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did anybody play any of the PS2 games? I'm wondering if Lament of Innocence is worth trying out or not.
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― kingfish, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.djork.net/castlevania/
Castlevania name-generator!
Castlevania: Bus Ride of Burnt Toast
― kingfish, Thursday, 23 August 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kingfish, Saturday, 12 July 2008 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Nhex, Saturday, 12 July 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
This game is a work of art, Roget Ebert can suck it.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
I need to get these drum samples.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
it's not a lot like buying a beatles record
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
I never had a Genesis so I never got a chance to play Bloodlines.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
Do what I did, emulate it long after the fact
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Just remember that at the end of game, it IS supposed to be like that ;)
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe i'm missing out on the crappy Castlevania entries. Never played 2 much.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
lately i've been regretting giving my GBA SP away (years ago), mostly so i could play Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow again.
― shit tie (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/retro/user_screenshots/saves8/81983/Castlevania%20%20Bloodlines_Jun23%209_14_13.pngOK so i beat it last night, on Easy, but using Quick Saves to rather cheap effect a few times. Like any old game this is HARD. Final boss was pretty awesome, if seemingly never-ending at the time. First the Grim Reaper deals out tarot cards and you have to knock through each one. Some of them are re-fighting old bosses, some of them give you food, some of them just shoot fireballs at you. Then the green haired evil witch from the opening cinematic splits into 5 different duplicates and then summons a bunch of floating spheres that all align in a pentagram. You have to hit her before they all combine or else dodge a lightning strike, or wheel of fire that looks like a dragon, or circle of knives flying at you, etc. That part was pretty cool and I just figured it out on my own.
She also changes into a green half-man half-worm demon and then finally the above grotesque monster with a horrible face for a crotch that spits out streams of fire. The end of the game was extremely anti-climatic, at least it was for me, with simply a cool-looking full-screen loop of your character watching the castle crumble into dust in the distance, hair waving in the wind, standing on top of a mountain or something over endlessly swirling clouds or water or who the hell knows but it looks cool. It was fine w me tho because the game seemed to really go on and on for a LONG time.
It never slowed down, and while yeah there were only 2 or 3 bad guys on the screen at once, it usually felt like more. Plenty of really cool graphic tricks in this, neat water reflections, cool rotating floors and things that deliver a real 3d illusion. At one point *** SPOILER *** you enter a room where the screen is split into 4 parts and each part is horizontally offset in some effed up way, as if you are playing the game through a funhouse mirror or something. It's the most mind-blowing part of the game. At least until a stage or two later when you revisit it, only the distorted view is gone and THE ENTIRE STAGE IS UPSIDE DOWN. Thank God there are no enemies in these parts.
I almost feel like this was better than the Super NES one, it seems to control a little easier (even on an GENS) and the graphics are just jaw-dropping! There's the Genesis version of Contra waiting for me but something tells me it can't possibly be this good.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 18 April 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
No doubt it was better than Super IV IMO. i don't remember Hard Corps being at the same level, but still pretty good? Alien Wars on SNES was more to live up to
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 April 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
Bloodlines is totally dope. One of the best classic era titles.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
Interesting that Wallachia goes for a specifically early 90s lookhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8CPL7Y4aAw
And the new Record Of Lodoss War game looks modeled on Iga era Castlevaniahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmKbXx6gtU
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 November 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
They should flipped the text as well for the full upside-down experience
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
literally had the same thought
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link
people would have hated it, but now, in retrospect, they would have loved it
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link