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Let's set this, /vr/. Who's best Belmont?.

Richter is the correct answer, search in your Hydro Storm. You know it's true.

>> No.794779

Any of them before they were raped by Igarashi's ego.

>> No.794786

Richter

>> No.794791

Trevor's always been my fav.

>> No.794789
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794789

Desmond.

>> No.794792
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>>794778
>Richter

Muh Nigger.

>> No.794796

>>794779
Explain?

>> No.794840

>the new version of Simon
Please no.

>> No.794867

Juese Belmont
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Vv9gcGFpM

>> No.794871

Julius is my favorite. Richter and Simon are both awesome too, though.

>> No.794878
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794878

> Richter
I think you mean Ryu OP.

>> No.794884

Why is Christopher a cave man?

>> No.794887
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794887

Simon.
To be honest, most of the rest of them look like Final Fantasy characters. Richter is ridiculously effeminate and even wears two belts, one of which does nothing.
Simon is just a caveman-looking motherfucker (except in SC IV where he looks like Conan the Barbarian), walking through a castle whipping the shit out of monsters. The gameplay of newer Castletroids is still good, but why did the character design and art design get so shitty?
I appreciated a European-inspired art style for the European-inspired story. Anime made sense when the castle appeared in Japan for whatever reason, but I don't see a reason for the shift across the entire series.

>> No.794901
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>>794887
Ahah...AHAHAH...AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

>> No.794908

>>794901
Simon + Richter master race. The rest are smalltime

>> No.794926

Reeshtah

>> No.794930

Julius is a cool dude

>> No.794941

>>794901
Why the fuck would they redesign him like that?
He looks like a Sailor Moon villain.
It's even anachronistic. That doesn't look anything like any sort of European battle garb of the time, and are those fucking tribal tattoos?

>> No.794965

>>794941

All the other characters in that CV fighter in Wii were equally as ridiculous.

>> No.795000
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795000

Capatin N Belmont is best Belmont

>> No.795013

>>794941
>That doesn't look anything like any sort of European battle garb of the time,

To be fair, >>794887
doesn't look anything like 17th century battle garb either.

>> No.795014
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>>794901
If I ever get my hands on a death note, I know whose name will be on the first line

>> No.795035

>>795014
Oh good, glad I wasn't the only one that thought he looked exactly like Light.

>> No.795041

>>794901
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/okay-you-can-have-a-castlevania-strip

>> No.795063

>>794778
I don't know who is who, but one of them has a goatee, which automatically makes him the most awesome.

>> No.795076

>>794908
This

>> No.795089

>>794901
Wait... wait... what the fuck is this?

>> No.795107

>>795063
left to right:

Leon Belmont (Lament of Innocence)
Sophia Belmont (Castlevania Legends)
Trevor Belmont (based on his appearance from Curse of Darkness)
Christopher Belmont (aka that guy from the original gameboy games that everyone forgets about)
Simon Belmont (based on his appearance in Castlevania Chronicles)
Juste Belmont (Harmony of Dissonance)
Richter Belmont (based on his appearance in Symphony of the Night)
John Morris (Bloodlines)
Julius Belmont (Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow)

I am somewhat curious why they included John Morris but left out Johnathan Jr. from Portrait of Ruin, but whatever.

>> No.795118
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HYDRO STORM

>> No.795132

>>795107
>John Morris
Try Reinhardt Schneider, who I think is still technically a Belmont somehow.

>> No.795150

>>795132
Ah, that would make more sense. I missed the N64 games, sorry.

>> No.795275

>>795013
No, but it looks like things that could at least be explained away.
Armor on important parts, but generally lightweight. Excess cloth could be forgone for reasons related to attack behaviour of faster monsters. Headband could have significance related to monsters as well.
It's obviously stylized, but it's at least somewhat believable.
>>794901 has unclasped belts everywhere, giant metal buckles attached to nothing in a vest that's obviously meant to not be closed. Shoulder spikes that serve no purpose. Oversized gauntlets to guard forearms but no protection on vital organs.
FUCKING SPIDERWEB CLOTH ON LEGS.
FUCKING STEEL-TOED BOOTS.
FUCKING TEXTURIZED HAIR.

