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Humerus posted:IIRC the only way to get the Unicorn and Cerebus cards are from the Coliseum. Or at least I think that's the cards, but there's two special types of armors that only spawn there and drop cards. You're right, they're more powerful versions of the Dark Armor/Light Armor enemies you see in the last areas of the game proper. More music  I feel like the franchise's unique sound compared to other games owes more to 70s/80s Italian horror flicks and music by Goblin and such than people give it credit for, especially in Super Castlevania IV, Dracula X and the GBA/DS games. Behold:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC01gS5dkmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmYaPrCgZ68 (DScastlevaniasoundtrack.wav) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxDGSHiJ90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfvzhXawGeU (draculascursesoundtrack.wav) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVHtTs6oG4Y (Michiru Yamane TOTALLY was inspired by this when she composed Rainbow Cemetary I mean come on) I feel like this was the direction they were set with for the console games pretty much forever. Yet, with the much weaker original Game Boy hardware that they decided to go totally metal, the results are glorious just because someone looked at the GB's sound capabilities and was like "yes, I'm going to make a Dio concept album on this, this will be awesome." They ended up being completely right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZmQlJPLNQ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHLsolltIJ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo5uYOEJJF4 (I wish this version of Heart of Fire was used again) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytG63KcgKro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS5zX7Ni4Fk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDIIme-Vdw (I love that this song is called Sons of Satan  )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGeynsoV8PQ Like if I ever had all the dollars and was producing a Castlevania game I'd only have music from the old games and licensed Goblin/Tangerine Dream tracks no hesitation. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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The GB games had amazing music, too bad they were absolutely terrible games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6mftPOyQX0 was always my favorite. I hadn't actually noticed the similarities between Goblin / Fulci films and Castlevania, and have to say you're spot on.
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I'm liking Ecclesia more and more the deeper I get into it. Dual-wielding Nitesco into a coruscating bean of death is pretty great, and combining it with Dominus Agony is just lovely.
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I got to play the PSP Castlevania game today and it was actually pretty fun. Very old school. I want more done like it.
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Firstborn posted:I got to play the PSP Castlevania game today and it was actually pretty fun. Very old school. I want more done like it. I think you can get sotn on psp.
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Pope Guilty posted:I think you can get sotn on psp. Metroidvanias aren't gonna scratch the itch for Classicvania. 
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Speaking of Castlevania sounding stuff I got Bloodrayne: Betrayal while it was on sale over Halloween and the soundtrack is less a tribute to Yamane Michiru Castlevania tracks and more sounds almost exactly alike.
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Firstborn posted:I got to play the PSP Castlevania game today and it was actually pretty fun. Very old school. I want more done like it. It's really drat great. I hope people that haven't gotten the chance to play it previously picked it up during PSN's Halloween sale. You can tell they put in tons of effort to make it the best remake they possibly could. It also has that great classic Castlevania feel where if you're doing really well, you feel like a loving god for being so in-sync with the game.  People enjoy the new Dracula fight, but I seriously remember having issues with it. I'm only up to Shaft on my new playthrough and still have to rescue most of the maidens, so it will be a little ways before I can see if it's as difficult as I remember it being several years ago. "Really small hitboxes" and "loving blood rain" come to mind when I try to channel my thoughts back to when I was fighting him.
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ChaosArgate posted:Metroidvanias aren't gonna scratch the itch for Classicvania. Ecclesia always struck me as being the best of both worlds in many (but not all) respects.
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Sakurazuka posted:Speaking of Castlevania sounding stuff I got Bloodrayne: Betrayal while it was on sale over Halloween and the soundtrack is less a tribute to Yamane Michiru Castlevania tracks and more sounds almost exactly alike. When you beat the game you unlock a VRC6 version of the entire soundtrack for double the castlemania. Virt's such a dude.
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Ecclesia's Dracula is loving hard. I'm impressed at how large the castle is, though, particularly given how much of the game is outside of it.
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Dracula in OoE is my favorite boss in the series, especially on hard mode. It's such an intense fight in the second phase and the music is perfect. It's too bad that you can straight up skip the fight with the tools the game gives you, because it seems like almost everyone that I talk to about the game did just that. Please fight Dracula normally, he is amazing. The castle actually seems relatively small to me once you get rapidus fio, but as you said it isn't the entire game.
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Albus mode in general is kind of lackluster, but I think the most fun I had in OoE was his Dracula fight. It was really intense and required you to be on your toes from start to finish.
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It was thoroughly mediocre in every way, but I like it anyway.
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Azubah posted:Was Lament of Innocence decent? I'm going to be a bit unique here, and say that I LOVED Lament of Innocence, despite it's many flaws, because of the atmosphere the game gave off. The castle FELT unique, and the 'repetitious' corridors and such that would go on to drag down Curse of Darkness actually FIT, given the fact that, save for the introduction area, the entire game takes place in a nobleman's castle. The music is perfect for each area, and, as hammy as it gets, the voice acting actually isn't that bad. Plus, it's the only Castlevania to have a bonus mode where you play as a boss that isn't a Belmont, so hats off there.
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Azubah posted:Was Lament of Innocence decent? It has an amazing atmosphere and music but it's kind of eh to play, I still enjoy it though. I love stuff like the path to the optional super boss being open right at the start and you can go down and feel the ominous atmosphere ages before you actually get to fight him. I hated how low-key everything was originally, since it was supposed to be the origins of both the Vampire Killer, Belmonts and Dracula, but after Lord of Shadow's bombast I'm kind of enjoying low-key. Did I mention the music owns, because it really loving does.
