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Title: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Nagumo on December 07, 2012, 01:38:39 PM
I'm being a copycat and I stole this topic idea from the Chapel. It's really easy: be a hipster and post your opinions about Castlevania that you consider to be unusual and/or unpopular. The goal is to tank as much disrespect points as possible! Ready, set, go! 

 
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: crisis on December 07, 2012, 01:47:45 PM
hohoho I think St. Germain was a great addition to the Castlevania series
Out of my massive collection of all things Castlevania, I still don't own a copy of Legacy of Darkness
I feel Legends gameplay is better than The Adventure
i acquired a whole bunch of SotN handhelds (sealed & unsealed) for no reason
i have never read Bram Stoker's Dracula (does this count?)
when I play through Symphony, I intentionally skip the Power/Level-Ups just to make the game a lil more challenging
I bought Encore of the Night
i wish I had a life-size replica of the Combat Cross
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Kingshango on December 07, 2012, 01:57:22 PM
I have never played the original Gameboy Castlevania's.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: PFG9000 on December 07, 2012, 02:46:15 PM
I still haven't finished Rebirth.  I can't get past that damn clocktower stage.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: TheCruelAngel on December 07, 2012, 03:10:54 PM
I thought PoR was the best of the DS outings (or at least I had the most fun playing it)

I think Lords of Shadows is the best CV since Aria of Sorrow

I'm glad Kojima was able to break away from the CV franchise, I felt the series was stifling her skills and creativity

I think IGA is an OK dude, not overrated or god-like, just OK

I also wished Konami made a FPW (first person whipping!) interpretation of CV like Nintendo did with Metroid Prime...  :-[

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Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Flame on December 07, 2012, 04:10:09 PM
Quote from: Santa Clisis on December 07, 2012, 01:47:45 PM
hohoho I think St. Germain was a great addition to the Castlevania series
if only IGA explored his own fucking concepts any further than the one game and possibly Judgement...
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: uzo on December 07, 2012, 06:05:25 PM
I liked Legends over both The Adventure and Belmont's Revenge in nearly every aspect.

The combat cross is really interesting and cool, even if it is not "the Vampire Killer". In fact, my only gripe about it is that it was not called the Vampire Killer from the outset.

Judgement had fairly good gameplay, despite a few flaws and quirks. The comboing system felt nice, and you could even cancel chain using a subweapon to extend the combo. The supers and targeting needed changes though. You should also have been able to dodge roll out of combos or something too. It was a step in the right direction though, as far as 3D combat was concerned and I would have liked to see another game like LoI with this combat system put in and refined more.

Lords of Shadow has beautiful environments with good level design. Note, level design doesn't mean game play mechanics. I don't like slow shimmying, but the level designers make great layouts for what they had to work with.

Lords of Shadow's combat was fairly decent once you got use to it. Could have been way better though.

I think Bloodlines is a pretty shitty game, with sloppy animations and graphics, retarded level aesthetics, and at every corner some complete moron decided "hey you know what would be cool if we did ___________" and each time it was the worst idea ever. It looked horribly unrefined, ill planned, poorly implemented, and never polished. The music was it's only savings grace, but even then you can't enjoy it because the sound design (sound effects and such, not music) were so terrible, and ear piercing (partially to blame is the Genesis sound chip). I've played it, beaten it, and I will never touch it again. Super Castlevania IV was so great, and so far ahead of this crap, that it's a shame.

KCEK is a terrible development group, at least for Castlevania, and as evidence is responsible for the N64 travesties as well as the shitty port of SotN for Satun if I am not mistaken. Their incompetence knows no limits. Circle of the Moon came out pretty good though, but you can still see traces of their usual retarded flair in there. Did they do Bloodlines too? Or perhaps the same people from Bloodlines worked on the others mentioned here? Because it feels really similar, especially in how awful it is.

Sonja Belmont doesn't exist in the canon, and that fact doesn't bother me at all.

I think IGA was improving very much with Order of Ecclesia as evidence, and if I had my way LoS would be erased from existence so I could see what he would do for the next title.

IGA is not sexist. Deal with it.



Uhhh... I hate all of you. Or something. I can't think of anything else at the moment.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: GuyStarwind on December 07, 2012, 07:27:46 PM
I'm going to write what I wrote of the chapel with some extra stuff.

I wouldn't mind naming a kid Richter
I'm not a huge fan of any non Belmont character
OoE is probably my least favorite CV game.
I was originally excited about LoS... until I found out what happens in it
I Belmont pimp strut across cross walks
I'm currently playing a Paladin in D&D whose name is Belmont and he uses a whip.
I originally thought the whip was lame
I actually liked Judgment and wouldn't mind a sequel but I'm pretty sure it won't happen.
The 64 games are some of the best CV games out there. I only wish the main guy was named Belmont.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: sannyclause on December 07, 2012, 09:13:56 PM
HO HO HO i think LOS is the best 3d castlevania in existence.
im bummed that we wont get to see more of the los universe after next year  :'(
adding satan to the mix adds a unique twist
judgement was trash, poor camera, bad control scheme, didnt like the art direction either

and thats it, hope everyones christmas is a merry one  :)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Neobelmont on December 07, 2012, 09:47:09 PM
cannot think right now but when my mind is clear I'll state them
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Profbeanburrito on December 07, 2012, 10:21:49 PM
LoS is my second favorite CV, next to Dracula's Curse ( yes better than SotN)

I don't care for Circle of the Moon or Harmony of Dissonance much, they're my least favs

I loveRondo of Blood but feel somewhat embarrassed playing it because of the anime cutscenes

64 is one of my top 5 CV games and I think it does a great job making classicvanias in 3D

When my wife is feeling down or needs a laugh I sometimes recite the entire cheesy dialogue of Richter and Dracula to make her laugh. She's never played it but loves when I do because of that.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: SiFi270 on December 07, 2012, 10:51:19 PM
I refuse to acknowledge Lament of Innocence as canon. For me, Dracula was Vlad the Impaler before he became a vampire. Nobody else.

Because of this, Legends totally happened for me. Belmonts and Draculas are related by blood.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Kusanagi on December 08, 2012, 01:19:21 AM
Castlevania Harmony of Despair has probably become my most played CV, and pretty much my favorite of the series.

Didn't think Judgement was too bad a game either; still think Aeon could stand to be in another game, and the art direction wasn't too bad in my opinion.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Ahasverus on December 08, 2012, 01:28:56 AM
I confess I didn't like LoS 'til the 4th chapter.
I confess those "Ho HO HO" posts make me chuckle anytime  :D
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: SerenityinFire on December 08, 2012, 01:40:13 AM
Aria of Sorrow is probably my favorite Castlevania, more so that Symphony.

Dawn of Sorrow was a huge disappointment.  It just seems like everything was slapped together at the last minute.  Sound design was shit too.

Simon is my favorite Belmont, followed by Richter.

It is my true belief that, in fact, there is a penis drawn on the dead naked werewolf guy from Rondo onwards.

Lament of Innocense has an interesting storyline, but it shouldn't be considered cannon.  I feel there needs to be a more compelling story behind the creation of the Vampire Killer and the link between the Belmonts and Dracula. 

I'm pretty sure the art director for Judgment is very much into Sadomasochism. 
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Claimh Solais on December 08, 2012, 01:54:02 AM
Lords of Shadow is the best game in the series. By far. Even better than Symphony of the Night.

I actually liked Takeshi Obata's character designs.

I personally think Judgment was a great 3D brawler.

I think the voice acting from the original Symphony of the Night is like dubstep. An ear-bleeding travesty.

I think the DXC redub is much better. Yuri Lowenthal is a MUCH better Alucard.

I hate Dawn of Sorrow's story. It was shit. Absolute shit. The game itself, however, was very fun.

I have never completed Simon's Quest. Or any of Christopher's games.

I want MercurySteam to continue Castlevania.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Zetheraxza on December 08, 2012, 02:18:16 AM
Wow... I don't even know where to begin in this, to be honest...

Castlevania Symphony of the Night is overrated and every time it gets brought up, I sigh away... Sure AT THE TIME, when there was this radical change with Non-Linear gameplay, New art-style, New sound-direction, RPG and multiple endings. That was probably so amazing at the time, but that's about it. The game has BEEN SURPASSED, and many times too. SotN only stands for being the pioneer of the new gameplay and it still has the best graphics out of all metroidvanias, but AoS MASTERED the whole metroidvania in most aspects asides graphics and sound (They were still good) and thus was a better game than SotN in my opinion. The warp zone was better since in SotN, CotM and HoD only had press up 'til you warp to the preferred destination, but in AoS, you could just select where you wanted to travel and there were many other minor fixes that perfected the Metroidvania genre than it's predecessors. That annoying thing with your morphs as Wolf or Bat when in the air and then you turn back as Alucard and then you have no Air Control until you land back down and is very annoying especially in the huge pit in Underground Catacombs. I never enjoyed the "down, up, jump" for Gravity Jumps, "Up, L" in the later handheld games were ALOT better and if you were on the ground, "Up, L" THERE, alot better. I'll admit, I am bad at fighting games, so I hate button combinations. And in terms of Gameplay for SotN, it was a fun, good game with alot of content but I didn't enjoy backtracking in the game. I hated the Marble Gallery and you kind of have to go there 2-3 times, unless you plan to use "Wolf, downward kick" to propel yourself to Olrox's Quarters without the double jump, but screw that, I do it legit! So, overall, SotN is a nice game indeed, but I feel that fans should just enjoy it as a "Classic" (Not SCIV Classic) rather than saying that it is the best CV to date, because I think it was... But not anymore...

I hate the the love of Alucard in the Fandom. IT'S BELMONTS! Every NEW game, fans be sayin' "WHERE'S ALUCARD?  >:(" "No Alucard, No buy  ???" and when Alucard does show up, everybody cums bricks "ERHMAHGERD ERLERKURD  :D" I think Alucard is overrated. I liked Alucard too but others just ruined it for me... So if the speculations do come true, i'd be angry because Trevor becomes Alucard. Not because Alucard is Trevor...

I think PoR was actually a nice game, because it had alot of Content and Replay value and surpassed SotN's Enemy counting except for Full Metal Alchemist Jonathan Morris and Animu Moments and the reduced platforming but, it was a nice touch. I never understood the criticisms about recycled spriting. Sure, having reused sprites can make you feel that the developers were lazy (They didn't have the budget) but c'mon, Rondo has the best Skeleton and Bat to date. Why change their sprites? Don't fix what's not broke. Nobody complains about Kirby's games for reusing the same sprite for Kirby since NiDL, so what's wrong with that?  :P

Gaming Chronologically-wise after AoS, I started to dislike IGA for having limited imagination for the series. He only seems to be inspired from Anime-style direction. "Japanizing" European culture is normally cool in an Anime media, but I don't like it in Castlevania. Emo Leon Kennedy, SH2 James hair and skinny Emo teenager body Leon Belmont was just... Ughhh... It's like, there was a pattern going on each time I heard about a new CV game. While excited, I knew I won't be expecting what I really wanted to see in a CV game, but they were still decent games later.

Judgement, I wont lie, I did enjoy the gameplay in that, but it's the "Novelty" of the game that doesn't last long enough for me to keep playing. After unlocking all the Characters, I tried the "Castle" mode where you can unlock Hats for each Character, played it twice and then I was done with the game as I felt there was not much to look forward to afterwards in it... It was repetitive indeed... I think IGA made a huge mistake to experiment rather than making Demon Castle Wars for the system. It's not like he gets huge budgets to make games, let alone for Consoles. While I did enjoy judgement, I didn't get the Satisfaction I wanted...

I was not too excited about the Alucard Trailer for PS3/XBOX360 because I knew it was going to based off Nocturne of Recollection. Typical animu genericness in it's storyline... By this time, Igarashi to me was nothing but a one hit wonder...

