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I beat part 1 wayy back in the early 2000s on my top loader NES. It was a fateful dark night. It was meant to be
Now I suck at Castlevania 3
Dracula X, Castlevania Chronicles, I quit Castlevania 4 once I get to the swingy rope place
Maybe I should just play bloodlines?
I can handle the 16 bit ones pretty well (except the X68000 one... *shivers*)
The 8 bit ones... I haven't beaten 3 but it doesn't seem to be THAT hard.
After being tortured by Castlevania Chronicles I thought I would find refuge in the older games
They are ALL difficult it seems. The only question is how far will you get before the hell truly begins?
You think Chronicles is torture? It's a toned down port of the X68000 Castlevania. That version is just brutal.
Bloodlines is probably the easiest one of all, assuming you play as Eric.
the 8-bit ones are a bit harder. i haven't played bloodlines yet just because it's expensive. symphony of the night is by far the best castelvania though and isn't difficult at all
^Im not into the whole SIMONS QUEST thing, I like beating levels and whupping undead ass.
So far, I've beaten:
Castlevania I (NES) - Beat it as a kid, and again recently during a play through. It's actually pretty easy once you figure the patterns out, but it's still a bitch in the last levels. Prepare to die. A lot.
Castlevania III (NES) - Beat it as a kid.
Super Castlevania (SNES) - Beat it multiple times throughout my life. Pretty easy compared to the NES trilogy.
Dracula X (PC-Engine CD) - Beat this off of The Castlevania Chronicles on my PSP, both the original and remake.
Symphony of the Night (PS1) Same as above. Achieved 212.2% as Alucard, and I got to 185% or so as Richter before I got bored with it.
That's really it. I sort of lost interest with the N64 and PS2 games, and I played the 360 version for a few hours then got caught up in Splatterhouse the next month. I should start checking some of these games off of my list, though.
Except Castlevania 2 - fuck that game.
When you guys said Castlevania Chronicles I thought you meant THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buEICPfkd8Y
And not the PSP one, that one is super easy, it's just rondo of blood with 3D graphics.
yeah i AM talking of the original PSX version
My bad, I meant The Dracula X Chronicles on PSP. I've played CC on the PS but I wasn't too impressed.
There are quite a few games that I used to routinely beat when I was a kid (8-16 bit era). I recently gave the NES Bionic Commando a whirl, and I had a "how the fuck did i use to beat this all the time as a kid" attitude about it. There are certain games from the era that really leave me doubfounded as to how I found them completely tolerable (and in some cases, enjoyable) when I was a kid.
I haven't played the 8-bit Castlevania games in over 20 years, but i remember the 2nd one being the easiest (and my favorite), and the 1st and 3rd games being tough as nails by the last levels. I'd say the 1st and 3rd games are tougher than CV4 and Bloodlines.
I'd suggest picking up Bloodlines. I found it tougher to complete than CV4, but i also thought it was more fun to play thru.
whats up with sucking at games now that you kicked ass in as a kid?
Even RPGs, I would effortlessly find the next "trigger" as a kid
More time, plus your brain is still growing so you're able to "learn" the game better than you do as an adult.
Pretty much this, better reflexes too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lastcallhall
Well, if I spent more time with a game it was probably because I had less games as a kid (if I only got a couple of games for xmas, and had to wait 7 months until my bday, i better have liked it), but i still had a "fuck that game" attitude when it came to TMNT and Bart vs the Space Mutants - two games i was really psyched about playing as a kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lastcallhall
I also think that games of the 8-bit era were generally designed to be tough games, which in retrospect is a little odd, but that's what we got. I think we just came to expect hard games that never held our hand, and learned to play video games that way. Recently playing thru the SMB games again, the new super mario games are noticeably much easier games to complete.
Nowadays, i have so many games in my backlog that i simply don't have the patience to putz around with a game like Battletoads - a game that i found mildly entertaining as a kid, but isn't worth the effort to beat now.
If you are having trouble with Castlevania on the NES try the Japanese versions. They tend to be a easier than the US versions.
Pretty much this, plus enthusiasm. Not that I'm unenthusiastic now, just more selective. Well, add poverty too, and ill managed at that: money flushed down the arcades. Once upon a time, when I'd only beaten SMB and Dragon Warrior, I borrowed Ghosts and Goblins off a friend for a week...and reached lv 4. Lv four, which now looks like swimming the Atlantic to me, as I see no fun in the game. Bart vs the Space Mutants I got pretty far in on a rental (and I still don't think it bad----it just seems to be the local whipping boy for general NES frustration).Quote:
Originally Posted by Splatterhouse5
@ topic = I always hated Castlevania. Akumajou on PS does at least make it into the video game bracket for me; the others are bookshelf shims.
I'm not entirely dowf at TMNT though, I'll give that another whack.
I've played NES and Gameboy Castlevania, I don't think I ever beat it. I beat Simon's Quest back in the day, but not since I've actually owned it. I've played Castlevania 3 but got bored and forgot to keep playing. I've beaten Castlevania IV and Bloodlines in every way, and Rondo of Blood in one path. Symphony of the Night I have played through on the PS1 and Saturn, and most of the way through on XBLA. Castlevania Chronicles on the PS1 bored me to tears and I sold it. I think I played through the second GBA game, I don't remember most of it, and I gave up on the first DS game.
