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The best NES CV, and one of the greatest action RPGs of all time. Trekking though the vast Transylvanian countryside never fails to bring a chill down my spine. Any fans of this game?
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The music was awesome, I'm all about the flame whip.
WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE!
Also, I think without this game SotN wouldn't have been even half as awesome as it was.
Is that the SMT logo in your sig?
That it is, and the name "gozen" comes from a sub-boss in Persona 2.
EP was probably my favorite RPG of all time not too long ago. Planescape torment probably holds that spot for me now though. This writeup here might be of interest to you.
Hey it's xS. I remember you. I've been getting really into EP lately, but now I have to shelve it again for finals. I'll beat it over break though, finally.
The only CV titles that out do CVII are SotN and HoD.
It is a horrible night to have a curse. :)
The boss battles sucked, otherwise I enjoyed it.
I liked CV2 back in the day, but not anymore. It's not stood the test of time very well. I'll take CV1 or CV3.
if konami was serious about making an online castlevania, this is the one to model it after. town to town travel, day/night cycle.. i love the premise, but i somehow don't like the game itself. the puzzles are insane, and it has invisible pits.
oh, and welcome back, xS.)
I really dug the music and the general ambience in CV2. I feel like the different gameplay elements introduced made it superior to the other NES CVs at the time, plus the multiple endings were neat.
I love CV2... it's a wonderful game... but it's not as great as CV3 was.
Castlevania 2 was good but like the other 8-bit Castlevanias, I never considered it an excellent game.
this was probably one of my first NES games. i remember that my dad just bought it out of the blue too. i don't think there was any reason for it, but i took it anyway. figured it was a cool game with vampires and a dude brandishing a whip, but once i played and it turned to night... i shut the system off. it freaked me out cuz i didn't know what was going on. scariest game for me at the time. it was a while before i touched it again, but that time i also had the code for eveything.
the only other game to make me shut the system off in fear was the demo for Silent Hill 1. once you got blocked in at the dead end and those babies came out... *shudders*
I don't think 8-bit get's much better than CV2 & 3. The non-linearity, story, graphics, gameplay and control are all A+ for the time IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
I remember playing CV3 and getting the ability to change into grant the first time I played it. Completely blew me away, one of the few things I remember from childhood :cry:
I only got to play CV2 two years ago and I hated it. None of the puzzle made sense, and I was lost for hours on end. A shame too, cuz I'm a big Castlevania fan and I was really looking forward to it.
I wonder if I would have enjoyed CV2 if I'd played it ten years ago.
Everyone should own a copy of this great classic, this was a time when companies were not afraid to try new things.
Mario 2 was different
Zelda 2 was different
Castlevania 2 was different
These 3 are some of my favorite games ever, and all because they took a chance and shook things up abit.
Yup. I friggin loved this game when it came out. Then I bought it about six months ago and oh man is it crusty. I honestly wonder how many of the people praising it have played it recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
But on the other hand, I've played CV1 and 3 on and off ever since they came out and still think they're great.
Yeah, my experience is somewhat similar. I don't think it's aged well, I couldn't really get into it. Same for Super CV4, actually. And yet Rondo of Blood blew me away. *shrugs*Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
Dude, that mirrors my experience so closely. Castlevania 4 was a major let down. Rondo of Blood (after a lot of money and a lot waiting because the dealer I bought the game from went to New York and forgot out deal) turned out to be awesome. It even blew my friends away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
I rebeat CV 2 in the last 6 months...Quote:
Originally Posted by lithium
4 is a god among games imo... oh well...
Honestly, I can't say I feel CV2 has aged well, either. As a kid, this game was amazing to me... but now? I can hardly be bothered to play it for long. It can't hold me like CV1, CV3, even CV4 can. And for the record, I think CV4 is an awesome game. I was just playing it a month or so back... Lots of fun.
Since I don't feel like paying fucking $100 for any game, no matter how rare, I don't own Rondo of Blood. And considering I still don't have a CD-ROM for either my PCE or my TG16, nor do I have a Duo, I have nothing to play it on at the moment, anyway.
I did play it once, though, not long enough to form an opinion. And I did play through the SNES version/Drac XX, which was an okay game, but I understand it's not the same game. But something tells me for all people jizz over this title, it can't be that damn amazing. I'd like to see a PS1 budget rerelease, because I loved CV Chronicles. I never played the X68000 CV prior, and it introduced the new badass Simon character design.
But you know what? Screw Drac X. I want a remake of CV3 with CV Chronicles-quality graphics. I'd pay $50 for that no problem. :D
Maybe if I have time later on today I'll try to start up some CV2 action. I doubt it'll go well, though. It just doesn't do it for me anymore.
