So whats the general consensus on what the best classic castlevania is?
There isn't any consensus
>>12487428Bloodlines gets my vote, but the only other ones I played were 1 and 3.
CV3 > Bloodlines > SCIV > CV1 > X68k > Rondo
>>12487428Classic: 3Metroidvania: Aria of Sorrow
>>12487428Consensus is that Rondo is the worst one
Another top notch janny thread
All the post nes games have 16 bit big sprite problems
>>12487428Kinolines for sureReddit of Blood is overrated
>>12487447This.Trash thread.
>>12487428Rondo and Bloodlines are kino,Dracula X is kinda boringIV is also kino
>>12487428Rondo or the original Castlevania(nes) are the only valid answers.
Somewhat unrelated but is there any downside of picking the spear guy in bloodlines? Seems likes he's just objectively better
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>>12487428Rondo got too popular so it's actually dog shit now. VI was always popular but then people started disliking it for being too popular so it's cool to like it again so my vote goes to VI.
68k / Chronicles and Bloodlines as honourable mentionRondo's meh, and I never bothered finishing IV since it's so annoying
Why does a whip imbued with the soul of a dead woman via alchemy give the Morris family turbo AIDS when they wield it, yet only works for Belmonts part-time? Like, what was the thought process behind the Vampire Killer's lore?
>>12487428>general consensusWhy do Americans always say this? A consensus literally means "general agreement", so you're asking what's the "general general agreement" which is absolutely barbaric.
>>124874281/thread
>>12487428I prefer igavanias but I'd go with either Rondo or IV for the classic vanias. I like Bloodlines but it's too hard for my tastes. And for reference I started with CV1 and played them all in order of release with the exception of Rondo which I played later.
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>>12487772Ok but the Iga games still have the most coherent story.
What is the main appeal of Bloodlines?Not trying to say its shit just interested in it and see a lot of praise here. For context I hate SC IV so if its like that I would skip.
>>12487539What do you find annoying about it?
>>12487803It's faster and more action-packed than the other classicvanias, IMO. It's the first game to center around player characters unrelated to the Belmont family, being a bit closer to the Bram Stoker Dracula novel. Eric's spear is underrated as far as Castlevania weapons go as well.
Anyone who says Bloodlines is a contrarian retard.
>>12487807Not that anon but later levels slowdown makes it play like shit.
>>12487857What's wrong with Bloodlines?
>>12487865Everything except the music feels like a bootleg. Very unpolished and cheap.
>>12487868Why do a lot of pre existing series have weird genesis versions/ports? Did japanese devs not really care about genesis/md since it wasn't successful there?
>>12487868It's on-par with any NES Castlevania. I think you dislike it because it's just not a Genesis port of SCIV
>>12487878I find that most Genesis multiplatform games were superior to their SNES counterparts
>>12487879I dislike it because it's an obvious step back from every game in the series before it. You'd never guess it was released at the end of the 16-bit era.>>12487880Only western kusoge.
>>12487884>the genesis doesn't have enough JRPGs to fill the void in my empty NEET lifeokay
>>12487428Was Rondo ported to any other system? I played the intro through an emulator I believe and the opening is really fun but my computer fucked up and then I never went back. I’d prefer to play it on a tv w a console just cuz, but if not I guess I’ll just try and emulate it again.
>>12487803Cool exaggerated art style, super sub weapon attacks that are lost if you get hit, encouraging you to get better, nice looking levels, faster movement with the spear and whip swinging on any ceiling. Limited continues may or may not be a plus for some. It just felt good and a bit different from the others.
>>12487902It got a SNES port that was pretty lousy
>>12487908Damn that sucks. Guess I’ll just emulate it then
>>12487868What's "unpolished" about it? There was no jank. Everything worked.
Remember that you are only allowed to like ONE(1) Castlevania game
>>12487926If that's the case, it's Castlevania 3. The soundtrack is just too good.
>>12487865Slowdowns
>>12487954It runs fine on my Genesis (Model 1 VA2 non-TMSS)
>>12487902There's a remake on PSP that includes the full original translated game as an unlockable. I played just enough of the remake levels to unlock it and then played the original, but the remake levels aren't too shabby. It also includes a "remastered" version of Symphony of the Night, though I didn't notice much of a difference.
>>12487908>>12487912Are people really still parroting the "dracula XX is a Rondo port" misinformation still in 2026?
>>12487964>Dracula X isn't ackshully a port of Rondo, it's entirely it's own game!!Cope and seethe. It's a port and it's a shitty one at that.
>>12487964zoomers don't know the meaning of the word. Wish they stayed on /v/ instead of shitting up /vr/. This retard too >>12487878
>>12487965>cope about being well informed!okay?It's still a different game with completely different levels, different assets, and different bosses. There's a few bosses returning from Rondo but most are new, including the final boss.
