Topic: Sequelitis: Super Castlevania 4

[Kingshango]

Egoraptor returns with another installment of sequelitis with Super Castlevania 4.

Sequelitis - Super Castlevania 4

[crisis]

I find this guy's voice too irritating to watch all the way through, but that's just me.

[Vrakanox]

I'd like to know his opinion on SotN and LoS. Also REmake and RE4.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Egoraptor has some good opinions, and I like that he calls out Super Castlevania IV for flaws not many people I know think about.

[uzo]

He is absolutely right. This is the exact reason I did not use full range whipping in my project. Despite this though, the game is magnificent.

[Kingshango]

SCV4 is one of my top favorite Castlevania games but some of the points he made were spot on(The knife thing especially, I never used it.)

[e105beta]

I particularly liked his point about how sequels shouldn't be weighed down by the game mechanics of old games for the sake of nostalgia.

[Flame]

His comment on a game being more based around the whip, with more stuff for the whip to do, immediately made me thing of LoS, and how most everything can be done with the whip. The sub weapons are few, and not that important. They arent made obsolete by the whip, because they do things that complement that.

Fairies: distract enemies. + Magic = suicidal fairies that do damage

Holy Water: knocks enemies back. For when you are overwhelmed by shit all on top of you. i think it stunned them too didnt it? + Magic = shield

Dagger: just a quickly tossed weapon with decent range for stuff out of your range. + Magic = fireballs (hmmm... Gabriel = Dracula... Daggers + magic = fireballs... coincidence?)

Crystal:... screen clearing limited use item.

[Dremn]

Loved it. Super is my favorite in the series, but even I must agree with the points he made about it. It's definitely one of the easier titles in the series.

I would love to see a Castlevania game like the one he made a mock up of solely using the whip, but Konami just isn't that creative anymore.

[uzo]

His comment on a game being more based around the whip, with more stuff for the whip to do, immediately made me thing of LoS, and how most everything can be done with the whip. The sub weapons are few, and not that important. They arent made obsolete by the whip, because they do things that complement that.

Fairies: distract enemies. + Magic = suicidal fairies that do damage

Holy Water: knocks enemies back. For when you are overwhelmed by shit all on top of you. i think it stunned them too didnt it? + Magic = shield

Dagger: just a quickly tossed weapon with decent range for stuff out of your range. + Magic = fireballs (hmmm... Gabriel = Dracula... Daggers + magic = fireballs... coincidence?)

Crystal:... screen clearing limited use item.

Yes. This is something I think LoS did right.

[Inccubus]

He made some very good points and the illustrations of other shit they could have let you do with the whip immediately gave me ideas. I wonder how free range whip will fare with fiance jumps & a relatively short range in my remake?

Also, this pretty much explains why no game after this one has free range whipping.

[X]

Also, this pretty much explains why no game after this one has free range whipping.

Both bloodlines and CV: Chronicles 1 had multi-directional whipping, but only to an extent. Bloodlines had greater free-range whipping then Chronicles did. I guess when these two separate titles came out the whole idea of free-ranged whipping was dwindling out. It's a shame really as I could definitely see a very good use for free-ranged whip attacks in Castlevania: Dracula X.

[Opium]

Wow I've never heard of someone having that kind of take on SC4.  It would be like someone ripping up Super Metroid for Samus being able to jump better and aim diagonally vs original metroid.  Neither game is difficult at all, but they're so fun that I didn't know anyone cared if they were easier.

[VladCT]

Wow I've never heard of someone having that kind of take on SC4.  It would be like someone ripping up Super Metroid for Samus being able to jump better and aim diagonally vs original metroid.  Neither game is difficult at all, but they're so fun that I didn't know anyone cared if they were easier.

To be fair, the critic's really less about making the game easier and more about de-emphasizing options and not realizing the full potential of the new gameplay system.

[Mooning Freddy]

I love the raptor, but I'd have to disagree with him on that. The whole idea of being able to whip in each direction is to give out the full gameplay potential the SNES gives you. making the game easier? Why is that a bad thing when compared to a-game-so-freaking-hard-you-want-to-cut-your-own-veins-out-of-frustration? My opinion is that the fluid gameplay makes it much more fun.