He's supposed to be fighting the unholy, yet has no crosses anywhere (except maybe those lopsided shapes on his shoulders), and in fact has skull designs on his clothes. It makes no sense. It looks like a scene-goth wet-dream. I can live with the feminine features, but there was no reasoning in this design, stylized or not. Most of it can't even be explained away no matter how hard you stretch it.

>> No.795286
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795286

>>794901
Oh Grant... What have they done to you!?

>> No.795321

>>794901
>>795286
Why must Japan shit all over my memories?

>> No.795328

obligatory
>they will never make the true successor to CV3 starring Julius Belmont and co. in 1999

>>795321
They've created them and they can destroy them just as easily.

>> No.795352
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>>795286
Reminds me of Voldo, but less insane, crazy, and interesting.
Some parts just don't make sense, too. What the fuck is with those rook arm-guards?

>> No.795358

>>795150

Give them a look, easily the most underappreciated games, and still the only good 3D effort in the series. The less said about the PS2 games the better.

>> No.795478

>>795358

lol the PS2 games were great

>> No.795497

Julius is automatically the best because he ended up killing Dracula for good.

>> No.795505

Could you guys stop getting buttflustered over the Castlevania Judgement designs? It was a wild crazy thing that wasn't meant to stick, it was just a ridiculous sidestory thing. And it's old.

Talk about Lords of Shadow if you want to complain about thngs ACTUALLY ruining Castlevania.

>> No.795512

>>795352
I'm more dumbfound by all the zippers that go know where.

>> No.795518

>>795505

True dat, Lords of shadow is fucking terrible

>> No.795519

>>795478

I found them incredibly mundane and forgettable, but each to their own

>> No.795529
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>>794778
Kokoro Belmont is best Belmont, duh.

>> No.795658
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>>794941
My guess is that they were going for something similar to the PS1 design, but some how made him look even more ridiculous. To be fair, everyone in that game looks pants on head retarded, though.

>> No.795667
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>>794789
ugh its like a CD-I castlevania

>> No.795670 [DELETED] 

>>795000
the best character on that show

the trips have spoken

>> No.795682

>>795529
She can whip me anyday.

>> No.795690 [DELETED] 

my favorit belmnt iz arucard :3

>> No.795696

>>795512
What zippers?

>> No.795730

>>795696
in
>>795286
look at all the black section around the legs and crotch.
It's all lined with zipper teeth.

>> No.795743

Simon Belmondo

Richter is decent too

>> No.795815

>>795743
>Belmondo
weeaboo plis go

>> No.795859

>>795815
you're a pleb who doesnt know shit about akumajo dracura

>> No.795868

>>794878
Ryu Belmont is best Belmont, hands down.

>> No.795968

Where's Alucard? I think he's the best

>> No.795982

Julius perma-killed Dracula.

That has to count for something.

>> No.796349
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796349

Julius or Richter.

>> No.796362

>>795286
I will never understand what the hell was going on when their designed this abomination.

>> No.796367

>>794796
I hope he means how Igarashi got up his own ass with all the Soma Cruz 1999 shit.
Also dissing on Circle of the Moon. CotM was a much more enjoyable game than Dawn of Sorrow. Even if it was almost impossible to see if you didn't mod your GBA or play it on the DS.

>> No.796379

>>794778
Juese

>> No.796396

hard to say. how do we measure "best"? best of what?

I like Juste, Richter and Reinhard just about the same. Leon not so much because his hair sucks.

also, Julius Belmont? really? He appears in Aria of Sorrow and can be unlocked as playable character if I remember correctly but he never had his very own game yet, didn't he?

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>>795519
they weren't.

I nominate Hector for best non-Belmont Protag so far right next to Soma.

the only down side of the PS2 titles were them getting tedious easily but combat-wise they were fine. applying the metroidvania formula on a 3D is something I'd probably enjoyed when I was like 17 or something but now, I just find it complete shit.

devil forging is tons of fun though and how you can craft weapon and evolve your devils in different ways. it was kinda similar to Devil Summoner Raidou in some ways. I like that.

>> No.796412

>>796379
DOESN'T FIGHT DRACULA
ONLY MAKES PANCAKES

>> No.796410

>>796407
>*3D environment

>> No.796413

>>794901
needs more belts and clips.

>> No.796415

>>796412
that's far more fun anyway. pancake baker masterrace

>> No.796419

>>796407
>Hector

He can break dance bretty gud I must say.