That demo was my first contact with SH in any way, shape, or form.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashen Victor
Scared the hell out of me.
When Resident Evil first came out it did that to me, I hated that shit...
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Originally Posted by JMET
I concur CV4 is freaking amazing still for me
ROndo isnt bad
you can play it emulated on your PC with magic engine if you dont have a Duo to play it on
though i would like to play it on my tv one of these days and i need to get the CD Adon for my TG16 too bad i have yet to see one on ebay or for sale anywhere else for that matter
If you have a Duo there is always the grey market kind. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
True. Most jizzed on games aren't accurately represented. Drac X is. It's the one hyped game that I know of that actually deserves the hype. It's the original Castlevania formula with just the right shots of adrenaline here and there. I love the original formula (metroid-vanias are merely decent), and Drac X did it to near perfection. The best Castlevania.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grave
Drac X going this far without a rerelease is mind boggling. It would sell 5 times what chronicles did, for relatively the same effort.Quote:
I'd like to see a PS1 budget rerelease, because I loved CV Chronicles.
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Super Castlevania 4 is still awesome imho.
I was never a huge fan of CV2, much of the game is too obscure, relying on mindless wandering. Atleast that's how I remember it.
Yeah. Whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
We have all been enlightened by your comment, thank you...Quote:
Originally Posted by Giga Power
Castlevania 2 was pretty amazing back when it came out...there really wasn't anything like it on NES. Even back then, though, it suffered from being terribly easy (in terms of combat) and damned annoying (in terms of puzzle/event cueing.) Still has great graphics and sound, but the gameplay isn't that modern...
Super Castlevania IV and Rondo of Blood, however, are utterly brilliant on every level.
I still play Castlevania II every now and then, mainly for the soundtrack. I generally enjoy the format of the game, but the big killer are the castles themselves. The game was designed to be non-linear, but the castle levels' design always seemed extremely bland compared to other CV titles on the NES.
I dont understand how people couldnt like 4..
Great graphics, brilliant music, a free moving whip people!!!
And the cave stage being one of the best ever. :D
4 is fantastic. It's the turning point when the series went from good to awesome(although Bloodlines devolved it back). The previous games had the atmosphere and music perfect but 4 is when the gameplay took off.
The free-moving whip seemed fantastic at first. But the more you play CV4 you realize that having total whip control made the game very easy at some parts. Enough so to make the game probably the easiest traditional Castlevania (not counting the exploration-based GBA ones). Don't misunderstand me, I love CV4 and worship it's soundtrack. But I can see why the free-moving whip was abandoned in subsequent Castlevania titles like Dracula-X, Akumajou Dracula X68K, Bloodlines (except for Eric's lance), etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMET
I didn't like the free whip. Some limitations are best left as they are, they become a part of the game and much (quality) strategy revolves around them.
I thought the idea of Castlevania 2 was cool but I also thought the game was ass. Couldn't ever get into it, was one of the most vague and random games I've ever played. Why the invisible pits?No it wasn't, Mario 2 was exactly the same as SMB only with different levels. You're thinking of Doki Doki Panic.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMET
While I did play through it, I always though 2 to be the weakest in the NES trilogy of 'vania games.
3 is the best because of Grant DaNasty.
OMG pedantic!Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Castlevania is my favorite gaming series, yet I still don't like CV2 and CV4. Odd.
CV1 > CV3 > BLOODLINES
The gameplay is tight enough to be arcade quality, I don't see why people shouldn't play it.
No shit, dont be such a "anything japanese dry humping dork" :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
IT WAS Mario 2 here in the states.
How sad can people be when they have to say something like that as a form of see me am TEH l33tness...
Sorry I was giving Gozen a hard time. I actually know the guy. Didn't mean to spam it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMET
I always liked Castlevania 2 the best on the NES. I felt that the third game wasn't as good as it could.
In my view the best of the series is (in no order)
Simon's Quest
64/Legacy of Darkness (Doesn't get respect)
SOTN
Aria Of Sorrow
Oh the blasphemy, I can barely take it. Dabnabit, Castlevania is an action/arcade game where one goes through relatively linear levels of a castle, to fight Dracula at the end. Or at least that's the way it should be. Your favorite Castlevanias lacking a "true" vania is interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giga Power
I'm the exact opposite, give me the original style or give me nothing...
