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Do Castlevanias count as horror games? Anonymous Mon Oct 31 12:42:38 2022 No.9377708 [Reply] [Original]

If so, which one is the spookiest?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 12:59:46 2022 No.9377728 About as spoopy as RE Not really

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:02:24 2022 No.9377731 File: 135 KB, 1280x720, maxresdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9377708 This boss is pretty disturbing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:02:35 2022 No.9377732 Post it

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:03:13 2022 No.9377735 >>9377731 The Curse of Darkness version was insane.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:05:23 2022 No.9377741 File: 35 KB, 480x360, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Contra has more horror

Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:10:09 2022 No.9377747
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>>9377708
It's more dark fantasy than horror, same category as DarkStalkers and Ghost n Goblins. Though I'd play any of those over Resident Evil or Silent Hill. Zombies Ate My Neighbors is pretty chill, though

Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:11:16 2022 No.9377751

>>9377708
Not really "horror", but perfect Halloween atmosphere games.
SCIV has the heaviest ambiance and most consistent spooky tone, and the most classic-sounding music. It's all straight up ghosts and skeletons and spiders and shit. Later games get too far into gag enemy and modern reference territory.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:11:29 2022 No.9377752 >>9377741 >A furry GAH

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:12:17 2022 No.9377756 It's horror themed but not really spooky

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:15:30 2022 No.9377762 >>9377731 >>9377735 The CoD one is a bit too ambitious for what the system could pull off. The Symphony version is the best, but the setup and buildup to the Aria of Sorrow boss is great too

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:18:28 2022 No.9377768 File: 2.96 MB, 832x672, 1650545432530.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Love me some Castlevania, but if you want some alternatives, might I recommend Nosferatu. It's a Prince of Persia clone where your fists do the talking.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:20:14 2022 No.9377773 POST IT

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 13:20:26 2022 No.9377774 >>9377768 That's the problem with it really; this sort of grid-snapped gameplay isn't great for straight action, and it shows (specially with the boss fights) Still a pretty underrated game though yeah

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 16:33:23 2022 No.9378140 >>9377708 >anime/Metroid clone """Castlevania""" Yeah because of how shit and gay they are

Anonymous Mon Oct 31 17:57:21 2022 No.9378267

horror games require a certain vulnerability and ominous atmosphere that cv games don't have to any significant degree. I think you could transplant a few of the boss fights into a horror game but then in that case it''d be the situations where horror games cross over to action like late game resident evil.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 20:40:08 2022 No.9378605 File: 2.74 MB, 1920x1338, castlevania-dave-rapoz-konami.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9377708 They're SPOOKY gothic horror ACTION

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 21:09:01 2022 No.9378658 >>9377774 There is no problem with it. That's what a Prince of Persia clone is. And it works great, because you're not supposed to be fighting everything you see. It's literally the Resident Evil 4 of the SNES era.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 31 21:14:14 2022 No.9378673 It's more of an horror theme game rather than an horror game

Anonymous Mon Oct 31 21:15:40 2022 No.9378678

>>9377768
It's hard to be afraid of anything in that game when you can completely lay the smackdown on the horrors you face. It goes from potentially scary, to hilarious, to totally fucking rad.
Taking on the supernatural with nothing but your two hands and a pair of brass balls is so cool.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 00:49:32 2022 No.9379279 >>9377768 Game over screen was actually legitimately creepy

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 06:00:09 2022 No.9379716 >>9379714 Reminder to play LOG, it still plays well

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 06:01:42 2022 No.9379719 >>9377768 Too bad it sucks

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 06:03:10 2022 No.9379723 >>9379716 >LOG >Legacy of Garkness

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 06:05:25 2022 No.9379725 >>9377708 1, 3, or IV

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 06:08:43 2022 No.9379726 File: 1.06 MB, 2048x1638, dracula.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9377708 Yes, but they are old-fashioned horror like the Hammer films about Dracula.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 17:12:04 2022 No.9380796 >>9377708 I'm pretty sure it was heavily influenced by classic horror movies, so sure.

Anonymous Tue Nov 1 17:32:32 2022 No.9380849

>>9378658
>And it works great, because you're not supposed to be fighting everything you see. It's literally the Resident Evil 4 of the SNES era.
RE4 is literally the first game in the series where you have to fight everyone otherwise you cannot proceed.

Anonymous Tue Nov 1 20:34:57 2022 No.9381345

>>9378267
The NES games make the player feel a bit vulnerable just because of how easy it is to die and how commital your jump is. I remember being a bit spooked playing them when I was super young, and I think that contributed.

