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Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« on: October 04, 2010, 12:04:17 PM »
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Part I: Road Into Darkness - The Castlevania Retrospective

They did some really great retrospectives on Metroid, Zelda, and Final Fantasy before(although they aren't above stealing artwork from fansites, so watch your bandwidth!)

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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2010, 12:46:17 PM »
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Yay, I have been waiting for this to happen.   

edit: Heh, funny how they mentioned the current status of the CVIII adaption. I wonder if they got the information from that thread I made a while ago.   
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2010, 01:01:08 PM »
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That was really good. I'm looking forward to the next piece
What a horrible night to have a curse!

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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2010, 01:28:40 PM »
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I liked that. I'm surprised to hear that games like Ghosts'n Goblins outsold the original Castlevanias though...

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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2010, 02:08:08 PM »
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Very nice, looking forward to part 2.


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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2010, 02:28:57 PM »
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Very cool. Let us know when part 2 is out.
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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2010, 04:00:14 PM »
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Machinima also doing Castlevania retrospective.
Seems Lords of Shadow sparked a new interest in the series.

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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2010, 06:05:59 PM »
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I reallly liked it, they actually KNOW about the obscure games, and, holy hell, even the original Castlevania has dual personality! :P

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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2010, 06:44:35 PM »
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Machinima one sucks. The narrator is annoying and they chose Legacy of Darkness to illustrate the series' low points.  >:(

Couldn't they have went with Adventure or Legends?

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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2010, 09:05:16 PM »
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Couldn't they have went with Adventure or Legends?
It is sad, but I think most people nowadays know that there are "some 3D Castlevanias that suck"...and not much remember that there were some rather bad 2D games on the first Game Boy.

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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2010, 09:49:49 PM »
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they chose Legacy of Darkness to illustrate the series' low points.  >:(

Sounds about right to me.

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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2010, 10:10:17 PM »
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Must you post every time this happens, argh! I disagree! :P :P P
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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2010, 11:04:48 PM »
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Even bad guys are entitled to their opinion, right?

Right..? :\

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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2010, 11:20:25 PM »
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They are, they are...

You're not a bad guy, though.
You're really trying though.  It's not a bad game, you just keep trying to convince people (or yourself) it is.
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Re: Gametrailers' Castlevania Retrospective
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2010, 12:46:18 AM »
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This is getting off-topic, but I thought the consensus was LoD was awful(ya know, because it was)?

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