Let's have a castlemania thread
>>750100662Should I play aria or super metroid?
>>750100752Vania thread so aria
>>750101030Sorry for bringing up super but I already played the DSvanias, HoD, and RotN so the other only choice was super
>>750100752both
Super Metroid has a decomp now so maybe check that out?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wv-JVytCyWM 32x HoD
>>750101326holy shit they made the ost worse
Why does HoD sound like thatBoktai has a better soundtrack
>>750100752Aria is for arians, super metroid is for super transfolx it says so in there names.
>>750100662calcium
>>750100662What's the odds of getting his soul in that fight? I know you can, but is it less than when he's a mob?
Creaking skull
Terrible night to have a thread I guess All of the users are either dead or asleep
>>750100662Why did Creaking Skull become a meme? I remember seeing a new permutation of OP for what seemed like a month a while back.
>>750107302Anons were spamming it for over a year straight years back. I guess it was a short lived forced meme
>>750101178You played the DSvanias before Aria?
>>750100662Worst Castlemania
*blocks your path*
>>750107758>One of the most dangerous classicvania enemies>Complete jobbers in the IgavaniasI feel bad for them
>>750101880GBA had very fucky sound. IIRC it didn't even have an actual soundchip, so music and sfx had to eat into the CPU. I think the best results came from the Mega Man Battle Network games, which went for an electronic sound that fit easily with what the GBA had to offer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZKhoKX2VoY
>>750107614>You played the DSvanias before Aria?Yeah. For the past few months I've been casually playing the Castlevania, Metroid, and Bloodstained games and the only games I haven't played yet were AoS, Super, and SotN.
>>750101326>another AI mashupyawn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFxYkpxj9qw
>>750101326What the fuck is that music holy shit
>>750106742Stand back I've got this.Upside castle was good design, and SotN's "bloat" was a good thing.Every 2D castlevania after SotN was just a bad rip off of SotN
>>750108045I think you're retarded
>>750107848Were you saving the best for last, going by reputation?Hearing that you haven't even played SOTN is crazy.
I hate reverse castlesIt was shit in sotn and it is shit in bloodstained
Watched a stream of someone playing the newest "Castlevania" game, it looked like total dogshit. Also people are defending the weird designs of the characters as attractive. Thoughts on this?
>>750108365I really don't give a shit dude
>>750106742I don't blame the anons for not wanting to talk about Castlevania right now. These past threads have been fool of culture war faggots that stick out like a sore thumb amongst Castlevania thread regulars
I just rage quit Harmony of Dissonance, fuck that castle design. I dont remember it being that bad, so many dead ends and so few shortcuts.
>>750108507So have you played Belmont's Curse?
>>750108636I rage quit that game twice before finally beating it. If you ever go back to it i'd recommend using an image like this to mark where you saw items you couldn't get because that game loves putting items out of reach but let you get just close enough so that the square gets filled in your map and you don't remember where it was by the time you get the ability that lets you get it
>>750108556Honestly, it's just really disappointing that crappy Netflix show is inescapable because that's all people seem to care about; despite how completely inaccurate it is.And the new game....is just also not grabbing my interest. I'd rather see a game in the style of Rondo/Dracula X or something.
>>750108636Its the only vania game I'll never beat, tried twice and just couldn't take it, its so aggressively bad.
>>750108636I actually love Harmony, despite the jank, music, and double castle. The game just feels fresh every time I play it. Plus it doesn't have ability grinding like all the other handheld ones, even if I still like those too.
