Topic: What are your current thoughts on the Dracula X Chronicles?

[uzo]

That's an amazing response in that it answers neither of my questions.

[Claimh Solais]

That's an amazing response in that it answers neither of my questions.

Right, sorry. What do you mean by full screen?
I'm not sure about the UMD thing, since I bought the UMD after my PS3 version purchase. There should be a way to, though.

[uzo]

Using the PSP2000 and a PSP TV connector, you can use the TV as your screen. The game render does NOT fill the entire screen though. There's a big border around it, so its always smaller than your screen. Think the SNES adapter "Super Gameboy".

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Yeah Solais's definition of "Fullscreen" is inaccurate.  He meant 'double-letterboxed and shrunk' which is what we LOATHE ABOUT THE PSP OUTPUT (that and the washed out colors).

And the homebrew community, as far as I know, hasn't made a custom mod that will get rid of that nonsense and will let things play fullscreen properly.  I guess maybe it's a scaling issue.... :\

[Claimh Solais]

Yeah Solais's definition of "Fullscreen" is inaccurate.  He meant 'double-letterboxed and shrunk' which is what we LOATHE ABOUT THE PSP OUTPUT (that and the washed out colors).

I don't think I ever gave a definition of fullscreen.

Using the PSP2000 and a PSP TV connector, you can use the TV as your screen. The game render does NOT fill the entire screen though. There's a big border around it, so its always smaller than your screen. Think the SNES adapter "Super Gameboy".

Oh that. Well, there's a border around my screen. I don't think it has anything to do with me using an SD TV with an HD console, but I dunno. Most of the crap I own is rather old, so I'm not so sure how it'd look on newer stuffs.

As far as fixing borders, I only know that the PSP SotN has a patch online that turns the game fullscreen, but CWCheat and a custom firmware is required to use it. But that doesn't really apply much to this situation.

[Pentagram-cracker]

The Dracula X Chronicles was the first and only Castlevania game I ever played, and it is still my most played game for the PSP.

I think this is a pretty awesome game, and even if I never get the chance to play another Castlevania I can do just fine with this only because it comes with both a classic game (Rondo of Blood original & remake) and a modern game (Symphony of the Night), both of which are considered the best of their individual styles.

I actually perfer the Rondo of Blood remake over the original for a bunch of different reasons. I love how Ayami Kojima uses her art style for the characters, giving them a more medieval oil painting look than that generic anime look of the original. I also perfer the remake Maria because she's treated more like a sympathetic heroine with her own background, where as in the original she seemed like a silly joke character intended for laughs.

But as far as being my first game in a series I had never played before, I love how it gives you the option to choose between a male or female character. It doesn't seem like many games these days let you do that anymore, usually there is just one playable protagonist who is one gender or the other. As for the fact that Maria is a playable female, it's kind of nice that for once the female hero is a little kid and not a sexed-up adult female. It's not that I have anything against sexy females, but having a female hero with no intentional sex appeal is an extreme rarity for video games. Plus I like how she parallels Richter by using summoned animal guardians in the place of "normal" vampire-killing weapons, and how she eats sweets to heal herself instead of meat.

As for Symphony of the Night, since this re-worked version seems to be the way the game was intended to be I'm happy I played it first. I kind of wish they changed the monster names to what they originally were in the Japanese version, some of the enemy names for the US version of the game are just silly and don't make sense. Like swapping the Devil with the Cthulu.

[Flame]

The anime style used in Rondo was ok. for the time, it worked, and was still a 10000 times better than the anime styles we are getting with CV today. (its got that 90's anime feel)

[Pentagram-cracker]

Well everybody has their own preference. Personally I didn't like the anime style in the original Rondo of Blood, but I don't think it was so much the style as it was that all the characters didn't seem to fit in the game's 1700's Europe setting. Especially Richter who looked like he came out of a Death Wish movie. In the remake all the characters, including Richter, wore clothes like you'd expect people in Europe to wear back in those days, and I just felt that it fit the game a lot better.

[Flame]

only sort of.

Maria actually looked more time period correct in Rondo/HD curly blonde hair and a dress, with a headband thing.

Women did not wear pants in that time, just dresses. Even the poorest of peasant women.

TBH I really dislike her Chronicles design. probably mainly over the fact that i cant get over the idea of a Woman in that time period wearing pants.