LoS before it was announced as CV LoS, was no surprise. The Armor, whip... In flames and KONAMI was a dead give away, and when that did happen and showed the trailer in E3, I was excited. It seemed promising. OPEN WORLD was an Awesome feature in LoS with it's luscious environment. Did I mention the Boss rush, and Unlocking new characters after beating the game was such a treat? With the sarcasm aside, I was disappointed that they announced it linear later on. But whatever, it was still promising and then I bought the Limited edition of the Game when it came out. This game is a bloody masterpiece. Yes, the game play could've been better such as the camera and the invisible walls (Ughhhh... I hate those) but most of all, they could have added more CV to it- NO. There were plenty of CV moments in the game enough to make it a CV game, look hard for it. Igarashi used the same monotone atmosphere in all the games that some players just couldn't get adjusted to the "new" direction in the game IMHO. I think LoS was a blessing in Castlevania Series. Even if some think Cox and Mercurysteam are just ignorant about the franchise and are nothing but money grubbing gremlins, this game has got increased budget for the franchise in the future after they are done with this Saga. I liked the honest criticisms fans gave to the game for improvements or why they did not like the game. To me, LoS was a double edged blade, some had good viewpoints on why it was a good CV game or a bad CV game. It's one of those things in which both have good standpoints but you can't decide who is correct or who is wrong. I do favor this saga, but i'm open minded to the nay-sayers of the game as well. I hated the "LoS is not Castlevania!" "Bring back IGA" "Bring back Yamane and Kojima" "LoS sux" comments and they were pretty immature, but the developers had so much of it, that they somewhat forced the older atmosphere to the game. While this is respected by many fans, I do too but... It doesn't really fit here. After seeing realistic fantasy depictions of the European Cultures with it's art and environments, MoF doesn't do that. Why is Trevor wearing an 1800's victorian jacket during 1100's? And Simon does look something inspired from the older artstyle, not because of the red hair by Ayami's renditions, but the whole fur on his fur gives that... Soma feel to it. What barbarian-like warrior was wearing that during 1100's? I wanted to see how these guys will end the franchise in their original style, honestly. I think the whole apparel design is something they've forced to put in the game so fans can feel that this is more CV. Why couldn't the ruins of an ancient civilzations or Lush enchanted forests could be Castlevania? I wanted to see if for the next game, they could make their own style of art and design that would compliment the Castlevania Atmosphere instead of bringing the old inspirations for art just to satisfy the fans...

Being that I was introduced to Castlevania through MetroidVania, AoS being my first. LoS made me love the Classic games even more... Otherwise I didn't care much about them before.

Lords of Shadows had great music. It could've been better for a Castlevania game however, but it wasn't "Generic Hollywood Music" to me. Since I bought the LE of the game, I listened to the CD after beating the game. It has depth in it's music and suits LoS and it had great ambient tracks that for I don't know why, but didn't make it to the CD. They're available on YouTube and they have 60-70 tracks. Oscar's Ambient tracks had the Melody and Harmony in them, but the game had a lot of Combat, so it played more formidable bombarding orchestra than it played beautiful, peaceful, nice, relaxing ambient music which of course wouldn't and isn't supposed to be melodic to begin with, and some of those tracks were good though. Satan, fighting Vampires and Carmilla and Pan's tracks were actually pretty good.

I love Michiru Yamane, so I wish her the best and she can do whatever she feels. Her music in Castlevania is nice, but I love her music outside Castlevania alot better. She's coming to her age and I like that she decided to become more as a freelancer since that would be easier for her. I love smooth jazz. And she always wanted to be a jazz musician. Bought Skullgirls and the Soundtrack, good game, good music. I hope she fulfils her dream to be a Jazz Artist someday and I hope she becomes a mainstream contemporary-jazz musician outside Japan. She has a very open mind in music and personality and she is also very free spirited and she is my inspiration, I am always willing to support her and her music.  :'(

Castlevania itself as a series is one messed up title that magically has survied... I don't know how? The series to me has such a strange convoluted identity and developers just can't do much to change that because even if they do, now you have an army of irrational uptight fans. 'CASTLE-Vania" as a title is so strange. I mean if there is a gamer who gets off his cliche CoD and decides, "Hey, you know what? I will try something new today." And goes to Gamestop or EB games and walks upon a title called "Castlevania". Well, are castles really your favourite type of architecture and feel that you want to buy this game which you have probably have never heard of before and since there are castles in the background on the front cover, they believe that the entire game takes place in the Castle. So, do they want to buy this game?... Probably not. What do they know about the huge history of games since the NES days? All they see is that they've never heard of this game before, therefore it must not be popular and just because of that, this game must be shit. PASS. "Castlevania" has a nice feel to it's name and sounds very nice indeed, but it can also give off meanings that may turn people off. The title itself gives off it's limits that the entire game will take place in one boring Castle with around 10-20 enemies to kill with probably around 2-3 hours of gameplay. Sometimes I feel that they should change the title of the series...  :o (DID HE JUST SAY THAT???)

The identity of Castlevania is a huge mess, not to mention the essence of it. So they made a game that starred a Barbarian looking character that fights classic horror monsters and bosses with their leader Dracula on top... with a whip (The whip is the reason there wont be a Castlevania movie... HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT?). That alone sounds to me like a huge WTF. Original kick ass game Idea, Oh yes. But to use this concept as a series... Not too much. The villain is based off another villain in a horror novel and then adding originality to the character by adding alternate retelling, various designs for him, giving him an origin story and turning him from a small time serial killer to a global terrorist. Konami probably never intended Castlevania to become a chronological series. And they later on tried to make Castlevania as original as possible. Iga did this by not making Dracula being Vlad III Tepes but an original character named Mathias Cronqvist, which now makes the Dracula of Castlevania a bit more original, but he still was Vlad III Tepes at one point and he was still Count Dracula in the Bram Stoker novel but in the end, he was once an original character. Which is what LoS is trying to do. They want Castlevania to be something very original. The villain is based of an original character by Mercurysteam and has no relation with Bram Stoker in it's character's design as well. They even call him Dracul now and that's just for the sake of fans. Castlevania has a huge variation in different styles of Art, Music and Gameplay that gives it that convoluted Identity. Most games keep their games with one perticular style throughout the series, but Castlevania always seems to be in this "experimental" stage trying to find one perticular style that would give them great success as well as keeping the fans happy. I don't know if that day will ever come though. I think Castlevania has so much potential and I don't want it to be a niche franchise forever... I want castlevania to be a blockbuster someday.

I think the fans can make a better CV game than the developers... Just give us the money and see the magic...
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Ahasverus on December 08, 2012, 02:23:36 AM
Man (gurl?) marry me  :o

Great post  ;D

Quote
t Castlevania always seems to be in this "experimental" stage trying to find one perticular style that would give them great success as well as keeping the fans happy
So true it hurts
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: X on December 08, 2012, 06:40:53 AM
There's really nothing I can confess to here that hasn't already been said by somebody or myself before.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Munchy on December 08, 2012, 07:18:37 AM
When doing a no-armor run of SotN recently, I died far too many times for someone who's replayed it for as long as it's existed. Same with Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow.

As much as I bitch about wall shimmying in LoS, I now consider it a new form of inching retardedly slowly up stairs (or in the GB games' cases, a rope). Here's hoping you can jump on/off them more easily in LoS2.

I've actually grown to like parts of Agharta. Provided Claudia is nowhere in sight.

I bought the Xbox version of LoS mostly for the novelty of having the first multi-disk game in the series. (Yes, I had forgotten about X68k, and yes, it was not a great decision.)

Many folks (including me) have knocked LoS for taking more from Lord of the Rings than Dracula, but having thought about it, there's a lot more similarity between those books than people realize. (I'm toying with writing an essay comparing the two sometime.)

I've thought way too much about how Bram Stoker's book could be adapted into a game, given a liberal amount of creative liberties.

Though I'm not crazy about the large amount of high-fantasy enemies in LoS, I like the trolls. They're weirdly adorable, especially in the scenes where they're spying on Gabriel.

I've planned out a potential ending for Motorcycle Skeleton were he somehow patched into Judgment.

In spite of its legendary status, Rondo of Blood is... okay. It's fun to scope out the secrets, but it's too easy and there are too many flat walk-forward-and-attack areas like the DS games. More than anything, it needs a Hard Mode. (This is pretty much identical to my view on Symphony, but that game gets more of a pass due to pure oozing nostalgia.)

I'm severely disappointed that the credits in LoS didn't involve Gabeula doing a parody of the Thriller dance with the game's cast. I mean, he's wearing the red and everything!
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: JR on December 08, 2012, 09:04:38 AM
Although I like Bloodlines, it somehow annoys me how they tried to tie it in with the Stoker novel, and how the locales make it feel like Castlevania: Tour of Europe to me.

Being a diehard metal fan, I still have to cringe when I hear official tracks with electric guitars. Metal sounds too cheesy in Castlevania.

I don't think Max Slimer would've been as universally ridiculed if it didn't have such a shitty name. Still an uninspired design, but I digress.

I think Death should really be the main villain from a logical standpoint, although Dracula will always be the more compelling character.

The Owl Knight's reaction when you kill his owl never fails to make me laugh. Ever. Same with with the Vandal Sword, how he makes perverted old man noises when you hit him. I'm easily amused.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: VladCT on December 08, 2012, 09:25:55 AM
I expected someone younger-sounding to voice Maxim in HoD...and I thought his jumping grunts sounded like he was suffering from constipation.
Also, I thought Simon's Chronicles design was...kinda metal. Maybe it's because my own misconceptions and the Whip Rush From Hell version of Vampire Killer messing with my head a little, but try imagining him with KISS makeup.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: PFG9000 on December 08, 2012, 10:21:39 AM
Quote from: GuyStarwind on December 07, 2012, 07:27:46 PM
I wouldn't mind naming a kid Richter
Heh, I've been trying to get my wife to agree to that for years!  But I had to compromise...she hates the name, so the closest I've been able to get is in giving my dog the middle name of Richter.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: SiFi270 on December 08, 2012, 02:49:59 PM
Save for computer ports of the first game, there isn't a single Castlevania game I find unplayably awful.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: crisis on December 08, 2012, 03:07:02 PM
Quote
Heh, I've been trying to get my wife to agree to that for years!  But I had to compromise...she hates the name, so the closest I've been able to get is in giving my dog the middle name of Richter.
LOL
"my wife hates the name, so i had to give it to my pet, but only as his middle name" xD


new confession:
even though his name is Jorge, i still have the habit of pronouncing it as "George" in my head
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: knightmere on December 08, 2012, 03:44:20 PM
I confess that I am not excited about MoF at all, and feel that it will be another disappointment like LoS.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 08, 2012, 03:47:50 PM
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I don't like this thread.
It is a bomb waiting to happen and the very premise of it in this forum bugs me.

Quote from: uzo on December 07, 2012, 06:05:25 PM
KCEK is a terrible development group, at least for Castlevania, and as evidence is responsible for the N64 travesties as well as the shitty port of SotN for Satun if I am not mistaken. Their incompetence knows no limits. Circle of the Moon came out pretty good though, but you can still see traces of their usual retarded flair in there. Did they do Bloodlines too? Or perhaps the same people from Bloodlines worked on the others mentioned here? Because it feels really similar, especially in how awful it is.

You are mistaken.  The SotN port for Saturn was done by KCEN (Nagoya), the team that also made Castlevania Legends.

Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: GuyStarwind on December 08, 2012, 06:23:29 PM
Quote from: Santa Clisis on December 08, 2012, 03:07:02 PM
LOL
"my wife hates the name, so i had to give it to my pet, but only as his middle name" xD


new confession:
even though his name is Jorge, i still have the habit of pronouncing it as "George" in my head

Wheres the ho ho ho? :(
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 08, 2012, 07:48:09 PM
Quote from: Santa Clisis on December 08, 2012, 03:07:02 PM
new confession:
even though his name is Jorge, i still have the habit of pronouncing it as "George" in my head

Most of my friends pronounce it "George", (since most of them are not hispanic and when people butcher my name's original pronunciation it makes me want to put babies on Spikes), so do not worry about pronouncing it like this in your head...

Just as long as you type it properly, 'cuz I don't think your fingers are retarded. :P
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Successor The Cruel on December 08, 2012, 08:03:33 PM
Sometimes I'm not exactly sure of how I feel about Symphony of the Night. Sometimes I have great, great respect and admiration for it, and just thinking about it makes me want to play it. Yet, I just can't excuse certain things within it, and just thinking of those things makes me want to stop playing and never finish it... because... why? It honestly gets pretty darn boring to me after a point. The best thing I can liken the game to is a savant - a retarded person who is also a genius at the same time. The game, while incredibly brilliant, is also incredibly lazy and retarded to me.

