7ed1bc No.14900436
ITT we talk about a miserable little pile of vidya
Post about Castlevania stuff and what's your favourite game of the whole franchise. Discussions and updates about the upcoming Castlevania-esque Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and the newly released Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon will be also included. As well as discussions about Retrovanias, the Netflix series and its upcoming season. Please don't talk about the upcoming iOS game.
d6aa0a No.14900454
I need to play more Castlevanias. I really enjoyed the DS and GBA ones. Odallus is a pretty good game if you're more into the retro Castlevanias, though.
1bdb4a No.14900464
937293 No.14900482
>there's an upcoming season
Best news I heard all week. E3 is still going to be fun though.
Just got done beating Castlevania IV. Still not man enough to beat hard mode yet.
99e677 No.14900529
It had a good run, but Konami doesn't make video games anymore. Bloodstained is a scam.
87f56f No.14900540
I got into Castlevania fairly late. Call me a faggot, but I honestly enjoy practically any Castlevania that doesn't have a whip. SotN, OoE, AoS, CoD, just feel like more fun especially the multitude of weapons. The broken weapons on there are pretty fun as well.
>double Heavens Sword
>Crissaegrim
>murdering everything with Claihm Solias
930f4a No.14900549
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>Still no word on netflix series.
Thought they would have done a trailer by now.
930f4a No.14900556
>>14900549
For season 2 I mean.
971f74 No.14900590
>>14900549
You poor deluded fool. The first season was to sucker you in. The second season is going to be filled with marxist bullshit and SJW propaganda.
953105 No.14900591
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87f56f No.14900642
>>14900590
I hope that isn't the case, but Netflix does have a tendency to kill whatever it touches holy fuck Arrested development season 5 is horrible. I honestly want to see how they plan on drawing out X amount of episodes featuring a game where the main goal is to kill everything in the room in a single castle.
4a22b4 No.14900656
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness and the enhanced version of Castlevania 64 that comes with it are unironically good games
930f4a No.14900660
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>>14900590
I just wanted a Van Hellsign action adventure monster slaying story. What could they possibly need to change!?
e80214 No.14900661
inb4 Classic vs. Metroidvania shitposting
>niggers are actually looking forward to more Kikeflix vania
Lynch yourselves post haste.
e80214 No.14900666
>>14900660
>What could they possibly need to change!?
Hand it over to the Japs instead of Faggotrator Studios.
930f4a No.14900670
>>14900666
Well that is a good point Satan.
d00a2c No.14900679
>>14900656
I like them but in no universe are they good. The framerate sucks, the camera sucks, the controls are awkward, some level design did not carry over to 3D well, some boss fights are obnoxious, etc. etc. etc.
035f61 No.14900681
Dawn of Sorrow is one of only two Castlevanias finished. I not only collected all the souls but Fully maxed out all of them too. Fuck you, Stolas. You and your low drop rate can go fuck itself. I pretty much did and completed Everything that game had to offer. Even minor things like the boss rush mode and Alucard playthrough. Fun game overall.
The other one I finished was Super Castlevania IV even though I cheated to beat it.
I played Circle of the Moon for about halfway, then gave up. The unenjoyable grindfest gameplay, weak visuals, repetitive music, uninteresting characters, and barebones story fucking bored me to tears.
I played the original Castlevania on a website emulator for about a level or two. Wish I played it with a controller because keyboards are awful.
And a little bit of Aria of Sorrow and Symphony of the Night when I visited a friend's house. But only for like 10 minutes each before he took over the controller.
That's my whole experience with the Castlevania in a nutshell.
e80214 No.14900689
>>14900681
Thanks for your insight faggot, so go play some more of them so you can actually contribute to the thread.
1f1323 No.14900691
>>14900666
Satan is right, it was a cheap ass adaptation by a hack pajeet with typical netflix programming for the plebs to fawn on.
e80214 No.14900695
>>14900691
Also
>The other one I finished was Super Castlevania IV even though I cheated to beat it.
>easiest classic vania
>cheating
How much of a fucking casual faggot are you?
03c572 No.14900697
0fd81c No.14900738
>>14900656
They were alright, but I wouldn't call them great, certainly not the best of the series.
C64 was bad, but adding Cornell and Henry chapters made everything better.
And those moans Carrie made upon turning vamp.
I don't have the webms saved but if someone could post them I would save them immediately.
I think a fixed version of Castlevania 2 that wasn't so fucking obtuse and esoteric would actually do pretty well. The gameplay was fairly solid, it was just completely fucked during localisation.
e80214 No.14900749
>>14900738
>I think a fixed version of Castlevania 2 that wasn't so fucking obtuse
Was released years ago.
0fd81c No.14900760
>>14900749
Does the ROM come pre-patched?
I haven't emulated shit in years, are those sites (coolROMs, emuparadise) even still available or have they all been DMCA'd to hell?
856084 No.14900769
>>14900590
This.
It is written by a street-shitter and Netflix is just a front for marxism proaganda from George Soros.
e80214 No.14900781
>>14900760
Find the rom yourself, then go to Romhacking.net for patch. You can figure this shit out by yourself.
Seriously just google the shit nigger
7d2bda No.14900812
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>>14900529
>Bloodstained is a scam.
Well for a Scam they seemed to have put out a pretty good game already.
8e0b24 No.14900824
>>14900760
Use Floating IPS. It's very easy.
1bd444 No.14900831
>>14900769
if you bomb people with stuff like that they'll be slow to believe it.
My experience with Netflix is that most of the shows on it at one point or frequently show shit like domestic abuse, every time the female half of the family watches something on there it's always domestic abuse shit on every crime drama shown, just for that one particular genre, it's like every other episode from what i've caught them watching, which is most definitely a part of the anti-male narrative that was and still is being pushed at universities. By flooding shows with shit like that you can mislead people into confusing memories, and through it you can manipulate feelings about subjects when exposed to enough of it. We've all seen it, the more extreme feminists run entirely on feeling and not thought.
