Castlevania Megathread

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

what a very rare way to write Castlevania Curse of Darkness

 

[bigstinkie]

tomorrow we die but today we ramble to the annoyance of others
the original castlevania was one of the earlier video gamezors i ever played on my first console the nes - it is still my favourite castlevania due to how insanely sharp the game design is, no filler no phoned in concepts or half baked ideas, it is purely action from beginning to end with very crafty sub item designs to keep bosses from feeling insurmountable while keeping them challenging, really it is the perfect castlevania game to me
castlevania 2 its ok
castlevania 3 makes the women weep at midnight. very difficult but very fun really i should revisit this one more often
i haven't played rondo of blood and castlevania iv in over ten to fifteen years but i remember them being very good, really the same goes for symphony of the night i really should revisit these games
amusingly, the new castlevania games i have never played, the gba ones and so on (yes for the longest time i considered those the 'new' ones as i had never played them)
that ended a month or two ago when a friend give me the castlevania advance collection - wow what a surprise these games were very very good, far better than the castlevania experience on the original gameboy
circle of the moon has become a top five game for me in the entire series, with a strong difficulty and a very fresh and intriguing card mechanic layered atop the great castle layout, music and art, (nathan graves is our guy!!!!! the footie stadiums chant his name from the heavens!!!!)
harmony of dissonance was weaker in really all respects, with a chunk of the bosses being mindlessly easy and the visuals being a little brighter and less convincingly fun and gothic, but still a swell game
aria of sorrow is next and i look forward to playing it

 

[YoshifreakZX]

If I had to do a top 5 favorite Castlevania games that I have played and finished (so far), they'd be:
5. Super Castlevania IV
4. Rondo of Blood
3. Dawn of Sorrow
2. Symphony of the Night
1. Aria of Sorrow

 

[bigstinkie]

hmmmmm for me it would bezors
1. castlevania
2. symphony of the night
3. rondo of blood
4. circle of the moon
5. castlevania 3
but it feels a tad unfair for me to list them out like this - my memories of games like rondo of blood and symphony of the night are so far away, but even then it is impossible to forget moments like the werewolf howling so far in the distance against the moon before it mario 64 leaps from five counties away to your location in a heartbeat

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

My first interaction with the Castlevania series was Castlevania : The adventure for the gameboy and since then Castlevania hooked me .

Castlevania Chronicles was peak in its artstyle (classic and somehow arranged mode too) and the soundtrack in all its versions are just juicy soundtrack goodness .

About Castlevania 64 /Legacy of Darkness:

I think these games are the true concept to push castlevania into the third dimension even to this day .

Even the plans , cut-content and overall concept they got in mid-development are awesome and could push castlevania into new heights . While the N64 games play very well , its still needs some improvements and has still huge potential for sequels and evolving the concept much further to cement castlevania back to its heights .

The levels were not only astoundingly huge but had details , decorations and cool designs that exploration was always a treat .

I dont get why people want Souls-like gameplay in Castlevania when Castlevania 64 plays much smoother and refreshing by how fast and snappy the controls are (with few minor gripes) and combat doesnt end up into tedious Life-bar melting sessions .

Not every game should be a copy of Bloodbourne .

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Sadly no, though there are plenty of ways to play it on pc.
More a metroidvania fan than classicvania, but i wish they still made them.

If it doesn’t pop up in a collection, it’d be neat if it at least popped up on GOG

 

[Deleted member 61046]

My first interaction with the Castlevania series was Castlevania : The adventure for the gameboy and since then Castlevania hooked me .

Castlevania Chronicles was peak in its artstyle (classic and somehow arranged mode too) and the soundtrack in all its versions are just juicy soundtrack goodness .

About Castlevania 64 /Legacy of Darkness:

I think these games are the true concept to push castlevania into the third dimension even to this day .

Even the plans , cut-content and overall concept they got in mid-development are awesome and could push castlevania into new heights . While the N64 games play very well , its still needs some improvements and has still huge potential for sequels and evolving the concept much further to cement castlevania back to its heights .

The levels were not only astoundingly huge but had details , decorations and cool designs that exploration was always a treat .

I dont get why people want Souls-like gameplay in Castlevania when Castlevania 64 plays much smoother and refreshing by how fast and snappy the controls are (with few minor gripes) and combat doesnt end up into tedious Life-bar melting sessions .

