Castlevania thread

LOL

Yeah even Lords of Shadow tried to bring back the classic games in 3D but the sequel became a garbage metroid-like that was garbage and finally killed the series for good.

It has so much quality and care dumped into it that even if the gameplay is something I don't really like I can't bring myself to outright hate it.
The rest of the games though, they're fair game.

Currently trying to beat IV with no deaths, really hate it when I die at the vanishing block part before Frankenstein.

Underrated post.

So? Symphony still is a good game, and overall great set of assets. It does not mater that it changed the franchise forever. Blame it on Konami wantring to copy itself, not the game.
And still, the metroidvania that came after it are still good games by themselves.

The only thing that i hate about the cards is the drop system. It slows down too much of the game to farm cards randomly from specific enemies, making it worse by the fact that the card combinations are great and are what make the game worth playing. I would rather have to find them or earn them from defeated bosses, or any other system that is not random drops.

My main gripe about the IGAvanias is how most of the difficulty in these games is a matter of self-restriction as a result of overpowered shit being thrown in with absolutely no regard for balance, like the rainbow shield in SotN which kills everything practically instantly. Then you get cool shit like Richter Mode with his fighting-game like inputs, but you're still left with crappy ass bland stage design. SotN is only really fun with challenge runs, but the game should be encouraging that from the outset instead of throwing a bunch of random shit at the player to see what sticks. It's the same problem with games like Dishonored.

CotM also had the right idea with its class system where the name you would input would determine your class and your card set, on top of other things like weapons. It being locked behind name inputs is retarded, though nowadays we have the internet for that. IGAvanias as a whole would improve thousandfold if unique playstyle-altering abilities would be tied to pre-selectable classes rather than grinding souls.

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H-hello?

Reminder that the last Castlevania game was a pachislot machine.
Reminder that the last Suikoden game was a pachislot machine.
Reminder that Konami had record profits this year after switching focus to the gambling sector.

I SAID
STILL NO 3DS CASTLEVANIA

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Last Castlevania games I've played was Ecclasia, Aria+Dawn of sorrow. And by played I mean even beat the extra content.

I haven't even remotely completed Symphony of the night. And I really like aspects of the Metroidvania genre.

Hell I'd probably play classcivania just to see how its evolved. What's the earliest tolerable a newb like me could possibly play without having a normie fit.

Well you can always play the DSvanias on the 3DS. Personally I'd also like Vita CVHD.

Dark Souls is the better take on Metroidvania in 3D, at least the first one. 2 and 3 piss on its solid world design.

To make your life easier just start a new game + so you can get all the important souls again, plus money to get the soul stealer ring.

I recommend you try Castlevania III. It's probably the strongest of the original NES trilogy, has a fantastic soundtrack (especially if you find the Japanese ROM), and also features the first appearance of Alucard and the Belnades clan.

If you're used to the Iga games you may feel some frustration at the heroes' slow movement and committed jumps, but overall it holds up very well.

I pretty much agree with this, except I would put Aria of Sorrow above SotN as far as the metroid/Igavanians go. But Dracula X is by far may favorite classicvania, I have no idea where that strange pc port came from that I got from the share thread but goddamn am I glad I was able to play it.

Everything about Bloodstained looks good to me EXCEPT the fucking graphics. They really should've made the game with 2D sprites. Every video I see the graphics go from
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Also

Poison the food of normalfags for enabling this kind of profit.

To me, Aria is great inbetween Symphony and Ecclesia. Not so many game breaking mechanics as Symhony, but not so great grahics like Ecclesia either. But those 3 games overall are a must play. Also Aria's Heart of Fire is the best theme in the whole franchise to me.
Bloodstained's graphics always make me want to play in the backgrounds instead of the foreground. Everything in the backgrounds are beautiful, but the foregrounds are all bland.

Will we ever get a new, decent castlevania game?
Im not even asking about classicvania at this point, id take another SoTN copy at this point man, lets hope the netflix series brings some sense back into konami that castlevania is still popular.

Genuinely the worst metroidvania I've ever played.

Why would you want a new Castlevania from current Konami, along with possible CURRENT YEAR marxist censorship from whatever company that (((localize))) it?
Let it stay dead until the current owners litterally die and their companies go bankrupt, then we can wish for a trully good new Castlevania to whoever get the franchise in his hands.

Because i need my fix man!

Go play all the already existing Castlevanias.
When you finish the last one, start playing all of them again.
It is a better option than having a CURRENT YEAR Castlevania.

I've done that like so many times that I lost count. Currently going through Aria of Sorrow IN JAPANESE since I know it from memory and to practice. It just isn't enough, I need something bigger and new, but that is everything all the others were, and even though Bloodstained looks like shit, the gameplay looks like all the previous game fused in one.
Maybe it's foolish to have hope, but by fucking god I'll enjoy it if it continues to be as it have been shown to be, even if it's mediocre, that's exactly what I asked for.

Have you played Spectral Interlude?

Aria is my favorite metroidvania, it's not really all that difficult but it is noticeably more difficult than SotN which puts it above that game for me. OoE is MUCH better than both of them in the difficulty department since it actually offers a decent challenge, but I don't like the weapon system that much nor am I a fan of the abilities you get to advance(like swinging across different nodes to get around obstacles, for example). I like my metroidvanias to be a bit more straight-forward and less gimmicky I suppose. Also Heart of Fire is good but Castle Corridor is by far my favorite.
This, the foreground models just look out of place. At least the gameplay looks good, I'm happy about that at least.

Looks interesting, how's ZX Spectrum emulation? Is it worth it to give the the game a shot?

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You know there's a board specifially for that right?

Agreed, except Bloodlines is trash and XX is superior to Rondo. You should've posted 1, 3 and X68K as the holy trinity of Castlevania.

What makes XX better than Rondo? I've never tried it.
nigger dems fightin' words

DOS is worst DS metroidvania.
Luck is literally broken- you actually have to patch it externally- something I learned using nothing but the golden sword, 777 armour and another item and choice souls the entire fuking game because that's what I do to grind in metroidvanias- I beat the fucking thing much longer than I would've otherwise.

There's an actual broken cutscene which you can trigger if you take the clocktower to it first, and in addition to this, a chunk of enemy placement is poorly done in many areas- especially certain locations such as the undersea part which lacked items, and anything of remote challenge.

This greatly fucked over soul drop rates and had me wasting hours trying to get the fucking eye soul I shoul've gotten ages ago- but the worst offender is that the best place to grind are the higher yeballs right before the Castle Keep using this one soul I can't recall now.

Seriously, DOS needs a massive fix hack like Aria of Sorrow got- and the one to remove those infernal hated seals.

The seal mechanic alone made me dread the boss fights that used the third to fifth seals. And I didn't know that the luck stat was broken, but it explains why I grinded the fucking Iron Golem for hours and didn't get his soul, that was the cherry on top of the shit sundae.

What went wrong?

Has anyone played the PC version of Castlevania 1 that is apparently structured more like Castlevania 2?

More challenging level designs, better aesthetics and visual flair, no Bible or loli which break Rondo's balance. Only thing Rondo does better is its Redbook audio soundtrack, but even so the samples sound really good for the Super Nintendo.

Leadership, suits fucking shit up.

I remember how the music director (or some higher up, don't really remember) of Lords of Shadow said the classic castlevania soundtracks were too feminine, and then he proceeded to make a generic boring orchestral soundtrack for the game.

