Which games would you rate for the 1st timer assuming they don't know about Rondo or Sympathy of the Night?

I would simply tell them about Rondo and SotN

>>714931650 (OP)
european ds cases are so fucked

Depends if you want a classic experience or a Metriod one. If classic then ease you in with Castlevania IV. Otherwise Symphony of the Night.

SoTN and Rondo are awful and aren't worth playing, this is my recommended order
>CV4
>Dracula X
>Circle of the Moon
>Bloodlines
>Portrait of Ruin
>Bloodstained COTM
>Bloodstained ROTN
>Order of Ecclesia
Aria games are optional IMO

>>714933615
>Rondo is awful
You're such a faggot, what'd you play the port. Too retarded to emulate PC-98?

>>714933985
no, it's just shit and the awful moeshit cutscenes ruin the gothic vibe

>>714931650 (OP)
You want the Classic or the Igavanias?

>>714934789
you can skip them, retard

>>714934789
Then go emulate the PSP version

>>714934915
What, what's the difference???

>>714933985
holy shit LMAO you don't even know what platform its for you fucking poser

Aria of sorrow

>>714931650 (OP)
Play them in release order.

>>714937561
This, OP.
Unironically you need to start with the NES Castlevania to understand the series.

>>714935931
>Just skip the story, retard
>>714937405
>Ugly graphics
Rondo is irredeemable, just play Dracula X

>>714931650 (OP)
Just play symphony for Metroidavanias.
All the classics are cool if you're into that sort of thing except maybe some of the gameboy ones.

>>714937450
The classics are the typical castlevanias. You go left to right (or right to left sometimes) then there's a boss at the end, then you finish that stage and progress onto the next and so on.

Igavanias are just metroidvanias. I call them igavanias because I exclude circle of the moon on the list.

>>714939435
Thanks anon I assume none of them except the 3D games are heavy on the story?

>>714931650 (OP)
Rondo plays like shit, simply play SotN then AoS then the 3 DS games and that's it, you are done with castlevania, you might try HoD and CotM, but they are kinda shit, you could also try LoI and CoD, everything else is ass.

>>714938593
>doesn't like the story
>"Noooo I can't skip the story"
It's a fucking action game from the 90s

Bump

>>714931650 (OP)
For a first-timer? Portrait of Ruin, no doubt.

>>714931650 (OP)
Excluding Rondo and SOTN? Portrait of Ruin, I guess. Gives you the classic plot of a Belmont descendant in a vampire's castle, while also being pretty accessible in terms of difficulty as a Metroidvania.

>>714934789
>moe is LE BAD
>berserk is peak fiction!!!! Read LE HECKIN MANGA
>refuses to read Hanachirasu
End yourself fake fan, god I hate mangaloids like you. You see Lain and read berserk and swear off al moe because you like being le mature and serious. But getting you retards to read nitroplus is pulling teeth even though its EXACTLY what you want

>>714931650 (OP)
aria of sorrow, then dawn of sorrow.

fucking love both of those so much.

>>714932480
why would an gem merchant wear this kind of clothing?

>>714931650 (OP)
Castlevania adventure and Haunted castle are the only good games in the series. Though lords of shadow came close

>>714944527
Based. Dawn of Sorrows is personally my fave castlevania of all time (I played it on actual hardware with a stylus so the drawing sections didn’t bother me at all, also yes I know luck is broken and doesn’t work)

https://youtu.be/kyF1tp6zjL0?si=gAnnscVE_3BSS9EO

>>714945570
>luck

Oh god,I just spent three hours farming silver ore in the tycoon mountains & only 1 single ore dropped,tons of rubies and lapis though?

Why were green chest such rare finds in OoE?

>>714945753
>farming the Iron Golem for hours straight for his soul
God I was so autistic I had a perfect technique to do it as quick as possible and just repeated that for hours. Just a dumb child grinding lol

>>714945570
I played it when it came out, but played it recently on an r36s. Anyway, I got a version that mods the sigils out since it was nearly impossible to do them with a joystick. Had lots of fun.

>>714931650 (OP)
From what I've played so far I like the games but I kind of don't like the rare drops some of the times and it got really egregious when you need them for either quests or to unlock new abilities. Like it got pretty bad in Order of Eclessia even though OoE is my favourite Igavania I've played so far.

>>714934789
I mean Maria is supposed to be a magical anime girl, and the cutscenes were kind of campy. You never really were to take the story too seriously at least in Rondo.

>>714945938
>perfect technique
All you had to do with use killer mantle so his HP became 1. i dont remember if that was only on aria though

>>714946368
I honestly don’t remember exactly what I used this was back in 2007 and there was only a few gamefaqs guides. I just remember it taking me like 5-10 seconds to clear the single golem room if I hit it from behind

>>714931650 (OP)
I started with CV1 and played all of them in the order of release as they came out (with the exception of the JP only games). Just start with Symphony of the Night. The rest are there if you want more. No need to overcomplicate it.
Captcha: NW0PJ (New world order pajamas)

>>714946863
Hah that was an actual real enemy all these years I thought it was just some random meme

>>714946359
anon rondo literally starts with an FMV of some rando women getting blood sacrificed to resurrect dracula m8

>>714948053
But it also takes inspiration from various animes at the time, hence with Maria being straight out from a magical girl anime.

>>714946359
irc you can actually get lucky and buy two rings that will help with item dropping in most of the DS entrys

>>714931650 (OP)
I played Circle of the Moon as my first Castlevania like 2 months ago and I really enjoyed it

>>714931650 (OP)
Can't go wrong with either of the sorrows game, though I'm pretty sure people like Aria more than Dawn

>>714933615
>Rondo is shit!
>Suggest bloodstained anything

>>714931650 (OP)
collector here, sold my ds copies for a physical Dominus collection on switch. DS versions paid for switch version 3x over + not stuck on hardware you cant record footage off of

>>714931650 (OP)
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!

>>714949343
Qrd?

It's a direct sequel to aria isn't it?

>>714949343
>I thought it was bad enough they had to deal with Godzilla, now Japan has to deal with Dracula!?

>>714931650 (OP)
Ignoring those two probably Bloodlines for classic, or maybe go for the original CV if you're a bad enough dude. Bonus option is Curse of the Moon, a sad reminder of when Inti made consistently great games
For Metroidvania I like Order of Ecclesia but it's not really representative of the genre. Aria is overrated and boring, so maybe Dawn except it's a sequel so... idk just play OoE

>>714949726
>sequel

How did Soma manage to get two games meanwhile Shanoa only gets a single entry??

>>714937405
>PSP

WHAT SINCE WHEN DID RONDO HAVE PSP PORTS!?

