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Message: [QUOTE="BrawlMan, post: 407320, member: 908684"] I've been on a somewhat Castlevania binge playing various Classicvania games a few months ago. A thought a occurred to me: earlier this year, and near the end of last year, I was playing all of the Castlevania games, that are retellings of the first game. Though Vampire Killer (MSX) wasn't doing much for me. Controversial opinion, but Castlevania IV isn't my favorite of the Simon Belmont/CV1 iterations. It's actually Chronicles via the Arranged Mode where he's given the best design. The long, crimson red, barbarian hair. Though my #1 out of all of these is Haunted Castle Revisited. You heard that right! A game I got in 2024, from the DS compilation pack, I only bought to play HCR, is the best of the Simon Belmont games. HCR is the perfect length. It's not too long, nor is too short. It's just the right length for an arcade game. The difficulty while much easier than a majority of Classic Castlevania titles, still has its own challenge on Normal. If you want to bump things up to Hard mode, do a run with no continues, and even have the old style jump and knock back, you can change in the options menu any time before starting a new game. It's the most accessible Castlevania game ever made. I played through the game several times and managed two 1CC runs. I have not done a Hard Mode run yet. The game also has a boss rush mode and level select too. So you can pick levels to do practice runs for that perfect run. My #1 Castlevania game will always be Bloodlines. [/QUOTE]

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