I came here to post this

They wanted to convert Castlevania to a cinematic game and reboot the story. At least the western developer stopped at LoS2 because he didn't want to write anything more. Should be going back to Japanese devs now.

Makes sense to me, because Michiru. I'd still take the rock-oriented music over the neo-classical.

As for me, i'm ok with both simpler or gimmicky design. The only thing that i demand is that if the game has good gimmicks, the game MUST be made around them, so they won't become obsolete.
Comparing to Symphony, Aria is the overall better game. But it still suffers from game-breaking power ups. I only prefer Symphony because of the set of assets: the art style for the enemies and bosses. the graphics, gameplay, music, etc. Everything is bigger and has a larger scale due to the PS1.
Aria i consider a good follow up, but i would still put it behind Symphony. The Soul System in particular, as good as it is, is based on random drops, which i HATE as i said about Circle of The Moon. If the Souls were more like something that you find by exploring or defeating bosses, i would like it more.

As for Castle Corridor, it is my second place, in Aria's soundtrack. Aria's Clock Tower is another great song. The way that it grows is like an epic song for a "final strike against the enemy's fortress" and still, it is somewhat melancholic.

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Boring game.
They sent everything on the visuals and in making it a copy of every acclaimed or famous game by the time that it was made.
Nothing new, and everything just copied and simplified from various other games.
No identity, and no fun.

Because they were composed by a pair of tits. And they are GOOD songs, no matter who made them.
That is another mistake from the developers of Lords of Shadow. Castlevania IS the msic as much as it is the gameplay and the graphics. No new versions of the classic songs = half of the fun gone.

Still put SotN as my favourite of the series and they should of kept it like the concept art.

Devs should just stop showing concept art ahead of time. It only leads to the inevitable disappointment.

They had to put a disclaimer in the bottom of that pic to avoid the same mistake MN9 did. The game was supposed to be 2.5D from the beginning. Yes, the concept art is beautiful, but the game wasn't supposed to be made that way, which is a shame.

I wish it was that style since it would of fit the game better but it looks decent so far despite the 2.5D.

No. They should use every tool available to make games look exactly like the concept art.

I actually have a Dawn of Sorrow ROM that's patched with:
I'll upload it in the morning.

Don't make me call John "whip Dracs ass" Morris on (you), faggot.
It had great soundtrack too

I believe the randomizer for that has options to do the first two, and playing randomized Dawn is pretty hilarious depending what you enable. No portrait fixing though.

The "PC port" is just an iso of the OG TurboGraph16 Dracula X CD with an old version of mednafen renamed something else along with a pair of .bat files to run it. Bonus points for the ripper to have actually extracted the sound .wav files from the original game and reencoded them in a way that the quality was not damaged while reducing its filesize to around 30mb total.

Not as long as Konami owns the IP.
Only Pachinko machines and Yu-Gi-Oh.

Quality b8 friend

Again, nice b8
If you enjoyed censored blood and Dracula turning into a generic muscle man when he transforms at the end, well that's nice b8

Nothing, he's fishing for (you)s. Play both if you must, but Rondo is superior. XX is missing girls to rescue, for instance, and the Dracula boss fight is objectively one of the worst.

If you're a pleb.

I poked at the rom with a hex editor. According to a gamefaqs item guide that datamined the object data, I imagine it would be fairly easy to reverse engineer the monster data and make cards a fixed drop.

You could go a step further and randomize drop locations, or even dss effects. Eg 0,0 is the fire whip, 100 is the skeleton transform. But who says you couldn't change the mapping and end up with eg Venus and Serpent summoning a cockatrice?

Throw in a rebalanced leveling mod and youve made it great again

Here is Castlevania episode one, for your viewing pleasure, in Gameboy-Advance-O-vision.

I still can't believe they thought trying to put out two episodes of various shows per cartridge was a good idea all those years back.

What about this one?

Do you not take collision damage from Dracula himself?

Episode 2

I never knew they did that, the final product must've been pretty low quality

Damn, that is a pretty terrible boss fight.

Episode 3.

What is a man?!

You mean the msx one?

Episode 4

I wonder who animated this show. Those actions scene feel very similar to Sword of the Stranger's.

Powerhouse Animation Studios

There's a difference between challenging and bullshit; XX Dracula is retarded in that he fires offscreen, plus once you get used to the gaps between the columns, it goes from being hard to tedious busy work to hit him, the offscreen projectiles being the only challenge. It's a boss fight that's somehow bullshit and boring at once.

Oh look, it's this whiny nigger who ignores that the last CV was in fact a Classicvania.

They tried making a 3D vania in the laziest way possible; by converting an abandoned Clive Barker game into a shitty god of war clone in the hopes that it would attract a bigger audience

It hurts

I won't judge that subseries quality, but I can tell you it's a CastleVania in name only.

I wish EA followed this path, created new IPs 100% about gambling and abandon old raped franchises.

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What did you think of Dracula X Chronicles? I haven't played it in a long time but remember the 3D environments not being annoying.

It wasn't annoying but it wasn't helpful. Richter moves as if he had hemorrhoids, and everything is floaty. I didn't hate it, but it was the first nail in my hatred for 2.5D along the PSP Ghost and Goblins, although that was simply better.

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Here it is. I call it Dawn of Sorrow: Definitive Edition.

Oh shit, first I've heard of this.

My nigga. I felt awesome beating it this year as Eric, gotta beat it with John Morris now The soundtrack was awesome even if it didn't use all of the Genesis sound channels, as this video explains

What was wring with it?
Also, every Metroidvania should have a luck mode like SOTN did

Literally doesn't work- no matter how high you raise it, and I can attest to this because again- I ran the entire game with nothing but the highest luck boosting items when I tried to grind for souls.

Guess what faggot? That's confirnatuon bias. Its perfectly possible to max luck and get no drops, statistically

It's still broken. Luck raises drop rates very little. 39 luck raises the zombie soul drop rate by 2.94 percent. 99 luck raises it by 2.97 percent. The developers goofed the formula, so that raising luck barely matters for soul drops.

It was bugged and didn't function probably, in short.

Yeah but this has been borne out through actual testing by the TASers. At least in Aria of Sorrow. Apparently Dawn is the same. They definitely fixed it in PoR because there's the item that tells you your actual odds.

Strange that the anime would have an anti religious tone when the games actually had it mostly in a positive light.

(((WONDER WHY, user?)))

The anime is written by a pajeet also.
It is complete garbage with only the name and aesthetics of the franchise.
A good Castlevania production MUST be a japanese only production at this point, with no westerners involved.
Also: Christianity is the main source of good in the games. Anything that contradicts that is automatically trash.

its as if they wanted it to fail.

How do you feel about The Lecarde Chronicles 2?

The scene of the demon talking to the priest and the holy water of the priests that werent thugs working should be enough to show you what they are trying to imply.

Warren Ellis is a pajeet?

Pretty sure user meant this piece of garbage who worked with shitty remakes like the edgy Power/Rangers reboot. Anything this Pajeet is involved in is guaranteed to be edgy garbage, such as castlevania. Warren Ellis is also a hack, though, reminder that he wrote the god awful Marvel Animes. Guy is hit or miss.