>>714941205
The NES games are good

>>714951128
dracula x chronicles

>>714950475
Order of Ecclesia reviewed well but sold pretty badly. A good part of the reason why it went for a pretty penny on eBay for years is that Konami didn't print a huge amount of copies.

>>714933615
Here's the real order
>Must Play
Castlevania (NES)
Castlevania (Amiga)
CV III
Rondo of Blood
Castlevania (Sharp X68k)
The New Generation
Vampire's Kiss
>Should Play
Adventure 2
Castlevania (MSX)
Castlevania (C64)
Castlevania Chronicles (arrange mode)
Kid Dracula
Simon's Quest
Castlevania 64
Lament of Innocence
Curse of Darkness
Symphony of the Night
Aria of Sorrow
Order of Ecclesia
>Don't bother
Haunted Castle
Castlevania (DOS)
Adventure
Legends
Legacy of Darkness
Circle of the Moon
Harmony of Dissonance
Dawn of Sorrow
Portrait of Ruin
>avoid like the plague
Super Castlevania Bros (IV)
Lords of Shadow
Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate
Lords of Shadow 2

>>714950475
Going off of an interview, I think the intent may have been for AoS to begin a "second chapter" or subseries of Castlevania games, while the "Dracula saga" was wrapped up with 1999. So that might be why Soma got a sequel so quickly.

>>714951851
Based list. Fuck IV and Classicvania > Metroid"vania"

>>714933615
>Rondo bad
>CV4 good
Lol, lmao, rofl

>>714951851
>Castlevania (Amiga)
Is this one actually good? I've never touched an Amiga before.

>>714955406
Yeah. Not quite as good as the NES version, but of the home computer ports it is the best. Very good controls, despite the single button layout, and excellent music.

>>714931650 (OP)
If it's the DS games, Dawn of Sorrow. Cus the games yet more impressive with every new version.

>>714951851
>Adventure 2
There is not a single Castlevania game that's called that. The game is called Belmont's Revenge. Or did you mean Adventure ReBirth since I don't see it included anywhere else? It's hard to tell.

I sold Order of Ecclesia for 90 euros last month.

>>714955768
>It is the direct sequel to the system's previous title, Castlevania: The Adventure
2 means second, sequel means one that follows. It is the second game of the Adventure series, hence Adventure 2.

What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets!

>>714948123
>the goofy maria plotline is the canon version of the story
based retard

>>714955875
>its not called belmonts revenge
but it do

>>714956112
When did I say that? I never mentioned any sub-titles.

>>714956182
What if you had breakfast this morning?

>>714956449
Do you speak entirely in tired memes, yank?

>>714956016
Well why is it in the game then?

>>714956512
It was a genuine question actually.

>>714955406

>>714956665
Back in the day trolling used to take skill. Not just posting whatever random bollocks wriggles into your feeble brain.

>>714932480
you are so lucky you got those slick black boxes

>>714931650 (OP)
I would love to play Castlevania games, but I think I have some kind of autism, because I'm constantly anxious about not being able to complete 100% of the map and collect everything. Same thing for open world games.

>>714931650 (OP)
like with every other game series play them in release order

>>714956578
>its their fault I took the story that revolves around a comic relief character that breaks the difficulty and has cartoon animals that doesn't match the tone of the intro nor involves the hero character it introduced as the official story
They should remove ritchter from the game so nobody gets confused as to what the real story is.

>>714956731
The fact you can't answer that question only strengthens my suspicion that you're incapable of understanding the concept of implication.

>>714957024
You sound like you're either underage or a weed smoker.

>>714956858
AoS is completionist-friendly since the game was pretty much designed around it. Maybe don't grind right away, wait for NG+ Hard Mode and Soul Eater Ring. This will give you far better drop rates for everything.

Meanwhile DoS is pure cancer if you want to get everything, don't even bother.

Man, Castlevania turns 40 next year and all we know about the franchise's future is the chink gacha game. I hope we get a new announcement soon.

>>714957080
Whatever helps you deflect from the fact you repeatedly made up a name for game and smugly expected people to know what you were talking about.

>>714931650 (OP)
Portait of a Ruin or SotN
If you want classivania just play 1, 3, 4 and then Rondo

>>714957152
>>714957080
You're both gay now shut the fuck up

>>714957129
If the leaks are to be believed, we should get something soon.

>>714957217
>sees a conversation concludes
>lets revive it
Alright let's fuck then.

which handheld castlevania is the closest to symphony of the night?

>>714956578
It's babby easy mode where the game also makes fun of you for playing it.

>>714957129
>>714957341
What even is there really to do? A compilation with all the 3D games and maybe a couple of the leftover stragglers like Adventure ReBirth but that's all I can think of.

Also any potential new Castlevania game would very likely look to the Netflix series for inspiration over the classic or Igarashi eras since that's how the vast majority of people under 30 are familiar with the IP

JUST RERELEASE HARMONY OF DESPAIR ON PC YOU GOD DAMN STUPID GOOKS

>>714957431
harmony of dissonance is basically a clone of sotn
>white-haired protagonist
>two castles
>save points look exactly the same

>>714956979
>>714957435
That doesn't change shit. Maria exists in the game regardless of whether you choose to play her or not, but she exists nothingless and playing as her is the way the game characterizes her. She's literally part of the game. This is some convuluted mental gymnastics you're doing to deny what's a part of the game.

>>714957468
>Adventure ReBirth
That plus sotn with original voice acting, rondo original, rondo psp, chronicles and vampire killer for the non side scrolling games.
>a new one would be based on netlfix
The haunted castle remake certainly wasn't nor was that mobile game which came out after the netlfix show started.

>>714957526
a while back there was a fanmade unity port but i think it was taken down or abandoned. just play the ps3 version on rpcs3

>>714957572
>maria is the canon story instead of ritchter's because she's also in the game
That makes sense.

>>714958062
is there any online activity for it anymore? i tried a few years back and couldn't get shit

>>714958071
I didn't say that, you're putting words in my mouth, I'm only saying that Maria exists as part of the game's story and playing as her clearly goes for a less serious tone for the story.

>>714957468
The ReBirth trilogy has to be under some absolutely psychotic contract with Nintendo, otherwise there's no good reason why they've never been rereleased. M2 literally made those games. What the fuck.

>>714958260
>I just said you can't take the story seriously even though ritchters story is pretty serious because of the existence of a separate obviously non canon story thats included in the game
Oh right thats totally different.

>>714958148
better ask someone out to play with you, since fanmade servers tend to have a really low online on average

>>714957468
>spoiler
The Netflix series is just a bastardised version of the IGA era and the Japanese and the game industry at large doesn't care about the show as much since all crossover content used the IGA era.

