ADMIT ITYOU LOVE Castevania: Portrait of Ruin
>>739323102OoE >>> PoRShanoa >>> Charlotte
>>739323205>shit game that killed the seriesKys shanoa dicklet
>>739323102Yep, its goodPoR > Dawn >> OoE
It was enjoyable, more than the first hour led me to believe, better than HoD and OoE definitely.But still below the Dawn games and CotM.
>>739323102>>739323205I liked Order of Ecclesia and it definitely had cool stuff in it, but I do think Portrait of Ruin is the best handheld Castlevania.You know, outside the terribly generic Anime Character Art.
I still need to play it. I can't love something I never touched.
I'd argue that overall it had a far more unique theme and far higher quality than Dawn of Sorrow but OoE is still better and far harder overall.
>CHARLOTTE
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>>739323102Best Igavania and search action game
Hey I use Johnathan too, sometimes.
>>739323102I liked Jonathan and Charlotte, the first track that plays, and the painting idea was pretty goodOoE is still the best handheld castlevania tho
COME HITHER
My problem with Order of Ecclesia is that while the Glyph system is interesting, it's mostly going to be Slashing Set, Smashing Set, and then Magic Set.Until you get to Dracula's Castle, easily find Nitesco and spam fire Holy laser beams at everything.
>>739323102I like the city, pyramid, circus, and forest levels. The actual castle and the vampire antagonists I don’t really care for.
all i remember is ROCK RIOTand Johnathong going I CAN TAKE IT and tanking a laser
>>739323102YOU CAN READ MY MIND?
>>739323102>>739323205>>739323528charlotte impregnation
Maria impregnation
>>739324272Think of the Bloodline, Jonathan!
Her endgame?
>>739323102>The old axe armor is a girl>A cute red head to bootWtf
>>739323102so uh when's the next trailer for Bloodstained the Scarlet Encounter? Its been nearly a year now.
>>739323205Yup.OoE>DoS(plus patch)>PoRThey're all good though.
Yes
>>739323205>expect this game to be Metroidvania castle exploration kino>its sequenced stage areasDamn this game deserved to fail.
sex
>>739323102I refuse to play Igavania slop.
>>739323102I thought the palette swapped later areas were lazy and made me feel disappointed about all the missed potential, but yeah, I still liked it a lot.>>739323205>>739325304...and OoE did it again, except worse since the areas didn't even have unique music anymore.I did appreciate the combat, though.
I LOVE IT, though I haven't played it yet
>>739323102I hate all the DS and GBA castlevanias.They look/sound/feel/play like amateur romhacks.Konami didn't give a flying fuck about the series after Toru Hagihara vanished.That's why it got shitcanned onto handhelds in the first place - because they didn't want to spend any money on it anymore. (hence all the re-used assets, atrocious animation, and almost zero level design)
>>739323102it's alright>>739323205nah OoE sucks
THUNDERBOLT
>>739323205Despite being the only DSvania without an anime artstyle, OoE sure has the most glazers who just get off to the art and clearly haven't played the game much.
>>739323102I like it, and it's the best handheld Castlevania.
>>739323102I enjoy it but I still think the other 2 DS games are better
>>739323102my ds's touchscreen is pretty fuckedwill i be able to play this?
>>739324656Even though they said he had finished his work on the project, shutaro's death probably caused some chaos in the project, certainly would have dealt a blow to morale.
>>739332034it barely uses the touch screen
>>739332034just play the collection on steam
>>739323205Why is it the most polarizing entry
>>739332397Casuals got filtered by the mana system and bosses that are actually challenging on first try, specially the tower crab.
>>739332552It also has dogshit droprates for quest items but that's true of Dawn of Sorrow as well.
>>739332397>what if instead of a big castle you get a small, shitty one and a bunch of small maps, some of them being just corridorsI wonder
>>739332397ooe is a game that makes a great first impression but gets worse the more you play it and really dig deep into itpor is the exact opposite
>>739332596>droprates for quest itemsHuh?>DOSI remember farming like 3 minutes for a special skill, but that was aria iirc>>739332705Why do brainlets love... Oh, I see.>>739333010Is the dominus collection three games? Last castlevania clone I played was chronicles of the wolf and apparently since then nothing similar released. Kinda lame ngl.
>>739323102I never denied it!
Dawn of Sorrow is the only good DS Castlevania. Just look at romsite rankings.
>>739323102Jonathan?
Dunno bout love but I do likes it.and yes, CHARLOTTE is good.
>>739333570I was almost ready to like Dawn more than Aria but I was pretty disappointed how you don't get to be crazy ass Dracula-Soma again. Last boss was underwhelming too.
>>739332397It's not, outside of one autismo everybody else thinks it's a weak entry.Just look at how little people talk about it and how it killed the series.
The anime aesthetic is really not it. I prefer Shanoa's game personally.
Dawn is underrated, I liked it the most out of the DSvanias, PoR was my least liked.
>>739323102I love CHARLOTTE!
>>739323102Of course. Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia are the best and only good Castlevania games. Buy the Dominus Collection and enjoy the peak of Castlevania.Symphony of the Night is overrated dogshit, exceptionally terrible. Aria of Sorrow is better than Symphony of the Night, but also sucks.
>>739323528>the terribly generic Anime Character ArtThat's a point in its favor
cringe or kino?
