HOLY FUCKING KINO

are you referring to the Julius Belmont encounter in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, the boss fight that cover 19 years of castlevania in a few minutes?

>>713494538 (OP)
>uhm I was holding back! You didn't actually beat me!
what was potential man's problem?

Boring-ass game, Harmony is funner

I wish I understood the hype for this fight. I thought nothing of it when it happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpBPV6YyGw

>>713495191
If you didn't soi out when he powered up and destroyed the castle in the background, you aren't human.

>>713494538 (OP)
The real kino.

The enhanced kino is that when you play as Julius you fight Soma here as your final boss.

Peak Castlekino

Oh lawd he comin

kino was to turn into a bat and fly around the castle

>got sent back 40 minutes of progress because an inn doesn't save your progress and I thought "huh maybe I should go and check out the house of that guy who only comes out at night" only to get insta-game overed in a cutscene
Words cannot describe my current level of asshurt.

>>713495191
I feel that way about Aria in general

Literally screamed "KINO" when this happened

>>713494538 (OP)
God that game looks awful. The animation is atrocious too.

I decided to play all Castlevania an by all I've narrowed it to

>1, 2, 3, 4, Rondo, Bloodlines, Sotn, GBA trilogy, DS trilogy, Bloodstained

Am I missing anything? Also I've installed the patch for 2 that adds a map.

>>713503656
You're gonna burn out probably if you don't take it easy, I'm doing it all but for classicvanias and I would strongly suggest splitting those up too from the metroidvanias.

I haven't played them all but for classicvania notes:
1 - Is my favorite, start here.

2 - completely tedious, if you HAVE TO PLAY IT, get the mod that adds the map like you say, fixed translation, save system (though you can use emulator quicksaves), QoL improvements like instant day/night cycle, should be able to find it, Even then, it's still tedious trash. Play Chronicles of the Wolf instead.

3 - Only play the Japanese version for the love of God. I'm saving this one for last, it's so goddamn hard it's genuinely unfun for a lot of it.

4 - Glorified bad platformer masked as a Castlevania game, but otherwise:

Japanese version of bloodlines is preferable since they fucked up the difficulty for the Gaijin (no unlimited continues this time around instead of fucked enemy difficulty and checkpoints like in 3).

You still have:
Castlevania Chronicles PS1 (two difficulty modes) (remake of a shitty game on the MSX, not worth playing but chronicles on PS1 is good)

Dracula X: Haven't played, supposed to be hard as shit like 3. It is not a simple/butchered port of Rondo, it's very different. Might be worth a shot. But again, some annoying platforming, hard as fuck

Dracula X chronicles: Remake of Rondo on the PSP, though some will argue the art style alone makes it inferior. Might be worth playing

Castlevania the Adventure: Rebirth - no save system so use save states but it's a great WiiWare title. You can beat it in an hour like the OGs

Haunted Castle remake - on the new DS trilogy remaster as a bonus, not sold separately. Original was a shitty arcade game, the remaster is a night and day improvement.

Other portables:
Castlevania The Adventure 1, 2, but with mods, some guy on Youtube made a Rom hack for 1 very recently that fixes it. Not for legends I think though

>>713503656
If you're going to play all of them, play all of them.
You're missing the gameboy games, Haunted Castle, Dracula X (Snes), X68K/Chronicles, both versions of 64, the PS2 games, Rebirth, and the haunted castle remake. Also, if you're going to include bloodstained then you might as well throw in the lords of shadow games too.

>>713496179
can't believe they put my nigga in Nightreign, good for him

>>713504167
Should clarify, I'm going through all of these my self. Beat 1 and Bloodlines, chronicles has two difficulty modes, might switch it to "easy" so I bother continuing because this shit is also hard as fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70KEmf1xKnc

- guy who fixed The GB game, has nothing to do with The Adventure Rebirth btw.

For rondo, it's one of the few classicvanias that has multiple routes, and the remake has those too. All the other "hidden" endings in the other games are when you beat it on hard mode, no extra bosses or meaningful content.

Do check out the classicvania bloodstained games (curse of the moon) instead of just ritual of the night.

>>713498360
best dracula fight in the series dont >> me

>>713504167
>>713504378
For the old NES games I have absolutely no qualms with installing QoL patches and using cheats like infinite lives.
Surely 2 isn't that bad once you've done that, right? It actually seems quite novel.

>>713504479
Look, I thought the same thing too. A horizontal metroidvania with NPCs, towns, treasure, bosses, dungeons? Fucking rad right? No. It's not.