I've caught recent episodes of Grey's Anatomy where characters throw shots out that involve the words "the patriarchy" unironically.
etc etc. It's not JUST netflix it's TV in general, specifically the drama and crime drama parts of it, cartoons are one thing but the drama shows are entirely focused around making women feel attacked. It's honestly crazy and ridiculous the more you look into it.
There's nothing but propaganda on television, only a few shows seem to be immune and even then there's the occasional slip because they likely had someone come in for a quota of bullshit or something.
152bf4 No.14900871
5a5145 No.14900879
d2cfa1 No.14900880
e92c79 No.14900893
>>14900831
It's pretty weird when you really look at it. For whatever reason, television seems to be more female-centric, even when the program isn't necessarily one with a female demographic. In most cases women in these shows need to be strong and minorities need to be just. My mother will sometimes marathon Law and Order and I've noticed that literally most of the villains are white males. I think it's funny too that whenever gangs are depicted in an American city it's usually individuals with an eastern European background. Sage for off topic and slightly /pol/.
9e7dd7 No.14900908
>Out and about a while ago.
>Drop in to store that has older games.
>Symphony of the Night apparently up from $25 to $50 now.
No game that managed to sell enough for an additional Greatest Hits print run should be seeing such prices. I get the feeling the spike's due to Bloodstained though. Does make me wonder though, if that's what's going on here, how bad are things getting for it in PAL, where the PS1 version was shortprinted?
As an aside, can dump the luck and portrait fix hacked Dawn of Sorrow if anyone want.
>>14900871
There is zero need to bump after only nine minutes. This isn't cuck/v/.
>>14900760
Games that old are fucking easy and quick to patch.
d00a2c No.14900996
>>14900908
They're only easy to patch if you know exactly what ROM was used as the base. IPS is deficient in that regard since it can't tell you that (would a fucking checksum have hurt to add to the spec) and older hacks are more likely to be based on obsoleted ROMs.
>>14900738
There's definitely a trigger somewhere in my life for why I enjoy ryona. I know the WebM but cannot find i.
842efa No.14901062
>>14900908
Where the fuck do you live where Symphony of the Night would ever go for $25? I don't think I've ever seen it for sale under $80.
d00a2c No.14901097
>>14901062
You could probably do it with Japanese copies. Early 2014 I scored a disc-only copy for about 1000 yen on Yahoo Auctions. Add a few fees since a proxy was needed but still pretty cheap. Incidentally while it's a little buggy how does Dracula X Chronicles fare?
856084 No.14901141
>>14900831
Not bombing them constantly with the truth is what enabled this idiocy to become the norm in the first place.
The fact remains: Netflix is a marxist propaganda machine, as all other western entertainment. and thus, anything from it must be avoided at all costs. And when possible, those that work on it must be killed.
>>14900908
Don't pay for a game that you can get for free.
930f4a No.14901148
>>14900769
>>14900691
>>14900831
So aside from suspected highly likely tainted writers, what did the netflix show do specifically that was bad so far. Not that I think it is by any means clear of these issues. For example how they made the church "Corrupt and evil"or various levels of useless if you want to count side characters with no lines too.
Not to mention you would think in a world where you can tangibly prove holy water/salt/magic/rituals works on actual demons and there for provable, there would be more "true believers" and less bandits wearing priest clothing. Where they just hired guns in priest get ups, or where they actual priest? but It came off more like an overused arch type then narrative pushing.
ce63d4 No.14901213
>>14901148
It's not too bad if you know going in that it's basically an adaptation of Castlevania 3. Probably the worst part is fucking with Sypha's character. I was confused as to why they made her into some sort of gypsy until I found out they involved a bindi. They are related peoples, after all. They could have done better than inventing a tribe of jew-gypsies to infodump because they're the Speakers, it's what they do.
Even though I do appreciate the anti-clericalism that also shows the Church's rituals are necessary to destroy evil, they do take it to a rather silly extent. There's one particular mook that shows a lotta loyalty for a hired gun.
If they're really going to fuck with Season 2, they'll put in Grant Danasty as the blackest nigger in Wallachia.
b0c1fe No.14901261
The first one is still my favorite. There's something about the Classicvania charm that can't be matched. Circle of the Moon is probably my second favorite, but playing on original hardware is a fucking eyesore because of how dark most of the goddamn game is.
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is okay, but it's way too fucking easy. The real killer flaw in the game is that almost every enemy weapon can be destroyed by ordinary attacks, so the vast majority of enemies can be killed by just hammering the attack button while standing still in front of them. I made the mistake of buying it, because I'm a fucking idiot. I don't really regret it, but I am disappointed at how quick and easy the core game is, and that all the extra content is just playing through the same game again. I'd recommend pirating it if you want a quick and easy Castlevania 3 ripoff with some fun gameplay, decent music, and good graphics. Don't expect much from the bosses, though. They look cool, but they telegraph like mad and are all trivial to finish off, even the final boss.
98510e No.14901270
>>14901213
I thought they already showed him at some point, or at least the character who would turn out to be Grant. They also fuck with some other things, like Lisa was not some generic stronk womyn in SotN. I thought she was supposed to be from a line of vampire hunters, and that was where Alucard picked up his holy magic, ancestral sword and shield from. Which also goes into the anti-church stuff, and science stuff. The kind of alchemy that Dracula is always depicted as researching in his castle is of the darkest sort, and I'm pretty sure Lisa was healing people, which fits the whole speech to Alucard better than the character they had.
Plus, a healthy bit of paranoia towards the unknown makes sense in a world with mages, let alone a one in a million monster like Castlevania's Dracula.
9e7dd7 No.14901364
>>14901062
For a number of years, the area I live in had Symphony of the Night, be it the original print or the greatest hits, be only about $25, maybe $30 on a bad day. Once found a copy for $12 that I alerted a friend who was looking for his own copy to; he got his even cheaper than I did mine. A year or two back, one store I admittedly don't frequent much started asking $45 on it, but that was drastically out of touch with local average from what I'd seen at that time. I suppose now, if they still ask that price, they'd actually be on the cheap end (and fat chance they haven't updated their prices; that particular store isn't especially good or one I make the effort to frequent). Also, some states ask drastically different prices on shit for reasons I don't know why the locals would put up with. I went to visit my father out of state last year, and stopped at a few stores in other states along the way. It felt baffling to see them asking twice as much as local prices on older games in the same shape, if not worse, and said prices being considered actually pretty good by the local standards (asking other customers in the shop). Maybe I just live in a decent area for games. Found a lot of good stuff for much cheaper than average prices over the years, at least going as far back as PS1 stuff (SNES and prior had long since been the domain of scalper gold by the time I started getting around to studying local options for stuff).