This shit argument was used many times when the damn thing came out and was debunked every time. The church itself is responsible for all the massacre there, the problem is not how they depict religion, since there's also the holy water scene, but how they depict the church

then why didn't they use the term producer?
anything related to (((tv))) or (((comic books))) is likely AIDS infested.

user is probably a faggot too, but I remember an interview where the guy claimed to be co-writer, plus, he always brings the shitty reboots he writes himself.

But that is the objective truth.

The point was that the local clergy was corrupt and power hungry, earned the haate of both god and dracula, so wasnt protected by god when things happened.
You can see a difference in clothing between the thughs and the actual priests, religion at large isnt muh ebil, nor is the catholic faith, but the clergy of wallachia was corrupted and abandoned god.

No it isn't, specially when dealing with normalfags. Normalfags who believe this are fedoras, just look at Warren Ellis.

Bullshit, and even if that was the message they wanted to give it just doesn't show, as I said, it's just 2 scenes that show "hey, maybe god and religion isn't that bad", but the rest shits on both of them, particularly with how edgy Trevor himself is.
I don't understand why even defend the damn thing, specially since there's no Grant.

Because people nowadays cant catch subtlety for shit.
You need huge lights and fireworks and everything explained to you, if they wanted to say that religion was bad and christianism was bullshit, the moments where faith and religion triumphed over evil wouldnt be there at all.

That isn't subtlety, faggot. Subtlety would mean they made small allusions toward the fact, but they didn't, instead, they did this
Eat shit.

I don't watch Holla Forums expectantly Netflix and I don't read Holla Forumsmic books. I just remembered that I thought someone once said Harlan Ellis wrote the Castlvania cartoon. It wasn't until this thread did google inform me that I was infarct incorrect.

Wich is precisely what they did, specially the lengthy part of the demon speaking with the corrupt priest.
He goes on a lenghty explanation as to why the acts of the corrupt clergy had disgusted god, therefor stating that god is good in nature and protect those loyal to him, indicated by the holy water being actually effective in the first place, along with silver and salt.

That's anything but subtle. They only did it because they shat on God and Religion during the whole thing. It's not subtlety, it's a shitty disclaimer at best.

But they did not, again, the priests that made the holy water were part of the official clergy, not the armed thughs that the corrupt wallachians had running things, and god is painted with a possitive light.
Trevor at the beggining is extremely butthurt about being excomunicated, but by chapter 4 you can see him acting heroic and using actual holy tools.

All of this could be done with cultists that have nothing to do with the church, as it was in the games.
This piece of shit animated series is anti-christianity from the start, as are it's sub-human creators.

Are you implying that this kind of bullshit did not happen in real life?
Tht corrupt clergy trying to gain more control was inexistant?
Things dont need to be constantly fellating religion and the organized church to have religion painted in a positive light, the facts are there in the series, god is good, he cares for those loyal to him and faith has actual power against evil, whilre the decadent and corrupt disgust god and eventually pay for their sins.

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Forgetting order of ecclesia are we?
And im sure there are more instances of this through the games.

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The whole thing is about how the church pissed off Dracula while being needlessly cruel and ignorant while also being tyrants. Are you dumb or something? God is barely mentioned except by the fucking demon at the end and by the church guys.
While in the other 3 chapters he didn't have a problem badly hurt if not straight killing people. But it's alright because he changed in chapter 4.

Who gives a shit if it happened in real life or not? The problem is that the games, even the Jap scripts, never shat on the church. These faggots use the series as a vehicle for their fedora tier beliefs.
This is a really fucking shitty adaption more than anything, and you're a fedora yourself for defending it.

Ecclesia is not the chuch, faggot, Ecclesia is a fucking cult. The only instance of the church being "bad" is truly excommunicating Trevor, but once shit hit the fan, they actually send Sypha, who is a witch working with the damn church, to aid Trevor. Just like in this "adaption", am I right?

I've only ever played SotN because of all the praise and found it easy and fairly boring - what else should I try?

If you didn't like SOTN you probably won't like half the franchise. Try Castlevania 3, if you find it easy, try the original. Nothing can cure your shit taste, though

Therefore disproving that religion is evil you dumb, butthurt bastard, they are obviusly trying to imply that the clergy of wallachia was corrupt and angered both god and dracula.
Wich im sure he will do more of in the future, since he never attacked a person just because, in all instances he was either protecting somebody or getting attacked first.
Im actually a practicing christian, homever im not a zealot and i analyze shit before jumping to conclusions and shitting on things like a monkey because he got triggered.
Funded by the god dammed church to fight dracula after the belmonts stopped being around to constantly kill his ass.

Depends, do you want more metroidvanias or try the classics?

'the church' being a corrupt few

a metroidvania. I played SotN after Hollow Knight looking for something similar.

Kill yourself, fedora tipper. The message is clearly that the church is shit except (((some))) unspecific things about it, and only in really minor almost inconsequential points of the story. The whole thing could have gone on without the scene with the demons or the MENTION of the holy water, which means it's not subtlety, it's a disclaimer at best to convince fedoras that "nah, they didn't meant that".
No it wasn't. Those organizations were born because of Dracula, and there isn't a mention of the church funding them, and even if that wasn't the case, there's a difference between the church itself, SUCH AS FUCKING WALLACHIA CHURCH, and some cult.

Yeah, right, after the whole parade and the damn thing being an important place for it.

Play Aria of Sorrow or Order of Ecclesia.

>The message is clearly that the church is shit except (((some))) unspecific things about it, and only in really minor almost inconsequential points of the story
But that's completely true

Yes you dense fuck, because god actually protects the faithfull and punishes the corrupt, the peasants that listened to trevor and followed the faithfull clergy survived and also learned how to fight the monsters.

Which is the whole fucking church, you fucking dumb ass. The priest who helps with the holy water is not part of the church because of this. You sound like a dumb catholic.

See

You DENSE motherfucker, it sure as fuck isnt, as the clergymen that bless the water obviusly show.
They are not random fucks, they are clerygymen that have nothing to do with the corrupt wallachian clergy and therefore dress diferently and walk around without any weapons.

Let's forget the fact that there was a fucking parade celebrating the entirety of the fucking church in episode one because some nobody did holy water.

Are you forgetting that the people that blessed the water were, as trevor said, properly appointed?
The thugs were thughs dressed as monks working for the corrupt clergy that lusted for power, not proper catholics.

Yes, once, and as a shitty disclaimer. As I said, it was a random nobody, not part of the church but something along the lines of "the way of god".

It was an actually appointed by the vatican, pius and faithfull priest, therefore showing that the problem is the corrupt wallachian church, wich also shows when the glass shard kills the archbishop, as he was corrupt and god did not protect him from his fate.

There was never a single mention of this. That priest had a single line, which was
And that was about it. The arcbishop was THE representative of the vatican, faggot.

Wich wasnt that, stop spreading misinformation.
Trevor asked for a properly appointed priest, something wich that priest was, unlinke the thughs working for the bishop.
Who was fucking corrupt, therefore getting killed too, while the pius were saved.

Can we stop talking about netflix garbage and talk about actual good stuff to come out of this series?

I think it was pretty obvious that religion wasn't portrayed badly at all. In fact, I got quite the opposite vibe and was delighted when I watched the show, because I expected edgy shit which it mostly wasn't.

How is that different, you fucking fuck. He might as well could have asked for them to rise their hands and it would have been the fucking same. What makes you think the other priests weren't properly appointed too but felt for corruption just like the bishop was? Because those are the facts the show presents.
Making the fucking vatican corrupt too by extent, you fucking faggot.

