The sub weapons in Lament are really interesting with the caveat that there are some pretty obvious ‘Goto’ combinations that outshine everything else.
Everything in Lament is really good, minus the stages towards the end game.
DoctaMario’s statements I agree with.
I think the elememtals are too well hidden, you can search pretty thoroughly through the castle and still find none of them. Otherwise tho LOI is pretty good, arguably Igas best.
Lament also features a Belmont shouting he will kill the night. He’s so angry he’s just shouting against anything that gets said.
Lament is one of, if not the best of the 3D Castlevania’s, it’s great.
I wish I owned a copy to replay it. The PS2+Wii CV’s are the only CV games I don’t own released in the past 15+ years or so. 
LoI was one of the first games I ever preordered. The only thing I hated was grinding to get that invincibility pot. Stupid skeleton was a stingy bastard.
Joachim mode was a nice change. Wasn’t to bad till I attempted the forgotten one. That was a pain in the ass with him.
Crazy mode made me lol at some areas. The first area you get greeted by some op ogres an cyclopses. Also to hell with death on that mode. You thought you could dodge his tracking laser thing but nope there’s another one hidden just behind it that makes you dead. And also him spamming the “it’s over” area explosion. Eh Walter did that too but death was worse.
All in all lament is a great 3d cv game for what it is. The soundtrack alone is worth the purchase.
Any of you ziggans own HoD on the PS3? Looking to plan some survival runs for dat leveling up.
lol
ziggans
why dont you say that to my face not online
^???
What?
Are you dyslectic or something and got offended?
Sorry.
I mean yrros.
See what I did there?
That one became my favorite. I like AoS okay but it doesn’t have much character, it could be ANY game. I like the idea behind CoD but it was a bit clunky imo.
HoD was interesting, especially the A/B castles. The B Castle was kind of like the Other World in Silent Hill games, a nightmarish, twisted version of the A castle. I might also be the only living person who liked the game’s OST as well.
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It was a copypasta thing. I used in a facetious fashion. Go search that phrase; google exists for a reason .
It doesn’t matter what @"Rick Ross" says, it’s always funny to me because of the avatars. xD
Ok recently I thought to myself: "Dude you never owned Super Castlevania 4 for the SNES, I mean you tried to steal it but you got busted so maybe now with all this internet wealth going on maybe go and play it."
So I did and even though I thought the 8-way whip made it way too easy, I’ve had a whole lot of fun with the game and gotta say, it’s probably my most favorite game out of the old Nintendo console games I’ve played.
I only played 1-3 on the NES and 1-2 on the Gameboy though.
So next stop was the next Castlevania game for SNES right?
Checked out which one it is and it’s Castlevania X.
“Cool!” I thought “Finally I can play the prequel to Symphony of the Night.”
Now this game is kicking my ass and I have trouble passing the first level, lol.
All that SotN and Super Castlevania 4 made me soft.
You should play Bloodlines instead.
Oh yeah just realized that Bloodlines is the direct prequel to SotN.
Anyways I can’t believe the amounts of bullshit Dracula X throws at you holy fuck.
In comparison Castlevania Adventures 1 on the Gameboy seems almost fucking fair compared to this game.
Also the music sucks. Worst remixes of Castlevania tunes I’ve ever heard.
Bloodlines is actually further ahead in the timeline than SotN, it tries to connect the games with the bram stalker book. It’s kinda weird for that but it’s one of the greatest castlevania games imo. It had the same music composer as SoTN iirc.
Dracula X on the snes was a decent game that’s overshadowed by CV4 and because it was viewed as a “bad port” of Rondo of Blood. The snes version’s music was amazing however.
I probably thought that Bloodlines was the predecessor because at the start of SotN when you start as Richter and play the last battle of the supposedly last game the screen says “BLOODLINES” in fat letters for some fucking reason.
Who knows with Japanese people though considering confusing name changes like Super Mario Bros. 2, Final Fantasy 2 and 3 etc.
To the second part:
No, just no!
Castlevania X is a fucking terrible game with the cheapest game design I’ve seen in a while. I made it 'till level 4 when I couldn’t take the constant bullshit the game throws at you anymore and started googling what the deal with the game is. Also the music fucking sucks.
Playing Rondo of Blood right now and I fucking love it.
Same music tracks that somehow sound amazing compared to CVX and the level design is great.
I can die 10 times in a row without getting angry because the game presents me with a problem and a clear solution, so when I die I know it’s my fault.
CVX on the other hand kills you over and over and over with cheap ass shit that just makes you want to drown a puppy.
In Rondo stages have names, and the last stage is called Bloodlines.
SOTN is referencing the stage names in Rondo. It isn’t saying the final stage of the game Bloodlines.
The reason it says “Bloodlines” at the beginning of SoTN is because Bloodlines was the last CV game released in the US before SoTN, as Rondo, the TRUE prequel to SoTN never came out over here until Dracula X Chronicles.
Castlevania IV is amazing. That game to me is still among the pinnacles of the series. The grittiness of the graphics, the music and how well it was arranged, the level design, and the enemy design are all amazing. Konami really knocked that one out of the park and it’s a really fantastic example of the awesome company Konami used to be. I’m due for another run through that one. It’s “epic” in all the best possible ways. I agree with you about the 8-way whip making it too easy, and I suspect that was a mechanic that was added after the game was largely finished. You can kind of tell by the way it almost breaks the level design, especially earlier in the game.
Bloodlines was awesome. Not as good as Castlevania IV imo, but definitely a worthwhile entry and one that had a lot of great ideas that it would have been nice to see carry over into later titles.
Castlevania Dracula X is cool if you don’t compare it to Rondo. The game controls sluggishly, the level design is kinda wack, but it’s still a cool game (and maybe I’m only saying this because I spent $50 on a used copy back before the internet was a thing.) The thing to remember is that, in this game, the whip has a HUGE hitbox on it, so you really have a lot of leeway when enemies approach you from above, behind or in front of you. But it’s one of those games that once you play it and understand how to get thru it, it’s not as hard. But yeah, you end up eating a lot of cheap deaths in the process.
Rondo is amazing. Dracula X Chronicles is easily my favorite CV game, and to me, Rondo was worth all the hype. That game truly was the bridge between the old school stage-based games and the more exploration games that SoTN started. I never get tired of this one, and the way DXC gave some of the less interesting levels a whole new lease on life (specifically stage 4 and 5’) just makes me love that game even more.
it says “Bloodlines” because that’s the name of the stage… It has nothing to do with the game Castlevania: Bloodlines.
Are you people kidding me?
Lords of Shadow sucks! 