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What the fuck is this: Castlevania SOTN is now going for like $70?!!

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III i never really played. I have this odd memory of hating the orangey-blue NES palette, as opposed to the magenta & grey of Simon's Quest.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

AB, how is C2 hugely flawed? Not that I disagree, but it's been years.

It's standard trial-and-error, talk to everyone, "lots of places to go, only one correct order to visit them" garbage, but also adds in an annoying day/night system and some 'puzzles' you'd have to be psychic to figure out. (disclaimer: I didn't get halfway through it, so maybe it improves later on)

― a.b. (alanbanana), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

$110 for FFVII? Holy shit, does this mean all my crap PS RPGs are worth something? (Suikoden, Xenogears et. al.)

― Grell (Grell), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

SOTN is a wicked game, though. My teenage self loved the soundtrack.

― Grell (Grell), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

suikoden goes for mad $$$ on ebay. how was castlevania 64? and the snes one?

― rio natsume (rio natsume), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Super CV 4: standard platformer. had good graphics for the time. excellent music

CV 64: players hate it, and the CV creators have pretty much disowned it. if you still want to play it, get legacy of darkness instead.

The CV Dungeon is an excellent resource for the series: http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/dungeon.html

― a.b. (alanbanana), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

$110 for FFVII? Holy shit, does this mean all my crap PS RPGs are worth something? (Suikoden, Xenogears et. al.)

Holy shit yes, esp. if you have Suik 2.

― Will M. (Will M.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, finally beat AoS. Why does the 2ndary character in all these games not get any stats, inventory, etc

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2007 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Found a copy of Rondo of Blood & a PC Engine emulator. This game is funky; it borrows art from SQ and Castlevania IV, plus plenty of familiar baddies show up, usually with the exact same animation of later games.

lotsa late SNES/Genesis-era anime, too

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 9 February 2007 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...
The big game & hobby shop has this for $35, which really isn't all that bad, but i'm used to seeing in CD Universe & other places for like $10.

― kingfish, Sunday, 25 February 2007 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

aw man why are all these ps1 games so expensive, I missed out on all of them cuz i didn't have a playstation. and i wanna play them! Like I checked the prices for Suikoden 2 and it's going for about $150! And then I remember that that's American dollars and so it's even more than I intuitively thought at first. ;_;

― aaron d.g., Sunday, 4 March 2007 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Castlevania-Symphony-of-the-Night-ps1-BRAND-NEW-SEALED_W0QQitemZ160088732084QQihZ006QQcategoryZ62053QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― abanana, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

oh hey mr. banana, i just read your email! (sorry I don't check it very often.) Yes I am Canadian, and am interested in buying Metal Gear Solid (I've always wanted to play that!) I've never actually bought anything off Amazon Marketplace before, but I now realize that it is a world of opportunity.

It might be a week or two before I actually buy, 'cause i have lots of games right now that are already occupying my time. Thanks very much!

― aaron d.g., Friday, 9 March 2007 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

finally got Portrait of Ruin. The two player bit is really nice, and the artwork is top notch.

the item drops are too stingy, tho.

― kingfish, Friday, 9 March 2007 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

Are your real initials GMC, aaron? cause if not, ya just missed out.

― abanana, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'm playing portrait of ruin right now. there are some rpg-y elements of it i can't quite figure out. i guess i should read the manual.

― s1ocki, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

one thing I hate about the DS games is the manuals don't tell you what INT, CON etc do.
ATK: physical attack power
DEF: physical defense
STR: strength (???)
CON: constitution (???)
INT: magical attack power?
MND: mind, magical defense?
LCK: luck, how often enemies drop rare items and souls.

― abanana, Monday, 12 March 2007 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

ok i have most of portrait of ruin figured out except WHERE DO I BUY STUFF. there was one guy at the beginning and i'm picking up mad $$$$$ but there is nowhere to spend it!! and i need potions and shit!

― s1ocki, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Dawn_of_Sorrow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Portrait_of_Ruin

(unhelpful, unfortunately)

Int -> magic recharge rate
mnd -> magic def, i think
con -> hit point modifier



did anybody play any of the PS2 games? I'm wondering if Lament of Innocence is worth trying out or not.



― kingfish, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

also, why do some many of these types worship Rondo of Blood? Is it just cuz the design style changed and the game was never released to NA?

