If this isnt the best Castlevania game what is /v/?

>>713148014 (OP)
the main contender is Rondo.
Seen fanboys claim everything from Super Castlevania IV to Curse of the Moon, like what you like I figure.

Rondo of Blood

>>713148014 (OP)
Chronicles and I'm not joking.

OoE

>>713148014 (OP)
it doesn't matter what the "best" game is in any given series. it's all about what your favorite game in the series is. personally I love lament of innocence.

>>713148014 (OP)
I love my boywife Alucard

>>713148014 (OP)
The one and only. I just much prefer how RoB is just a straight-to-the-point action game and not a metroidvania. Richter is also just cooler than Alucard.

It's 3

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>>713148582
Redpill me on Rondo.

Simons Quest

>>713148014 (OP)
Aria of sorrow.

>>713148851
I wish Simon's Quest was remade, still pixel 2d though.

>>713148014 (OP)
It's Aria of Sorrow.

>>713148014 (OP)
Portrait of Ruin richter mode hard mode is peak castlevania gameplay
Sotn and Rondo of blood are tied for second place.

>>713148014 (OP)
Lords of Shadow and it's not close

>>713148014 (OP)
Its the best Castlevania. No need to play that other garbage. /v/ told me to play the NES games and it was the biggest waste of time ever. Awful games. The only reason SOTN is good is because of the music and atmosphere

>>713148014 (OP)
I tried to play it. It's shit.

Order is the best one

>>713148014 (OP)
Actual answer coming through.

>>713148014 (OP)
The original. I'd take most of the Classicvanias over SotN though.

Its crazy that Japanese games actually used to have good art

>>713148014 (OP)
best music
best vania

>>713148350
would love to get more into it since I love the plot, but the game suffers from that early janky "first attempt at 3d". wish fans could somehow fix it or make it more comparable to curse of darkness

>>713148014 (OP)
aria of sorrow, followed closely by circle of the moon, then dawn, then portrait of ruin, and finally order of ecclesia

>>713151657
It's not that bad. It just pales in comparison to the fucktillion other 3D action games that came out around the same period. If it weren't for being Castlevania I doubt it'd be remembered at all now. Same for Curse.

Easy answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYcI1ikUi4

More like Odour of Ecclesia

>>713151864
BR is like the GG Shinobi games in that it deserves a much higher profile than it has.

SOTN > OOE > Aria > SC4

>>713148014 (OP)
Rondo.
Duh.

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>>713151864
It was directed by Toru Hagihara who went on to direct both Rondo and SOTN.
That's why it's so damned good. It's one of my fave games in the entire series and the music is outstanding.

>>713148014 (OP)
They all have their strengths and weaknesses. I feel like you could make a strong case for (and against) most of the games. Most franchises would kill to have Castlevania's track record of hits
My favorite Castlevania is usually the one I played last because it's the most fresh
So right now it's Portrait

>>713148014 (OP)
>SOTN - best igavania
>SCIV - best castlevania
Simply because these two entries are the most generally well received and all-rounded entries.
Personally I dislike IV and preferred OG Rondo, but this is a objective assessment.

>>713148014 (OP)
The first one.

>>713154797
SotN is the first Igavania, not the best. It's certainly worth playing, but AoS, PoR or even BS:RotN are better.

>>713151615
>best music
Not quite

>>713148014 (OP)

I know it doesn't exactly count as it's own game. But some of my best gaming times have been in HoD, especially when playing with Japanese players. They were always so polite and fun to play with. I really miss those days.

>>713148014 (OP)
the chinese romhack of AoS that ports SOTN onto the GBA but with souls system

>>713154960
Subjective, as implied.
And bloodstained is not castlevania. I enjoyed ROTN, but it's not includable any more than hollow knight is.

>>713155154
I WAS GOING TO SAY SOMETHING WITTY

>>713148014 (OP)
Aria of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin

>>713157317
Look, I know the writing is pretty awful but the action is pretty fuckin good. It's... it's good... I swear!