I never could beat the original NES Castlevania until I was an adult. Now I can beat it pretty easily. I'm not that good, really, but I have the levels memorized and on bosses I abuse holy water like a bitch. Go watch a speedrun on youtube and you'll see what I mean.
Dracula X sounds like what you need to play, it is very easy. There are a couple of tough points, but you can get by them using an alternate path or abusing Maria. The part where you fight 4 bosses in a row is brutal, but Maria can beat those bosses in seconds.
I've beaten:-
-Castlevania II
-Castlevania III
-Super Castlevania
-Castlevania Bloodlines
-Castlevania Dracula X (SNES)
-Dracula X (Pc-engine)
-Castlevania SOTN
-Circle of the moon
-Harmony of Dissonance
-Aria of Sorrow
-Dawn of Sorrow
-Portrait of ruins
-Order of Ecclesia
What can i say....I love the series. I have Castlevania Chronicles, and i believe i beat the arranged mode in that.
ok gonna hit up Castelvania 3 tonight. See where the evil takes me
I am playing the Japanese translated to english version
This made me lol, but I know what you are talking about, the game is way easier as Maria. The game is actually fairly easy compared to the rest of the classic series. The only one I haven't beaten without cheating is Castlevania III. I always enter the "OKUDA" code for Alucard which means I get him the cheating way. However I have yet to beat the game as Trevor only.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
I had Dracula X Pce on my turbo grafx back in the 90s, never made it past the first boss. That game was crazy hard.
i just quit castlevania 3, damn that **** is hard
back to Streets or Rage Remake GLORY
Funnily enough the only version I ever had the chance to play as a kid was bloodlines, my cousin had a copy that I'd play at weekends, but its since disappeared in the echelons of time.
I've recently been doing a play through, and quite enjoyed it, better than I remember it actually. I'm stuck on the end fight with Dracula but I'm sure once I've memorised the patterns I'll be fine. And I've gone with John on this one. I'm no real Castlevania expert, as I've only recently introduced myself to the series so I'm eager to try some of the other titles.
But as an aside, I've also been recently trying Castlevania IV, does anybody else out there feel like me that its the most nintendo-fanboy fawned version of the whole series? I've been told how awesome it is many times, boards, friends etc, but since I don't have the beauty of nostalgia all I see is is crap un-optimised colours, dorky sprites, a tiny playing field, gimmicky mode-7 and an overrated soundtrack. And most jarringly, a game thats too long to the point it actually overstays its welcome?
No amount of jazz noodling pseudo-ambience will make me rate the farty SPC700 over the Bloodlines soundtrack (and that doesn't even use FM drums ffs!), and I bloody love well placed ambient music, Super Metroid is a favourite of mine, its just totally jarring to the mood I've been expecting from Castlevania games since I've started digging into the series. It dose'nt fit with the feel of the series, bar the occasional classic like 'Beginning'.
The 8-Way whip is also way overrated by everyone, automatically assuming 8 Way = Awesome, that seems a badly implemented game breaking mechanic in this version, ruining the pace from the old 8-bit titles I've tried and the whole point of the sub-wepon. Overall Its ok but I can't understand the plaudits it still gets since its obvious its aged considerably, the 8-Bit variants at least have a certain charm.
I just don't understand why Bloodlines is considered the black sheep compared to this. But then I'm not blinded by childhood rose tinted specs.
Bloodlines is the black sheep because:
- It doesn't feature the belmonts
- The colors are even less optimized than castlevania 4 (at least that game achieves what it was trying to do)
- Pointless alterations like replacing hearts with crystals.
- It's too short
- The music, while brilliantly composed, barely makes use of the genesis sound capabilites.
- The sound effects are terrible
- It was obviously rushed (confirmed by the composer)
Castlevania 4 is really overrated though, for all the reasons you mentioned.
just got Alucard to join me in Castlevania3
Jeez, this must only be the halfway point
what an awesome game, wish I had it as a kid, Its got great graphics for NES
EDIT
thats it!! i quit 8bit action games for good, and maybe 8bit in general for good
The stupid falling brick stage in Castlevania 3 just made me say F*** 8-bit games!!!!!!!!
You mean this one?Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowHawk
^no thats not it at all. Its one that you are going up up up , and you have to dodge a ton of bricks falling down . I found out the pattern but its still not enough to warrant me more torture.
The level you posted looks easy compared to what i went through, i think its before your level, it has to be
Are the bricks falling during a boss battle?
block 7-5 OH MY GOD, no wonder, HOW THEHELL DO I TURN INTO ALUCARD??? THATS WHY I COUULDNT BEAT IT
starts at about 3:30http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZHzpTJIbm4
I love the hell out of Castlevania but the only ones I've finished are Symphony Of The Night on PS1, Bloodlines, and Super Castlevania IV. The 8bits are just too damned hard, along with Rondo of Blood