I do live in NA though, and again, we didn't get it shortprinted here, unlike PAL, so if you're a PALfag, I've heard in the past that $80, or the equivalent thereof in eurobucks, was about average. And lets not get started on Australia.
>>14901079
>Bloody Tears.webm
>Not using Simon listening to it as the background image.
>>14901141
I already had a copy a few years back.
f3fa0d No.14901418
>>14901364
Do you or any anon here have the JewTube source of that mp4? I can't find it.
9e7dd7 No.14901474
>>14901418
I made it out of an image and an mp3. Here's the base image.
0fd81c No.14901479
>>14901418
The tune is the original NES Bloody Tears from Simon's Quest.
9e7dd7 No.14901496
>>14901485
Read a book, nigger.
40cb67 No.14901539
>>14900812
Narrator's voice sounds fucking retarded and ruins the whole presentation
9e7dd7 No.14901545
>>14901518
>>14901097
>Incidentally while it's a little buggy how does Dracula X Chronicles fare?
You mean in price, or in actual quality? Because PSP games don't really have demand to warrant remotely high prices these days, because UMD a shit.
9c5256 No.14901550
I have a confession to make anons.
The only Castlevania II ever played was Lords of Shadow2****
How do I redeem myself from such faggotry and where do I start
9c5256 No.14901558
>>14901550
>the only Castlevana II
>2****
Shit, I just woke up and can't format for shit. Pls no bully
5c64c2 No.14901563
>>14900749
oh shit, thanks anon. I know what I'm doing today. Been debating on whether or not to play it for awhile now.
0fd81c No.14901595
>>14901550
You could start at the original NES game.
Might be better off with the SNES game, which is actually a remake. And way easier.
You can ignore Simon's Quest.
Definitely check out CV3 though.
Then move on to SOTN and a handful of the Iga games. They're all pretty samey.
Then check out Lords of Shadow if you want a competent 3D action game from last-gen.
Skip Lords of Shadow 2.
My suggestion is:
> CV1 or CV4
> CV3
> Symphony of the Night
> Aria of Sorrow
> Order of Ecclesia
> Lords of Shadow (optional)
d00a2c No.14901619
>>14901545
Yeah I meant price, I know there's a couple of bugs in the PSP port, on top of it being needing to be unlocked, but that's one way to avoid scalpers, on top of the general ease of pirating on PSP and Vita.
842efa No.14901640
I heard that Dracula X is a butchered port of Rondo of Blood, but what's actually different between the two of them? Is it really that much worse?
Christ, I need to sit down and beat Castlevania 3 one day. NES games bring my piss to a fucking boil.
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735e50 No.14901732
>>14900749
I have this downloaded, but I've been playing the Re-Translation by Bisqwit since that one review labeled the Redaction as "Hold my hand, Daddy" easy. The Re-Translation also feels too easy. None the less, what a fucking atmosphere! How the hell can I bottle this sense of adventure for my own amateur gamedev pursuits?
>>14900760
Mednafen offers automatic IPS patching which I find very convenient. You can also enable scanlines for an overall more enjoyable experience imo.
For any interested:
Automatic IPS Patching
>Place rom and ips file in the same directory.
>Rename ips to match rom file name including extension.
For example: For the Super Metroid Hack "Hyper Metroid" I renamed my Super Metroid rom to "Hyper Metroid.sfc" and renamed my ips file to "Hyper Metroid.sfc.ips". Pic 01 related.
>Drag and drop rom file onto Mednafen.exe as usual to launch.
Note: If the the ips file fails to load (Mednafen doesn't launch) it's likely the rom isn't the specific dump required by the patch. You can confirm that loading failed due to an ips file related error by checking the output in stdout.txt in your main Mednafen directory. In this case I just seek and alternate rom file, usually by googling [game title] + [CRC32] or [MD5] checksums listed on the Romhacking.net webpage for the particular hack/translation.
Enabling Scanlines
>Open configuration file located in the Mednafen main directory using favorite text editor.
In my case the file is called "mednafen-09x.cfg"
>ctrl+f for "*.scanlines"
* being the file's abbreviation for the emulated systems (nes, snes, sms, md, psx, etc.) For the Nintendo Entertainment System search for "nes.scanlines"
>Change the accompanying value to anything from 0 - 100
Default is "0". I use "100". Pic 02 related.
This works for all of Mednafen's emulated systems as far as I'm aware. Pic 04 of SotN on psx (psx.scanlines) and Pic 05 of Rondo of Blood on PC-Engine (pce.scanlines) related.
Note: Notepad doesn't format the file in any readable way on my machine. Therefore I would advise using an alternate text editor like Sublime Text or Notepad++
Hopefully that wasn't confusing.
>>14901205
>>14901218
>>14901582
>>14901589
tfw never get another 2D followup to SotN.
9e7dd7 No.14901736
>>14901619
Well, as far as PSP games go, I used to not see it much at stores out here. Seemed like it was a game that people with PSPs tended to hold onto. But I think even then it was maybe $15 or so. Probably less now, and I've been seeing more copies around.
Related note, but I saw an imported Rondo for the PC-Engine priced at $200 recently. Guessing for that sort of price to work out, the PCE/Turbografx was region free, but admittedly it's not a system I've really delved into the specifics of.
035f61 No.14901760
>>14901550
Dawn of Sorrow is a good start for ones with metroidvania gameplay.
Super Castlevania IV is a good start for ones with classic castlevania gameplay.
Stay way from Circle of the Moon. That one sucks.
9e7dd7 No.14901771
>>14901760
>Recommending Dawn of Sorrow before Aria.
>When Dawn takes place after Aria.
d7183d No.14901800
>>14901732
>tfw never get another 2D followup to SotN.
