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>This scene
>This introduction to Dracula's Castle
>The main theme remix
This game is up there with SOTN. If only it was longer.

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Portrait of Ruin is better because you start at the castle right away without needing to rescue any dumbass villagers nobody gives a fuck about.
Also you have a cute boyfriend to protect you.

Fun game, has my Castlevania waifu.

Sorry user. No one wants to talk about vidya that I make threads for either. Should have started the thread with a larger picture of Shanoa.

Too bad the game is even more broken than SOTN.

When you get the nitesco glyph or the death ring you may as well stop playing because the game gets trivially easy at that point.

Is Charlotte even fun to play as?

I don't think I used her once aside from the puzzles.

But the Devil Ring makes you die in one hit in exchange for a humongous stat boost. It's basically Heaven or Hell mode in DMC except enemies still don't die in one hit.

Not like any castlevania after the snes were hard anyway

most castlevania music

She's cute, that's enough for me to play as her.

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Classicvania

Bloodlines = Rhondo pc engine > 3 > Rebirth > Dracula X snes = Chronicles > 4 > 1 > 2

Metroidvania

SoTN > AoS = OoE > CoM > PoR > DoS > HoD

This is a good game

>This game is up there with SOTN.
Probably, but the other two DS games are merely "pretty good" so it's not the most severe competition. I like OoE but the level design is sort of boring most of the time. It's not really a great blend of Classic and Metroidvania at all. I prefer SotN and AoS for this reason, and I much prefer the Classicvanias.
LONDON.

>1 that low
Nah.

>you will never fuck axe armor

Classic
Rondo (PCE) > 4 > 3 > Rebirth > 1 > Chronicles > Dracula X > 2
Metroidvania
Symphony > Portrait = Aria > Ecclesia > Sorrow > Moon > Harmony

I fucking hate Maria. Her appearance marked the beginning of the series being casualized

You faggots give Aria too much credit. It was the best GBA game, but all the DS games except Dawn exceeded it when it came to actual gameplay and bosses and shit. Aria of Sorrow after you get the Solais was just fucking easy mode forever.

>Aria of Sorrow after you get the Solais was just fucking easy mode forever
You people never bring up this arguement applies to all the metroidvanias
>Sotn get shield rod or crissagrim never die
>PoR get the vampire killer and alucard spears game becomes a joke
>OoE use dracula's spells with death ring to one shot bosses
They all have this problem when you get the best fucking weapons and abilities in the game

>Play as Charlotte in Harmony of Despair
>Every other player uses some shortcut that requires a jump kick

>Never had any hint of waifuism
>Mirriam is revealed
>Instantly think of her as being far inferior to Shanoa

And that was there that I understood what it meant.
Shanoa is objectively the best girl.

Calm down, she was just a joke character and optional easy mode for Rondo. Aren't Super Castlevania 4 and Dracula X easier than Rondo anwyay?

>blah blah blah fucking blah blah blah maria
me too.

I'll never, NEVER understand Rondofags. I beat the game a few months ago and I found it incredibly weak compared to 3 and hell even 4. Yeah the game looks and sounds amazing but the level design is pure ass and is mostly just a straight path all the way through. Not saying it's a bad game, far from that, it's a great game, but 3 is pretty much better in every way that isn't looks and sound.

Personally for me it's
3 > 4 > 1 > Rondo

I've played rebirth but it's been fucking years and I barely remember it.

She was anime tier garbage that ruins the integrity of the series far before people complained about dos art.
4 is easier than Rhondo but Dracula X is way harder. Even tho 4 is easier it didn't ruin the artistic integrity of the series like Rhondo did

>Dracula X
>easier
Other way around. Dracula X was actually pretty fucking hard. And has one of the hardest Dracula battles in the series if only because you can't afford to fuck lest you get knocked into a pit.

Fug forgot about bloodlines

3 > 4 > Bloodlines > 1 > Rondo

>This game is up there with SOTN

Not with that trash level design it isn't.

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There is also the fact that it's a prequel to the single most popular Castlevania in the series

>Classicvania
3 > 1 > Chronicles > IV > Bloodlines > SNES X > TG-CD X > ReBirth

>Metroidvania
All equally shit.

Time for the real question.

John Morris or Eric Lacarde?

My favorite handheld Castlevania. Great art style and Shanoa is my waifu.

I'll take the barrel-chested texan over the spaniard soyboy.

>Texan hick can't even get up to the places that the CHAD Spaniard can get to

Nice try.

>What a horrible night to forget my purse

>t. Arin

Eric is fucking easy mode dude
He's the equivalent of Maria in Rondo

How do you guys feel about bloodstained? Any hopes that it'll spawn a new franchise like Castlevania?

Let me teach you, you fucking uncultered plebs about true unfiltered Castlevania
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Dawn is certainly better in regards to the core gameplay, mostly due to the weapon sets and some souls being changed to relics, but Aria is still the undisputably better game since it has vastly superior castle design and areas, bosses, and story. Dawn has far better sprite work but Aria has far better character art so that's a mixed bag.
Basically Dawn's better controls can't make up for it shitting the bed in every other regard.

I beat Castlevania 64 a few weeks ago. Was not as bad as the internet makes it out to be. Once you get past the Castle Center the game is pure platforming fun.

>has my Castlevania waifu.

Sup, Iga

Yeah, her different spells being her main method of attack make her always fun - her low def make her a bit more challenging too(except if enemy uses mainly magical attacks)
Additionally some spells can trivialize some bosses completely