Not every game should be a copy of Bloodbourne .

I love you

 

[bigstinkie]

can a viewtiful castlevania 64 lover tell me the name of the song that plays after cornell is captured by that wild looking man or is in jail while the wild looking man admits to serving dracula the level theme after that part
i apologize for my monstrously hazy maze memory

 

[Deleted member 61046]

can a viewtiful castlevania 64 lover tell me the name of the song that plays after cornell is captured by that wild looking man or is in jail while the wild looking man admits to serving dracula the level theme after that part
i apologize for my monstrously hazy maze memory

Sorry, all my 18 playthroughs were with Carrie

I'm skimming through Cornell's longplay, is it one of those two scenes by any chance? (same video but different timestamps)

 

[bigstinkie]

Sorry, all my 18 playthroughs were with Carrie

I'm skimming through Cornell's longplay, is it one of those two scenes by any chance? (same video but different timestamps)

no it was neither of them but thank you for taking the time to look
let me scroll through a longplay as well i probably should have done that earlier good idea
wow i kid you not the first video i clicked on the first random point in the video i clicked i found it, it is this song i cannot find the title of it in spite of going through a few youtube ost playlists for the game the other night

 

[Deleted member 61046]

no it was neither of them but thank you for taking the time to look
let me scroll through a longplay as well i probably should have done that earlier good idea
wow i kid you not the first video i clicked on the first random point in the video i clicked i found it, it is this song i cannot find the title of it in spite of going through a few youtube ost playlists for the game the other night

Is it this one?

 

[bigstinkie]

Is it this one?

ah that is it
i feel silly now for somehow missing it
a bit of a storytime for it - i have never played the castlevania 64 titles, but the part at 0:32 is in my mind sweetly as a memory, i remember watching a friend of mine play the game and falling asleep while that melody was playing
that melody, the sound of it, the soundfont, it reminds me so much of king's field iv
i really should give the nintendo 64 castlevania games a spin, they seem beautiful in their own ways

 

[andubandu]

i'll leave this masterpiece here for now might come with a more elaborate answer later

 

[_-_AceDragon_-_]

My first interaction with the Castlevania series was Castlevania : The adventure for the gameboy and since then Castlevania hooked me .

Castlevania Chronicles was peak in its artstyle (classic and somehow arranged mode too) and the soundtrack in all its versions are just juicy soundtrack goodness .

About Castlevania 64 /Legacy of Darkness:

I think these games are the true concept to push castlevania into the third dimension even to this day .

Even the plans , cut-content and overall concept they got in mid-development are awesome and could push castlevania into new heights . While the N64 games play very well , its still needs some improvements and has still huge potential for sequels and evolving the concept much further to cement castlevania back to its heights .

The levels were not only astoundingly huge but had details , decorations and cool designs that exploration was always a treat .

I dont get why people want Souls-like gameplay in Castlevania when Castlevania 64 plays much smoother and refreshing by how fast and snappy the controls are (with few minor gripes) and combat doesnt end up into tedious Life-bar melting sessions .

Not every game should be a copy of Bloodbourne .

Agreed totally! I tended to find on the web generally that people can be critical of it despite Castlevania 64 being the best 3d game for the series to date, which is saying something given that it's now 25 years old. Atmospheric, large scale game with open areas that were fun to explore, good music, action / combat is challenging, cool bosses, 3d platforming, story is simple yet engaging, short but sweet cutscenes. Game was linear but progression from one area to the next was smooth, and it felt like an adventure. Was much better than the two 3d games on PS2 (which were ok games with great soundtracks) and the PS3 reimagining which I really didn't like. Dunno why konami found it so hard to continue down that same path of game design. The level design of 64 was so superior to the subsequent 3d games. This was the same era of gems like Goemon 64. What a decade for konami, good times.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

Souls-like gameplay in Castlevania

Well in Castlevania64 i had a souls like experiment! I didnt know how should I open the doors work with sun and moon and I stuck there like ds1 ghost
I didin't play much Castlevania series because I thought they have time limit!(nes castlevania)
But I like storyline and characters.
Well my faverite boss in Castlevania 64 was skeleton guardian. He was a funny boss to me.also the count Dracula,he was so cool!