>> No.796425

Gabriel.

>> No.796428
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796428

b-but /vr/, d-did you forget about poor Jonathan? ;_;

>> No.796430
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796430

So, for the people who actually played this game, what did you like and/or dislike? The game gets a lot of hate but most of the people I know who played through it liked it, myself included.

>> No.796435

>>796428
He was who I mained in Harmony of Despair. Those shuriken and that morning star were too much fun.

Somafags can eat a fat dick.

>> No.796431

>>795352
why does he have a thorn inside his asshole?
what the fuck, nippon?

>> No.796443

>>796435
but I like Soma too.

>> No.796441

>>796430
I liked it quite a lot. I liked skeletons on motorcycle which exploded. I liked the damn duel tower even though it was hard. I finished it with every character and I liked Reinhard's design for the most part. it was solid.

I liked the art tower too and the ideas with the science and magic(?) tower.

what I didn't like was the twitchy controls and the sometimes very muddy graphics as well as the shit acting and stiff characters and no facial expression whatsoever. I didn't like the platforming much but it's still better than what the PS2 games have brought us.

>> No.796451

>>796443
Yeah, and so did everyone else who played that game. I easily saw more Somas than every other character combined.

>> No.796453

>>796430
what I didn't like were those models in the pic you posted

Reinhard looked so bulky and beefy and in the game he was much more slim

>> No.796452

>>796441
>magic(?) tower
Tower of Sorcery, mah nigga.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4vzJtXqC-Q

>> No.796454

>>796452
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4vzJtXqC-Q

yeah, exactly. I meant this one with the ice crystals everywhere.

>> No.796458

>>796441
I don't remember shit acting as much as there was no acting. A couple of facial images for speaking and a few emotions really would have done the game a world of good. I agree with you there a lot.
I... actually liked the platforming a lot. Once you got used to it it became tough but fair.

>> No.796475

SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL
THE BELMONT CLAN HAS STOOD IN OPPOSITION TO DRACULA
EVERY ONE HUNDRED YEARS
DRACULA WOULD RISE FROM HIS GRAVE
AND A BELMONT WOULD BE THERE TO STOP HIM
THIS IS THE STORY OF YEAR 47

Belmont too cool to fight Dracula
Put down whip and equip spatula
Can't fight Drac if the Belmont dies
Touchin' ladies thighs to keep the name alive
Doesn't fight Dracula
Only makes pancakes
Would be a hero, he's
Four and a half decades late
Uh!
Juese Belmont's tough!
Uh! Get down!
Juese Belmont's rough!
Can't fight Dracula
With a spatula
People always tell me, Belmont, be brave
Don't know why Drac ain't comin' back from the grave
We got like forty-five years, villagers cool down
Got this Belmont DNA, gotta pass it around
Doesn't fight Dracula
Only fights boredom
Come on, now, bachelorettes
You can't ignore him,
He's Juese!
He's Juese!
Little bit different from the Belmont best
Don't want Medusa heads, just gimme the breasts
If she's chesty, I guess I'll get those STDs
Got a rock for my cock, ha ha, pee pee pee
But that won't happen, see, always keep it protected
Have Sylpha cast spells when it gets erected
Unacceptable anything else would be
'Cause one Belmont gets chicks, and that Belmont is me
Alucard? Pfft, I'd rather have it Grant DaNasty. Oh wait, that sounded gay.

>> No.796479

>>795014
Oh god, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a vampire hunter?

>> No.796486

>>795518
LoS is an awesome game. It just sucks that people decided to sell it as Castlevania game when it wasn't at first.

>> No.796490
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>>795743
>>795815
Did someone call me?

>> No.797764

>>796430
While when replaying it I can't think of it as a good game, it has some charm that makes me like it. It happened with some other non retro games, so I think it isn't exactly nostalgia.

>> No.798110
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798110

Simon Belmont is the only answer.

>> No.798165
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>>796430
Likes:
Characters, environments, thinly veiled story (that IS there)

Dislikes: Thinly veiled story (so much potential), never mentioned again, lack of a fleshed out HD remake.

mfw HD remake of Legacy of Darkness; with full voice acting.

Also, Reinhardt for best Belmont. Originally, he was called "Schneider Belmont".

