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

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

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

http://www.djork.net/castlevania/

Castlevania name-generator!

Castlevania: Bus Ride of Burnt Toast

Playing C:Order of Shadows. It's a lot like the NES versions, due to the limited controls. You still have stats & an inventory, tho.

Two new games on the way, another DS title and a 3d fighter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Order_of_Ecclesia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania_Judgment

Apparently, the Portrait of Ruin team is again working on this. Too bad I sold the DS a year, but we'll see.

I kinda burned out on these games when I picked up that GBA double pack with Harmony/Aria, though they were both fun. Both pretty good, though Aria was way better (damn you addictive soul collect-a-thon!) in general.

Not sure if I should still bother to get the two DS games, or just wait until Order comes out.... what say you?

Got an emulator for the original PC Engine "Rondo of Blood". Yeah, it's the best Castlevania game ever.

http://castlevaniadungeon.net/Images/Intros/rondoa.gif

I really like the anime feel on this one. The controls are perfect and the game music is amazing. Stage 2 is like being in the "Thriller" music video.

This game is a work of art, Roget Ebert can suck it.

I need to get these drum samples.

Playing "Castlevania: Bloodlines" for Genesis now. Amazing soundtrack as always, cool as hell bad guys, nice weapons, etc. Buying a Castlevania game is like buying a Beatles record.

Bloodlines was awesome, underlooked probably because it wasn't a main series title. Definitely preferred it to IV though, and a good stepping stone to the Rondo/Symphony series.

it's not a lot like buying a beatles record

I never had a Genesis so I never got a chance to play Bloodlines.

Do what I did, emulate it long after the fact

Just remember that at the end of game, it IS supposed to be like that ;)

Yeah im emulating a Genesis, playing games i never got to play. Also had a friend try out Splatterhouse 3 last night, which was also pretty damn cool.

I meant it's like buying a Beatles because i like the Beatles and i remember buying my first Beatles record and liking it and every record after that, I didn't know what new stuff would be added, or how orchestration or production had changed, but I always knew i would enjoy it from beginning to end.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

literally had the same thought

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