The big problem is that everything is goddamn clunky, slow, and horrifically paced. Even with all these fixes its still a chore to figure anything out, backtrack, or go somewhere new.

There are three games that ape this type of horizontal metroidvania that are out or coming out that I know of:
Infernax - Pirated it - quest based with some RPG mechanics, pretty novel and structured well

Chronicles of the wolf - Got review code for this, I am enjoying the shit out of this, great controls, does the concept justice in every respect (has aspects of horror too)

The translvania adventure of simons quest - market is peak R*ddit retro game memeing but it does look good with a big open world, lots of quests/whipe and traversal mechanics, not out yet.

Look I'm not telling you to not give Simons Quest 2 a shot, you might be one of the few people who actually likes this piece of shit, but it is not worth your time. It's a blueprint for the better games that are worth playing, and the ones above take the exact concepts you are interested in and make them fucking work.

>>713504638
*Its marketing

(There's a fucking battletoads turbo tunnel levei "MEMBER THIS?!??!!", so I guess it goes beyond marketing, but it still looks fun so idk I'm torn, hopefully it's good)

>>713504638
Have you ever played Faxanadu?
I had it as a kid and loved it.

>>713503656
>X68k (avoid the absolutely terrible Chronicles PS1 port)
>Belmont's Revenge
>The Adventure: ReBirth

>>713504865
Nope, looks cool though!

Maybe try getting it on the list:
https://vsrecommendedgames.miraheze.org/wiki/NES

>>713494538 (OP)
>playing without crt filters
fucking third world behavior

>>713503656
>>713504874

I fucked up, got two games confused (based on what
>>713504167
said

>Castlevania Chronicles PS1 (two difficulty modes) (remake of a shitty game on the MSX, not worth playing but chronicles on PS1 is good)

The OG version is probably fine, the version I was thinking of was a REALLY FUCKING TERRIBLE key-finding game for computer called Vampire Killer. Not sure about version differences regarding chronicles.

>>713505167
/v/ made fun of me when i posted my screenshots with crt filters though...

>>713505167
that's a game boy advance game

>>713504479
I think Simon's Quest is worth checking out, but don't feel forced to finish it or anything. It's an flawed but interesting game that has elements that would become core to the series afterwards, plus the soundtrack kicks ass.

>>713495775
Good, they're all miserable piles of secrets.

Igavanias are the only good Castlevanias. I just don't like the old school style games. They are too tough. I'm trying to play Rondo of Blood and it's just annoying.

>>713503656
Literally the only ones you need to play in order are:
>Rondo
>SoTN
>Aria of Sorrow (you can skip it if GBA aesthetics aren't your thing)
>Order of Ecclesia
>Bloodstained
That's it. You can sum up every other game's story with like 1 or 2 sentences, they're inconsequential.

>>713505216
>Not sure about version differences regarding chronicles.
The PS1 port has loading times and it literally covers up a part of the screen due to resolution differences. There are some other differences that I'm drawing a blank on atm, sadly the game is poorly documented in general.

>>713494538 (OP)
All of these handheld castlevania games fucking suck.

>>713507304
This is an 18+ website

>>713495009
Julius is stronger than Dracula, as such, stronger than Soma. He was holding back.

>>713507410
Yeah, and if you're over 30 and still browsing this place I'm lmaoing at your failed life.

>>713495159
BASED juste poster

>>713494538 (OP)
>le hidden potential man

>>713507410
And yet video games are for children and you're a pedo for playing them or some shit.

Why the fuck aren't they making a new game? Clearly they are aware of how many clones there are. People would mark out for a new Konami Castlevania.

>>713507470
>>713507683
I was born in 2001. You're either underage or the dumbest retards imaginable.

>>713509192
Bro was born after 911 lol bro probably nostalgic for the PS3 lol

>>713509192
Everyone born after 1990 is a zoomer. Sorry that's just how it works.

You guys see the new Bloodstained announcement? What did you think about it? Seems like a more soulless PoR to me so far. Also I genuinely can't tell whether both of the new characters are male or not, the androgyny meme has gone too far.

>>713510445
Including a job system and Glimmers from SaGa is wild.

>>713507590
Keeeeeeeeeeekkk

>>713495009
He didn't say that, Soma did.

>>713496179

>>713494538 (OP)
Richter will always be the best Belmont.
Can't change my mind.

More bloodstained news when?

>>713495159
why you posting that kid that backdash canceled to school

>>713510468
You should have acknowledged the fanbase overlap with SaGabros with Vampire Survivors already.
Still, it is kinda wild that we're seeing something official now.

>>713513197
This will be Castlevania in 2015

>>713498360
CHARLOTTE