Congratulations, you're as gullible as a normalfag.

"Real life".
Yeah, i'm not the type that thinks that a cartoon is the same as real life, you leftist failure.
I want the adaptation to follow the source material.
AND, Christianity HAS to be presented in a good light, yes. Just beacause some degenerate tried to undermine the religion does not mean that Christianity is a bad thing.

Deal with it.

Yes, let's get the one game that is different, among a whole franchise, and use as an example. Just great. Why not base the cartoon on the patchinko already, am i right?

This one understood it completely.

Also, they shit on the church but praise a "god". What "god" is it? Certainly not the only true God, given the producers and writers of this piece of shit.

ALSO, in the game's cannon (that is the only thing that matters when adapting Castlevania) the villagers and the church are always good, harassed by Dracula and his cultists. Anything different from that is shit.

Agreed on the "stop talking about Netflix garbage".
Afterall, Christianity is a good religion for successful people, and the only one that matters.

And that is why you are a failure.

OH YES GOOD WESTERN MAN I MIGHT JAPAN SAMURAI GIVE YOU WHOLE 4 INCH DICK TO PLEASE YOU BOYHOLE.
I WILL FULFILL YOUR DREAM FOR DEFENDING THE EMPERORS HONOR.

In entertainment, Japan is superior to the west.
Deal with it.

That's why DaS2 and 3 are phenomenal, why Capcom makes wonderful games, Nintendo created the Switch.

yeah, because EA activision and bioware are so much better right?

No but the point is worshipping nip shit is just the same mindless consumerism that allowed EA to form.

You don't think about shit at all, you just post here to think you're around company.

Call me as you want since i've never played a damn castelvania one my life but I'll need the sauce on that.
Not even a like, just a name, cause "Carrie Corrupted" just send me to weird ass sexual fantasy aboult love story with a male vampire and his apparently magnificent penis.

I just wanted to play a nice game with a cute loli in it And I've already finished A Hat In Time

I would do unspeakable things to Carrie while kissing her and gently stroking her hair.

Only time the church got favorable view was Simon's Quest (The recovery mechanic) and Aria of Sorrow (the Church cleaning their shit up long enough to work with moon people to seal Castlevania in the sun). All other times it's shown as broken (burning medicine women), useless (not being able to defend cities against Dracula's armies), or flat-out corrupted (Ecclesia to a limit, Shaft. Not to mention the Belnades/Fernandez family by and large are outcasts the church only called on because they were constantly getting their shit pushed in. That's Charlotte, Sypha, and the hot blond all at once. Not to mention the fact the Belmonts were repeatedly excommunicated everytime a cardinal or bishop got full of themselves).

Explain yourself.
Nevermind, you're just dumb.

who is this guy and why do I keep seeing him posted

give me a quick rundown

Nigga go actually dig in the lore before running your mouth.

High fucking cardinal that went rogue when he couldn't get his way

Was able to fund Ecclesia through orphans and church donations

THE CHURCH BURNED HECTOR'S WIFE. A NUN WHO HELPED ORPHANS THEN MARRIED A EDGMANCER SEEKING REDEMPTION. BURNED HER GOOD. Implied that if Isaac's sister (who helps you in the game) is ever found, then she gets a burnin' too. Did we also mention Saint fucking Germain is in the game and actively fucks with Hector's quest of bloody revenge? Not help, hinder. How saintly of him.

The games don't have the church clean their acts for real until Portrait of Ruin, where Charlotte's technically an outcast from the church working with Jonathan, and Aria where they swallow crow and help the moon miko and Buckaroo Belmont put the demon fortress inside the eclipse.

Ooh, I never knew this bit about Schaft.
I just thought he was a cultist or something.
Can you give the source for the info?

"canon"

I thought the series was decent one of the better adaptations in a while, one thing I've wondered did the transition to metroidvania from the classic make you enjoy or hate the series more?

PORTRAIT OF RUIN is best.

Don't forget the mob that lynched Lisa on a fucking cross, as we see in Alucard's nightmare. And, according to III's prologue, the Belmonts were pretty much outcast by everyone, until Dracula showed up and the Church didn't have anyone else to turn to.

That's because Hector was supposed to give into his anger, kill Isaac, and become a host for Dracula, according to the timeline, which is why Germain tries to stop him. When he beats Germain, Germain realizes that things seem to be going differently this time, so he stops hindering Hector. Not to mention, Christianity, as a whole, is generally against seeking revenge, especially violently. You know, the whole forgiveness thing?

The worst examples are still better than any "movie-like experiences" full, of feminism and marxism from the current western companies.

The witch burners are ALWAYS the common people worshiping (or being a part of) the cults.
Christianity is the force of good.
Cultists and Dracula are the forces of evil.
That goes for every game.
Whenever a "clergymen" is corrupt and evil, he is always revealed to be a cultist infiltrated into society or the church itself.
The church and Christianity are never the source of evil in the games.

Shaft went rogue. NOT THE CHURCH that made him do it. The corruption of humanity is one of the main themes, as well as how Christianity and human faith are the main forces of good that fight said corruption.

Barlowe and (((Isac))) - Same thing. Cultists and manipulators. Not the church actively being evil for the sake of it or for widespread corruption. It is always the actions of rogue individuals and cultists.
Witches are burned down for being witches or to not obeying the teachings of the church. "Not obeying" implying being evil and manipulative. Burning them was the right course of action, even if some of them were innocents (even non-witches), as all conflicts take the lives of some innocents to allow humanity to thrive.

Yes, and wich village is that? The one closest to Dracula's castle. Also they tell you clearly that their hate for Simon is for the curse that Dracula put on the region after Simon fought him in the first game. Even if done for good, Simon IS responsible for things getting worse for everyone in Castlevania II.

As for LOI, yes, it IS wrong to leave your position in a holy war to pursue personal interests. Leon WAS wrong in pursuing Sara. It is so difficult to understand that most of main characters from Castlevania ARE responsible, directly or indirectly, for the overall misfortunes that falls upon them? That is the main theme of the series: always individuals that committed mistakes and were blamed for everything bad (most of the times, justifiably) that happened in to the common people around them.

Again: she was seen as a witch AND SHE WAS ONE OF DRACULA'S "WIVES". Reason enough to burn her alive.
Forgiveness in Christianity is only for those seeking forgiveness and that SHOW acts of selfless good deeds. Not for those perceived as enemies of God.

Also, forgot this: everytime that the townsfolk act in fits of rage against "innocents", either those are the ones perceived as evil OR there is a cultist (or entire cult) manipulating the people and even the church within.
But the people by themselves and the church itself, along with Christianity, are never the main source of evil.
It always boils down to manipulative rogue individuals.

I actually do agree with you. From the DS games PoR have to be the best and strongest one, even when people fellate OoE, even when OoE is indeed good, but here is the thing, the game had more modes, more hidden items, more variety of items, and the ability to play as 2 characters at the same time with different play style. It was fucking nuts. It was still really held back, but the what could have been is beautiful.

Not really, the difference is that Gaijin worthless opinion is irrelevant to nips. Nips can make shit decisions on themselves, I won't argue that, but they are not affected by Gaijin opinion. In fact, they are shit mostly when Gaijin opinion matters, fucking westaboos, look at Con Man.

