I like this.

>>716360950 (OP)
I've only played the NES trilogy so far. For 3, I played the Japanese version first, but then I manned up and beat the US version thrice. The Doppelgänger can suck my cheesy dick though.
3>1>>>2

I can't beat it, but I agree.

Same

>>716362131
>I've only played the NES trilogy so far.
Lucky you. Even just limiting yourself to the Classicvanias, you've got several great games ahead:
>IV
>Bloodlines
>Rondo of Blood
>X68000
>Belmont's Revenge
>Adventure: ReBirth
You'll probably like some of these more than others but they're all excellent and worth playing.

>>716360950 (OP)
I've only played the classic games, but yeah it's pretty good. Castlevania 1 is so fun I replay the whole thing in one sitting sometimes, and Dracula's Curse is probably the best NES game ever.

>>716362131
Doppelganger's not so bad if you can keep away from him on the platforms. He's really bad at making those jumps.

>>716360950 (OP)
Currently playing through Circle of the Moon, and man I reached the point where those green statues get destroyed, and the 2 paths that opened up are pure AIDS.
>poisonous sewer
>poisonous insects eternal hallways
While Harmony bored me to death with the backtracking, CotM is just pissing me off with the lack of drops, lack of new items and just annoying enemy after annoying enemy.
AoS is still the best GBA title for me. I finished that game and wanted to replay it immediately. I jumped straight into the Boss Rush mode.

>>716360950 (OP)
I love it

>>716360950 (OP)
YOU LIKE MEN

>>716360950 (OP)
In the first game I can go deathless up until the start of level 4 with the stupid RNG merman platforming and I usually lose most of my lives there. The rest of my lives go to the Death hallway unless I do it first try and keep my Holy Water/Cross

>>716368428
Kek

>>716360950 (OP)
Yeah, it's a good series.
I can't believe Konami put it into a coma with Lords of Shadow and then left it on life support indefinitely.

>>716370476
It would've gone into life support with or without LoS. If anything LoS1's success kept it off life support, if only for a little while.

>>716360950 (OP)
same, it's a great series

>>716360950 (OP)
I'm interested in this.

I'm hoping they'll release Harmony of Despair on PC at some point. Although they'll probably release SOTN PC first if they do that.

>>716360950 (OP)
I love Castlevania.

>>716363235
>X68000
>worth playing
lol no

>>716360950 (OP)
I only like the metroidvanias. The classic ones are fucking boring. Just get through the level without dying while walking like a turtle.

>>716372220
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yZNgsOpgW4

>>716366680
CotM sucks ass, this is a pretty agreed upon opinion
has the worst level design of the 3 as well

>>716374065
lol yes

What's wrong with it?

>>716374107
HEHEH THANK YOU

>>716374107
Fucking CLASSIC

What do you guys think a Castlevania revival would look like?

>>716374646
*flies up beneath you lifting you in your chair 20 times*

Everyone says that Super CV4 is the easiest, but I just cant do a deathless run on it.Ive done most of the other classicvanias deathless but block-8 on CV4 just ends the run always

>>716375129

>>716375108
Probably a remake of either SotN or CVIII. I hope all the crossover content we got over the years is building up to something other than the new gacha game.

Did you know? There's a really good randomizer for Aria of Sorrow, also some chinese romhackers romhacked Aria of Sorrow into SOTN GBA.

>>716360950 (OP)
Harmony of Dissonance is underrated, Order of Ecclesia is overrated

fite me

>>716375413
Order of Ecclesia is the best DS Castlevania game

>>716375108
Remember Megaman 11? Basically just that with mummies.

>>716375108
Who knows. My personal ideal would be a proper Castlevania V that tried to build on what IV introduced.

>>716375460
how the hell did some of you people convince yourselves of this i dont know

Dawn of Sorrow is the best, Order of Ecclesia is the 2nd worst Igavania, it is the worst if you dont count Circle of the Moon

that being said, its really funny how the worst Igavania is still better than the best Shantae or the best Axiom Verge

>>716375581
>one of the best games in the series with one of the worst soundfonts_
sounds great to me, just hope that it's not also a one and done

>>716375413
>Harmony of Dissonance is underrated
Its not because people like you exist artificially boosting the games reception.

>>716375592
I don't know why they didn't really bother retrying the versatility of the whip with its directional input and grappling hook utility. Like I get the guy who developed that game got kicked upstairs into management and it does introduce balancing issues. But it's still pretty fun to use it versatility.