I also have to admit that it's frustrating when some people just don't seem to realize or care about the huge shortcomings with the game, while also acting like it's head and shoulders above some of its predecessors. Stylistically, I can really understand that behavior, and I give a lot of importance to aesthetic style. However, as a well put together, continuously captivating and enthralling video game, I will turn to Aria of Sorrow (and even Harmony of Dissonance) every time.

All in all, I do like Symphony of the Night, though.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: DarkPrinceAlucard on December 08, 2012, 08:21:18 PM
I think Symphony of the night is the best Castlevania game in the series.

I hold Super Castlevania IV in very high regard and constantly compare it to other classicvania games as a measuring stick of badassness.

I think Castlevania Lords of Shadow had great graphics and good gameplay but think everything else about the game did not feel very castlevania like until you got to the castle and vampires and even then it wasn't enough to save it since the soundtrack kinda ruined the mood with its hollywood score music and the utter lack of variety when in different areas.

I think Castlevania Portrait of Ruin was definitely the lamest out of the DS titles.

I actually enjoyed Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow a lot but hated the drawing system being such a focal point of the game.

I actually enjoyed Castlevania Judgements gameplay but disliked everything else.

I think IGA showed fans that he had learned from his mistakes with giving us Order of Ecclesia and believe if he had been given a chance could have delivered once again with a great CV experience.

I am actually looking forward to seeing more of LOS2 since I hear its going to be "open world" which sounds pretty darn interesting.

I think Mirror of Fate messed up by giving Alucard a freaken whip in the game.

I think Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse should be remade into a 2.5D game similar to Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles and that it should be released on Xbox Live,Playstation Network, and Wii U.

I still believe Richter to be the strongest and most badazz of the belmonts despite him being controlled in symphony of the night.

I would love to see Saint Germain return in future CV games (possibly the battle of 1999 game).
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: thernz on December 08, 2012, 09:27:26 PM
i think charlotte aulin is really hot :-*
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: VladCT on December 08, 2012, 11:21:50 PM
Quote from: thernz on December 08, 2012, 09:27:26 PM
i think charlotte aulin is really hot :-*
Is she even legal? :-X
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Zetheraxza on December 09, 2012, 12:38:43 AM
DoS Yoko is where it is at. The new Outfit was just fiiiiiine  ;D
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: muteKi on December 09, 2012, 01:15:13 AM
Out of all the games in the series, CV4 is by far the one I dislike the most; it is too long and plodding (as I've said other places, there is a level subsection where you spend half a minute just hanging by the whip while the room spins around you), the spritework is pretty inconsistent, the bosses are almost all cheap assholes who don't take strategy to beat but just a rapid-fire controller, and the music is very hit-or-miss and a lot of the better music is marred by terrible samples, especially the one for the piano. Dracula X for SNES is still cheap and grindy but the art and music are obviously much better overall.

Similarly, Dawn of Sorrow was much more fun than Aria of Sorrow, which was too easy (and too grindy) for me to enjoy, though I find it frustrating that both required soul-grinding in order to get the good ending. At least Dawn's necessary souls were pretty common and easy to find. Whatever better story AoS might have had over DoS flew right past me in the face of a pretty poor localization and very little dialogue in the first place. The one thing I'll give it is that the touchscreen stuff in DoS was pretty mediocre.

Ecclesia had pretty terrible music up until the battle with Albus; while a few of the songs up until that point are decent, most of them are pretty dull and some of them are just dissonant and directionless. Which makes the fact the rest of the game has actually really good music all the more striking, granted, but only serves to grind down my patience at what's basically the first half of the game.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Kamirine on December 09, 2012, 02:21:37 AM
-After playing LoS a second time, I was able to see/appreciate how much of a nod they gave to the older games--or rather, pre-IGA timeline/SOTN-esque games.

-Though I love IGA and most of the SOTN-esque titles, I'm actually glad his reign is over: I got bored with always hunting around the castle, not using actual Belmonts, and the gameplay style in general was really starting to get stale.  Even if I'm not overly fond of the LoS, it's just nice to see the series go in and continue to go in new directions. Though I do regret we never got our 1999 game.

-Castlevania 64 = a game that, had it met it's potential, possibly would have and could have been the series' best 3D outing.

-I'm actually happy that the Legend's story isn't canon, though I do wish Sonia (reworked) was.

-I don't like that Satan was the final boss of LoS and will be severally disappointed if he is again for LoS2 or any future LoS entry.

-For a few years after watching Captain N, I really did think Simon was a narcissistic pilot in the games.

-I own, like, and still play Castlevania Judgement. And I actually liked some of the personalities they gave some of the characters. (Namely Grant.)

-I like the art style for LoS better than I did Ayami's for the series. (Even if I did like hers.)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Flame on December 10, 2012, 12:05:02 AM
Quote from: GuyStarwind on December 07, 2012, 07:27:46 PM

I'm currently playing a Paladin in D&D whose name is Belmont and he uses a whip.


Arent whips kind of bad as far as weapons go in DnD? I almost went for one once, but was not really impressed by it's output... it was like, 1d3 or something? Then again, I was not a paladin and was an artificer who wasnt really playing his role right. so...
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Harrycombs on December 10, 2012, 12:14:00 AM
I don't like The Adventure.
I have never been able to finish Castlevania 3, or Circle of the Moon.
I didn't enjoy OoE.
I have never played Legacy of Darkness despite loving CV64. I really need to get around to that.
The first time I played through Bloodlines, I gave myself more lives in the options... and still used savestates.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Keldor on December 10, 2012, 01:13:41 AM
I think mine is gonna get the most heat outta any post on here. I'm not crazy about the lords of shadow games.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: e105beta on December 10, 2012, 01:34:39 AM
Quote from: Keldor on December 10, 2012, 01:13:41 AM
I think mine is gonna get the most heat outta any post on here. I'm not crazy about the lords of shadow games.

*pft* Hahaha
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: JR on December 10, 2012, 04:34:57 AM
I have another one, although it's collection-related. I just took two CV arcade marquees and two CV promo posters to get custom framed, and I have to keep them at the store until the frames are done. I'm not gonna lie, that makes me a tad nervous right now.  :-[
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Chernabogue on December 10, 2012, 09:16:31 AM
I'm happy with the LoS saga.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: GuyStarwind on December 10, 2012, 08:12:44 PM
Quote from: Flame on December 10, 2012, 12:05:02 AM
Arent whips kind of bad as far as weapons go in DnD? I almost went for one once, but was not really impressed by it's output... it was like, 1d3 or something? Then again, I was not a paladin and was an artificer who wasnt really playing his role right. so...

Yes they are very bad. However, my whip does 2D6 but doesn't get the extra length that a whip gets. So, normally they're 1D3 but mines special.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Bergaron on December 12, 2012, 09:40:44 AM
- Before Lord of Shadow my last Castlevania was "Super Castlevania IV".

- Dislike Devil My Cry but I love Lord of Shadow mmm .. something must be different ...

- When I was 10 my parents gave me the NES and SimonQuest. It was the only game I had for a year. I passed an entire school curse with the little English I had to learn to pass the game (all my essays were about vampires, whips etc. .. the only vocabulary I knew). P.S. Now I've forgotten all the English (24 years later ..).

- I've never played a Metroidvania, simply because SuperMetroid (SNES) did not like .. I got bored.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: SiFi270 on December 12, 2012, 07:59:56 PM
Upon finding out that the dates on Dracula's tombstone at the end of Simon's Quest mean that neither Lament of Innocence nor Legends can be canon, I've gone into something of a personal crisis.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Green Stranger on December 13, 2012, 03:37:46 AM
I think the grade school child heroes in all CV games are a bit silly and I always avoid playing as them. I also feel that these characters are a nod to the dark Japanese subcultures with the with the whole Lolita thing.

I'm also embarrassed to play certain CV games around some family and friends because of the awful dialogue or overall cheesiness. SoTN is the only exception, even though Richter voice actor can be hard to bear.

The game with the most deep and interesting storyline in the series is without a doubt Lords of Shadow. For once I actually feel like this was a CV game that was designed for adults. Put this game side to side with the Pokemon-esque DoS and ask yourself who was the target audience?

I'd be willing to sacrifice up to 5 CV games to take Resurrection's place. Mine are DoS, AoS, Judgement, CoTM and CV Chronicles.

I'm not a homophobe but Issac does make that difficult:p

Castlevania 4, I love it to death but it is overrated to a degree. Let's get over the whole whipping in eight directions bid and the undying love for the linear days.

Harmony of Despair is strangely addicting.

SoTN, is and always will be number one. Nuff' said.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Inccubus on December 15, 2012, 04:35:40 AM
This'll be short. I hate LoS. Everything about it from the music to the story is representative of THE 'EPIC HOLLYWOOD' trend in gaming that I detest. It's only appeal is it's advanced graphics, and I've never given a rat's ass about graphics.

I think Dave Cox full of shit half the time.

I think that as a producer Iga was more genuinely passionate about Castlevania than Cox.

I hate Iga's design philosophy.

Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Mike Belmont on December 18, 2012, 02:16:10 AM
-My second NES game was Dracula´s Curse... the first one was Super Mario Bros. 3 :P...
-My first SNES games were SCVIV and Dracula X...
-My first PS game was Alexi Lalas International Soccer :P... but then I bought SOTN :)...
-My second GB game was CV The Adventure... the first was Tiny Toons 2 ;)...
-I bought a Game Boy Advance just to play Circle of the Moon...
-My first DS game was Dawn of Sorrow...
-I bought Lament of Innocence weeks before I have a PS2...
-I bought DXC months before I own a PSP...
-...And finally, I prefer Darksiders to be my first XBox 360 game rather than LoS, am I wrong? (In fact, my first games were Disney Adventures and Kinect Adventures, but...) Maybe some day I will aquire LoS...
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 18, 2012, 06:26:25 AM
- Lords of Shadow sucks my shit and is not a Castlevania game.
- IGA did a lot of crap things but at least his productions still felt like Castlevania; this is weird to say, but I want him back.
- At age 13, I would play Castlevania 64 with Carrie's alternate costume and slide/duckcrawl under the small passageways to see her white cotton panties.
- On that note, to this day I feel that the N64 games were "the last great Castlevania games" and anyone who thinks they suck can suck my sump pump. Although ReBirth comes close to that level of greatness especially with its old school flavor, it's not one I play continually over and over. (Then again, I rarely play games anymore, but I don't even know that teenaged me would play it obsessively after first beating it.)
- I had the best website on the N64 games ever created. Probably 'cos it was the only such site.
- I honestly feel that Castlevania III is nowhere near as good as the first two on NES since it has so many boring passages. I've also never beat it.
- I find a lot of the obsessive Castlevania memorabilia collecting by users on this board to be very disturbing and a waste of time, money, and living space. Then again, I find that kind of collecting troubling in general; I have my own obsessive collecting in ways and I need to cut it out and sell a bunch of things.
- Related to that, fanfics are frightening even if they're not hinting at or reveling in pornographic outcomes.
- Though as a young teen I did yank it to that Elizabeth Bartley lesbo porno fiction by Andrew Modeen.
- I'm ashamed to admit that but it's a fact of life.
- Castlevania Legends is awesome so eat my tits if you disagree.

And I suppose I could go on but I'll end it there.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Zetheraxza on December 18, 2012, 07:30:31 AM
^I'm 12 and what is this?
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Inccubus on December 18, 2012, 08:59:06 AM
^Move along, child. Nothing to see here.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: TheCruelAngel on December 18, 2012, 02:32:58 PM
Ya know Abnormal, I was skeptical when I read the LoS hate, but then laughed and enjoyed the rest. +1 for the amusing post.  ;)

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Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Gecko on December 18, 2012, 02:43:50 PM
-I think LoS is the best 3D Castlevania thus far. I also like the story.

-I feel like SotN is highly overrated. Most of the people I talk to in real life think it's the greatest Castlevania ever, but haven't played any of the games that came after it.  :-\

-I like Castlevania Judgement. It's a fun little fighting game, with good gameplay and cool remixes. Those character designs are terrible though (mostly).

-Lately I find myself greatly enjoying what was previously my least favorite Castlevania; The Adventure. The sequel is still better though. Christopher moves like a slug, but the stages work around that, making it a fair but difficult challenge. I keep verbally telling him to walk faster though.