No shit.
No shit. Also, there's no fucking association to the church, you dumb fuck and his organization was more of a fucking satanic cult than anything else, who managed to trick Shanoa and probably anyone involved.
They also burned Lisa, so what? But in-game the whole thing is really vague, so vague that it isn't even clear.

The series doesn't have enough substance regarding story to make a series, so they have to make shit up. If the series was to be true to the games, it would be limited exclusively to an action show, or an intellectual shonen as each belmont has its own season and grows against adversity surviving inside the castle, as they meet strange creatures and characters and each stand alone is a fight or the character grows

That should've been the main concept for Castlevania as a TV series, pretty much a jojo-clone with the belmont clan instead, and the gameplay being the main concept for each season (Trevor is friends abilities, Simon is tools, Soma would be soul consumption) and use said gameplay for narrative and substance ideas, kind of how Star Trek uses sci fi to create potential for writing material and character growth.

The Netflix castlevania is shit for anyone with standards. The only nice thing about it is that they bothered playing with the IP. but netflix is really retarded when it comes to execution. See: Death note movie

Pretty much this. My problem is not that they made shit up, is that the shit they made up is barely relevant to the fucking game series.

Also, where the fuck is Grant?

If it wasn't some of the bugs, i would agree with you.

This.
The whole western industry is run by propagandists and the businessmen are only their vanguard.
I will chose any business run BY businessmen anytime, instead of the propaganda-driven mess that we have in the west now.
Not a good option, but still better than have marxists trying (and failing to) impose their failed ideals upon all people.
Another note on the force of good that is Christianity in Castlevania: Alucard's mother was burned alive because she fucked Dracula. To the eyes of anyone, she was an evil witch that gave birth to a half "demon".
She even forgave her "killers", because she understood her mistake. And asked Alucard to also forgive them, and explined that Dracula was the true evil, implying that she KNEW that SHE was the wrong doer when she fell for his seduction.
Alucard also understood that and never took any kind of revenge against humans. Instead, he fought to destroy Dracula and even began to protect humans.
If you consider Legends as canon, he even loved a human woman.
The humans themselves, the church itself, are never evil.
Evil lies in selfish individuals that become cultists, and human FAITH IN CHRISTIANITY is what brings evil down. Be it by humans themselves, or by Christian teachings as Alucard's mother taught him.

THIS!
Castlevania as a shonen-like series would be perfect.
Also, Netflix IS one of the worst companies when it comes to execution. Afterall, they are also propagandists, as almost all western entertainment.
They took a famous name, put a street-shitter in the production team and released an anti-Christianity series with the sole purpose to make it a vessel for their propaganda.

You are seriusly dense if you cant note the difference.
The "priests" we had seen thus far werent even real priests, hence why trevor asked for an actual, proper priest, you cant notice things for shit.
They are both part of the church, but the ones dressed in brown werent actual priests and were corrupt, power hungry thughs, while the more traditional priests were actually pius and were thus blessed by god.

Thanks for making any kind of argument with you fruitless.

How about instead of a god of war clone the lords of shadows series was about a vampire hunter who fights using his bare hands and wrestling techniques? Like instead of whipping succubi he pulls a chokeslam on them, doing piledrivers on Death, German Suplex on Dracula, etc.
And instead of this absurdly depressing and retarded story the Lords of Shadow games had how about just have the dude go against dracula, cheesy promos optional.
Yes I'm still pissed off how Satan pumped iron and you don't get to fight him.

How about we just get nice whip physics and combos instead while using items like in the classicvanias?

Thoughts in Bloodstained thus far?
Doesn't look as bad as I feared it'd be, but doesn't look nearly as good as it could, though.
I like that you can see all of your equipment on you, that's gotta add a cool aspect to exploration.

Ain't gonna happen. GOW ruined 3d whips/chains

Gas all fedoracucks

youtube.com/watch?v=v1OhsiZjpww
Can I have sauce on that loli game pls?

So, why isn't there a gay term for these 3D games? DevilMayVania? GodOfVania? VaniaOfWar? BayoVania? VaniaOWar? HackNSlashNVania?

Only if you are a born-shit leftist that hate Christianity because you want a scapegoat for of your own failures.

For now, only the music is good.
They really should have gone with "fuck it" and made a not-a-Belmont-but-yes-it-is, with the main character, and not some girl that looks like a Mary Sue in archetype in progress.

It can always happen. By fan games, by illegal products or even by companies that copy Castlevania and don't not give a fuck.

For real. Kill the ones near where you live. Everyone doing that contributes to speed up the cleansing.

Some of the old music was had an air of elegance, which was the point since the games were based on Victorian themes of vampires and other horrors.

Instead of feminine, it'd be more accurate to categorize them as lively songs. Whatever that music director was thinking was not about being manly, it was about edginess and darkness, which really doesn't suit the operatic theme of the japanese series.

Because honestly the whole thing came off as a stage opera. The classy character costume design, the airs of nobility in both the villains and heroes, the weapon choices of the whip, sword and the like like an imitation of an old fantasy novel hero.

If he really wanted to be manly, orchestral wasn't really the best choice, he could have taken it into a rock-opera theme for the music instead of the generic vague and slow tones of an untalented hack.

These fucking fops don't understand the importance of melodic centered music. All feeling and no structure makes a musician any beginner could imitate. There's such a lack of expertise in the arts these days.

To spot a hack, look for the "person" that talks about how the previous work is inferior, and how he/she will improve on it.
Always avoid anything with those kind involved.

Another goo example of the greatness of SOTN's melodies:

hooktube.com/watch?v=NjAYc7NShR8

IGA has a hateboner for him or something. He didn't get represented in Dawn of Sorrow's extra mode either.

IGA have nothing to do with the Netflix show.

Amusingly Fromsoft came much closer to a 3D Castlevania type experience than Konami ever did with it's LoS games.

Any info on that?
Why he hates the best character from Castlevania 3?

See also Star Trek Sexually Transmitted Disease

Not on Netflix in the US, it's only on Netflix outside of the US due to CBS' Netflix clone being US exclusive for now.
They really should have just hired Seth.

The show, while looking relatively well made, is shit. It tries to paint Christianity in a negative light even though it was unanimously a source for good all throughout the franchise.

not Christianity, just the Church and probably just Catholics in particular

Is ReBirth only on the Wii shop? Is it any good?

Catholicism is still a sect of Christianity, user

Are you retarded?

And not the entirety of Christianity either. That particular message of the show is rather aimed at power brokers using deus vult as a justification for everything, not at making fun of people for having faith.

And criticizing a sect isn't criticizing a whole. You can say a certain group of Christians is bad without saying the whole religion is. No one is perfect, and any organization can have its share of corruption.

Rebirth is great, though very different from the original Adventure. Its biggest issue is that it's got IV's physics enabled by default, but you can switch it to more classic physics. And, yes, it's only on wiiware, like the rest of the Rebirth series. Better fire up Dolphin or one of its forks.

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What is this?

Castlevania 64/LoD which are both largely shat on because AVGN lied like Todd Howard about it

The time Holla Forums tricked an autist, that wanted to sell a horrible texturepack for Legacy of Darkness, into thinking he was being told to stop by Konami.

Yamada Hiroshima is the only Holla Forums approved merchant

Is he still trying to buy the rights to his wolf husbando?

