/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7301153]

This must be the least remembered Castlevania games, i wonder why, i thought it was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.7301160]

>>7301153
I remember buying this after playing circle of the moon and being extremely disappointed. CoTM was my first castlevania

[Anonymous No.7301168]

>>7301160
well its definitely not a metroidvania. Maybe thats what people expected? i liked pretty much all the classicvanias and thought it was a fun adaptation

[Anonymous No.7301810]

>>7301153
Dunno about other but that remixed soundtrack was great and made the game really memorable especially the remix of wicked child.

[Anonymous No.7301814]

The game being a port of the X6800 version, which is itself another spin on Simon's game, might have something to do with it, alongside the difficulty. The port was released after SOTN, so it might not have looked as good in comparison.
I like the X68K game a lot, it's definitely the toughest Classicvania though.

[Anonymous No.7301830]

No NA release until 2001 which was during the sunsetting of both the PSX and interest in linearvanias.

[Anonymous No.7301886]

>>7301810
>that remixed soundtrack was great
I personally don't like any of the remixes in this game. Only the original X68K soundchip style sounds right to me.

[Anonymous No.7301895]

>>7301160
faggot onions cunt detected

[Anonymous No.7301897]

>>7301886
>I personally don't like any of the remixes in this game.

[Anonymous No.7302391]

It's okay enough if you play the new version, but the original game is completely broken.

Stage 12 is among the worst sections in any Castlevania game, up there with The final levels of Belmonts Revenge and the brick dropping sections in Dracula 3. The level isn't setup for the characters movement. The new mode makes it a lot easier but the OG game should have never had it in there to begin with.

As a remake, they got rid of the part where you feel your mastering the game and instead just made you have to get lucky.

[Anonymous No.7302624]

>>7301153
Very solid classicvania.

[Anonymous No.7302987]

>>7301886
Not one? Personally I don't like Arranged Vampire Killer, but stuff like Thrashard in The Cave and Wicked Child were nice. Etude for The Killer really stood out to me, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHbeUi3k8XY

[Anonymous No.7303010]

>>7302391
As much as I've come to love Chronicles after the first time I played it, I fucking despised that part exactly because despite being made after 4, they nerfed the fuck out of the whip, and the game loves to hit you from above.

It's gets better the more you play and see through the bullshit, though. If you ignore the leftmost candle and instead immediately go for the stairs, you can kill the skeletons before they gather and bullshit you on your way up. You can also jump up near the window to trigger the glass knight and trick it into going to the right instead of the left, and there's even a pot roast right before Medusa.

[Anonymous No.7304695]

Play the X68000 original, it's really easy to emulate. THe port is subpar.

[Anonymous No.7304710]

they RUINED EVERYTHING

[Anonymous No.7305473]

>>7301153