-The new MoF Simon is my favorite look for him. His look greatly resembles the NES sprite from the first Castlevania.

-I think the story in the Sorrow games is incredibly stupid, moreso in the second one. That said, I love playing them.

-The only thing I don't like about Harmony of Dissonance is that castles A and B don't have different soundtracks, or at least different versions of the same songs. Otherwise, I love that game.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Heuss on December 18, 2012, 03:30:56 PM
-I like Lords of Shadow

-I was tired of IGA in Castlevania

-I consider most fun Castlevania Bloodline in relation to Castlevnia IV, although admit that it`s better overall game

-I don´t like the scheme Castlevania-Metroid.

Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: crisis on December 18, 2012, 04:15:14 PM
"i like LoS"
"i hate LoS"
"i liked IGA games"
"IGA games were terrible"
"i hate [popular game]"
"i like [unpopular game]"

hohoho yyyeah I THINK THIS THREAD HAS RUN IT'S COURSE
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 18, 2012, 04:47:40 PM
This thread ran its course back on Page 1, as it's just complaints.
There are no true confessions here.

A true confession would be something like "Although I always say on this forum that I hate LoS, the reality is, I play it from time to time so I'm probably full of it when I talk against it here".
But no one's gonna confess things like that.

The closest to a confession is the perverted things Abnormal Freak is saying... which are tiptoeing that threshold of stuff you can talk about here.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 18, 2012, 05:12:03 PM
I was gonna come up with actual confessions beyond that (my not-incredibly-strong liking for CV III and never beating it is one such example), but the first post asked for unpopular opinions/rants and that, so I was confused and went mostly for the latter. It wasn't a confessions thread like the title said but a "be a jerk" thread.

And to that end:

- LOS likers are jerkholes.
- IGA wears dresses but is still kinda cool.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Nagumo on December 18, 2012, 06:00:34 PM
Quote from: Abnormal Freak on December 18, 2012, 05:12:03 PM
I was gonna come up with actual confessions beyond that (my not-incredibly-strong liking for CV III and never beating it is one such example), but the first post asked for unpopular opinions/rants and that, so I was confused and went mostly for the latter.

I guess I should cut down on my sarcasm.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 18, 2012, 06:04:28 PM
You fail me, Gnaw goo moe!

(I knew whatcha meant by the original post and weren't encouraing people to be mean, just still seemed more like an "unpopular opinions" thread than "confessions.")
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 18, 2012, 07:06:32 PM
Here are a few actual confessions from me:

-Although I have watched entire playthroughs of the games, I have never finished Lament of Innocence or Curse of Darkness, so although I do not like those games, it's mostly because I cannot muster the fortitude to play through them, more than them being (in my opinion) not very good games.  The same is true for Final Fantasy VII.  I also own all of these games, which makes the thing weirder.  And by 'own', I mean 'have a burnt disc of'.... though I actually bought FF7.

-I have never finished Haunted Castle (Arcade) or Vampire Killer (MSX).

-I am eagerly awaiting a hacked version of Castlevania Judgment, since I actually like the gameplay.  Keep Carmilla and Sypha the same though; just give 'em alternate costumes from the series.  If the Smash Brawl modders can do it, it should be the same for CVJudgment.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: SiFi270 on December 18, 2012, 08:23:45 PM
-I like SOTN, but I hate the big empty areas, where you have to wander around with the bat for 100% completion. It just takes a long time, and there isn't much to gain from it besides better defense from the Walk Armor and a better ending.
-Whenever people insist that something romantic happened between Alucard and Maria, I get angrier than I should.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Inccubus on December 19, 2012, 01:10:02 AM
Quote from: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 18, 2012, 07:06:32 PM
-I am eagerly awaiting a hacked version of Castlevania Judgment, since I actually like the gameplay.  Keep Carmilla and Sypha the same though; just give 'em alternate costumes from the series.  If the Smash Brawl modders can do it, it should be the same for CVJudgment.

This. And on a not entirely unrelated note, if one of those same modders could put back Rygar's original gladiator model that would be great. I hate the douche-baggy 'upgrade'.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 19, 2012, 01:18:11 PM
OFF TOPIC

EDIT: I will make a new topic for this, as not to veer off from the Confessions topic.  NEW TOPIC HERE (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,5566.0.html)!!

The OPPOSITE is actually what's happening.  Models of characters from CVJudgment are showing up in other games:

Someone at this forum (http://w11.zetaboards.com/SFxT_Mods/topic/8155615/1/) hacked Cornell's character into Vega's, with nice results:
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs14.postimage.org%2F4rw6b2m8x%2FVEGA_CLAW_CORNELL_Castlevania_Judgement_B.jpg&hash=1ef2e661e9ccadd85d8e6dc1d1879b8d575167a3)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Inccubus on December 19, 2012, 01:24:45 PM
That is disgusting. But at least I know now that if they can be extracted. And if they can be extracted, then they should be able to be inserted, too.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: uzo on December 19, 2012, 02:00:16 PM
Quote from: Inccubus on December 19, 2012, 01:24:45 PM
And if they can be extracted, then they should be able to be inserted, too.

Not necessarily. It's easier to take more data (in game model) and make less data (general model rip) from it, than to take less data and make more data from it.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Inccubus on December 19, 2012, 05:03:08 PM
Quote from: uzo on December 19, 2012, 02:00:16 PM
Not necessarily. It's easier to take more data (in game model) and make less data (general model rip) from it, than to take less data and make more data from it.

Not un-necessarily either. The important thing is that the location of at least one model is known. Just finding the data can sometimes be the biggest pain in the ass.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Successor The Cruel on December 19, 2012, 09:02:41 PM
Quote from: SiFi270 on December 18, 2012, 08:23:45 PM
-Whenever people insist that something romantic happened between Alucard and Maria, I get angrier than I should.

That romance, if it was one, was incredibly bizarre. I didn't even know either of them had any romantic intentions at all until the very end when Maria went to follow Alucard. I suppose Alucard's "unnatural beauty" put some kind of spell over Maria? If that's so, one must wonder about the validity of the entire relationship, if there is one. Which, if the radio drama is to be taken into account, they are living together after the events of Symphony of the Night, even though Maria is frustrated with the relationship.

I guess Maria was only 17 during the events of Symphony of the Night, so she could have just had a normal monster infatuation. Alucard just never told her to get lost, I suppose. And can you blame him? : p

So yeah... I'm left not knowing exactly what to think about all of that. I guess we can chalk all of it up to ham-handed narrative that ungracefully doesn't explain much of anything regarding that, nor give proper allusions to it before just dropping a bomb on us all of a sudden.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Gecko on December 20, 2012, 02:15:57 AM
-I kind of liked the Sonia + Alucard romance in Legends.

-On the other side of the coin, I have never understood how people paired Maria and Alucard as a romantic couple. Alucard doesn't seem even a little bit interested in getting with someone and reproducing in SotN. He's polite, but he's definitely got his priority list, and a romantic anything doesn't seem like it's on it. He's on a mission, and when he's done he just wants to put himself back to sleep like clockwork. Even if Maria is into him, it takes two to make any kind of romantic relationship.

Edit: Clearly, I'm not alone on my second sentiment. I didn't read other recent posts, so the Maria + Alucard comment is completely coincidental on my part.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Nagumo on December 20, 2012, 07:03:32 AM
I got to agree as well with the Alucard + Maria thing. The only reason they hint at a romance between the two is because Alucard is the protagonist, so he needs to hook up with one of the female supporting characters. The only appeal of the romance is that they're both attractive people. Then again, I don't understand why anyone would want to ship them for such a shallow reason.

Romance isn't exactly Castlevania's strongest suit. The only pairing I like is Hector and Rosalee from the manga.   
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: SiFi270 on December 20, 2012, 12:33:00 PM
I'm quite partial to Soma/Mina, but that's mostly because it probably results in the conception of my favorite character. I'm also very confused in regards to how I feel about Carmilla/Laura.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Inccubus on December 21, 2012, 01:53:12 AM
Quote from: SiFi270 on December 20, 2012, 12:33:00 PM
I'm quite partial to Soma/Mina, but that's mostly because it probably results in the conception of my favorite character. I'm also very confused in regards to how I feel about Carmilla/Laura.

Your favorite character?
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Heuss on December 21, 2012, 02:44:48 AM
Quote from: Gecko on December 20, 2012, 02:15:57 AM
-I kind of liked the Sonia + Alucard romance in Legends.

By the way, there is a group of fans for twitter who are asking a mention of Sonia Belmont in LOS 2

@CastlevaniaLOS Sonia Belmont is a character unjustly relegated from the Belmont Clan by Igarashi. Mention of her in LOS2 would be special..

@Enric_Alvarez Sonia Belmont is a character unjustly relegated from the Belmont Clan by Igarashi. Mention of her in LOS2 would be special


Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: SiFi270 on December 21, 2012, 03:58:33 PM
Quote from: Inccubus on December 21, 2012, 01:53:12 AM
Your favorite character?
Kid Dracula. He's got the right hair for it, and that's the only physical trait my brain registers with anyone.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Odile Kuronuma on December 21, 2012, 05:04:29 PM
Tbh I didn't like the Cod soundtrack that much. I enjoy a few titles like Mortvia Aqueduct, and I don't like most of the titles because they use too much guitar .
I never finished the GB games because well the Belmonts are too slow.
I didn't find Cotm that good.I like the DSS system, and the soundtrack,...and that's it.
I didn't like Castlevania 1 that much(I'm one of those who got introduced to CV with Sotn), but I really liked CVIII and SCVIV.CV 1 didn't give me that WOW reaction, while SCVIV and to a certain extent CVIII did.
I liked Bloodlines and I don't find the graphics crappy. The sound kinda sucks but I like it that way(deformed sound).
I never finished playing as Richter in Sotn because well I suck when I play with him.
I liked LoI. The soundtrack is amazing, the story is not that bad, the gameplay is how I imagine whipping in a 3D environement to be like (although it becomes repetitive by the end of the game). And I liked the concept of Mathias becoming Dracula.
I totally agree with IGA about Legends. The Belmonts can't be related to Dracula by blood(Fuck you MS!!).

...Well that's all I can think of now.
Oh yeah and I hate MariaxAlucard. I just hate Maria (although her Saturn version is awesome). I can't help it.I'm a huge Alucard fangirl  ;D
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: beingthehero on December 21, 2012, 11:30:52 PM
I like PoR. I still find it very fun to play, and prefer it over DoS. OoE is still the best, though.

I find Simon's Chronicles design to be his canonical one in my mind.

Speaking of which, I actually play Castlevania Chronicles more than SotN D:

Juste Belmont is my favorite latter-day Belmont. Dawg is underrated.

I once tried to find the legendary Castlevania hentai where Maria does the minotaur. I don't know why.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: crisis on December 21, 2012, 11:35:36 PM
Quote
I once tried to find the legendary Castlevania hentai where Maria does the minotaur. I don't know why.
i think i have that hentai, is it the one with the green cover

hohoho
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: beingthehero on December 21, 2012, 11:39:30 PM
M-maybe, I never found it so I don't know. I am completely unsurprised that you have it, though.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: uzo on December 22, 2012, 01:04:35 AM
Quote from: Inccubus on December 19, 2012, 05:03:08 PM
Not un-necessarily either. The important thing is that the location of at least one model is known. Just finding the data can sometimes be the biggest pain in the ass.

Its unlikely. It would have to be the same exact format, and structure. 3D models aren't interchangeable just because they're 3D models.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 22, 2012, 03:05:18 AM
While uzo is right, the community has found out that there are some standards in the way 3D models are done, even between different companies.  This is probably why those mods that put Castlevania Judgment characters into Resident Evil 4 look pretty proper.

Sometimes they can be interchanged, like taking Monster Hunter Tri models and putting them into Brawl.  Other times there are points you need to edit so that they work together better, and other times it's high on the incompatibility.  CVJudgment models appear to be 11 times smaller than Brawl models, etc. from what I've read.