>>750108236>Were you saving the best for last, going by reputation?No I'm just randomly picking games to replay and SotN just so happened to be the last one (actually the last one will be Dread since I plan on playing that the week before Ravenous releases) >Hearing that you haven't even played SOTN is crazy.I'm stupid I meant to say replay. I've already played all of the Castlevania, Metroid, and Bloodstained games multiple times (I'm currently trying 100% Samus Returns)
>>750100662Reminder SOTN killed the series
>>750108365talk about the new game in the other thread this is a comfy vania thread
>>750108783I had fun with the game but it wasn't anything special. If what you have seen doesn't grab your interest then i don't see any point in buying it. It has a free demo in case you get the urge to see if you like it or not.And yes the Netflix show is the worst fucking thing that could have happened to this franchise
>>750108980I thought it was the odd 3D vanias that reviewers were praising back in the day.
>>750109079Truth be told, Simon's Quest killed the series
I've been playing a fresh save file Nightmare run where I try to get all the boss medals in Bloodstained to prepare for Bloodstained 2. The first boss is absolutely bullshit with her added water stream attack, but overall it's been going well.
I like Laura
Castlevania killed Castlevania
>>750109073I knew when they changed Isaac's design it was over...
>>750108636HoD castle is my favorite castle
>>750108934I will use the forbidden word on /v/ and make the claim that it could be the best candidate for a remaster
>>750109225Hopefully a 3d collection with CoD is imminent.
>>750109258nah CotM is the one that desperately needs a remake
>>750109156The only way i found to dodge that attack is to equip a weak weapon that 3 shots her minions. That way you can hit them so they stagger in place for long enough and block the water stream
>>750108934>>750109258Man i would have fucking loved remakes of the GBA games in the style of the DS ones
>>750109362Remakes but with the same art style. I think most would agree the character art took a downgrade in the move to the ds games.
>>750109510By that i meant the in-game sprites not the portraits
>The inevitable nu-Konami remakes
chronicle's OST is worse than BC'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xoRNNgyNGg
>>750107856>4:28>WHATlmao get fucked Alucard
>>750109634Nah that shit slaps. I have no idea who decided to turn the OST into a rave mix or why but i am very thankful they did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ZFLHng23Q
>>750109634Can't you just replace the arranged track with the original?
>>750109681I fucking love that sound effect
>>750109634Chronicles is a lot of fun, I wonder why it's been skipped over in all the collections.
>>750109769It's kind of forgettable when compared to other games i guess
>>750108365I liked it. Just finished my 100% run today. Might do a speedrun for the cheevo too. Almost every complaint I see about it is people being filtered by spikes and the high difficulty. Reminds me a lot of OoE back in the day. I know a lot of people just want to chill with Igavanias, but I don't mind difficulty. Except when it's bullshit like CV3.
>>750109997I would like to do a no EXP run (don't know the game enough to make a minimum EXP one) because i felt like i could face tank a lot of the bosses
>still stuck in limbo>instead they let a bunch of tumblr fucks ruin CastlevaniaIts not fucking fair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT76ZnQCUNY
>>750109997I don't mind difficulty, a lot of the IGA games are pretty mindless unless you deliberately set challenges for yourself, but I just hate the appearance of the game, and the music.
Menace
>>750100662https://www.konami.com/games/castlevania/us/en-us/https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=Castlevaniahttps://www.gog.com/en/games?query=castlevaniahttps://www.xbox.com/en-us/Search/Results?q=castlevaniahttps://store.playstation.com/en-us/search/castlevaniahttps://www.nintendo.com/us/search/#q=castlevaniahttps://play.google.com/store/search?q=castlevania&c=apps
Is the new spinoff game with the female Belmont really that bad?
>>750109292If Konami didn't even hold on to the source code for the Silent Hill games, I doubt they've got the 3Dvanias lying around.I'm sure it was Kojima who personally archived the Metal Gear Solid games, otherwise they wouldn't been binned like the rest.
>>750110304God that art is garbage
>>750110308I'd say it's...not really a Castlevania game. Seemed like they tossed a bunch of ideas at the wall to see what stuck, because it feels all over the place, with not much of an identity.Not opposed to having a female Belmont, but she seems rather boring compared to Shanoa and Charlotte.
>>750110537I bet there were some boomers in 1997 saying SOTN is not a Castlevania too lmao.