>> No.798280
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>>794901
Dracula looks quite cool in this game.

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>>798280

>> No.798312
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>>798280
>>798282
While it's an interesting design, Gilded Rosepetal Princess Dracula doesn't strike me as intimidating.

>> No.798397

>>798282
>>798280
I don't quite understand the design, particularly the tube-like parts on his torso.

Is it related to part of the game? Does he hook up to a machine that feeds him blood? Why do they all connect up to what appears to be a metallic heart?

>> No.798613
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>>794778
>Belmonts
>Reinhardt

mfw

>> No.798625

>>798282
He looks like a fag on a pride parade.

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>>798625
wait wut..

>> No.798638

>>796458

Legacy had no voice acting, CV64 did

Also, dat twist at the end of the game. Fuck yeah. Also that maid watering flowers with blood, that vampire hunter who sucks shit, and that horrible section with the dynamite

>> No.798685

>>796479
Better than the animu boys we've gotten in the past few years.

>>796430
It was pretty good. It was my first Castlevania game, and now playing the 2D ones, I see why long time fans shat on it. It's good, but it plays very differently from your old school CVs. But, it keeps the music and design well.

>> No.799965

>>798638
The magical nitro section was a monster alright, especially in LoD because of that fucking bone pillar sitting on the gears at the end of the balance beam room. They easily made that task twice as hard from the original.

They also gave Henry a lifebar when he and Cornell are running from the Frankenstein monster. That made it so much worse.

>> No.799973

>>796486
Lords of Shadow was a hideously mediocre God of War clone with painfully generic design to basically everything. Stapling Castlevania to it and throwing everything else out only made it sting worse after 10 fucking hours of brightly-lit forests and generic ruins full of orcs and goblins interrupted by a goddamn Shadow of the Colossus ripoff.

And that motherfucking theme with strings was overplayed SO MUCH.

>> No.799978

Simon, that fucker resurrected Dracula just to kill him again all while slowly dying of lepresy. You can't get more manly than that.

he also stars in the best CV game, IV

>> No.799979

Juste.

He finds time to decorate a room in a castle while he's busy whipping ass, using magic, and being fabulous.

>> No.800527

>>798638
>that vampire hunter who sucks shit

you mean Charlie? he might be a faggot but he can't be bad as he's armed to the teeth with crosses.

>> No.800528

>>799979
I like Juste. I think Harmony was even the first Castlevania sidescroller I picked up.

>> No.800532

>>798613
he is a true Belmont. just like Nathan.

>> No.800541

>>796451
Getsu Fuma Master Race here
I have no idea why I did, but he was just so damn fun to play with.

My favorite Belmont would be Nathan Graves, motherfucking WHIP SPIN

>> No.800542

John Morris.

>> No.800581
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800581

>>800541
>My favorite Belmont
>Graves
Not a remotely a Belmont and not even canon

I must be the only person who didn't enjoy a sigle aspect of Circle of The Moon
I'd say Richter in Dracula X Chronicles is the only time one of Ayami Kojima's redesigs worked. Her Trevor looks like a goth douche and her Simon looks like what Trevor is supposed to look like.
Why does no one ever draw Simon in armor!? late 17th century isn't the goddamn Hyborian Age

>> No.800592

>>800581
To my ideal, Christopher would be the Conan looking one. Trevor would be a tad more modern and have a cape and Simon is in full on red armor like the Sion's Quest boxart

>> No.800618

>>794789
Who the flying fuck is that!?

>> No.800628

>>795000

>> No.800631

>>800618
Hero from some abortion of pre-android mobile game.

>> No.800653

>>794778
guess what? theyre all the same, its a fucking 2d platformer

>> No.800665

guys

guys really

the most important question is

guys shut up

which version of Death is best Death

>> No.800761

>>799973
>Generic design

Come on now, I'd love to see more games with that "generic" design.

>> No.800778

Julius and Trevor. Fuck Juste.

>> No.800787
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>>798280
Except he's suffering from Eggman Nipple Syndrome to an extreme degree.

>> No.800789

>>800778
Juste gets a bad rap just because the music in his game sucked

>> No.800798

>>800532
Nope

>> No.800806

>>800581
I'm playing through it for the first time and I kind of agree. Adapting the sluggish style of Belmont movement to the action/exploration design of later entries is just making the whole game tedious.