>>12487971Don't reply to him. These retards don't get any attention on /v/ so they come here to bait because the threads are slower.
Castlevania threads on the old /vr/ were always a foreshadow of what would become of /vr/.Really terrible threads with terrible people.It's ironic that it's also one of the best video game series ever. Kind of cruel we could never got good threads on it, but for some reason there's some evil force surrounding CV discussion.
>>12487971>okay, well it has a different final boss, but it's still worse than the PC Engine game>>12487972>Don't reply to him, just eat up all of the Nintendo cum you can for as long as possible!
>>12487978I wasn't talking about just the final boss>it's worst!! You can only pick ONE!!!I like both Rondo and XX. Rondo is more about the exploration and secrets and XX is a more pure classicvania with less explorarion and more action, and some returning bosses, like the water serpent, are slowdown-free.But you outed yourself though. You hate it because it's on Nintendo, and not for anything else.Console warriors? On my Castlevania thread? Color me surprised.
>>12487980>nintendo fellatorcolor me shocked
>>12487983>you DON'T hate a non-nintendo game that's on a nintendo console? You are fellating nintendo
>>12487983based nintendo derangement syndromer
>>12487902As far as official methods only modern console that has it is ps4.
>>12487974 avgn
>>12488049PS4 i just the PSP version but without the actual remake included
>>12487506>>12487768>4Where are you from?Planet Retard?
How can I play Rondo?
Stop liking castlevania IV already
It's certainly not Rondo of Trannies, rondotrannies only paraded this game as the "best" because before emulation it was the hardest CV game to get your hands on. Now emulation can be done on a toaster rondotrannies have been exposed for the posers that they are.
>>124881161cc is the only way to make it somewhat difficult, and it's still pretty easy.But if you dorbod yourself from using the Bible subweapon, difficulty ramps up a bit
>>12487428CV1 or 3 are the sane answers but around here people will tell you Bloodlines because 4chan is in the height of its contrarian posturing phase so posters can fit in with and impress their terminally online neckbeard brethren, just like retards seriously try to say CV64 is better than Symphony now
>>12488236> just like retards seriously try to say CV64 is better than Symphony nowNobody has ever said this
>>12488165What is a rondotrannies?
>>12488263(You)
>>12488239There was a thread about it last week.
>>12487962Is that chronicles? Man I hate that it’s locked to the psp. As for the ps4, I doubt you can still get that since Im pretty sure they shutdown the storefront unless I’m wrong? I just booted up a ps4 and would love to get it but like I said I don’t think u can download it anymore much like the 360 it’s gone so any classics of retro aren’t there. Unless I’m missing something.
>>12488116You need a turbografx emulator. There's many but I just went the lazy route and used RetroArch because I couldn't be bothered to set up the controller for any of the others.
>>12488387No they did not shutdown the ps4 store. Ps3 store is still online
Just beat castlevania 1 do I play jp or us castlevania 3 next?
>>12487428Iv
>>12488865Play Simon's Quest next. Then JP Castlevania 3
>>12487428>Castlevania: Cacophony of Consensus
>>12488834Oh wow I may have to snag it then. That’s awesome, not sure why I was having issues w the online but I didn’t dig into it, I just got the spiderman edition and was testing it to make sure it worked.
So this was supposed to be the good ending but something fucked up in the localization, right?
>>12489213Not in the localization. But it's reasonable to think the coloring got mixed up by accident and nobody noticed.https://legendsoflocalization.com/articles/castlevania-ii-ending-confusion/
CV1 is better than CV3It has better pacing and CV3 overstays it's welcome
>>12487428I marathoned 1, 3, 4, and Rondo over the weekend since it was raining and with recent back-to-back playthroughs fresh in my mind for the sake of comparison, I have to say: people need to stop putting the 8 bit games on this absurd pedestal. They are very, good by the standards of NES game for the time. Still very playable today. But everything post-3 just gets brutally fucking mogged by IV and Rondo. They just do. The pixel art is better, the sound and music is better, the controls are better, the games are better. Which they ought to be, given that they're the product of superior hardware and the developers already had multiple games to practice and perfect their approach. And I especially call bullshit on all the nostalgic embrace of the NA version of 3, The word "overtuned" gets thrown around a lot these days but there's no clearer example of that than the North American release of CVIII. THey took a game that was done, polished and balanced to the developer's satisfaction, and then just cranked up the damage slider right before the international release to undermine the rental market. CV3's difficulty is not "just right." It was right *before* they fucked with it and made it un-right. And again, it was not an act of artistic integrity or a last-second turn developers realized was necessary after all, it was just to make it essentially impossible to beat over a single rental period. It's not the ideal we should seek in all the other games, it's an extreme that they shied away form in subsequent releases because they realized (correctly) they had gone too far. The American version of 3 is borderline not fun. It's one continual kick in the balls. I'd like to see all the people saying it's the best one do an unedited playthrough. I bet more than half of them couldn't even finish the game, despite it being their "favorite."I like older games, but that doesn't mean the oldest games in a series are always the best.
