Real Castlevania > fake Castlevania (the twink/femboy ones that on top of being faggy, are easy/casual bait)
>>12883709It's for us trannies chud
Does Castlevania have the worst fanbase in all of retro gaming?
>>12883709I prefer the old style as well. Don't get me wrong, I love anime, but I don't want that in my gothic horror video game. I want the Golden Ax Boris Vallejo look.
>>12884060Nah, as a popular game with different eras it can be bad as any but I wouldn't say it's as bad as certain Capcom and Nintendo ips, namely Mega Man, Street Fighter, Mario, and Zelda
>>12884835sovl
>>12883709I'm surprised this is not a more standard opinion among purists, the igavanias drastically altered the formula, casualizing it and stripping the series of most of it's challenge. I still think the games are good for what they are, but it's a completely different style of game. It doesn't serve as a replacement imo. I wish they kept the classic formula alive in the form of a sub-series or something. At least a simple retelling of Simon's story every few years would suffice.
>>12885103All of the highest praised classic CV games are easy though, except for 3. CV4, Rondo, Bloodlines, not that hard.
>>12885129Yeah, the games are not particularly hard, in the same vein as a shmup or a beat em up for example, but most of it's challenge comes from memorization, learning enemy patterns and taking advantage of subweapons, (specially if you want to beat them in one go instead of "credit feeding") which was the appeal of the classic games. It's not only about raw difficulty, if that was the issue you could take any igavania and attempt a no hit run and it would be a lot harder. It's more about how they changed the structure and shifting the focus on exploration and rpg mechanics.
Real fans play both and don't behave like retarded children.
>>12884835I get that, but I find Kojima's art to fit Castlevania so well.
>>12885129idk how you can compare bloodlines' difficulty to fucking sotn
>>12885187>Real fans eat shit and don't have opinions That's called being a cuck/drone not a fan
>>12884060No, that’s smash stinkies
>>12885129none of them are easy in the sense of igivanias, maybe the first half of IV. they're designed in such a way for you to meet periodic brick walls that you need to grind through(or in the case of bloodlines being a limited continue arcade game). the pacing of challenge in the metroidvanias is way more broad, you're expected to die maybe a handful of times in a playthrough.
>game universally agreed upon as being difficult >/vr/: EHRM THESE GAMES ARE NOT ACTCHULLY HARD *Pushes up glasses* I CAN 1CC EVERY GAME IN THE SERIES WITH MY EYES CLOSED AND MY HANDS TIED BEHIND MY BACK THEREFORE THESE GAMES ARENT HARD
>>12885762Yeah I don't know why but Castlevania is one of the those series where people really like having a dick measuring contest over how hard their favorite is. CV1 and CV4 are my favorites and both probably rank on the lower end of difficulty across classicvanias, I don't care if they're "too easy" because fining them fully never disappoints me regardless.
>>12885686You game over in Bloodlines maybe 2 or 3 times max if you're not shit at games, and most of your deaths are probably going to be in that annoying stage with the mirror effects.
>>12885831unreasonable shithead take
>>12885681that looks like a drag queen
>>12886031I’l take your word for it
>>12886035what a weird way to find out you're gay, but that's cool for you I guess. It looks like a big man wearing make up to appear more feminine, which I guess you like. So, there ya go.I like the Harrison Ford/Arnold combo.
>>12886040The face is specifically, a woman's face, that's the weird thing
I’m so confused are you calling Castlevania 4 gay or real? Are those the only two options? Because it’s worse than what I would think of as the gay anime ones and definitely worse than the real ones. Or are you being deliberately confusing? It doesn’t have the anime thing yet, but it’s way too easy and pretty gay and definitely casual bait. I’d rather play Bloodlines which feels like Castlevania or Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night where it had Castlevania 2 influence and basically turned into Metroid with leveling up. You even get to play as a protagonist from real Castlevania in SOTN. The game boy games carried this on ok. Even if the character art is a little anime styled.But if you’re pretending Castlevania 4 is “real Castlevania” that is the twinkiest femboy faggy thing you could do. Castlevania 3 is real Castlevania and shits on Super Castlevania Bros. 4. The best things about 4 is the music and a few mode 7 gimmicks if that’s your thing. It’s better than the N64 clusterfuck I guess.
>>12885103Yeah I'm surprised that during xbox live arcade/wiiware days there were not more classicvania like adventure rebirth
>>12887149It's very simple.Real Castlevania is the action platformers that appeal to men. The other ones that rip off Super Metroid and appeal to fags are gay
I played Symphony of the Night and enjoyed it, was that considered a faggy one? The main character did seem to dress like a homo. I haven't played a Castlevania game since.
>>12884060probably valve
>>12887875Ok how about Castlevania 2 on NES? The one with all the backtracking, where you gain new abilities and find or buy items to progress through locked areas? The one with the rpg style leveling system? The one where you talk to npcs and visit towns and shops? The one released in 1986/1987 about 7 years before Super Metroid? Is that a faggy Super Metroid ripoff?
>>12887875>>12888147Or Vampire Killer for the MSX?
>>12888147Simons Quest made me feel like a man when playing it. Arbitrary hints, vague clues, too much time shopping, no idea what the game actually wants me to do, it was just like dating a woman.
>>12888553>no idea what the game actually wants me to do, it was just like dating a woman.boomer humor of "I hate women/my wife" in 2026... BASED.
>>12888553Verdict on Kid Dracula?
>>12891497When you play as little boy? Yea, that's not manly.
I too cannot possibly enjoy two takes on the same franchise, I must pick one and only play that.
>>12886040>You're a homo, anyways I love these muscular long haired dudes showing us their bare thighs, this is a real heterosexual man's taste
>>12891938In what world is a man that looks like a man more gay than a drag queen?
>>12891968If you looked at this lad >>12885681 and thought "hmm, this reminds me of a female", then I have bad news for you.
>>12891976Do you not know what a drag queen is?
>>12884060Ocarina babies are worst.
>>12883709The real Castlevania was on 90s TV
>>12885762Every game is easy after you die 1000 times and master them. Those people who say Dark Souls is the real 3d Castlevania are absolutely right. They share the same retarded pretentious fanbase.
>>12886031I think he looks like a goth rock singer or something, it's fitting for Castlevania and Halloween.
>>12891976>>12886040Can confirm. I thought he was hot. I also thought Hector was hot. That's when I discovered I might be bi.