I really like the Sorrow games, Order of Ecclesia and CoyM for metroid and I,III and Rondo of Blood for classic

I really liked the series, it's not too heavy on references which makes it enjoyable even if you didn't play the game. Some of the animation was good and some was lackluster. What I really didn't like was the music, I'm not saying you should use all the music from the games but Vampire Killer here, Heart of Fire there would've been nice, or maybe some original music that sounded like Castlevania (did the show even had any music? I can't remember). Also where the fuck is Grant.

Guy an hero'd himself in the middle of a kangaroo court for war crimes.

Probably because Grant wasn't progressive enough.

There's also contra rebirth, but that's about it **if you don't count pokemon ranch for it's time.

Bloodstained I feel will be like Yooka-Laylee. An okay game, but a disappointment. Yooka-Laylee is often memes to be bad, but it's quite fun. It's just that there were a few issues that hindered it from achieving heights.

This I feel will be bloodstained.

Since people asked for a SOTN clone, I'm sure it's going to be ok. Maybe not amazing, but ok. However, one of the promises is making the biggest castle ever done even by castlevania standards, so there's that's, whereas Yooka-Laylee is a 1:1 Banjo. The reason people liked a Hat in Time is because it aimed to be Banjo Kazooie, but bigger and better, with a different concept. Of course, I don't exactly feel that from Bloodstained either, but that's alright because
I don't want them to get too creative, I just want SOTN on steroids.

This all anyone on Holla Forums or elsewhere wants if they can manage that task I think even Holla Forums would be happy.

Hey, I'm stuck on the levels following the fight with those mummies. Once I get past those swan fucks carrying the apes, I have to fight a couple of those dragons and then fight some bastard who carries one of those monkeys except it also flies around and breathes fire.
And if you lose just the 5 lives you should have at this point, you're dropped right back at the beginning of the water level.
This is the only part of the game where I usually lose lives, and it's even drawn me to the point of using continues. Does anyone have any advice, or stupid cheats to kill them? I know you can walk right past the first one, but there doesn't seem to be any good method to avoiding the others' fire, and you're dropped right into the boss with no turkeys, from what I've seen. I'll keep grinding at it, but this is making me pull my hairs out. I've got to be missing something, right?

You're the reason fedoras and Castlevania's iteration of Dracula exist. Christianity is bullshit btw. Just because normalfag bazinga theory retards have been convinced to go against Christianity doesn't automatically make Christianity good. People who understand science and logic understand why religion is false. Normalfags have an understanding of evolution equivalent to Mr. Garrison in the Richard Dawkins episode of South Park to the point that they can't even give a proper definition of evolution without googling for it, let alone understand radiometric dating or redshift, but that doesn't mean those concepts proving a multibillion-year-old universe are invalid. Normalfags are virtue signalers who abandoned Christianity because liberal media outlets screamed about "muh gays" despite liberals being insanely bigoted fuckwits in myriad other ways, and who now cite scientific ideas they have no knowledge of to support their SJW shit. As soon as liberals fuck up bad enough they'll probably go right back to religion because they're fucking morons who are completely incapable of independent thought. Unfortunately, so are many of the people opposed to them, including and especially you.

t. scientist who would get burned at the stake by the Church in 1476 for questioning "muh jeezus" dipshits

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Did you ever get caught?

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Absolutely nigger-tier. Gas yourselves, biblecucks.

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Religion is not the opposite of science. Knowing that water flows downhill or that the earth is flat does not give you any special insights how to live your life, how to interact with other people or which ideals to follow. That is where religion comes in.

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I'm a physicist who dabbled in chemistry for spectroscopy research and currently a professional operations analyst (statistics and decision analysis have been a whole new frontier for me) and I can tell you're an insufferable faggot who doesn't umderstand faith.

Are you guys baiting me by responding to tor bait?

Religion doesn't teach any of that though.

What exactly is the difference between you faggots and Black Lives Matter?

Faith is believing in something that can't be proven. If someone wants to do that on their own time that's fine, but these shitters said we should burn innocent people for not praying to jebus. Faith isn't an excuse for that.

Where in the bible does it say that innocent people should be burned for not praying to Jesus?
Worldly authorities =/= christianity.

That's exactly what religion does and it's one the things atheists complain about the most. "Jesus doesn't want me to masturbate? Preposterous!"

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It's just one of those things people tend to read into it that isn't actually there. I've read the Bible front to back, which is more than 99% of self-professed Christians. Religion does have some guidelines on how to live, but can it really be called teaching if those guidelines are retarded? You can tell some kindergartener that 2+2=5 and that'd be telling them information, but I wouldn't call that teaching. "Don't masturbate" is supremely retarded and nobody follows it anyway, even the most devout Christians.

Since I'm on Tor, somebody post pictures of Phyllis Schlafly and Jerry Falwell for me.

Is portrait of ruin any good? Of the DS games I gave Dawn and Ecclessia a shot and I didn't finish either. Dawn just felt clunky and awful to play compared to Aria and I'm not entirely sure why I didn't finish Ecclessia or why I disliked, if I even did.

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PoR is my favourite of the three despite its two-player gimmick nonsense and crappy anime-styled artwork. But you probably won't get into it if you didn't like the other two DSvanias. The first two are also fun games to sequence break in.

Also bible thumpers and fedoras need to fuck off.

I want at least part of the game to take place outside the castle. Which I'll give a bit of credit to some of the worst Castlevania games for doing, namely CV64 and LoS.

Were just making fun of you for being a faggot who needs to go back to cuckchan.

I wouldn't mind this.

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Deus vult IS faith.

The source of corruption are failed individuals. Not the organization or faith.
The cartoon portrait the church itself as the source of corruption. It is anti-Christianity as a whole, portraiting the main christian group as corrupt, and good people are only good when AWAY from said group.

Yes, we should.
See fags and other abominations. They are killed for their choices, as it should be.
also: "someone that we don't like", in the game equals to THE Lord of Darkness that curses the land, suck blood from people and summons demons, undead, Death itself to ruin the lives of innocent people. Yes, it WAS the right thing to kill any woman that had an affair with Dracula.
You said the 101 Fedora tipping leftist text right there in your post.
You ARe a shitborn leftist. A failed being.
Christianity IS good by itself, as is any religion that giver purpose and practical (and yes, killing failed beings IS practical) teachings to people.
Science vs religion? Yeah. Fedora leftist found.
Science can question anything.
But no one can defame the faith in Christianity and live long.
Questioning for the sole purpose of defaming is what got those (((scientists))) burned alive. True science does not fight faith. It works along with it.
You don't like to be judged and "burned alive" by functional humans for being a failed waste, snowflake? Too bad. Life is not for you, nor will you enjoy it.

The moment that those "people" (they aren't) defame the practical teachings of said faith, they ceased to be innocent and it IS ok to burn them alive.
Faith is about following ideals and self-improving at the same time as eliminating failures that devalue humanity as a whole.
Teachings that lead people that way are good and practical and not to "prove" anything. Just to guide so people avoid being failures as leftists and other shitborns.

LoS isn't a particularly bad game but it's a bad Castlevania game. CV64 is just bad even though I still get some enjoyment out of it.

tl;dr go away I say.

No. Kill failures for their choices in life, i say.

You don't own this site.

Neither do you torfag.

that's what you think, I'm agnostic if anything and I don't masturbate

What makes 64 bad?

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We own everything.
Go back to cuckchan, you fatherless soyboy.
Watch out for Dodgers on your way there.

Correction: Nobodies like you masturbate, while real men get your girls and discard them. And even after that, they don't want you.