>>714958743
I said "you can't take the story too seriously" and also some of the scenes are campy. I don't know why you're playing all of these mental gymnastics so badly. Maria's campaign exists as a way to characterize her, why the fuck would I ignore that entirely?

>>714958949
Pretend the last two replies were sincere which means I concede that you're objectively right and everyone else who disagreed is wrong. Thanks.

>>714932480
They are bulkier than the american cases for no reason.
But if you're talking about the cover, not every country got those retarded giant rating logos.

>>714957468
>spoiler
The Netflix series is just a bastardised version of the IGA era and the Japanese and the game industry at large don't care about the show as much as people think they do since all crossover content used the IGA era.

>>714931650 (OP)
>not having the kino Dawn of Sorrow case

>>714959596
I was always under the impression that Castlevania as a whole gets more love from westerners than from Japs but I could be wrong about that.

>>714960475
Most western Castlevania fans prefer the games over the show and there's some conflict between older fans and newer fans. Lords of Shadow, the western Castlevania, may have sold the most, but isn't really fondly remembered and most collabs and references ignore it as a whole, hell LoS eventually got outsold by Bloodstained which proved that fans preferred the original style.

>>714960930
Show fans tend to be obnoxious and pretentious when it comes to their disdain for the source material and its fans.

>>714934789
Autism

>>714937602
>here kids, play this game where your character controls like a pile of bricks and dies to a light breeze
>of course it's not fun Billy, but it's the only way you'll understand

>>714961329
Which is very ironic.

>>714949343
Same vibes

>>714961590
NES Castlevanias are timeless. Cv3 is a strong contender for the best game in the series.

>>714955126
CV4 is the only classic game that doesn't control like ass. But Im sure that's a con for you retards.

>>714961704
But is it fun?

>>714961902
No shit?

>>714961902
1 and 3 are, 2 is kinda shit though.

>>714933615
>>714951851
Both retarded. Here's what you really do:
>Rondo
>SoTN
>Bloodstained
You can comfortably leave the series here, no other game compares to them and every story is just "Somehow, Palpatine returned" tier shit.

God Tier
>Order of Ecclesia
>Circle of the Moon
>Super Castlevania 4

Great Tier
>Symphony of the Night
>Rondo of Blood
>Aria of Sorrow
>Dawn of Sorrow
>Castlevania 3

Breddy Good Tier
>Portrait of Ruin
>Bloodlines
>Castlevania

Bad Tier
>Castlevania 2

Interior Decorator Tier
>Harmony of Dissonance

Just facts

>>714962197(You)(You)(You)(You)(You)(You)(You)(You)(You)(You)

>>714961610
They're mostly underage, pseudo-intellectual edgelords.

>>714962197
Which Bloodstained?

>>714961610
>>714962442
I remember seeing a show fag say that the games have no lore and everyone who hates the show is an incel. I hate those faggots so much.

>>714962569
My pearly white undies Consuela now chop chop, I have a dinner date alone at Olive Garden.

>>714962587
I want to say they're normalfags, but they're the same kind of terminally-online weirdoes they accuse their critics of being.

>>714961902
Yes, genuinely. It's challenging but fair if you actually learn the patterns and mechanics instead of mashing like a toddler. CV3 has branching paths, multiple characters, sick music, and it's one of the few NES games that still holds up without a nostalgia crutch. If you're not having fun, maybe side-scrolling isn't your genre, champ.

>>714931650 (OP)
Japanese version of Castlevania 3

>>714961769
SNESvania is so fucking ugly

Is the dominus collection worth it if I got a hacked 3Ds with a DS emulator and all the DS games already installed? I know it comes with haunted castle remastered, but does it have any enhancements to the games that make it worth it?

>>714963342
You just can't handle the incredible power of Mode 7

>>714963710
Why does Dracula need this in his castle, is he retarded?

>>714931650 (OP)
You always start with the classics.

https://youtu.be/-qgnG24CSj4?si=0qPUXj9aLCxHpUdu

>>714962276
If you liked OoE, then you would probably love Bloodstained

>>714963759
Because it's fucking awesome.

https://youtu.be/TA4TF0duesY?si=pbTzY9X2LXwZh8DE

>>714963557
It's imo the best way to play those games, they are native ports not emulation. Haunted Castle remake is like the cherry on top.

>>714931650 (OP)
Fucking casuals

>>714964568
Galamoth is such an underutilized villain.

He's the perfect candidate for a final boss for another story post Sorrow games.

>>714964876
He's in the chink gacha game, Moonlight Rhapsody.

>>714965698
Wake me up when we get a game that matters, I'll be huffing that copium till then.

>>714966071
Hopefully one gets announced in time for the 40th anniversary next year.

>>714956829
I despise those ugly, cheap black boxes. Thankfully, we have these nice, thick transparent cases in Europe

>>714964046
I hate this style of humor like you wouldn't believe.

Castlevania is in my Top 5 of all time favorite games. I give 0 fucks about any of the sequels or spinoffs.

>>714967546
Chill out gramps.

https://youtu.be/Ot1-2NZjRNc?si=RP9TvF0-AYdYuQNZ

>>714967760
Shame, when Super Castlevania is superior in every way.

So the Castlevania musical ended up being a non canon reimagining of Symphony of the Night. Kinda weird, but okay.

>>714968234
Is there a full video link with subtitles?

>>714968280
No, I'm just going by what my friend who got to see it said. It will be released on DVD later this year, though.

>>714968280
Not yet.

>>714931650 (OP)
>4 is criticized for being easy
>SotN is praised for its aesthetics, controls and RPG mechanics, while also being easy
Also Kid Dracula is a great game that I believe counts.

>>714931650 (OP)
I liked the GBA ones, but never tried the NDS ones.

>>714931650 (OP)
Frfr why doesn't Castlevania have more jazz/fusion? It's always the standout track

https://youtu.be/PzXtYhCoTpM?si=TdFz83HG7XPe3RJj
https://youtu.be/IwuUyIph4Ok?si=vjdT-q6Zy0pAL8sz

Circle of the Moon is the most "okay" game I've played on the GBA. At worst, it's tedious. The arena is fucked and I just stock on potions before hand. Getting an HP/MP upgrade is the most lukewarm feeling in the game.

>>714973462
Getting through the sewers before purifying them was pretty intense. I miss being a dumb kid.

>>714973645
The enemy and boss patterns are fine, there's just a lot of HP bloat and card moves range from okay to suck. And as always LCK does FUCKING nothing, meaning grind grind grind.

Bump

>>714967760
What about neither a sequel nor a spinoff, but a parallel version?

>>714931650 (OP)
I'd say you'd better go get the vastly superior GBA trilogy and save yourself starting out with some of the shittiest CVs

So when are we getting the 3D collection?