>>739323102indeed. it's the best castlevania after all
>>739333380Dominus Collection is 5 games. The 3 DS ones plus Haunted Castle and a remake of Haunted Castle.
>>739334801Female protagonists are a mistake. It never once worked.
Are we big Shanoa fans itt?
>Gave Dracula a stereotypical Slavic accent and made him look like Bela Lugosi simply because it was the 75th anniversary for the 1931 Draculathis is what always designated Castlevania as a franchise consistently helmed by certified REAL NIGGAS
circle of the moon or aria, that's it
>>739337486Ultra kino.
>>739332397The most unimaginably dogshit level design in the entire franchise
I like her more
>>739337729Am I biased because I'm an Ariabab and it was my first entry in the series? Yes. It is factually the best Castlevania of all time? Also yes.
>>739323102Charlotte thread?Charlotte thread
>>739323205This game sucks ass and was why Konami rebooted it
>>739337938it was nowhere near my first CV but it's my favorite one actually. if I could pick any game to be remade, it would be it. imagine if it was remade to look and sound as good as SotN.
bloodstained was better than the last couple castlevania games
>>739337568That's nice.>>739337846That's not nice>>739337584Miriam, Heather, Jill?
I had no idea she was a cute lizard girl until I played the game in japaneseFor some reason I thought she was like a lizard mobster dude with a hat
>>739337486>JUSTe instead of based christophercringe!
Any interest in the new Castlevania? I'm optimistic honestly, I think it'll be alright. It's just a shame that it'll probably start a new canon, which extinguishes the last bit of hope that we'll ever get a '99 game.
>>739339328I mean it looks okay but it just doesn't look very Castlevania-y.
>>739339328Putting aside whether or not I'm hopeful for it, I kind of just don't need it. Like, the DS games felt like a nice epilogue to a series that was already concluded you know? I'm satisfied with Castlevania.
>>739323102I like it, I don't love it
>>739323102yeah it goes pretty hard but>>739323205fpbp
>>739339328I like the fluidity of the motion and I liked dead cells. Maybe we can finally get decent whip combat.
>>739337668it's that and also because portrait of ruin made bloodlines canon again, which was the game that made the OG dracula novel part of the castlevania canon
Does the steam release censor anything?
>>739324079So Beautiful
>>739337486Lazy. pretty damn lazy for what's supposed to be the final attack
Vlad did the right thing
>>739323205sex with hags
>>739343162Hagnoa
>>739323102IMPREG Charlotte. >>739323362PAT PAT PAT BE HAPPY
>>739343162Charlotte is a irresponsible rookie witch who brings that tome with her because she fails to memorize the spells.
>>739343162Shanoa is like 25-30 which in Japanese terms means middle-aged.
>>739340428noit's just the original games untouched (other than some touch screen features given workarounds)
>>739323205This game only becomes fun at the end when you get good spells. The early game is shit and it even uses mana or whatever to use your weapon IIRC.
>>739343162Christmas cake!
Is Charlotte a stinky french woman? Or does she have magic to handle that
>>739323102It's the best of the Igavanias because of CHARLOTTO and JONOSAAN and the music, but all of the Igavanias are worse than SotN.
Its good
>>739323205shanoa incels are the most annoying part of the castlevania threads here
>>739323102>She's like my kid sister!Oo lala
>>739327240fixed
>>739343162in my headcanon shanoa would basically just be yor forger if she was in a relationship
>>739337668God....such SOVL....
>>739340308fucking hell I still can't believe they threw Quincy in on that Vampire Survivors DLC
My favorites are Bloodlines, Portrait of Ruin and Circle of the Moon. I'm sorry.
>>739323205Amen to that Shanoa is the greatest
>>739343162Thankfully there is a non-hag girl in OoE.
>>739343162Shanoa is 20
>>739343162teen witches >>> hags
>>739323102Naru ripoff
>>739323102I love Charlotte.
Isn't Charlotte kind of...young
>>73934934916 iirc
I appreciate the amount of pixel art porn of Charlotte getting fucked by dogs out there
>>739338671Her voice in the NA eng versions sounds a little husky, but yeah she's just a cute lizard girl demon.PoR was made with such a shoestring budget, I always wondered whether or not she appeared in earlier installments like how a good chunk of all the enemies in the game were recycled from, but PoR is her first appearance.
>>739323205What I like most about Shanoa is how she doesn't have a super special bloodline and isn't blessed by the Gods. She's just a regular person who takes on evil power to seal Dracula, and would've sacrificed herself in the process, then fades away into history despite saving the world. It's very poetic and fitting for being the last Igavania.
>>739337659I am.
Man, when is that Bloodstained sequel coming out? I want more of that Aria of Sorrow clone gameplay.
>>739353507Hopefully more gets revealed next month.
>>739337486>implying the two are mutually exclusive
>>739349223>Filename not cream pie Charlotte.png
>>739323102Luv Charlotte Simple as
>>739324473Baseball team at minimum with Jonathan.
Is Charlotte in love with Jonathan?
>>739355004Yes. She was jealous about Jonathan calling Astarte "so beautiful...">>739324394
>>739323102i don't because it doesn't have the jump kick
>>739355327Any more proof?
>>739323102I didn’t like how the last four paintings were just palette swaps of earlier levels.What story there was was kind of bad too.Everything else is great though, and I return to it often. At what age does it become inappropriate to masturbate to Charlotte?
