Castlevania Series

[IHateSeph]

What are your thoughts on all the games in the Castlevania universe. For the record heres all the noteworthy games I can recall. (Gameboy Original/Color not included)

Castlevania (NES/DOS)
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES)
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS and/or multiple)
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA)
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA)
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA)
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (PS2 and/or multiple)
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (PS2/XBOX)

These were all off the top of my head. So I may have missed some.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Simon's Quest has been converted to PC a few years back - it's for download on HOTU.

And you've forgot the latest one, Legacy of Sorrow.

[IHateSeph]

Legacy? I think it's called Dawn of Sorrow, and that ones for DS I think. If theres another Sorrow game I sure as heck don't know about it, and should.

[troop18546]

I've played these, that you've mentioned:
Castlevania
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

I think the old series was much better than the new ones for cruddy xbox and ps.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Right. I thought I heard it being referred to as Legacy of Sorrow.

[Don Andy]

Castlevania (NES)
Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest (NES)
Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse (NES)
The Castlevania Adventure (GB)
Castlevania 2: Belmont's Revenge (GB)
Castlevania Legends (GB)
Super Castlevania 4 (SNES)
Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine)
Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis)
Castlevania: Dracula X (SNES)
Castlevania 64 (N64)
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness (N64)
Castlevania: Chronicles (PS)
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA)
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA)
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA)
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS)
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (PS2)
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (PS2)

Should be a pretty complete list

I didn't like the NES games very much. Yeah, they're classic, but it's kinda boring and has a really choppy control.

I never played the GB ones, so I can't tell if their good or bad.

Super Castlevania 4 is nice, but not great. It still has rather akward controls.

Sadly never played Rondo of Blood, mainly because it's japanese.

Well, Bloodlines is a kinda strange Castlevania game, but I liked it.

Never played Dracula X, too, but I did read that it is really bad.

The N64 ones kinda are my favourite Castlevania games. They're not the best in the series, but they kinda got me into the whole Castlevania-Series.

Since I never owned a PS, I can tell nothing about Chronicles.

Circle of the Moon is one of my favourite Castlevania-Games, but I pretty much love all of the GBA ones. Aria of Sorrow was nice, but the whole soul collecting craze got a bit of a nuisance later on.

Dawn of Sorrow was nice for while, too, got it mainly because I needed a new DS game and always loved Castlevania.

Never played the PS2 ones.

I heard there was a canceled Dreamcast game too, which did go by the name Resurrection or something like that. But I don't know much about it.

[troop18546]

Oh yeah, to me Dracula X and Super Castlevania 4 were a few of the best, whatever anyone says.

[IHateSeph]

Originally posted by troop18546+Jan 11 2006, 02:50 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (troop18546 @ Jan 11 2006, 02:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I think the old series was much better than the new ones for cruddy xbox and ps. [/b]

Lament of Innocence wasn't so great. It lost the classic feel. I recommend the GBA versions though. They're nice variations to the original Castlevanias... I'd put up an emu site or something... But 1.GBA is not in anyway abandonware. 2.I don't even think the forum would allow it.

******QuoteBegin-troop18546
Oh yeah, to me Dracula X and Super Castlevania 4 were a few of the best, whatever anyone says.[/quote]

I didn't enjoy Dracula X so much cause it seemed sort of rushed. But Super Castlevania 4 was excellent in all respects.

[Lucullus]

There are lots of emu sites out there if you want to go for that so just google for it. :) I enjoy the SNES versions of Castlevania purely because the graphics were nice and fun at the same time. I'm an oldie what can I say? :)

[IHateSeph]

Super Castlevania IV was great cause of the graphics, music. It really was a sequel improvement. A perfect example of what a good sequel should be.

[LeD]

Simons quest was the best :D. Man that is ooold school. I remember i got the first castlevania for christmas when i was like 5 or 6. These are a great series of games.

Simon's Quest has been converted to PC a few years back - it's for download on HOTU.

what is Hotu and how do i dl the game

[Blood-Pigggy]

Originally posted by IHateSeph+Jan 11 2006, 03:42 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (IHateSeph @ Jan 11 2006, 03:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-troop18546
Oh yeah, to me Dracula X and Super Castlevania 4 were a few of the best, whatever anyone says.

I didn't enjoy Dracula X so much cause it seemed sort of rushed. But Super Castlevania 4 was excellent in all respects. [/b][/quote]
There were two versions of Dracula X.
One was Dracula X Rondo Of Blood, released in Japan only, this was the amazing game that everyone was raving about.

The other game was Dracula X, period, released for the SNES, it was a different game, and it was, quite frankly, stupid.

[The Fifth Horseman]

what is Hotu and how do i dl the game
Google up "Home of the Underdogs".

The other game was Dracula X, period, released for the SNES, it was a different game, and it was, quite frankly, stupid.
Aye. Played it on a SNES emulator - horrible, starting from the very controls.

[troop18546]

To me the controls were easy, the game graphics - superb and the music... just... just soooooooo Castlevania (GREAT). I've always loved Castlevania. Those were the w4r3z days.

[Blood-Pigggy]

The controls were great on the SNES.
In accordance with the controller.

Yes, I agree with Troop, the music was fine.
It wasn't a bad game, but I didn't understand why they couldn't have just brought the original Dracula X Rondo of Blood over. Despite its quality, Rondo of Blood is several times better than Dracula X.

[WildZeppelin]

I've tried playing these on the JNES and Nesticle emulators, and those were playable and even beatable. I've used ZNES and snes95 for castlevania 4, but it's impossible to play with a keyboard. I have also tried it with a logitech dual action rumble pad controller (strongly resembles a PS2 controller), but the feel in the movement just isn't quite there. Does anyone know of a way to hone this or correct it so that it'd feel more like an SNES controller? I really loved playing Castlevania 4 the most, so it'd be nice to do it again.

[Rogue]

Logitech dual action rumble pad is very simillar to SNES controller. I own one, and I have no problems to play any of the games.

Only one that I completed are:

Castlevania (NES)
Castlevania 64 (N64)
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA)

Fav one is GBA version.

[WildZeppelin]

using either the analog controller or the d pad, the movement -in-air- is what I'm meaning. With the old snes, you could jump and move a decent amount in the air to correct yourself. This is impossible with the emulator as far as I can tell. I mainly notice it in games like super metroid and castlevania.

[Rogue]

Have you tried Snes9x?

[GoldenBird]

Rondo of Blood is my holy grail.

Edit: I beat all the GBA Castlevanias, Symphony of the Night and Simon's Quest, but I can't bring myself to finish the other two NES Castlevanias (the controls are awful) and all the CV's for the Snes are pretty cruddy.

[WildZeppelin]

yes, I did use snes9x, and I seem to remember it working the best with my logitech rumblepad. Both versions game me audio trouble tho. No matter what settings I ran it at, it never sounded close when you got sounds like thunder on castlevania 4. Did anyone ever fix that?