Obviously the haunted house-tier skellingtons and ghouls weren't scary on their own, but combined with how cautious you had to be, they did a good enough job of being scary for children. Anything past the NES makes you too badass to really feel vulnerable tho.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 21:12:15 2022 No.9381428 >>9377708 as long a game has monsters, blood, terror, horror, jumpescares it became spooky as you people from States said

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 22:02:50 2022 No.9381535 They have an undeniable theme centered around horror, the question is does horror have to be scary, because CV is anything but.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 1 23:27:16 2022 No.9381684 >>9377708 No, they're action games and they don't try to scare you or make you tense at all. They are just horror themed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 2 04:07:13 2022 No.9382182 File: 38 KB, 256x232, stage7-1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9377708 The later stages of CV Chronicles are the creepiest and most striking imo

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 2 05:48:04 2022 No.9382335 >>9382182 >those fetuses in a jar that throw blood magic disks at you That was a creepy stage for sure

Anonymous Wed Nov 2 08:23:28 2022 No.9382512

>>9381345
I love that the NES games' enemies are almost all pretty standard monsters, but then you get to the end of CV3 and for his second phase Dracula turns into several heads that drip blood and scream when they're attacked. I've always found that one of the most gruesome moments in the series. There's much gorier bits in later games but few enemies quite as weird or surprising as that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 2 08:23:54 2022 No.9382513 >>9377708 Post the HD version.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 2 10:51:24 2022 No.9382689 >>9377741 Looks like your mom’s snatch lmao

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 2 11:07:04 2022 No.9382723 >>9377741 >More horror >Post the game where pic related is the only boss that is even like that At least post the weird ass shit from shattered soldier if you wanna make that claim

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 2 12:58:39 2022 No.9382908 File: 16 KB, 630x380, Dxc_104.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These fucks are creepy

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 2 13:02:39 2022 No.9382919 >>9382908 eEeEeUhH

Anonymous Wed Nov 2 19:57:36 2022 No.9383659

>>9382182
This is the best version of the dungeon in the series, IMO. You get to see actual prisoners who are still alive, begging for freedom. You can see how they're injured and suffering, there's a huge grave, still bloody and with some organs, right under the floor, and then you finally get to the corpses, not skeletons, impaled on hooks and cut in half. Few stages represent the evils of Dracula and his minions than that stage.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 2 20:06:04 2022 No.9383687 >>9379716 Logposting? C'mon now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 3 01:57:47 2022 No.9384640 >>9383659 That autumnal landscape painting disintegrating as you walk past is great. Though I've heard the season's scenery in based on your system clock

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 3 13:03:28 2022 No.9385730 >>9377708 Probably the N64 ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK1h_f0l9tM

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 3 15:30:48 2022 No.9385969 File: 96 KB, 320x220, 64-SBK.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9385730 If only they didn't have the goofiest, most anachronistic skeleton variety.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 10:39:52 2022 No.9388106 >>9385969 This guy fuckin' rules lmao

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:04:33 2022 No.9388281 File: 72 KB, 640x480, 1477236041156.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'd classify them as Rolfevanias

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:07:34 2022 No.9388925 Still upset that we got a Castlevania anime and they turned it into homoshit

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:10:00 2022 No.9388927 >>9388925 It's genuinely one of the worst things ever made, I hate them so fucking much for it, Adi Shankar should never be allowed to work on anything ever again

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 19:02:06 2022 No.9389026

>>9377735
the hallway down to curse of darkness legion was pretty fuckin spooky too. That whole game was just great, honestly.

Plus I have it to thank for giving me the best FPS boss I've ever seen in minos prime in ultrakill like 13 years later, so that's even better.

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 20:12:20 2022 No.9389191

>>9377751
Yeah I really like how baroque Castlevania 4's soundtrack is. The Toccata and Fugue in D minor informs a lot of Castlevania music, but 4's soundtrack really sounds like it took a lot of inspiration from Bach's chorale preludes BWV 645-650.

Listen to this, this sounds like it could be the stage music for a Castlevania 4 level
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jHcS4HYYnnI

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 02:37:17 2022 No.9390231 File: 522 KB, 1200x800, HighDefinitionCreakingSkull.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9382513 Not OP but it is my pleasure.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 08:58:45 2022 No.9391039 >>9388927 >Adi Shankar Warren Ellis should bear the blame. Shankar didn't tell him to shove in his fetishes and derail the games' story.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 10:16:37 2022 No.9391137 >>9377708 yes, it has monsters, horror and blood

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 10:44:21 2022 No.9391167 Creaking Skull Mega when?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 13:39:16 2022 No.9391378 >>9377708 100% Castlevania 64. stuff like the vampires, hedge maze and this moment make it way spookier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsUP1WB5EuQ&t=170s

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