>> No.800847

>>800806
People say they like it the most out of the GBA games because its actually challenging but that's because it plays like a fan hack and not a real CV game. Instead of clever way to progress through the castle you get "move wood boxes power!" and then "move metal boxes power!"

It's the most creatively bankrupt CV game this side of Dawn of Sorrow and ReBirth

>> No.800921

>>800847
Haunted Castle sis still the worst CV game, though, not counting retarded ports of the NES game that is

>> No.800928

>>800806
It has the worst controls of any Castlevania, I cannot take it. I'll go with my Dawn of Sorrow any day, it's a much better game.

>> No.800930

>>800798
yes, you dumb asshole because I said so.

http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/series/heroes-nathan.htm

>> No.800936

>>800930
>http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/series/heroes-nathan.htm
Pathetic rectonning of the IGA clusterfucked timeline. Not canon

>> No.800957

>>800930
Wait, so the Belmonts can only use their own weapons when Dracula comes on the expected date? A bunch of lesser off-shoot families have to pick up the slack when he is more often than not resurrected out of cycle?

Lame. Glad the series got a reboot

>> No.800982

>>800789
Juste is the most worthless Belmont ever. I was legitimately pissed off when he showed up for the "The Legendary 5" or whatever special attack in PoR. Faggot took the spot that should've been Christopher's.

>> No.801008

>>794778
Richter and maybe Simon. All the other ones are fucking too ridiculous.

>> No.801079

>>800982
He didn't even fight a fully resurrected Dracula did he? just a ghost and a crazy half-combined pile of organs

>> No.801112

>>800930
>according to that link Belmonts can't use their whip unless Dracula comes back on the 100 year cycle.

So in order to make Circle of the Moon canon, they're retconing out Simon's Quest, Castlevania Adventure 2, Harmony of Dissonance, and Symphony of the Night, all of which feature Belmonts using the whip when Dracula wasn't resurrected on the 100 year cycle. Good going.

>> No.801128

>>801112
I have no idea why so many fans NEED ever game to be part of the main universe. It's like insisting every Spider-Man game takes place in the main continuity.
I remember one guy was almost JIHAD levels of adamant that Legends should be canon despite it fucking withthe stories of CV3 and SoTN in horrible ways

>> No.801198

>>801128
At what point did those non-canon games get reincluded? I heard that the N64 were canon again somewhere

>> No.801214

So what happened to IGA, anyway? He handed his beloved franchise over to the Spaniards to do with as they pleased and just walked away?

>> No.801225

>>801214
Konami took it from him after that shit fest Wii game. Lords of Shadow wasn't even named as a CV game until much later. There was already a demo out for it before the Castlevania name was slapped on it. My guess is they were waiting for internal politics to conclude before making the break from IGA official.

>> No.801417

>>801225
It was his team that did that lame multiplayer sprite-fest on XBLA

>> No.801420

I have a few 'best Belmonts';

Sonia - first female Belmont(even if she was retconned)
Simon - first playable Belmont, set the standard, and as at least one anon pointed out, killed Dracula twice in his lifetime, once while dying from the curse
Julius - his music is just TOO badass, and he easily makes it clear why Dracula got perma-killed at his hands

>>801128

Are you talking about someone on here? I've only ever seen myself support the reinclusion of Legends into the timeline(it seriously doesn't fuck with the storyline as badly as you think, if you work it out and fill in the blanks a bit), but I've never been jihadist about it, as you say. Even so, it's time for a female Belmont anyway. Shanoa, Yoko, Charlotte, Carrie, Sypha, Maria, they're all fine, but they're not BELMONTS.

>> No.801491

111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>>796407
devil forgemaster hecotor ftw

>> No.801493

>>801420
No no. It was guy that used to pop up on the rare /v/ Cv threads. He was a regular from the CVD forums and even had a whole easy-cum-website about how Legends should be canon

I don't think it should be because it requires too many "maybe"s. She supposed to the first Belmont, yet her uncle gives her the whip. Where the fuck did the whip come from? It implies Trevor is Alucard's son, which is a pointless mixing of blood plus Alucard doesn't even know who Trevor is later. And then its implied that he and Maria have a kid? For a guy who hates Dracula he sure is spreading that vampire juice around

>> No.801497
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Trevor best Belmont, obviously.
>Wall-climban
>Knife-throwan
>Pirate-lookan

Biased because my name is Trevor
Also what the fuck is up with Trevor in Judgement (pic related)? I Google 'Trevor Belmont' for a picture, and this was the first image. He looks cool I guess, but come on.

