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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
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.
Hah maybe i've blocked them all out cos getting to the ending is always such a treat!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 18 April 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
IV, Bloodlines/New Generation, and Rondo of Blood/Dracula X - those are the only 16-bit Castlevanias, right? Or are there more?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 18 April 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
I purchased the Dracula X disc for psp just to get SOTN as a playable game
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Saturday, 20 April 2013 07:20 (eleven years ago) link
THE ENTIRE STAGE IS UPSIDE DOWN. Thank God there are no enemies in these parts.
I mis-remembered this. There are enemies during this part. This game is hard! And so good! I've played it through 3 times now.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 June 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
i found my long, long-neglected DS and started playing through Aria of Sorrow again. this game is perfect.
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Monday, 22 July 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SahSabf2-0s
Hah I've been playing through "Rondo" again, trying to find all the secrets and rescue all the anime damsels. Level 6 is just an incredible presentation. An evil necromancer stands in front of magical symbols and conjures a bunch of bosses from the first Castlevania game: the giant bat, the Medusa, the Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, etc. and you have to fight them all with a single health bar while a blazing hot evil organ arpeggio runs up and down the scales.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:59 (ten 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