>>739323102>ADMIT IT>YOU LOVE Castevania: Portrait of Ruin
>>739323102I haven't played DSvania, only GBAvania like 4 times.Maybe I should finally give them a try.
>>739340308>the OG dracula novel part of the castlevania canonThe movie version or the book? Because novel Drac didn't look like Legosi, at all.
>>739338671Why is she so busty? Lizards don't have bewbs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RLV8XqSkV8Shanoa is better than Charlotte
>>739350582I mean, I too would simp for the half baked delicious brown tall lady.
>>739332034You don't ever need to use the touch screen with it, so don't worryI liked it a lot, but don't like how segmented and i guess linear each area is. I enjoy 1 big ass castle to explore. That said the gimmick of the game is great, very soulful.
>>739360356Charlotte would be mad.
Konami confirmed that we're getting multiple Castlevania projects aside from Belmont's Curse, so what would you guys want?
>>739363570New 3d castlevania by platinum and a new mobile game that uses old characters so charlotte can get more skimpy outfits
It was fine. Segmenting the map kinda sucked though, so did the padding missions that you get.Had a good version of Richter's theme thoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNMmgwJ-LIoAlso it's still better than OoE
I cant decide if I hated curing the twins with sanctuary more than I hated getting that fucking wind glyph
>>739323404Dawn of Sorrow fucking sucked.
>>739363728Anon, platinum doesn't exist anymore.
They should do a game about young Julius' preparation for the Eclipse war, including gathering allies and becoming stronger. The game ends just before the raid begin.
>>739363570Third Sorrow game.
>>739323102I like it well enough, but >>739323205Ecclesia is genuinely my favorite Castlevania and has been for almost 15 years.
>>739332705>>739333010>>739337846Can't believe I share a board with pseuds that have this bad a taste.
>>739332397Because it's the one post-SotN game that actually requires skill.
>>739363570SotN remaster, remake or sequel for the game's 30th anniversary. Also, if the new Belmont is indeed Sonia, maybe an M2 remake of Legends.
I'm playing it right now and I'm moderately impressed by its difficulty balance. if you go out of your way you can cheese bosses with item shop potions but just played straight up it's actually possible for you to get your shit pushed in, you don't trivially out level them.
>Well, not bad huhMy first castlevania game when I was a wee bab and god it's left quite the mark on me.
>>739365701Normgroids get crabbed, but for anyone who isnt a retard, OoE is not a hard game wtf. If anything Id say it's rather linear and tedious, which doesnt make it hard.
>>739338671>I see you.. BANGI don't know what you're talking about, she always sounded (and looked) female when I played it.
>>739323205Bvsed.>>739332397Because people's brains fry when they're confronted with a game that stands out on its own instead of badly copying Symphony for the eighth time.
>>739332552>you don't like bad level design and hitboxes that literally don't match sprites?>filtered!The word filtered has not been used properly once in the last decade thanks to retards like you.
>>739363570Something like Devil May Cry 4 with a protagonist mysteriously connected to Dracula, probably a bastard son of Alucard or Soma. Castlevania would be great with a Nero type protagonist.
>>739323102I've only played DoS (and AoS), and really liked it. Are the next ds ones really that good?
>>739367971DoS was fun, but the other 2 DS entries are even better.
>>739365610The projection is astounding. Out of anyone in all of the Castlevania fanbase, retarded OoE fanboys are hands down the most delusional, pseudointellectual niggers that there are.
>>739366857I kneel
>>739323205FPBP
>>739363570A turn based RPG.
>>739368354Agreed. Prime example >>739366857
>>739368910Might work for a spinoff.
>>739363728The mobile game is in development, it's called Moonlight Rhapsody.
>>739363728>New 3d castlevania by platinumMore like pre-SoTN or SoTN or post-Dawn?
>>739323102Honestly surprised when I first played it (minus that fucking piracy taxing me hours to get rid of). Overall good game, Jonathan and Charlotte easily became my favorite duo of the franchise.>>739323205Dude come on, OoE is my baby but I refuse to compare it with the PoR bros
>>739363570Bringing this back
>>739332397Blackmore gaped them clearly.
>>739371290>themb-both his victims and user?
>>739371120>Google this>Find an image of Yoko with her rack expandedSo this is the power of chinese design!
>>739371478Did I stutter?
>>739323102yeah its funtoo bad the new castlevania is just more woke girlboss trash
>>739371516I'm actually gonna play the mobile game when it comes out since the only characters I really want are Alucard and Soma.
>>739363570Castlevania HD PC port, nothing else matters.
>>739371583kek.
>>739364117You have dogshit taste. Daw of Sorrow is 100 times superior to Aria of Sorrow and 500 times superior to Symphon of the Night.
>>739323102PoR my favorite DS castlevania
>>739372614Oh joy, another Simon remake....
>>739324079Fuck this whore for not giving me a second Miser Ring in HoD
>>739366857Holy BASED. I played Ecclesia for the first time about 3 years ago and it very quickly became one of my favorite games of all time.
The best part about Ecclesia was Albus. Fuck he was so cool.>PARTICLE SHOT>THINK YOU CAN DODGE THIS?>SHANOAAAAA
>>739373689Albus was awesome.
>>739373689>>739375409Is his touchscreen teleportation weird in the Dominus Collection?