>Trevor Belmont in a fighting game
>Looks like Voldo

Really?

>> No.801517

>>801497
All the characters got fugly makeovers for that game. Simon looks like.
But you describe Grant in green text, not Trevor

>> No.801519

>>801497
Everyone looks stupid in Judgement.

>> No.801536

>>801497
That's only slightly worse than Kojia's version. It made since for Richter and Juste to have longcoats. Soma? Ok he's modern Julius? Same thing
But Leon and Trevor? Did she forget that not all men wore trench coats in every historical period?

>> No.801532

>>801497
Wow, his shirt is literally all belts. I think this has gone a bit too far.

>> No.801540

>>801532
At some point the 90s the Japs collectively forgot how to properly design a character

>> No.801557

>>801536
She did out of hand with that shit. The only Belmont she didn't put in a long coat was Simon and she turned him into Lady Gaga

>> No.801562

>>801417
Are you talking about Harmony of Despair? Because 1) It's on PSN too, and 2) it's actually pretty fucking fun.

>> No.801571

They're all pretty faggy animu. But the least gay of them would have to be a tie between Simon and Richter.

>> No.801572

>>801557
Mmm... That could do a nice version of Bad romance.

>Dracu LALALA

>> No.801578

>>801562
Yes. Why the need to toss in that "PSN too" crap though?
And it was the ultimate testament to the total rehash the IGA games were. The games were reusing Rondo sprites over a decade later.

>> No.801592

>>798280
>Those curvy, feminine hips.
Thems some nice child-bearing hips.

>> No.801604

>>801571
Julius was pretty solid design wise, at least in Dawn's art. In Aria he had a pink ribbon in his hair and leopard print lining in his coat. Not to mention too much eye liner.

In Dawn he looks like a pretty cool guy. Plus he had to fight Dracula directly and indirectly more than Simon did

>> No.801607

>>801578
I wasn't sure if that was the game you were talking about. I have a PS3 and that's how I played it, there could have been some other XBLA CV game I wasn't aware of.

And the sprites being 10 years old in no way affect my enjoyment of the game. Simon uses his original 8-bit NES sprite, and there's an entire stage based on the original Castlevania with everything looking 8-bit. It's meant to be a nostalgia game.

>> No.801613

>>801607
Nostalgia would be fine if he hadn't already been cranking out game after game with those same sprites.

>> No.801615

>>801607
Except you're supposed to die again and again to get stuff and level up. And there's no couch coop.

>> No.801620

>>801615
>And there's no couch coop.
There is on the PSN version.

>> No.801625

>>801620
Wait what? Really? Was that after an update?
I'd have to check the xbox version again then.

>> No.801639

I would like to point out that the new timeline has Gabriel Belmont become Dracula, Trevor is his son taking place in a time period closer to Leon's time than originally in Castlevania III, and Simon is Trevor's son.

Fuck you Christopher and Solieyu! HAHAHAHA

>> No.801672

>>800936
but it is canon NOW

>> No.801682

>>801639
I'm too much of a /co/mrade to get upset by alternate storylines. The fact that Mirror of Fate is a sub-subtitle to Lords of Shadow just shows that's not meant to exist as a replacement but a parallel

>> No.801684

>>800936
>>800936
>>800936
>>800936

also here is the background of Reinhardt too btw. A TRUE BELMONT.

http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Reinhardt_Schneider

>> No.801712

>>801684
http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/heroes-main.htm

there too if you click Reinhardt in the upper section

>> No.801715

>>801712
>Reinhardt Schneider, like Nathan Graves(!), is another Belmont-family descendant who boasts a deviating surname. Still clearly well before the time of a true 100-year-cycle resurrection of Dracula, the Vampire Killer was passed along to the blood-related faction known as the Schneiders; specifically, the whip found its way into the hands of Michael Gelhart Schneider, who in time passed it down to his son, Reinhardt.

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>>801497
>>801517
Wow I'm stupid.

