Student Witch is my favorite enemy from Castlevania Aria of Sorrow.

Of course it is, pedo

for me, it's salome from sotn

>>11872932
You don't need to sign your posts here.

For me it's the dancing ghosts

not an enemy, but I think getting some of the Dance Hall art printed and framed with chunky pixels would be sweet

there's already a pixel gooning thread here >>11868121

>>11873224
>student witch
>sexy
she's a teenager you sick fuck

>>11873224
I genuinely want to talk about Castlevania enemies, this isn't a goon thread, come'on, i post in /vr/ because /v/ already have this goon issue.

>>11873512
Well, some people just like them older.
Pretty sick but what can you do.

>>11873512
Dude i just nutted

>>11873218
Lament of innocence has a lot of really cool paintings on the backgrounds.

>>11873172
>>11873005
>>11872637 (OP)

Always thought all these enemies were fascinating. Like dracula's castle had its own undead ecosystem.

>>11873597
What do you think about Creaking Skull?

>>11872637 (OP)
For me is Persephone.
What's there not to love from a maid that knows how to throw kicks?

>>11874678
I like that you can tease/harass her with the vacuum cleaner soul in the sequel. I would always make sure to do that to the maids and witches once or twice per playthrough.
Someone should make a romhack to add that to Aria.

>>11874637
he's cool

>>11874689
what a great boss Dracula is, making sure his maids have the right tools to keep the castle clean.

Neat witch!

Same
maybe it was harry potter's influence but I love magic students and witches riding on brooms
I like the maid with the vacuum cleaner too

>>11874389
Felt just random and thoughtless to me

>>11874389
how about the undead healthcare system?
>>11874678
those guys are scary in x68/chronicles, they really don't fuck around.

>>11874389
>Like dracula's castle had its own undead ecosystem.
I didn't get that feeling, and I don't think they were going for that. It would've been cool, though.

Personally I think the SotN line where Alucard says "this castle is a creature of chaos" should've been taken to its logical conclusion. They should have made it so different locations in the castle represented different organs. The different monsters would fill the roles of different cells, proteins, etc. based on their location, like some Osmosis Jones type thing. That would've been the move right there.

>>11872637 (OP)
You just like her because you imagine she's underage and not wearing underwear.

>>11875607
Well now, now that you're mentioning it...

>>11873512
she's 411 pixels you sick fuck

>>11875607
She's wearing underwear I checked.

>>11873512
SHE'S ONLY 16-BITS FOR GOD'S SAKE

>>11872637 (OP)
i like how the succubus pretends to be a dying mina

would

>>11874689
i seem to remember using her soul a lot actually in the DS game

>>11874689
I find it strange how she has a different voice in Japanese. Were her screams too much for American audiencies?

>>11876979
She does? I'm in Europe, did we get the stock Japanese soundbytes?

>>11876293
Kek

>>11876390
it's pretty handy, it sucks up projectiles which is really nice in some fights like death's. weirdly the fully upgraded soul isn't as good iirc, which i think is the only time that happens

>>11875521
Honestly after giving it some thought, I can see what he means
Nature itself is chaotic and crazy so it's not like it couldn't create its own little ecosystem, these little fuckers just hanging around

>>11877004
>weirdly the fully upgraded soul isn't as good
woah
so releasing souls actually had a purpose then?
crazy

I guess it's not retro, but it's a pretty blurred line with the Vanias since the GBA and DS bleed into each other so much. But this enemy in OoE made me go "whoa" with how she animates, very fluid, shame I can never find a gif.

>>11876293

>>11876293
16-bits is too high rez for me. I prefer mine 8-bit

>>11877123
apart from that, you could also release them if you wanna play on hard mode with nothing to start with except the tutorial souls. because for some reason, they removed the ability to start hard mode on a new file

>>11877237
I'm dead certain that I've played the game on Hard Mode on a new file.

>>11877237
>>11877247
yea you can
youre supposed to just play julius mode tho

>>11877247
>>11877254
is there a button combo you have to hold or something? cause i'm checkin my game rn and there's no option on the second file for me, but there is here
>julius mode
that shit is way harder yeh, you can cheese your way with yoko's ice spell on a lot of the bosses but then abaddon will kick your shit in over and over until you wanna quit. at least soma's a way cooler final boss than menace

>>11877254
It's a shame Julius Mode is so brief.

>>11877272
I believe if you delete a file which has beaten the game, you can make a new game on Hard.

>>11877278
just tried it out right now and it's not prompting me for that, you're probably just thinking of aria desu. speaking of, and not that i hate myself enough to actually do this but, do you remember if you could play julius mode in hard mode in dawn? i deleted my julius file to test but in hindsight i shouldn't have done that

>>11877278
the richter x maria mode in portrait is the real GOAT DSvania
has anyone ever beat the arena in that mode?
it must be hard af

>>11876995
You tell me. Japanese version has more voice clips than shown in this video.
https://youtu.be/XP9HKdTY8JU?t=3694
https://youtu.be/RyymUxU79gc?t=3004

Are there more witches in the old vidya?

>>11872637 (OP)
I always farm her soul that shots a cat projectile. I remember you could fill the screen with cats in DoS

>>11875521
No. But I would love an Abadox willyvania. Same base sprite from the shmup, jumping around an alien maze.

I prefer the Valkyrie.

>>11879296
>No. But I would love an Abadox willyvania.
I didn't mean the "Osmosis Jones" thing as literal gross-out shit, though. The castle would still be a spooky magic castle, just conveying the idea that it's supposed to be alive. Of course the organ stuff would be highly abstracted. Like for example, an area such as the Underground Reservoir area would still be made of stone brick as usual, only the map layout of it would be vaguely shaped like intestines or something. And for example the Castle Entrance would have a buch of skeletons, representing teeth, while the boss could be like the pink serpent from Rondo, representing a tongue. That's the type of shit I was getting at.

>>11879806
>>11879296
I like both of your ideas.

>>11876293

She's actually 32-bits though.

>>11879237

>>11879237
There's those Witchaven games, but uh, they're not particularly worth playing.

>>11879860
Capstone: The pinnacle of monster titties

>>11879865
Right, there was that video. I remember trying the games many years ago and I thought maybe they weren't running correctly or something, because they felt so fucking weird to play and they had this janky graphic scaling to sprites.
But no, that's apparently just how those games were.

Being a teenager in the 2000s who thought Duke Nukem 3D was fucking awesome, I probably had too high hopes for the game, Witchaven was never gonna deliver an iota of that coolness, so probably for the better that I didn't spend too much time playing it.
Blood DID deliver though, but there's no witches in that game.

>>11874389
I dunno about an ecosystem, but I really like the idea that all the monsters are living lives offscreen. Student Witches are going to school and when they graduate they get their hats in a ceremony. There's a bunch of skeletons whose only job is to light the candles when the Belmont rolls through. Werewolf and Werejaguar have a martial arts rivalry and they duke it out in the Coliseum once a month. Stuff like that.

>>11877272
Easily the best second run mode in any of the games. It actually had a story and unique mechanics unlike any of the others

>>11872637 (OP)
>>11873005
Very good witches but DoS witch is best