(in order)
Dracula X
Castlevania
Castlevania 3
Super Castlevania 4
Huh? At what point did I say I preferred it? At what point did I say I'd even played it? At what point did I say it was better? Oh that's right, I didn't. I said it wasn't Mario 2, because it wasn't. It has nothing to do with what's Japanese and what isn't, it has to do with that it was a relabelled game. You claimed that Nintendo took a chance by having Mario 2 vastly different from the original and that was a wrong statement. Fact. You even just said so yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMET
Mobile Light Force 2 would be a sequel in name to Mobile Light Force in the US, but they have nothing to do with each other. That's not "Japanese dry humping," that's fact. Calling Castle of Shikigami a sequel to Gigawing 2 is merely a case of not knowing the subject matter. However, if you already know a game isn't what the name implies (as you did), then making such statements is merely acting stupid.Quote:
IT WAS Mario 2 here in the states.
The last half of that sentence didn't form anything coherent. Please try again.Quote:
How sad can people be when they have to say something like that as a form of see me am TEH l33tness...
Allow me to nitpick your nitpicking. Telling him that it's Doki Doki Panic is stupid because they released the same game in Japan under the name of Super Mario USA. My Japanese GBA cart of this game is not Doki Doki Panic, it's Super Mario USA. Doki Doki Panic is Doki Doki Panic. SMB2 is not Doki Doki Panic. Neither is Super Mario USA.
Regardless, the fact that this whole argument exists makes me want to puke. Inane bullshit.
MechDeus:
I don't think he actually was inferring that you liked the japanese version of Mario 2 more, I think it was more the fact you were coming across like one of those people that disregard anything that is not the true Japanese name. You know, the kinda people that get huffy when you call Final Fantasy VI; Final Fantasy 3.
The fact Super Mario Bros. 2 was simply a relabelled sprite-raped Doki Doki Panic is inconsequential to JMETs point. It was different, Nintendo took a gamble as there might have been backlash over the huge differences in gameplay. Possibly even more so than if they just released the "Lost Levels", which was simply too hard for us inferior gaijin.
That's how I took it too, hence my response.Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
When I was playing that POS Godzilla game that came out not too long ago, I remember looking at the GameFAQs board... god knows why... and there was someone who basically refused to stop calling Godzilla "Gojira" and Space Godzilla "Supeesu Gojira" or something when he was a native English speaker.
I don't know what the fuck is wrong with some people.
Doki Doki Panic does also have slight gameplay differences that seperate it from the US Super Mario Bros. 2. Besides, Nintendo has rereleased the US Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan as "Super Mario USA" three times now: Famicom, Super Famicom, and GBA.
:lol: That's awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grave
I've seen a guy refer to Nintendo only as Nintendou, because that's the "proper" romanisation.
That annoys the hell out of me sometimes. Just like people who refer to themselves in the third person :yuck:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grave
I took it the way Mechdeus intended it.Quote:
That's how I took it too, hence my response.
And I thought Castlevania 2 was an amazing game when it first came out. I remember I played it quite a bit and when christmas time came around I asked for it. Except instead of asking for it by itself I made a list of games I wanted which included Zelda 2, and something else. Turns out I would only get one game that year and every year after that and I was given Zelda 2. I was terribly dissapointed. Keep in mind that the original Zelda was my all time favorite game then and being dissapointed at only getting the sequel is an idea of how much I liked Castlevania two.
Other stories of my youth include asking for Stinger because I thought it was about flying spaceships that fought with boxing gloves(you'd have to see the cover to know why). It was just a conventional shooter which initially confused me, but it ended up being one of my favorites.
The Japanese rerelease games with a couple extra minutes of footage and an extra enemy at full price as "Special Versions" or "US Version," (re: most recent FFs) they'll take any excuse to rerelease games for extra cash. They're stupid that way, especially those who buy them again for full price.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grave
You mean "International" versions?Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
GET IT RIGHT STUPID GAIJIN.Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
Ashen Victor thinks you're crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by lithium
I'm going to start calling Namco "Namcot" again, just for shits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grave
Just think, if they never changed, the US-packaged Namco Collection could have been one volume longer!Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grave
Took me a while to get that... I'm a slow baby...
Wasn't he everybody's favorite character? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
I took it a step further, signature sized...Quote:
Originally Posted by Grave
That rocks man!Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
i like alucard because you could skip alot of frustration by just flying through the tough areas. sucks that his attack was so god damn weak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
I got to Dracula with both Alucard and Sypha. It was nearly impossible to win, so I started all over again. Back then I really sucked at games (this was my third game and all) so this took another 6 months...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lordmrw
Beating the game with Sypha is actually really easy. Her flame spell heavily damages Drac. The first time I ever beat the game, it was with Sypha.
Alucard on the other hand, I never could get very far with. I had him join me but used Trevor exclusively, just to see the Alucard ending. I don't imagine he's very useful against Drac. Has anyone ever finished the game with no spirit helper? I did that a long time ago, it was pretty tough since you can't take any shortcuts.
I don't think I've ever one-credited this game. If my USB pad adapter wasn't so laggy, I'd give it a shot sometime.