 

[Deleted member 61046]

Well my faverite boss in Castlevania 64 was skeleton guardian. He was a funny boss to me.also the count Dracula,he was so cool!

I love how he just gets angry and starts stomping the floor the first time you defeat him

I really like the bull fight!

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

starts stomping the floor the first time you defeat him

Well first time I hardly manage to beat him. He scared and make me laugh whole of fight!
Hey I see you writing a review. I though your first review will be castlevania series.glad to hear someone else is joining the writer guild.

 

[andubandu]

lament of innocence had such a solemn vibe

 

[Deleted member 61046]

Hey I see you writing a review. I though your first review will be castlevania series.glad to hear someone else is joining the writer guild.

I actually tried writing a Castlevania 64 review multiple times before, sometimes for video format, but I was unsatisfied with all my attempts.

Now that I'm writing that review of Rift of the Necrodancer (that hopefully I won't give up on it), I'm figuring out a way to write something that makes for a lightweight and fun read. Who knows, I might finally write a Castlevania 64 review after that!

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

I actually tried writing a Castlevania 64 review multiple times before, sometimes for video format, but I was unsatisfied with all my attempts.

Now that I'm writing that review of Rift of the Necrodancer (that hopefully I won't give up on it), I'm figuring out a way to write something that makes for a lightweight and fun read. Who knows, I might finally write a Castlevania 64 review after that!

I undersatnd what you mean. I should change my topic game too. Some part of review writing is hard to me,because i stick with report writing for a long time.

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Well just curious,did you try earn money by writing game faqs? I heard some people earn 500 dollars as bounty to write HTML faqs on site.
I try it but as it isn't complet yet and need PayPal(I'm ban from PayPal even I didn't make an acoount) so i give up on it.
I like froum focused on good topics and talking instead of make money or sell stuffs(which have more problem of course!)

 

[Deleted member 61046]

I undersatnd what you mean. I should change my topic game too. Some part of review writing is hard to me,because i stick with report writing for a long time.

Post automatically merged: May 1, 2025

Well just curious,did you try earn money by writing game faqs? I heard some people earn 500 dollars as bounty to write HTML faqs on site.
I try it but as it isn't complet yet and need PayPal(I'm ban from PayPal even I didn't make an acoount) so i give up on it.
I like froum focused on good topics and talking instead of make money or sell stuffs(which have more problem of course!)

I thought about earning money with youtube videos at some point, and while making videos is not off the table I don't think I want to make a job out of it.

I didn't knew about earning money on writing faqs. Also wtf PayPal.

And yeah, forum are a great way to share your thoughts purely out of passion!

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

Well i starting my work on YouTube after a heavy record for my native site(theu asked fo 3 thosand hour of whatch for a month and 200 followers!)
The main problem for YouTube is editing. Well I think YouTube is good as second job.
I know some dark thing about my native streamer on YouTube. They corrupting kids and teenager minds(some of them) with bad things they made.
Well PayPal is a online pokcet for gathering money which made in london.
They have a special Policy against my poeple and some others:"if you are ban we take you money and throw you out!"
How it feels.
Well i will ask more question in your old AMA thread soon!

 

[_-_AceDragon_-_]

I love how he just gets angry and starts stomping the floor the first time you defeat him

I really like the bull fight!

The Bull fight was awesome. I know it's not a boss but the vampire encounter in the villa was cool.

lament of innocence had such a solemn vibe

I never forget the first time I heard this, it blew me away. Used to listen to this ost while playing other games (DMC 3).

i'll leave this masterpiece here for now might come with a more elaborate answer later

What a fantastic track. I thoroughly enjoyed castlevania chronicles, the super challenging gameplay, slightly darker mood, and the soundtrack. I think konami hit a peak with it's music around this time: Rondo of Blood, chronicles, 64, SOTN, Goemon 64, MGS, Gungage. They even had their own band the Konami Kuheika Club. Anyway this track and the level that goes with it, top notch stuff:

 

[zakupunk]

I'm one of those freaks who prefers the SNES Dracula X OST over the PC-Engine version lol.

As for remixes, Shimoine has done so many insanely good renditions of not just Castlevania games, but lots of other Konami games too. Yasui Yosuke's Divine Bloodlines and Dracula Battle 1&2 are amazing as well.

 

[Bakuma1997]