This is what you faggots have been hyping up all these years? I finally get around to playing it and its easily the worst of the classicvanias (not counting 2). yeah the music is nice and the graphics were so good they kept reusing the sprites for the entire rest of the series lifespan, but holy fuck this game is not good. I have no issues with the controls of the first 3 castlevanias, I think they control perfectly for what the designers were going for, but somehow this game controls like complete dogshit. and even that would be forgivable if the level design was any good.>but muh branching paths!!totally worthless. one branch is random bullshit thrown all over the place and then the secret branch is some incredibly uninteresting gimmick that they probably spent more time programming than they did testing and designing it. or its just flat boring hallways with absurdly tanky enemies to fill the space cause they were running out of ideas as early as stage 4>just play maria!!I don't care that the secret unlockable character makes the game actually playable, that's no excuse for the game being an unplayable mess with Richter.>but the backflip!! you can jump on/off stairs!!doesn't matter. the backflip is inconsistent and rarely useful (and often, if you are relying on it, you put yourself in a bad position to begin with), and getting on/off stairs does nothing other than save you 2 seconds in sections of levels with zero enemies to begin with
>t. Phil Turd
Nah it's good.Obviously it's overhyped in this day and age and I personally prefer IV, Bloodlines and X68k over Rondo, but Rondo is great.
>>12599278I hated the game too until I got Maria. She made the game fun. Richter sucks, don't care that it makes me a filthy casual.
How many times are you going to cry over this game?
>>12599278>I don't care that the secret unlockable character makes the game actually playable, that's no excuse for the game being an unplayable mess with Richter.If you're serious, you should try her just to laugh at the casuals even more.She can kill anything, and I mean anything even bosses, in 1 or 2 hits max. She's a joke character; but casuals act like she makes the game so great. They don't want to play Castlevania, they want to play "press X to win while pretty images and sound go by". They should invent movies in which you have to press a button once in a while to continue the story, that would satisfy them. Oh wait, they already did.
>>12599468Why are you replying to your own thread?
>>12599478It's all he has left in his life now.
>>12599278yes, you realized that the infamous, stylish japan only prequel to another classic game is liked more for reasons other than the most technically sound arcade gameplay. do you want a cookie?
It's a good game but Dracula X (SNES) is obviously superior.
>>12599604fucking faggot contrarian fuck you
>>12599278I generally prefer Metroidvanias but I found this to be the best Classicvania by far, with Castlevania Chronicles, SCV4 and Bloodlines close seconds.I guess maybe this game's reputation overhyped your expectations.
>>12599278"Hardcore castlevania fan" when he can't rely on memorization to beat a game:
>>12599278TLDR but thanks for posting a great game.
>>12599278>the graphics were so good they kept reusing the sprites for the entire rest of the series lifespanIt's more because KCET also did this game, and they did all the 2D Metroidvanias. The only exception is Circle of the Moon because KCEK did it instead.
>>12599278you should have listened when we told you Reddit of Blood is overrated garbage
>>12599278Move aside this is the real master of the Demon Castle
>>12599278Adi Shankar is the OP
>>12599278This is like if Samus & Joey had a game and it's just a retell of the first and third game in a different planet
>>12599604Delulu Smashtoddler
>>12600348I prefer mid-30s anime conan
If I had trouble with the easiest Castlevania I would also be seething and malding. I wouldn't make cringe threads about it though.
This shitty board is just the same 10 threads on repeat.
>>12599278Tell me the method and set-up you used to play the game.
>>12599604
>>12600712*second easiest
>>12599278It is one of those games I can't be a contrarian for in good faith, and in this day and age you can't really hype up certain games beyond a certain point anyway, I think classicvanias are too niche for that. In short I believe it is a good take on the original formula from the 8-bit days
