Thread 723269819

Castlemania 64 is cool

and it's CastleKINO!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely kino game. I especially love how the devs used the available tech to fully implement all the horror elements the franchise is known for, whereas SOTN really doesn't do anything with them.

>>723269819 (OP)
>Castlemania 64
which one?

>>723269819 (OP)
I have yet to play it, but it looks kino

>>723269819 (OP)
Why is it so expensive if it sucks so bad the AVGN reviewed it?

>>723270124
both desu

>>723269819 (OP)
>>723270005
I prefer Coolslevania

CV64 is flawed but experimental and thus has value. LOD fixes some of the issues as well. It has some great aspects. I don't know if people who didn't experience it in its historical context could like it. But it's definitely a game worth preserving.

there's not a single good 3D castlevania game
in fact there's not a single good castlevania game post rondo of blood
if you want to play a good 3D platformers you play tomb raider
if you want to play a good 3D horror game you play resident evil or silent hill
if you want to play a good 3D horror platformer you play soul reaver or shadowman

>>723271107
Tomb Raider and RE have worse controls: tank controls.

And I played Shadowman and I'd certainly rather play CV64.

>>723271107
>there's not a single good 3D castlevania game
FUCK YOU
and the night.

>>723269819 (OP)
I remember getting scared by the Giant Skeleton boss in the beginning. good times!

>>723271107
Video game genre names are marketing tools with next to no meaning for the player. Tomb Raider and Spyro the Dragon can both very well be called 3D platformers, but they have nothing in common. The way of thinking where you only accept the perceived top experience in an arbitrary category is exactly what people call Reddit

>>723270005
Holy kino. Maybe I should check this game out

>>723270124
64 for Reinhardt and Carrie
LoD for Cornel. Henry part is pretty crap but fun to play tvo.

>>723269819 (OP)
She cute

>>723271412
Genres are just categorical tools because we as humans have an innate desire to organize everything. When a genre isn't detailed enough a subgenre is used. If I called spyro a scrimblo game or collectathon you are immediately able to differentiate it from tomb raider.

>>723270124
Legacy of Darkness is overall the better game

>>723272129
Hybrid Heaven kino.

>>723269819 (OP)
Reminder that you can unlock all characters at the start of Legacy of Darkness:
https://youtu.be/tuSrIVKMU-s?si=j7rQCdYd5v9nN4u7&t=66

holy SOVL

>>723270124
>>723270774
>>723271652
>>723272129
LoD has everything but they changed the design of a few levels, if it's for better or worse it's your call. It removed the voice acting for Reinhardt and Carrie stories, though the real crime was removing the kino title screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kekitaCO6Wk

Overall, LoD is the recommended one but fans might want to check 64 for the small differences.

I'm surprised that's there is no fan art of the characters.

>>723275238
There is or was some around, mostly on fan sites of the early 00s and forums and such. No idea how much of it survives though as it seems like the internet lost that part of itself with the corporatization of the internet that came later.

I know old gaming mags like Expert Gamer also had fan art for the characters published in them back in when the game was out

>>723275238
Carrie has a small following on Pixiv but that's it.

By the way this game's character designer was Umetsu, from Mezzo Forte and Kite.

>>723272129
I was gonna play it as I liked 64 enough then I found out a lot of the levels are recycled

>>723275238
Carrie has quite a bit.
reinhardt and werewolf guy...not so much

>>723269819 (OP)
while the castlevania 64 games had their flaws , i do wish they would have taken it more as an example for future 3D castlevania games to build on

You've got to play Castlevania 64 first, there are differences in camera and levels, not much but enough that it changes things and not only that but LoD removed spoken dialogue in a few places, it adds in others but still.
Play CV64 first then the extra content for LoD.

>>723271851
I guess most games are RPG then because (you) are taking the role of a character in a fictional setting.

>>723277310
Didn't she get married in the game? Also surprised that there's no porn.
>>723277541
Is this the one where you turned evil if you take to long?

>>723277541
Remilia colors?

>>723277915
No, it's a bonus outfit for Carrie that is basically Maria's from Rondo of Blood.

