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Is this the best Castlevania?

>> No.4537129

>>4537056
Better than sotn.

>> No.4537135

>>4537056
Holy Diver

>> No.4537138

>>4537056
Yeah imo it is

>> No.4537195

>>4537129
Most Castlevania games are, why even mention this.

>> No.4537201

>>4537056
all the 16-bit castlevanias are better, except Dracula X snes

>> No.4537223

>>4537195
Most think only sotn is a masterpiece and good castlevania.

>> No.4537298

>>4537129
>>4537195
>>4537223
they're not even the same fucking genre
>hurrr mario rpg is way better mario game than mario 3

>> No.4537315

This is the only CV ive played whose difficulty makes it less fun. I play thriugh the original, Rondo, and Drac X all the time, but I've never beat CV3.

It's fun for the first few levels, but becomes too frustrating at the halfway point imo.

My favorites are Rondo and Drac X.

>> No.4537320

>>4537315
Really? I thought Rondo was way harder than CV3.

>> No.4537329

>>4537056
Yes this is the best Castlevania game. Even after countless of hour playing it, i can still enjoy it.
>>4537315
>>4537320
I don't really get this, for me CV3 is one of the easiest Cassicvanias. The original is way harder.

>> No.4537339

>>4537320
Rondo is possibly the easiest classicvania anon, what the fuck?
Only seemingly difficult level is 5b, which isn't even accessible on your first playthrough.

>> No.4537351

>>4537315
>My favorites are Rondo and Drac X.

the difference between the two games could not be more night and day

>> No.4537354

>>4537315
In the x68000 version of Chronicles, after level 3 Simon dies in a mere 4 hits

the game is very beatable but very tricky. I still found it less frustrating than Dracula X snes though

>> No.4537383

>>4537298
Sure, you can't compare them directly, though I'd still say in overall quality Castlevania SotN is not that good in its genre compared to other Castlevania in their genres, if that makes sense.

>> No.4537403

>>4537329
Completely disagree. I've beat original several times but never 3. And I play the japanese versionw hich gives you infinite continues. TO be fair I haven't played 3 nearly as much but..

>> No.4537440

>>4537403
3 is harder than 1, its not even really close

>> No.4537740
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4537740

>>4537056
Makaimura was here.

Castlevania is for scrubby consolefags.

>> No.4537750

>>4537740
Yeah, too bad we only got Haunted Castle which wasn't exactly amazing. A good arcade Castlevania had potential, but platformers weren't popular there for some reason.

>> No.4537753

>>4537315
If you're struggling with CV3, play the Famicom release. The US version changed shit around to make the game even harder than before.

>> No.4537759

>>4537315
did you know it has passwords?

>> No.4537764

>>4537753
the US version also has worst music

>> No.4537806

>>4537764
still fucking good tho
I could 100% fuck to the castlevania soundtrack

>> No.4537854

>>4537740
>posing as an arcadefag
Go back to your Amigavania.

>> No.4537910

>>4537854
Not him but what has Castlevania for the Amiga have to do with arcade games / challenge?

>> No.4537915

>>4537910
He thinks that anon is an infamous australian shitposter boogeyman.

>> No.4537917

>>4537910
Amigavania is the most challenging Castlevania game of all. Try it and see if you can stomach that for more than the intro screen.

>> No.4537919

>>4537910
>>4537915
samefag australia-kun damage controlling.

>> No.4537923

>>4537917
But isn't that game challenging for the wrong reasons? AKA being shit. Arcade challenge isn't about this.

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4537927

>>4537919
>being this paranoid-schizophrenic

How's the Cee witch-hunt been going lately, btw?

>> No.4537938

>>4537927
>Cee
huh?
Anyway, australia-kun or not, that autistic "GnG is better than castlevania" shitposter has been around for a long time too. Nothing wrong in calling him out on his autism.

>> No.4537943

>>4537938
Why are you so triggered that someone likes GnG over Castlevania?

>> No.4537950

>>4537943
Nah I'm fine with that.
I just don't like repetitive shitposters.
>>/vr/?task=search2&ghost=&search_text=&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=arthur-gng.png&search_datefrom=&search_dateto=&search_op=all&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=post

>> No.4537959

>>4537320
People play rondo with maria easymode and then complain it's too easy.

>> No.4537964

>>4537959
Rondo is easy because the level design is very tame, not because of the character (it's easy with both of them, but I think Richter is easier due to his subweapons and more HP)

>> No.4539059

>>4537320
Rondo of blood is easy as shit when compared to CV3.

>> No.4539183

>>4537950
BTFO

>> No.4539223

If Rondo is so fucking easy, then why do James and Mike have a hard time with it? Mike is no slouch when it comes to difficult games.

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

>> No.4539226

what's the best castlevania for someone that's never played one but has played other metroidvanias?

