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Lemon-Lime posted:You can get it on Vita via PSN, too.
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alcharagia posted:Dracula X Chronicles is the best game in Castlevania history. I'd still give Castlevania IV the edge over DX Chronicles because the multi-directional whipping is so fun and I prefer having a bit more control over your jumps to the NES Castlevania-style jumps that Dracula X went back to. I'm not a huge fan of DX Chronicles' 3D graphics, though I think they're alright, and I think the additions/changes to the levels were all improvements. The new SotN translation is less colorful than the original's, but I'll stand by it being the best version of the game due to the inclusion of the Maria boss fight—the only really good addition from the Saturn version, and something that always seemed like it was missing from the original. Also, it's not the game's fault, but gently caress playing Dracula X (or any action game) on a PSP without a grip. I managed it, but I think that's the worst physical pain I've ever experienced from a game, and I was really into DDR for a while. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Dec 29, 2016 11:44
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An addendum: Dracula X Chronicles the remake of Rondo of Blood is my favorite Castlevania game. Dracula X Chronicles the entire package is the best game in Castlevania history because it includes Rondo, DXC, and Symphony, which is loving amazing.
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Dec 29, 2016 12:27
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Don't forget Akoumajou Dracula Peke! You better not forget Akoumajou Dracula Peke.
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Dec 29, 2016 12:31
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Dracula X is also available on the WiiU and n3DS the SNES version 
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Dec 29, 2016 12:33
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The good Dracula X got a Virtual Console release for the original Wii at least.
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Sakurazuka posted:Don't trigger US peeps by telling them that, only the EU version works on Vita for some reason. Really? I'm in the US and I've got the digital version from our PSN store just fine. Or is there a difference between the EU and US version of Dracula X Chronicles I don't know about
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I could be wrong but I'm sure I heard people in the Vita thread complaining about it. It could be one of those games that only works if you use a PS3 to transfer it I guess.
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Sakurazuka posted:I could be wrong but I'm sure I heard people in the Vita thread complaining about it. It could be one of those games that only works if you use a PS3 to transfer it I guess. You're probably right on the PS3 transfer thing, I got that game years ago so I can't even remember doing it honestly.
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Dec 29, 2016 14:45
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Dracula X Chronicles does not work on the PSTV without a hack, but you can DL it from the US store on a regular Vita just fine. I definitely did not transfer from my PS3, because I have never done this.
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Dec 29, 2016 14:45
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Yeah it works fine on a Vita, just not a PSTV.
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Dec 29, 2016 15:12
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Rollersnake posted:The good Dracula X got a Virtual Console release for the original Wii at least. Incidentally Op. 13 is a really rad track
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Dec 29, 2016 16:15
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SOTN and Simon's Quest are my favorites. I played Simon's Quest when it came out, and the music was just so amazing, and the whole "explore all over the place with no real direction" was really new and novel then. That and Metroid got most of my NES playtime over Mario type games. I have high hopes for Bloodstained.
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Dec 29, 2016 16:28
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alcharagia posted:An addendum: Dracula X Chronicles the remake of Rondo of Blood is my favorite Castlevania game. Dracula X Chronicles the entire package is the best game in Castlevania history because it includes Rondo, DXC, and Symphony, which is loving amazing. It's just too bad they didn't keep the original voiceover for PSP SotN.
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Zaa Boogie posted:It's just too bad they didn't keep the original voiceover for PSP SotN. This is literally the only thing that holds me back from enjoying it. While the original dub has it's faults, I'm so used to hearing it, and identifying the cast by their original voices, that hearing the new dub just killed it, ESPECIALLY Maria's new voice. I literally stopped, the second I heard her speak, shut off my PSP, and swore to never touch the port again. On the topic of best ever, I'm curious as to the thread's thoughts: If you had to pick one Castlevania game to be redone on another system and expanded, what would it be? My personal thought is that if Aria of Sorrow had the same lengthy dev time, and a system to support SoTN's expanded features, it'd be the best game of the series, bar none.
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Magil of Shadow posted:This is literally the only thing that holds me back from enjoying it. While the original dub has it's faults, I'm so used to hearing it, and identifying the cast by their original voices, that hearing the new dub just killed it, ESPECIALLY Maria's new voice. I literally stopped, the second I heard her speak, shut off my PSP, and swore to never touch the port again. The newer dub is more accurate and probably has better performances from a technical perspective, but is way less entertaining. It has nowhere near the level of ham that the original one does and that's a huge fault. I'll take a slightly bad but wonderfully cheesy dub over a technically competent but more humdrum one any day of the week.
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Dec 29, 2016 20:10
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I still giggle every time Maria says in her mega serious voice, "What do you here???"
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Genocyber posted:The newer dub is more accurate and probably has better performances from a technical perspective, but is way less entertaining. It has nowhere near the level of ham that the original one does and that's a huge fault. I'll take a slightly bad but wonderfully cheesy dub over a technically competent but more humdrum one any day of the week. "Perhaps the same could be said of all re-dubs"
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Cartoon Man posted:I still giggle every time Maria says in her mega serious voice, "What do you here???" I've come to destroy this castle.
