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Title: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Belmontoya on February 03, 2012, 03:01:34 AM
Mine is the Tiger handheld Simon's Quest...
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Nail_Bombed on February 04, 2012, 05:31:34 PM
Top 3 for me would be :

1. Aria Of Sorrow
2. Order Of Ecclesia
3. Dracula X Chronicles
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Flame on February 04, 2012, 05:51:57 PM
Aria of Sorrow
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on February 05, 2012, 01:39:16 AM
http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,4206.0.html (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,4206.0.html)
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on February 05, 2012, 01:47:33 AM
Well, as long as the topic is here, here's my list:

1) Circle of the Moon

2) Aria of Sorrow

3) Harmony of Dissonance
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on February 05, 2012, 02:16:22 AM
Nooo... don't respond to n00b threads....
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Flame on February 05, 2012, 07:37:15 AM
Nooo... don't respond to n00b threads....
but-but-but... There's so little to talk about...! >.>
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: X on February 05, 2012, 05:40:19 PM
Quote
Nooo... don't respond to n00b threads....

LOL!! Sorry Jorge, I couldn't help but find this funny.

................................(Raises hand) Circle of the Moon  ;D
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Vrakanox on February 05, 2012, 08:30:03 PM
Top 3 for me would be :

1. Aria Of Sorrow
2. Order Of Ecclesia
3. Dracula X Chronicles

Just swap 1 with 2 for me.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: darkwzrd4 on February 06, 2012, 06:41:40 PM
Top 3:

1) OoE
2) AoS
3) PoR (gameplaywise, the plot sucked)
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: C Belmont on February 06, 2012, 11:07:36 PM
I don't get why we need a rule about not starting favourites threads in the first place, if we aren't allowed to discuss what Castlevania games we like and why then what are we meant to discuss? what Castlevania games we hate?

I can understand not wanting a ton of threads where people just post their latest favourites list but couldn't you just ask members not to respond to those kinds of topics with lists instead of banning it's discussion altogether.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Arma on February 08, 2012, 11:21:29 AM
How about a more organized approach to this? instead of banning "what's you favourite..." topics make a big loud sticky thread named something like "The official What's your favourite thread" in the first message you write a modified rule that says all these types of questions go only on that topic and put an index linking to the replies with all the different questions the users make so no one will repeat them, they just pick it from the index or make a new one.

That way when we get bored we have the option of going there and answer the questions of the newer users for a while. This won't stop it completely because there's always someone that fails to see it until after they wrote the topic but it'll help to keep it more easygoing on the newbies and the ones that actually want to discuss these type of topics.

Of course I refrain from making this suggestion in case it has been done before and didn't work.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: SilentCircuit on February 08, 2012, 06:29:28 PM
Finding it hard to choose between Aria of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia, but I'll go with the former.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: VampirehunterB on February 08, 2012, 06:49:24 PM
hard one..AoS and HoD
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Puwexil on February 08, 2012, 07:05:24 PM
Belmont's Revenge. It has a very peculiar atmosphere to it, partly because of the stark Game Boy minimalism inherent to the platform, which is something I have a great fondness for. It makes me want to look past the obvious and immerse myself in the world it depicts, in all its monochromatic glory. There are so many things that build it a strong, individual identity: unique enemy designs, stage concepts otherwise unexplored elsewhere in the series, the quaint presence of the themed castles, and perhaps most enduringly, the limitations-shattering soundtrack. Tracks like Praying Hands and Castle #2 contain such immense mystery and depth of expression that I can't even fathom it.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: GuyStarwind on February 08, 2012, 09:33:04 PM
1.DXC
2. The double pack (it counts)
3. CotM
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Kramgnauh on February 09, 2012, 04:51:17 PM
OoE defiantly ^^
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: beingthehero on February 09, 2012, 10:44:20 PM
Aria of Sorrow, by far. That game had an incredible atmosphere.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Dremn on February 10, 2012, 12:05:50 AM
Aria of Sorrow and Belmont's Revenge.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Successor The Cruel on February 10, 2012, 05:09:08 AM
Harmony of Dissonance, closely followed by Aria of Sorrow.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: crisis on February 10, 2012, 11:08:47 AM
Successor's favorite handheld title is Harmony of Dissonance?? I would've never guessed.


Does Simon's Quest Tiger Watch count as a handheld?
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Successor The Cruel on February 10, 2012, 12:06:08 PM
It's annoying how people act like I go gushing about Harmony of Dissonance all the time, or something.

"Oh, The Successor! Yeah, that Harmony of Dissonance guy!"

I only ever talk about it when it's relevant, and it's not like it's the only Castlevania game I discuss or like.

I can only imagine this 'Great Defender' title I've somehow been stuck with on this forum has something to do with my liking Harmony of Dissonance, which is dumb to me, because I don't often give enough of a damn what people like or think about games to be a Great Defender.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: crisis on February 10, 2012, 01:06:24 PM
Why are you getting all defensive, bro? I was obviously being sarcastic, sheesh. HoD is an ok game.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Gecko on February 10, 2012, 01:13:07 PM
It's a tie between Belmont's Revenge and Harmony of Dissonance for me.

Puwexil put it well regarding Belmont's Revenge.

Normal mode in HoD is a little boring due to it being too easy, but in hard mode you are faced with a better challenge, so I mostly just play hard mode. I love the eerie atmosphere throughout the game, the soudntrack(quality and all, I feel the soundtrack really adds to the experience of HoD), the enemy designs, a lot of the bosses, the subweapon and magic system... It's just a great game to me.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: ScionOfBalance on February 10, 2012, 01:19:30 PM
Ooe.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: A-Yty on February 10, 2012, 01:29:17 PM
AoS.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: uzo on February 10, 2012, 05:07:13 PM
It's annoying how people act like I go gushing about Harmony of Dissonance all the time, or something.

Hate to rain on your parade, but, you kinda do.

OoE is my favorite of the portables. AoS is the second I suppose. I do have a soft spot for HoD, but it fails badly in play control, music, and sprites versus Aria. CotM has it's quirks too but I think that one is more solid than HoD, even if more bland than the average CV title. DoS was fairly meh, but Julius mode saved it so much. For me it bumps it just a bit higher than CotM. PoR I don't even want to think about. It had so much potential and then it was just shit in the end. So to summarize in order;

OoE
AoS
DoS
CotM
HoD
PoR
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: JR on February 10, 2012, 07:14:08 PM
Probably Circle of the Moon. Not entirely sure why, either. I did really like its version of Vampire Killer, too.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Alutwon on February 11, 2012, 06:12:37 PM
CotM
HoD
AoS

but all 3 are really great, all with their own flavor
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Vrakanox on February 11, 2012, 07:57:47 PM
DoS was fairly meh, but Julius mode saved it so much.

So true.
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: crisis on February 12, 2012, 05:51:14 AM
i rescind my previous use of the word "ok" describing Successor's favorite handheld cv, harmony of Dissonance, as I agree it contains a distinct unusualness which awards it a unique feel amongst other feelings..

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Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Nail_Bombed on February 12, 2012, 07:01:03 AM
LOL at the last one. So.... much.... furniture. Must.... build nicely presented room in this castle of chaos.

Why is Juste farting lightning out of his ass by the way?  :P
Title: Re: What is your favorite handheld Castlevania?
Post by: Vampire Killer on February 12, 2012, 08:21:06 AM
Difficult question. I'm only gonna go with what I've played (which is everything except the tiger handheld)

1) AoS
2) Belmont's Revenge
3) PoR

My least favorite has to be the cell phone one, followed by CotM.