>>714979237
They still have that double pack of Rondo & SotN from the PS4 remember

>>714933615
Absolutely retarded post.

>>714979660
That's running PSP software from Sony so Konami would have re-port those in new code or an emulator.

M2 should honestly just remaster pic related for the complete package.

>>714961769
None of them control like ass, but go off, retard.

Which games have your favorite Dracula fights? For ME, it's gotta be CV4, Rondo (and the version at the beginning of SOTN), PoE, and OoE

>>714980397
Real shame bloodlines got shafted with female dracula standin

>>714980397
Not sure what you mean about Rondo's Dracula fight, that's one of the most meh Draculas in the series. Literally just a remake of Cv1's Dracula with no original ideas.

Best Dracula fight has to be PoR hands down. SCIV, CotM and OoE Draculas are also really great.

>>714946863
I got extremely lucky & got earl grey tea from these guys on the 1st kill

Alucard is the world's best big brother.

>>714944674
Sir that is a whore. A filthy gypsy whore that needs to be stoned to death.

It was kino. If you like IGAvanias but also felt that Simon's Quest had untapped potential then you NEED to play this shit.

>friend gifts me Rabbi Rabbi
>think it's a h-game
>it's just moe SotN/Shantae
lmao, that game has 300+ achievements and shit too.

>>714986173
Huh?

>>714963557
not worth it for me just because installing romhacks is tedious. The collection doesn't fix the luck stat either, so you'll definitely want a romhack to fix that at least.

>>714986173
I should really give it another go

>>714986031
Enjoyed it, felt like it went on a little too long.

Too many relics to find just to get the true ending. I'll probably pick it back up later to finish the secret Bloodstained crossover bossfight.

So i wanted to play rondo of blood with the english patch, but both the vimm and romhackingdotnet download shows this.
I have seen "this MAY be unsafe" before but never this, harmony of dissonance repallate didn't have this either.
Can someone explain?
Captha: RWDNX

>>714949343

>>714955126
SCV4 is good, what the fuck is wrong with you?

>>714986031
I have mixed feelings on castevania 2 and like most of the igavanias but entirely for the exploration and completing the entire map at the very end once you have all of the abilities.
This seems cool but some of the reviews talk about game crashes and errors so I'm definitely going to try the demo and see if it breaks on me before.

>>714991164
Played it on Switch 1 and never had anything like that happen in my 20ish hours of playtime.

>>714989728
What, wasn't Vimm nuked to oblivion last year?

>>714991703
they removed far less stuff than one would think, and they also added a romhacking section recently.
still the best website imo, use it whenever i can, just werks

Still waiting for an update on this.

>>714931650 (OP)
Whatever you choose to play, do not listen to this >>714933615 faggot. His opinion is objectively, verifiably wrong and tainted by first-game-played nostalgia. SCV4 is not only the worst Castlevania on SNES, nor is it only the worst CV of the 16-bit era. It's is quite literally the worst game in the entire series. When they realized that directional whipping made the combat way too easy rather than rebalance the gameplay they just turned the last few stages into kaizo instadeath obstacle courses with no skill involved outside of forcing you to replay the same spike filled obstacle course until you have memorized every poorly implemented jump with laughably easy bosses, half of which go down in 5-10 seconds (not an exaggeration) and the other half of which the entire combat loop consists of *whip boss once, boss shakes debris down from above you, repeat ad nauseam* The graphics are hideous and it's very obvious from the constant slowdown and poor layout that it was a rushed launch title

The official classic Castlevania ranking is as follows:
>Rondo>Bloodlines>Dracula XX>Simons Quest>CV3>ReBirth>Chronicles>Kid Dracula(NES)>Belmont's Revenge>CV1>Kid Dracula (GB)>Legend>Adventure>>>POWER GAP>>>SCV4

Yes, it is even worse than the first shitty Gameboy game, which although it is borderline unplayable still at least feels like a terrible Castlevania game, whereas SCV4 just feels like a terrible game with Castlevania branding slapped on.

>>714994475
Holy shit, this level of autism.

>>714951851

Bro at least give him the Jap or US titles. PAL versions are so censored that they turned the blood into water not to mention the unplayable frame rate

>>714994743
>Not liking shitty games is autism
No argument I see. Continue coping and seething ma'am

Kill Rondofags
Behead Rondofags
Roundhouse kick a Rondofag into the concrete
Crucify filthy Rondofags
Defecate in a Rondofag's food

>>714995342
Whoa there buddy, let me fix that Simon for you.

>>714995138
Was this the video that cooked your brain?

>>714994475
>Game is too easy
>But it's too hard also
Skill issue

>>714995342
anon chronicles never even saw an american release

Why were there a few Castlevania games with music themed words in them?
>RONDO of Blood
>SYMPHONY of the Night
>HARMONY of Dissonance
>ARIA of Sorrow

>>714986173
>>714989194
I don't care much for the actual metroidvania part but the boss fights are amazing. Highly recommend. Haven't played their next game but I hear they toned it down which is a shame.

>>714994475
What did you think of the new haunted castle? I thought it was the most mediocre casualised classicvania I've played yet. Imagine falling into a pit and teleporting back and losing like two units of health LMAO

>>714996627
Reading comprehension issues. I never said it was hard. I said the only way they could come up with to introduce any sort of "challenge" was to turn the last few levels into kaizo parkour slop. It's not difficult in any way, it's just tedious layout memorization.

>>714997098
???

>>714997791
>Game has trial and error level
>This is too much for the hardcore gamer

Symphony of the Night
Aria of Sorrow
Dawn of Sorrow
Portrait of Ruin
Order of Ecclesia

These are all you need to play.
Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance are optional.

>>714998073
Dawn of Sorrow is dookie

>>714997748
they literally give you free lives for dying to the boss

>>714937450
>classic
2D level based platformer, go from left to right, dodge pitfalls and fight a boss at the end, rinse repeat till you kill dracula and beat the game
>metroidvania
if you played any game in the genre before like hollow knight you basically know what youre in for, big open castle, way forward isnt exactly clear, explore to find gear and new abilities that allow you to traverse the castle better

>>714997748
It was fun, too easy but it was fun.

Soundtrack was straight up fire.

>In Portrait of Ruin, Johnathan sees Charlotte as like a little sister
>In Order of Ecclesia, Albus sees Shanona as an adoptive little sister
>In Ritual of the Night, Gebel sees Miram as an adoptive little sister
What's with Iga and his tendency to include a figurative non blood related little sister for one of the main male characters in his games?

