Castlevania

[Anonymous No.3532402]

Let's have a good 'ol Castlevania thread.

Post your favorite:
>game
>story
>character
>bosses
>enemies
>weapons
>areas
>music

And anything else related to Castlevania.

[Anonymous No.3532405]

>>3532402
Never understood that hole below his chair. Sort of triggering just to think if he slid the chair by even an inch

[Anonymous No.3532410]

>>3532405

If you go to the room below his, and do a super jump, you will bump him from below and he will do a funny animation.

[Anonymous No.3532413]

>>3532402

Id love to do that but sadly none of favorites are retro so I must abstain

[Anonymous No.3532415]

>>3532402
>game
anything that isn't a faggy metroidvania
>story
anything not belonging to that faggot iga's canon
>character
all the belmonts are good, but simon is best
>bosses
rondo bosses, bar none
>enemies
also rondo
>weapons
the fucking whip, duh
>areas
clock towers are probably the most memorable
>music
bloody tears

[Anonymous No.3532418]

>>3532405
If I remember correctly, if you use the gravity boots below him, you'll lift up his chair and get either a max health or a heart up, I don't remember which.

[Anonymous No.3532428]

>>3532402
>ornament in background is an oval

Is this what the developers intended?

[Anonymous No.3532449]

>>3532405
>Never understood that hole below his chair.

[Anonymous No.3533984]

Has anyone ever had issues with the Rondo of Blood Win32 exe where it lets you map your input but when actually launching the game it won't take any input of any kind, even from the keyboard? I'm trying to play through it on my projector this October and this shit is driving me up the wall.

Same thing happens when I try to emulate it on Mednafen too.

[Anonymous No.3534014]

>OMAE NO KAGE WO ITADAKU

this is the first time you hear the spookier castle boss theme in the game too, loved this fight

[Anonymous No.3534028]

My favorite is Aria of Sorrow.

I don't much like the older Castlevania games.

It's not because they're hard or anything, I just hate the absurdly slow walking speed.

[Anonymous No.3534032]

>>3533984
Just play it in PPSSPP, don't bother with that russian spyware exe

[Anonymous No.3534123]

>>3534032
Sounds good. Is there a way to unlock it without beating the remake first?

[Anonymous No.3534136]

>>3534123
You don't have to beat it, just have to find the hidden Rondo item in stage 4.

[Anonymous No.3534157]

>>3534014
I'm pretty sure Wallman has the theme and he's fought way before Blackmore.

Ecclesia had good fights but Blackmore and Eligor are god-tier.

[Anonymous No.3534181]

>>3532415

[Anonymous No.3534186]

>>3532449
Youve just been waiting to use that...

>>3532402
I liked all the Castlevanias ive played so far, except the 64 and PS2 ones.

Character- Richter or Simon

Bosses- Death in any of the Castlevanias, he always gives me the most problems.

Enemies-Rondo

Weapons- if you mean subweapons either the cross boomerang or axes. Whip is the best weapon.

Areas- In SOTN the area with the lava moving.

Music- Personally i like Super Castlevania 4 music.

[Anonymous No.3534213]

>>3532402
>Game
Toss up between Rondo or Chronicles/X68k
>Story
Rondo
>Character
Simon
>Boss
Werewolf from Chronicles/X68k. Boss Rush/Shaft from Rondo gets second place
Enemy
Shield/Axe Knights
>Weapon
Whip
>Area
Treasure Vault from SC4
>Music
Bloody Tears

[Anonymous No.3534225]

>>3532405

You can steal a few great items from him if you keep super jumping on his chair from the hole.

[Anonymous No.3534237]

>>3532428
>ornament in background depicts a merchant

[Anonymous No.3534391]

>>3534028

>playing Aria of Sorrow blind
>mfw only died 5/6 times
>70% of these deaths were by the Death herself

This game is so easy, wtf.

[Anonymous No.3534496]

>game
X68000
>story
Stories don't matter in games
>character
The sprite one
>bosses
The gear man from Bloodines
>enemies
The rabbits from Akumajou Densetsu
>weapons
Cross
>areas
Stage 3 from X68000
>music
Iron Blue Intention

[Anonymous No.3534518]

>>3534496
Straylia-kun? Is that you...?

