>Great music
>Good visuals
>everything else is slapped together dogshit
how, why? do people actually like playing this shit?

Stop shitting up the board with these worthless bait threads

>>11881735 (OP)
but it has cutscenes! that means it's the best fucking game ever. who gives a fuck about the gameplay?

>>11881735 (OP)
but it has an oppai loli! that means it's the best fucking game ever. who gives a fuck about the gameplay?

>>11881741
Not baiting, all 3 NES games are better than this shit

>>11881759
that's not saying much except with 2, 1 and 3 are still the best classicvanias, but rondo's the best 16 bit one
the platforming's pretty simple compared to 3 and 4 sure but the combat was pretty heavily expanded on from earlier games, most notably in the bosses (final boss is pretty lame though admittedly) but even some older enemies got tweaks like axe and spear knights

>>11881759
3 has more soul in one screen than the entirety of Rondo of Crud.

>>11881842
>combat was pretty heavily expanded

no it wasn't, it's just the whip and special weapons like all the other games. tf are you talking about?

>>11881871
backflips, a whole new subweapon with the bible, a buff to the knife that makes it pretty handy, but a nerf to the stopwatch and holy water, subweapons not disappearing when you grab them, but double/triple shots being tied to your heart count, and of course item crashes. also a completely different character but granted she's more like the bonus characters you get in the metroidvanias in that she's more of a powerful novelty rather than a unique gameplay experience

>>11881868
Neat. CV3 is not better than RoB thoughever

>>11881735 (OP)
But enough about Castlevania 2.

>>11881735 (OP)
the game is pretty tough but can be fun. playing Maria makes it much more bearable. i still prefer the Igavania's though
i watched the GDQ run from Bobbeigh and was surprised he just casually speedran it in 15 minutes. i got stuck in a stupid level for HOURS

>>11881894
Same level number, different game. I think we know which one is better.

>>11881913
Ackhtually that's stage 2', not stage 2.

>>11881913
No wonder only the SotNvania fags claim so, they keep overrating the games with the flattest level design so long as they are easy and "play nicely".

I genuinely cant believe people still push the contrarian opinion that rondo is the best all these years later

Uoh

>>11882228
shame the maria mod anons here were working on got canned

Low effort bait. Die motherfucker

>>Great music
...That's mostly locked behind gay alternate stages.
>>Good visuals
The fact Richter is just 'Trevor if he blue' disqualifies RoB of that.
>>everything else is slapped together dogshit
Right.
Chronicles/X68K has far better music, visuals and gameplay than Rondo of Reddit. Total Rondofag Death.

You know you're seeing a braindead moron when it can't stop mentioning reddit out of nowhere. And I thought OP was a turbo retard. Both should be killed brutality

I like Rondo but I agree with OP. Outside of the final 2 stages (boss rush included) and a couple of other moment like Death, Dracula X is boring.

Wanna know why it's held in such high regards? Because it's one of those games with fluid controls and great presentation so it makes anyone who plays like for even just 2 mins feel like a badass. Even when they're not really doing anything. This coupled with the extremely low difficulty of the game until the final 2 stages (and if that wasn't enough, even real shitters can get far in the game by using Maria and one/two shotting every in the game) means that anyone can play through a lot of stages.

But in the end, the game is flat, boring, does very little with its enemies to be engaging and instead it's just the same flat scenarios again and again,

On top of this the multi path system is a fucking mess, and there are a lot of hints throughout the game that they released an unfinished product (the most obvious one to me isn't even the infamous dead end accessible with Maria; but the fact that in stage 2-B the alt exit at the start of the stage going towards the left and the alt exit at the end of the stage going towards the right lead to the same stage. That and the entirety of stage 5-B which I believe was thrown in as a post game bonus precisely because it's unfinished).

>>11881913
Yeah. Rondo of Blood

>>11882262
I don't think it was even real to begin with, just some perv making shit and go "wouldn't be nice if this was a thing?"

Some dude is porting Rondo to Genny, but don't even think for a moment he will include that, and if he a proggie or a T-person, forget it

>>11881886
>she's more of a powerful novelty rather than a unique gameplay experience
I thought playing as her was a nice change? Sliding, double jumps, attack while moving, different set of weapons.

Good for replaying the stages to find hidden routes.

>>11881735 (OP)
>No actual arguments
Oh so it's a skill issue then.

>>11881735 (OP)
Slapped together dogshit? Every single enemy encounter is meticulously placed so that you have to time your attacks in between specific movements. It felt like an old NES game to me, where I had to memorize the entire level, by design.

>>11882848
Don't fall for it, anon. Calling this game bad has never been a real opinion, it's just an eternal ragebait, born when people who had the privilige of playing rondo realized they could make those who only had a SNES feel bad.

The only good posts in the entire thread are the 'but enough about cv2' meme and the maria with huge tits.

>>11881735 (OP)
People do this with any PS2 game with a decent aesthetic now. People want to talk about games more than they actually want to play them.

>>11882720
Curse: Stage with multiple water hazzards that you have to use precise platforming to avoid. The water rising adds another dimension.
Rondo: Walk forward to the boss.

>>11882915
Who the fuck calls it "curse"? Just call it Castlevania 3 like any normal person

Rondo is the best Castlevania. 2nd best is SOTN. 3rd best is CV3

>>11882918
Everyone usually calls Castlevania games by their subtitle. Aria, Rondo, Symphony.

>>11883067
NTA and idgaf, call it whatever you want, but I think that's only because those games weren't numbered.

Castlevania 3 has been getting really overrated recently, just like Bloodlines was a few years ago. That falling block level alone disqualifies it from being considered the best, or even top three. Fucking atrocious level design.

3 is worse than 1, let alone Rondo. Way too much bullshit.

>>11882897

>>11882915
That stage is a boss rush. Having to fight four bosses and then Shaft is enough for one level. The "walk" before the boss room is just to allow the player to get subweapons

>>11882915
People don't like Castlevania because of the platforming. In fact they dislike it because of the platforming

>>11883773
well yeah, most people are braindead npcs who don't want any challenge.

>>11882806
don't get me wrong maria's pretty fun to barrel through the game with but that's all you're doing with her, it'd be nice if the characters were more balanced but granted idk how one would do that while still keeping her fun to play. maybe split her powers among the other three maidens and make them recruitable? might be too bloated then though. also don't forget her stand
>>11883248
every stage in the alucard path is bland except for >>11882915 anyway, that plus alucard himself sucking is reason enough to not take it. the other path is the actually good one

>>11883704
It's not like you couldn't have a decent level before a boss rush.

It's about time we all acknowledge pic related as the best game in the series.