>>714937450
>>715000193
don't forget about the 3d era (castlevania 64, lament of innocence, curse of darkness and lord of shadows 1 & 2)
and of course the absolute peak of the series: the pachinko machines

>>714997176
Maybe because SOTN is a sequel to Rondo and both were released in Japan with the Dracula X prefix. So they decided to go with the musical naming to keep a theme going. Probably sounds a little more dramatic or epic than "Castlevania: Alucard's Return".

Which does beg the question of what the other games would be called if it weren't for the musical name motif.

>>715001079
>non blood related
Aren't Jonathan and Charlotte both related to the Belmonts and Belnades respectively? If you zoom out far enough they should be on the same family tree.

>Must play
Aria of Sorrow
Portrait of Ruin
Dracula's Curse
Symphony of the Night
>Great
SC4
Rondo of Blood
Bloodlines
Bloodstained
>Good
Castlevania (NES)
Kid Dracula
Belmont's Revenge
Chronicles
Circle of the Moon
Dawn of Sorrow (Dominus version)
Order of Ecclesia
Adventure ReBirth
Harmony of Despair (multiplayer)
>Mid but playable
Every 3D game
Simon's Quest
Haunted Castle (version K)
Haunted Castle Revisited
Harmony of Dissonance
Dracula X (SNES)
Judgment
The Arcade (2009)
>Literally worse than feces
Vampire Killer (MSX)
Adventure (GB)
Legends
Order of Shadows
Mirror of Fate

This is the objectively correct list, every other one here sucks cocks

>>715001661
Yeah but what is musical about "Circle of the Moon" though I heard that there were different teams working on CotM. Also why drop the theme with Dawn of Sorrow when it's supposed to be a sequel to Aria?

>>714959682
>Limited Run Games wanted to include an extra slip cover parodying this with the physical release of the Dominus Collection
>Konami stopped them

>>715002336
>Dawn of Sorrow
>DoS
>DS

It's a pun.

>>714931650 (OP)
>"non-linear"
Dawn of Sorrow or Portrait of Ruin
>"classic vania"
Bloodlines or Super IV.
I'd also encourage them to take a look at the N64 games if they play most the others, while they don't play great they have good atmosphere and get undeservedly shit on because of AVGN.

>>714995342
what if i've played 95% of castlevania games and rondo is still my favorite though ?
it's the peak of classicvania and gets recommended for a reason you faggot loser.

A faggot from the last thread claimed that HoD's compositions were bad as well, just wanted to say that he's retarded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g6_t7Hs4Bo

>>715003572
That's no excuse. "Dirge of Sorrow" would have been a way better name.

>>715006863
if there's one thing thats consistent about castlevania its the quality of the music, i dont think theres a single castlevania game with bad music.
because they all reuse the same three songs anyway

>>715007193
>because they all reuse the same three songs anyway
kek

>>715007190
Well bitch nigga why don't you jump in a time machine and go tell Iga that he's stupid?

This guy totally looks trustworthy

I'm sure at 86% that a new Castlevania is gonna be teased in that new MGS remake to be released
how?
remember how mgs3 had some mini game after Snake being scared of vampires? This game was teasing an upcoming game.
What if they do the same again?
But why Castlevania you will ask?
Well I did more research, turns out that mobile game they did a few years ago, it pretty much was done by a good part of ex-kojima production guys.
These guys may continue working on CV and have being working on one since

>>715010492
Him summoning the skeletons for combat practice was a dead give away.

>>715011076
Eventually it will happen.

Konami has made new stuff for Contra, Silent Hill, Metal Gear and slowly they will work up to Castlevania.

My copium is that it will be first revealed in the big Nintendo Direct for July or September. Because all the previous Castlevania collections were first revealed in Nintendo Directs despite being multi platform.

>>715011076
anon, they literally threw a steam festival last year exclusively celebrating castlevania with a countdown timer and everyone shat their pants thinking it was going to be a new game alongside the DS ports just for it to turn out to be dlc for a indie game.
every year rumors come out about how a new castlevania is totes coming guiz and every year passes without an announcement.
you wont see any announcement for another 3 - 4 years minimum once konami finishes up whatever its doing with silent hill and mgs.

>>714994475
Filtered shitter you're not a real fan

the real monkeys paw will ne a new castlevania game being announced
that is based off the netflix show since thats what made castlevania popular again

>>715011505
I wonder where they will go with it, that mobile game had a lot of stinger for more, or they could do a reboot, or the famed 1999 war game, or a Quincy Morris game (he suspiciously got a new design in that vampire survivor crossover)

>>715011884
Impossible, Konami doesn't actually own the right of the Netflix shows, it would be a Netflix production

>>715011884
You need to stop thinking negative, in all the recent crossovers Konami is using the videogame versions of their characters.

What happened to that chinese game with a lot of OC characters? canceled?

>>714933615
You forgot Aria of Sorrow.

>>715012068
Too soon for the Battle of 1999, especially if Konami wants to grow the fanbase a bit. I believe it will be something safe like a epic scale remake of Symphony. Alucard is very marketable.

>>715012135
>>715012181
this'll be the one exception to that rule.
mark my words, the monkeys paw creaks and curls its finger inwards.

>>715011884
The only recent reference ever done to the Netflix show was in that recent stage show, Olrox design was inspired by Netflix design to fit more the actor, the personality was the same as the games though

>>715012427
Could be a new game with him too
IGA might want to collab with Konami on that 1999 game too, he's much more friendly with Konami than people think

>>715012495
Cheer up homie.>>715012495

>>715002336
Different team working on COTM, probably.
You've got me there at DoS, though. Curse of Darkness also breaks the scheme, and Lament of Innocence is just called "Castlevania" in Japan.
I'm gonna guess they thought they'd run out of musical terms at some point so they broke off the theme.

>>715012068
Wait
>Snake makes a nightmare because he's talked about Dracula by Para Medic
>specifically Para Medic talk to him about this after talking about vampire bats
>Quincy directly was attacked by vampire bats in the story as he was forced to kill his beloved horse who ran it dry
>Snake has to kill a beloved person to him (the boss, who is often on a horse)
>Quincy is known in the story to always carry a knife on him
>Snake always has a knife on him
>Just like Snake, a kid ends up named after him
it's happening, Quincy game is happening

>>715012495
Well Nocturne is being quietly canceled, as you can see here. They only make these artbooks when a show is wrapped up.

Don't know if it's the end of Netflix shows entirely. (Part of me hopes they will soft reboot with better writers)

>>715012068
My understanding is that they got this design for Quincy Morris from a fanartist, as opposed to it being a sneak peek at how he looks in an 1897 game.

>>715014075
Konami could totally use it.

All characters in the novel "Dracula" are public domain.