[Anonymous No.3535223]

>game
1. III
2. Order of Ecclesia
3. Portrait of Ruin
4. Castlevania
5. Castlevania II (GB)
6. Aria of Sorrow
7. Circle of the Moon
All of them are great, except 64, that was a massive mistake.

>story
OoE, Aria of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, Bloodlines.

>character
All Belmonts are best, except that faggot ass Richter. If anything, Juste as the strongest (due to his various magic spells along with his whip customization) and the coolest because of the blue effects when dashing, seriously, it's totally rad. Trevor the sexiest one (no homo). Julius is /fa/ as fuck, have a sick beard, so overpowered that he had to hold his back versus Soma even though being aged and just recently recovered from amnesia, managed to deal with Dawn of Sorrow castle without the magic seal (you can't finish off the bosses unless you posess the Magic Seal, which he gave to Soma, who would have more problems than him versus said monsters). He also did that all that while being 55/56 years old, that's pretty damn old to me (not that much, but still is). Did I mention that he's so goddamn awesome that he permanently killed Dracula so hard that he had to ressurect as a good person? He's so based that his special boss theme is actually 2 musics mixed into one (Can't/Don't Wait Until Night + Heart of Fire, which also happens to me 2 favorites songs).

>bosses
I love all of them, except Legion.

>enemies
Sucubbus and Liliths are the qtest.

>weapons
The Whip and Crissaegrim/Valmanway/Star Sword.

>areas
Every Clocktower, you can't say it's an actual Castlevania game without one in it.

>music
Heart of Fire & Don't Wait Until Night, Basement Melodies, Iron-blue Intentions, CVIII Clocktower, CVIII Last Boss Theme, Aquarius, Praying hands, Psycho Warrior, New Messiah.

[Anonymous No.3535249]

>game
Probably a tie between SC4 and Rondo, if not Classicvania then LoI
>story
Dracula X remake by far, it takes all the Rondo silliness out of the way, and LoI.
>character
In terms of story, Leon, he's my favorite Belmont when it comes to personal quest and story, in terms of visual design it's Julius no fucking contest, no one can beat Foxy Grandpa.
When it comes to bad guys, Shaft! takes the cake.
>bosses
Too many, but I'm especially fond of classic Werewolf battles, Death and Gaibon and Slogra.
>weapons
The whip my nigga, for subweapons I'd say the Holy Water, mostly because of HAIDORO STOOOOOOOOOOMU.
>areas
Now this is tricky, I have a lot of favorite areas and the most recurrent ones might be the Clocktowers and all the garden levels, but I especially love the phantom ship from Rondo/Dracula X, Orlock's Quarters, The Chapel and the Coliseum from SoTN and I guess the entirety of LoI though it's not retro.
>music
Too many to list but here's my top 10 in no particular order:

Aquarius
Heart of Fire(AoS version)
Theme of Simon Belmont(SC4)
Dance of Pales
Prologue from SoTN
Order of Ecclesia
Moonfight
Cross Fear(Dracula X remix)
Vampire Killer in all its iterations
Ebony Fucking Wings

[Anonymous No.3536363]

>tfw shaman king was the only action rpg I played growing up
aria of sorrows is my first castlevania game and I feel disappointed.

[Anonymous No.3536441]

>>3534391
Yeah, but it's fun

[Anonymous No.3536567]

>game
Rondo of Blood
>story
SOTN, I liked the Vampire Hunter D movie from 1985 already, so SOTN felt like playing a game based on it within the Castlevania universe.
>character
Simon, can't beat the OG. In all of its iterations except the new millennium one, Simon is not a redhead manga boy.
>bosses
Paula Abghoul and Fred Askare is one of my absolute favorites boss fights in Castlevania. Some others I also really enjoy are Werewolf in Rondo and She-wolf in X68K, Princess of Moss, and of course Death fights, most of them.
>weapons
Whip. Sub-weapon, depends on the situation, I'll be unoritinal and say cross.
>areas
I like the pretty ones, like the ball room from IV (which also works as a castle entrance stage), Versailles from Bloodlines, the doll house from X68K. I like the sort of decadent aristocracy vibe, fits Castlevania pretty well. Of course I also like most of the other areas like forests, dungeons, clocktoers, but elegant, castle-like rooms are my favorites. I also love the chapel from Rondo and the chapel from SOTN.
>music
All of it, pretty much.

