Castlevania! [Archive] - The Warring States of NPF

Lian

11-19-2003, 12:41 AM

I'd played it on the NES, but hardly at all afterward. Then the GBA comes along and I read about Circle of the Moon. I think, "well, hey, I might as well give it a try." Then I get sucked in; I play Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow after they get released. Then I get Symphony of the Night.

All in all I'd have to say it was a pretty wild ride. Maybe it's my need to glut myself of excellent 2D platformers; maybe it's the RPG elements; maybe it's just the fact that it's Castlevania.

Any opinions on the matter?

Dante Reborn

11-19-2003, 12:42 AM

Man, I wish I could play more of the Castlevania series... I've only played Circle of the Moon and Symphony of the Night.

Chr0n0s End

11-19-2003, 12:58 AM

I really enjoyed the first one for the nes... that one is a classic and will never die... Probably the best one to date!

Lian

11-19-2003, 01:00 AM

I don't know what to say about the first one, save that I think I got as far as Frankenstein and then gave up. :P

The Mystical One

11-19-2003, 01:15 AM

If any of you get a chance to play Haunted Castle, the arcade "Castlevania," do so. It's really pretty crappy, but it's so very amusing. You get to watch some random belmont and his funny walk. You also jump a lot. And Whip things. Classy!

LilWhiteMage

11-19-2003, 01:20 AM

boarder

11-19-2003, 08:15 AM

I've been trying to get the best ending for Symphony of the night, but i'm 1% off and it drives me nuts. I think playing Alucard is more fun than playing any of the whip fetish Belmonts. I'm looking to pick up Aria of Sorrow as soon as I get a chance to.

Caska

11-19-2003, 09:05 AM

I've played and thoroughly enjoyed the NES and SNES games, and SotN, though I tried playing Lament of Innocence and Circle of the Moon o.x For some reason, I just can't get into them.

Probably because I miss the 2D feel? Or I'm waiting for something new, besides making it 3D. Gets boring with yet another Belmont wielding a whip, and now Alucard with a sword. Some traditions in games I like (chocobos for example ^^) but it all gets repititious with Too Many traditions.

Ghost Bear Snow Owl

11-19-2003, 11:24 AM

I'm still trying to find another copy of SOTN since mine was destroyed by my stepson. I miss that game something fierce. I think that SOTN was the best due to Alucard and the mechanics of the game. It was like playing another type of metroid.

LilWhiteMage

11-19-2003, 01:11 PM

The only real problem I have with LoI is that sometimes the camera angle is screwy. Say you walk into a hallway... the camera is angled right above your head. You can't see the thirty fleamen that are waiting up ahead of you or in most cases are already flocking to beat the snot out of you. Not that fleamen are hard to beat. o.o It was just the first thing I could think of. I just wish they could have made the camera controlable so it wouldn't scare you to death when you suddenly realize that you might have a problem with the room.

EtherTap

11-19-2003, 01:49 PM

Symphony of the Night = Best Castlevania Ever :)

Lian

11-19-2003, 01:51 PM

I'm .1% off and I think it's in one of the floating water places, but I can't get the wolf to clear the spot.

Maybe I haven't played enough Castlevania to be jaded by whip/sword. Or maybe I'm really hard to bore. :p

Devil Wet His Pants

11-19-2003, 02:07 PM

Best Castlevanias-
SotN (No explanation needed)
Castlevania 3 (Nice good challenge, with branching paths and good secondary characters)
Super Castlevania 4 (Just plain fun to play)
Rondo of Blood (Or whatever it's called...too bad it's almost impossible to get w/o emulation)

Great Castlevanias-
Castlevania 1 (Yay! Go originals!)
Aria of Sorrow (aka. SotN Lite)

Good Castlevanias-
Castlevania Chronicles (Yay! Go ninja maids!)
Lament of Innocence (Could've been so much more...Curse DMC for putting the 3D action game bar too high! Curse it I say!)
Circle of the Moon (Let's hear it for not being able to see those damned medusa heads!)

