Topic: Most disappointing Castlevania Moment

[DragonSlayr81]

In Reply To #27

The DAMN long and EMPTY halls of Dracula's Castle in CoD. What was the point of walking down LONGASS hallways where you basically were the only thing around?

But yeah, a lot of CoD was disappointing. The music, the character design, and the dialog was awesome. The level design was horrible. The combat system seemed clunky and a step down from LoI's smooth combo system(LoI's battle system was AWESOME).

[Operation Ravage]

Biggest disappointments, by game:

Lament of Innocence: Dracula's power stems from glowing magic rocks.

COD: Trevor Belmont, the most powerful Belmont until that point, somehow fails to detect a loud-mouthed man in high heels carrying a giant spear and gets stabbed through the heart.

Castlevania Adventure: Entire damn thing.

Belmont's Revenge: level structure.  Plant Castle?  WTF?

Castlevania II: No comment.

Order of Shadows: the fact that Sprint is keeping me from downloading this.

Harmony of Dissonance: "damsel in distress" storyline, lack of interesting characters, simplistic gameplay, too easy, gaudy colors.

Dracula X: No comment.

Dracula X Chronicles: character designs, Symphony redesign.

Circle of the Moon: No merchant.  Also, hard.

Castlevania 64/Legacy of Darkness: cut material, graphics, camera.

Portrait of Ruin: the reverse levels.  However, I actually liked Sisters Mode.

Dawn of Sorrow: Julius mode payoff.  Oh, and Arikado screaming "ow!" 

[Mortificator]

I'm disappointed when Dracula only has one form to fight at the end, which happened in such games as Belmont's Revenge and Symphony of the Night. They were cool forms, but Dracula's supposed to be the greatest evil on this Earth. It feels anti-climatic unless the battle has at least two forms or phases.

[Mooning Freddy]

When I found out that NOTHING HAPPENS after you complete furnishing the room in HoD.

Also when I found out that the Shining Armour, that you acquire after winning impossible battles in CotM, isn't really that special. I mean, it is the best armor in the game, but still it isn't worth all the effort of acquiring it. 

[Profbeanburrito]

In Reply To #32

Wow.... Is there anything in Castlevania you like? Are you even a fan?

[Juno106]

My biggest dissapointed with the series was when Castlevania II: Simon's Quest was released. A terrible let down, although I started enjoying it some years later

2nd dissapointment was seeing Super Castlevania IV...yuck

[Quasar]

In Reply To #34

I think it's actually a clever misdirection. The *real* treasure of the Battle Arena is the Unicorn card, which unless you use the trick that lets you replay areas of the Battle Arena at will, is a major pain to get. Not to mention that without a strategy guide, you wouldn't even know where to get it.

Allowing you to heal yourself, use the most powerful weapons (Holy Whip and Sword), and even allowing total invincibility, it's by far the best DSS card in the game. Whereas the Shining Armor, while nice, isn't that much better than the Dark Armor by any practical standard. Though, I find the Dark Armor almost as much work to get, given its extremely tiny drop probability >_<

[Long John Silver]

When I found out that NOTHING HAPPENS after you complete furnishing the room in HoD.

There is something actually. If you put all the furniture into the room, then get the best ending Lydie will cling to Juste in the ending.

[Cypress]

There is something actually. If you put all the furniture into the room, then get the best ending Lydie will cling to Juste in the ending.

Really? It did that in mine, but I didn't see the one where she doesn't cling to him. She is easy. All it took was a couple pieces of furniture and she is all over him.

[CVfan13]

In Reply To #38

Awesome. I'll have to try that out whenever I decide to get the game. Hmm. I find I haven't actually answered the original question yet, but instead try to show how much I like CoD. I'll answer the question now. I was really disappointed in the fact that Trevor has such a small role in CoD. He SHOULD have been the main player, not some ex-lackie of Dracula, though Hector was cool too. Trevor also should have been mentioned at the end too. And when he got stabbbed I was like, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO," but then when I found out he lived I was like, "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY," Anyway, that's all I have to say.

