Retro Gaming With Castlevania and Friends 31
Jeremy Parish, over at 1up, has single-handedly taken up the banner of the classic game. Today, he talks about Castlevania and other classic vampire killers. From the article: "There was recently a rather lively debate on my personal blog about how silly the whole franchise has become, considering it started off as little more than a loving tribute to classic monster movies and has somehow mutated into a rather straight-faced effort by silver-haired pretty boys to battle vampires. It's like a horrible Ann Rice/DeviantArt mash-up, based around a not-quite-menacing villain whose job is basically to serve as a MacGuffin for exploring twisty castle corridors and has occasionally been depicted as a dude in a badly-designed tuxedo."
ugh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ugh (Score:1)
Re:frist post (Score:4, Funny)
You got perharps the most pathetic First Post of the Month, not only you got one typo in the title and two in the two-word post, but the actual first post was posted 6 minutes earlier.
Re:frist post (Score:1)
Welcome to /.
Bah (Score:2)
Re:Bah (Score:1)
Re:Bah (Score:2)
I dunno, I'm not very interested in the plot which already is pretty derivitive and bland. All I want from the series is good old side scrolling action.
Castlevania memories (Score:5, Interesting)
My favorite, even more than the modern Metroidvanias, is still the first game. It's just such an elegant combination of control and reflexes. The thing about the game to realize is that your character is purposely limited (you can't control how high you jump, you can't change direction in mid-air, can't jump very high, can't walk fast and climb stairs even slower) but has a powerful main weapon. None of this two-pixel-long sword crap, your whip extends like four blocks ahead of you! And once powered up, which wasn't hard at all usually, it could take out most non-boss foes in one hit.
On the other hand, your enemies were a lot more manueverable than you, and of course it turns out that it was not Dracula who was the bane of Simon's existence but gaping pits. When a friend told me that "Dracula X" for the SNES's version of Dracula was fought over a giant hole and was made much harder as a result, I realized it: gravity is classic Castlevania's secret ultimate boss! "So, we meet again, player! I see you've met my lackey Dracula... a charming fellow, and his fangs are quite deadly, but he is as nothing next to my awesome power! Now you must fight us both at once!" (Bottomless Pit runs out and just looms underneath the fight.) "Take that!"
Hm. Bottomless Pit. Something makes me think a lot of people are going to use that as a character nickname for the new Smash Bros....
Re:Castlevania memories (Score:1, Funny)
I sincerely hope this has nothing to do with the character's choice of attire. If so, you have already ruined the image of the game for me in advance. Thanks.
silly or not... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:silly or not... (Score:2)
Castlevania 1 was fun for its time (Score:2)
Re:Even the absurd entries have good gameplay (Score:1)
Re:Even the absurd entries have good gameplay (Score:2)
so does Chip 'n Dale and SMB3
will probably go back to castlevania fairly soon now.
Re:Even the absurd entries have good gameplay (Score:3, Interesting)
I have gone back to many games and even visited plenty of new games of the old times which I have missed back then and most of them are still extremly amazing, sure, graphics might no longer be top notch, but gameplay is still pretty much wonderfull. The only real issue I have with games of the past is that their interface can suffer from some larger usability issues, this are mostly no big deal when you ge
I must now share the First Commandment (Score:2)
Say whatever you want about the 3-D crap.
Re:I must now share the First Commandment (Score:2)
Re:I must now share the First Commandment (Score:2)
Blasphemy would be saying you thought it was better than C:SOTN. Then you would be hunted down, skinned alive, bathed in vinegar, then honey and fed to voracious army ants.
Whither Game Boy? (Score:2)
Because I'm different (Score:2)
After that, just one castle was never enough.
Re:Because I'm different (Score:2)
I even use "Horrible Night" as my cell phone alarm to tell me when it's time to go to work (11:30pm)