Why has no other game in the series come close?
>>724535604aria and dawn of sorrow are objectively better
>>724535641I'm playing Dawn now and it's ok but Bloodstained feels like the only real successor to SoTN
>>724535604Because it was the last genuine 2D game in the series released on a home console. Every subsequent game was stuck on a gimped handheld with shittier hardware.
> the game was unironically released with beta menu they completely forgot to revamp and then it was too lateTHIS is how you know it was pure 101% passion project, I know this because I have the same issue with project I loveTo answer your question, OP: it is because past SoTN release they all were trying to copy SOTN, instead of making something of their own
It embraced true 2D soul
probably budget
Its sources of inspiration were kinos like Coppola's Dracula and Vampire Hunter 1985 while the later games had lesser influences.
>>724536461>budget
>>724535604This is the only thing people know Castlevania for outside of the shitty "anime".
>>724536339As in the pause menu or the file select menu?
>>724537326we dont talk about that abomination
>>724537443the inventoryfunny thing they've been hush-hush on it for a few years prob due to embarrassment and this only surfaced in one of the latest interviews
Because you're not a kid anymore. I played this for the first time like 5 years ago and it was the most mid game I've ever played. And no, I'm not a zoomer I'm 33, your nostalgia is fooling you.
>>724537326>>724537449i thought it was pretty good
>>724535641FPBP
>>724537751But I played it for the first time 6 years ago.
>>724535641just aria, dawn has some good parts but a lot of it is garbage
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What's odd is that it never gets mentioned in threads about "vampire games." Into that category people will put Blood Omen, the two VTM games, Vampyr, Bloodrayne, and maybe even Soul Reaver, but old Symphony of the Night is excluded. The most likely reason for this is that Alucard is muh noble vampire archetype, a good guy, and with him there's no drinking from human innocents, trafficking with demons, or any other supervillainous acts. You don't get to play out that particular power fantasy. Even so, Alucard is an authentic vampire who can shapeshift into mist, a bat, or a wolf, and SotN should be acknowledged as one of the best vampire games. It's certainly the most polished – the others are janky as fuck.
>>724538215Being a noble Vampire who has dedicated his life to exterminating his own kind for being retarded is based as fuck
>>724540262Damn right.
>>724535604Because it can pretendIt is the windAnd I don't know if it will pass this way againAll things must endGood-bye my friendThink of it when you see the sun or feel the wind
>>724535604Because every other 2D Castlevania is SotN with a gimmickBoth 3D Ps2 games were pretty nice tho
>>724535604Because SotN is first and foremost is Hagihara, not his assistant Igarashi.Of Igarashi's games only HoD is atmospheric enough to somewhat resemble SotN, but even HoD is somewhat weaker (and, iirc, not exactly made by Igarashi either).Igarashi's games aren't bad, they are good in their own way - but they are way too modern, bright and even lighthearted. Too many gimmicks, not enough dark and mysterious castles. Original Devil May Cry is more Castlevania than Aria-Dawn-Portraits-Bloodstained.
>>724540425https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTJ4Xl_4-MU>fucking zoomer retards actually thought this was "bad" voice acting and the ending song "didn't fit"This entire sequence still chokes me up.Imagine sitting there in front of your glowing CRT in the wee hours of the morning, and you finally defeat Dracula and witness some of the finest cinema you've ever seen from a video game with a gut punching emotional song as the credits roll...
>>724535604The other games have zero soul. Only sotn is worth mentioning>Muh easy bossesNo one cares about gameplay. Only music and atmosphere matters
>>724544049>The other games have zero soul.If you actually believe this you're fucking retarded
>>724537501Nobody cared at the time. It didn't look any better or worse than what we got out of other games at the time, like Final Fantasy 7.
SOTN unironically insists upon itself and I don't think your a real Castlevania fan if that's the only game you like in the series. Far too many skip the handheld games because "its not SOTN" unable to wrap their head around a new experience. I'm not saying SOTN is a bad game but people put it on a pedestal almost over hyping it as the end all be all.
stop posting this unc shit PS1 was out like a million years ago
Disregard metroidsloppaAcquire action Kino
the DS games are better
>>724535641>aria and dawnI'm sorry anon, but one wrong answer included means it's all wrong>>724537932the correct answer right here
>>724535604bro your aria of sorrow?bro your portrait of ruin?
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>>724551779That's a lot of porn she is reading.
>>724535604Order of Ecclesia is better.
>>724535641>Grind of sorrowWorst game of the dsvanias and a complete downgrade from aria , try again
But I like grinding. What I did not like was the shitty forced touch screen magic.
>>724552972How is it worse than GBvAnia?What's there to grind?
>>724535604That's not rondo of blood though?
>>724535604I came for the metroidvanias but I stayed for the classicvanias
>>724535604SOTN has the strongest J-Goth aesthetics in the Castlevania franchise
