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3122756 No.3122756 [Reply] [Original]

Let's have a thread that corrects bandwagon opinions that commonly get regurgitated around here.

Definitive versions of:
>Castlevania 1
Amiga > NES

>Rondo of Blood
PC Engine CD > SNES

>Castlevania 1 Reimagining
Castlevania X68K > Super Castlevania IV

>Symphony of the Night
Saturn > Playstation

What else have you got, /vr/?

>> No.3122765

Literally anyone > Australia-kun

>> No.3122775

why can't you simply enjoy each game for what it is and not draw a line in the sand?

>> No.3122780

> complains about bandwagon style thinking
> posts bandwagon style claims (ie zero support, expects people to believe them)
Fuck this thread already

>> No.3122782

I don't I've ever once seen Australia-kun post on /vr/ and I've been here for the last 6 years.

Maybe it's because I don't even look for tripcode/names in posts.

Anyway, I agree that SCIV is garbage juice.

>> No.3122783

>>3122775

I challenge you to enjoy Castlevania on Amiga.

>> No.3122785
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3122785

>>3122775
Because I can't enjoy inferiour games like pic related.

>> No.3122791

>>3122782

This is Australia-kun:
>>3122785
>>3122756

It's the only person, probably on Earth, that will argue Amiga CV is better than the NES one.

>> No.3122796

>>3122791
Yup. The Pal CV4 is a dead giveaway.

How things hanging on the bottom of the world there faggot?

>> No.3122809

>>3122756
Its literally the exact opposite.

>> No.3122823

>>3122809

It's more like it's all wrong.

The only one that's debatable is the IV vs X68K, only because both are based on the original CV, and both are good (fuck australia and his irrational hate for IV).

The others are all wrong, Amiga Castlevania is a coding failure, it can't even be considered a good game.
Rondo of Blood was never released on SNES, and Dracula XX is a different game that isn't on PC Engine either.

SOTN is better on PS1 despite the extra content put on the Saturn version, and the definitive version is on PSP.

>> No.3122836

>>3122823

>because both are based on the original CV

Only the story is, otherwise they're both completely different.

>> No.3122845

>>3122823
X68K isn't good, though.

>> No.3122886
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>>3122823
>PS1
You mean the PSX, right?

>> No.3122913

>>3122886

Fuck man, why is /vr/ the most meta with it's shit talking out of all the boards I post on in 2016

>> No.3122942

i love aria of sorrow i play it over and over again

>> No.3122954

>>3122942
not retro also metroidvanias are trash for casuals

>> No.3122959

>>3122775
Because that's not how Castlevania fans operate, anon. Castlevania fans are combative, which is why I don't call myself a Castlevania fan, just someone that likes Castlevania.

>> No.3123053

>>3122959
I can empathize with the classicvania fans though imagine if something you loved was changed drastically then a bunch of new fans came and told you the thing you liked was shit and it should have been their way all along.

>> No.3123096

Anyone else play only as Eric in Bloodlines? I know whips and CV go hand in hand, but that spear is too good to pass up.

>> No.3123108

>>3122756
>Amiga over anything
G'day Australia

>> No.3123113

>>3123096
Eric is more fun, John is for added challenge when you're bored with Eric

>> No.3123114

>>3122756
>>3122886
>>3122954
Awesome thread, Guys. Makes me glad I'm on this board.

>> No.3123118

>>3122756
Amiga? No one cares about some toothrottenham ripoff.

>> No.3123123

>>3122765
Oi, you cheeky fucking cunt. I bet you've never even eaten a pavlova you curry munching poofter.

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>>3122756

>> No.3123269

>>3123113
Actually Eric deals less DPS than John, so both are balanced pretty well. Eric for better mobility and John for more damage dealing to bosses (the latter of which is more important imo because the game is so boss rush heavy).

>> No.3123368

>>3122756
>Rondo of Blood
>PC Engine CD > SNES

RoB came out on the SNES?

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>>3123368
Yeah, in a shitty butchered form.

>> No.3123465

>>3123373
Everything about this game is better than RoB, stop shitposting.

