Is Castlevania 64 really as bad as people say, or are they just tasteless?

>>715203594 (OP)
it's dogshit but no one is going to stop you from finding out for yourself

Most of the time when a game is trashed and then a wave of
>actually this game is great and almost a masterpiece!
tubeslop comes out I assume a game is a 6.5/10

It's genuinely great, but you need to think of CV64+LoD as one single experience in order to fully "get" it. The single biggest flaw is that Castle Center, the single worst level (and NOT because of the magical nitro) is obligatory in every playthrough.

it's neat. It's also rough.
Not for babs.

>>715203863
Would you believe it is almost a masterpiece?
Parts of it are shit, don't get me wrong. But the ideas are all there.

3D Castlevania actually kind of went backwards in terms of ambition. This one is way more interesting than any of the more polished games.

>>715203594 (OP)
No people just lose their minds when a specific game entry takes even the slightest turn away from the main series.
In this case - castlevania being 3D made everyone shit their pants and cry.

It's not a great game, but it does some things well, the atmosphere is absolutely incredible. Especially in that first level when you're walking along and then a lightning bolt hits a tree right next to you, and it falls down in front of you. This all happens in real time.

None of the post SOTN castlevania games are even half as good as SOTN but they're not terrible games by any means.

>>715204274
cotm and aos both mog sotn

No clue but I remember some shitty brit reviewer back in the 90s calling Sotn a piece of shit and praising this game just for being 3d , and it put me off by proxy , shit like that was the "Mario killer" of the late 90s

>>715204274
People basically expected a game that was better than Castlevania 4 or SoTN, while also being a slightly shonky attempt at a 3D action game from the 90's, which isn't entirely fair.
If you just take it in a vacuum, it's pretty good. It's probably not strictly worse than Tomb Raider, or Nightmare Creatures, or whatever people were playing at the time.

>>715204552
Based britgod making SOTNfags feel insecure and small.

>>715204274

I believe both of the Sorrow games are better than Symphony, personally.

Castlevania 65, more like CASTLEKINO 64

But we all agree that Carrie > Reinhardt, right?

>>715204274
This is the correct answer.
All the shit this game got was because it was different. It is still a solid game, I could even say it's one of my favorites from the N64.
One of the best atmospheres in gaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kekitaCO6Wk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5MmoFqErro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6DiJd1imuw

>>715204621
honestly, i've never in my life thought to compare the two, but nightmare creatures cleans cv64

>>715205602
less adventurous. It kind of just takes the Doom format and builds it around melee characters instead.

It has the motorcycle boners so it's easely an excelent game.

>>715205697
nightmare creatures isn't a great game but i'd rather play it over cv64, but the real "at the time" for cv64 is like silent hill 1, rising zan, resident evil 2, ocarina of time, cv64 couldn't hold a candle 2bh
i'm going to give it another shot just for you because i remember it being terrible in every way with no redeeming qualities whatsoever

>>715206030
I think they're both pretty good.
Nightmare Creatures is a modest game that more or less succeeds at what it tries to do (which is be doom with third person melee characters), while Castlevania 64 is an interesting, kind of survival horror, kind of adventure game, kind of platformer thing, that doesn't quite get there, but I respect it.

>>715203594 (OP)
This and curse of darkness are both good. CoD might be one of my fav Castlevania if I can be honest

>/v/ tells you to play a game
>it's a loli upskirt simulator
why is this always the case

>>715208369
>no panties
literally unplayable

What about Legacy of Darkness?

>>715205332
Based and moonlight trench coatpilled. The game oozes atmosphere and the soundtrack still slaps two decades later. Yeah, the camera and controls fight you like they’re also vampires, but when that giant skeleton shows up on horseback in the first level? Absolute kino. Only reason people clown on it is because they wanted SoTN 2.

>>715203594 (OP)
It's one of the earliest 3D platformers, it's pretty damn bad. Controls, camera, animations, hitboxes are all pretty much awful.

I liked the vibes though, esp that villa with a rose garden, such a mood.