>>714958148
We used to have Castle/v/ania threads for HoD with other anons. There was even a pastebin with the instructions and all
But now you'd probably find players on some discord server dedicated to HoD

>>715014075
Quincy design is based on the 1992 Dracula movie remake

>>715014279
>>715014602

Morris bros rise up

>>715013912
Konami have their own anime studio now, so they might have revoked the license
I'm only guessing because I don't know if it's possible to revoke a license you sold to another studio
though I read Nocturne season 2 didn't do very well, even if it was better than season 1

>>714968234
It even had some of the radio drama mixed in.
The costumes looked pretty good at least

>>714968234
I read it focus a lot on a Dracula-Maria romance plot, is it true?

>>715012427
Yeah it's only been 35 fucking years

>>714963759
He was just flexing, so to speak.

>>715014874
>>714968234
ALUCARD I MEANT ALUCARD Not Dracula

>>715014946
>FATHER! NO HOW COULD YOU, WHAT WOULD MOTHER THINK?

>>715014703
man if we get a secind shot and konami are committed to making their own castlevania anime i hope they go all in on the early 00's style like vampire hunter D bloodlust.
it's style fits castlevania so much better than the faux western anime style that netflox decided to use.

>>715015380
The artwork was fine, the fix needed is the writing team.

>>715011076
Grimoire of Souls? Yeah, they had some of the Peace Walker people working on that one. Yōta Tsutsumizaki directed Grimoire of Souls, Peace Walker, and Survive and is basically a Konami-MGS veteran dating all the way back to MGS3
They even sneaked a reference to Ocelot

>>715011132
A man can't have a hobby?

>>715015612
nah i disagree, it looked like avatar and was mismatched for castlevania's gothic stylings.
compounded by bad dialogue was just another aspect of its uegh-ness.

Never played SotN, should I play it? I liked the two DS games I had.

>>715010492
>>715011132
>>715016634
And in a series that's heavily influenced by classic horror movies and books, of course you're not going to have a character named after the main villain of Salem's Lot and have him be a good guy.

>>715012679
I'm assuming that the classic Orlok make-up was too expensive to do properly and/or they felt the Eggers Nosferatu was too recent in people's mind? He's actually explicitly Count Orlok in Japanese, "Olrox" was just a mistranslation that Jeremy Blaustein missed because he hadn't seen Nosferatu.

>>714997940
Massive cope

>tfw no Castlevania 3DS trilogy

>>715017970
Go for it.

Symphony has a more Shakespeare like approach to the story and more on the Gothic side than the first 2 DS games which were more lighthearted anime influenced.

>>715018895
Better to have a long hiatus for the franchise, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

>>714962276
>God Tier
>>Order of Ecclesia
>>Circle of the Moon
>>Super Castlevania 4
Stopped reading right there. Those are the worst Castlevanias of their respective generations. The correct answer is
>Portrait
>Aria
>Rondo
>Simons Quest

>>715019036
It's been like 17 fucking years since Order of Ecclesia and NOTHING has sprung up since then to fill the void. The Castlevania series is distinct in that way, and it drives me crazy that nothing's been able to match its presentation and smooth gameplay. Bloodstained was a good try, but the expectations for 3D compared to 2D is exponential so the graphics in that game are dodgy, and there's a lot of somewhat tedious collecting involved because of the crafting.

>>715017981
I like castlevania but am I the only one who doesn't like all those ancient horror films that inspired it? I tried watching some of the universal and hammer films last halloween and couldn't get past the bad theatre acting and lame early special effects. Am I missing something because it seems like everyone else loves them

>>715019680
Can't speak for the others, but Dracula 1931 is a movie I'll defend.

This movie is responsible for Dracula becoming a pop culture icon which eventually led to the creation of Castlevania.

https://youtu.be/sVsIKLkrDEE?si=JLMgSgpUbvdW4NWG

>>715019062
Order of Ecclesia is better than Portrait of Ruin. It has better boss fights, artstyle and level design.

>>715014583
>any time I joined the /v/ room had a 90% chance of crashing
yeah... sorry

>>714933615
>Order of Ecclesia

I'm actually going through it right now,just reached skeleton mountains it is just me or do mobs not drop tons of items?

There's a shop back in town but he doesn't seem to stock much besides meat and return tickets?

Seems like having money and nothing to buy stuff with?

>>715022686
You're supposed to rescue villagers and do their quests to unlock more stuff to buy

>>715022686
You unlock stuff as you go, just save every villager and do quests.

>>715019680
Bride of Frankenstein is one of the greatest films ever made full stop. Dracula and Invisible Man are also GOATed and Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are all great actors in great movies. I think it might just be a (you) problem desu.

>>715019680
Bride of Frankenstein is one of the greatest films ever made full stop. Dracula and Invisible Man are also GOATed and Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are all great actors in great movies. I think it might just be a (you) problem desu.

>>715017981
Honestly, I think they just wanted an edgelord version of Orlok that could pass for a tragic antihero. Problem is, when you take a literal metaphor for creeping evil and vampire decay and try to turn him into a suave bisexual Aztec blood god or whatever, you've kind of missed the forest for the trees.

Also lol @ calling it a mistranslation-"Olrox" sounds like a bootleg toy you’d find at a 90s flea market. Blaustein probably just figured it wasn’t worth the copyright risk at the time.

>>715004531
>what if i've played 95% of castlevania games and rondo is still my favorite though ?
Then you have shit taste
>gets recommended for a reason
Because it's 'le exotic Japan-only gem' and Symphony, an actual fun game, is its sequel. Total Rondonigger Death

>>715012221
Resuming development as of 2024.

>>714933615
hello avgn

>>715019680
I love them, personally. We're so desensitized to violence (and horror in general) nowadays that they probably won't have the same effect on you as they did on audiences back then, but I think there's a lot to appreciate in those films. The Invisible Man's movie really turned me around on the character and made him feel like a serious threat. Claude Rains does a great job selling the idea of this deranged invisible dude.

What would you guys want out of a Castlevania revival? Konami said that the musical will dictate the direction of the franchise, so I think Alucard will be in the next game.

Who's you're favourite voice actor for Alucard?

>>715028035
Probably a CV3 or SotN remake.

>>715028035
I think a remake given Konami's recent track record.

>>715029605
That sounds cool.

>>714931698
Also Bloodstained Ritual of the Night.

What do you guys think about Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement?

>>715028035
Probably going to be a high budget Symphony remake, Alucard is very marketable as I stated earlier.

But would it be a side scroller or would they get ambitious with a 3D action adventure game?

>>715030791
Looks ok, but it still has that odd unreal engine look to it.

>>715030823
Yeah, I agree, Alucard prints money now and Konami said that the musical will dictate the direction of the franchise, and Alucard's the protagonist.

Now that, I have no idea, I'm hoping for a side scroller but Konami's infamous for chasing trends, just look as Lords of Shadow, which was an amalgam of everything that was trendy in the late 2000s.