>> No.3123483

>>3123465
>better
Like the shitty audio quality?
Or the buggy programming?
Or the worse boss/level designs?
Or the lack of a playable loli?

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>>3123465

>> No.3123504

>>3123373

That's not RoB at all. It has a lot of reused assets, but it's a piece of shit game.

16 bit CV games ranked:

1.Rondo of Blood
2.CV4
3.Bloodlines
4.
5.
9.
12352.
213653476.
5487659876457543635.Dracula X

>> No.3123512

>>3123465
>supernintendofagging this hard

>> No.3123542

>>3123504
>4 better than Bloodlines
ya blew it

>> No.3123550

>>3123465
>Dracula X > Rondo
There's shitposting and then there's this

>> No.3123652

Average Castlevania thread on /v/
>>>/v/333581975

>people bitching about what's harder
>people bitching about the art styles
>my igavania is better than your igavania
>talking about JRPG-tier shit like grinding and droprates

IGA was the worst thing to happen to this series. Thank god Castlevania threads are never as bad as this on /vr/.

>> No.3123801

>>3122756
>>Rondo of Blood
>PC Engine CD > SNES
Two different games.
>>Castlevania 1 Reimagining
>Castlevania X68K > Super Castlevania IV
Again two different games, not relevant

>>3123123
Pav is pretty rank, mate.

>>3122791
Nah, >>3122785 is a false flagging wanker. Inferior doesn't have a U in it even in Strayanese.

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>>3122756
>Symphony of the Night
>Saturn > Playstation

Yep. All the pros of the Saturn version largely make up for its cons.

>> No.3123827

Oh boy here we go again.
All these Castlevania threads are all the same shit every time.
I love Castlevania, but really can't stand most of the fanbase, especially a lot of the autistic fucks on here. I don't even know why I still come here.
Cheers to people like >>3122823 and >>3122959 who actually think before they post.

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>>3122756
How about this instead.
We have a castlevania thread and just discuss why we like the games in a friendly manner instead of screaming at eachother over which is better?

No?

Well whatever then you fucking faggots, if you need to argue your insecurities then I guess there's no helping that.

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>>3123823
SotN is my favorite game next to Doom. That being said, the Saturn port of SotN is by far my favorite version just for the weird shit and fun little differences. I can forgive its problems.

>> No.3124420

>>3122756
>Castlevania 1
>Amiga > NES
just youtubed it
WOW looks and sounds like total shit
fuck you

>> No.3124436

>>3123932
fuck you

>> No.3124525

>>3124436
If you feel the need to preach and validate your opinions to others chances are you're insecure about that opinion.

>> No.3124580

>>3122756
>implying Dracula X is the same as Rondo of Blood

>> No.3124641

>>3122959
>being combative about being a castlevania fan

>> No.3124702

I mean yes content wise the Saturn version of sotn is objectively better.

In practice though I lose my mind after awhile from the lag, load screens, and fucked up resolution. But that's more of a Sega Saturn problem then a castlevania problem..

Everything else mentioned in your post, op, are different games..

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>>3124436
nice comeback faggot

>> No.3124750

>>3122756
How far can trolling with Castlevania threads be taken?

>> No.3124763

>>3122756
>Castlevania 1
>Amiga > NES

Saw a long play and I didn't even know what I was watching, talk about port slacking.

>> No.3124991

>>3124712
Nice AVGN gif fagtron.

>> No.3125025

>>3124712
>>3123495
>>3124705
Samefag gif spammer adding nothing of value to the conversation.

>SOTN
>better on Saturn than PS1
Saturn's shitty controller alone made it inferior.

>> No.3125030

>>3125025
I prefer it personally.. the Saturn directional pad is superior for using spells

>> No.3125060
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3125060

You can use Eric's spear in Saturn SotN

>> No.3125065

>>3124991
nice comeback faggot

>> No.3125121

>>3123801
They might be two different games but at the same time they are both tellings of the same story. Its comparing apples to apples in this case green to red, red to yellow or whatever still apples to apples and you're a massively retarded faggot that isnt relevant.