Average Castlevanias-
Harmony of Dissonance (Good game, but felt too...blah)
Castlevania X (I wasn't feeling it...)
Castlevania 2 (Bosses too easy, but loved the town interface)

...The Rest-
N64 ones
Old GB ones
That...arcade one...

Please note this is just my opinion, and probably doesn't reflect yours.

Lian

11-19-2003, 02:11 PM

C:COTM gets bashed a lot for being so dark. I didn't have any problems, though, I'm happy to say.

Devil Wet His Pants

11-19-2003, 02:17 PM

You must have the eyes of a hawk. And the dexterity of a ferret.

Lian

11-19-2003, 03:48 PM

I DO have a hawk. And two ferrets. :o

Kenryoku_Maxis

11-19-2003, 05:51 PM

<---- Castlevania Whore.

I love Castlevania games, Symphony of the Night being one of my top 5 games ever. My second favorite one is Castlevania III, from atmosphere, nostalgia and the music (one of the best gaming scores I think I have ever heard). Followed by Aria of Sorrow. You'll here more of Castlevania games from me as time goes on.

And I've played almost all of the ones that have been brought to America except Rondo and Bloodlines. And I'll be getting Innocence as soon as I can, dispite the bad reviews and people saying they don't like it. Its Castlevania...the guy who did SotN and AoS did it...I'm getting it.

Lian

11-19-2003, 07:11 PM

Lament's on my list, too. :D

The Smiling Assasin

06-30-2004, 09:23 PM

I have Circle of the Moon for GBA and beaten it. it's an awesome game, now i just wish i knew where to get the other ones! :mad:

Atronflame

06-30-2004, 10:28 PM

Aria of Sorrow is truly SoTN lite. Only problem I had with AoS was the fact that it took me like 15-20 hours to complete it at 96%. Might take another hour to get 100. Its funny cuz my friend told me he spent really long and didnt get very far.

Its his game. Im gonna shove it in his face and be like "Whats that, BITCH?"

:D

I loaned my girlfriend SoTN, and she still hasnt played it yet. She claims shes bad at every video game, and I lent her FF7 like 2 months ago and shes not past the first disk yet. Sigh. Im kinda sad cuz I wanna play it now :P

Fifthfiend

06-30-2004, 11:58 PM

Symphony of the Night was, what, PS1? Never played it, so couldn't say.

Anyway, Aria was great. Who knew Michael Jackson was secretly a Belmont?

Dac

07-01-2004, 07:32 AM

castlevania sotn was great..in fact it was the 2nd game i ever beat on my ps1 at 100%the very say part about the game though was how easy dracula was. when i borrowed ths game i sat there and ravaged it for every possible thing to collect. " i even played as richter afterwards...he has some great moves if you know the button combinations.

KefkaTaran

07-01-2004, 03:17 PM

Fifth: I'd highly recommend Symphony of the Night. By far one of the best in the series and many would say one of the best PS1 games available.

Iced Earth

07-02-2004, 03:27 PM

I have played almost all of the castlevania's before and they are all great. Sotn was by far the best one ever they need to make a new castlevania with alucard in it.

KefkaTaran

07-03-2004, 01:51 PM

I would probably second that.

Veritas

07-05-2004, 09:41 PM

I'm playing Lament of Innocence right now on the PS2 and am loving it right now. I was once turned off by the Castlevania series (due to bad experiences with the old old game boy version) but this game is really enjoyable. Right now me and my fiancee are racing for who can beat it the fastest. Heh... If not for me figuring out some of the puzzles, he'd still be back in the first area of the castle >:)

Trying racing through it with Joachim. I beat everything except the forgotten one in under three hours with him on my first run through with him. Joachim is my second favorite Castlevania character.

Oh and for the record I enjoyed the N64 Castlevania games.

