that's what the mona lisa is smiling about, that sick jump+dash
― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 May 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
lazy???!!! those boss designs! those backgrounds! those sprites!― Doctor Casino, Friday, May 29, 2020 10:18 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Doctor Casino, Friday, May 29, 2020 10:18 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
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 (three years ago) link
I always thought the abilities+map accessibility stuff in the Iga games must have been a nightmare to plan and possibly the reason he started experimenting with fighting games and a more linear Castlevania at the end of his time at Konami. Were all abilities definitely unlocked by the second half of Symphony?
Big 2d games tend to have lots of reused sprites because it takes forever to make them, sadly.
Spyro was particularly different from Mario. I think there's maybe as many as 15 amazing Mario games (including the Yoshi and Wario games) or maybe 40, haha.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
You need to get the mist and bat forms in the first castle. The double jump can be skipped by exploiting a bug with the wolf form. The down-up super jump can easily be skipped.
― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
the more forms the betta tho, looove that stuff
― Nhex, Friday, 29 May 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
No, I never even heard of that.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 May 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
― 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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
The Last Faithhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN3Opf27ztoIt'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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three 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