Thread 723358249

Why does Richter completely mog all the other Belmonts and other protagonists?
This is the absolute high-energy peak of the series.

Rondo Richter's Theme (Rondo Opening) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax4jpJMnjNk
Rondo Richter's Theme (Rondo Stage 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoGCokTDSyA
Rondo Vampire Killer (CV1 Theme) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlayiIBH75o
Rondo Bloody Tears (CV2 Theme) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqWW0PTkjR8
SOTN Richter Prologue Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raLbjGoXjU
SOTN Dracula's Castle (fuck alutroon, just play Richter mode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh1qqLbuBww

Rondo was the peak of Classicvania before the series diluted itself with RPG shit

ENTER
NIGGA

>>723358249 (OP)
Nigger, he's weak to cream pies.

>>723358317
I would fuck him so hard

>>723358317
IGA only made one good game

>>723358341
Is this achievable natty?

>>723358487
What game is that?

Don't worry, Nathan Graves. I'll always remember you.

w-what about me guys? me and my brothers Alec, Daniel, William, and Stephen

>>723358857
Hugh got pegged by Camilla.

Alucard had a pretty fantastic run all things considered
Until, you know, netflix

>>723358249 (OP)
John is manlier and Ricther is cooler.
Ricther is a fine middle ground though.

>>723358249 (OP)
that's just blue ryu

>>723358249 (OP)
>Jobs to Shaft
>Alucard has to come back to unfuck his mess
>Fucks up so bad the vampire killer itself gets the ick and puts the entire Belmont bloodline on timeout for centuries
Richter is the single biggest fuckup in the family, he's not mogging anyone

>>723358249 (OP)
it's the bandana

SCIV might be the perfect video game

>>723358249 (OP)
Because he woke up ready to give evil the Bible BELT.

Julius is the coolest, here's a picture of his victory back in 1999. What a fellow!

>>723358740
Indeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WSYfmmbqGY

>Toxic masculinity: the character
>Somehow loses against Shaft causing the whip to be cursed for 100+ years
>The main reason that the Belmont clan was cursed and almost became extinct as a whole
>Peak
Come on now , so all you need to be "peak" is to become some generic 90's shonen character with a shitty harem and story and just call it a day?

>>723358957
Wall pork

>>723360137
Turkey. Sorry. Wall turkey

>>723360107
>Toxic masculinity
you get lost on your way to reddit?

>>723358249 (OP)
My favorite failson in all of vidya. Where would the Belmont clan be without him?
Besides better off, of course.

>>723358249 (OP)
I've never played a castlevania game before and started playing rondo and SOTN this month. I've just been going back and forth. Rondo is clearly the better game imo but fuck is it hard. I'm on like level 5

>>723360764
70% done with SOTN also

>>723360107
>Toxic masculinity: the character
Besides that shit all the other slander is true, Richter was powerful as hell but his ass did some massive fuck ups. Not even his "cuck" Netflixvania version fucked up so bad (yet).

tried watching the pozflix "adaptation" and it was... not so good?

>>723360107
iga retcon not canon

>>723360842
>70% done with SOTN also
35%

>>723358249 (OP)
Ritcher plays the Guitar

>>723360764
I prefer Rondo too. I like it more straightforward where I can just slay the enemies of Christ with my whip.

>>723361554
>iga retcon
You speak as if castlevania had a coherent story and timeline before SOTN

>>723358249 (OP)
>Shaft's sock puppet
Richterfags are delusional

>>723358249 (OP)
>jobs so hard he shames his whole bloodline into self-afflicted exile
ishygddt

>>723360107
>Be born a living prodigy , one of the most gifted characters even among the belmonts
>A Belmont/Belnades hybrid with incredible magic affinity
>Have ridiculous magic control , able to turn water into storms and shoot giant bible lazer beams and Jesus crosses
>Wields the Vampire killer , a whip that can atomize almost any night creature in a few hits
>Jobs almost immediately to Drac and had to be saved by a little girl
>Years later gets mind controlled by the guy you thought you killed 3 moons ago
>Then had to be saved AGAIN by the magic girl and her monotone vampire bf
>Then gets cursed never to wield the vampire killer ever again
>Oh wait nvm my entire fucking family lineage is also cursed with vamp aids
>Ohshitohfuck.mp4
>Quits vampire hunting entirely out of shame
>Dies alone
>Fucked up so monumentally that it caused the near extinction of your clan and can still be felt hundreds of years after your death and the former was only slightly averted because of the Morris family's sacrificial bs and pic related
>Jobs one last time in the whips memory
>Fucks off once and for all
Richter is the Potential man of Castlevania

>>723358249 (OP)
Unequivocally fucked up the Belmont's ability to fight evil for centuries? That Richter?