[Anonymous No.3536681]

>>3534123
you could just cheat if that's possible. Haven't used PPSSPP

[Anonymous No.3536721]

>game
Either SotN or Bloodlines
>story
Castlevania doesn't go far in story but the farthest they've gotten that wasn't shit was SotN and 3.
>character
Alucard and Simon. Both of their designs are cool and work the best with their respective eras. Alucard's personality and relations with Dracula was written well and sure Simon doesn't have any character but he has the right image going for him. If I wanna go gameplay I think Eric Lecarde for classic and Alucard for Igavanias.
>bosses
Dunnow. I guess the CV1 boss rush in Rondo of Blood.
>enemies
too much to tell
>weapons
Never really had any
>areas
The crumbling bridge from SC4 was rad.
>music
Too many to choose one but I've been leaning to Don't Wait Until Night from Haunted Castle

[Anonymous No.3536728]

>>3536441

>get to end game
>acquire Devil
>become a demonic bulldozer
>trigger the true ending
>acquire the panther soul
>mfw

A shame that such movement didn't became a staple in the series or even an idea for new game. Imagine a WHOLE GAME designed around that kind of movement.

[Anonymous No.3536868]

1. Aria of Sorrow
2. SOTN

Love those two... not so much any others.

[Anonymous No.3536886]

>>3536567
Holy Cross is objectively the best subweapon in almost every game (the dagger takes the trophy in SotN), so it's okay.

[Anonymous No.3536915]

>>3536728
http://armorgames.com/play/5917/exit-path

[Anonymous No.3537246]

Opinions on Harmony of Despair?

[Anonymous No.3537291]

SotN is a great game.

Anyone who disagrees is a memelord who likes memes more than they like games.

[Anonymous No.3537310]

>>3537291
Richter is more fun to play as than Alucard.

[Anonymous No.3537325]

>>3534391
Play Ecclesia. That game is hard as balls.

[Anonymous No.3537327]

>>3537325
You might want to see a doctor if your balls feel hard.

[Anonymous No.3537367]

>>3532402
>game
SOTN, though I acknowledge that Castlevania IV is overall the best game. When I played as a child I was too much of a dumb shit to appreciate it.

>story:
Rondo of Blood I guess. But story isn't the main attraction in these games.

>Character:
Alucard in SOTN. That guy was suave as fuck.

>Bosses:
Beelzebulb from SOTN. Dracula from castlevania 1.

>enemies
Medusas. God...I hated those, but they are indeed memorable.

>weapons:
The Axe. Alo, crisaegrim because I love to have my games broken.

>areas:
The second stage form Castlevania IV is comfy as fuck. Also, dat soundtrack.

>music
Wicked Child, BY FAR. Overall, Castlevania IV just slays it.

>Awesomest moment:
Richter backfliping away dodging an enemy or projectile.

[Anonymous No.3537371]

>game
Retro: Rondo of Blood
Non-Retro: Order of ecclesia.
>story
Castlevania because fuck stories.
>character
Simon
>bosses
Rondo and Super Castlevania
>enemies
Rondo
>weapons
SOTN
>areas
SOTN
>music
Bloodlines

>>3537291
Sadly SOTN suffers the OoT/FFVII syndrome. It was the first game for a lot of people here and they overrate it.

[Anonymous No.3537609]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unm4rKIM954

>This never got a wii port

[Anonymous No.3537652]

>>3536728

[Anonymous No.3537653]

>>3537371
> It was the first game for a lot of people here and they overrate it.

People here idolize classics castlevania, i don't think overrating SotN is the issue.