It was really a good fucking game.
e7ad4a No.14901807
Yes, I truly appreciated how The Church, an entity unconditionally demonstrated to be of a good and Holy nature throughout the series, is shown as the root of evil in a Western produced adaptation of a Japanese franchise.
The West needs to be rebooted
e7ad4a No.14901828
>>14901550
>tfw no game about one of the better designed Belmonts
d7183d No.14901844
>>14901807
To be fair it was shown that that one guy and his group.
e7ad4a No.14901859
>>14901844
It was the entire ministry. Only one lone, nondescript priest might have been a legitimate man of the cloth. The token "good priest" does not make up for the entire season pointing the finger at religion and calling it the origin of evil.
735e50 No.14901986
>>14901807
>>14901859
I seen this mentioned when it was first released. It's the main reason I never bothered watching it. How fucking awful. I was almost tempted to watch it recently too.
53e813 No.14901999
>>14900549
I really dislike how sympathetic they've made Dracula. People harp on and on about how sympathetic villains are the best ones, but stories where you literally can not root for the villain is fucking stupid. They could've at least fleshed out humans as more than just violent, volatile and stupid retards. The speakers and that one old woman in the beginning are really the only ones.
Also, catholic priests in an orthodox area is really stupid. Fun show otherwise.
78ff81 No.14902002
>>14901760
Dawn of Sorrow's meme-tier. Aria of Sorrow is definitely better.
e8282c No.14902008
>>14901640
Dracula X actually has completely different levels and everything, as far as I know, but it's shit compared to Rondo.
53e813 No.14902011
>>14900691
>>14900769
The pajeet is the producer. It was written by Warren Ellis.
4de6e2 No.14902024
>>14900436
Why aren't they making good handheld Castlevania games anymore?
856084 No.14902088
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>>14901550
Start from the beginning like any respectful person. But avoid the known mess (Simon's Quest).
-Castlevania 1 for NES - To know where everything started.
-Castlevania 3 for NES - An improvement from everything in 1 + The beginning of the plot that goes all the way into Dracula X and Symphony of the Night.
-Castlevania 4 (Super) for Snes - A must play remake of the first.
-Castlevania Bloodlines/Vampire Killer for Mega Drive - Konami did a good job with this one, and it had the team from (future) Treasure working on it.
-Dracula X/Rondo of Blood for SNES and PC Engine (different games set in the same plot and time) - The basis for Symphony of the Night. The SNES one is good. The PC Engine one is the best classicvania.
-Castlevania Chronicles for PS1 - Another remake. And a good one too.
-Symphony of The Night - A must play. Complete package of everything good + great art + great soundtrack.
-Lament of Innocence for PS2 - A good game in the style of Devil May Cry, but easier and simpler. It is the very first chapter of the whole saga.
-All the Igavanias for GBA and NDS - All good in their own way. Some better, some good enough.
>>14902011
Even worse then.
f3d362 No.14902168
>>14900831
>>14900893
women overwhelmingly consume TV compared to men so in a sense it makes sense
735e50 No.14902206
>>14901800
It is. Too bad there aren't any great hacks for it. That would be the next best thing.
>>14902024
I guess they think they are? Japan is supposedly very accepting of mobileshit. Since everyone has a phone why bother targeting a less-established device? This is really upsetting. No one is making actual video games anymore.
856084 No.14902264
>>14902166
The church in LOI did nothing wrong. It put a soldier where it belonged, and nobody must care for a whore. They can all be replaced.
abdaab No.14902433
723ca3 No.14902937
>>14901213
>Church's rituals are necessary to destroy evil.
I was wondering why they didn't just pour holy water on Lisa and throw salt bombs on her until she started melting. Even so, the clergy wasn't technically wrong since Drac goes full demon invasion. Which Alucard points out.
>>14901270
Given the "historical time frame" getting burned for witchcraft because the state wanted your family's land but doesn't want to pay you, getting put at the stake was a possibility if you showed suspicious signs sure. Still though, when actual tangible witches and wizards that are being born, its hard to make a 1:1 comparison with "vague stake burning era". Sypha in the game was actually raised by the "church". Which given the world they live in, would seem something you want to keep around. A few loyal wizard children in a very real magic and demon setting. I guess didn't ever say "which church".
6b181c No.14903104
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SOTN broke my young mind.
930f4a No.14903139
>>14903104
It had that effect on people.
8419cd No.14903274
>>14900812
Is a shame half of the game doesn't preserve the 8-bit visual limitations.
bebdec No.14903348
You know, for all the shit they get, dawn of sorrow and portrait of ruin are solid games, even if they look like garbage because anime.
Really, has there been an igavania that is trully a bad game on its own?
bebdec No.14903566
>>14901999
>Also, catholic priests in an orthodox area is really stupid. Fun show otherwise.
Anon, there is no orthodoxy, byzantine empire or ottoman empire in castlevania, everyone is just catholic.
>>14901087
Dracula X's version of divine bloodlines is better thanks to that funky bass.
>>14901148
The oens with the brown robes were just hired guns, the ones with the traditional priest clothing were actual priests.
>>14901828
Tell that to julius belmont.
7c16d4 No.14903598
Know what I think? I think that Alucard would be a better fit for a Soul Calibur cameo than Ezio or Spawn or Geralt of Rivia or any of the meme characters they've put in.
d7183d No.14904086
I'm still pissed they didn't go this way for Bloodstained can't we have a vanillaware style SotN?
bebdec No.14904132
>>14903598
Spawn and geralt are cool guys though.
>>14904086
Atleast the game is looking solid man.
3D graphics never age well.
819366 No.14904365
>>14904132
I hope their working their artists to the bone for this year's release because the visuals look like shit.
b34e9f No.14904665
Which Maria Renard design was best and why was it Judgment's :^) . Also why did Dracula X Chronicles change Rondo of Bloods design of a simple pink dress to gentlemen's shirt and pants. Her village looked poor as fuck, this changed always bothered me since those clothes where expensive but her village looked liked it was mostly made of thatched roof cottages. Also she looks like a reverse trap now. I'm glad Harmony of Despair re-retconed that.
c4955e No.14904670
69083f No.14904715
>>14904665
>Maria
>Not just a punk-goth reskinned Misa Misa from Death Note
Judgment was a mistake, full stop.