EDIT: Also, we're going off topic from this thread.  Any further discussion about hacking models should go on the other thread I made already in progress (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,5566.0.html).
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: crisis on December 22, 2012, 03:41:46 AM
Quote
M-maybe, I never found it so I don't know. I am completely unsurprised that you have it, though.
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new confession(s): when i wear my p-coat in public, sometimes i pretend i'm Juste Belmont or Alucard
I've never watched a single episode of Captain N, so all the Simon references people make go right over my head
i skipped all the annoying puzzles in LoS
i used to make mini cardboard-cutouts of the artworks of Castlevania characters & "play" with them
i have never finished CV64, despite having the cartridge in my N64 always ready to play. i've never gotten past the hedge maze ):
for a while i tried restoring the official image of Sonia Belmont in high-resolution, but eventually abandoned the project. the file has been saved on my comp untouched for at least 6 years
despite owning all the issues of The Belmont Legacy, i've never actually read any of them
true or false: i own the LoI Japan-only cellphone comic, but refuse to upload any of the images
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 22, 2012, 06:36:42 AM
Quote from: Santa Clisis on December 22, 2012, 03:41:46 AM
(click to show/hide)

You should scan that in hi-res










to let me see all your jizzle stains in the best quality.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: X on December 22, 2012, 06:51:55 AM
Okay I just thought of a new CV confession............................. .. I'm curious about that Maria hentai manga too   :-[ :-[ :-[
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Nagumo on December 22, 2012, 07:17:51 AM
Quote from: Santa Clisis on December 22, 2012, 03:41:46 AM
true or false: i own the LoI Japan-only cellphone comic, but refuse to upload any of the images

Don't even joke about that.     
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 22, 2012, 07:38:23 AM
Quote from: X on December 22, 2012, 06:51:55 AM
Okay I just thought of a new CV confession............................. .. I'm curious about that Maria hentai manga too   :-[ :-[ :-[

I thought I remembered "reading" it on the Dungeon years ago, but apparently it was just a short review of sorts.

http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/features/cvporn.html (http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/features/cvporn.html)

Coulda sworn I saw the full-on uncensored images on the site, or maybe someone posted them on the board.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Successor The Cruel on December 22, 2012, 08:10:37 AM
Quote from: Santa Clisis on December 22, 2012, 03:41:46 AM
true or false: i own the LoI Japan-only cellphone comic, but refuse to upload any of the images

Heh, if that's true, then you sound just like my friend. He has it, but apparently can't be bothered to upload the images or translate it : p
From what I can remember him telling me about it, there's actually some pretty interesting content in there.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Dark Nemesis on December 22, 2012, 08:23:17 AM
I also have that doujin, along with another one
(click to show/hide)
in digital format.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: GuyStarwind on December 22, 2012, 08:28:01 AM
That Maria thing seems kinda weird.  :o
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Nagumo on December 22, 2012, 08:36:32 AM
Quote from: Successor The Cruel on December 22, 2012, 08:10:37 AM
From what I can remember him telling me about it, there's actually some pretty interesting content in there.

Affirmative. My contacts also provided me with a lot of interesting information.

For example, did you know that:


Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: KaZudra on December 22, 2012, 03:09:07 PM
Confessions,
I think that LoI is a great game, but story-wise; retarded for trying to be an origin story but brings up more questions than questions answered.
I have Succubi pics in my fap folder
I like LoS storyline of Belmont-Dracula
Judgement would have been amazing if the mechanics were good and ditched Death-Note's art direction, Aeon could have easily been tied in with St. Germain.
Everyone wants to see the 1999 war with Julius and Dracula, I wanna See the Galamoth wars and Death vs. Time Reaper
I wish Getsu-Fuuma-Den Gets a remake
Still to this day I believe Hellsing (anime) Ripped off Castlevania
despite it being a lazy rip-off, I loved Harmony of Despair

Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Ratty on December 22, 2012, 03:26:37 PM
Quote from: KaZ on December 22, 2012, 03:09:07 PM
Still to this day I believe Hellsing (anime) Ripped off Castlevania

Whuh? How? I think having Dracula go under the code-name "Alucard" was more a homage than a ripoff, one of the final chapters in the manga (a flashback to Dracula's origin story) is even named "Castlevania". I think Kouta Hirano took inspiration from many places, like his mercenaries are inspired by and named after those in the film The Wild Geese, but he was too open about it for them to really be called ripoffs. Then again I think Tarantino rips off exploitation movies a lot so maybe the line between homage and ripoff is a thin one defined by personal taste and interpretation to some degree.
But let's not forget naming the son of Dracula "Alucard" in Castlevania itself was a reference/homage to the 1943 Son of Dracula film.

I guess my confession would just be that I'm still not skilled enough and or haven't been seriously gaming long enough to beat a lot of the games in the series. Including some of my favorites like Castlevania 3.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: X on December 22, 2012, 05:13:19 PM
Quote
Medusa is actually an entity that consists of many souls?

Whomever stated this obviously doesn't know his Greek myths very well. I Confess it sounds like another bad CV idea like what IGA did with Dracula's origin.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 22, 2012, 10:44:38 PM
Quote from: KaZ on December 22, 2012, 03:09:07 PM
Still to this day I believe Hellsing (anime) Ripped off Castlevania

Ripoff or not (I don't see any connections at all save for the aforementioned homage with manga chapters titled "Castle Vania"—amidst a bunch of other video game titles, by the way), Hellsing has a compelling story that's written and executed well, so I'll take it over most of the game series' storylines. There has yet to be a well-done Castlevania story; the simpler the stories are the better, it seems. Funny to say that the earliest games with little story elements are the least embarrassing.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: muteKi on December 23, 2012, 05:32:14 AM
Despite the fact that I've put it over Super CV IV for a while now, I've only recently actually played it, and only gotten a couple levels in.

Furthermore, the original (FM synth) soundtrack is basically the only thing I don't have in the big Castlevania playlist I compiled (well, along with the Perfect Selection Rap CD and the Harmony of Despair soundtrack), which is something of a severely glaring omission for those who know me.

(Admittedly that's partly because I'm waiting for an eventual VGM rip of the game audio, but still!)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Green Stranger on December 23, 2012, 08:38:09 AM
Quote from: KaZ on December 22, 2012, 03:09:07 PM

I have Succubi pics in my fap folder



Now that is a confession.


For the longest time the Rondo of Blood soundtrack was my morning jog music. It just has that nice upbeat and motivating sound to it. How about you guys? Do you have a good CV cardio playlist going on?
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: VladCT on December 23, 2012, 09:27:53 AM
Quote from: Green Stranger on December 23, 2012, 08:38:09 AM
Now that is a confession.
One more R34-related confession then.
I once stumbled upon a set of fanart of Dracula literally raping poor Richter on a certain site. My mind has since been scarred for life...
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Puwexil on December 23, 2012, 12:30:05 PM
I should make a distinction between confessions per se, as in motivated by guilt, and simple opinions and viewpoints that by my recognition fall into the unorthodox.

The former:


The latter:

Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Laina on December 23, 2012, 08:33:20 PM
I didn't read every single one of these before me, so I'm sure there're some repeats in mine, but here goes-

-I haven't completed a single 8-bit CV adventure yet, but I'm working on it with the virtual console.

-I think the original SOTN voice acting is only slightly better than having acid poured into my ear canals...only slightly. Yuri Lowenthal took some getting used to, but he's a fine Alucard. I also like the new script too. The original was actually fine, it was just been improved upon i.m.o..

-I cosplayed as Maria Renard for Halloween from the ages of 13-15, then again when I was 17.

-I cosplayed as Lisa Farenheights for Halloween when I was 16.

-I used a jump rope with one of the plastic handles torn off & a soft ball wrapped up in the bare end, super glued for added security as the Vampire Killer when I would play "REAL CASTLEVANIA, NATHAN!" with my bff as a kid.

-I like Castlevania Legends damn it.

-I own the American & UK copies of that God-awful Worlds of Power adaptation of CVII.

-When I have my hair back in a braid I sometimes feel like Sonya Belmont. When I wear a headband I sometimes feel like 12 year-old Maria Renard.

-I haven't played a CV since the PSP Dracula X. Life catches up to ya.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Successor The Cruel on December 23, 2012, 10:56:27 PM
A looooooong time ago, I used to imagine that characters like Christopher and Trevor were Simon Belmont, because I thought a Castlevania game without Simon was just un-cool! I would conjure up stories in my head as to why Simon was fighting Dracula again.

Of a similar note, I used to own that one classic Gamefan (I think it was Gamefan) magazine that features Symphony of the Night and has Alucard on the cover. I thought that Alucard was supposed to be Simon Belmont, and I was like "WTF is this!?"

I grew up with Simon Belmont as an one of my iconic game characters, like Link, Samus, and Mario, so, you know... not including him in Castlevania was retarded to me. When I read up on Harmony of Dissonance, it made a specific connection to Simon Belmont by stating that Juste is Simon's grandson, and when I found out it referenced Simon's Quest a lot, I was spazzing out with excitement, so I was like, "Okay, I can play into this. This is stuff I know!!!" Before that, there was Circle of the Moon talking about some Quincey Baldwin or some such, and I was like, "...who the fuck!? Can we just get Simon? What the hell?"

Most people probably think I'm one of them Symphony of the Night starter dudes, but nah, I'm OG. I just kinda' keep it under wraps.
I'm so OG that I wouldn't even accept a game that didn't have Simon : D
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Lashen on December 23, 2012, 11:17:05 PM
The only thing stopping me from driving the 5 minutes it would take to hang out with JonTron is his inextinguishable fury for Castlevania: The Adventure. (Otherwise, I love the man to pieces.)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: X on December 25, 2012, 04:55:08 AM
Quote
-I used a jump rope with one of the plastic handles torn off & a soft ball wrapped up in the bare end, super glued for added security as the Vampire Killer when I would play "REAL CASTLEVANIA, NATHAN!" with my bff as a kid.

I DID THAT! I DID THAT VERY SAME THING TOO, I CONFESS!! Except without the plastic ball at the end. But I also confess that i even did LoZ stuff too. Made Link's original wooden shield as well as AlttP's Master sword. That shield was slightly heavy but not unreasonably so. <--Yes this isn't a CV confession but it is born out of that same imagination and love for the classics.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 25, 2012, 01:42:30 PM
-I feel immortal when I wear my Alucard costume.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Belmont Stakes on December 25, 2012, 10:43:30 PM
I think the Castlevania vs. Mortal Kombat idea works. I would buy any  Castlevania game where the phrase "They're huge!" is used at least one time.  I would whole-heartedly support the re-releasing of the N64 games on the grounds that no alterations or improvements are made.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Superhunter on December 25, 2012, 11:17:19 PM
-I have my own castlevania origin story that I am trying to condense into a comic book script, and I implement it in my mind every time I play a classicvania.

-Castlevania will always be in my mind, the best example of the eternal struggle between good and evil and I hate when incredibly wierd games like DoS and OoE try to complicate that.

-My only real issue with LoS is how unrealistic it is, everything from Gabe having super human abilities like being able to stand on the top of an undead dragon hurdling though the sky, or how ridiculously strong he is. Mainly it's the fact that the combat cross hold like 3 stories worth of chain in that little iron cross as well as unexplained propulsive properties, I mean their isn't even a friggin button. Oh and if you've ever whipped a chain around, you'll notice how heavy it is, again with the super strenght
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: crisis on December 26, 2012, 01:20:04 AM
Quote
Mainly it's the fact that the combat cross hold like 3 stories worth of chain in that little iron cross as well as unexplained propulsive properties, I mean there isn't even a friggin button.

HOHOHO this is my thoughts too. Although I like how the Combat Cross looks aesthetically, it's just so unrealistic & operates more like a "hook-shot" than a whip, except hookshots seem to have buttons to release/retract the chain. With the Combat Cross, there's like 15 feet of chainlinks somehow compacted in a 2-foot hilt. The Belmonts in this series just wail it around like madmen, and considering the fact that enemies have a ton of health, it seems like the chain isn't doing what it should or isn't strong enough, despite being a "holy" weapon. Just look at Trevor's gameplay in MoF, he's flinging that thing & it reaches unbelievable lengths, yet takes multiple hits to destroy barrels & simple skeletons/lesser creatures. It just comes off as silly to me. Perhaps Simon's whip will operate differently, since it's a leather whip.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Phoenix7786 on December 26, 2012, 01:52:32 AM
Quote from: KaZ on December 22, 2012, 03:09:07 PM

I have Succubi pics in my fap folder


Well then I imagine they must be quite pleased with themselves.