>> No.3125171

>>3125121
>Castlevania
>story
>relevant
Choke to death on nigger dicks you moron

>> No.3125175

>>3125171
You're just mad x68k is the superior telling of simons triumph over dracula pleeb.

>> No.3125578

>Castlevania 1 Reimagining
Haunted Castle > Castlevania X68K > Super Castlevania IV

Am I hip yet?

>> No.3125582

>>3125578
Ugh

>Its a castlevania thread....

>> No.3125695

>>3125175
That's not true though, hipster-san. That game sucks.

>> No.3125701

Why are castlevania fans the most autistic? What is it about them that makes them so combative and defensive towards one another in a way that surpasses any other series?

>> No.3125753

>>3125701
Because we havae the best taste in videogames and everyone else is a bunch of faggot scum.

>> No.3125761

>>3125695
>likes 4 more than 68k
Confirmed for being the ultimate scrub. I bet you haven't even beaten 68k before you faggot inbred nigger kike. Fucking kill yourself.

>> No.3125830

>>3125695
why its just more of the first game with better graphics and the first game is better than 4 so how could 4 be the best?

>> No.3125838

>>3125701

Go back to your hugbox website if you don't like it here.

>> No.3125856

>>3125701
I don't even know, famicom. I love castlevania, it's easily one of my top five favorite series but I have no idea where the posturing comes from or why CV in particular seems to bring that shit out.

>> No.3125875

>>3125856
It's a genuine mystery; not even the sonic fanbase gets this ugly.

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>>3125875

>> No.3126582

>>3125701
A guess: it's a defunct franchise whose early versions were very hard and required a lot of investment (either attention or memorization) to do well in. So most people either talked about it all they want to, or moved on for lack of interest. All we have left is the diehards, who are too attached to it for their own good. Any different take or alternate implementation of the game they love, is dangerously out of sync with how they think the game should be, and is a risk to its purity. I think the only reason we notice it specifically in Castlevania is because despite all of those things above, it was popular and lasting enough to still have a fandom at all.

In other words, it's a giant feedback loop where elitists push out less elites because they're the majority.

>> No.3127073

Legacy of Darkness > Curse of Darkness > Lament of Innocence > Lords of Shadow

>> No.3127403

>>3126582
I suppose this makes sense. I totally understand having a favorite game in the series but getting so aggressive about it to the point of shit-talking virtually every other game in the series just doesn't make sense to me.

such is life in neo/vr/ I suppose

>> No.3127717

>>3122845
>X68K isn't good

>>>/out/

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>>3125701
I'm at an impasse over this shit. You can't discuss Castlevania here because the threads are always made by the same guy whose sole purpose in life is to start shit, who'll rear his ugly head even if someone else makes the thread. You can't discuss it on /v/ for obvious fucking reasons. Even if trying to talk about Castlevania on /vr/ weren't an exercise in futility, you still wouldn't be allowed to talk about any of the Igavanias past Symphony of the Night since they're technically not retro.

Why can't people just enjoy video games? Why do you feel like you have to hate something before you can like something else?

>> No.3128049

>>3127943
What we need to do is stop giving these idiots attention and ignoring them and having our conversations anyways

>> No.3128073

>>3125856
It didn't used to. Arguments between "Classicvania" and "Metroidvania" existed but was usually discussed separately. This whole Rondo/Bloodlines/SCV4 bashing thing is younger than /vr/ and somebody or some people are throwing that shit around hard.

Used to be people would just discuss which music was their favorite and what kind of games they wanted to see in the future. I can understand why the latter doesn't occur anymore.

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>>3128073
>what kind of games they wanted to see in the future
>tfw no 1999 Castlevania game starring Julius

>> No.3128310

>>3122756
>Saturn > Playstation

You must be fucking kidding me.

>> No.3129289

>most underrated game in the series
Belmont's Revenge

>> No.3129342

>>3129289
>Ropes: The Game
>fun

>> No.3129343

>>3122775
Because literally every topic, post, and comment on this board is dick measuring.