>>713155054
I unironically love HoD's ost man. I've gotten into way too many arguments over it back in the day

>>713148014 (OP)
I'd say 3. Never really cared for SotN, I think it's just too easy and I don't feel like the RPG mechanics add that much to the Metroid formula. Hell, sometimes the RPG mechanics can make the game worse (Circle of the Moon).

>>713148014 (OP)
OoE > AoS > DoS > PoR > SotN > CotM > HoD

>>713148014 (OP)
AoS

Anyone else think OoE is overrated? I personally think it feels the worst of all the igavanias, but it looks really nice and has great music

>>713157852
No, but I do think it's the hardest to get into, the start of the game feels weird and it's hard to get a handle of the combat, I remember a lot of people getting filtered by the crab

>>713157661
>HoD is last
>OoE is above AoS
>DoS is above anything

>>713148014 (OP)
How come Castlevania never sold that great overall? The series should be popular. Its an action series about killing many types of monsters. If Devil May Cry and Monster Hunter are a success what's Castlevania's excuse? And I mean BEFORE it became necessary for games to be 3D.

Seems like even in the 2D era the series wasn't a big deal. And once 3D became standard it never kept up.

>>713158008
DoS is really good aside the touchscreen stuff and the slow ass bat, but at least the dominus collection fixed one of those

>>713157974
People is me. I'm people. Fuck that crab. OoE IS just slightly overrated by the biggest Castlevania nerds but it's a great game and the music is so good.
https://youtu.be/EDynplObnQE?si=9Ij-f-G4a-_QqbJ3

>>713148582
>Richter is also just cooler than Alucard.

Which is why Iga the homosexual made Symphony of the Night like this:

Richter killed Shaft's body and separately his soul but for NO REASON at all Shaft is still alive and mind controlled Richter now Alucard is the hero.

I fucking hate this hideous homo cowboy faggot sack of shit. I hope Bloodstained 2 fails. This hack has had it good for too long. Same to Hideo Kojima whose another one.

>>713158105
DoS isn't bad at all on it's own but compared to pretty much every other Igavania I enjoyed it the least. At least until I got to Julius mode. But the base game is way too grindy for all the coolest shit and Soma moves, attacks, and jumps slower than AoS. Its becomes really noticeable when you play them back to back. Also this is barely a complaint but the sound design is lackluster. Punches, slashes, stabs, explosions, fire, etc. all sound muffled and weak as fuck.

Rondo of Blood is probably the greatest game ever made, SOTN and SCIV are close. PoR, Castlevania 3, Castlevania X68000 and Bloodlines are amazing games too.

>>713157852
If there's one thing I hate about Order of Ecclessia its that shitty and annoying sidequest rescuing cats. If you enter a room with a cat it will start repeatedly meowing like an annoying bitch and that doesn't make me want to rescue the cat it makes me want to KILL it. May the hag who made that sidequest die of painful diseases.

>>713148748
The most boring and run-of-the-mill classic game. It's only tolerated from SotN being its sequel and having exotic mystique of being Japan-only.
Chronicles and Bloodlines are easily superior. Fuck Rondo faggots, seriously.

>>713157542
I wasn't joking either, it's by far one of the most elaborate and demanding sequencer-composed soundtracks of any video game, let alone a fairly mainstream franchise. I even love the soundfont.

>>713151615
Best Castlevania coming through
None of that gay Metroidvania backtrack shit

>>713158325
>and Soma moves, attacks, and jumps slower than AoS
Oh yeah, that too, it doesn't really detracts much from the game for me, but going back AoS felt a lot better to play

>>713158493
My man

I would've enjoyed PoR a lot more if it had loadout sets, I feel like it's the DS igavania that needed it the most and it's the only one without it

>>713157852
Nah you're right, OoE is mediocre as fuck. Everyone saw it for the half-baked hackjob it truly is, before it became the poster child of the Dominus Collection and now newfags pretend to like it. The level design is absolutely embarrassing-- just beyond excuse.

>isn't a belmont
>wins anyway

>>713158449
This

>>713157661
>OoE
roflmao