As for my confession, years ago when I first beat CVIII I save-scummed the Dracula battle out of sheer frustration.
When I was in 5th grade I used to think that SotN's VA was phenominal.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Inccubus on December 26, 2012, 03:55:40 AM
Castlevania 2 is the only game in the series I never went back to play a second time. I even played CotM a second time while I was waiting for Aria to come out and don't even much like that game.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Successor The Cruel on December 26, 2012, 08:47:33 AM
Quote from: Superhunter on December 25, 2012, 11:17:19 PM
-Castlevania will always be in my mind, the best example of the eternal struggle between good and evil and I hate when incredibly wierd games like DoS and OoE try to complicate that.

What's weird about Order of Ecclesia?
Just asking for the sake of conversation and out of curiosity, not necessarily to challenge your view, by the way.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 26, 2012, 01:27:46 PM
-Whenever I get a chance (especially at home), I perform the "Belmont Walk", especially when climbing stairs.  Sometimes I change it into the OoT Link Shield run though. :P

The Belmont Walk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mif5ya4JUy0#)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Superhunter on December 26, 2012, 01:47:58 PM
Quote from: Successor The Cruel on December 26, 2012, 08:47:33 AM
What's weird about Order of Ecclesia?
Just asking for the sake of conversation and out of curiosity, not necessarily to challenge your view, by the way.

Just the whole deal with the belmonts disappearing, and with the glyph system, mainly the glyph system, it was just so far fetched in my opinion, but now that I think about it, I guess it doesn't really complicate the good and evil thing, just some of the game was so out there that I felt like I was playing a cartoon, which is funny because I loved its art style.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Successor The Cruel on December 26, 2012, 02:13:01 PM
^ It wasn't actually Order of Ecclesia that initially suggested the notion of the Belmonts not being around. It just kind of solidified it. The first game to suggest something wasn't quite the norm was Bloodlines, with the introduction of John Morris. There is a string of games that also has a bunch of other non-Belmont characters using whips and confronting Dracula. Even though those games aren't in the canon that IGA put together, I think they still had their effect on things, somewhat. It's interesting to note that all those games take place in the time period when the Belmonts aren't around. In my view, Order of Ecclesia actually offered some exposition as to why the 1800s and 1900s (aside from 1999) were so weird, for lack of a better term.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Ratty on December 26, 2012, 05:23:51 PM
The Belmonts *have* to be missing in action at some point, otherwise the original Dracula novel which appears to be mostly in-canon, wouldn't make any sense.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Odile Kuronuma on December 26, 2012, 08:14:35 PM
When I first saw the artwork for Sotn back in 1997 in a video game magazine, I thought that Maria and Lisa were the same person(I was 8 years old back then). I also thought that Maria/Lisa was Alucard's sister  ;D.
Well in my defense I'll say that Lisa looks pretty young in her artwork, so it's hard to imagine that  she's Alucard's mother. And I used to think that Alucard and Maria could brother and sister, since they kinda look alike(blond hair and the fact that Alucard looks effeminate). Again I was 8 , so it's kinda normal to make those mistakes, especially if you take into consideration that I used to steal those vg magazines from my brother, because he was so possessive with his magazines and even his console. That explains why I didn't get to play Sotn back then.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Ratty on December 26, 2012, 09:00:14 PM
Quote from: Odile Kuronuma on December 26, 2012, 08:14:35 PM
When I first saw the artwork for Sotn back in 1997 in a video game magazine, I thought that Maria and Lisa were the same person(I was 8 years old back then). I also thought that Maria/Lisa was Alucard's sister  ;D.
Well in my defense I'll say that Lisa looks pretty young in her artwork, so it's hard to imagine that  she's Alucard's mother. And I used to think that Alucard and Maria could brother and sister, since they kinda look alike(blond hair and the fact that Alucard looks effeminate). Again I was 8 , so it's kinda normal to make those mistakes, especially if you take into consideration that I used to steal those vg magazines from my brother, because he was so possessive with his magazines and even his console. That explains why I didn't get to play Sotn back then.

That's cute. :) reminds me of how cool and important gaming magazines were back in the day. And how little information really got around. The internet was still mostly a collection of amateur homages complete with pointless animated gifs, so for serious news (and often the only source of news) you had to go to magazines. Provided I wasn't a huge gamer at the time, but everyone at school respected their importance.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Green Stranger on December 26, 2012, 09:12:09 PM
Quote from: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 26, 2012, 01:27:46 PM
-Whenever I get a chance (especially at home), I perform the "Belmont Walk", especially when climbing stairs.  Sometimes I change it into the OoT Link Shield run though. :P

The Belmont Walk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mif5ya4JUy0#)

Lol wow!! Upload a video. I gotta see this.

Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 26, 2012, 09:52:46 PM
NO WAI!
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Inccubus on December 26, 2012, 10:08:15 PM
I confess that I fully intend to make my next girlfriend a SotN Succubus outfit so I can go with her to the local fetish party in a matching Incubus outfit.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Sindra on December 27, 2012, 12:29:57 AM
Quote from: uzo on December 07, 2012, 06:05:25 PM
I think Bloodlines is a pretty shitty game

I will shank you. You know this, right? SHANK.

*ahem*

- I have never beaten Super Castlevania IV or Dracula's Curse. (I am currently remedying both, but not through emulation)
- I used to think Gabriel was bland and too much of a stoic, but I've grown to love him and the potential for his character. (and he's a Woobie: Destroyer of Worlds)
- I have yet to own Rondo of Blood. I've had several opportunities, but my conscience always gets the better of me.
- I have a Castlevania tattoo
- I have a Castlevania fan-manga idea that has been brewing in my head for years and is my attempt at tying a bunch of loose storylines together and injecting my own characters in a tasteful way, but I haven't ever gotten it out of the concept stage. (even though I firmly believe it could turn out well)
- Bloodlines music takes me to my Happy Place. So does "Crystal Teardrops" from Symphony.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 27, 2012, 01:00:06 AM
Don't forget about Belmont's Revenge music.  I know you like those too.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: uzo on December 27, 2012, 01:09:17 AM
What tattoo image did you get? Also, props for the Crystal Teardrops mention, being one of my favorite songs of the series.

Now excuse me while I bleed out all over the floor.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 27, 2012, 01:15:40 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AeJWfmhJVI&feature=player_detailpage#t=5s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AeJWfmhJVI&feature=player_detailpage#t=5s)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: crisis on December 27, 2012, 01:33:16 AM
The best time to listen to Crystal Teardrops is when you're driving through a winter's night in Manhattan around 12am, streetlights & skyrises all around you and you're enveloped in the mysticism, or when you're on the Verrazano Bridge overlooking the Manhattan skyline, the twilight is very real. You guys should come to my pad in NY, we'll have a great time ¬_¬

this is a sugoi rendition
Crystal Teardrops (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night) on Piano (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEd4KEJZ15Y#ws)

this song also reminds me of Christmas
Castlevania SOTN: Lost Painting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYwS6481oQk#)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 27, 2012, 01:41:20 AM
For NYC Late-Night, I prefer "The Fragrance of Dark Coffee".
Godot - The Fragrance of Dark Coffee + Rainymood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xixTiB6tJTM#)


But "Crystal Teardrops" is nice too... it's just not my favorite SotN piece, I don't like it that much.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: TheouAegis on December 27, 2012, 02:00:09 AM
Forgive me father, for I have sinned. When I discovered Sypha was really a girl, I fapped three times, and on the third time I called out her name.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Nagumo on December 27, 2012, 07:39:19 AM
When I played SotN for the first time when I was young, I beat Dracula after gotten revived by Maria and I was like "Woah, I'm pretty good."

When I played Harmony of Dissonance for the first time I was scared of Juste because I thought he was a vampire.   
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: GuyStarwind on December 27, 2012, 08:09:38 AM
Quote from: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 26, 2012, 01:27:46 PM
-Whenever I get a chance (especially at home), I perform the "Belmont Walk", especially when climbing stairs.  Sometimes I change it into the OoT Link Shield run though. :P

The Belmont Walk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mif5ya4JUy0#)

I do this is cross walks but often have to run across towards the end because I took so long.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Green Stranger on December 27, 2012, 12:19:20 PM
The Belmont Walk might also be good for wiping mud off your shoes being that you can't lift your feet right?


Back in high school I remember once wearing white jeans, black shoes and a black peacoat and trying my best to look like Richter Belmont's SoTN outfit. I also had the matching brown belt, white dress up shirt and somewhat long hair. Nobody knew what I was up to and it didn't look like cosplay either. I would pass by the full length mirrors in the hall and think "that's pretty close". Lol never even told that too the nerdiest of my exes or friends. Damn you guys!!!! :P
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: VladCT on December 27, 2012, 01:56:04 PM
Quote from: beingthehero on December 21, 2012, 11:30:52 PM
I once tried to find the legendary Castlevania hentai where Maria does the minotaur. I don't know why.
So just now I actually managed to find it on a certain H-gallery site.
For the curious, here's a hint: you may need an account to access its "fjord".
If you really need the specifics though, you'll have to PM me as I can't say anything more without breaking the rules.
As per usual, I simply stumbled upon it instead of actively searching for it. Vintage hentai isn't exactly my thing anyway.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Sindra on December 27, 2012, 10:40:18 PM
Quote from: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 27, 2012, 01:00:06 AM
Don't forget about Belmont's Revenge music.  I know you like those too.

It would be an extremely long list to try and name which songs from which games give me a happy nostalgia high. I picked the ones I did because they stand out the most.

Uzo, it's the Castlevania cross with inverted bat wings from the DS games, which I got on my ankle. (in black ink, though it needs touchups)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Mike Belmont on December 29, 2012, 01:49:34 AM
I have to confess, that the way I knew the Castlevania Saga was... to mistake Wrestlemania with Castlevania III :P... I rented CVIII, and I hope to see WWE wrestlers, but I see a totally different game... AND I LOVE IT!!! And so, my hobby with CV was begin...

Quote from: Mike Belmont on December 18, 2012, 02:16:10 AM
-...And finally, I prefer Darksiders to be my first XBox 360 game rather than LoS, am I wrong?  Maybe some day I will aquire LoS...

Even though I hate all related to LoS, I confess that I finally bought it yesterday for 2 reasons:
-It is Castlevania, and
-It cost me 10 dlls :)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: beingthehero on December 29, 2012, 02:03:53 AM
I'm actually enjoying Judgment.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Neobelmont on December 30, 2012, 03:23:31 AM
Okay I have a couple for right now

When I was younger I had a crush on carrie  :-[
I dig Syphas judgment version
I have never played Belmont's revenge what the heck is wrong with me.
When I jog I always have the waterfalls of agharta playing and agharta(both of these songs go  very well in the rain  :) )

And I have an absolute love towards legacy of darkness

While I have sotn for dxc I bought it for the ps1 as well because I wanted too.

While I like most cv games As far as "play styles" go for cv I like classic>3d>mv

that is it for now....

Wait a minute one more thing I am quite confused as to why there are no castlevania themed yu0gi-oh cards yet there are gradius,goemon,fuma,and even metal gear so why no cv? i would love to make a deck based around dracula and the belmonts
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Phoenix7786 on December 30, 2012, 04:57:42 AM
Quote from: Neobelmont on December 30, 2012, 03:23:31 AM
Wait a minute one more thing I am quite confused as to why there are no castlevania themed yu0gi-oh cards yet there are gradius,goemon,fuma,and even metal gear so why no cv? i would love to make a deck based around dracula and the belmonts

Ok the strangest thing keeps happening. I throw my money at the monitor yet nothing's happening...
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Super Waffle on December 30, 2012, 07:11:42 AM
wtf, this was supposed to go in the Judgment thread.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Nail_Bombed on January 03, 2013, 10:10:35 AM
.... Truth time. I have never been able to beat any of the Classicvania's. Not even Rondo.  :-X
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: The Silverlord on January 03, 2013, 01:17:47 PM
I haven’t played many of the latter games in the series (Curse of Darkness, Judgement, Harmony of Despair, Arcade or even Rebirth).

It felt good however to get behind and support change in the form of Lords of Shadow, and see more of an adult, grittier side to proceedings.  Admittedly, I didn’t think too much of its storyline.  I didn’t like the slow pacing, inclusion of Satan, or the references to alt-canon characters.

