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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Are other people as sick of "Metroidvanias" as I am?

« Last post by Belmontoya on March 23, 2024, 07:54:05 AM »

I'll be sure to let Mig know that you guys think Metroidvania games aren't challenging enough. 😉

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Are other people as sick of "Metroidvanias" as I am?

« Last post by crisis on March 23, 2024, 07:09:24 AM »

I remember breezing through Dawn of Sorrow & Portrait of Ruin (aside from a few sections that gave me problems), but Order of Ecclesia kind of kicked my ass the first few times. They actually ramped up the difficulty which I wasn’t expecting. There was a certain attention to detail that wasn’t present in the previous DS entries.

Mirror of Fate, however, that game didn’t offer a challenge to me at all. And it has 0% replay value. No extra modes, no secrets, no boss rush, nothing. I never understood why.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Are other people as sick of "Metroidvanias" as I am?

« Last post by JR on March 23, 2024, 12:06:23 AM »

I agree with you on that. It feels like the extra modes are the preferable way to play a lot of the Metroidvania games, or at least the modes that provide additional challenge.

I just miss the difficult, frustrating-but-hard Castlevanias, I guess. I don't feel 100% fulfilled if a game doesn't make me cuss at the screen a few times, lmao

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Fan Stuff / Re: Castlevania ReVamped - New Fan Game Out Now!

« Last post by Kamirine on March 22, 2024, 07:10:47 AM »

I’m having an absolute blast with this game despite the bosses kicking my ass.  (After the Creature, I am absolutely dreading Death.)  The card system, upgrades, stage progression, music, combination of both boss and stages from the original and X86000 versions Castlevania 1—this is seriously one of my favorite versions of the first game hands down.

Made me temporarily revoke my ‘break from metroidvanias’ stance. XD

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Fan Stuff / Re: The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest

« Last post by EstebanT on March 20, 2024, 09:03:39 PM »

https://youtu.be/tKI7HkhtEF4?si=n5FTNdiGxYxD88An

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Fan Stuff / Re: Castlevania collection

« Last post by LuxKiller65 on March 19, 2024, 11:42:20 PM »

Nice!

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Fan Stuff / Re: Shin Dracula X Concept Screenshots

« Last post by Eric Roman on March 19, 2024, 03:16:50 PM »

A tool for bolstering one's efforts; this is AI done right. 

Lazy about it: prompt and done. 

Intentional about it: prompt and build.

This tech came out relatively a few hours ago at the moment of this reply, so it'll be a bit until the concerned and the critics realize all the opportunity they're leaving on the table.

As for Shin Dracula X, hell yeah, it fired the imagination of many a CV fan back when.  Those Gradius-style prominences as Richter lept from one bit of a broken bridge to another, what the fuck was going on here?!

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Off Topic / Re: Music you've been digging lately

« Last post by Eric Roman on March 19, 2024, 03:12:55 PM »

Towards the end of last year Redrum put me onto Shoegaze and when I thought it'd be neat if there was some VOCALOID tunes to that flavor he found this:



🍻🍻🍻

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Castlevania: The Official Coloring Book (Netflix)

« Last post by Eric Roman on March 19, 2024, 03:09:08 PM »

I just realized you can restore Grant if you play it right.

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Fan Stuff / Re: CASTLEVANIA THE LECARDE CHRONICLES II April 2017

« Last post by Aceearly1993 on March 18, 2024, 05:32:25 PM »

https://github.com/katriellucas/lecarde-2/releases/tag/v1.4.4

From this point on, the project will go into soft-frozen state. No updates of functions will be proceeded unless bugs/translation issues are caught or reported.  I will turn my sight to another project currently going strong...