>>715030916
I'm excited for it, but yeah, I agree.

>>715030968
Hopefully we still get some traditional Belmont adventures on the side.

>>715031148
I'm pretty sure we will, if Konami has learned from Bloodstained, it's that Classicvania spinoffs are easy to make and sell very well. The first Curse of the Moon game sold over 500k. Also, a Legends remake would be wild.

>>714994991
And also JP version of CV III have more balanced difficulty than US

>>715028035
64 remake so I can bully Carrie more

>>715032062
Carrie's so hot.

>>715032062
Based.

>>715028035
A remake of Simon's Quest to make it much better and fix its flaws would actually be neat. Order of Ecclesia sort of plays like that with its blend of linear levels traveling to places you need to go to and metroidvania like dungeons. Maybe make the day night cycle play kind of like how elaborate it is in Majora's Mask, but that'd probably be a lot more ambitious a remake than Castlevania normally gets.

>>715030791
I liked RoTN and it seems to take some inspiration from Portrait of Ruin with the duo system and I like that game as well, so I'm interested. Shame we have to say goodbye to Miriam and Zangetsu but I can understand why Iga wants to move on to different protagonists.

>>715019163
IGA was working on a direct sequel for OoE on the 3DS but it got canned for the Lords of Shadows games, do what you will with that info.

>>715034321
Wtf that actually makes me mad. Fucking Konami.

>>715034467
They sold more than the DS games iirc so I think they were planning on riding that gravy train to the bank, although the train broke down on its second entry.

>>715034321
I've actually never heard about a 3DS OoE sequel, and can't seem to find a source where Iga and/or Curry the Kid talk about it
I know Iga's pitches were getting shut down as they shoved him into the mobile mines, but I don't think we ever knew about the pitches themselves.
Still, I'm certain that in the good timeline we got more proper Castlevanias in the 3DS

>>715034321
>>715034467

It's a business, not a charity. While I love the DS trilogy they were selling less and less with each installment.

>>715034321
Really? I know about the PS360 game with Alucard that got revealed at TGS and was then never mentioned again (i.e. cancelled in favour of Lords of Shadows) but this is the first I've ever heard about him working on a 3DS game, I thought he'd already been demoted into irrelevancy at Konami by that point.

>>714963125
The Japanese version you mean since American CV3 is shit

I miss Castlevania.

WHERE ARE MY CURSE OF DARKNESS BROS AT

>>714957194
>Play the first game twice bro
>Don't finish Simon's questline bro
>Just skip the first Metroidvania that spawned the entire genre bro
>Trust me bro
Simon's Quest is unironically God tier and Super Castlevania Bros 4 is the worst remake of 1, and there are a lot of remakes of 1

>>715039009
Right here. I love that game.

>>715039049
Have you seen this? https://castlevaniamodding.boards.net/thread/773/castlevania-enchanted-curse-darkness-mod
And have you seen THIS? https://github.com/GianImpr/Castlevania-Remnants-of-Darkness

>>715039092
I have. They both look really good.

>>715021553
None of that is true. Admit it anon, you just want to play as a girl to assuage your gender dysphoria

>>714961769
SCV4 controls like ass though. Couple the shit control with the late game kaizo segments followed by piss easy "bosses" and you have the recipe for a disappointing game

>>714997748
Haven't played it yet, but what I've seen looks pretty good. I'm not planning on getting the dominus collection until it's on a steep sale as id essentially just be getting it for HC since I've already got the others

The GOAT SOTN-like of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4FuOs4pvck

>>714997940
>Trial and error level
You're being disingenuous. The entire back third of the game is nothing but a series of janky platforming traps and kaizo bats. Dracula XX is trial and error done right and a much harder game with actual boss fights to boot, whereas CV4 is just boring memorization and jank controls

Is Chronicles of the Wolf any good?

>>714931650 (OP)
JOHNATHAN

>>715044787
Yes. It's like Simon's Quest in the beginning and after you get halfway through it, the game becomes SOTN-like. It has a great gothic horror atmosphere and the music is pretty awesome too.

>>715045034
Awesome, I'll pick it up soon. I loved The Lecarde Chronicles II, so that's a plus.

Who's your favourite Castlevania character?

>>715019680
Nah, a lot of ye olde horror still holds up. Herzog's Nosferatu is a good example, it's still extremely unsettling to this day. Great visuals, great pacing, great cast, great music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4LWGnKBKcA&

>>715023320
>>715027706
Based Claude Rains appreciators. Love that first Invisible Man movie, for me it's far and away the best thing in the Universal cycle.

My favorite castlevania is harmony of dissonance

>>715028035
>What would you guys want out of a Castlevania revival?
i literally just want a classic 2D castlevania with nice sprite artwork.
knowing game trends nowadays it will be a non-linear exploratory styled game.
part of me is hoping that the haunted castle re-imagining was konami practicing for another game in that style just as metroid prime remastered was retro's warm-up for the development of prime 4.

>>715049234
Honestly, same.

>>715019680
the original night of the living dead is still creepy.
so is i am legend with vincent price.

>>715046071
Shanoa (forma discipula estupida)

>>715049661
I love Shanoa, too.

>>715043182
Based take. People act like CV4 is some magnum opus just because it lets you whip in 8 directions, but all it does is make the levels feel like a limp parade of rope-swinging puzzles and weird hitboxes. Dracula XX at least demands some reaction and precision. Sure, it’s brutally unforgiving, but it has stakes. CV4 just feels like it’s coasting on atmosphere and the OST. It’s not bad, but it’s definitely not the peak the nostalgia crowd pretends it is.

>>715049661
>>715052119
Based Shanoabros.

>>715052261
CV4 is just fun and feels good to play.

>>715052261
I don't know why people think 4 is just a breeze, the bosses can still be a challenge like Slogra.

>>715052261
anyone who genuinely thinks IV is a "easy" game just outs themselves as never having beat it or just not playing it in like 15 - 20 years.

>>715053280
>>715053576

Egoraptor and his shitty opinions poisoned a generation.

Would Igavanias qualify to be Action RPGs or are they just metroidvanias with rpg elements?

>>715054540
People have been calling them action RPGs for a while now.

>>714933615
What a simple and effective bait.

>>715054540
Both.

>>715054540
Metroidvania is not necessarily a genre, it's more like a type of game structure similar to "level based" or "open world". For example Pokemon games where your progression is tied to HM moves also follow a metroidvania strcture. But they're also turn-based JRPGs.

>>715028035
>the musical will dictate the direction of the franchise

>>715057984
noooo you can't compare two different genres to one another and point out similarities, they're not the exact same game so it doesn't count!!!