>>739373440Shanoa is my wife.
>>739323102I hated the anime art style, they should have stuck with Ayami Kojima's art. Her art is pure kino.
>transitioning at the press of a button.So, whats the average completion rate of this game, 41%?
>>739371290This boss filtered me
>>739377383I cheesed him with the light+darkness glyph union and Nitesco.
His problem?
>>739377870He gave me giga healing drink, he is a bro.But when I played Richter mode, he gave me explosive damaging drink :(He doesn't like Richter.
>>739377096We're fortunate enough that the biggest negative that most of the DS Caslevanias had was the garbage anime art instead of her iconic style.
>>739323102Aye, that's my favorite DS Castlevania with OoE coming right after.I love it for what it has to offer, and it has many good points:>nice anime aesthetic compared to the one in the Soma Cruz games>awesome fighter/mage duo with Jonathan and Charlotte>Eric Lecarde coming back as a ghost and looking like Huge Actman's Van Helsing>Brauner the pimp painter Orlok>Stella and Loretta the vaampire sisters>Dracula looking like Béla Lugosi, like >>739337668 mentioned>that rad final battle with the Prince of Darkness AND the Grim Reaper both at the same time>cool levels and themes>cool OST>delicious brown girl Arshtat>>739323205Since I'm more of a Classicvania than a Metroidvania kind of guy, I was pleasantly surprised to see OoE leaned more towards the former than the latter. It had great levels, I liked the hub-like village, and that final battle where Dracula doesn't transform but leaves his throne and walks ominously towards you like the towering mofo he is was awesome.
>>739378292>picI'd actually want Ray Chase, Vlad III's english VA to voice both Dracula and Soma.
>>739377962OoE's art was nice.
Anyone try those randomizser for the ds games
>>739323205luke warm take Order is better but Portrait is good as well
OoE would rank above PoR if it had one big map instead of levels.Ruins the exploration vibe for me.
>>739372805Even ignoring how the bugged Luck mechanic and the stupid touch gimmicks, Dawn of Sorrow is inferior to Aria of Sorrow and reeks of an unnecessary sequel.
>>739377870>His problem?nothing, dude just knows how to make multiple drinks and even gives them to you on the house
>>739366857>This AI ass review screencapped by the retard who prompted itShanoa troons are so hilariously lacking in self awareness my God, and lo and behold they're always a porn addict as well who cant just admit they want to fuck the generic goth blob whore
>>739323102I bought the Dominus collection and forgot how grindy this games could be. >Kill the same monster a 100 times to get the thing you want.
>>739379342I'm autistic, so I kind of find it therapeutic.
>>739323102I'd love to see more Shanoa and Charlotte's hijinks, if you know what I mean...
>>739379808I'm autistic but aware that having a monster that only shows up in one room, and only sometimes spawns in that one one, and runs away really fast so you have to have a way to kill him quickly, and then have to repeat those RNGs over a bunch of times waiting for the gacha soul drop rate to trigger is total fucking bullshit.Pseudo-random distribution should be the standard and anyone that still uses geometric distribution should be fined one cubic inch of flesh every time.
>>739356403I liked the return of the classic monsters.
>>739380608Don't forget having to collect multiple of the same soul to level them up.
>>739380879Using boss souls to upgrade weapons making it impossible to have all weapons and souls in one playthrough was annoying.
>>739379210Touch "gimmicks" are absolute kino on Nintendo DS with the stylus, only shitters and casuals complain about them. As of Domins Collection, you don't even have to use a secondary controll method, they reworked it for the Dominus Collection.As for the "bugged Luck" mechanic, doesn't matter at all, you get souls regularly and getting all souls doesn't take much time when you have the Soul Eater Ring.Dawn of Sorrow is one of the best Castlevania games ever made.Aria of Sorrow is an overrated garbage unfinished game, with an extremely mediocre OST that sounds like SHIT because the GBA didn't have a dedicated soundcard. Boring Castle design, too easy and just mediocre experience all around, still better than Symphony of the Night, that game is way more dogshit and overrated.You have garbage taste and a low IQ.
>>739380608Just finished Dawn of Sorrow last night, is a cool game but having souls being random drops really takes some of the fun away from experimenting, by the end of the game I only used a hadful of souls and had to grind money for like an hour and half to get the ring that makes souls appear more often just so I can grind for souls.
>>739380608Ow boo hoo, you actually have to engage with the game design, use weapons and abilities that are useful for that exact enemy you want to kill fast and effeciently, the horror... everything should be braindead easy like Symphony of the Dogshit Night.>Pseudo-random distribution should be the standard and anyone that still uses geometric distribution should be fined one cubic inch of flesh every time.Utter fucking trash taste. So glad we will never get another true 2D Castlevania games so the nu-devs could ruin it by listening to low IQ subhuman casuals like you.Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia are 10/10 and by far the best 2D Castlevania games ever made, the peak of the IP and franchise.Aria of Sorrow is overrated garbage.Symphony of the DOGSHIT Night is the most overrated and the worst game I have ever played, so empty and boring.
>>739381657>game designIt's not fucking game design. It's time wasting bullshit. You can walk into the Mandragora room and get it the first fucking try or do LITERALLY THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING for an hour and get it on the 235892035th try because random bullshit isn't fucking game design.I might as well play fucking Destiny if I want to do the same fucking thing and get nothing out of it.