73eaec No.14904798
>>14904665
from the waist up, her judgement design is actually cute
25788a No.14904823
>>14904715
You know what gets me about Judgement? Look at her Rondo design. She has huge tits for a twelve-year-old. Yet, in Judgement, her entire character motivation is about feeling inadequate over her own breast size. What the fuck, Iga?
e80214 No.14905051
25788a No.14905090
>>14905051
Obata didn't have anything to do with the writing, dingus.
735e50 No.14905281
>>14904665
>Judgment's
WHAT DO SHE HERE?
Anything but this Judgement design that has never before assailed my eyes. She looks like an over-designed Guilty Gear character. All others are fine, but SotN's is my favorite since it comes with that amazing voice.
03c572 No.14905333
What are some good Classicvania hacks/mods?
856084 No.14905375
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>>14902937
And don't forget that for an organization in a world of real demons, ignoring their own rules for self benefit IS necessary. The important thing is to have people not fall into the demons' side.
Sypha was raised to be on the church's side. Lisa was the lover of THE main demon. It was ok to keep one while killing the other.
>>14903598
He would.
But having Simon Belmont himself would be great.
>>14904132
Spawn is a nigger, which is never good.
>>14904665
The loli from Rondo of Blood, of course. seconded by the Symphony of The Night one.
25788a No.14905692
>>14905375
Drac was just minding his own business, though. He only went full evil overlord once Lisa was unfairly burned at the stake. Lisa, herself, was entirely innocent, too, and fucking helping people, as well. Dracula's status as "ultimate force of evil" did happen until after he cursed humanity, which was his response to Lisa's death. But we don't even know how heavily the church, itself, was involved. That was a pretty generic mob that was burning her, in Alucard's dream/flashback. Either way, there wasn't exactly justification for her burning. Dracula, while a vampire giving God the rebellious teen treatment, was pretty harmless, and Lisa had committed no crime and was doing good for people. The only reasons for burning her would be ulterior motive, unjust zealotry, or outright paranoia
0536dc No.14905705
>>14904665
First and second one are the best. The others are pretty meh and the Castlevania: Judgement one is fucking atrocious.
b34e9f No.14905867
You guys are crazy, Judgement has the best designs. Clearly the best Beltmonts. Super Voldo is my fav. Any of the death gods he made in deathnote would have been better for Grim Reaper, what the hell?
69083f No.14905888
>>14901148
>>14901213
Rare was the clergyman that could actually effectively wield scripture to the degree where evil was expunged. Even in game canon it's heavily implied the Catholic Church just throws bodies at the demons until killing successfully happens. The likes of Sypha, Yoko, Charlotte, and so on are exceptionally rare. Keep also in mind people weren't literate or knowledgable—many joined into church just on the promise of at least a square a day. Hence, a lot of rogue and exploitationist. Thusly setting the picture for dumb hicks pushed on by a greedy cardinal for burning a woman that basically taught them to wash their hands before and after fucking goats and then their cousins.
'm-muh sjw' shit aside, it's a series that shows potential to make for a fun little adventure and possibly some fleshing out for what is technically the best base concept for the series. If they manage ot make it a success, we could be looking at the only possible imagining of the 1999 conflict. Well, after they do the standard "Suck off Rondo/Symphony's penis" salute.
457c61 No.14905893
>want to play SotN
>PS1 emulation has never made a lick of sense
>PSP works like a dream in comparison
>can't figure out how to disable the trilinear or whatever filtering on PPSSPP so I can get muh pixels correct
>PS1 translation is Commie-tier made up, but apparently there's a patch out for it now
What do?
a9464e No.14905962
>>14905867
The only good Judgement redesign is the werewolf dude.
25788a No.14906050
>>14905893
Ps1 emulation isn't that hard, dude.
735e50 No.14906056
>>14905893
>PS1 translation is Commie-tier made up, but apparently there's a patch out for it now
e80214 No.14906081
>>14905893
>PS1 emulation has never made a lick of sense
How do you dress yourself in the morning?
>PS1 translation is Commie-tier made up
Much of the story is accurate to the original source, only things majorly changed are item names like Cube of Zoe. In fact, the PSP version is arguably worse, especially the voices.
>What do?
I find not being retarded helps.
99e677 No.14906092
>>14905893
Fuck you. Nobody in history played SotN for its deep story and great script. You don't know how to have fun.
9e7dd7 No.14906163
>>14905893
>PS1 emulation has never made a lick of sense
Anon.
>>14905867
Death might as well have been Dracula's Persona, the way he looks there. Just have Drac smash his wine glass into his forehead to summon him, or something.
b34e9f No.14906253
>>14906163
Dracula is far too invested trying to imitate Whamu's air jets to want a Persona.
8d76aa No.14906274
I really like the voice acting in Sotn.
I wish that style was more common.
9e7dd7 No.14906292
>>14906253
Haven't played Dawn yet myself, but after fighting Zephyr in Portrait of Ruin, I've wondered if there's a limit to how many knives can be left littering the floor like that for the fight. Do they despawn after a certain time or amount, or could one take long enough to get him to litter the floor with enough individual knives to lag the room?
6e4c41 No.14906492
>>14900590
I'm unironically looking forward to it. The first season tried to do a super heavyhanded and completely retarded "CHURCH BAD SCIENCE GOOD" thing while also trying to stay faithful to the fact that Dracula is literally satan and priests from the church are literally the single most effective thing against an immortal omnicidal maniac and his armies of evil.
>>14901986
Trevor's a great protagonist and the fight scenes are excellent. Story's fucked but ehhh
856084 No.14906587
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>>14905692
Paranoia is justifiable. As is in real life. If you live in a society surrounded by your enemies, any behavior slightly uncommon makes you an undesirable that must be eliminated.