>>716375676
Order of Ecclessia still has the non linear dungeons and Dracula's Castle you fag. Those linear levels are more so just combat challenges.

It's that time again...

>favorite Classicvania
>favorite Igavania
>favorite Belmont
>favorite sub-weapon
>favorite girl
>favorite Dracula transformation
>favorite recurring enemy
>favorite recurring boss
>favorite soundtrack
>favorite Metroidvania that isn't a Metroid or Castlevania
>favorite live-action Dracula
>favorite live-action Professor Van Helsing

>>716375592
20 flat hallways are better than 50 dead ends that require a key to progress, the art is also way better, same with the animations and the game doesn't require monotonous grinding to get the good ending.

>>716375761
cry about it, i forward dash to every castlevania thread on the internet defending this game

its has a good level design, satisfying combat, great movement, and, personally, i like the bright graphics, the sprites are also quite detailed, a giantic step up from CotM

the soundtrack is subpar tho, i wont defend that, its like, NES quality in terms of the quality of the sound, while the other GBA games sound much more Advanced, pun intended

>>716375836
>Order of Ecclessia still has the non linear dungeons and Dracula's Castle you fag. Those linear levels are more so just combat challenges.

do you want me to compare the Castle Map to any other map in the series?

>>716375251
The difficulty ramps up in the last couple levels. Until a couple months ago I'd say Rondo was the easiest but now it's the Haunted Castle remake.

>>716368428
Frankenstein feels harder for me than Death, I think.
I think with Death I have him in the bag once I've 've got a 2 or 3 level Cross. With Frankenstein it feels like I'm brute forcing the fight by jumping and trying to whip the hell out of him, as the Knife subweapon is hard to be precise with.

>>716375108
I see three options

>disappointing classicvania
>disappointing SOTN rip off
>terrible dark souls rip off

>>716376130
Okay if you're going to compare it to something like Portrait of Ruin, the game kind of just ultimately went to relying on the portait levels and the circus levels were just bleh and I honestly didn't like the pyramid levels that much.

>>716375859
>favorite Classicvania
Bloodlines
>favorite Igavania
SotN
>favorite Belmont
Julius
>favorite sub-weapon
Holy Water
>favorite girl
Maria
>favorite Dracula transformation
Circle of the Moon
>favorite recurring enemy
Alura Une/Alraune/Venus Weed
>favorite recurring boss
Legion/Granfaloon
>favorite soundtrack
Wandering Ghosts
>favorite Metroidvania that isn't a Metroid or Castlevania
The Last Faith
>favorite live-action Dracula
Dracula, Dead and Loving It
>favorite live-action Professor Van Helsing
Dracula, Dead and Loving It

>>716375859
>rondo of blood
>aria of sorrow
>bible
>rondo maria
>circle of the moon
>minotaur
>death
>rondo of blood
>chronicles of the wolf
>gary oldman
>tony hopkins

>>716375676
DS-vanias are all kinda weird and bad in different ways. Iga got too far away from the Belmonts, and the proper formula along with it. Can't exactly blame the man for getting tired of it all, but experimental results are not exactly fun.
>DoS has the crafting and the very unfavourable comparasion to AoS
>PoR remix paintings and completely disconnected areas in general
>OoE meshes MP with hearts, just like it meshes igavania areas with classicvania levels in a terribly clumsy way and disconnected areas again

>>716376025
>cry about me being exactly as you describe
Nah.
Anyway I stopped reading there because I know the game is shit and no amount of lies makes reality go away.

>>716376312
even then no part of PoR is as bad as Ruvas Forest, that pic didnt do it justice, because hey, other Igavanias have linear sections, look at the Bridge of Evil in Bloodstained

the thing is, the forest doesnt even have a single fucking platform to activate your neurons in any capacity, it is, in the most literal sense, a linear map

>>716376356
OoE doesn't mesh the MP with hearts, hearts are used for glyph union attacks. Also how is it disconnected, you traverse through various levels to lead to other levels on the map, like traveling through a pathway, crossing a body of water, going through the prison area that's near the ocean and then finally getting to the light house

>>716376356
Iga was only responsible for dawn, I do wonder if konami made him anime it up or if that was his choice. The other two ds was mostly that other guy who he always makes games with. Found that out the other day from the bloodstained sequel interview which now makes me a bit nervous about the bloodstained sequel since its going to be mostly his design again.