>>739381657NTA but Dawn of Sorrow is easily the worst of the seven metroidvaniasIt reuses areas too much, enemy variety is lacking, bosses are utter slop outside of like 3 bosses total, the rng grinding (while pointless overall) just adds to the tedium, same as the money doors.
>>739381808>It's not fucking game design. It's time wasting bullshit.It is game design, different abilities and weapons are better at killing different enemies in different rooms. You are retarded.>You can walk into the Mandragora room and get it the first fucking try or do LITERALLY THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING for an hour and get it on the 235892035th try because random bullshit isn't fucking game design.No Soul takes that long, get the Soul Eater Ring and farm them at the end of the game when you are supposed to. You don't have to farm the Souls as you are playing the game during the progression, you low IQ retard.
>>739381657Playing the game as an adult I notice all the convinient grinding spots the devs left so you can kill and enemy fast using the right weapon and quickly leave the room and return so the enemy respawn. I'm divided in this issue on one hand I see as an admision from the devs that the drop rate is bullshit and its grindy on purpose to make a relatively short game longer, in the other hand back in the day as a kid that only gets at most two games a year I totally want my games to last longer.
>>739382128>flame war attemptI wasn't engaging with you - I was pointing out why you're wrongYou have a nice day and try to follow the rules
>>739381347>you have the Soul Eater Ring.You need to grind money to get the ring that lets you grind souls.
Just to further emphasize why we do not reply to trolls:https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Dawn_of_Sorrow_Bestiary118https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Symphony_of_the_Night_Bestiary140Let's never respond to trolls, /v/!
>>739366654Training room
>>739323102best Castlevania on the DS.
>>739382094>Playing the game as an adult I notice all the convinient grinding spots the devs left so you can kill and enemy fast using the right weapon and quickly leave the room and return so the enemy respawn.It has nothing to do with being an adult, it has everything to do with paying attention and not being a low IQ subhuman which the vast majority of /v/ is.>I'm divided in this issue on one hand I see as an admision from the devs that the drop rate is bullshit and its grindy on purpose to make a relatively short game longerWrong. It is designed like this to make replays unique, you are not supposed to farm souls until you reach the end of the game and have the Soul Eater Ring. When you are playing the game and progressing through the zones, the RNG and drop chances create unique experiences every playthrough because you get different souls to use and enjoy.The design of Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia are phenomenal and extremely good, the fact that the subhuman "castlevania" fanbase doesn't comprehend them and dislikes them proves that they are either low IQ retards or nostalgia high subhumans or a combination of both.All 2D Castlevania games are absolute DOGSHIT, except the DS games which are amazing and the only good 2D Castlevania games anyone with taste should ever play and replay.
>>739382260Nothing wrong with a little girnd.
>>739339328>It's just a shame that it'll probably start a new canonIt's not, it's a sequel to Castlevania 3 and Curse of Darkness.
So back to thread since we've ignored the troll, fellow Charlotte fansPersonally, I found the glyph system in OoE to actually be the most enjoyable out of all seven (I count SotN) for weapon equipment
>>739382648Of course it is the most enjoyable, it is far superior to Symphony of the Dogshit Night.Fuck Aria of Sorrow and Symphony of the Dogshit Night, most overrated garabage games ever made.
Someone's having a melty.
>>739382369>Wrong. It is designed like this to make replays unique, you are not supposed to farm souls until you reach the end of the game and have the Soul Eater Ring. When you are playing the game and progressing through the zones, the RNG and drop chances create unique experiences every playthrough because you get different souls to use and enjoy.I agree to a point, but having the souls level up the more you get makes me think you are suppose to grind.
>>739323734> JONATHAN
>>739380507Astarte smiled as Charlotte and Shanoa wrestled each other, their bodies entwining tightly.> "Now, kiss,,my pets", Astarte declared, as the two heroines felt primal heat erupt between their thighs> Astarte licked her lips as her two thralls began to hump each other frantically.
>>739382648Stealing Glyph from enemies mid conjouring is pretty fun.
>>739383652CHAROTTO
>>739384240JONASAN
>>739323102It’s the best DS Castlevania, no doubt
>>739323205
>>739383943HOT!
AoS mogs DoS. That is all.
>another thread ruined by the OoE autismo
>>739384584does anybody ever really say otherwise? feel like AoS is pretty much universally held as being better than DoS.
>>739323205fpbp
>>739384663Most spergs think DoS is better when DoS did all the bad things AoS did and add more to them>>739384656OoE is based, tho
>>739384584
>>739384663One insane schizo in this thread.
>>739384791I think I can count all the times I've seen anyone on here say that DoS is better on one hand. everyone always bitches about the busted LCK stat and the crafting. I think DoS is really fun for what it's worth, and the music and graphics are very nice, but AoS is the clear winner. AoS needs to get remade with SotN-level audio/visual fidelity.
>>739377096
>>739384883An SoTN fan may or may not have diddled him as a child.
>>739323102Yes
still too early for the yearly portrait playthrough, but i love charlotte
Is anyone else looking forward to PoR 2.0?
>>739386849que es
>>739386849Yes, and Alex is a chick and people need to stop being retards about it. She's a cute tomboy.
>>739332397I don't think OOE is bad, it's just not as good as the previous two DSvanias. I wonder how it would have been if it had a larger budget and more time in the oven.