As for Lisa's burning, the dialogue in Lament of Innocence states that her death was an act of God. Dracula, even when he was Mathias, was always subversive and distorted facts in his own mind. His word for "i did nothing wrong" while serving under the church means nothing. It might as well be a lie. And don't forget his almost confession at the end of Symphony of The Night, where he admits to have been wrong in his actions.
And above all that, Lisa herself did not condemn the people that burned her alive. She knew that she did something wrong and deserved punishment.
>>14905867
Ruined Grant. Ruined everything, in fact.
>>14905888
Lisa was killed for doing something wrong. The Church did nothing wrong.
ccb2bd No.14906632
>>14905375
>>14905692
Its pretty believable you could work up a mob under little pretense, especially post demon invasion, and Lisa even mentions how people already "confuse her for a witch already", and her imply habit of mouthing off at the wrong people at the wrong time, like when she is talking to Dracula. Then Belle moves in with the Beast and his magical castle. Filled with those annoying fucking tea cups and chairs that throw themselves at you, but the screen is too fucking small so they always hit you, Fucking Poltergeist. Lawful Evil Bishop was clearly not amused.
I also get why they made "the church" the "bad guys" from a writing stand point. There is no other named organization in this setting, and its too early for the cult of Dracula, the ones that offer him tribute, like loli witches and nuns. They "probably" didn't want to make any new faction, "Like the speakers", or at least any that should have a reasonable impact on the current event, and they wanted to flesh out the characters. Game Belmonts are suppose to be on bad terms with the church. So path of least resistance. I'll even give credit that the rest of the church wasn't even aware of the Bishop's activities until after it was already done, since he was power tripping and scheming hard. On top of that he just had a good amount of influence for his chorines directly under him. Personally I rather liked the scenes where Trevor pushes up on the D-pad and talks to everyone in town.
8e0b24 No.14906639
>>14906253
>That video
Reminds me of being blown away the first time I saw Aria Of Sorrow's graphics. 2D dot style is kind of a lost art.
ccb2bd No.14906647
Might as well post the second half.
98510e No.14906659
>>14903598
Only if they also included a Belmont or one of the one off heroes like Shanoa. I like Alucard, but show some of the other characters some love too.
>>14906587
Lisa was after Lament of Innocence. His first wife died of sickness, which is why he called it an "act of god" and why he was pissed at God and not humanity at the time. He is decidedly less of a sympathetic character in that game as he doesn't explain his motivation or even offer Leon immortality until after Leon's wife offers her life and soul to complete the vampire killer. Something Mathias planned to happen as he wanted Leon to kill the vampire that had the stone that kept his castle in eternal night. I can't remember why it was important that he do so, given that Mathias already had the stone that gave him control over Death. I think he did it just to eat the vampire's soul, which would grant him that vampire's powers.
Lisa getting killed by a mob was what caused him to hate humanity. Though, the retcons introduced by LoI make it seem more like a bit of projection on his part combined with his wife just getting killed. He did plan out the death of his best friend's wife while still human.
eaf824 No.14906822
>>14903348
I also enjoyed them
5bb560 No.14907163
9e7dd7 No.14907269
>>14903348
Portrait of Ruin felt like it was less egregious, as far as the art style shift, in that while following up on another title itself (Bloodlines), it wasn't a direct sequel, and most of the cast unique to it. Jumping from the Kojima renders of the Aria cast to the generic anime style of Dawn is jarring. Makes me glad someone made a patch to emulate the old portrait style, porting what they could and approximating for what didn't exist.
Ecclesia still had the best visual style of the DS games.
d7183d No.14907306
>>14904665
Here is the full body of the second pic.
aff618 No.14907315
>>14900436
Do you guys know about one of the best Castlevania fangames we've had in a while?
I mean the HoD unity port, or course
553305 No.14907320
>>14900590
I don't disagree with this.
I'm literally only interested in the show because genuine western talent are working on it and putting in legitimate elbow grease, all the more noteworthy after the Blundercatz cuntroversy woke up the normal/muhnostalgiafags a bit about how horrible Western animation is getting. Even if the talent are the pozzed kind from the nineties (see image related, he also did some gender identity art or something circa 2012 about his homosexuality), I can't bring myself to disrespect them because they at least represent a standard in the skill and trade that is being upheld. I'll probably just mute the audio and just marvel over whatever hard work I can detect in the final product.
On another note, it's sad to see the good Western talent and what they're relegated to in the current industry. I've followed Ben Li ever since I saw he worked on Space Dandy, and if you look at his portfolio on LinkedIn at a certain point past 2014 or 2015 the only time he gets to draw, actually hand draw key animation cuts with his own body past Korra is for video games and anime. Everything for Western cartoons is storyboard work, to the point he wrote a closing and farewell post to his animation blogspot, where he would passionately write about self improvement at his craft, and moved to LA to just focus on said storyboard work as of last year.
Fuck, writing about this broke me as an avid fan of creatives.
At some point I would have thought that the "born in the wrong generation" meme wasn't to be taken seriously but FUCK am I mad at Gen Y & Z for flocking to shitty faggy Let's Players and "influencer" shills and ceding control for the shows they do steal from social media to the big companies because they see actually wanting to own their entertainment and treat titles like cultural artifacts of human sweat, blood, tears, and passion to preserve and savor as too much fucking responsibility to handle. At least that's what the latest PewJew study implies.
aff618 No.14907324
>>14900590
>The first season was to sucker you in.
They lost me with that writing tho
d7183d No.14907325
I actually thought the new animation was pretty well done and watchable.
69083f No.14907369
>>14906659
> I can't remember why it was important that he do so, given that Mathias already had the stone that gave him control over Death. I think he did it just to eat the vampire's soul, which would grant him that vampire's powers.
The Crimson Stone (the worst retcon to happen in the series) needed a catalyst and Leon's battle to slay the local rule of the forest was just that.
>>14906587
>Lisa was killed for doing something wrong. The Church did nothing wrong.
