All right, after beating the game I now feel that I have a LOT more to say about it:
The good:
*It's a really fun game that makes you want to go back and play it again, just to get better at it
*Mig proved that less can be more; by NOT trying to add 1001 extra moves, and just add in several, VERY useful ones.
*All new/redrawn gfx; nuff said! ;D This was great to see, and I know that this had to take a TON of time and effort to complete! There were one or two (I.E. the horses) that could have used a bit more work. But overall the game just looks OUTSTANDING!
*Very creative stages, with unique hazards in each of them, that really add to the fun factor of the game
*EXCELLENT MUSIC! Tons of outstanding remakes!
*Challenging, but fair!
*An EXCELLENT length game! It gives you hours of enjoyment!
*Lots of references to other castlevania games! Gives you an excellent feel of nostalgia! You can tell a LOT of love went into this game and hard work.
Now for the bad:
*The ICON USED FOR THE DOUBLE JUMP PICKUP IN GAME IS WRONG! IT HAS THE SLIDE ONE USED FOR IT INSTEAD; IT IS CORRECT ON THE MAP THOUGH (not important; just letting Mig know)
*Up close to enemies/walls the whip totally misses: this is a hugely annoying issue.
*No scoring or ranking system for stage performance: this would have added a HUGE amount more depth too the game, not to mention quite a bit more fun factor too. It's a huge shame that this was not done.
*The last boss: WOW Mig, what were you thinking? You basically created a last boss that you have unlimited attempts to beat, by putting in a 1up right before her. Talk about pointless. As for the battle itself, for the first part you can literally just whip her until her shield shatters, then just use the whip spin to beat her instantly; the food she drops and the fly (WTF?) hives drop ensure you will have 100% health. The 2nd part of the last boss right was a HUGE disappointment. I mean seriously, what the heck man? She was a giant wasp that just shoots out bland green shots, creates flies (again, what the?) and was VERY annoying and tedious to beat. It was truly disappointing how you came up with so many other VERY creative bosses (puppet master, legion, mirror master) yet dropped the ball on what should have been the ultimate boss fight. After everything else you came up with, I expected the final boss to be some HUGE demonic monstrosity. Not a............. wasp!? ??? It was truly not a fun fight, and a real shame to close out such a great game like that.
*Stairs: they needed MUCH more work; all kinds of stuff happened with them, from it being hard to jump on them, so me falling thru blocks because of them
*Hitboxes: several of them need to be messed with. and corrected. 2 perfect examples: the scarecrows, and the spike traps for puppet master; there were WAY too big to the point where touching blank space around them damaged me. I even got killed by a small white bat when charging forward, when all it looked like I hit was air.
*a FEW Cheap tricks: while I appreciated most of the dirty traps you put in (as I said above; it was challenging but fair) there were 1 or 2 that I felt never should have been put into the game. One perfect example of a very poor one: one of the last stages where you have to drop down, hold right; then drop AGAIN and hold right AFTER going thru a hellish room. Both times falling blindly. If you don't do this: you die and get to go thru a hellish room full of spikes again. Stuff like this is just annoying.
*Crashes: MMF crashed about 3 times while playing it; luckily never in the last few stages. ;) It was at different places, and gave a windows error each time. No idea what caused them, but I know how this goes.
*No way to skip cutscenes: not a big deal since there aren't many.
*No way to pause with the controller without joy2pad: no excuse for this NOT to have been implemented.
Overall, I recommend this game to ANY castlevania fan! It is an EXCELLENT piece of work, with only a few rather minor flaws (though the list of bad things above looks long, it isn't; I just went into great detail)! This game is exactly the type of quality stuff more people in this "community" need to put forth!
On that note: I'm off to beat it again! ;D
Well :)
Thanks Esco for your constructive comment .You have spent time for it and i have respect for that .
I don't come back on good points you gave ;D . Thanks !
The Bad points ! You are merciless ? No problem i like that ;D
First i want to say that :
1 I will change things .
2 That game is killing me :-[ I have worked so much that now is a real pain for me to work again on it .Additionally ,i have a lot of work with my regular job .. So i cannot change too many things ,only the most important ones . :-\
1 Double jump icon . Ok , easy to fix .
2 I will increase the Whip's hit box
3 The ranking system . It may be hard for me to settle this :-[
4 Final battle . Many people say that the game is too hard , and i think they will give up
before that point . So i don't want to increase difficulty . The battle with the very last boss may be a "mad house" , without a recovered life bar .
Use the HOLY CROSS on the Wasp queen when she is very low in the screen and she will loose almost half life bar
The final boss appearance ? I think that is subjective :-\ I wanted to do a reference to another Castlevania's boss .The moth queen in Castlevania Bloodlines on Genesis
5 The typos ? :P Well.. English is not my first language . I'm french and my parents come from Spain . Anyway if someone Give me a good version of the texts that have flaws , i will change that .
Simon's quest is a great game ;D
6 Stairs ? I will try to enhance that.
7 Hit boxes ? Strange because the hit boxes of that monsters are exactly their sprite :o
You may have been touched by the bat while it's wings were deployed .
8 I don't see exactly what part of the game it is . Are you speaking of the RIP ROOM ?
9 Crashes ? Ok i see what they cause them . I will change that . fortunately they are very rare . Players . Do not forget to save as many possible.
10 The cut scenes are so shorts :'( and there are so few .
11 Ok ! I will input a fifth button to pause the game with joypad . You can pause the game even playing with the joypad by pushing SPACE on the keyboard .
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By the way I'm going to make an easier version of the game for those who consider that the game is to much difficult . less monsters, less damages , more food , less traps more powerful weapons etc..
Hi everybody! :)
I have updated the game ( small update). It is available at the same link on my page.
The new datas can replace the former ones without problem with "Save files".
The texts are now corrected ( better professional looking ) ;D
-The soil in Northern Mountains 1 will be visible even if you not have a "top" gfx card.
- Fast "exit way" in Cave 2 and Maze of curtains 1 after the item is taken.
The Katharina's theme can be found in the Kevin MacLeod site http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?genre=horror (http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?genre=horror)
Horror section.
Katharina.....A HOLY CROSS take away 60% of Katharina's live metter if she ( it ) is Bottom located on the screen.
An easier game? I have already thought about that..........Why not but i'm pretty sure that the game is not that hard with a careful use of special moves , subweapons and item crashes.
"Condemned area" is the hardest level in the game. It's because it is the last level before the final part.
FireSeraphim, your problem is really odd! Have you still got the same problem?
kaonstantine i do not remember the game i have played. I have played "Lords of shadows" . It was featured in the early stage of Lecarde's advance.Great game overall but some parts of it are off topic for a Castlevania.. Some areas of the first and third part remember me most Lord of the Rings than Castlevania.Anyway the Castle Part is a Jewel.Some other stuff like Final Fantasy XIII PS3 or Shin Maou Golvellius on my MSX2 + ( I'm pretty sure that nobody here know that game ;D ).It costed me about 270$ ;D.