― kingfish, Monday, 12 March 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/Games/por.html

Neat, this place has scans of all the promo PoR artwork(as well as for the other games, too)

― kingfish, Monday, 12 March 2007 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

but where do i buy shit

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

from the fat monk guy

― kingfish, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

am i missing him or is he just really rare in the game? or does he only show up in one place?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

ok nevermind i think i figured it out

now i am stuck in that gear tower with the pillar of flame and the medusa heads fromhell

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

can't do much over there. try another part of the castle. beat any portrait you've found.

and don't sell any weapons or clothes yet. some of them are needed for quests, and you never get them back, unless you online shop.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit i sold some already :O

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

also what's the deal w/ online?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

The weapons you can't sell are the nun's clothes(3 different pieces), the long sword, uhm, and some other food bits, i think.

Online you can open a store or go shopping at somebody else's, not sure how else that works.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

did anybody play any of the PS2 games? I'm wondering if Lament of Innocence is worth trying out or not.


I have that one. It's ehhhh...maybe worth renting.

― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

do you think they ever considered calling the series "transylcastle"?

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

now that's just silly

― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

i got the other dscastlevania yesterday for used too!! WOOHOODLES!

― s1ocki, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

ok this game was way shorter than i though tit would be!

although i'm guessing i did like none of hte side quests.

― s1ocki, Thursday, 15 March 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

which one? PoR?

― kingfish, Thursday, 15 March 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

ya!

― s1ocki, Friday, 16 March 2007 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

did i miss something? i beat the two sisters and then their dad, braunstein or something was like, stay away from my daughters, we're a family. then everyone left. the end.

― s1ocki, Friday, 16 March 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

you missed something!

― abanana, Friday, 16 March 2007 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

pay attention to the dialogue right before you fight the sisters.

― abanana, Friday, 16 March 2007 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

the dialogue with the sisters?


does it have something to do with the whatsit upstairs from the sisters?

― s1ocki, Friday, 16 March 2007 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

ok i figured out what to do, i think.

but it is not easy.

― s1ocki, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, you missed a lot. That's the thing w/ all post-SotN games. If you hit the end way too quickly and easily, you missed something. It's far more obvious in DoS, where large sections of the map are still unexplored after the "final" fight.

― kingfish, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

yay i found like 20 new levels

― s1ocki, Saturday, 17 March 2007 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

neat Dawn of Sorrow video

― abanana, Saturday, 17 March 2007 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
haha since this come out for XBLA/VC the ebay price has dropped thru the floor. and, even better news, I FOUND MY COPY! I didn't sell it after all!

Playing it for the first time in 5-6 years reveals a few things; they really did re-use all the sprites and even whole rooms, layout & all, for every castlevania since. There's a few customizations, since the lizard with a naked chick for a tail has the chick wearing a slutty top this time, also the controls are a bit wonkier than any GBA/DS game.

Also, the voicework and dialogue really is as bad as everybody remembers it.

― kingfish, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

'lizard with a naked chick for a tail'

MUST PLAY

― creme1, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://faqsmedia.ign.com/faqs/image/article/762/762052/monster022.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

well they certainly saw the Kill Whitey parties coming

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

bring on the HOL FIR

― kingfish, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/23/new-castlevania-coming-to-mobile-phones-in-september/

Castlevania: Order of Shadows

features a new storyline and original soundtrack

― kingfish, Thursday, 23 August 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

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the more forms the betta tho, looove that stuff

― Nhex, Friday, 29 May 2020 21:18 (six years ago)

I didn't know there was a bug with the wolf. Wolf was only fun for running down large halls. Super jump was great fun.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 May 2020 21:22 (six years ago)

Did you ever try climbing the clock tower with the wolf? Pretty hard and fun. Seems like it was unintentional as it would crash the original japanese version.

― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 29 May 2020 21:29 (six years ago)

No, I never even heard of that.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 May 2020 21:50 (six years ago)

it's more that the level design is lazy -- you can fly anywhere, so they add a ton of spikes and lasers, the end. but also most of the sprites are ripped from rondo of blood, beelzebub and the optional boss being exceptions.

― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 29 May 2020 17:24 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

thanks that’s what i would have posted if I hadn’t been in bed

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:00 (six years ago)

i like Celeste mechanically but wish i could excise between 80 and 100% of the script

i feel like its lineage isn’t particularly Mario tho. it feels more like a ZX spectrum platformer (though obviously , yes, much better) than a console one.