>> No.801862

>>801715
conjecture on a fan-site =/= canon

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Simon killed Dracula, and then brought him to kill him again.

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>>801639
And also Trevor becomes Alucard

I love the new Scottish Simon Belmont, beard and all but I HATE the Japanese demon slayer design he has.

>> No.801934

>>801920
He looks like Getsu Fuuma which is kind of fitting I guess but yeah, those games follow a much more Japanese design which is strange since its a Western game

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>>801934
I never saw the Getsu similarity until now. That demon head belt...thing really seals the deal.
That's got to be deliberate

>> No.801996

Sort of want to get into Castlevania guys, should I start with the NES version, then work my way up, or just play any remakes if there are any?

I tried playing the NES version once, but I didn't like it because I didn't know how to use the damn items for some reason.

>> No.802009

>>801996
NES is classic but SCV4 is the most newb friendly I'd say followed by Rondo of Blood.

>> No.802016

Why are Sonia and Castlevania Legends considered "horrible" and "blasphemous" and other such things by fans and Igarashi anyway

>> No.802017

>>801992
They included him in Harmony of Despair so I'd say it might be a nod

>> No.802024

>>802016
It's because the ending makes it so that Sonia got pregnant by Alucard and that the Belmont clan are all descendents of Dracula. I'd like them to redo the game and fix that problem.

>> No.802030

>>802016
I have no issue with Sonia, it's the implication that Alucard is Trevor's dad that I find stupid as shit. Also Legends was inferior in every way to Belmonet's Revenge.

>> No.802037

>>802024
>>802030
Isn't that what Lords of Shadow technically did?

Still, that doesn't seem like such a bad turnout to me, problematic maybe, but not awful.

>> No.802034

>>802016
Well for one the game kind of sucks and the story is totally fan-fic level
Sonia is the first one to fight Dracula, also Alucard is her boyfriend, and also Trevor is her son and she is so awesome.
But it really doesn't explain why the Belmonts are bound to battle Dracula or anything.
KCEN was desperate little shitty division of Konmi that was desperate for attention and they no longer exist anyway

>> No.802050

>>802037
>Isn't that what Lords of Shadow technically did?
And wouldn't you know it, no one likes Lords of Shadow.

>> No.802046

>>802037
Lords of Shadow didn't shoehorn in a crappy story in between two good games. It just started over.
And gameplay wise, Legends is crap so it's just lame all around

>> No.802052

>>802050
I was not aware of that, been a long time since I followed Castlevania

>> No.802056

>>802016

Because muh canon, the game itself is pretty decent for a gameboy title.

>> No.802141

>>802056
Its actually not. Belmont's Revenge is better in every way

>> No.802480

>>802050
Yeah, its the second highest selling CV after SoTN...no one likes it

>> No.802504

>>794778
Julius reporting in
The one Belmont to actually get rid of Dracula once and for all.

>> No.802513

>>802504
Until that time he came back

I keed keed. Yeah Julius beat Drac, then wandered around the castle and survived despite having Alzheimer's and THEN battled the cult trying to turn Soma. he did more than even Simon

>> No.803292

>>802050
>My opinion = everybody's opinion

I really love Castlevania and I grew up with those games, that didnt stop me from enjoying LoS.

I know it's a reboot and very different from the games I loved, but it still was good. Also, wasn't planned to be a Castlevania.

You should stop being a blind fanboy.

>> No.803515

>>801862
do you know more than them? I highly doubt that.

>> No.803525

>>800806
>>800847
>>800928
Fucking casuals the game is easy.
>inb4 b-b-b-but I player the nes games!

>> No.803528

>>800982
Juste is the best belmont, hands down.

>> No.804448

Julius Belmont is coolest of them all. I feel like "Heart of fire" became his official theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWZbpYoK96g
He looks like real, ordinary man who knows his shit and not like "fearsome" vampire hunters with exposed leather armor or impossible silk outfits colored in blue, red and white.

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>>796428
How could i forget "SHOWTIME!!"

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>Richter is the last cannonical Belmont until Julius
>somehow, EVERY other character non-Belmont in the series is related to the family in some way to explain "why these persons can do amazing shit".

That always bugged me. The only expection to the rule that I can remember now is Shanoa. Why Konami couldn't be a little more original?.

It's not like the lore in Castlevania is srs bssns, but still...