Topic: A flawless first collection

[Belmont legacy]

What's up guys? I had bought the castlevania collection the first day it dropped and have played it non stop since! I have played and beaten every Castlevania game except Dawn of sorrow, Order of ecclesia, Chronicles, Dracula X, Circle of the moon, symphony of the night, and legends, and just today beat bloodlines for the first time. (had to use the save feature though because Jesus, that game us HARD. Harder than 3 imo) All in all though i am very pleased with this collection and am really hoping for a 2nd part to release maybe with the PS2, GBA, and DS releases on it. What are your opinions on this collection?

[GuyStarwind]

Besides Kid Dracula I think it's great. With that being said I don't hate Kid Dracula but rather just don't care. I've been playing Belmont's Revenge for the the first time and loving it. Feels a lot smoother than the Adventure.

[crisis]

I have played and beaten every Castlevania game

How long did it take you to beat Haunted Castle ?

[RichterB]

Castlevania Anniversary Collection is excellent. This is the era of the series I feel was possibly the strongest and most memorable overall. I would have liked them to sneak in Dracula X SNES and possibly Rondo of Blood; that would have made it phenomenal. But it's still great. Kid Dracula I could take or leave, but I appreciate the effort was made to bring it over for those interested. Bloodlines being on this was the key for me, as it's the only other game on this collection I don't own, and I've only gotten to play it a handful of times over a decade ago.

That being said, there are some issues...

-I've had an instance of input lag and a brief touch of sound errors on Super Castlevania IV. The flipping green platforms in Stage 4 don't allow you to jump off them in time like on the SNES unless you double-tap the jump button. (I'm playing the PC version on a lesser-powered PC, so maybe that's related?) The sound bugged out for a second on Stage 3's latter portions.

-Castlevania 1 froze on me on the screen with the harpies just before the staircase that leads to Dracula.

-There is a high-pitched sound bug starting in Stage 2 of Castlevania 1.

All of these problems can be ignored or counteracted through different methods, but hopefully there will be a patch that will fix these as time goes on. There reportedly will be a patch with the Japanese editions of all the games except Simon's Quest. But you know, rather than a second collection, I'd almost like a way to add DLC games to this one--stuff like Dracula X, Rondo, X68000 Chronicles--at least until we get to Symphony of the Night, should there be a Metroidvania collection.

[NagoriyukiSlayer]

Castlevania Anniversary Collection is excellent. This is the era of the series I feel was possibly the strongest and most memorable overall. I would have liked them to sneak in Dracula X SNES and possibly Rondo of Blood; that would have made it phenomenal. But it's still great. Kid Dracula I could take or leave, but I appreciate the effort was made to bring it over for those interested. Bloodlines being on this was the key for me, as it's the only other game on this collection I don't own, and I've only gotten to play it a handful of times over a decade ago.

That being said, there are some issues...

-I've had an instance of input lag and a brief touch of sound errors on Super Castlevania IV. The flipping green platforms in Stage 4 don't allow you to jump off them in time like on the SNES unless you double-tap the jump button. (I'm playing the PC version on a lesser-powered PC, so maybe that's related?) The sound bugged out for a second on Stage 3's latter portions.

-Castlevania 1 froze on me on the screen with the harpies just before the staircase that leads to Dracula.

-There is a high-pitched sound bug starting in Stage 2 of Castlevania 1.

All of these problems can be ignored or counteracted through different methods, but hopefully there will be a patch that will fix these as time goes on. There reportedly will be a patch with the Japanese editions of all the games except Simon's Quest. But you know, rather than a second collection, I'd almost like a way to add DLC games to this one--stuff like Dracula X, Rondo, X68000 Chronicles--at least until we get to Symphony of the Night, should there be a Metroidvania collection.

There's always hacking your Switch and running RetroArch...unless if you're playing on PS4 or, God help you, an XBone.

[Super Waffle]

Where's the patch that lets me play fullscreen (4:3) without the hideous scanline filter?