Ayami Kojima’s Soma Cruz painting with the castle and blood red moon in the background is one of my favourites.  It has a haunting, numinous beauty which complements Aria of Sorrow.  For all IGA’s faults I think Aria of Sorrow really captures a high moment: a unique series storyline, rough, washed-out palette and colouring, areas of solitude and isolation, engaging game play with the Tactical Soul System, an understated soundtrack, and superb castle map and pacing.  I feel it’s a well-rounded and cohesive product.

Belmont’s Revenge is probably my most-played Castlevania game (pssst, Neobelmont, you’ve got to try it!).

I don’t like tacked-on game modes.
 
I still love watching old Hammer horror films.

I think Jorge is one of the best moderators on t’internet.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Kamirine on January 03, 2013, 02:41:43 PM
-Even though Castlevania 3 is my all time favorite game of the series, I've never beaten it. Once. Seriously, I can't get past the last stage. Damn medusa heads...

-Speaking of CV3: the music from that game is actually how I found the series again once I got older. My older brother used to play Castlevania 1- 3 when I was a lot younger, and I always remembered the songs 'Mad Forest' and 'Aquarius'. So once I got older, that's how I found the series again: I went through the trouble of buying the games until I fond the game those songs in it. I ended up playing and like the other (wrong) CV's so much, I got into the series as a whole. I wasn't tech savvy at the time and hadn't come to the dungeon yet.

-I didn't actually play (or know about) SOTN when it first came out, even though I had a Playstation. Once I did find out about it (years later), I couldn't find it anywhere and couldn't order it offline (at the time I was too young to buy it myself and my parents refused to put their credit card online to order it.) So I found a friend at school whom had a friend that wanted to watch Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (it had just come out at the time), which I owed. If I let her borrow it, she'd let me borrow her copy of SOTN and the strategy guide.

She then proceeded to move away with my movie, without even attempting to trade back with me.  I think I won that trade off though. 

-When I used to be a manager at Gamestop and we got to go to conference, when Dracula X Chronicles, I got IGA to sign every single Castlevania game case I knew he created. I even got him to sign one of my DS's (don't ask). When I came back the year OoE came out, he actually remembered me and called me 'DS Girl'.  :P I still have all the pictures I took with him too.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: crisis on January 03, 2013, 02:45:24 PM
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-When I used to be a manager at Gamestop and we got to go to conference, when Dracula X Chronicles, I got IGA to sign every single Castlevania game case I knew he created. I even got him to sign one of my DS's (don't ask). When I came back the year OoE came out, he actually remembered me and called me 'DS Girl'.  :P I still have all the pictures I took with him too.

That's awesome. I only have about 2 items that are signed by IGA. You should post pictures! :)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Weiss Belmont on January 03, 2013, 11:57:40 PM
Quote from: Kamirine on January 03, 2013, 02:41:43 PM
-Even though Castlevania 3 is my all time favorite game of the series, I've never beaten it. Once. Seriously, I can't get past the last stage. Damn medusa heads...

I share your pain but only to an extent. I've never beaten C3 either but my stumbling block was neither the final clock tower or the medusa heads but rather Dracula's second form. From the moving platforms, to the eye beams doing massive damage I just could never take him down.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: X on January 04, 2013, 05:06:59 AM
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I share your pain but only to an extent. I've never beaten C3 either but my stumbling block was neither the final clock tower or the medusa heads but rather Dracula's second form. From the moving platforms, to the eye beams doing massive damage I just could never take him down.

My technique; Axe, triple shot, far left of the screen (where Drac's throne is) and hit him with the axe whenever there's an opening. Do not use the moving platforms unless you don't have the aforementioned arsenal. Same deal with Grant if you are using him. Alucard... let the Trevor tactic take over. Alucard's no dice unless you've had practice. Sypha and her lightning spell. It won't always hit Drac's vulnerable spot (his head), but with enough hearts under your belt you should kill him easily. That's my CV Confession for killing CV Dracula's final form.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Weiss Belmont on January 04, 2013, 11:20:44 AM
Quote from: X on January 04, 2013, 05:06:59 AM
My technique; Axe, triple shot, far left of the screen (where Drac's throne is) and hit him with the axe whenever there's an opening. Do not use the moving platforms unless you don't have the aforementioned arsenal. Same deal with Grant if you are using him. Alucard... let the Trevor tactic take over. Alucard's no dice unless you've had practice. Sypha and her lightning spell. It won't always hit Drac's vulnerable spot (his head), but with enough hearts under your belt you should kill him easily. That's my CV Confession for killing CV Dracula's final form.

Thank you very much. I appreciate your tactical advice.  ;)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Nagumo on January 04, 2013, 01:16:54 PM
This is a tactic that helped me tremendously: before the battle make sure you have an axe (which I know can be found somewhere in the stage) and a triple shot. This can easily be done by continuously walk up and down the stairs that leads to the castle keep and hit the candles there. When you reach Dracula's final form position yourself to the far right of the screen. Stay there and keep jumping and throwing the axes. The important part is that you pay close attention to the Dracula's hands because that's where the laser beams come from. When you see that a laser beam is about to form, quickly jump and drop down, which makes the beam fly over you. If you don't jump you'll get easily hit.         
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Zuljaras on January 05, 2013, 02:34:54 PM
I hate the fact that Castlevania Circle of the Moon do not have Bestiary!!! Why the hell they dont put the enemy data after they are being defeated so I could check if they drop something or not. Or at least some nice info about the origin of the monsters :(

I know it is weird but this is bugging me!

Also why the hell there is not Enemy info in Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance ... the little nice text about the enemies. At least they did it perfect in Castlevania Aria of Sorrow and the DS titles :)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Phoenix7786 on January 05, 2013, 03:35:25 PM
Quote from: The Silverlord on January 03, 2013, 01:17:47 PM
For all IGA’s faults I think Aria of Sorrow really captures a high moment: [...] an understated soundtrack
I still love watching old Hammer horror films.
I think Jorge is one of the best moderators on t’internet.

I actually have Heart of Fire as my ringtone. There are times when I'm tempted to ignore the call to just listen to the song XD
Hammer's horror films are nice. I enjoy watching them. Who cares if they look slightly dated? You've got Peter Cushing and/or Christopher Lee.
And I whole-heartedly endorse your statement about Jorge! Despite being a mod he's very active with posting and he's very accessible. Most mods I've known only show up to drop the ban-hammer on someone and/or you're not "worth their time" to talk to.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on January 06, 2013, 03:49:42 PM
Quote from: The Silverlord on January 03, 2013, 01:17:47 PM
I think Jorge is one of the best moderators on t’internet.

That's a rather big claim! :o
Thank you, and it's appreciated.  I try to be fair and keep things civil without interfering too much.  But don't forget about the other mods!  They do their rounds as well, in a great, stealthy, ninja-like way.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: DarkPrinceAlucard on January 06, 2013, 04:16:17 PM
Quote from: Jorge D. Fuentes on January 06, 2013, 03:49:42 PM
But don't forget about the other mods!  They do their rounds as well, in a great, stealthy, ninja-like way.

Well no offense, but they must be pretty darn stealthy lol.

Because I only see you handling most of the moderation tasks lately.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: The Silverlord on January 07, 2013, 10:30:16 AM
Quote from: Phoenix7786 on January 05, 2013, 03:35:25 PM
I actually have Heart of Fire as my ringtone. There are times when I'm tempted to ignore the call to just listen to the song XD

Brilliant tune mate.  There are top-drawer melodies in there, also the likes of Destined Cruz, Clock Tower and Top Floor but I think even the likes of Forgotten Garden and Underground Reservoir serve to enrich the game and help create bags of atmosphere.  Soshiro Hokkai’s work is significant too (e.g. Premonition, Purification).


Quote from: Phoenix7786 on January 05, 2013, 03:35:25 PM
Hammer's horror films are nice. I enjoy watching them. Who cares if they look slightly dated? You've got Peter Cushing and/or Christopher Lee.

I watched a lot of those old Dracula films as a youngster and they terrified me.  Now they do look a bit dated.  The stories and plots were never really anything to write home about but I think it was more about the play of the characters in those dark and lavish settings.  They really showed stark contrast between dark and evil and the good and innocent.

I think in Castlevania terms I can forgive a weak storyline if the other facets gel together and there’s some kind of ambience and entertainment value to be had playing the game.


Quote from: Jorge D. Fuentes on January 06, 2013, 03:49:42 PM
I try to be fair and keep things civil without interfering too much.

You do very well.  And there's been a fair few conflicting opinions around here at the best of times!
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Dark Nemesis on January 07, 2013, 01:17:34 PM
I have never finished Castlevania Simon's Quest.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: uzo on January 07, 2013, 03:25:09 PM
Quote from: Dark Nemesis on January 07, 2013, 01:17:34 PM
I have never finished Castlevania Simon's Quest.

Go get a Nintendo Power.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Phoenix7786 on January 07, 2013, 04:51:34 PM
Quote from: Dark Nemesis on January 07, 2013, 01:17:34 PM
I have never finished Castlevania Simon's Quest.

Then you need to play this mod! It fixes the translations enough to where you don't need a walkthrough, adds legit bosses, a save feature, and a custom Simon sprite made by our very own Jorge :D

Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest Revamped TSE is here (PC and Mac) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqgwn_DgRTY#ws)
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: X on January 07, 2013, 05:00:41 PM
Man that fangame is getting more fan promotion...again! Good game for being fan-made but difficult in terms of only three men and no continues. A good CV II game to try out is The Almighty Guru's hack titled; Simon's Quest: Redaction. It fixes all the text. Everything is properly translated and you can easily know where to go next. Also the text is fast and the Day/Night sequences are also fast.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Phoenix7786 on January 07, 2013, 05:40:43 PM
Quote from: X on January 07, 2013, 05:00:41 PM
Man that fangame is getting more fan promotion...again! Good game for being fan-made but difficult in terms of only three men and no continues. A good CV II game to try out is The Almighty Guru's hack titled; Simon's Quest: Redaction. It fixes all the text. Everything is properly translated and you can easily know where to go next. Also the text is fast and the Day/Night sequences are also fast.

Does it add real bosses or keep them the same way they are? SQR completely modifies the existing bosses or adds new ones.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: theo_ on January 07, 2013, 06:04:35 PM

 i loved lament of innocence
 i once had a wank to the uncensored succubus artwork
 
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: GuyStarwind on January 07, 2013, 06:13:01 PM
I'm on Dracula on that Simon's Quest Revamped and that last level is kicking my trash. It's mostly the ghost before Dracula. Also yes it does have new bosses and the old ones from the original. I like SQ but I feel the revamped version is what the original should had been.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Phoenix7786 on January 07, 2013, 06:25:09 PM
Quote from: GuyStarwind on January 07, 2013, 06:13:01 PM
I'm on Dracula on that Simon's Quest Revamped and that last level is kicking my trash. It's mostly the ghost before Dracula. Also yes it does have new bosses and the old ones from the original. I like SQ but I feel the revamped version is what the original should had been.

Yeah when I showed it to my brother he confessed he thought it was some Japanese SNES remake that never saw a Western release. And yeah those ghosts pissed me off SO much. I'd get to Drac but I'd be so exhausted from the ghosts.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: X on January 08, 2013, 12:26:08 AM
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Does it add real bosses or keep them the same way they are? SQR completely modifies the existing bosses or adds new ones.

No. The Bosses are left unchanged and there are no others that have been added. Simon's Quest: Redaction only addresses the issues of the slow day/night cycling, text crawling and the inability to make sense of the things people are saying. I've played it and I feel it's a more complete product then when Konami first released it.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on January 12, 2013, 10:43:42 AM
I hate myself for not finding out about the akumajou dracula novel pertaining to the events after DoS until recently. And to add salt to the wound, I was in japan when it was released!
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: BushidoViking on January 14, 2013, 05:43:42 AM
I feel SoTN is an amazing game dont get me wrong..But I feel since its the birth of the handhelds such as portrait of ruin and dawn of sorrow. IT killed any chance I had of A remake on the 3DS or DS.  :'(
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: GuyStarwind on January 14, 2013, 06:41:48 AM
Quote from: Feralfang on January 14, 2013, 05:43:42 AM
I feel SoTN is an amazing game dont get me wrong..But I feel since its the birth of the handhelds such as portrait of ruin and dawn of sorrow. IT killed any chance I had of A remake on the 3DS or DS.  :'(
Best you'll probably get is the PSP port they had.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: BushidoViking on January 14, 2013, 06:49:05 AM
Quote from: GuyStarwind on January 14, 2013, 06:41:48 AM
Best you'll probably get is the PSP port they had.

