Silksong got me to go back and replay this after dropping it at the Reverse Castle a couple of years ago. Where do I go from here? The only other Castlevania game I've played is Super Castlevania 4 and it filtered the fuck out of me
>>720802504The GBA and DS titles, I recommend playing in release order but Aria and Dawn of Sorrow are considered the best
slophony of the night and it's consequences have been a disaster for the metroid strand type genre
>>720802504you open the map and go wherever you haven't gone before
>>720802553Thanks. If I wanna go back for Classicvania is it basically just 1-4 plus Rondo of Blood?
>>720802639None of the modern metroidvanias come close to SOTN and AOS>>720802676Yes plus Bloodlines on the GenesisThe Game Boy ones are also pretty bad but Belmont's Revenge is passable
>>720802504Just start it over, it doesn't take that long to get to the Reverse Castle
>>720803023I did, I got to the reverse castle again and just actually did it this time. Or at least I will, I have two bosses left to find
>>720802749Thanks anon. Plan is to do the metroidvanias, then go back for the classics, and if I for some reason really want to play more I'll check out the game boy games.Is the PSP version of Rondo any good? I really can't be fucked dealing with PC Engine stuff
>>720803532It's a fine remake, it also includes the original Rondo and SOTN as unlockables
>>720803532A guy made a standalone .exe for Rondo, just the iso in an emulator wrapper, but it's very convenient. You can find it with google.
>>720802553>dawnlol
>>720802504You just go around and get all of the dracula parts
>>720804273What's wrong with DoS besides some grinding? You can now do the magic seals without the touch screen
>>720802676pretty much yea, there's other games but you can start with those and go from there, you can skip 2 if you don't vibe with it but definitely at least give it a try at least, it's a very unique game and not like the others>>720803532>Is the PSP version of Rondo any good?It's not bad but it's not Rondo at its best and Rondo at its best is a masterpiece, you can figure out PC engine emulation in like 5 minutes anon, it's not like pc-98 or anything like that
>>720802676With metroidvanias, start with CV1 and the Japanese version of CV3. Skip 2 unless you want to play it for curiosity's sake.After that, play Rondo, IV, Bloodlines, Belmont's Revenge and The Adventure ReBirth in any order.In all of the above, it's fine if you get filtered the first time. Just play whatever's fun and you'll eventually git gud enough to play the ones that gave you trouble earlier on.Dracula X, Castlevania X68000 and American CV3 are genuinely difficult enough that I wouldn't recommend them to start with.Also Dawn is not highly rated at all, that anon is tripping. It's just a retread of Aria, but worse in basically every way other than boss fights.The 3 most widely-beloved metroidvanias are Aria, Symphony and Portrait.Circle and Order are both polarizing with strong opinions on either side, meanwhile Harmony is universally considered the worst.>>720803532PC Engine is trivial to emulate.
>>720805189>With metroidvaniasMeant to say "with classicvanias", shit.
>>720804520Nothing.Dawn is the best Castlevania game
>>720805189>Dawn is not highly rated at allBullshit, it's on every list of best DS games, the only bad thing is the anime art style>Harmony is universally considered the worstIt's definitely better than Circle of The Moon, it just has worse presentation
>>720802639i love some of kojima's movies but what the fuck does he know about metroidvanias?
How is Bloodstained compared to the other CV games?
>>720805189>>720805232Good post regardless.
>>720805465if you liked the DSvanias you will like Bloodstained.
>>720805386Dawn is awful. You don't become stronger by exploring and finding better weapons and souls, no, you get stronger by grinding the same souls over and over and using the crafting system. Lol, just lol.
>>720802504>dropping it at the Reverse CastleWhat kind of lame asshole dullard are you exactly?
>>720805465It's good. I'm playing through it right now. My main gripe with it is that it's insanely grindy, which could be a plus for some people.
Might as well ask here but how are the recent collections? do they add any value to just playing the roms? been wanting to replay the GBA games myself and was wonderingthe mega man collections were very hit or miss for me
>>720805465It's full of the same bullshit as Dawn of Sorrow. Arguably even worse this time, and plus the game looks like shit.
>>720805737Dominus Collection adds a remixed version of Haunted Castle similar to Castlevania The Adventure ReBirth.
>>720805635>You don't become stronger by exploring and finding better weapons and soulsYou do.
>>720802749>Belmont's Revenge is passableBR is great.
>>720805635I beat the game and I was barely grinding
>>720802676There's also Belmont's Revenge, Bloodlines, X68000/Chronicles, and Adventure Rebirth of the worthwhile games. SNES Dracula X is decent too but less essential than the aforementioned.
>>720805737They are a decent way to play the games on modern systems without emulation
>>720805956>Adventure RebirthI completely forgot about that one since it was only released on WiiWare
>>720802504Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance are its immediate successors, but they were flawed and kinda boring. Some people like them. I Strongly recommend Aria of Sorrow. it actually builds on SotN. Expands on it with a cool new playable character.Portrait of Ruin is GREAT. Action-packed, big fun castle. So if you want more great games play those. If you don't think you'd get burned out go ahead and play all of them. Bloodstained is uggo and mine had a crazy gamebreaking bug. Its sequel looks great though so you can look forward to that with us.play Metroid ZeroMission if you havent. Good way to start that sister series.Classicvanias are all hard as fuck. CV1 IS beatable with enough determination, same with Rondo. CV3 Japanese version is easier. I like Bloodlines a lot more than SCV4, which I don't really like at all.
>>720806212>I like Bloodlines a lot more than SCV4, which I don't really like at all.Same here, Portraitchad. 4 is one of the worst games in the series in my opinion. I bet most of its "acclaim" came from Nintendo circlejerking back in the day, and AVGN going DUUUUUUUDE EIGHT-DIRECTIONAL WHIPPING LMAO. In reality the game doesn't hold up at all. In fact, AVGN has personally done a lot of damage to people's perception of Castlevania as a whole. Maybe his recent SotN Richter video made some people realize how fucking dogshit his opinions actually are, but it's too little too late.
>>720806569CV 2 sucks, deal with it
>>720806656A broken clock is right twice a day. Super IV sucks and CV64 is good.
>>720805189Thanks for the advice, anon
>>720806569>In reality the game doesn't hold up at all.Hard disagree. Castlevania is my favorite series. IV is excellent.>YoutuberDo you also think he invented hostility toward Castlevania 64? You seem like one of those newfags.
>>720805846Agreed. The level design is so creative and varied - very Mega Man-like. One of my favorite games in the series.It also has a lesser-known Game Boy Color version on the Konami GB Collection Vol. 4. The colorized graphics look really nice, though the game uses the JP version's Cross subweapon instead of the Axe from the US verison.