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 30 May 2020 03:08 (six years ago)

tbf i haven't played rondo of blood since the late 90s when i foolishly let my original copy slip into a friend's hands. i did remember a bunch of the sprites going over to SOTN so that's fair. but not all of them surely!! i dunno i had a blast in the second half, love all those environments, shit was cool. def not as "tight" as the first half but that's true of tons of games that open up in terms of linearity as you go on.

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 30 May 2020 04:20 (six years ago)

The Last Faith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN3Opf27zto
It's amazing how many of these games there are, I find most of them on this channel, but see this playlist in particular.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7eMqz_fn4BpW8BEBUQcmHtAi3Xc77ef4

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 May 2020 19:19 (six years ago)

one month passes...

SOTN and another CV game is cheap on PS Store at the moment so I grabbed them. Worth it?

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 13:21 (five years ago)

Certainly. Rondo of Blood is my favorite of the "classic" gameplay style. It placed #44 on this recent forum poll of platformers: https://www.resetera.com/threads/reseteras-101-essential-platformers-top-101-posted-hm-voting-in-progress.217215/

I picked up the collection with 1-4 and Bloodlines. I've never played Bloodlines before.

― wasdnous (abanana), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 16:42 (five years ago)

Bloodlines is totally dope. One of the best classic era titles.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 00:48 (five years ago)

three months pass...

Interesting that Wallachia goes for a specifically early 90s look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8CPL7Y4aAw

And the new Record Of Lodoss War game looks modeled on Iga era Castlevania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmKbXx6gtU

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 November 2020 19:40 (five years ago)

A Lodoss War game? in 2020??
All for it, but surprised. Lol at that "Item Get" animation being a carbon copy of the Igavania message style

― Nhex, Saturday, 7 November 2020 19:47 (five years ago)

the lodossvania is by the same folks that made the touhouvania game a year or two ago that was pretty good

― ciderpress, Saturday, 7 November 2020 19:53 (five years ago)

I didn't realize that the first Lodoss book (Grey Witch?) appeared in english a few years ago, some reviewers say it's completely generic but I'm putting it on my endless list of things I'd like to but probably wont read.
Actually I didn't know there was a book series that came out of another table top rpg.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 November 2020 21:01 (five years ago)

six months pass...

I had no idea that in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - the gradient in the UI flips based on which castle you are in (normal or upside down) pic.twitter.com/tSpORA19cz

— Derek Daniels (@derek_omni) May 18, 2021

― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:59 (five years ago)

They should flipped the text as well for the full upside-down experience

― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:00 (five years ago)

literally had the same thought

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 02:10 (five years ago)

people would have hated it, but now, in retrospect, they would have loved it

― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 02:19 (five years ago)

three years pass...

Looks worthwhile. A Metroidvania with Mexican folk art design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCHux28VA3s

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 23 June 2024 22:08 (one year ago)

Interesting

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 June 2024 23:36 (one year ago)

one year passes...

New Castlevania search action RPG from the makers of Dead Cells and The Rogue Prince of Persia. The previous Castlemetroidvania was released in 2013.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-SJLWzjmE
Playstation page without much info: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/02/12/castlevania-belmonts-curse-launches-this-year-on-ps5/

― adam t (dat), Saturday, 14 February 2026 00:07 (three months ago)

1 more try
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-SJLWzjmE

― adam t (dat), Saturday, 14 February 2026 00:07 (three months ago)

It looks good. Although I'd have loved an action RPG mixing Bloodborne with animated Netflix style. That would have been amazing

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Saturday, 14 February 2026 09:00 (three months ago)

looks good. the last proper 2d metroidvania one was order of ecclesia in 2008 if you dont count bloodstained, though you maybe should given the shared creator dna. in which case we're getting two proper castlevanias this year since bloodstained 2 is coming too

― ciderpress, Saturday, 14 February 2026 17:09 (three months ago)

mirror of fate

you are forgiven for forgetting that one

― adam t (dat), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 07:42 (three months ago)

oh lol i dont think i ever knew that there was a 2D lords of shadow game i only knew about the main ones

― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 February 2026 14:25 (three months ago)

made by mercurysteam, the same developer as metroid dread. castlevania and metroid were both being made by mercurysteam for a while.

― adam t (dat), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 17:03 (three months ago)


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