Yeah or the GBA version. =/
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Hellhammer on January 14, 2013, 09:06:48 AM
When I was a kid, after first seeing a friend's older brother play the original Castlevania (of course he wouldn't let my play, not even once!), it was another year or three before my folks agreed to buy me a console for Xmas and I became so obsessed with the game that I'd spend my school holidays trying to make Castlevania board games for myself to play. They all sucked since I was only about 5-6 years old but it at least kept me sane (sort of).
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: SilentCircuit on January 15, 2013, 10:30:12 PM
I think Harmony of Dissonance is a great game, including the soundtrack.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: BushidoViking on January 16, 2013, 12:00:40 AM
Quote from: SilentCircuit on January 15, 2013, 10:30:12 PM
I think Harmony of Dissonance is a great game, including the soundtrack.

Dont most agree?
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Hypocrates on January 16, 2013, 01:04:32 AM
Quote from: Feralfang on January 16, 2013, 12:00:40 AM
Dont most agree?

It's usually considered one of if not the worst of the SotN-style games, and it gets a lot of flak for its terrible sound quality, even for GBA.

Though that doesn't necessarily translate to bad game or soundtrack.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Phoenix7786 on January 16, 2013, 02:35:11 AM
Dissonance isn't viewed as a shitty game. True, it's typically held as the most meh of the GBA series, but that doesn't mean the game itself sucks.
What killed Diss for me was the graphics at the expense of the gameplay, the rip-off of SotN (from the similar graphical style, similar looking protagonists, the 2 nearly-identical castles bull-crap to the "buddy is possessed and I need to free him" thing), and the more-or-less lack of any real dialogue or plot once you start exploring the second castle. I almost felt like Diss would have been better without the whole (almost) mirror-image castle and just the first castle. It was neat when SotN did this stuff; it was redundant when Diss repeated the same exact stuff that had come before it.
And I don't get what was so bad about the sound. I saw it as an homage to the 8-bit era, the glory years of Castlevania's humble beginnings (and that of the NES itself).
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: crisis on January 16, 2013, 02:45:20 AM
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I became so obsessed with the game that I'd spend my school holidays trying to make Castlevania board games for myself to play.
lucky you, i had the misfortune of playing with the real CV board game ):

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Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: GuyStarwind on January 16, 2013, 02:48:46 AM
Misfortune?
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: BushidoViking on January 16, 2013, 04:22:11 AM
Quote from: Phoenix7786 on January 16, 2013, 02:35:11 AM
Dissonance isn't viewed as a shitty game. True, it's typically held as the most meh of the GBA series, but that doesn't mean the game itself sucks.
What killed Diss for me was the graphics at the expense of the gameplay, the rip-off of SotN (from the similar graphical style, similar looking protagonists, the 2 nearly-identical castles bull-crap to the "buddy is possessed and I need to free him" thing), and the more-or-less lack of any real dialogue or plot once you start exploring the second castle. I almost felt like Diss would have been better without the whole (almost) mirror-image castle and just the first castle. It was neat when SotN did this stuff; it was redundant when Diss repeated the same exact stuff that had come before it.
And I don't get what was so bad about the sound. I saw it as an homage to the 8-bit era, the glory years of Castlevania's humble beginnings (and that of the NES itself).

Well Said my Friend!
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Hellhammer on January 16, 2013, 04:45:50 AM
Quote from: crisis on January 16, 2013, 02:45:20 AM
lucky you, i had the misfortune of playing with the real CV board game ):

Man, I never knew those existed - really nice collector's piece!!! I've been feeling really tempted to start a proper CV collection but I have so many expensive hobbies already..haha
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: X on January 16, 2013, 06:08:58 AM
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And I don't get what was so bad about the sound. I saw it as an homage to the 8-bit era, the glory years of Castlevania's humble beginnings (and that of the NES itself).

It wasn't to pay homage to the 8-bit games. The sound quality had to take the hit due to the limited cartage space at the time as it was almost jam-packed. One of the reasons I think that lead to the music's forced lack of quality was the over-use of sprite vectoring. Another reason why might be due to the game already using high-quality sound effects that were better then CotM. I could be wrong as there might be another explanation. uzo might know the answer.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Flame on January 16, 2013, 07:04:29 AM
I HAD to look up the SoTN Hentai out of sheer curiosity, and found it with no trouble. dunno if you are allowed to mention hentai sites by name on here so I wont, but a hint, use the author name. It helps.

I found it kind of... Boring, actually. Mainly cuz the art isnt much to write home about and I cant damn read Japanese, which might have at least gotten me to stick around and read it. So I went "meh" and didnt finish it. The content itself is pretty damn tame too, though I didnt entirely finish it. Im pretty sure I can find much better CV related pr0n easily lol.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: beingthehero on January 16, 2013, 09:31:40 PM
Quote from: X on January 16, 2013, 06:08:58 AM
It wasn't to pay homage to the 8-bit games. The sound quality had to take the hit due to the limited cartage space at the time as it was almost jam-packed. One of the reasons I think that lead to the music's forced lack of quality was the over-use of sprite vectoring. Another reason why might be due to the game already using high-quality sound effects that were better then CotM. I could be wrong as there might be another explanation. uzo might know the answer.

Yeah, the graphics killed the sound. I think Jorge mentioned the gradius title for the GBA had the same deal too, so it was a Konami thing during that time. The backgrounds technically look even better than Aria's, since they almost always have some sort of animation. Combine that with all the well-animated enemies at the same time, and you have a recipe for some m a j o r   s l  o  w    d     o     w        n. Sacrificing sound quality freed up more space. This was to avoid what happened with CV Adventure: amazing graphics (for its time!) but nearly unplayable because playing the game was like playing CV1 in slow motion.

The director, Takeda Takashi, said in the CotM/HoD OST linear notes that this was his decision. Considering how he also directed Lament (which was a beautiful game back in 2003 and still holds up well graphically), he definitely wanted Castlevania to look the best. On the other hand, he also directed CoD, which wasn't exactly cutting edge in terms of graphics.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Phoenix7786 on January 17, 2013, 12:02:07 AM
Quote from: X on January 16, 2013, 06:08:58 AM
It wasn't to pay homage to the 8-bit games. The sound quality had to take the hit due to the limited cartage space at the time as it was almost jam-packed. One of the reasons I think that lead to the music's forced lack of quality was the over-use of sprite vectoring. Another reason why might be due to the game already using high-quality sound effects that were better then CotM. I could be wrong as there might be another explanation. uzo might know the answer.

Oh I get the degraded sound was due to the graphical achievements; I just likened the sound they had to settle with as NES-esque quality.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: beingthehero on January 17, 2013, 12:18:57 AM
It probably would've been better if Soshiro Hokkai went with a traditional route in regards to scoring the music. But then again, it just wouldn't be HoD without the experimental soundtrack.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Pfil on January 19, 2013, 06:44:56 AM
This is a little embarrasing... but I think some characters from this series are... may I say hot?
Very beautiful. I once had a crush even, when I was younger.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: beingthehero on January 19, 2013, 01:44:42 PM
It's ok, we've all had crushes on Simon Belmont.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Gecko on January 19, 2013, 01:58:22 PM
Quote from: beingthehero on January 19, 2013, 01:44:42 PM
It's ok, we've all had crushes on Simon Belmont.

True dat.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Reinhart77 on January 19, 2013, 03:14:13 PM
hmm, as for having unpopular opinions, i guess i've never been one to complain about all the things everyone else seems to complain about.  i generally try to appreciate each game or product for what they're worth.  so, things like Pachislot Castlevania, Castlevania Puzzle, a future animation or live action movie, Harmony of Despair, Tolkein stuff in Lords of Shadow etc don't seem like an anathema to me.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: SiFi270 on January 20, 2013, 12:33:05 PM
Quote from: beingthehero on January 19, 2013, 01:44:42 PM
It's ok, we've all had crushes on Simon Belmont.

But I am Simon Belmont! What, do you think my portrayal in Captain N is accurate?



I'm really more like you see me in the Worlds of Power novelization. Except not as dumb.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: PyramidHead on January 20, 2013, 05:26:34 PM
I don't think that Castlevania 64's (or LoD's) controls are bad. Yes, you need some time to adjust yourself to it, but it works. I had much more problems with Soul Reaver, for example (but I still had a lot of fun with it).

I don't like Alucard that much.. He's too classic, nothing special about him. Just a normal epic vampire from some old movies. But Genia Aricado was a nice touch to his portrait. And I like the design of his in Aria of Sorrow. 

Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Ahasverus on January 20, 2013, 06:45:35 PM
Quote from: beingthehero on January 19, 2013, 01:44:42 PM
It's ok, we've all had crushes on Simon Belmont.

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Pretty much

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Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Lilfut on March 20, 2013, 10:20:43 PM
I despise CotM.

I love Belmont's Revenge but hate the other two GB Vanias.

I like PoR's contributions to series canon.

I think SotN has an awful plot that should have been stuffed in the manual like all the ones previous.

I think Alucard is a horribly overrated character.

I think Grant is the only good CV3 partner.

I think SCV4 was a fun but badly-designed platformer.

Soleiyu is my favorite Belmont, with Julius and Juste tied for second. Richter doesn't even place.

I have never played the final stage of CV1 (friggin Death...)

Albus is my favorite CV character and he didn't get nearly enough characterization.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: son_the_vampire on March 21, 2013, 10:46:27 AM
CV chronicles original mode is easier than CV1 to me :'(
I enjoy Rapidos with Shanoa more that Crissagrim with Alucard.
I still get down in Judgement, just wish there were more people online.
Harmony of Despair is the best idea of a CV to me, it just needs some more fine tuning.
CotM has my favorite Non-belmont hero.... NATE DOGG!
Bone Pillars and White Dragons are my poison in every single Classicvania, moreso than Medusa Heads.
I implement downfoward jumping whip strikes with every character who uses this.
I Really dont care much for CVII. i would rather play Dirty Harry!
My biggest confession is that i never use the knife, ever... except in Harmony of Despair with Ric.. he throws 3!
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Lelygax on March 21, 2013, 01:35:44 PM
In Dracula X and in PoR you can throw 3 knifes too pal.
Also, sende me your Judgement ID by PM so we can play when I return home in some weeks.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: VladCT on March 21, 2013, 01:38:02 PM
Quote from: Lelygax on March 21, 2013, 01:35:44 PM
in PoR you can throw 3 knifes too pal.
After you go through the trouble of grinding it that is, and then use the clear save to transfer it to Richter. He actually shares some of the subs, like the knife and the bible IIRC. The only one I know that's completely unique to him is his version of the cross.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Lelygax on March 21, 2013, 01:53:48 PM
I meant after grinding with Jonathan, like "with Richter in Dracula X and with Jonathan in PoR".
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: VladCT on March 21, 2013, 01:58:34 PM
I know, and with the aforementioned trick you can do it with Richter in PoR as well.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Lelygax on March 21, 2013, 02:22:31 PM
Its a bug?
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: son_the_vampire on March 21, 2013, 05:31:51 PM
i still think knife lost its flair after the CVIII days. Bwaka knife is cooler imo than the "new Knife"
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: Neobelmont on March 21, 2013, 06:39:24 PM
Quote from: son_the_vampire on March 21, 2013, 05:31:51 PM
i still think knife lost its flair after the CVIII days. Bwaka knife is cooler imo than the "new Knife"

Nah the knife rain/storm that Trevor used in Cod was really good and Gabriel's knife techniques with the red/blue magic really made it a good attack option for me.

Quote from: Ahasverus on January 20, 2013, 06:45:35 PM
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Pretty much

New Simon is fuuuuugly
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That right there is my wall poster. had it for what five years now.
Title: Re: Castlevania Confessions
Post by: VladCT on March 21, 2013, 09:11:26 PM
Quote from: Lelygax on March 21, 2013, 02:22:31 PM
Its a bug?
Don't really know for sure, but I think it's because some of the subweapons were copy-pasted, retaining its mastered state.