Topic: Good Fan Castlevania's

[Roan]

I don't know if this is the right place, but i wanted to show some good games of Castlevania, that fans are doing. And of course, i'm dying to play it! I'll post the authors site, so people could see right there about the games.

Castlevania:
http://www.dimondsoft.com/castlevania/index.php?page=news

Castlevania NKN:
http://castlevaniankn.blogspot.com/

Castlevania - Moonlight Requiem:
http://castlevania.trebor777.net/

Serios' Castlevania:
http://serio.piiym-net.com/CVBla/

Castlevania - Opera of The Red Moon:
http://draculax.wordpress.com/

Castlevania: Bloodstorm (it's a pity that the guy won't work anymore =/)
http://www.chapelofresonance.com/forum/index.php/topic,5078.0.html

[darkwzrd4]

Serio's CV was awesome as far as fighting games go.  I not much for fighting games.  But, he made the characters move faster and improved the way the moves look.  Plus, that Richter was the way he should have looked in SotN.

[Rugal]

I wonder what happened to Serio? He used to contribute so many awesome things here. His fighting game was awesome. I wonder if he ever finished it.

[uzo]

Woot. I'm at the top of the list.

[Kale]

Well, then release something!

Serio's look so damn nice though... Awesome changes to bosses.

[Munchy]

Dr. Mario and Optomon's CV1 hack, Chorus of Mysteries, is awesome in that it changes tiles, enemies, enemy behavior, music, etc. so that it a new game. They even added a new subweapon to replace the stopwatch - the herb, which acts like laurels in that they grant you temporary invincibility for 7 or 10 hearts, forget which. Must warn you, it is HARD. I simply can't remember how to beat the second boss, and I always lose the axe. The game will make you hate Medusa Heads like you never thought possible, but hey! It's a newer old-school Castlevania, and a superbly made one at that.

Also coming up from the dynamic duo is their Dracula's Curse hack, Cadence of Agony. Their goal is to make it into a non-linear Metroidvania, but obviously in the confines of the NES hardware. You start as Richter, and when you make your way around the castle you'll find Alucard, Maria, and... I forget the guy's name, he was the protagonist of CoM and is a DaNasty descendant. Anyway, they will each have unique abilities (Alucard's bat transform, DaNasty Jr.'s wall-climbing) that you'll need to get to new areas. It sounds an awful lot like TMNT3: Radical Rescue, which is not at all a bad thing. Some impressive changes include the ability to go back to previous areas, vertical scrolling in both directions, a map and quick character select on the pause screen (might be the select button), and some bad-ass new music, which includes NES renditions of many Dracula X songs and original pieces. I'm eager to see how this turns out; the exploration of later games combined with the GOOD level design of the old games sounds like a match made in heaven.

Er, those are the main ones I remember. There was one Metroidvania-looking game called Return to Egypt, but I have no idea where it is. Google 'em.

[Inccubus]

I'm sorry to inform you that Orchestra of Despair was canceled.

[Munchy]

Actually, Optomon came back on the Romhacking.net forums to say that production would eventually resume. I think he's doing music coding for a Simon's Quest hack right now.

Crap, also found out I had a brain fart... the CV3 hack's called Cadence of Agony. I forget what Orchestra of Despair is, exactly.

[Roan]

UZO, your game is one of the best I've ever seen. I just wonder if you want to shed some new screenshot or trailer soon. (The game I imagine it will take much, even for a beta)

Munchy, i only hope for Cadency of Agony be done, because there really is a very promising project. It is one of best hacks I've ever seen for a NES game. And you know if there are any good hack for Simon's Quest?

And about the game you were talking about, i found it.

Return of Egypt:
http://www.acid-play.com/download/return-of-egypt/

And another one, that is based on Castlevania:

Koumajou Densetsu Scarlet Symphony
http://aja-games.com/products_koumajo/

[darkwzrd4]

UZO, your game is one of the best I've ever seen. I just wonder if you want to shed some new screenshot or trailer soon. (The game I imagine it will take much, even for a beta)

Munchy, i only hope for Cadency of Agony be done, because there really is a very promising project. It is one of best hacks I've ever seen for a NES game. And you know if there are any good hack for Simon's Quest?

And about the game you were talking about, i found it.

Return of Egypt:
http://www.acid-play.com/download/return-of-egypt/

And another one, that is based on Castlevania:

Koumajou Densetsu Scarlet Symphony
http://aja-games.com/products_koumajo/

Yeah, scarlet symphony is cool.

[uzo]

UZO, your game is one of the best I've ever seen. I just wonder if you want to shed some new screenshot or trailer soon. (The game I imagine it will take much, even for a beta)

Thanks. 'Visual' progress so to speak has been slow lately. I've been concentrating a lot on stability, gameplay physics, new/better/faster graphical effects, and compatibility with Windows 7, DirectX11, 64bit OS's etc. Most of these things make screen shots or movies impossible to take or would look really crappy. Things like stability and windows coding cant really be "seen" either in screen shots.

[Kale]

Atleast it's not abandoned >.> Lots of these fan projects end up in trash bins.

[Roan]

Another game created by a fan that I liked to play, is this that is very similar to Castlevania 2 - Simon's Quest.

Dracula's Shadow: http://horrorquest.altervista.org/

[Amduscias]

lol, the first one is slow as hell, its like baywatch~

Serio's fighting game is cool and i love it cuz the dificulty is really high and it has the most hardest Dracula 

[X]

I want to see Bloodstorm finalized. I want to PLAY it!

-X