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Which versions of castlevania 1 2 and 3 should I play, Japanese or English?

>> No.5621569

>>5621564
The region only really matters when playing CV3. Most will say to play Japanese.

>> No.5621601

>>5621569
Japanese has a better soundtrack and a less brutal difficulty.
Seriously, fuck medusa heads.

>> No.5621642

1: whatever (try msx too)
2: us + retranslation patch
3: jp has better soundtrack by far, us has some graphic tweaks and a hard mode
4 (1 remake): us + retranslation patch
Castlevania X /Rondo: PSP/PS4 english port (not 2.5 "remake"), actually more complete than any translation patch because emudev faggotry about audio cd softsubs
Castlevania XX (snes): whatever, both mostly identical language and censored animations aside
Chronicles: some hate that ports remove knockback damage for arrange mode on ps1 compared to x68000. if you do there's a fan fix.
bloodlines: whatever, if it's not the pal port (only betas are uncut and no one ported their changes back yet)

>> No.5621848

>>5621642
I played the rondo of blood emulation on pc and it seemed fine. Im curious why the psp version is better?

>> No.5621880

1: Vs. Castlevania
2: skip this shit
3: Famicom version

>> No.5621889
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5621889

>>5621880
>1: Vs. Castlevania

>> No.5621981

>>5621564
Either for CV 1, US for CV 2 (far faster loading times), JP for CV 3 (intended difficulty and better music, along with accurate sprites). US CV 3 does have some charm though, and a few changes were for the better (final boss' lasers).

>> No.5622058

>purchase the anniversary collection to try to get in the games because I never played them before
>games are hard as living fuck
Any tips for the games? I managed to beat the first game after fucking hours of pure rage at Death and Dracula, and Simon's Quest was too easy but tedious as fuck, so now I'm moving on to III

>> No.5622164

>>5622058
Did you take band class in school? Seriously, being about to count an internal rythm as a drummer has helped me with these games immensely, it's all about patience and timing, especially in 3. I honestly think you should skip 3 for now, it's the hardest in the series. Try 4, Bloodlines, & Rondo as warm ups for Draculas Curse

>> No.5623054

>>5621564
x68000 for 1, don't bother with 2 and 3 at all.

>> No.5623074

>>5621848
It's in english I guess.
You do have to play the 3D remake for a bit in order to unlock it though.

>> No.5623134

>>5623054
Chronicles isn't the same thing as 1

>> No.5623657

>>5622058
For CV1 holy water trivializes Death, but reaching Death without losing it is the hard part.

>> No.5623846

>>5621564
Always Japanese coz they had unmolested gameplay and better audio. Famicom Disc System for 1 and 2, and Famicom for 3.

>> No.5624275

>>5623846
>Famicom Disc System for 1 and 2
but the actual gameplay is load time torture lol

>> No.5624759

Play Akumajou Densetsu (CVIII) with this:

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1983/

>>5621642

Did somebody make a retranslation for SCV4? There are a couple of 'uncensoring' patches floating around, but I can't seem to find one that tackles the actual script/title localization.

>> No.5624768

>>5621564
USA always yo.. or whatever country you are in
>playing imports ever