>>739337668Drac was even voiced by his Curse of Darkness VA.
>>739387193I wonder how big her boobs will be.
>>739332705but enough about Super Castlevania 4
>Vampire Killer is represented as whip>Is always a flail in game.Tis is funny.
Starting to get excited for the new castlevania, but still worried about the music for the game, it needs to be great, good isn't enough
>Nation of Foolswtf bros they made it political
>>739391320would you /tv/fags just fucking go back to your own board already holy shit
>>739366857Kino explanation.
>>739391615relax, i was just messin with ya
>>739391816you're right im sorry anoncool gif
>>739391934here have another
what the fuck was her problem
Reminder that charlotte was the final weapon against dracula since jonathan couldn't use the vampire killer
>>739384656shanoa fans are very insecure because OoE ended the series
hey wasnt there a 3DS castlevania
>>739393058Its not good, really weird game
>>739384584Aria has too many damm long hallways desu, it wasn't that much better than Dawn
do you think we'll ever get a 3d collection?
>>739393952Seems inevitable.
>>739393093She sure can handle getting sucked by 3 girls all at once.
>>739393952next year
How do you feel about the lategame paintings?
>>739393952Emulate instead of paying for stolen emulators and shitty copies of roms
What will be then?64, LoI and CoD?
>>739396131they have good music, so ill forgive the sprite reuse
>>739392097what was the deal with that guy anyway? was he supposed to be Big 'enry?
>>739397174inspired, yes, by the famous womanizer and later murderer
>>739324096OoE for me was absolutely fantastic for my first (and only) full playthrough. I've never been able to do a repeat. It just did nothing to grab me.
>>739323102JONATHANCHARLOTTEJONATHANCHARLOTTEJONATHANCHARLOTTEJONATHANCHARLOTTE
>>739337938Aria is the sequel that Symphony deserved, but deserved to be on better hardware so it could be as beautiful as it deserved.
>>739386849If it wasn't already, To Iga, it's now become personal.
>>739398167Literally just fought it a couple of hours ago. Love dive kicking it during the falling sequence
>>739398365I have some hang-ups with DoS that make it my least favorite out of the DSvania trio, but I could never bring myself to hate this boss fight. Everything about it is just so damn kino.
>>739398654DoS was flawed in so many ways. It felt like they cobbled it together at the last minute and weren't quite sure what they were going for. Like they had to have a Metroidvania for DS and they had to have it now, so they just did a quick and dirty Aria sequel. It's still the DS 'vania I've played the most, but it's got seriously one of the worst art directions of all the Iga games.
>>739382369>Wrong. It is designed like this to make replays unique, you are not supposed to farm souls until you reach the end of the game and have the Soul Eater Ring. When you are playing the game and progressing through the zones, the RNG and drop chances create unique experiences every playthrough because you get different souls to use and enjoy.Nice fantasy but NO ONE plays the game that way. Not a single fucking person just uses whatever souls they randomly get from random drops. Human beings don't work like that.
>>739386849Fuck no it looks awful. It removed the one thing I liked in Buttstained: Miriam.>>739387193I have seen absolutely no evidence that either one of the gay men is a chick.
>>739398848That's actually how I've played more than a few of my very, very many Aria and Dawn play throughs.
>>739386849I like the new style of these cutscenes, but the game itself still looks kinda generic and ugly, like the first one back then. Oh well, I'll still play it,
>>739363570Nothing new they make will be good. Just fucking port Rondo and SotN and the PS2 3D games.
If I was Dracula i'd concoct a harem of women for Jonathan to fall for and a harem of men for Charlotte to fall for.
>>739393093The one pixel of ass is what makes PoR reign supreme
>>739323205Try again when someone mods OoE to either>have all maps connected and intertwined>have sex scenesUntil then, no.
I just finished CotM so I haven't played either of these games.
>>739360356She's undead
>>739323102whats there to admit? i have always been PoR's strongest soldier>>739363570HoD on steam with good netcode, also fuck it bring symphony to modern systems so people stop asking
>>739398365When I was younger I felt genuinely sorry for Gergoth. Poor guy..
>>739323205Ecclesia's level design felt like they didn't even try, bunch of straight corridors. Definitely the worst metroidvania they put out.
ahem
Look, you can't love Shanoa if you can't even listen to her album. It's that simple, anonshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zmeye7-HOE
>>739366857How embarrassing
>>739323102I hold an extremely high opinion of it, and consider it to have the closest thing to prime Classicvania flavor any of the SotN-style ones ever had. Which isn't to say mechanically, of course, I'm thinking more in terms of vibe; the game being so Castlevania that it broke down your door, Castlevania'd your mother in front of you, ate half of your pizza, and then did the bro chortle while yelling "Think fast!" and threw a fleaman at your face. I really like it and need to remember to grab that "no magic circles for boss kills" patch someday so I can do another playthrough.
>>739403283Too old
>>739323205FIPPYBIPPY
>>739402102i haven't downloaded the collection but damn i want a standalone maria and alucard game. hell how about the female leads of castlevania taking on dracula instead.