>>723277691
drac really wanted to marry Carrie

>>723277691
>Is this the one where you turned evil if you take to long?
if you take too long to get to the castle keep, Charlie Vincent arrives there first and gets turned into a vampire. then you have to fight him, and you're locked into the bad ending since he's the one who douses Malus in holy water, resulting in Dracula's final form

>>723270005
Totally based, how can Symphony of the Night even compete?

>>723278119
>>723278325
What a coincidence desu

>>723278471
>how can Symphony of the Night even compete?
It can't.

>>723277691
>>723278348
you can turn into a vampire when bitten though

>>723269819 (OP)
It's not a good game, but it's still one of my favorites.

>>723278714
oh right, that's true. I always used a purifying immediately so I never saw what ends up happening

Based 3d Castlevania enjoyers. Hating them is a zoomer opinion. You werent there when they came out, you know nothing. Everyone loved those games back then. Especially Lament of Innocence.

>>723279027
>Lament of Innocence
anyone hating on Lament deserves this response and nothing more

>>723278949
How old is she?

>>723279162
Old enough for vampire hunting.

>>723278949
we never got bigger art for the blue carrie outfit

>>723279027
>>723279128
>Lament of Innocence
That game is pretty bad be real

>>723275049
>though the real crime was removing the kino title screen.
that was the moment on Malus's 8th birthday when Dracula awakened inside of him, making that scene ultra-kino

i love the 64 games character designs too

>>723279162
12

>>723269819 (OP)
Anyone knows how far the decomp process currently is?

>>723279425
is there one?

>>723275049
I recommend playing LoD first, then coming back to the other if you want to see differences

>>723271251
I too just watched the A Skeleton review.

>>723279552
Yup, I vaguely recall being mentioned a while ago but seems that the team has gone underground after Konami showed signs of life

>>723279409
>12
Nice :)

>>723279789
weird reason. i can't see Konami giving even the slightest of shit about it unless a collection is actually happening

>>723279409
ZAMN!

>>723278150
Never understood why she turn him down.

>>723278714
>>723278325
>>723278150
Officially my latina bride

>>723279409
Correction!

>>723280271
She didn't.

>>723279274
>pretty bad
DMC2 (3D equivalent of Zelda II/Simon quest)

>>723280271
in the bad ending. she does at first but he insists and she accepts if he grows strong and protects her

>>723280340
kek, what is the context here?

>>723280340
wrong company ,anon

I still believe both games have a decent chance to be added to switch online expansion pack.

>>723280427
It's the bad ending so she became one of his vampire sluts.

>>723280427
Silent Hill f writing claim it is """bad ending"""

>>723280497
Who cares!!

>>723280508
Nice try but he's not a vampire.

>>723280497
If they do, it's the proof that Konami doesn't care for a collection with them. They would have to build their own N64 emulator or recompile the whole game anyway so adding it to NSO seems to be the easy way.

>>723280491
Right? Same company did SH vita and new Contra games?

>>723280559
That's something only a weak vampire hunter that gets bad endings would say.

>>723280524
he is reincarnated dracula. not exactly the same

>>723280497
I think LoD added in switch online while CV64 get remastered collection

>>723280705
Exactly, the og Soma.

>>723280497
old LoD page was still on nintendo's website

>>723272129
>they changed his name from Schneider Belmont to Reinhardt Schneider because someone pointed out that "Schneider" isn't really a first name
Meanwhile you've got Richter and Juste Belmont...

>>723269819 (OP)
My favorite 5th gen vania.

>>723280783
accept.. embracing the chaos.
bad ending Soma i guess

>>723280508
don't know. Drac tends to care at least for his wives

>>723280538
Me.
>>723280604
That's why I believe they could be added, Konami probably thinks those are bad games and not worth of a remaster/collection so better throw them to NSO.

I'm happy people are awakening to Castlevania 64; I've been telling niggas for years that its criminally underrated.

>>723280829
3d collection coming soon, confirmed! we won!

>>723280875
konami themselves made fun of that

Got filtered by that gladiator training room with werewolves everywhere and traps but I have never owned a N64 controller with a stick that could go forward, always had to adjust the camera and jump toward it whic makes it harder

>>723281149
I just always gauged remembered the avgn video and him shitting on it but I played it recently myself and thought the game was pretty ok. The game lacks good music except for the title screen bloodlines and the whole blasting walls part of the game is ass but I somewhat liked the rest of it, I even did two play throughs, once as each character.
I really wish avgn got past that part as it would've told him to fuck off for playing on easy mode and he would have to redo it all on normal.

