Castlevania Thread

[Anonymous No.5765065]

What's your favourite Choyakuvania (emphasis on platforming) and Tansakuvania (emphasis on exploration), /vr/?

[Anonymous No.5765076]

theoneswhereyouwhipvampireswithshitcontrolsvania

[Anonymous No.5765260]

Just call it Transilvania you dumb Japanese nerds.

Castlevania is some of the cringiest shit I have ever witnessed. Stop stealing European folklore, what's wrong with Japanese legends.

[Anonymous No.5765692]

>>5765260
Konami has Getsu Fuuma Den for that.

Castlevania was supposed to be a silly parody of B-grade monster movies, but then people started taking it seriously and now it's since become anime faggotry.

[Anonymous No.5765736]

>>5765065
>Choyakuvania
Castlevania (NES 1987)
>Tansakuvania
Symphony of the Night

[Anonymous No.5765784]

>>5765065
>disposable weebshit terms
Nah, we're not doing that.
>best jumpyyvania
Bloodlines, hands down.
>best slashyvania
SotN of course.

[Anonymous No.5765831]

Top 3 classic: 1 > Bloodlines > 3
Top 3 exploration: SoTN > AoS > OoE

[Anonymous No.5765947]

>tfw I was the first anon to introduce the term "tansaku" to /vr/ and since then this autistic shitposter never stopped using it
>tfw I was also the first anon to call babbage gramps "Gramps", before he started namefagging
I should stop posting anytime.

[Anonymous No.5765965]

nothing beats Rondo, its the peak classicvania
I have a special place in my heart for IV because its comfy and still feels the best
as for the Igavanias, it's gotta be Aria

[Anonymous No.5765972]

>>5765947
But are you also the anon that started Gacktposting on /vr/?

[Anonymous No.5766209]

>>5765736
Yeah, same here.

[Anonymous No.5766686]

>not Arcadeyvania for 1cc-able CV's and Jarpigvania for CV's with progression systems

[Anonymous No.5766856]

Classicvania, it's hard to say. I had the most memorable experience playing CV3, but I'm also less keen to replay it. It's like Zelda 2, it's the right level of effort to where you feel adequately tested and generously satisfied from doing it, but also to the point that when I replay it I'm just like, "I did this already." I should give the Japanese version a whirl.

Simon'sQuestetsu, Symphony of the Night hands-down. It's the easy answer because it's the right answer. The absence of an in-depth sub-attack system in lieu of normal subweapon spawns is glaring nowadays, but that doesn't prevent it from having the best scale and depth to discovery in its world design. And of these discoveries, a surprising majority offer something worthwhile for at least tinkering around with. Also the inverted castle is brilliant. The game gives you what's essentially a wide-open environment for you to roam and unearth as gameplay governs rather than how the game sequences you; you have all the major upgrades when you get there. Yet it doesn't overstay its welcome. None of the other games have managed this and it's a big reason it's still on top.

Honorable mention to Circle of the Moon for being basically "Simon's Quest, but good:" a classicvania successfully baked into the mold of a bigger adventure game. Level design's a little weak, but made up for by using so many monsters that would constitute bosses in any Igavania, whose attack patterns amount to environmental hazards anyway. It even manages to make pits a legitimate hazard despite the adventure format, because if you accidentally drop off-screen well into a grueling battle with an elemental demon, you're pissed.

[Anonymous No.5767520]

>>5765065
X68000 Castlevania and MSX2 Castlevania, of course.

Computer always wins.

[Anonymous No.5767837]

>>5765965
Almost

I say it could have used whip upgrades and the 8 direction whipping. I also would have liked to have seen a better alternate stage 5. Its basically near perfect though as it is.

[Anonymous No.5767864]

>>5765972
People post Gackt on /vr/?
I fucking watched Furin Kazan specifically for him as Uesugi Kenshin.

[Anonymous No.5767894]

>>5765065
I really like this graphics overhaul a lot. Basically takes NES Castlevania's look and perfects it into peak kino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO4j6Z3_YlQ

[Anonymous No.5768962]

>>5765260
>>5765692
Both wrong. Castlevania specifically uses references to the old Universal monster movies of the 30's-40's (The Creature from the Black Lagoon is considered the last of the "classic" Universal monsters). Mummies, fishmen, and Frankenstein's monster are not "European folklore", and B-movies are the cheap monster movies of the 50's and 60's, usually involving science gone awry, mutants, or aliens, and often made with a shoestring budget.

[Anonymous No.5769194]

>>5767520
The former is excellent but the latter is lackluster.

[Anonymous No.5769310]

>>5765065
>Not Classicvania or Igavania