>> No.3129937

>>3129342
portrait of ruin is also very fun and underrated

>> No.3130182
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3130182

Why does this game love the purple spearmen and bats/medusa heads so much?

Also that final boss was very stupid.

>> No.3130201

>>3130182
>Why does this game love the purple spearmen and bats/medusa heads so much?

You don't?

>Also that final boss was very stupid.

Get fucking good

>> No.3130214

>>3130201
>Get fucking good
Lol, I beat it. But still, the game is very poorly designed, and the bosses that weren't rehashed from the superiour Rondo of Blood sucked ass.

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3130228

These hacks fix some glaring problems with the GB Castlevanias and I actually find myself enjoying them now.

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/211/
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/190/
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/213/

>> No.3130260

>>3130228
Fun fact, The Adventure runs much faster on the Super Gameboy and actually becomes tolerable.

>> No.3130265

Can anyone give me the gist on Ozzie-kun? Who is this insufferable, contranarian fuck shitting up the board?

>> No.3130273

>>3130265
Basically he believes Castlevania the new generation is the best castlevania and shits on SCIV as much as possible.
Yo ucan identify him pretty easily since he usually calls it
>super castlevania broes
and likens it to mario.

It goes deeper than that though he outright hates the SNES and seems to be a sega fanboy.

He's also from the info he's supplied us atleast in his fucking 40s to 50s shitposting on a forum like a child about long over console wars.

>> No.3130301 [DELETED] 

Best Of Australia-kun series vol. 1:

http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2931569
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2856924
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2856924
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2990889

>> No.3130354 [DELETED] 

Best Of Australia-kun series vol. 1: Enhanced Edition

http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2931569
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2856924
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2856924
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/3100759
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2939464
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2915010

>> No.3130410

Best Of Australia-kun series vol. 1: Enhanced Edition

http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/3037504
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2856924
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/3100759
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2939464
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2915010
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2931569
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2747004
http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/3025004

>> No.3130454

Why the fuck do people hate Super Castlevania IV?

>> No.3130463

>>3130454
To be contrarian.

>> No.3130464

>>3130454
because it's the favorite game of casual fags that don't really like castlevania

>> No.3130472

>>3130464
>Muh casual boogeyman.

>> No.3130493

>>3130273
Fuck, I better keep my power level hidden and never mention liking Bloodlines.
The fuck kind of bad luck do I have where my favorite in the series is the autisim magnet?

>> No.3130506

>>3130493
As long as you call it Bloodlines instead of TNG, you won't get mistaken for autism.

>> No.3130520

>>3130464
So in other words I might actually like it.

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>>3130410
See pic related.
>>3130506
Yeah, I think I'll just keep quiet about it from now on; I don't want to lose my footing and slide down the same slippery, mumbling slope.

>> No.3130536

>>3122756
At what point was there any debate over PCE Rondo being better than the SNES non-version of it? (Technically Dracula XX)

It's pretty much you and this retarded friend of mine who have ever even raised the question.

SNES 'Rondo' eats.

>> No.3130537

>Amiga Castlevania
>Anything but the worst kind of garbage.
I'm probably the biggest Amiga fanboy you could fear running in to but fuck me, even the C64 port holds up better than that hot mess.

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>>3130214
>the game is very poorly designed

Every single time someone claims that, I ask what about the game is poorly designed, and nobody can give me an answer as to why is DX considered "badly designed" and the only thing they can do is compare it to Rondo, a completely different game.

>the bosses that weren't rehashed from the superiour Rondo of Blood sucked ass.
>superiour

Oh it's you.

Nah the bosses that aren't rehashed from Rondo don't suck ass, they're actually pretty cool. And the bosses that come back from Rondo appear in different stages and in many cases they're more interesting bossfights than their Rondo counterparts, for example Death.

Hating on Dracula X while comparing it to Rondo as if it was a port is so outdated. It's not 1999 anymore, it's 2016 and anyone can play both Rondo and Dracula X and compare for themselves, it's time to stop the memes.