>> No.4539228

>>4539226
Bloodlines or Rondo I guess. Rondo for obvious reasons, Bloodlines because it has ties with Portrait of Ruin and has an awesome ost by Michiru Yamane. Both are easy. Play 1 and 3 after that.

>> No.4539229

>>4539223
>Mike is no slouch when it comes to difficult games.
he couldn't beat yellow devil without the pause glitch LMAO

>> No.4539232

>>4539229
Didn't doesn't mean couldn't. He one credit cleared Alien Wars, which is far, FAR more difficult of a task. Don't make me defend Mike ever again, you faggot.

>> No.4539234

>>4539228
Thank you

>> No.4539256

>>4539223
Mike is only good alone and after some practice. Though this guy has beaten Haunted Castle, which is more than you can say of probably 99% of this board filled with 5th gen babbies. Also this >>4539232
He probably just didn't give a shit about learning and practicing the Yellow Devil pattern.

>> No.4539262

>>4539256
>He probably just didn't give a shit about learning and practicing the Yellow Devil pattern.
yeah, same way those fifth gen babies couldn't give a shit about haunted castle

>> No.4539286

>>4539262
Or any other difficult game for that matter

>> No.4539465

>>4539262
Exploiting a boss isn't the same as disregarding challenge in games in general, as if it was a bad thing, as >>4539286 says.

>> No.4539478

>>4539223
>Mike is no slouch when it comes to difficult games.
Aren't his playthroughs actually pre-recorded?
Anyway, it seems they weren't familiar with Rondo of Blood, the reason they died was because of the red knight, which charges at you and you need to evade it by making a backflip jump. Evidently they didn't knew (or remembered) that the backflip was a thing. Forgivable though, since it's not a mechanic that was used in any other Castlevania game.
Also, on J&M mondays, they never play "seriously".

>> No.4539490

>>4537056
can't we just agree they are all pretty fun and comfy, even the crappy ones?

I wish they'd bring out more like the older versions

>> No.4539569

Is Dracula X: Chronicles worth buying on the PS3 store to play the original Rondo of Blood? Is it a big hassle to unlock it?

>> No.4539930

>>4539490
>even the crappy ones?
why would I admit the unfun ones are unfun? I can think of many things I'd rather do than play through HoD again.

>> No.4540062

>>4539569
the remake of it is actually really good, but to answer the question, nah its not much of a hassle to unlock, to unlock both the original rondo and sotn, you just have to find its icon in one of the stages, and they aren't late game stages either.

>> No.4540074

>>4537383
Bullshit, give me a better castlevania rpg. Take in consideration it must feature better music, art, main character, skills, and castle

>> No.4540160

>>4540062
>the remake of it is actually really good
You might be right but I don't think the graphics look appealing. Besides I don't like playing a remake without playing the original first. Thanks for the reply

>> No.4540174

Of course it's not.

In this world, the only 2 castlevania games:
1) Castlevania NES 1988
2) Super Castlevania SNES 1991

That's all

>> No.4540202

>>4537056
I like Rondo better but this is my 2nd fav,

>> No.4540280

>>4540074
>better music, art
All of this is negligible since it's both subjective and not game mechanic related. I'm judging the game here. SotN is on a better hardware than the rest of the 2D exploration vanias which is why it easily wins there.
However, it is the most unbalanced game with a very, VERY bad inverted (lol) difficulty curve. It also has probably the worse case of padding, even if some of the latter ones have plenty of that too (HoD's second castle, mirror areas in PoR and OoE).
It's fairly easy to see this. If you are into self-imposed challenges then SotN improves a lot. With a few tweaks (maybe hacked) it could actually be very good, but it falls short unless you like walking simulators.

>> No.4541018

>>4539490
Considering that those are all subjective, I'm entirely certain we can't agree.

>> No.4541413

>>4537056
For me it is the best. Objectively, 4 beats it.

>> No.4541452

>>4541413
Objectively, you're an idiot.

>> No.4542273

>>4541018
I know,... I just wanted to believe

>> No.4542894

Can anybody point me to a disc image for SotN that's compatible with LandonRay's hard mode patch? Or better yet, upload their own if they have it?

I have tried so many of them, yet they never work...

>> No.4542989

>>4542894
Oh my word, it actually works. I found an deadbeat forums page on the last page of results in Google where somebody quips about recalculating checksums in the iso.

To the anons reading this post in the future, download ECCRegen and use it to fix the file after patching it.

>> No.4543009
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4543009

>>4540280
>VERY bad inverted (lol) difficulty curve.

>> No.4544960

>>4537764

It has music that's more elegant and less farty. That's not worse.

>> No.4545319

>>4544960
More elegant? You what? I hope you're talking about how sound effects interrupt the music and not insinuating the US release has better music with it's less overall elements.