You'd have a point if we were talking christians vs muslims but we aren't. Even Hector's wife, a goddamned nun helping orphans, was burned at the stake for the same damned reasons. There's no "good guy" in Castlevania's various installments, so to speak. Dracula's evil is the antagonistic focus, but the people were shown to be as distrustful and resentful of the supposed heroes as early as Simon's Quest. The cult that raises Dracula in Rondo was one of the church gone rogue as Shaft ultimately wanted more power than what he had. Happened again with Eclesia—once the whip and Belmonts ended up sealed for the purposes of a final conflict, the higher bigwigs immediately sought for an alternative to permanently handling Dracula, and ended up giving money and resources to a bent motherfucker who either was always bent, or, more likely, had gone mad from seeing the level of shit Europe swam in and figured Dracula was not only needed, but outright clamoured for through the sinful actions of man. Thus had no problems nabbing orphans to graph them with black magic to obtain the means to his ends.
"Called here by humans who wished to pay me tribute" and all that jazz. Every move those posers made, made shit collectively worse. And the hilarious part is not a one of them considered their actions wrong, immoral, or sinful.
bebdec No.14907466
>>14906632
Trevor talking with the people on the town was great
25788a No.14907577
>>14906587
>Paranoia is justifiable.
Within reason. Witch-hunting anyone who's even slightly different isn't reasonable.
>the dialogue in Lament of Innocence states that her death was an act of God.
Lisa wasn't in Lament of Innocence. She died just before Castlevania III. Maybe you should get your facts about Castlevania straight, before trying to argue like you have any authority on it.
>She knew that she did something wrong and deserved punishment.
No, she believed in forgiving people for their wrong-doings, something that the Bible heavily pushes.
>Lisa was killed for doing something wrong. The Church did nothing wrong.
Even if Lisa had done something wrong (she didn't), that doesn't mean death was a justifiable punishment, especially when Christianity is all about giving people second chances.
856084 No.14907699
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>>14906659
You are right. I got confused by the 2 wives, but it is indeed, a death by disease for the first one, and Lisa's death by burning.
That reinforces the point of Mathias/Dracula already being not a man of God, but a self-centered man.
>>14907369
There are good guys in all of Castlevania. There are also evil humans that want to gain from Dracula's power. One sect of evil cultists does not represent all of humanity, as state by Richter himself. And common people afraid of the Belmonts is completely reasonable, as the evil cultists themselves were mostly powerful wizards that got their power from evil sources, such as Shaft. To the common folk, anyone with magical powers or even high influence over society was rightfully seen as suspicious or dangerous. People, not even in real life, don't have to be grateful for the good deeds that they can't understand. Thus, the Chrch is trusted, but magic users are not. And that includes the Belmonts.
As for Lisa, it is very simple: she loved the devil/Dracula, therefore she had to be rightfully killed. She committed a mistake (being a woman, it is in her nature after all to commit mistakes) and fell in love with evil incarnate. She is one of the problems. Not a victim.
>>14907577
Paranoia does not operate by reason. It is purely an emotional reaction to fear. Witch hunting ANYONE is reasonable. The folks that don't behave naturally will always be distrusted, even in a world without magic and demons.
As for Lisa's death, the above anon corrected my mistake. See above.
As for her forgiving for "wrong doings", it is not the case. She knew that she deserved to die for loving the incarnation of evil, even if she saw good in Dracula. She did the wrong thing, and thus, deserved to be killed.
Christianity is not about giving second chances to all people on all cases. Some transgressions are beyond the grace of God, and those that commit such crimes (as Lisa did) must be killed in the ways to make them suffer before death, so their sinful flesh is cleansed.
Your description of the Holy Bible is the one that was subverted by jews to turn people into cattle. God is NOT all merciful, and should not be. Those that commit the worst (and there are many, such as being gay or women that seek men other than their husbands) transgressions NEVER receive pardon or salvation. They are rightfully killed in the most gruesome ways, as it should be. and their souls keep suffering for eternity in hell.
>>14906632
Then they should have just build up the series, starting as the games did: a (at first) horror adventure without any organizations and pretenses. Then build up the plot until the appearance of the cult of Dracula. And not attack the Church, and portray them completely different from what they are in the game. As you said, they chose the path of little resistance (for them, the producer being a streetshitter subhuman and all) instead of doing the game's justice in that plot.
And yes, poltergeists are bitches. Since Splatter House.
>>14907306
Too bad that this adult Maria has not a musical attack like the younger one. It would be great to defeat the forces of evil as an adult singing "lalalalala".
>>14907315
What is it all about?
>>14907320
Them being leftists is the main problem. You are supporting their work, and that must never be done, no matter how good (debatable) it is. Their intention is to infiltrate and subvert. Not produce good work. This is only a means to their end.
And you must remember: practically all western professionals from at least the 60s are marxists. Their past good works must not blind you from that. Let go of what you feel for them, because they all did (good or bad) work for the sole purpose of infiltrating the industry and turn it into a propaganda machine for the left.
aff618 No.14907748
>>14907699
>What is it all about?
Harmony of Despair Unity Port with Albus as a character and some new stages. The dev is still working on it. It's currently Alpha. But it's fun enough for PCfags who never got to play it and has some neat new content.
343c75 No.14907786
>>14904086
I just hope they make Miriam cuter. They add bloomers and I'm not a fan, but I at least hope Bloodless is a huge slut that shows off her titties.
735e50 No.14907887
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>>14906492
>Trevor's a great protagonist
I started watching it after all. Halfway through episode two and I don't hate it. Trevor comes across really well, the bar fight was a nice.
>>14907786
Her hip movement is pretty cute. Hopefully there's a lot of fashion options in the full game. I will be pretty satisfied if so.
aff618 No.14907935
>>14906492
I think Trevor would have needed a bit less of edge and more righteousness, so that we can have Grant as a total wisecrack cunt type character.
But NOOOO because land pirates are retarded XDD Fuck you Warren Ellis
553305 No.14908389
>>14907699
>supporting
I'm slightly confused.
Do you mean financially supporting? Because I've never paid for Netflix as is likely for 99% of people here. Last I checked I can't even buy the show on a physical disc even if I wanted to like I do with the anime productions I appreciate.