OoE is a shit game with the most obnoxious fangoys.>Hey this is a thread about [other Castlevania game]>SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA *screenshot of cringe textwall* SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA SHANOA
>>739406228OoE haters always get btfo'd in these threads. People just don't have the patience to appreciate this masterpiece.
i remember i had trouble with the frog boss and his laser beam but then i remembered i grabbed some ability that makes Johnathon go "I CAN TAKE IT" and tank the attack and i felt like such a genius
>>739406228Play her game.
>>739406303>>739406547Kys coomer
NOW WATCH ME WHIPWATCH ME NAE NAE
>>739406228its always been like this sadly
Look out, Dracula! Nathan is whipping out his deck!
>>739323102I spent mos of my Dawn of Sorrow playthough sucker punching monster in the face. It was pretty funny.
>>739366857>stands out on its own>badly copies CV2 with a completely different movement system and the so-called challenge being downplayed by fast travel>also still has a dedicated castle area except it's way smaller so it literally "badly copies" sotn againalso i am no fan of creating yet another non-belmont anti-dracula clan being secretly there all along doing whatever the hell because iga was done with straightforward whip-users after richter/justeshanoa is hot but let's not assume her game is anything special
>>739323205ok well Mirriam is better than her so
I want a taste of Charlotte.
Ecclesia was boring until the final castle. The hub world thing they did with it really sucked since maps were a lot smaller as a result.
Charlotte
>>739409981wouldn't she become like crazy powerful if she became a vampire?
>>739323102Its not only one of my favorite Castlevania's it's also one of my favorite games of all time. Its a classic.
>>739339373That's how I feel about it. I had to do a double take when the castlevania logo showed up at the end of the trailer
>>739386849At this point it is the only thing in 2026 that I am actually looking forward to.
>>739410762>holding a cream pie in front of the cute and funny witchwhat did jonathan mean by this
Jonathan and Charlotte got married...right?
>>739323102>>739323205I love both but still1. Aria of Sorrow2. Circle of the Moon3. Symphony of the Night4. Portrait of Ruin5. Order of Ecclesia6. Dawn of Sorrow7. Harmony of Dissonance
>>739411887no, charlotte never scored
Ass of SorrowCircle of the BoobSymphony of the TightWhore Trait of RuinOdor of EcclesiaDawn of SodomyI got nothing
>>739412248Harmony of Dis-nonce
>>739411887Jonathan had a kid.Charlotte had an apprentice.
im glad you hung on this long OP just a few more days
When is her turn?
Goonervania was a weird period of time.
>>739377870
>>739377383Playing it back when I was as a dumb teenager, he filtered me too. Turns out you could kill him extremely quick if you spam the sword+Nitesco glyph union.
Which way western man?
>>739414934
>>739414890Dual nitesco spam is also good, as is dark + light glyph union if you have the hearts. I found giant centaur dude to be the hardest for me as a dumb teenager after Blackmore. Centaur dude felt trivial in Albus mode though.
>>739403249That's because it's more of an action game than a metroidvania. Those don't need sprawling layouts, the enemy encounters are what forms the design. Metroidvanias don't lend themselves well to difficult enemy encounters, as you'll need to go through rooms multiple times even if you know the way through, so trying to shove metroidvania layouts onto OoE's mechanics and enemies would make for a game that fights with itself.
>>739414934I don't really like how the Kojima version makes her so spindly. It looks like a runway model cosplaying as Charlotte...she should be youthfully plump.
>>739414934>lurking gamefaqs CVHD board in 2010>college dude gives his friend shit for liking charlotte because she's underageI mean it was in jest but even back then you could see where the culture was heading. Even the reporter getting with the jeweller in OoE would be uncomfortable for age-gap crusaders.>>739415105Kojima's strength is faces. I can't think of anything off the top of my head but Chronicles Simon where a character looks like they have any significant mass. That one just looks like Charlotte with lipstick to me.
>>739412898>Sonia forma de gacha
I'm starting to think you guys like this game.
>Legends was so bad that it was removed from the canon>Ooe almost killed the franchiseWhy do they keep trying to use female protagonists? Isn't it obvious they're cursed?
>>739416398Its not Sonia that was bad, it was the story.
>>739416398>>739416442what was wrong with it?
>>739416442The soundtrack was shit though >It was a Game BoyYeah, but it still sounded like shit.
>>739416665It was a prequel to the whole Castlevania seried that didn't reveal anything about the Belmont (just like Simon and Trevor, Sonia had the whip from her father) nor Dracula, had Alucard meet a Belmont before Castlevania 3 and end with the implication that all of the Belmonts post Sonia are Alucard's descendants.So they de-canonized it and replaced it with Lament of Innocence, which actually depict how the whip was created, how Dracula became Dracula and why the Belmonts are stitched to fighting him.
If OoE and PoR were so good how come it wasn't BLESSED with a Konamis GREATEST Hits cover??
>>739416940The soundtrack was great, what are you talking about?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XvaVG-Geukhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiPLBm8QU8M
>>739414934Ayami Kojima obviously
Sonia's concept arts for Resurrection are kinda crazy.
>>739323102It's true. At the time I dismissed it for the two player gimmick, and the anime style art style. Then I actually sat down and played it in like 2017 or something and it was absolutely amazing. Possibly the best Castlevania with tansaku ever? It was a lot more polished then Symphony for one, and had a lot of variety of playstyles and weapons and items. Really neat.
>>739417081Now compare it with The Adventurehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QqZizYrOmMY&
Does Konami have their own direct shows or something similar where they announce new games? I am impatient. I want the 3d collection.