>>750100662Got into Castlevania because of BCs demo and played some of them, this is my ranking.>10/10SotN>9/10BC, HoD, Bloodstained>6/10AoS>5/10CV3>0/10CotMNext I'm going to play OoE to see if it's really that bad or if it's like HoD where it's actually good but people hate it for asinine reasons.
>>750110308https://store.steampowered.com/app/4231820/Castlevania_Belmonts_Curse/5k players, also reviews aren't so bad. The biggest difference I see is the faster gameplay. This may be needing to get used to, but I don't see anything overtly bad about it/ There are some known bugs but they have addressed them and have instructions on what to dohttps://www.konami.com/games/castlevania/belmonts_curse/us/en-us/noti_261014
>>750110656>>5/10>CV3You've been filtered I'm afraid
I only ever played SotN and every other castlevania game I've tried wasn't even close in terms of feel and I dropped them quickly.
>>750110628SOTN was at least doing something almost entirely new. Even with Metroid comparisons, SOTN was still doing its own things with the RPG elements and equippable gear that added variety to your playthrough.BC seems to just be derivative of what the "Metroidvania" genre became in Castlevania's absence.
>>750110628I was like 5 in '97, but I looked up some game reviews from that year, and critics were rather harsh on the visuals still being pixels and not fully 3D.Ironically, SotN is closer to the classic era of games compared to the N64 ones.
>>750110696Yeah I really didn't like that type of gameplay design especially how the stairs work. You just constantly die until you learn the level and its gimmicks
>>750109608>nu-Konami>(re)making anythingell-oh-ellif pattern recognition is not your strong suit how are you even on racism inc. website then?, i'll highlight that modern konami's strategy is pimping our their vidya IPs to anybody who cares enough to do something with themi have my doubts that konami is gonna get back to in-house developmentthe point is: it's not gonna be nu-konami remake, it's gonna be konami (subcontracted to fernando lacrimosa) remake
>>750109292You have two options>Curse of darkness pachinko remake (another one)Or>Tell claude to reverse engineer curse of darkness and make a sequel while you have a showerWhich will you choose, oh brave anon?
SotN killed Castlevania
>>750100662Just finished rondo of blood 10/10
>>750110865castlevania remakes are already confirmed retard
>>750110910Same way supreme commander killed RTS.
>>750110910The shitty SotN copies and RNG mechanics killed Castlevania
>>750110912https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZKsdWfUu_Ybased
>>750110656>played 3 and not 1>bloodstained (certainly not the inticreates ones) along the way>slandering the greatest soul eatershit taste, terminal, i'm afraid
>>750110827>equippable gear that added varietyAh yes, stat sticks with a single attack animation, and like 80% of them were worthless when you found them.Belmont's Curse has actual weapon movesets. Get real.
Does any Castlevania game have good romhacks?
>>750110656>>9/10>BC>>0/10>CotMretard
>>750110923yeah right KONMAI are gonna remake 'em, and not the thirdparty studio that was responsible for all the collections and haunted castle revisiti'll believe that when i see it
>>750108636i remember getting stuck because i was missing the high up and was going mad trying to find the fucking route to it that by the time i found it i was so stupidly overleveled that everything else was a cakewalk
CV3 is a game that I like but also acknowledge that I am dogshit at.The last two levels consistently filter me
>>750110868i'll take an ai generated 3ds port of SoTN
>>750110656>9/10>BC>5/10>CV3Go back to your shitty hollowlikes faggot
>>750111131CotM is literally the worst of HoD and AoS. You have the dogshit RNG mechanic and the dogshit long hallways with only a hp/hearts upgrade. The castle is also really boring to look at>>750111316Never even played Hollow Knight
>>750111428>CotM is literally the worst of HoD and AoSHoD is the worst one, they're all good games
>>750111467Only game without RNG so it's the best one. Second castle looks amazing and Juste is a cool fag into interior design