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Dec 29, 2016 20:25
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Still befriending mortals, I'll not ask you to return to our side, but I demand you cease your attack!
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Dec 29, 2016 20:40
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I will not.
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Dec 29, 2016 21:11
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I just use the Japanese voices in DXC SotN, I already have two other versions with the original English voices and I get Norio Wakamoto hamming it up as Dracula.
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It's dual audio? Well, know what I have to do now.
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hanales posted:SOTN and Simon's Quest are my favorites. I played Simon's Quest when it came out, and the music was just so amazing, and the whole "explore all over the place with no real direction" was really new and novel then. That and Metroid got most of my NES playtime over Mario type games. Simon's Quest gets kind of a bad rap I think. Not that I'm defending all of it's design choices, but I feel like it's still a solid game that can be appreciated for what it is and what it brought as an exploration-based platformer. At some point I need to play the version someone did where they replaced all the dialogue with stuff that made sense, but like Dark Souls, it's hard to get that 'new game exploration' feeling to determine just how helpful the new hints would be to a completely new player.
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Potsticker posted:Simon's Quest gets kind of a bad rap I think. Not that I'm defending all of it's design choices, but I feel like it's still a solid game that can be appreciated for what it is and what it brought as an exploration-based platformer. At some point I need to play the version someone did where they replaced all the dialogue with stuff that made sense, but like Dark Souls, it's hard to get that 'new game exploration' feeling to determine just how helpful the new hints would be to a completely new player. I've seen it and they're hints that make sense compared to the complete malarkey that we got in the original.
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Zaa Boogie posted:I've seen it and they're hints that make sense compared to the complete malarkey that we got in the original. Of course, it was kinda hard to tell that from bad translation back then. The line about the graveyard duck, for example, is an accurate translation, and refers to a bird in the original Japanese version.
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Rollersnake posted:I'm still impressed by the sheer amount of weird, secret, and completely unnecessary stuff that made its way into Symphony of the Night. All of the spells and familiars, secret attacks with certain weapons (some of which are the basis for an entire playstyle), a hilariously large number of food items, the confession booth... I never even held the clunkiness of some of the inverted castle against the game as the whole thing felt like a huge bonus area after the game should have ended. do you think they tried to balance all the secret weapons or just said gently caress it and threw them in there because they seemed cool
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Uncle Wemus posted:do you think they tried to balance all the secret weapons or just said gently caress it and threw them in there because they seemed cool I think they said gently caress it because we were on the cusp of the era where every little secret was online so you could hide a super overpowered weapon in your game and expect only 1% of players would ever find it so the game wasn't notoriously easy yet.
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Zaggitz posted:I think they said gently caress it because we were on the cusp of the era where every little secret was online so you could hide a super overpowered weapon in your game and expect only 1% of players would ever find it so the game wasn't notoriously easy yet. No one called that game easy, except CV fans I personally knew. Made me feel like some kind of gaming god until I played the NES games!
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Look, i really like the original castlevanias, and i'm a big contra fan. I understand though that all it takes is one thing to gently caress you up and make you lose your poo poo, and lose your awesome weapon/subweapon and start a really short but embarrassing cycle of just dying again and again. It is for that reason that out of all the castlevanias, I hold Symphony of the Night over Rondo of Blood, and Super castlevania IV third place for just a really enjoyable game to pick up and play.
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Zereth posted:I remember reading that those were intentionally wrong and weird, because the villagers were lying to you. Granted, Simon's bringing him back to murder him again, but not everyone is that metal.
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Raxivace posted:It makes sense they would lie to Simon, since his goal in the game is to revive Dracula. It's not hard to imagine the villagers thinking "Holy poo poo this dude is crazy, why the gently caress would someone try and bring Dracula back?"
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Bloodstained update - WIP footage of a new village environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lROTq4QkIyI quote:Merry Christmas! This is IGA. They're taking questions via twitter - if you want IGA to answer your poo poo in the next update, tweet it at @SwordOrWhip with the hashtag #AskIGA .
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Bloodstained update - WIP footage of a new village environment: God I want this game so bad...it's gonna take him another year or three isn't it? 
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Will bloodstained come out before barkley 2
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I can't see IGA spending the next eighteen months drawing Whip's on stream so yeah, I'm not worried.
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Village itself looks good. Lighting could use more work, but it's a WIP. I just realized we've spent more than half the Castlevania thread discussing a game that is not actually Castlevania.
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Pureauthor posted:Village itself looks good. Lighting could use more work, but it's a WIP. That game didn't get 5.5 million dollars to not be Castlevania Pureauthor
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It's Castlevania in all but name.
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Are there any "not Castlevanias" based around the classic gameplay style worth looking forward to? I don't have any interest in the Metroidvanias.
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