Toastburner B

07-06-2004, 09:34 AM

The problem is that the most Castlevanias, with the exception of LoI, are hard to find nowadays in stores. I haven't seen a GBA one in any of the games stores around here for quite some it. I only ever say SotN once, used, for $40 bucks, and I didn't have enough money to buy it.

On a side note:

Curse myself for trading the GBA Castlevanias for store-credit, curse me I say! :mad:

Atma

07-06-2004, 11:01 AM

I played a few Castlevanias but I only liked the N64 ones. Legacy of Darkness is one of the best N64 games, IMO. I don't know why everyone treats it like the biggest shit pile in the world. Anyone want to enlighten me?

KefkaTaran

07-06-2004, 03:18 PM

Toastburner B

07-07-2004, 01:37 PM

TWO people who LIKED the N64 Castlevanias in ONE thread? I... honestly never thought I'd see the day.

As for the GBA Castlevania's being hard to find, I don't agree. I see them at Wal-Mart and Shopko's all the time, and that's not even talking about the game stores I go to. If you really want them badly you could try ordering them online. Easy stuff.

You see them at shopko and walmart?

That is so not fair. :(

As for online shopping, I tend to only do that as a last resort. I prefer buying at stores. And I'm not that desperate yet.

As for the Castlevania 64s...they weren't too bad, I just never really got into it.

And, on Legeacy of Darkness, it was awfully anti-climatic on the first boss, after it stalks you the entire stage until you get to the boss fight, you transform into the werewolf, and then kill it in 2-3 hits.

As I remember it, at least.

That, and no of the characters could swim. Maybe that's why I like the GBAs, no instant death jumps...unless you count spikes, which take a huge chunk off your health.

Atma

07-07-2004, 04:31 PM

And, on Legeacy of Darkness, it was awfully anti-climatic on the first boss, after it stalks you the entire stage until you get to the boss fight, you transform into the werewolf, and then kill it in 2-3 hits.

Huh? In the first stage, the ghost ship or whatever, the serpant thing puts a hole on the ship sinking it. Then on your way to the next area, you stop to fight it. As Cornell, you COULD go Werewolf to fight it, but by doing that you'll lose ALL of your red jewels. There is NO way to stop it. Enterting a new area, dieing, saving, whatever. You'll always stay wolf untill it wears off. It's kind of unnecesary anyway, all it does is raise your power, and makes you a bit more agile. That's about it. I only use it on the final boss and one other annoying boss.

I'm also pretty sure that in most other Castlevania's you can't swim. But then again, I wouldn't no for sure.

KefkaTaran

07-07-2004, 08:31 PM

I buy most of my games online for one simple reason: Used games through Amazon or any of many other game dealers online are a TON cheaper than new and become so much faster. I try to only buy games new when it's one I absolutely need/have been looking forward to (Half-Life 2 being the current prime example). Otherwise I wait a couple weeks and get them online for $20 or more less.

Mirai Gen

07-09-2004, 08:46 PM

I loved Symphony of the Night. I loved Aria of Sorrow, Harmony of Disonnance, CIRCLE OF THE FUGGIN MOON, and I'm lovin' Lament of Innocence right now. The orbs make the game great, it actually makes up for the lack of interchangeable weapons.

Two great events with Castlevanias...
1 - My friend borrowed Symphony for about a week, and then came over and played it. He said "I beat it too, the ending's not that great." He then proceeded to explore around a bit before going to beat dracula. Then he said "This ending isn't that interesting." and it started to play the really great ending when you explore almost all of the castle, and he started freaking out because it played an ending he hadn't gotten. I was laughing uncontrollably.
2 - With this same friend, I got one of the Orbs in Lament of Innocence and started using it with the dagger. Leon held out his hand and five purple balls shot out, hitting random targets. "Wow, that looks like magic missile." He said. I then switched out orbs, but not before I saw "Purple Orb + Dagger = Magic Missile" on the screen.