Been starting to get into Castlevania games due to the Konami collections and I wanted to ask: Which Castlevania games are the best in your opinion?
>>7196022041, Rondo, and x68000 (a.k.a. Chronicles).
>>719602204In no particular order my favorites areCastlevaniaIVBloodlinesRondoAriaSOTNTo a much lesser extent I also like COTM, portrait and eclessia. The haunted castle remake was pretty good too but waaaay too easy. Haven't played chronicles but I hear its good. The rest I either haven't played or only beat once and didn't really care for them.
>>719602204Classic-styled Castlevanias:Castlevania (NES)Super Castlevania IV (SNES)Castlevania Rebirth (Wiiware)Metroid-styled Castlevanias:Aria of Sorrow (GBA)Dawn of Sorrow (DS)Portrait of Ruin (DS)Order of Ecclesia (DS)Symphony of the Night is worth a playthrough too (PS1, might be better on the Saturn at this point though), even if it's got weaker gameplay, it's got top tier visuals and music.
I like playing 3 and 1.
All of them3, Rondo, Symphony and Aria are the fan favorites, Personally I liked Portrait even more.
>>719602204Bloodlines, Rondo, Symphony
>>719602204Bloodlines > CV3 > CV1 > SCIV > Rondo
Symphony of the Night, Super Castlevania IV, and Aria of SorrowRondo/X is also very good
>>719602204>Which Castlevania games are the bestDon't worry about that. Just start with 1 and 3.
>>719602204I think my personal favorites would include X6800, Bloodlines, Curse of Darkness, and Portrait of Ruin. I think my preferences shift around but I do like X6800 and Curse of Darkness a lot.
>>719602204CotM
3 is kinda good, especially with the top tier music and switching characters idea, but it's not that goodbut if you're gonna play it, play the japanese version, US version is bullshit (and has worse music, but it's still good music)
>>719602204All of them
>>719602204unpopular opinion? super castlevania 4 is my favorite
>>719603816it is top tier music
even though sotn and games like it are really good they're not real castlevania games
Dracula's Curse is an amazing OG Castlevania
>>719602204technically you should just play them all and chose your own favorite
>>719603816American 3 is perfectly fine, and it has the cool cheat codes like starting off the second quest, or starting with any partner.
>>719603858It's kinda crazy how discourse on this game has turned in more recent years, back during 5th/6th gen online it wasn't uncommon to see it on people's video game GOAT lists. People dickrode Treasure pretty hard at the time, though.
Castlevania is one of those funny series that has a pretty tight consensus on which games are the best, so I really have nothing to add in that regard. What I will say is the first game definitely should not be skipped (even if you don't start with that one) because it has aged incredibly well. My first reaction to DS/Bloodborne gameplay was>Oh, it's like Castlevania 1 in 3D. The mechanics are tuned so that you have to put deliberate thought into every action and get punished for hasty wild reactions. That's less the case in the Metroidvanias, but the Classicvanias are very much about learning the rhythm of the levels and staying in a certain groove.
>>719602204I'm more of a Classicvania fan but I like most games in the series. I think the most "essential" games are the original, IV, and SotN.
>>719603956I played through SOTN for the first time over the summer and while the music and visuals are top-tier, the gameplay was definitely lacking. subsequent games in the metroidvania genre definitely do the whole formula better.
>>719604856Journalists will dickride Treasure until the end of time. Try talking about shooters without hearing about how much they love Ikaruga or Radiant Silvergun.
>>719602204The original mogs all others.
obligatory "Dracula X for SNES is actually good" post
>>719602204The NES trilogy is good but the 16 bit ones are where they peaked:-Belmont's Revenge-Super-Bloodlines-The x68k one (can't remember its name)-Rondo.SOTN is really good too but def falls apart in the later hours coz the director/producer/programmer left and the gimp retard assistant (igarashi) had to take over.None of the others beyond that are worth playing.
>>719605773Ikargua and RSG are outstanding games though. The genre never progressed beyond the games of Hiroshi Iuchi.
>>719605652The music is the only consistent thing about SOTN
>>719604843>American 3 is perfectly fineabsolutely not
>>719602204Sex with Maria
>>719606136The difficulty difference is miniscule to those who can actually beat either.
>>719605874It is though. If people would stop comparing it to Rondo so much they might actually enjoy it. It's a better game than Castlevania 4
>>719605536I can get behind this list but I'd swap 1 and 4, and Rondo for Bloodlines
>>719602526Superb taste
>>719602204Trvke: the original games (never played later ones) are incredibly overrated. Attacking takes an hour, everything looks like puke, you're constantly falling off of shit, and there's no control of your character in the air. Enjoy getting constantly instakilled by birds knocking you into pits./nesboomer
Do people really find IV "too easy"? I find it easier then CVIII but never felt like it was ever easy to the point of boredom. My only serious issue with IV is the Dracula fight, set up is 11 out of 10 but the actual fight feels too short with no second phase.
>>719606790oh I wasn't baiting, I agree with you
>>719607195I dont get it eitherRondo was wayyyy easier than IV but for some reason it isnt known as "the easy one"
>>719602820Same
>>719605536your shits all fucked up
>>719607116>he likes to fucking finger his ass
>>719602204CV3 (USA) is the best one.
