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Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« on: October 30, 2014, 06:11:33 PM »
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Things considered bad on Castlevania games, but that you secretly enjoy.

I enjoy extremelly tight controls of classicvanias, including no jumping off of ladders and no whipping in all directions.

I enjoy dodging Medusa Heads, even when they throw me on pits/spikes causing cheap deaths.

I enjoy this song a LOT:

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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2014, 07:15:01 PM »
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Um, I also like Medusa heads. I like spikes and death pits too.

I like I am the Wind.

I like CV VA.

I may think of some others later. I'm sure I have more

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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2014, 02:31:17 PM »
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Let´s see:

I love the voice acting in Symphony of the Night (that one from PSX).

I love how you need to jump exactly in the platforms in the first 3 games. Its irritating but fun at the same time.

I love Portrait of Ruin as a whole :P.
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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2014, 02:39:55 PM »
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I love the Saturn NitM graphics

I love the HoD music

And I love the PSP NitM voice acting. :P
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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2014, 03:41:49 PM »
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I like SotN's PSX dub over PSP
I like NitM for Saturn
I like the fact that they attempted to upgrade Richter's outfit on NitM (Im not very happy with the outcome, but I havent noticed anything bad about it at first on TV)
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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2014, 05:49:55 PM »
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I love Mirror of Fate. No, really. I LOVE it.
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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2014, 06:53:57 PM »
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Do we have a 'guilty pleasures' awards? Cause I think AxeLord just won it  ;D

My guilty pleasure is playing Curse of Darkness from time to time despite how terrible an entry it is for the series as a whole :P
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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2014, 09:35:37 PM »
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I like Legacy of Darkness (both 64 entries really), which also seem to be hated.

I too liked Mirror of Fate.

I frequently like the gimmicks...extra modes, other playable characters, etc.

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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2014, 04:25:03 AM »
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I like the crissaegrim/valmanway despite the fact it breaks SOTN

I like the realism of CVII i.e. you can walk directly passed the bosses, a random guy just upgrades you to flame whip, townspeople say cryptic things

I like that Bloody tears plays over and over again in CV II

I like that Dracula is Mathias and not Vlad. (despite the painting of Vlad in Rondo and the Vlad Graveyard in CV II)

I like cheap deaths..

I like NITM>SOTN mainly because of Maria

I like POR and DOS' story
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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2014, 02:35:49 AM »
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Can't say I have any guilty pleasures related the the series honestly. Though I do disagree with a lot of people on points about the series I can't say I'm embarrassed about any of my stances there.

A lot of people complain about the jumping and knockback mechanics on the classic games but I think that just comes out of a place of misunderstanding. The mechanics are unusual, but they're perfectly designed to work with the games they're made for. To complain that the jumping isn't like in Mario or Mega Man is to miss the point. I also defend Legacy of Darkness as a legitimately great game, especially for its time, but I'm not ashamed about that.
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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2014, 03:24:50 PM »
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I don't think I'm really "ashamed" either, honestly.  It may be against the "popular opinion" or whatever, but I'm not ashamed to like what I like.

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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2014, 03:54:35 PM »
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I don't think I'm really "ashamed" either, honestly.  It may be against the "popular opinion" or whatever, but I'm not ashamed to like what I like.

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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2014, 11:42:01 PM »
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I like the LoS games.

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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2014, 04:03:12 AM »
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I like Curse of Darkness even though I used to hate it.

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Re: Castlevania Guilty Pleasures
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