[Anonymous No.3537687]

>>3532402
>game
SotN, but Rondo of Blood is a close runner up
>story
Aria of Sorrow, SotN's story was good, but it could use a little more fleshing out.
>character
Soma Cruz
>bosses
Beelzebub and the Giant meat wheel thing
>enemies
The Snipers of Goth and AoS Disc Armors
>weapons
Heaven's sword in SoTN
>areas
The AoS gardens, and the SotN Colosseum
>music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqww2bvf51g

[Anonymous No.3537693]

>>3537291
Yeah, SotN is a good game. It's not linear, has some great bosses, good story and is pretty big. But is also far too easy. I mean, if you get the areas in 'wrong' order, then the difficulty scales like a pile of shit; some bosses will be challenging, which is good, but there's something wrong with that feeling after finally finding that spooky Death's Lair and then defeating Death in 20 seconds on the first try...

[Anonymous No.3537859]

>>3537693
>Never played any castlevania other than sotn
>Cant kill the boss in alchemy lab
>Delete iso
>Uninstall emulator

[Anonymous No.3537926]

>>3537325

Already beat it. The stages feel mostly like a chore, but the bosses are fun.

[Anonymous No.3537932]

>>3537687

>wandering ghosts
>they never used it again

I'm actually mad.

[Anonymous No.3538079]

>>3532415
>Boo boo I can't handle changes.
You don't have to like the games, but they are by no means bad.

[Anonymous No.3538478]

>>3537246
Good potential, but not very fun. If the controls of the characters were 1:1 with the original games it would've been much better.

[Anonymous No.3538504]

>>3537859
>installing emulators

How do you like your adware and malware, senpai?

[Anonymous No.3538515]

Post your favorite:
>game
Castlevania 64 and/or LoD
I simply do not get the hate. I can play this game all the way through today and still enjoy the shit out of it.

>story
Tie between 64 and SotN

>character
Sonia Belmont (pre Iga fuck up)

>bosses
Actrise in C64 was a majorly fucked up person story wise. She stuck with me.
Boss battle wise, Dracula. Can't get more excited than with a Dracula battle.

>enemies
I have to give it to Slogra and Gaibon. Every time I see them together, I lose my shit.

>weapons
Holy water. Every game.

>areas
Too many to list.

>music
I keep the C64 soundtrack on my phone because I listen to it often, but the OST for Curse of Darkness was also really good.

[Anonymous No.3538651]

>>3538504

WTF are you doing on 4chan, dad?

[Anonymous No.3540583]

>>3532402
>>game
>>story
>character
Soma
>boss
The Crab from OoE
>enemy
Tin Man
>weapon
Shurikens from PoR
>areas
Chapel from SotN
>music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9KyV4zrdvE

[Anonymous No.3540986]

You will hate me for it but i hate whip and loved rpg elements of SOTN. What other games in the series are like SOTN?

[Anonymous No.3541016]

>>3538651

Monitoring your autism son. Now go fetch me a turkey pot pie!!!

[Anonymous No.3541019]

>>3540986
kill you're self

[Anonymous No.3541036]

>>3541019
_____rude

[Anonymous No.3541540]

FINALLY BEAT CASTLEVANIA 1, HOLY SHIT!

[Anonymous No.3541614]

>>3541540
grats man

[Anonymous No.3542463]

>>3541540
Never played it. Why is it such a big deal?

[Anonymous No.3542552]

>>3541614

Thanks.

>>3542463

What the fuck are you waiting for, then? Go play that shit, it's fun.

[Anonymous No.3542554]

>>3542552
Looks slow. Also i dont like the whip. Graphics suck balls too. I'd rather play DSvanias

[Anonymous No.3543507]

>>3540986
Aria of sorrow on GBA is a pretty good next step.

[Anonymous No.3543510]

>>3538478
>Not very fun.
Nigga i'm playing it solo and love it.

I guess it's true some people really do have shit taste.


Won't lie though I do hate the time limit bullshit and on top of that the game is easy as hell, most of the difficulty is trying to figure out where to fucking go on the new stages whilst under pressure of the time limit.
My first loss on a new chapter is almost always just the result of me running around trying to figure out where to fucking go.

[monolux No.3543521]

simons quest hunts me till this very day

happy castelvania day! and if it isnt happy non castelvania day and if i typed it wrong i dont give a fuck!