>>716376732
Shutaro was the Lead Programmer, not the Director

>>716374136
>my revisionism is a pretty well agreed upon opinion
lmg you like harmony. that's the game everyone knew was disappointing as soon as it came out. CotM was always well liked and only filters people.

>>716376824
>he lied about being the main designer of portrait and ecclesia
I'll take his word over yours desu.

>>716376641
I don't mean that MP and hearts are literally the same, I mean that you have both of them, resources from different styles combined into a single weird system. MP is just used for basic attacks and recovers nigh-instantly. Guess you could also call it a remix of SotN, but it also had a bunch of other weird unique stuff that was never iterated upon.
>how is it disconnected
Level by level. Like in a classicvania. Except you still have more igavania areas, just smaller. And modern movement (with modern lack of pits), which makes corridor levels a joke.

Castlevania 1 port to the SNES, with a lot of options and MSU-1 OST selection

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

rom: https://archive.org/details/castlevania-snes

>>716377128
im quoting wikipedia here, chill

>>716377304
Weird stuff like? Also there's only like 3 of those corridor levels in the game.

>>716377330
Why do some of the sfx sound like they were recorded underwater

>>716377525
>Also there's only like 3 of those corridor levels in the game.

what? you wanted more?

thats 3 too many

>>716377731
The nonlinear levels outnumber the corridor levels, I don't really think it's that big of an issue

>>716377525
Phrased it poorly, meant that *SotN* has a bunch of mechanics that never came up later. Item-based fast travel, motion inputs, unique shield/familiar slots.
But now that you bring up that OoE levels suck only 10% of the time, I can also say that everything that's not Dracula's Castle is also mostly linear sequences, with the occasional opportunity to go in an optional deadend direction. Fucking Hotel Mario.

>>716377813
let me put it like this, you have those linear levels which are a total joke, and even the nonlinear ones pale in comparison to every other castle in the franchise, can you legitimately argue the game doesnt have the worst level design in the entire series?

>>716377861
I wouldn't say that's the map design for the mountain levels, water levels, prison level or some of the mansion levels. Also those deadends will typically have something like a chest.

>>716377861
>motion inputs
re-added in Bloodstained

they were not absent in other titles because they were a bad idea, they were absent because of control limitations, consider the fact the portable titles used up and attack to use items/bullet souls

bloodstained also added a shard slot for familiars

>>716377954
No because I found the portrait levels in Portrait of Ruin to be more boring where as I thought the water levels, mountain levels, prison levels and Dracula's Castle were fun.

>>716377861
>>716378115
Didn't CotM (not Iga but still) have Street Fighter inputs for the summons?

>>716375108
Dark Souls with a whip
Oh wait

>>716377861
>Item-based fast travel, motion inputs
Eclessia has the former and portrait has both.

>>716375413
that's the shitty one that came out after cotm that plays like a bad sotn

>>716378115
First of all "re-added" 20 years later in a kickstarter re-whatever is hardly a gotcha.
Secondly, I am not saying any of that is bad in principle, just that it wasn't really elaborated upon for a while.

>>716378158
Yeah it does.

>>716360950 (OP)
It's now called DARK SOULS 1, 2, 3 and ELDEN RING

>>716378339
calm down, im only clarifying some things

>>716378539
Don't forget Bloodborne.

>>716378251
a bad SOTN is still better than OoE

>>716378215
LIES

what's poppin, FAGS
>grazes you the moment you try jumping over a pit

>>716379526
The yellow ones that petrify especially put my piss to a boil. It's so annoying having to mash buttons to get out of it while you're vulnerable to taking more damage.

>>716375859
>favorite Classicvania
Dracula's Curse
>favorite Igavania
Harmony of Dissonance
>favorite Belmont
Juste
>favorite sub-weapon
Axe
>favorite girl
Sypha
>favorite Dracula transformation
Order of Ecclesia
>favorite recurring enemy
Axe armor
>favorite recurring boss
The Creature
>favorite soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2kcrtFrw_c&ab_channel=CastlevaniaSoundTeam-Topic
>favorite Metroidvania that isn't a Metroid or Castlevania
Bloodstained
>favorite live-action Dracula
Bela

>>716360950 (OP)
Game is too hard. I can beat Punch Out without save states. Castlevania is too hard.