>>739417485That cover is rad as af.
>>739323205Who wins in the bush dept though
>>739414934Original. I don't mind the anime art, it allowed for a variety of expressions when something like Aria only had highly compressed art. I would have preferred something that looked less cheap, but I think Kojima's style doesn't work well for these designs, though Brauner would fit Kojima's style really well.>>739417485It's cleaner, but also slower-paced. The Adventure does have great music, I really like the stage 4 theme.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo5uYOEJJF4
Any good mods or patches for the GBA or DS Castlevanias?
Barbarianvania, Bishonenvania or Animevania?
>>739418235bishounen barbarian anime
>>739417793"make luck stat not literally useless" patch and "change A1-tier anime portraits" patch
>>739324656It's supposed to release this year. They may show it in the next State of Play
>>739337659
>>739419016she cute :)
>>739418530So Judgementvania?
OK, so i got the three Collections. I finished the first one. I'm supposed to play SOTN next, right? then the Advance Collection?
>>739419797Have you played Rondo of Blood? I don't think that's in any of the collections but should be done before SOTN
>>739419932maybe he did dracula x
>>739421273>>739419932neither yet. the PS4 requiem version is called rondo, but i think it's dracula X?
>>739421758Advance Collection has Dracula X, PS4 Requiem has Rondo. The two are different games that play similarly.
>>739418235Cartelvania. It plays more like metroid, with guns being the main weapon, but also has melee combat and jungle sections with obligatory use of machetes. You infiltrate cartel sites and fight not only the cartel henchment, but also police, goverment and military. There are sections with ancient ruins with caverns and the final goal is to beat the huge mansion of a drug lord. You can add some paranormal twist onto it with Aztec/Maya mythology, or some voodoo shit used as a vehicle for protag's revenge
>>739421758Rondo is the original game, Dracula X Chronicles is the SNES port that is effectively a new game. I'd recommend Rondo then coming back to DCX if you feel like it
>>739422103isn't this just bionic commando
>>739366857I love my fellow Castlevania/Ecclesia enjoyers.
BROS I JUST READ WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND IT WAS KINOPLEASE GIVE ME MORE GOTHIC LITERATURE AND THINGS TO EXPERIENCE
>>739414789I'm not Shane kid.
>>739424476Give me a drink bartender
>>739417013This has to be the stupidest cover not involving a Banjo I've ever seen.
There's a good Richter and Maria modhttps://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6099/
>>739398365I've always wondered how they handled the math for that palette-shifting damage effect.
>>739418235Manlyvania
>>739363570Curse of Darkness sequel with Hector and the Innocent Devil system intact .
>>739424956Something you aren't.
>>739366654Double Nitesco And Rapidus Fio breaks the game.Becoming Sonic with Dual death lasers is not something I really expected from a castlevania. I was surprised but not disappointed
>>739424667if damage = true then display layer2
mad these fucks don't unlock anything in any castlevanio game
>>739418235I may prefer Classicvania, but it's definitely Bishonenvania for me.
>>739417769Simon Belmont well know man prostitue
for me it's Wandering Ghostswww.youtube.com/watch?v=_JtTscKXXFA
Unrelated, Kojima's depiction of Simon >>739425634 is closer to what Howard's Conan was over the Schwarzy depiction >>739424956 Conan was suprisingly young, though he was super tall. Think Jotaro Kujo but as a compusilve sex haver.
>>739425472You know the Igavanias were my introduction to Castlevania and I ate that stuff with glee but for me the Classicvanias are the gold standard I just like that feel of adventure they have.
>>739426043That is only true like in two Conan stories were he`s young, most of the time he is depicted as a manly man from the wilderness.
I am surprised they've never did a spoof on Captain Kronos. Dude was a Vampire Hunter with who dual wielded a european sword and a katana.
>>739323102Best Castlevania game, or, the most fun. OoE ends strong, but the base game can feel like a slog with all the resistances. Charlotte also got the superior personality, cheeky, fun and energetic
By the way if anyone has ever wondered why Medusa seems to be part of Dracula's Monster Mash club is because Hammer Films also did a bunch of Dracula, Werewolf, Frankenstein movies and among them there was a movie about The Gorgon.
Its crazy, but if we ever get CaGstlevania, I want it to be 2D. Like, what if they went the action route instead of the RPG route back with SoTN.
SPIRIT OF LIGHT
>>739323102I like doing two-in-ones with the partner swap button so that I'm CHARLOTTE-JONATHANing while I maul things, very satisfying with big enemies like Balore in the boss rush or the fish monster boss. Also backdashing with the tag to eliminate recovery frames.
>>739323102>can get softlocked everytime you die to death in ritcher mode and have to reset the fucking gameYeah no
>>739418235Depends on the Belmont.I'm too used to Simon's blond Conan-like attire to choose anything else, but I prefer the others with Kojima's artstyle that cranks the gothic aspect to 11.Trevor is basically perfect with Kojima's artstyle in CoD, and he's voiced by Raphaël Sorel's seiyuu in the original Japanese, what's not to like?Richter's Ryu-like attire (and the general anime aesthetic of RoB) is iconic, but Kojima's take on him with long hair and a long coat/jacket is damn good.
>>739402102>Soma wasn't playable yet>Shanoa was
