania-symphony-of-the-night/

Meanwhile the NES games didn't even break a million:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games

[Anonymous No.3053790]

Play in this order

1, 3, 4, Rondo of Blood, SOTN, Circle of the Moon, Aria of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia. Don't fuck around with anything else.

[Anonymous No.3053798]

>>3053516
>muh Japan-only exclusive cult flawless classic Rondo of Blood
but it's also on localized on PSP and everyone is now aware of it, if they weren't already

[Anonymous No.3053880]

>>3053798

s-shut up you pleb! The only way to play this master piece of game design without flaws is on a PC Engine CD!

[Anonymous No.3054369]

>>3052629
Finished Dracula X many times and found every secret.

The game is still shit-tier, with disjointed rooms, lacking frames, and artificial difficulty everywhere. It's a terrible atempt at recreating Rondo, a vastly superior game.

GTFO you know shit about Castlevania.

[Anonymous No.3054409]

>>3050491
You could just use a Gameshark and swap them. I'm certain I saw codes online to do that.

[Anonymous No.3054412]

>>3053790
They're all shit after Aria.

[Anonymous No.3054479]

>>3053731

Proof that FFVII just casualized the entire market after that shit tier entry and more people were hungry for MUH LOOT, MUH LEVEL UPS, MY STAT GAINS.

Fuck. PS1 ruined everything for everyone. The slippery slope of wide steam appeal began with that shit. I hate those GBA games and DS games so much... god.. just makes me shake in anger thinking about them.

Fucking that DS one had touch screen shit to progress.
Fucking touch screen shit.
To.
Progress.


GAH.

[Anonymous No.3054496]

>>3054479
I feel you brother. There was a proper Castlevania being developed on a Sega system which got killed off because Konami and Iga thought their Metroid project was more important. It's too bad we got SotN instead of an actual real Castlevania game, but alas.

[Anonymous No.3054591]

>>3054369
>disjointed rooms

Care to explain?

>It's a terrible atempt at recreating Rondo

But that's the thing, it's NOT trying to recreate Rondo, that's why it's a different game with all-different levels and mostly all-new bosses.

>artificial difficulty

oh you.

[Anonymous No.3054996]

Who's your favorite Castlevania girl

[Anonymous No.3055045]

>>3054996
The Succubus, obviously

[Anonymous No.3055354]

>>3044532
Fuck these retards, Simon's Quest is the best one.

[Anonymous No.3055486]

>>3054996
I love this weed girl.

[Anonymous No.3055502]

>>3055486

Venus Weed best CV girl.

[Anonymous No.3056578]

Castlevania lecarde chronicles

[Anonymous No.3056909]

>>3044676
>>3044676
>>3044676
>>3044676
>>3044676
>>3044676
>>3044676

[Anonymous No.3056928]

>>3056909
What was the point of this post?

[Anonymous No.3056959]

>>3056928
>What was the point of this post?
To make people like you ask questions.

[Anonymous No.3057660]

>>3044676
Ropes: The Game

[Anonymous No.3058196]

>>3054409
They never work for me, for some reason.

[Anonymous No.3059895]

bump

[Anonymous No.3060704]

>Castlevania thread
>Bloody Tears starts playing

[Anonymous No.3060716]

>>3060704
What a horrible night to have a Castlevania thread.

[Anonymous No.3060863]

>>3057660
>not embracing the rope sliding mechanic

[Anonymous No.3061023]

>>3049625
I can completely agree with this 100%

[Anonymous No.3061074]

>>3057660
The ropes were an excellent substitute for the stairs.

[Anonymous No.3061105]

Castlevania 1 is my personal favorite.

I love both classicvania and metroidvania style games and while castlevania 1 is my favorite I respect different views and could understand why someone would prefer a diffetent one.

[Anonymous No.3061175]

>>3061074
Not really. You could attack with the whip on stairs, making them infinitely better than ropes.

[Anonymous No.3061240]

>>3061175
You could attack with the whip on the ropes. And doing so is an important element of the level design.

Have you not played the game?

[Anonymous No.3062275]

>>3054412
CotM > PoR > SotN > AoS > OoE > DoS > HoD

[Anonymous No.3062343]

>>3062275
>HoD the worst

I'm not a fan of this meme.

[Anonymous No.3062384]

>>3062343
Shit level design
Shit bosses
Shit playable character
Shit audio quality

[Anonymous No.3063462]

>>3062384
That's any Castlevania.