>> No.3130557

>>3130539
>and nobody can give me an answer as to why is DX considered
Eh, stuff like paths going nowhere despite enemies being there and copypasted assets everywhere. It feels like an amateur's romhack, not an actual proper Castlevania entry by Konami themselves. Either a really rushed or really lazy job by the dev team.

>necromancer
That boss was pretty shit though. Throwing coffins at you? Running out of ideas much?

>Death
What makes him so much better in CX? He spawns less scythes and won't even do his one-hit kill move in the SNES game.

>> No.3130564

Also, the audio quality in the Stupor Nintendo Dracula X was really dismal. So grating on the ears that I almost wanted to just mute the game.

>> No.3130571

>>3130539
Okay, so it has a few neat bosses.

I guess that makes the following okay:

Floatier and slower version of Richter.

Bland sounding recreations of the Rondo's OST, outside of Bloodlines which is arguably better than the original.

Spammed to death with hitspongy spear knights who suck to fight with the shitty feeling Richter. Not to be confused with hard to fight, just a pain in the ass.

While tilesets are arguably more detailed and go for a more hand painted look at first glance, they end up being far more repetitive outside of screenshots.

Level design lacks any cohesion and world building. Has none of the quirky easter eggs of Rondo. You don't really feel like you're going anywhere. There are no branching paths.

I mean, it's a 7. It's an okay game, but I'd say it's one of the worst classic style CVs without any hesitation, if not the worst. I'd personally rate it a 6 for being that much weaker than what it imitates.

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>there are people who unironically enjoyed Super Castlevania Bros. and Castlevania Dracula X

>> No.3130595 [DELETED] 

Playing the GB Castlevanias out of bordem.

>>3130228
Applied these fixes though becayse good god they fix the game so well.

>> No.3130596

>>3125578
No. No one likes Haunted Castle outside of that toe-tappin' Cross Your Heart song and initial curiosity. That game is indefensible.

>> No.3130598 [DELETED] 

>>3130595
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iEAqvuo6ok

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>>3130593
>being this buttmad over a fucking vidya

>> No.3130627

>>3130539

The sound effects are shitty, the controls feel very unresponsive and the level design is abysmal compared to any other Classicvania.

>> No.3130632

Which fan base is more shitty: Castlevania or Soulsborne?

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>Straylian pizza

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>>3130557
>Eh, stuff like paths going nowhere despite enemies being there and copypasted assets everywhere.

Examples? Other than the hidden paths where you rescue the maidens, I don't remember dead ends, level design is pretty straightforward as CV should be.
Same with "copypasted assets", show me where exactly? Let's see if they really are "everywhere". Anyway Rondo of Blood has "Copypasted Assets: The Level", which is stage 5b.

>It feels like an amateur's romhack, not an actual proper Castlevania entry by Konami themselves. Either a really rushed or really lazy job by the dev team.

Disagree, it feels like a tight CV experience. It's the closer to CV1 and 3 out of all the 16-bit games.


>That boss was pretty shit though. Throwing coffins at you? Running out of ideas much?

He summons zombies from underground, it's a pretty cool boss.

>What makes him so much better in CX?

It's a closer and more menacing fight, the platform isn't as broad as the ship so you can't just jump around throwing crosses like you can do on Rondo, it's a different fight despite being the same enemy. It's okay if you like the Rondo fight better, but the important thing here is that they're different fights, they're not copypasted bosses.
I also like the setting on the Death fight of DX better, atop of the clock tower, instead of the ship... never understood why would Death be on a ship.

>> No.3130845

>>3130765
>never understood why would Death be on a ship.
Haunted ghost ships? There's even one in CV3.

>> No.3130854

>>3122756
Rondo of Blood does not equal Dracula X.
>A Link to the Past (SNES) > Amplitude (PS 2)
That make any sense, fuckwit? No, didn't think so. Your thread is trash.

