The Castlevania Thread

I like the LoS music while playing. Though when I listened to the soundtrack I found myself not enjoying it, minus a few tracks. The music is for the game and is very fitting as you play. Waterfalls of Agharta is amazing.

The Spice Girls sold a lot of records, but that doesn’t mean they’re good.

LoS has a lot of elements from previous CV games. It’s a fine CV game. IN what way is it a bad CV game? As for the soundtrack, it’s a totally different kind of game. They were going for something completely different and a soundtrack like the older games wouldn’t compliment an LoS style game at all.

I DO agree that Yamane is awesome though. I’ve been listening to the LoI soundtrack lately and MAN is it good.

EDIT: Hey, so, it’s Halloween almost…who’d be up for a boss rush competition?

since I’ve never played a Castlevania game before LOS I cant agree or disagree that it was a bad Castlevania…but it had a nice gothic atmosphere and was a good action/adventure game in general.
I will say that the music was meh.
it wasn’t bad…but it wasn’t memorable. Not a single song was memorable. Not a single catchy tune that got stuck in my head after playing.

as for ppsspp emulation, its been discussed before on the ppsspp forums…iphones emu the psp far better than android phones.
people said it didn’t even matter if their android phones had a quad core processor it still doesn’t emu the psp better than the iphone5.

that’s why when the specs for the iphone6 came out people ragged on it saying it was underpowered compared to the most recently released high end android phones but they don’t seem to realize that different hardware/os makes a difference in performance. you cant compare the two.
so I believe DoctaMario when he says the ppsspp works well on his iphone.

the DS emu works fine on droid though. ppsspp…not so much. depends on the game. don’t even bother tryin Tekken5 on ppsspp.

What pisses me off the most is that there hasn’t been a 2D Castlevania on a real console since Symphony of the Night.
Everything is for handheld and those that exist are Metroidvania games which I find pretty disappointing.

I’d really love a new oldschool hand-drawn Castlevania game on my PS3.
Kinda like Rondo of Blood, just bigger.

At this point you mean ps4/xb1 but hand drawn is costly.

I wouldn’t care if it’s more cell shaded like the mof cut scenes but I would like a multi role castlevania, put in multiple playable chars and make at least one a true Belmont platformer but make it hard.

I wouldn’t even care If it were similar to hod with the multiple player online experience, just make it online and hard.

I can’t figure out why PPSSPP works better on my iPhone than it does on my PC. :stuck_out_tongue:

The music in LoS isn’t supposed to draw attention, it’s to accentuate the action (or lack thereof) that’s happening. Unfortunately, they just looped stuff so in LoS1 you wind up with action music when you’re just walking around.

Does not, can not, and will not ever compete with these:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9KyV4zrdvE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud7ShcGqFrw

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I’d keep going, but we’d be here all day and into tomorrow… Lords of Shadow’s OST ain’t got shit on the rest of this series’ discography.

It’s like trying to say SFIV music is superior to the SFII-Alpha-Vs. Series soundtracks… Wrong as fuck.

Um, again, you’re talking about apples to badgers. LoS probably won’t produce as much memorable music because it was supposed to be more movie-like (i.e. music is part of the experience rather than a selling point.)

And did you REALLY post that Judgment track? God, you’re gay. And I mean that in the best possible way… Iiii’m just kidding. I don’t really dig the Judgment OST, but if you’re going to bring up examples of better than LoS tracks, that’s not the game to cite IMO.

What’s wrong with Judgment’s OST? It had some great remixes of the classic tunes.

I don’t want a “movie-like” experience… I want a goddamn video game. I want to hop to precariously placed platforms while asshole Medusa Heads fly about. I want to whip the shit out of classic monsters and mythological creatures while navigating the most nonsensically designed castle ever. I want daggers, holy water, cross-shaped boomerangs and meat hidden in castle walls. I want the game that made vampires and vampire hunters badasses with the most catchy stage themes this side of Mega Man.

I want CASTLEVANIA, not this bullshit we’ve been getting that just uses the name. Why is this so hard?

CV is in a weird place right now.

I think the LoS dev team is done or at least had some people leave, and we know IGA is gone. If there’s going to be a new CV game then it’ll probably be made by a mostly unique dev team.

Are the guys who made Circle of the Moon/the N64 CV games still around?

http://ca.ign.com/companies/konami-computer-entertainment-kobe-kcek

Who made the Wiiware Castlevania game?

I hope the series lands on its feet because Castlevania is one of my favorite video game series since I was a kid. Shit, I knew DoctaMario and Rugal before I joined SRK(they both had the same tags on a Castlevania forum I used to frequent a lot way back.)

Amen. There are a million generic 3d hack n slash action games, fuckin’ keep castlevania castlevania if they ever make another one.

Nobody cares, It’s an engine change, quit fucking crying.

Jesus you’re as bad as the god hates fags people. Oh noes, scary scary change that means they are pissing on everything that came before and can never go back or make a mix of engines to create a better product.

Also for the record, LoS 1 and 2 have fantastic soundtracks that move the series in the right direction to keep the series from being mothballed like Megaman. Shut the fuck up and just wait for the next SoTN clone to hit your handheld with reused sprites and zero innovation.

I’ll happily take a progression even if it turned out mediocre.

Also before i have to hear any more whining on the subject, this is what my Castlevania music list looks like, i listen to and like them all for one reason or another.

If yours doesn’t look similar, again shut the fuck up.

Don’t want an SOTN clone they exhausted that formula, but 2 god of war clones was a a terrible idea for the next step in the series. Might as well play GoW or other similar games…rather than slap the Castlevania name on games that play NOTHING like previous games in the series. I’d rather they go back to their roots and develop that, I’m talking the old school NES, SNES games. Progression means advancing something, not abandoning everything and just doing something completely different. I mean why even call something like that Castlevania?

Why call the N64 castlevanias by that name? or the SotN and clones? If we use that logic to qualify what a castlevania is and is not, pretty much anything past CV3 isnt a castlevania and should be renamed or stricken from the minds of humanity.

the music for LOS suits the game perfectly and that’s what a game needs , fitting music !
as much as i love previous soundtracks i can’t imagine any of em being LOS’s in-game music.

Cv4? Rondo of Blood? SOTN is a progression, not that it is all good. Like the older games it is 2d action with platforming elements consisting mainly of jumping and attacking with a short range weapon(though u get many other ways of moving and attacking too), bosses are mostly pattern based. It adds an rpg style experience system (a big misstep IMO), and the metroid style exploration…need x ability to unlock this area. However nonlinearity was already explored many years ago with Cv2 (can go back and forth freely), and Cv3 (branching paths).

When looking at the LoS games…removing aesthetic similarites, gameplay wise it is nothing like the earlier 2d Castlevania games. Part of this is the move to 3d. Which is why N64 Castlevanias largely fail, though they did try to incorporate a lot more platforming (even with medusa heads trying to hit you).

That’s fine. That’s not what I want in Castlevania.

I want the Bloodlines style jumping and whipping, not God of War Jr. trying to be cinematic and “epic” with droning orchestral pieces.

But I’ve long accepted that I am a relic of a forgotten age where all a good game needed was good gameplay, stage design, and catchy tunes… Didn’t need Sir Patrick Stewart narrating cut scenes or KEVIN SPACEY to sell people on the game.

…and you’ve got to be a salty ass to flag someone Off Topic for giving their OPINION on the thread subject.

You shut your whore mouth.