[DoctaMario]

Most disappointing moment would be like, right now with DX Chronicles. Not with the game itself, but with some of the things I've read from people, like the Kotaku guy giving info on how to access SOTN so people don't have to "Suffer through the Rondo remake dying pointless deaths" (not an actual quote but damn pretty close to what the guy said.)

Disappointed at people saying the game is too hard because the controls are "horrible". Just because the character walks instead of running doesn't mean the controls are bad, bad control would be an unresponsive piece of shift that doesn't let you do what you want.

People that say they bought this just for SOTN make me sad. But hey, it's their choice, if it means the game will sell more so IGA can make the next console CV in 2D or 2.5D, more power to them.

Q.F.T.

I'm amazed at how many people just don't get it. Here it is, a game that was NEVER RELEASED in the US and Europe, and all they can say is, "WTF OMGZORZ, I hav to UNLOCK SOTN!?!? DXC=Fail!!!!!!1111"

Other than that, probably the level design in Lament. That game could have been a real winner had they tried some platforming and vertical parts to the castle.

[Omegasigma]

COD : Castle Dracula Design
it should have bene made liek the first stage of castlevania bloodlines, the way it tried to incorperated all of castlevania 1 intoa  single level, hell the castle i know is linar but com on, every 3d vania cuts the cock tower and other crap out. machine tower isn;t a clock tower, tis not even part of dracul;a's cstle, the n64 castlevanias held true to the design for the most aspect.

[Profbeanburrito]

I think the only thing that really makes me dissapointed is that CV 64 makes me nauseous so I can't really play it much.

Also, in DXC for Stage 7 they put "Moon Fight" instead of "The Nest" or "The Den" (The Den originally but changed to The Nest in DXC I guess?) for the music. Not that "Moon Fight" is bad, I just don't prefer it as much. Not a big deal though

[SymboliC]

I loved Moon Fight!


My biggest Castlevania disappointment would have to be...


...nothing, I guess? My small rants are overhauled by many good features about the series.

[Kamirine]

Biggest disappoints, by game:

Castlevania: None

Castlevania 2:
-The lack of bosses.  The only two in the mansions (if you call them bosses) you can actually completely skip.
-Dracula.  His worst form to date and the easiest.

Castlevania 3: None really.  Maybe that they repeated bosses too many times instead of new ones.  But then again, who cares cause it's CV3. ::winks::

SCV4: None.

Castlevania Legends: The entire damn game.

Castlevania Adventure (and Revenge): Meh, none really.

Rondo of Blood: The damn anime cutscenes. I've always liked the story but the cutscenes just make me laugh.

SOTN: None.

HoD:
-Too easy
-Way more of a SOTN rehash then the other games that followed.
-"Best friend/good guy that betrays you" storyline getting a weee bit old.
-Music quality

CotM:
-The screen was kinda dark but I was so busy getting my ass kicked, I didn't notice for too long. XD

AoS:
-The soundtrack.

Lament:
-"I'll Beat You...to a PULP!!" XD XD XD Worst dialogue in CV history, that game.
-Too many repeated rooms.

DoS:
-The ending: way to happy go lucky and ridiculous "OMG, Soma and Mina totally love each other!!!" for my taste. Waaay too kiddie.  The 'Bad' Ending should really be canon if it's not.
-Anime artwork and anime esque cutscenes/dialogue as a whole.  50 damn mentions of two people liking each other is just beating a dead horse.

CoD:
-Dracula's castle, hands down.
-The stages seemed too long and too repetitive.  If the area's are gonna be huge, put more into them.  And less empty.

Castlevania-DXC:
ROB remake: For now, honestly, nothing. I love the changes made.  Moon Fight didn't even bother me. And since Opus 13 is unlockable, I have nothing to gripe about now.
SOTN: Again nothing.  I'm in the minority as I actually am not bothered by the VA or script change.
Original RoB: Have yet to actually play.

Castlevania 64/Legacy:
-The fact that this game hasn't been remade.  There's way too much potential for a great game here to just let it go to waste.

PoR:
-The second set of portraits.  I was really hoping they'd be completely changed (like brand new stages) instead of just inverted versions of the original.
-Sister mode sucked.