Controls and camera. The basic set of N64 games. To me, Lament of Innocence improved the controls in regards to combat to almost perfection, upon the N64 titles.

It's an early 3D platformer, and it shows with its awkward camera and controls, platforming glitches, crappy level design, and bad performance. Some of the boss fights are pretty obnoxious too, especially the final ones, most of them have long invincibility states that don't make sense. The epitome of awfulness is the castle center for having a long tedious fetchquest to blow up a broken wall, including the trek where you have to get nitro to it without jumping, falling, or getting hit. Then when you get it there you find out the wall is magically protected and you have to find some obscure method to break the seal, and of course, do the nitro fetchquest again. Also until you get used to it there's certain foibles in the controls, like the way you can dodge hop by pressing stick and jump, which usually serves to ruin an attempted jump over a pit.

Legacy of Darkness improves certain parts over the original, mostly in the level design (compare the clock tower in particular), and adding a new intro stage, but it also locks the original duo (Carrie!) behind finding secret items in Henry's story, who (except in Japanese versions) is locked behind beating Cornell's story.

If you decide to give it a try, avoid Reinhardt. He doesn't play all that well in 3D. The other 3 are a lot more manageable.

Fuck you my response is better and isn't loaded with Holla Forums faggotry.

Mods are little bitch ass niggers.

Go back to >>>/cuckchan/

Found your dad yet, soyboy? Don't forget to impress the girls with your lack of manhood so they can be taken by real men.
Pol rules the world.

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It honestly just makes you look like an idiot because it implies that you're incapable of responding to any points raised against you. It's a gayer version of the smug anime face, but the only reason smug anime faces work in the first place is because they are posted after the argument has already been won while the idiot who won't accept that he got reamed keeps sperging out. You're being smug and self satisfied without cause to do so, so it makes you look a shit.

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You lost the argument as soon as you said god was not real

lmao

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this

Paganism is the white man's religion, not the abrahamic horseshit that is cuckstianity

lol, talk about being insecure

What genres of music is castlevania?
And I mean all of castlevania. The sweet organ tracks, the manly upbeat pump up tracks, the insanely classy SoTN ones and the spoopy ones like the abandoned mines one.

Holy shit faggots from cuckchan or /leftycuck/ legit can't handle the bantz!

It depends on who composes for the games.

I think if it's that same tor autist who posts in Holla Forums. The way he behaves is strikingly similar.

The guy hopping ids sperging about how there is no god not getting we are posting fedoras to trigger him?
To be on topic Rainbow cemetery is one of the best tracks in

Sounds like him.

I never got this one. Mario 64's camera has killed me more times and that's considered a classic

imagine a castlevania game, with tight mechanics like SoTN or Portrait of Ruin, and 2d graphics like Dragon's Crown or Odin Sphere….holy fuck

why aren't they doing this?
why do castlevanias have to have subpar 2D graphics or ugly 3d?

Lol letfist thurds that get beaten wherever they go and still lose all the women. Even the feminist ones lmao

Here comes the fag that watches some viking tv show and thinks that aganism is something cool.

Insecure as… a leftist? Don't like christianity? Too bad. Either you accept it or will be punished and even killed for being a failure at life.

Most of it is like classical opera, with openings and finalizations that evoke the feeling of the scenes (in this case, the levels) but also with a mixture of styles that the main composer likes.

Another great one, from Lament of Innocence:
hooktube.com/watch?v=5skhBmzOS90

"Considered" by a joint effort of the mainstream (and corrupt) media that pushed this meme to all places. Mario 64 is the prime example of shit camera from N64's 3D games.
As for the two Castlevanias on N64, there are some stages that the camera simply makes it impossible to guess distances and you need to do blind jumps. That alone is infuriating for me.

Konami's fixation with patchinko + Kojimbo draining all the company's money. The Castlevania teams had to use whatever they could, because the company would not care for anything related to Castlevania for a long time.

No. That was a jumbled mess of Classicvania and standard RPG fare. They got better in the GBA and DS installments.
They're pretty good or at least for their platform. Like Aria of Sorrow. The main issue is the asset re-use across games, particularly lazy in CVHD. Even so, I'm salivating at the thought of a Vanillaware-developed Castlevania. Even something like Touhouvania 2 would be nice.

Stop using decent replies as an excuse to glue more of that tired religious hogwash to it.

POST FAVORITE CASTLEVANIA TRACK

AND WHY IS IT HEART OF FIRE

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No. Deal with it. Christianity is here in the thread to stay.

This theme is such a nostalgia ride and at the same time a oumed up and action oriented version of the original ones. One of the best songs in the whole franchise for sure. This version is great.
Going with classics, the best version of Vampire Killer is from Circle of The Moon:

hooktube.com/watch?v=iJI3GKYGJ0M

I know it's a remix but it's greato.

Amen.
The truth shall set us all free
Also Christianity is aesthetic as fuck

THEY DO IT FOR FREE
ABSOLUTELY ZERO COMPENSATION

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user it's almost the new year, can't we all enjoy a cup of some hot chocolate and talk about video games instead of shitposting?

That's funny, the Vatican spent most of its life suppressing truth and progress for centuries until the Enlightenment made us realise how wrong it was.

Go take your jewish psyop and shove it up your ass.

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Of course. We rule everything.
You are nothing.

Videogames AND Christianity. Two great things to talk about in a Castlevania thread. Start getting used to it.

Yeah, sure. The (((Vatican))), and not the jews infiltrated in every society.
Also: enlightenment only promoted faggotry. The Church and priests were the ones keeping records of documents and art. After all, only people with faith and purpose have the mental capacity of learning and understanding the importance of preserving what is practical and eliminating those that are useless to the world.

Amen, brother.
And great taste there with the Crusaders one. Christian-themed aesthetics are beautiful, imposing and great as is Christianity itself.

How do I get inside this room?

You have to disable filters

I need filters so that it looks somewhat decent, although I will agree that maybe this default filter probably isn't the best. Anyway, give me a hint you nigger.

You don't deserve those trips.

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Nigger, the default textures and are stretched out and the colors all bleed together at any resolution larger than a fucking postage stamp so it looks like shit. Having a filter is better than no filter in this instance.

I'll give you a hint because of those trips
so there are three books scattered around the castle.
figure out what they are trying to tell you then beat gram.
your filters are still trash though

Get a pair of glasses and turn off the filter.

How mysterious. I'm guessing it has something to do with the forbidden area.

Yeah, yeah. I get it. You don't like filters.

Here's the game blown up 3 times without filters. Now compare that with blur filters.

Yeah but I usually play with the largest possible resolution. Here, look at this image, this is with a 2x simple filter. I'll admit the previous filter may not be universally appealing, but this one is able to at least make the upscaled image less trash looking.

It's an improvement, as long as you stay away from super eagle or hqx filters you're fine

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Interesting note, what are they planning to do now, since all that church side business is more or less done now? I can see what they where thinking, they didn't want Drac to just seem laughably chaotic evil since that wouldn't be as "compelling" of a character, but the next season is suppose to be 8 episodes of them inside a mansion.

If they did not want Dracula to be just chaotic evil, they could base him on THE FUCKING GAMES, especially Rondo of Blood's and Lament of Innocence's portrayals of Dracula/Mathias.

Most likely they'll meet grant they'd better meet grant and start trekking their way to Big D's crib castle.
What would a Castlevania set in Detroit be like?

