Rondo's level design is abhorrent, its artstyle garish, its alternative routes feel borderline unfinished and are a huge step down in quality compared to the already mediocre level design, the bridge section as Richter is the worst section in any CV game, there are multiple long, extremely corny unskippable cutscenes, bosses are sloppy and underwhelming, subweapon balance is terrible and the best subweapons are way too strong (die once on a boss and now it's 5x harder without your subweapon), the extended whip attack is janky and awkward as fuck but many bosses feel balanced around it, the game is plagued with slowdown (especially the Death fight), and it was clearly rushed and never tested as there is a literal missing background that was somehow never noticed or fixed, pic related (as if the absolutely rancid alternative routes wouldn't already clue you into that)It was originally glazed by collectorfags just because so few people played it compared to the NES/SNES entries, and they wanted to seem like part of some exclusive club who has played this niche JP exclusive game, so they acted like it was way better than it really was (similar with most hidden """gems"""). Now it's sucked off by retarded poser redditfags who have never played another CV game and blow through it on emulator spamming rewind constantly and hail it as a masterpiece because they want to try to fit in.
>>12527368Holy fucking based Bloodlines > 3 > 4 > 1 > X68k > Rondo
>random seething about chadlectorscope poorfag and your trans
>>12527368>Castlavania has a great soundtrack>Rondo has CD quality audioautomatically bumps it above average
>>12527368Its artstyle is greatThe alternative routes are awesomeThe cutscenes are like 30 seconds longIf you die on a boss you go back to the room before where there's always a subweapon and a few heartsI don't even use the extended whip attack and the boss fights are extremely manageableThe bridge is bullshit but you can just use Maria if it filters you and it's doable with Ricther I've done it a dozen times git gud
Anyone who starts sperging unprompted about posers is themselves a poser projecting. It's a very obvious pattern, especially when combined with contrarian hot takes.
>>12527368Traaaanny smith! Dudun DudunDun!Traaaanny smith! Dudun DudunDun
You can only think it's the worst if you've never played the first Game Boy CV. That being said, it is kind of overrated. It's not a bad game by any means, but 1 and 3 still blow it out of the water, and I would argue IV does as well. Richter is much more agile than his descendants, but the levels aren't really designed around his moveset for whatever reason, so it feels weird. It's still good, though. I'm tired of this mentality that a game is either the greatest thing ever or the most worthless piece of dogshit on Earth.
>>12527368Rondo has the best art in the series, the music is second only to SoTN, and the boss fights are the most satifsying out of the 16-bit games. Otoh, it has garbage platforming, unremarkable level design, and it's short. The alt route and bonus character are nice ideas but the implementation is half-baked. A solid entry in the series overall, I'd put it ahead of Bloodlines and SCIV, but it falls short of the 8-bit classicvanias.
>>12528563>Rondo has the best art in the seriesI can't abide those horrible anime cutscenes. They look either too cute for Castlevania (Maria) or too ugly (Dracula's design).>>12528563>the music is second only to SoTNThe arrangements from Dracula X sound unironically better.>the boss fights are the most satifsying out of the 16-bit gamesBosses are sloppy and underwhelming.>I'd put it ahead of Bloodlines and SCIVI wouldn't.
>>12527368>pic relatedThat's an intentional artistic choice. It's glowing sickly green to indicate dark magic is nearby.
>>12527368hi auster!
>>12528794>Bosses are sloppy and underwhelming.You're thinking of Bloodlines.
The thinking man's Castlevania, that dared to ask: what if Rondo had some challenge and actual level design?
>>12529257>game spams those purple guys and bonehead towers in nearly every levelYep, it's shitty ROMhack tier.
>>12529248Bloodlines has the best bossfights in the series though?
>>12529261Lol none of them even react to the player at all. They just flop around doing their two frame attack animations at the air and hope they hit you. Very sloppy game indeed.
Sega fans are mentally ill
>>12529261Nta, but not even close; there’s more of them than most Classicvanias, but they’re pretty much all a joke. That series of mini bosses in the middle of stage 2 is one of the most boring parts of the series.
>>12529268>>12529263Post expert no death clear.The only CV with better bosses is arguably 4
Rondo has the best bosses
>gets btfo on /v/>retreats to /vr/>>>/v/737516180
>>12529387OP posts his contrarian opinions every single day on multiple boards. If you see a truly mindblowingly retarded hot take, odds are it's this one mega autist retard. The conformation (if you even need one) always comes from the autistic repetition of whatever upset his feeble mind, in this case that one green background in Rondo, and his constant hounding that others "post clears"
>>12529387>Thread on /v/ is somehow betterGrim.Rondo is still overrated though.
>>12527368yeah, I didn't read all that, but I just want you to know it will always be the Sega Master System
>>12529287Eh, it never feels like I'm actually damaging them despite seeing their life meter go down.
>>12527368What's the best way to play Rondo of Blood on PC? I played it on PSP back in the day but I wanna replay it on my controller so I can better experience what a piece of shit game it is.
>>12529942Emulate the wii VC release
>>12529261>>12529257Both are shit, same with dumb boomer
Die. Also kill /vr/, it's beyond repair.