>> No.3130884

>>3130627
>sound effects are shitty
Sound effects are completely fine, stop being a dipshit. What kind of an in-depth look was that? "Sound effects are shitty." OH. FUCK. I never thought of it like THAT. WOW, THANKS.
>level design is abysmal compared to any other Castlevania
Literally. LITERALLY every Castlevania game up to this point in the series goes like this-
>walk right
>maybe go up/down a bit
>fight a boss
So how exactly is it even possible to fuck that up? Your bland arguments are beyond shit-tier. If you don't like the game, that's perfectly fine, it's definitely not my favorite, but why in the name of fuck do feel the need to make vapid, bland arguments on the internet? Your post contained no actual thought whatsoever. No insightful comments, nothing to think about, you just diarrhea'd words all over, and had a retarded smug on your stupid fucking face as you clicked post (which quickly disappeared, because your stupid-ass forgot to click the 'I'm not a robot' box).

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>>3130765
>Examples? Other than the hidden paths where you rescue the maidens, I don't remember dead ends, level design is pretty straightforward as CV should be.
There's a part in the area with the great knights that going left leads to a dead end, so there's... not really a point in fighting it. You can just descend the stairs and ignore him. DXSNES just feels more linear in general, and there's a ton of sequence breaking in stage 5 because the devs didn't really care. And stage 7 is a joke that only lasts less than a minute, and then face the stupidest Dracula fight ever.

>Same with "copypasted assets", show me where exactly? Let's see if they really are "everywhere". Anyway Rondo of Blood has "Copypasted Assets: The Level", which is stage 5b.
Practically every stage having bats and armor knights littered throughout. Rondo had much better variety with its enemies. DX didn't even have my favourite character, pic related.

>Disagree, it feels like a tight CV experience. It's the closer to CV1 and 3 out of all the 16-bit games.
No, that would be Bloodlines. It controls the most like the 8-bit games.

>He summons zombies from underground, it's a pretty cool boss.
I wasn't impressed by him. The spellcaster type character in X68K was a lot cooler.

>the important thing here is that they're different fights, they're not copypasted bosses.
SNES Death is simply worse for being made easier. Also I don't like how Death can be skipped either. He should be a mandatory boss. Oh, and the alternate stage 6 boss sucked.

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How did anyone argue an Amiga game is better than the definitive nes version?

This isn't even a matter of opinion, is just baiting

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>the Anette fight in Dracula XX's stage 6 if you fail to save her inspired the Succubus/Anette fight in Dracula X Chronicles

Neat.

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FUCKIN' REUSED-ASS ASSETS, MAN.

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SNES Dracula X has an autoscrolling section. Rondo of Blood doesn't. Hence, RoB is better.

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>>3130970

Rondo has an auto-scrolling section

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Rondo also has parts with weird dead ends. What about that part where you fight the weed enemy when you go left before facing the dragon on the hidden path of the 2nd level? It's there, and it leads you nowhere, you can completely ignore that thing.
The entire game isn't made of pointless dead ends, Dracula X is for the most part pretty straightforward like any Castlevania should be.
I don't see how the Dracula fight is stupid, it poses more of a challenge than the fight on Rondo at least.

>Practically every stage having bats and armor knights littered throughout. Rondo had much better variety with its enemies. DX didn't even have my favourite character, pic related.

Alright this I can agree with, Dracula X has less variety of enemies, but in return it has more quantity. Some people hate the amount of spear and armor knights and medusa heads and bats, I think it makes for a good challenge.


>No, that would be Bloodlines. It controls the most like the 8-bit games.

Disagree, Bloodlines feels too different from any other Castlevania in terms of controls and also design. But I was talking about the game design, not the controls on Dracula X. I think DX is a lot similar to CV III in many sections, especially the vertical stuff.

>I wasn't impressed by him. The spellcaster type character in X68K was a lot cooler.
It's okay if you personally weren't impressed by him and if you prefer an enemy from a different game, what I was going at is that he does more than throw coffins at you.

>SNES Death is simply worse for being made easier. Also I don't like how Death can be skipped either. He should be a mandatory boss. Oh, and the alternate stage 6 boss sucked.

Death isn't easier, in fact it's harder because you have less space to take distance, his 2nd form is more difficult because of this.

I still don't get why so many people hate this game. It's not Rondo, okay, but it's not a bad game at all, it feels like Castlevania 100%.