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Sakurazuka posted:Did I mention the music owns, because it really loving does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2uW5Y6rj0 It really does. It's so melodramatic and fantastically over the top.
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Magil of Shadow posted:Plus, it's the only Castlevania to have a bonus mode where you play as a boss that isn't a Belmont, so hats off there. Goddamn that guy was cool to play as.
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I like Lament of Innocence because you can start in whatever area you want, the music owns, the areas aren't as bloated as in Curse of Darkness, the bosses are really fun (especially the secret one), the hallways aren't terribly interesting but all the unique rooms are cool, etc. Definitely something I didn't appreciate when it came out.
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Yeah, my memories of Lament of Innocence are that it was a difficult game and not exceptional, but it was fun to play and offered a fairly "Castlevania" experience. It offers great art by Ayame Kojima and great music by Michiru Yamane again too, so that makes it worthy in my book. God, Leon's theme is great.
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Emulating ReBirth now and drat, it rules. A spiritual successor to Bloodlines, more or less.
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Maleh-Vor posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2uW5Y6rj0 Listening this made me want to run home and dig my PS2 out of the closet. It's weird... I remember liking Curse of Darkness more, but I finished it once and pretty much forgot about it. Lament I've played at least twice, and went out of my way to get everything in.
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Zombie Samurai posted:Listening this made me want to run home and dig my PS2 out of the closet. It's weird... I remember liking Curse of Darkness more, but I finished it once and pretty much forgot about it. Lament I've played at least twice, and went out of my way to get everything in. The PS2 classics version was on sale for $5 last week if you have a PS3. But you missed the sale anyway, I think.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFlLV-H1oMg Probably my favourite LoI track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3reKZ3vRk The atmospheric tracks are great too. Kind of a bit Silent Hill-ish or something from Parasite Eve 2. Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Nov 7, 2014 |
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Magil of Shadow posted:
Portrait of Ruin?
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I enjoyed CoD so much more than LoI. I thought it had a better soundtrack too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXIjWtf-CzU
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It also gave us this amazing moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrHEelh5oo
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Evil Eagle posted:Dracula in OoE is my favorite boss in the series, especially on hard mode. It's such an intense fight in the second phase and the music is perfect. It's too bad that you can straight up skip the fight with the tools the game gives you, because it seems like almost everyone that I talk to about the game did just that. Please fight Dracula normally, he is amazing. Rapdius Fio is basically the Black Panther soul from Aria, and come to think of it the Aria castle also feels pretty small once you have that.
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Both OOE Drac and the jiangshi he has locked up in the basement are fantastic bosses.
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Potsticker posted:Portrait of Ruin? I had forgotten about the Sisters, but I suppose that's because they're not full on villains or the like.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:OOE
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Order of Ecclesia is the sun come to banish this horrible night.
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Yeah, I really can't say enough good things about Order of Ecclesia. If it does end up being our last great IGA-Castlevania, it's a hell of a swan song.
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It's my favorite video game. Seriously.
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I lost my Order of Ecclesia cart sometime in the last couple of years and you guys are really making me want to play potentially dodgy eBay cart roulette.
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Nov 7, 2014 23:42
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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...A6EG051580aS3Iw 20 bucks on Amazon. No need for any roulette.
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Magil of Shadow posted:I had forgotten about the Sisters, but I suppose that's because they're not full on villains or the like. Someone didn't kill a thousand old axe armors. e: Oh whoops you meant boss like, mechanics-wise vvv I've bought metric shittons of new and used games from randos and I've only gotten one bootleg, which works fine on my DS just not on my 3DS 
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Evil Eagle posted:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...A6EG051580aS3Iw Amazon sellers aren't really any less likely to send out bootlegs than eBay I don't think. It being 'new' actually makes it even more suspicious. Looper posted:vvv I've bought metric shittons of new and used games from randos and I've only gotten one bootleg, which works fine on my DS just not on my 3DS It's been years since I bought a DS/GBA cart off internet resellers so maybe it's improved since then but it used to be like 5:1 ratio of bootlegs to actual carts. Got some Nintondo classics around here somewhere still. Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Nov 8, 2014 |
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LoI is probably my favorite 3D Castlevania, and CotM is probably my favorite 2D Castlevania(in the more modern era). My favorite fangame is the Lecarde Chronicles, which I can't recommend enough. Come at me, goons, I have defenses and apologia for all of these games, and reasons why your own preferred games suck. There's a lot of good that could have been done with a sustained development for the plotline that went into LoI, and plenty of good that could have come of the earlier version of the Castlevania plotline origins, too. It's a shame Konami never tried to develop the entire franchise as a program the way some other studios (particularly Western ones) might have. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Nov 8, 2014 |
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Sakurazuka posted:Amazon sellers aren't really any less likely to send out bootlegs than eBay I don't think. It being 'new' actually makes it even more suspicious. Yeah, Amazon sellers are even worse than eBay because you don't get to preview the item. What you could do is message an eBay seller and ask them to verify the product. Also if you ever end up with a bootleg, eBay will refund your entire purchase no questions asked. One time I got my money back literally within 20 minutes, and they don't even request that you return the item.
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