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[Anonymous No.3543667]

>>3532402
Am I the only one who liked Lord of Shadow's story? Gabriel's slow descent into evil and disillusion with the Brotherhood of Light was very well told. Him finally becoming Dracula at the end capped off what I thought was the best Castlevania story in some time.

[Anonymous No.3543669]

>>3543667
It's alright if you either haven't played any of the older games or if you treat it as a separate entity, since it shits all over the old lore.

[Anonymous No.3543675]

>>3542554
Solid bait.

[Anonymous No.3543692]

>>3543669
>since it shits all over the old lore
Not really. It's a completely distinct story that doesn't pretend to be anything but its own thing.
>>3543667
I like the stories of LoS1 and Mirror of Fate. They're probably the best stories in Castlevania, but the standards weren't very high since Lords of Shadow is the only game to even go so far as pretend it cared about narrative. LoS2 is a disaster in every way.

[Anonymous No.3544182]

>replaying Super Castlevania IV
Man, it's kind of boring. It feels more like a tech demo for mode 7.

The whip really does make everything else mostly useless. It doesn't really have that "Castlevania" spirit in the level design. Everything feels less like a challenge and more like it was just slapped on. You either plow through everything or shit is placed in the most bullshit ways, behind/obscured by scenery, etc. Most of the music is pretty forgettable too aside from Simon's Theme and the remixes of the big three. The art, while big and detailed, just seems kind of dull.

Don't get me wrong. It's not a bad game. It's just not as good as I remember it being. I think Rondo kicks the everliving shit out of it as far as feeling like the "next generation" of Castlevania after the original and III.

[Anonymous No.3544207]

>>3533984
works great on my wii

[Anonymous No.3544212]

>>3537859
the doppleganger is kind of a bitch the way he dodges your magic and repeatedly slams you into the wall, but i think with the dagger or axe and a decent level up he's not that hard

[Anonymous No.3544216]

>>3534123
I just downloaded a 100% save file.

all that matters is that the save is the same region as the ISO version you're using.

[Anonymous No.3544219]

>>3541540
great, now go play the original msx non-linear version
https://youtu.be/RPIWCGx8PCc

yes, the original was a metroidvania game

[Anonymous No.3544223]

>>3544219
msx game came out a few months after the nes game tho

also wouldn't really call it a metroidvania either

[Anonymous No.3544247]

Decided to try this out. It's a shameless clone and it isn't as tight in its design, but it's surprisingly pretty good.

[Anonymous No.3544315]

>>3544182

Play Rondo again. It's full of bad/weird design choices in the levels and practically no real challenge.
And most of the background graphics are lazy copypaste of bricked walls.

Maybe we've just became jaded.

[Anonymous No.3544325]

>>3544182
>tech demo for mode 7.

Just because of a short part of one level and one boss?

[Anonymous No.3544332]

>>3544315
I agree with you. Rondo is a good game but the level design is often severely lacking.

[Anonymous No.3545782]

>>3544212
Just grab the time clock for those battles. IIRC the two doppelgangers are the only "boss" enemies that are stopped entirely by it and they become stupid easy to kill, obviously

[Anonymous No.3545857]

I just beat my first ever Castlevania game yesterday, Dracula X on the SNES, never gave a chance to the series before, now i think i'm gonna play the other games too.

But before i play the other games i think i'm gonna replay it and try to find out what that key was for, i'm very curious and kinda autistic about these little things.

[Anonymous No.3547308]

Holy fuck the Cinemassacre Adventure ReBirth video was awful, the fat guy kept spewing wrong information all the time.

[Anonymous No.3547329]

>>3547308
I subscribed for monster madness again. I only watched a few minutes of that video.

I turned it off when Mike couldn't wrap his head around wiiware. "Why don't they just call it old games and new games?"

Are you fucking kidding.

[Anonymous No.3547337]

>>3544332
I like the ship the most, too bad about the whole martial arts death thing at the end of it

As easy as rondo is, it ended up having one of the hardest death fights

[Anonymous No.3547548]

>>3547337

One of the hardest in what sense? I feel it's one of the easiest because you can win without cheesing it like you can (or even should if you want to proceed withou gouging your eyes out). in 1 or 3.