>>723281417
>I just always gauged remembered
I have no idea what kind of stroke I had here, ignore it lol

>>723281149
Blame AVGN and Jontron.

>>723269819 (OP)
Unironically great games, shame people bash on them because angry gamer guy did the same thing he does for every game while they never bothered to play themselves. Similar case as DK64.

>>723281617
People hate DK64? When I was a kid everyone was playing it.

>>723281649
A lot of N64 games have been getting tons of flak even if they're good these past years.

>>723281590
During bedtime.

>>723281617
These games always felt like the prime example of something that looks sick as hell and yet everyone shits on relentlessly for dubious reasons.

>>723280427
Carrie can fixed him.

I thought the controls were awful.

>>723269819 (OP)
I thought it was the coolest thing ever that you could fight the shopkeeper.

>>723282478
Nothing dubious about its camera being bad even for the time.

>>723282946
N64 controller was Xbox duke prototype

>>723282478
The games have some great stuff in them, but they're awkward to play and give a bad first impression. It's no wonder at all they're not universally liked

>>723281149
I always liked it. I bought it on a whim at a flea market for $1 a decade or so ago and had a blast with it. It's easily in my top 5 CV games.

>>723270616
It's funny to think about the difference between killing biker skeletons in this game and SMT Nocturne

>>723270616
Ghost Riders

Someone should remake/demake this game into a Classicvania or Metroidvania. Would be fun.

I agree they're cool, but not my thing. I don't think RE style "flip the switch" "put the item here" progression was the way. And I don't think there's any getting around that you simply learn to tolerate the camera. Combat and encounters are about what I'd want from the series in 3D though. I like the whip doing clean single hits instead of the devil may run up on a nigga shit every other game tried.

>>723282946
They were bad, but nothing you can't get used to. As the cool kids these days say, it's "clunky".

>>723284252
M2's next project

>>723269819 (OP)
I remember my cousin playing this as a kid a long time ago, and he was complaining that Reinhardt was bad at jumping

>>723284889
Sounds like your cousin was bad at jumping.

>>723278714
https://files.catbox.moe/isvj21.webm

>>723286404
ToT

- she turning?!

>>723284252
Better idea than nu-RE4/SH2

You now remember the part where you had to take that fuel thing that make you explode if you jumped.

Holy cross!

>>723288074
Go back to balding, James.

>>723288469
What?
My boomer ass played it CV64 when it was brand new on an 64, just saying that section kind of sucked.

>>723288074
>>723288469
>>723288545
It is indefensibly the worst part of the game.
James was retarded yes but it still sucks ass.

>>723270005
>This is the rage of all humanity
Has the same vibe as "The Belmont clan with hunt the night", I love it.

I cant believe that when I did that request on a /v/ draw thread of an anon that asked Carrie as a vampire I was playing into his fetishes.
This is so cringe bro.
But at least it was based on the game, which I guess its cool since it seems he played it.

>>723278150
Does this make Dracula a pedophile?

>>723269819 (OP)
How come Mario 64 has a gorillion mods but c64 has nothing

>>723277691
>Also surprised that there's no porn.
As if.

>>723269819 (OP)
for some reason ive been brainwashed into thinking ALL 3d castlevanias were trash but then i played curse of darkness and now i think ive been lied to....

Someone could make an eroge featuring Carrie, is all I'm saying.

>>723271652
henry mode is open world mode

I started Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 today. Good shit, but I thought Zangetsu gets sword combos. Do I unlock them later in the game?

>>723291469
Bad reputation thanks to eceleb shutting on it, like spoony and Final Fantasy 8
But also Mario 64 is just a perfect game for romhacks

Can you actually soft lock yourself in this game or was James being a retard?

>>723293880
the latter

>>723277310
>>723275818
I guess she has a fan-art boost by virtue of being a young girl.
I think it's safe to say Rondo Maria has more fanart than SotN Maria, despite SotN being orders of magnitude more popular than Rondo

>>723293736
later, as well as subweapon upgrades
the game is designed explicitly around multiple playthroughs, but not like with multiple endings of 1, closer to a couple of NG+ runs