Supporting in spirit? I've never talked to Wan or Deats in person or online so I don't think I would go fanboy for them like the CalArts nepot circlejerk would for each other. And I'm rather private about my interest in animation as a technical skill, mainly because whenever I do share my love with it with others they look at me like a complete oaf and go "who cares"? So I've never advertised the show either in any way. The pajeet producer is on my shitlist for his asspained response to the Apoo nontroversy. That and the Mr. Rogers short he produced in order to cash in on the Focus Features documentary just sucked ass.
I think I breathed a sigh of relief when nearly all of Netflix's original anime turned out to be complete shit. Unfortunately it looks like they're committing to a (((producer))) relationship with the studios big with the Western fandom in the near future, so the ideological subversion with the Japs won't end just yet. There was a thread on >>>/a/ about it and what to do earlier in the year but it fizzled out. I should resurrect it some time.
856084 No.14908490
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>>14907748
Being in Unity already make me avoid it. I may check it out when it is completed, and if not shit.
>>14908389
Any exposure supports them. as well as if said exposure is made to praise them and wish for more. The more people talk about it, the more the leftists in the show will be employed, and the more they will infiltrate and subvert everything around them. It is that simple: is it made by leftists? Avoid it.
You should resurrect that thread. It is always a good thing to alert newfags about leftist subversion.
a7bc1d No.14908905
`>>14907786
>They add bloomers and I'm not a fan
BURN THE HERETIC
e80214 No.14909769
>>14908389
>>14907320
Nigger, I repeat: It's fucking Faggotrator Studios. It's an empty void of talent, and that you give the show exposure makes you a part of the problem. Kill yourself.
>I've followed Ben Li ever since I saw he worked on Space Dandy
Oh wow, some hack did key animation on one episode what an amazing "creative"
>Fuck, writing about this broke me as an avid fan of creatives.
Truth hurts, now stop watching trash.
856084 No.14909949
9a27cb No.14910349
I'm going to be honest, I'm not a fan of the first three games. They're good in concept but suck due to a variety of obvious reasons like poor localization or unnecessary timers.
I believe these games need 2.5D remakes. No need to turn them into Metroidvanias or anything like that. Just fix the localization and maybe adjust the difficulty and checkpoints slightly. In fact, a compilation of the mainline series would be nice to play on the PC or consoles.
Just my shitty opinion and all.
54de6b No.14910375
25788a No.14910420
>>14910349
>2.5D
>not hi-res, hand-drawn sprites
You're right that's a shitty opinion.
e80214 No.14910426
>>14910349
First off, >>>/reddit/ for that spacing.
> I'm not a fan of the first three games
>They're good in concept but suck due to a variety of obvious reasons like poor localization
>Castlevania 1
>having any localization besides its horror movie credits
Try actually playing the games first.
>I believe these games need 2.5D remakes.
Kill yourself, Rondo already got this treatment 12 years ago and it was ass.
>Just fix the localization
2 and 3 have been re-translated for fucking YEARS. Christ where are all these CV newfags coming from?
>maybe adjust the difficulty and checkpoints slightly
Really, really kill yourself. Alternatively, git fucking gud. If 8 years olds in 1989 could beat these games (well at least 1 and 3), then you can. How old are you?
>a compilation of the mainline series would be nice to play on the PC or consoles.
what are emulators
>Just my shitty opinion
Well, you got that right.
856084 No.14910772
>>14910349
Reddit and not knowing how to play games go hand in hand, as always.
415d35 No.14910983
aff618 No.14912029
>>14908490
The picture was from some Minecraft map, on halfchan's /vg/, /mcg/
I don't care much about unity, tbh. I NEED another Castlevania.
856084 No.14913023
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>>14912029
But Unity itself is the problem. Not the picture.
And i'm ok with replaying almost all Castlevanias over and over again. Better than have new and shit iterations.
51add3 No.14914213
>>14904715
>Misa Misa
>Kira
>I am Kira
>Lisa Lisa
>Kira Yoshikage
>You die from a sheer heart attack because of the death note.
>Sheer Hear Attack has no weaknesses
>Fate is on my side
>The death gods are on my side.
>>14906292
No idea. but I assume, but how it looks like in the game. The knives just become "part of the level sprite graphics data" or something, and no longer actually exist as a "knife object". Like its just not picture data.
52bbe9 No.14914309
>>14900590
Wasn't made for bestiality and piss drinking fetishes?
51add3 No.14914393
>>14900590
You maybe on to something.
>>14914309
e8282c No.14916246
Whatever you do, don't bother trying the arcade version. It's a steaming pile of shit.
856084 No.14916576
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>>14916246
It would even be good, if it wasn't for the idiotic "forced 4 credits and back to the title screen".
ef78e0 No.14916682
>>14907369
Hector's wife was killed because of her resemblance to Julia, who was really a witch and an indirect ally of Dracula. It was a case of mistaken identity, not a result of anything Rosaly herself did.
000000 No.14917108
>>14901999
>They could've at least fleshed out humans as more than just violent, volatile and stupid retards.
They could have, but then the story would have been less believable because most humans are in fact violent retards.
856084 No.14918961
>>14917108
Violence is a good thing.
aff618 No.14919580
>>14913023
Good music taste.
I'd honestly love to work on a Castlevania successor, but all Konami does is shitty phone games or Pachislot stuff.
bebdec No.14919604
>>14918961
Depends entirely on the context.
d6b8d8 No.14920152
so has there been any word when Ritual of the Night will be out, outside of just 2018?
69083f No.14921269
>>14901999
>Flesh out characters more
>15 minute episodes
Nigga really.
856084 No.14921652
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>>14919604
Always. Violence is what solves a group's or individual's problems. There is no subjectivity to that. You have and obstacle. You kill those responsible for said obstacle.
The problem with the show is that it portrayed the Church as an enemy of the people, instead of an ally against the real enemy/obstacle that is Dracula and his servants (both human and supernatural).
>>14919580
The soundtrack from the whole franchise is great. Any discussion on Castlevania must have it's songs present.
But yeah, working with any company is a mistake. It was a dream fermented by those greedy pieces of shit to lure uninformed people to become semi-slaves of those companies.
>>14921269
This. It is just a pretext to the streetshitter and his leftists to lure people into their propaganda series.