Mental Atrophy
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It is bothering me so much that the card is called Gradius and not Vic Viper.
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Castlevania Community Thread | What is a man?!
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spyhunterzero
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Mental Atrophy
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Bueno. Neat how the bonuses sort of mimic powerups, such that Vic Viper becomes more powerful the longer it stays on the board.
snow in jamaica
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this reminds me of "richter belmont has to save his girlfriend maria renard"
Top Floor is like my favorite song in the series. Sooooo good.
Nocturnowl
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CV3 is absolutely worth playing, but feel free to go in any order.
I thought i'd have trouble going back to CV3 playing IV beforehand but they each have their own styles and strengths.
Cv2 is great don't listen to the haters, it's easy? Judt use a walk through. People overblow the difficulty of that game so much.
3 is one of the essentials I think. Its way more difficult than 4 for me and is proving to be a fun time.
I haven't tried 2 but I'm going too at some point. From what I gather it leans more toward the adventure side(talking to townsfolk,etc) rather than straight up action.
Just beat Aria, again. Now on to Dawn.
What about after that? Aria was followed by Dawn, which was followed by Ricordanza of the Gods Abyss, a novel.
Then Judgment, but that's set in the farrrr future. Blegh.
wait wat :O
FrontalMonk
Banned
Right. Uh, if you play it without a walkthrough, it's a _little_ harder.
The issue with Castlevania 2 is that you have no idea what to do, which is why you need a guide. Once you have one, the game becomes way too easy, because enemies are incredibly dumb, and the only thing stronger enemies do is require more hits, so you have to grind hearts to buy better equipment to kill them faster. Not to mention the joke that is the game's bosses.
That sounds not very useful, since you can already get the game in English officially through the PSP and Wii versions.
That sounds not very useful, since you can already get the game in English officially through the PSP and Wii versions.
But you can't. It's been clarified multiple times in here. First off PSP is a remake. But the Virtual Console version is not translated either.
Yeah. There was a Japan-only novel that was set a year or so after Dawn of Sorrow. I believe the main villain is Count Olrox.
Menus are in English. Level names are in English. Voice acting is in English. How is the VC version not translated?
VA is definitely not in English. It uses the German voices from the PSP version for the cutscenes and has Japanese subtitles. The only English is in some of the UI where it was a cheap and dirty fix.
see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhRqOTRQ3-I
Only the intro is in German, the rest is in English. And for some reason, I have English subtitles on it.
They must have updated the game, because it wasn't like that to start. If you look back in most of the videos that went up when it first launched you will see the Japanese subs and all that.
Anyways the fan translation is pretty damn cool.
DracoBlade
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LOS 2 HYPE!?!
spyhunterzero
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DracoBlade
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Yup, got mines pre-loaded and ready for steam release
I'm tempted to buy the steam version for dat glorious pc graphical luster but at a later time as I received a fully payed off ps3 preorder as a gift last year. Maybe during a steam sale...
Anyways I'm pumped all these months of media blackout are about to pay off!
I'm waiting for that Battle of 1999.
spyhunterzero
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Aren't we all.
Seven Force
Banned
Er, what? Literally nothing but the menus are translated in my VC download of the game.
Never going to happen since IGA seems to have vanished.
No need to tell me how it isn't happening. I know it isn't. One can dream, and hold out still.
Better to look at that event like a story concept, like the Elf Wars for Mega Man. Expecting a product of this is like expecting it to be done with a fangame or something.
Or like how Richter was "cursed" by not having his direct descendants not being able to use the Vampire Killer until 1999. I don't think the radio drama that acts as a sequel to SotN gives reason for this.
DracoBlade
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Better to look at that event like a story concept, like the Elf Wars for Mega Man. Expecting a product of this is like expecting it to be done with a fangame or something.
Or like how Richter was "cursed" by not having his direct descendants not being able to use the Vampire Killer until 1999. I don't think the radio drama that acts as a sequel to SotN gives reason for this.
What now? This exists?!...where can I find an English transcription?
This existed for a number of years. There is an English subbing of it, if it helps. The radio drama and the novel I mentioned earlier were produced by IGA, so they are part of the old canon. The radio drama is set one year after SotN, IIRC.
Better to look at that event like a story concept, like the Elf Wars for Mega Man. Expecting a product of this is like expecting it to be done with a fangame or something.
Interesting that you mentioned that, cause that's exactly what I plan to do. lol
I guess we just need to leave that to our imaginations, because it would be hard to match the scale you would expect for such an event.
Maybe I need to check it again...
At this point, I'd take almost anything. 2D, or not. But 2D prefurably.
You need mist form to get the bat form, you need the bat form to get the super jump.
Thank you!
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Man I accidentally replaced all the music on my cell phone with my full castlevania OST collection so on the way the office I was listening to a bunch of CV tunes and then this curious version of tower of dolls comes and I realized it was the judgement version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gAyI7y_aE
Man as mediocre and unwanted as CV Judgment was, it had some incredibly jamming remixes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gAyI7y_aE
Man as mediocre and unwanted as CV Judgment was, it had some incredibly jamming remixes.
DracoBlade
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SO uh...LOS2 guys? I thought it was.... great but ultimately
failed to deliver for me Very depressed. All in all if you treat it
the conclusion of the LOS trilogy/sequel to the original its an excellent entry but so much squandered potential/misaligned directions in the last act.....Really disappointed by the ending still....
What say you guys?
the ending
Very depressed. All in all if you treat it
AS IT SHOULD BE
What say you guys?
I wrote longer impressions here.
I felt it was worse in every way except the primary gameplay (combat), which luckily is the most important thing to have improved on I guess if they were only going to improve one thing.
Exploring that castle was pretty neat, however. If mercurysteam does die, I hope their artists land someplace and keep contributing elsewhere.
I felt it was worse in every way except the primary gameplay (combat), which luckily is the most important thing to have improved on I guess if they were only going to improve one thing.
Exploring that castle was pretty neat, however. If mercurysteam does die, I hope their artists land someplace and keep contributing elsewhere.
DracoBlade
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Agree with the majority of your criticisms. Funny I was in the same boat as you only about two years ago I'm not ashamed at all to admit my first experience with Castlevania was with the first LOS game. I think it gave me an unbias mantle to a franchise of games I now adore. Well I guess its time to delve into my next backlogged game.
Circle of the Moon I'm going to beat you!
DracoBlade
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Depends what have you played already?
I'd suggest Circle of the Moon personally really surprised how good it is with such lack of discussion about the game.