Topic: What's the most difficult Castlevania game?

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Bloodlines.

Having only a limited amount of continues makes it marginally more difficult than most games in the series easily.

Yea Bloodlines would have to be my close second for the reasons you mentioned.

It did get pretty tuff at some points.

[Foffy]

Bloodlines.

Having only a limited amount of continues makes it marginally more difficult than most games in the series easily.

But the limited continues was largely a counter to a pretty forgiving checkpoint system. You didn't have to do a whole stage over after a game over, like almost all of the other games. That and you had passwords too, so it wasn't as hard as older titles...minus the emphasis on bosses everywhere, of course.

[Asgardwolf]

Curse of Darkness' CRAZY MODE. I cried playing it.

LOL yeah, Try to steal Death's Pulse from Death on Crazy was a suicide... This mode is certainly hard but doable.

Most difficult Castlevania... Hmmm... I'll go with:
1- Haunted Castle
2- Vampire Killer
3- Chronicles

[shelverton.]

For me, Chronicles only ever got difficult in the clocktower stage. It's not very challenging up to that point, when suddenly it becomes positively infuriating. The level itself is manageable after you know what's gonna happen, but the boss..... Jesus christ, was the werewolf annoying? Throw EVERYTHING you can grab at me, why don't you.

[crisis]

t-that's not Death!!!

THIS is Death


(they have the same character model lol)

[thernz]

iga, master of reusing

[Asgardwolf]

t-that's not Death!!!

THIS is Death


(they have the same character model lol)

Yeah, yeah... Same model, different colors, different games... Time Reaper is just the equivalent of Death from ten thousand years in the future but now serving Galamoth...

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

What's funny is when you face him as Death.
"Even your visage mocks me!"

[Grim_Creeper]

Define 'difficult'?

Do you mean difficult in the sense of 'wow this game is genuinely hard', or do you mean difficult as in AAAAGH MY FREAKIN CONTROLER WON'T DO! *beat head against wall scream obscenities and cry*?

The jumping in the original castlevania drives me absolutely nuts. I hate having to caaaaarefully aim ANY jump period like that, and often find myself wishing some... pretty unpleasant things on whomever wrote the controllers I/O logic.

Dang medusa heads and their dang propensity to knock me into holes. Sometimes I feel like their golf comentators.

Medusa head 1: Oh there he is, player 1 is sizing up the next jump, he's aiming carefully, trying to position himself just inches to the left to make it--- OOOH!

Medusa head 2: Yes that really bites doesn't it then? Falling into a hole of death while trying to position your jump. Lets all fly down there and laugh at him and call him a moron and make him wear a dunce cap and a chicken suit.

Medusa head 1: A chicken suit?

Medusa head 2: C'maaaaahn duuuuuuude~

[Odile Kuronuma]

Bloodlines.

But all CV games are cake compared to the  Daimakaimura game(Ghouls and Ghosts) on PC Engine  .

[Munchy]

Bloodlines.

But all CV games are cake compared to the  Daimakaimura game(Ghouls and Ghosts) on PC Engine  .

I agree, as hard as Castlevania can be, Ghouls 'n' Ghosts truly brings on the paaaain.

[Pemburu Vampir]

I agree, as hard as Castlevania can be, Ghouls 'n' Ghosts truly brings on the paaaain.

Is it harder than Haunted Castle?

[Grim_Creeper]

Ghouls n Ghosts for the nintendo is listed as being amongst the top 10 or so hardest games of ALL TIME -period-.

I should know. I've beaten the game.

I think though that one of the main reasons its difficult is that there is generally a huge number of enemies on the screen at any given time, and that in most of the games you must go through it twice, though why you do that I won't say, since it involves the games plot.

Also, (like the original castlevania) you have to correctly aim your jumps, once your in jump motion, you can't direct yourself.

[ShinAkumaXX]

Bloodlines.

Having only a limited amount of continues makes it marginally more difficult than most games in the series easily.

I agree, Genesis games seemed to have this a lot! Puts a lot more pressure on you to play perfectly that's for sure. I've not beaten Bloodlines yet myself, though I've not tried too many times either. I think the NES Castlevanias are the hardest that I've played. I have a hard time understanding how Rondo could possibly be the hardest to anyone. Same with Curse of Darkness... Then again we are all good/bad at different games. I'm not counting Vampire Killer or Haunted Castle, I've never played them and probably never will. They don't look that great. Chronicle is hard, but I like that one a lot and got pretty decent at it. I've still got to play though ReBirth! It's really not sucking me in though.

[danceofgold]

I'd say Castlevania III. But strangely, I found it enjoyable at the same time. I'm not a hardcore gamer and would've given up if it were any other game, but for some reason I kept persevering at CV III till I beat it. Maybe it's the music, I don't know.

But all CV games are cake compared to the  Daimakaimura game(Ghouls and Ghosts) on PC Engine  .

Yeah the worst thing about Daimakaimura was that you could only take 2 hits (armour, then skin) before dying.