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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Classic Castlevania Threads => Topic started by: sannyclause on December 31, 2012, 09:23:01 PM
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HO HO HO super castlevania 4 and symphony of the night are some of the best castlevania games ever made IMO, which do you think is better and why :)
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**moves to Classic Castlevania Threads**
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By far the 2 best castlevania games period in my opinion,
But If I had to choose between the 2, I would go with symphony because of the vast amount of stuff you could do in the game in comparison to Super Castlevania 4 which was a classivania.
I loved being able to collect items and level up my character.
Also the exploration was a plus for me as a avid Metroid fan myself.
Another thing is the replay value that Symphony definitely tops it in.
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I can't choose. They both rank high on my personal choice. Super Castlevania IV is the epitome of classicvania while SotN is the first and still is the epitome of the Metroidvanias. All the other games do have their charm but these two...i can't choose between them.
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Hopefully, 2013 will have interesting topics.
/troll
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Harmony of Dissonance.
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Super Castlevania 4 vs. Symphony of the Night
Costanza Showmanship (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpUyb37CFT4#)
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Harmony of Dissonance.
Me too. That game is really good to me. No armor + Hard Mode run is bliss.
I'm currently writing an article about Maxim Kischine and that game's nebulous story!
But! if I had to choose between the two games in question... uhh... Symphony, because it has way more depth and I like the aesthetic presentation of it more. IV is really heavy, though. The waterfall stage is one of the best, most powerful and affecting moments in the series to me. It's one of those times when everything comes together perfectly.
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Symphony. CV4 is a real slog and doesn't have too many ways to make the game interesting.
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EDIT:
Nevermind. I was complaining about something in CV4, but then I realized I was doing something wrong.
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Castlevania 4 without a doubt. Sometimes I play just the first half after a long, frustrating day, and it just relaxes me. Symphony is a great game, but I just love the atmosphere, music, and visuals of 4 more. I also prefer the stage-by-stage setup, since it tends to lead to more interesting stage design.
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Super Symphony of the Night 4
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super castlevania 4, the controls and graphics were excellent i especially loved the part near the end where all the classic castlevanias music was playing
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SOTN. I loved everything in that game, especially all those items/weapons that cater to the collector in me...
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Order of Shadows
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Tiger Eletronics's Castlevania 2
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4 was probably a better game idk, but playing a alucard and his abilities pushed SOTN over the edge
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i appreciate the two games but for obvious reason Super Castlevania IV wins this match to me.if you compare the graphic´s of the game, the soundtrack and the gameplay it was perfect for a platform like the SNES in my opinion the take of IGA on the series was a good idea but remove the older programmers was a fatal mistake. not saying that SoTN is a bad game but it could at least be better ...
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Symphony is much better designed, but SCV4 is a lot more fun. The analyst in me has to go with Symphony.
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SCIV. Level design, music are some of the things that draws you in. That game was before its time, side-scrolling adventure and it had enough difficulty to make you think things over. I loved SotN. Then i discovered crissaegrim and it completely ruined then experience the first go around i had. I would rather rely on a different sub-weapon versus chopping everything in sight. I understand the whole son of Drac, badass vamp aura that Alucard leaves but just knowing you have this guy that walks into Castlevania with a leather whip and thigh high boots lets you know that you are in for a wild ride!!
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I rank Castlevania 3 well ahead of both of these, and Bloodlines ahead of SotN. SCVIV is also well ahead of SotN as well as Rondo.
But CV 3 stands tall to me, in it's day it was a game with just the right difficulty and a ton of replay value. I've played SotN so much in the past honestly that I'm now bored of it and retired my PS1 copy to just part of my collection. The version on DXC I ran through as fast as possible, I mainly bought that to own my first legit copy of Rondo at that time (later got it on VC as well for good measure).
SCVIV didn't take me long to 1 life through first and second quests, something I can't even do in CV 3 (much more difficult), or Bloodlines, but nearly pulled off in CV1 (a 2 life clear).