Here's another hint. Those titles are the dark souls of puzzles.

yeah because human institutions aren't capable of turning to shit. Hell, it's not like most modern churches disn't become infested with Marxism

Legitimately one of my favorite CV games and yet completely ignored. I like the way it mixed Simon's Quest and typical Igavania exploration elements.

I guess ruling everything includes ruling Tumblr, which makes total sense because you act just like them.

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If you wanted fedora images, just ask.

While as that's neat I have to wonder why the Cyclops isn't in an outdoor ruin?

Whoever directed the VA's needs to be shot. Why are they always mumbling and flubbing their lines? What's Belmont saying when he drops a floor, something something cat?

Individuals. Not the foundations of said institutions.
The Church is good.
In the games, the Church is a force of good, as is faith itself. And rogue individuals are the corrupted. Never the institution.

Torfag complaining about thumblr.
Raping children lately, as all torfags do?
And yes, we rule everything. We can do anything and judge and condemn anyone.

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Sure. Like communism is not about shutting up opposite thoughts, right, lefty soyboy?
We rule, judge and exterminate anything and anyone the undermine humanity's thrive.
You are nothing and are impotent to do anything.
Want to shut me up? Just try it.
You can't. Why? Because you are nothing, of course.

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sup fag

So can we go back to discussing videogames instead of awful Shitflix shows and dead sandnigger religions?

Man I hope Migami step up their graphics because I'd like to see these concept arts done well.
Kind of worried about you serving the ottomans though. Fuck the ottomans

lol

And still, more than anything that you will have in your life.
And don't forget to lend all women to real men, as the soyboy born from shit that you are. I'm sure that your life is doing great with all that lack of power eh? Feefees got hurt, lefty? Can't enjoy life, eh? Can't even shut up some user in an image board eh? Impotency is your only characteristic eh?

Don't want to talk about Christianity here? You don't have any power to stop it.
Christianity is what make the basis for the plot of Castlevania, vampire mythos in general, and what males the world progress in the Right direction in real life? Don't like to talk about it? So what?

The vampire fears the cross

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Back to the games (and good old Christianity Ayame Kojima's art upped the iconography influenced by the religion.
Anybody here that also likes Ayame's art as much as the games themselves?

I hate how she has to make every male character look like a woman.

Definitively the worst side of her art.
But what i like most are the iconography and objects/scenery in her paintings.
And she can draw men properly. See Dracula and Rinaldo, or even Mathias, done by her. She said in an interview that she even prefers to draw old men. I think that unfortunately, it was Iga's or Konami's idea to make the protagonists all fujoshit.

Hit me with some Castlevania fangames. Already played Lecarde 1 &2, and Castlevania fighter. And ZX spectrum.

Castlevania Roguelike

How about Souls-lite ~metroid~ Rogue-vania?

Is that enough shitty made up terms for you?

the marketing is cancer but the game itself is legit good by the way

Yeah it's pretty good.

That looks like a terrible version of Valdis Story.

this looks so bad.

I pirated it because a friend was talking about it and it's not worth half the (((early access))) price.

Castlevania was dead, when Symphony came out and revitalized the series and the genre. But you don't know because you learned of the series history from HG101. After Castlevania 4, the series underwent a decline where any new installment was considered stale and archaic. Learn the actual history of gaming as told by old players, not some teen retrogamers who make up stories.

Three bosses as in the original (and shitty) Metroid?

This.
Nobody asked for "metroidvania" but we liked it anyway.
Someone wants classicvania? Play the older games. It is that simple.

I keep icing him, that's why the wind up is ridiculously slow. The less health he has, the faster he moves and attacks and he even gains immunity to freezing.

fuck the people that try to sell this games as a metroidvania game

I'm messing around with Portrait of Ruin again. It's been ages since I last played it and I remember the environments being really good. Although, I got through the first painting and it's looking pretty bad. It's not nearly as fun as Aria of Sorrow which I just replayed recently. The game also has kind of an uncanny effect on me, where the graphics are too crisp and aren't really colourful. Also the story comes off like a really bad anime.

Hopefully it gets better. The level I remember the best was the forest castle so I guess I'll play until I get there before deciding on whether or not to quit.

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I remember a lot of the game being locked behind quests for that one guy. Like, there's some meat you got from a punching bag or something, it's a unique drop, and if you eat it, you can't complete the quest, and miss out on a ton of shit.
So basically, I never used or sold anything.

I remember the mummy area with the sands, and the underwater boss that gave you a guarding ability

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This is gonna be so cool!!

What if we want new ones.

TOO BAD!

t. metroid fan

castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Hammer

Rather it have died than turn into a shitty RPG that panders to casuals and plebs with unimaginatively dull and flat level designs and gameplay that renders most encounters irrelevant due to how broken your character is. Also, you're wrong, Classicvania games were still getting published after SotN (Legends, the Chronicles remake of the X68K game, and Adventure ReBirth, the last 2D Castlevania game). IGA's crap, along with the 3D games, are a shitstain on the series, and the tards that like them are cancer.

What's that abstract painting in the 2nd pic

City of haze level in Portrait

No, it looks like some weird blur.

Turn off the filters faggot.

Why is there an alien in a wig where Charlotte's portrait should be?

OH! That portrait. It's just some picture I pulled offline. I'm playing it on a DS not emulating.

Nobody cares you fucking cuckold.

With current Konami? They are better left untouched.
Also you want it? You won't get it. Most people are fine with metroidvanias. Both styles are good, so having one take over the other is ok. "Having both" is like a sin to corporations, so don't have hope for it.

Deal with it. We replaced you.

Says that nobody cares and still replied. You were replaced, old man.

Could literally be said about any genre that has gone to shit.
RTS got replaced with MOBAs
Arena Shooters got replaced with SJW corridor shooters
Strategy games got replaced with phone games
Stealth games got replaced with discuck clones

I say this as someone who's only played the handheld Castlevanias and the original on GBA which I found tedious. I don't know if you're baiting or what.

Played only a\ small part of the whole library and calls the preferred style a bad thing.
Replacement happens all the time.
In Castlevania's case, the classic was replaced by something good, and that is ok. We don't need anons sperging about "muh classicvania is ruined by SOTN" when the metroidvania is well received and is good enough (for some, better).

Did you forget to greentext. And when did I call the "preferred" style bad? I just said saying it's more popular now as an argument is fucking retarded.

Not really, redditfag. You got one PSX game and a half dozen rehashes (on portables no less, kek) before that stale formula died off. Even Classicvania lasted longer than your beloved Iga trash. Just accept that you would actually prefer Classicvania if you got gud at games. You need RPG bullshit in order to enjoy Castlevania. Sad!

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You complained that it "ruined" the franchise. And it did not.
Replaced by something good. Deal with it.

Completely replaced to the point that a new entry, without any "remake" or "retelling" of the first games could not even be released.
The formula was "so good" that could not stand on it's own and rellied purelly on nostalgia. And still failed.
Metroidvania replaced it.

Apes and shitskins are delusional about it. They can be genocided by a single disease/artificial virus.
But the replacement of classicvania fans by metroidvania fans is real. Get used to it.

You're wrong nigger. Get used to it

All I did is show how retarded your argument is, and how it could be used for any genre. I didn't even pick a side. I was getting a sneaking suspicion that you're from reddit/cuckchan but now it's obvious.