>>723360107
we must be better Belmonts

Jonathan, you better have a damn good reason why you're not smashing Charlotte regularly.

>>723358601
Tokimeki Memorial

>>723366093
>tfw richter jobbing in the whip's memory was ironically what gave the morris family the opportunity to kill dracula in their time and free the vampire killer's curse
holy shit richter really was the most scuffed character in this series , did IGA know that writing post SOTN would make richter seem like even more of a collosal jobber fuckup than ever before? lmao

>>723359715
It's certainly the most overrated Casltevania game

>>723366876
it's very enjoyable and accessible to all ages and skill levels. it is peak castlevania aesthetic too, every element is pretty much congruous, whereas later entries became more "diverse".

>>723358249 (OP)
Another year another disappointment. No new castlevania again I guess.

>>723366876
Rondo and SotN have it beat in that regard. Not that it really matters since all 3 are great regardless.

>>723366348
Do you guys think a new Castlevania game could get away with inserting a Belmont MC between Richter and Julius? Or would that be too contrived considering Whip's Memory and other sources.

>>723368074
I think the next Protagonist should be a Vampire Hunter trained by Julius. I don't believe he has any descendants.

>>723367794
>she didnt play chronicles of the vvolf

>>723366686
IGA probably wasn't fond of Richter given how much shit he threw at him.

I like Leon, even if his game is sort of the black sheep of the series. I had it on PS2 when it came out and got super into it, the atmosphere is really bizarre and cool
https://youtu.be/bbWpS2AK-UE?si=NiqSfl5ZH8LRovEU

I enjoyed the Portrait of Ruin video, never knew it was actually a callback and celebration of the series’ 20th Anniversary (it released in 2006), hence all the reused sprites. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

>>723358740
>circle of the moon
IM THINKING BASED

>>723358957
Now have him click a Stopwatch that stops time, or throw don’t some Holy Water creating a Bonfire or throwing an Axe at a Bat

>>723359346
Same way Zero saves X in the first game

>>723359629
Huh when I think of Vidya Bandanas I think of Ryu

>>723360185
It’s actually a Porkchop lol look up the instruction manual

In terms of apparent in game power, Juste mogs all the other Belmonts.

Remind that the whip needing to be sealed was an unrelated prophesy and not the result of Richter fucking up, and the widespread idea that he caused the whip to be cursed is mass delusion
Look it up

>>723369526
Konami's gonna put out Julius' 1999 2d map game within the next 7 years
but it'll be 2.5d

>>723369705
>2.5d
Don't even bother at that point
I do like Dracula X Chronicles remixed soundtrack though

>>723366093
Nah, here's what actually happened, after Richter kills Shaft's monsters, then kills Shaft himself, then kills Shaft's ghost in the next level, Shaft somehow resurrects in the next game without any explanation, then casts mind control that bypasses all protections on Richter, then uses Richter to rebuild the castle instead of rebuilding it himself (this would make too much sense) and this is somehow Richter's fault, not the writers fault for writing something stupid.

>Tried getting into classicvania
>Play CV1
>Getting filtered
I'm in the catacombs and wanna kill myself

>>723366686
Richter being the fall guy is downstream of some earlier choices
>Bloodlines came up with the idea of the Belmonts disappearing in the 19th century, as the result of fighting Dracula so often that their talent burned out (though an elderly Belmont does help out Eric Lecarde)
>the devs decide to make an Alucard game on the PS1, one idea is to set it circa Bloodlines and have him fight the last vampire-hunting Belmont
>eventually they settle on it being a Rondo sequel, with Richter handing the whip off to the Morrises after the game.

>>723368562
Just beat that game the other day, was a fucking ride. I was skeptical of the ghost NPCs and grim reaper statue shit at first but I came to appreciate how the game basically maximizes the use of all of its real estate. Has some survival horror DNA too, the adventure game-inspired failstates and whatnot. Really cool game.

This guy scared the Dracula so much, that the Dracula decided to be reborn as a fucking schoolboy

>>723358249 (OP)
>jobs to Dracula and has to be saved by Maria
>jobs to Shaft and gets possessed
>jobs to Alucard after getting mind controlled
>jobs to Jonathan as a ghost
Richter's greatest contribution to the battle against Dracula is his ghost getting mogged and creampied by some guy with absolutely no magical ability so that someone actually competent can use his family's special whip that he was too much of a cuck to do anything useful with.