>>715058083
I don't get it either, but that's what a Konami exec said.

Reminder that Chronicles of the Wolf is out now.

>>715013912
>Well Nocturne is being quietly canceled, as you can see here
>xir doesn't know
hue hue. Castlevania will live on through the Netflix series whether you like it or not.

Ok, ignoring the spic troll. what do you guys want out of a new Castlevania game?

>>715061564
1999 game for sure, or a 3rd Sorrow game.

>>715061564
A Quincy Morris game.

>>715059754
Oh Nocturne is definitely dead because why would you make an artbook for an unfinished show, the 2017 series only got an artbook after the final season aired.

They will probably get the greenlight for one more project to renew interest. They did an interview a months ago expressing interest in jumping around the timeline.

I fully expect them to have Dracula in the next series.

>>715063296
>They will probably get the greenlight for one more project to renew interest. They did an interview a months ago expressing interest in jumping around the timeline.
Probably a show "based" on Aria of Sorrow to conclude the timeline. I wouldn't mind if they flat-out rebooted, though.

>>715063296
Nocturne is done because no one would greenlight an alucard child grooming season.

>>715014602
>>715014279
what on earth was Bram Stroker thinking with this ridiculously out of place character in his Victorian gothic horror

>>715064170
It's because that whole French revolution nonsense storyline is dead in the water.

They'll do a Leon Belmont prequel or a Sorrow series to distance themselves from Nocturne's failure.

>>715019680
It means you will never be a real nigga. The devs of PoR made Dracula look like Bela Lugosi to celebrate the 75th anniversary at the time. IGA directly lifted Dracula's entire origin from Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Frankenstein is always depicted as the classic Karloff flattop despite that design being lampooned for decades. The games treated these characters seriously throughout lean years where they were considered little more than hokey Halloween decorations. If you don't at the very least appreciate the classic horror influence that the devs throughout all these years were passionate about (despite being Japanese) you will never comprehend CV and be a real nigga.

>>715039448
If that were the case he'd love Portrait because you can play as 5 girls (Charlotte, Maria, the vampire sisters and the armor girl)

>>715064564
He was probably thinking:

>"I dare say, putting an American cowboy in my vampire story is kino as fuck"

>>715039041
>Super Castlevania Bros 4 is the worst remake of 1
You honestly think I or anyone cares about the story?
4 and 1 are completely different games and both should be played, no one cares about you contrarians
>Don't finish Simon's questline bro
Same as above, only play 2 with a romhack if you do want to play it

>>715064931
It wasn't Nocturne's failure, the failure was that edgy faggot Ellis who tried to make Dracula into "le heckin missunderstood guy" and he also shat on the main heroes by going "church bad, only wandering jews are good goy, and they can predict the future hehe" so now we don't have a villain for the series.

>>715065749
Oh great, the /pol/ schizo is here.

>>715046071
I like almost all of them. Want to know why? Because Castlevania is one of the only video game series I can think of where every protagonist is a righteous, often Christian man who pushes back the most unfathomably evil forces in existence from across all cultures and mythologies.

>>715065910
What /pol/ schizo? Ellis shat on the lore and that's undeniable. The Belnades/Fernandez line have always worked for the church even in the latest entries (Yoko).
And by removing Dracula as an antagonist he fucked all the future stories, CV ends with Dracula revived but "he a good boy now, it was the fault of the church for missunderstanding".

>>715065910
>muh /pol/ bully

Back to /co/mblr you freak.

>Bleeding Cool: You’re no stranger to working with previously established mythologies. What was it like working with Castlevania and how did you decide what part of its existing canon you wanted to put your unique spin on?

>Warren Ellis: I have never played any of the games, never even looked at them. I wrote this entire show using Wikipedia and fanpages so I wasn’t really aware of any of that. When I was originally contacted, some 10 years ago, Kevin Kolde, our Executive Producer, pointed me at a specific part of the game’s sequence that he thought would make a good film (Note: This is the game Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse). In absence of a better idea I dug in there and started pulling things out and pulling stuff out from other games and making some stuff up to fill it out.

>It’s hard to think in terms of a mythos or canon when you’re talking about 8-bit sprites jumping around under one sentence. It’s not like there’s a lot of textual material there to dig at. I did what I could. I mostly went to the things it put me in mind of rather than the thing itself.
>Once I did enough reading I realized how similar it was to the Hammer Horror movies that I grew up with. Many of which were set in Eastern Europe and many of which featured vampires. At some point I realized I was just doing my own Hammer Horror film.
>I think you could argue that none of these places have been particularly well-served by Christian forces in the past, and it’s tempting to conceive of a sudden worldwide purge of the Christian disease from all the crevices it invaded. All other religions turning on Christianity at once. I, however, am an atheist, and I think all religions are criminal insanity to start with, though, so… Anyway. Interesting, I thought.

>>714997272
the devs have already said in one of the notices on the steam page that the actual Rabi Ribi 2 is on the works, there is hope for something on the same level or even better

>>715066170
Well it's kinda retarded for the church to have a team of witches in their employ. All while Lisa and then later Hector's girlfriend are publicly executed for witchcraft.

>>714961902
The jumping physics are cringe and the graphics are understandably ugly but otherwise 1 and 3 are basically timeless

>>715066447
True, still Ellis decided to change the christian family into le heckin wholesome super progressive wandering jews who can see the future.
He also made Saint Germain a super simp, that was fucking retarded as fuck.

Nocturne was kino. You guys are just seething about race swaps and inconsequential trivialities that the series adds.

>>715067158
Yeah Nocturne was quite good, it's the best it csn be considering Dracula can't be used as a bad guy.
Kinda weird though considering Carmilla was already killed but they pretend Carmilla and Bathory are different people.
Also weird how Bathory didn't say anything about or recognized her cousin Alucard.
>inb4 b-but she a nigger now
And the implications are hilarious, remember that Richter TAINTS the bloodline so badly the vampire killer refuses the belmonts, in the games it's because he falls to dark/chaos magic, in the series it's gonna be because he fucks a black girl since Maria is the one succumbing to chaos/dark magic.

CV Bump

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>>715070008
Based Jonathan.

>>715066293
Bro I'm an atheist and I can't comprehend how anyone looks at Castlevania for more than ten seconds without registering that Christianity is correct and real within this setting. I don't even hate the first 2 seasons of the show but the anti-Christian stuff was so obviously against the entire themes of the series. I can't imagine what it must be like to be a Christian, to have one big game series that is unashamedly Christian, only to have that thrown out for no reason for the same surface level "religion bad" shit you see everywhere

>>715073680
it's the same old same old. It's just significant that Castlevania is a Japanese series and had these themes while the west is what attacks them.

>>715058181
/v/iggers do be like that.