>>12489315Turning some of the enemies into damage sponges is the real offense for meI don't mind taking more damage, but damage sponges are one of the worst things in vidya
>>12489315>But everything post-3 just gets brutally fucking mogged by IV and Rondo. They just do.I don't think you know what post means... what are all these "8-bit" Castlevanias released after 3?And just cause you suck at 3 doesn't mean the rest of us do. You are a casual player, probably used save states and rewind, no shit you would prefer Rondo, the most casual and accessible entry with the best production values.
>>12489536CV3 is mega overrated. The level design is boring and tedious, it's honestly a disgrace to the original.
>>12489538The original is overrated, it's short, simple, and one note. CV3 is far longer, more challenging, more characters, multiple paths. You really need to be a CV fan to appreciate it, then you realize it has the most challenge and replayability; newer players will just get frustrated
>>12489553CV3 has shit replay value when you realize most of the levels are trash. Oh boy another autoscroller or block falling gimmick, my favorite!
>>12488112>IV is le badhave you ever played it well? have you even seen it get played well by speedrunners?just get good at it, IV is so good
>>12489554They aren't trash, that's like 10% of the game max, and those aren't even bad designs to begin with. I don't know what your game is here exactly, maybe butthurt I called you out for the save state and rewind spamming zoomie you are.
>>12489558CV3fags don't even the play the game, absolute posers.
>>12489561You realize you can take different paths right?
>>12487428I like the first one and Bloodlines. Rondo is good too whatever people say to be contrarians but I played it once or twice and never again.
>>12489567No matter the path you chose, you vill experience ze blocks falling or autoscrollers. These level design elements alone put it below the first game or Rondo.
>>12489570Rondo has way more dead air and the bridge section is by far the worst section of any CV
>>12489582Rondo has more active and reactive enemies/bosses than any other game in the series. You won't see anything like backflipping to avoid attacks in CV3, that's for damn sure.
>>12487539Chronicles is definitely my most revisted Classicvania. Arrange Mode's difficulty feels pretty good for a casual run through, and Original Mode is there if you want something harder.
>>12489584Because backflipping doesn't exist in CV3 maybe..? Honestly I hate both the backflip and the extended reach attack, both feel awkward as fuck to use, not to mention the horrendous slowdown on multiple bossfights (especially Death), the bridge section that is the worst of any CV game, the massively unbalanced subweapons, how fucking slow and full of dead air it is, and the embarrassingly bad and unskippable cutscenes.Man, Rondo is so fucking shit.
>>12489594Your shit taste is expected, this board is basically just retarded contrarians like you at this point.
>>12487552My headcanon is that the Belmonts are somewhat naturally blessed by God. Leon was performing insane shit before he got the Vampire Killer and Belmonts like Trevor and Simon are absurdly naturally gifted in strength and defense.Said blessing shields them from the detrimental effects of the Vampire Killer and is why no one else can use it.
>>12489598>I played through the games spamming rewind and save states on emulator>I prefer the easiest, most slow-paced, and most cinematic game just because it has high production values>my taste is superiorWhatever you say champ
>>12489605I forgot to mention the constant projection, another staple of the /vr/ specimen.
>>12489561I like the falling blocks section its fun
>>12489606>It's le projection even though it's all true*yawn*
>>12489616Any specific accusation with zero reasoning is always projection, especially from such an obvious poser.
>>12489617Post 1cc shitter
>>1248961799% of zoomers use save states and rewinds as the default without a second thought, and considering you marathoned through the games and had very shallow takes on them, it's blatantly obvious.>muh poser Lmao, says the zoomer retard who spams save states and rewind. Now THAT is fucking projection if I've ever seen it.Post clears shitter
>>12489619Imagine playing CV3 in an arcade and getting to one of the many autoscrollers.
>>12489625You didn't need to reply to my post twice, the projection was already obvious enough as is.
>>12489626I would slam my fist into the panel and yell WHAT A SHITLOAD OF FUCK
>>12489628Im not him turd eater
>>12489635You're that one blatant autist who always demands clears. Youtube was a mistake.
>>12489636So you spam save states, have retarded casual surface level opinions on the games, then call OTHERS posers and you then sperg out when they ask you to post clears.Lmao, you are one embarrassing zoomer mutt
>>12489640I don't do those things though.