>>723366686
You can actually defeat dracula without unlocking the whip's power, i basically did that, i was told that unlocking it's power would be dangerous so i just ignored it

>>723370281
BALL
ROOM
JEANS

>>723366093
>monotone vampire bf
is being portrayed by a bad voice actor really one of alucard's character traits?

>>723370281
So, how DID the world collectively lose track of this guy for decades? Multiple Governments and the Church couldn't find him?

Is there any backstory as to why he sides with humans?

>>723370924
Play SOTN

>>723358249 (OP)
Simon gets remembered because he was the first.
Trevor sometimes gets remembered because he was in CV3 (early on) and a direct ancestor to Simon.
Richter gets remembered because he starred in Rondo and the intro to Symphony of the Night, getting him a lot of attention.
Alucard gets remembered because he's all over the place and starred in Symphony.
Soma gets remembered because he is distinctly different and was in Aria.

Lorefags might remember Julius as the one who finally killed Dracula for good in 1999, but he doesn't stand out to most other people because he just gets mentioned in backstories in two games.

Everybody else kind of ends up forgettable as a Simon Belmont clone. Richter stands out as very much NOT being one of those. His blue coat and flashier movement lets him look very different. There's a reason that Smash Bros used Simon (classic Belmon) and Richter (newer Belmont) rather than anyone else. You could replace nearly every protagonist in most of the other games with Simon and most people wouldn't notice the difference.

The ones who do stand out, like Alucard and Soma, tend to be more memorable. Ironically, if more Belmonts stood out like Richter, then it would probably be a lot harder to remember much of anyone.

>>723370924
When he was a child, his Mom told him that if Dracula went crazy, Alucard would have to stop him. Because if Humanity gets wiped out, Alucard won't get the chance to smash cute Mage Girls.

>>723370924
Because his mommy told him to as they burned her at the stake

>>723370307
>jobs to Dracula and has to be saved by Maria
But this only happens with terrible players who get hit alot during that fight at the beginning of SoTN, Richter doing it by himself is also part of the game, but that wouldn't fit the jobber meme spam would it now?

>>723370924
I'm pretty sure only pure evil monsters that Dracula summons and evil warlocks ever side with Dracula. Why the hell would anyone not side with the humans?

I kinda wish we had a Castlevania game that has a setting similar to From Dusk Till Dawn.
>Extremely popular bar is actually the newest incarnation of Dracula's castle
>Protag is a Belmont on the run from the cops who is unaware of his lineage

>Gets mogged by a little girl
>gets Shaft'd and mogged by Dracula's son
>never scores and doesn't properly pass on the Belmont lineage
>Only way the Belmont bloodline continued is from traced distant relatives that had to be discovered by some femboy in the 1800s
>literally left the Vampire Killer get cucked by the Morris family (even though one of them couldn't handle it, lmao)
>His memory is clowned on by a twink in the 1900s, getting hit with pies and all, assumes the VK as master.

>>723358249 (OP)
Anyone have the "Maria, get the cross" reaction pic?

just make super castlevania IV 2. or are modern devs too gay and retarded to figure out 8 directional whipping and floppy whip physics

>>723371584
>doesn't properly pass on the Belmont lineage
>Only way the Belmont bloodline continued is from traced distant relatives that had to be discovered
A family tree showed he had descendants and while it's from before SOTN was made, it does mean there's precedent for him to continue the family.

Reminder that Victor is the only non fuckup Belmont.
>leon fucks up and starts this whole cycle
>simon gets cursed into resurrecting dracula
>richter fucks up and his women get kidnapped, plus gets possessed by shaft
>juste did something I forgot
>julius couldn't finish the story in 1999

Meanwhile victor, excommunicated from the church
>makes buds with a midget pirate
>frees alucard
>fucks dracula up
>retires with his hot magewife

Worst Castlemania ever.

I think I might actually like it a bit better than Simon's Quest but boy is it a weird mess of a game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUl7jW1qJwY&list=RDWUl7jW1qJwY&start_radio=1

>>723374904
wow this is faithful
chandeliers would have been kino

>>723375456
Yeah it would've. Wish it was more than just OoE music from the portable games too. Still great. That medley of the Famicom game themes is top notch.