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About to start this, its gonna be a good ride right?

>> No.4309792

>>4309784
Picture Zelda 2, except worse in literally every single possible way.

>> No.4309793

It's obtuse.

If you are using a guide or have played the game before and know exactly what to do, it isn't hard. Might even be the easiest of the three NES Castlevanias. If you are going into this totally blind, it's rough.

>> No.4309884

>>4309793
>If you are going into this totally blind, it's rough.

This is 100% true. This game was a MFer when I was a kid. I got it when I was like 6 or 7. I'm 32 now and I've never come close to beating it. Find a guide.

>> No.4309945

>>4309793
>>4309884
Playing this blind. I beat Castlevania I on easy mode (yeah, filthy casual I know).
I plan on reading the manual before starting, is that enough?

>> No.4310000

>>4309945
You're going to get stuck and frustrated just because you can't figure out some obtuse clue or other then rage because getting the good ending is time-restricted

>> No.4310029

All of the bullshit parts in this game are already memes, it's not that bad. There's a romhack that gives you a re-translation and a rudimentary in-game map, I recommend playing with that. It's still Castlevania, it has atmosphere and cool music, even when it's tedious.

>> No.4310495

>>4309945
There's a dumb mistranslation that it helps to know about. Those guys that say "clues to Dracula's riddle are in..." are really meant to say "Books with clues to Dracula's riddle are in..."

Some of those books tell you things you are outright required to know to pass certain puzzles, so knowing where to search for them is pretty handy.

>> No.4310514

Patch it with this: https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/6e9e5h/castlevania_ii_improvement_megapatch/

>> No.4310591

>>4310495
>>4310514
Thanks for the help, now I feel indebted, I'll beat the game for sure now heh.
This patch is pretty good, its only downside is the removed window ("What a horrible night to have a curse")

>> No.4310750

>>4310029
It's not a retranslation, it's a "making up dialogue that contains more hints than the game is supposed to have" text hack.
Might as well play with a walkthrough.

>> No.4311949

>>4310591
you can configure it to keep that window (but remove the pause)

>> No.4311979

remember the days when you used to just play a game on your own but now everyone feels the need to go on the internet and as for random peoples opinions about a game

>> No.4312046

>>4310750
you're thinking of the wrong hack

>> No.4312068

>>4311979
You used to just play a game because you didn't have thousands of video games easily available at your fingertips. Paralysis of choice is a unique predicament. Everyone needs some kind of canon formed by consensus or you'll go fucking insane nowadays.

>> No.4312118

>>4309945
>Playing this blind. I beat Castlevania I on easy mode (yeah, filthy casual I know).
What

You mean just the first loop?

>> No.4312132

>>4309792
zelda 2 was gangster, though.

>> No.4312136

>>4310750
sounds like a good hack. i won't even need a guide to play the game.

>> No.4312385

>>4311949
How?

>>4312118
Yes just the first loop, I just wanted to kill Dracula desu, I thought that looping over didnt had any significance so I turned it off.

>> No.4312534

>>4311979
ironic considering then it was useful to get an opinion so you didnt spend $50 on a shit game, yet here we are when games are free to emulate and people STILL are afraid to spend 5 minutes trying out the game which cost nothing