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Oh fuck, I fucked up the GameFAGS link. Sorry.

https://gamefaqs.please use archive.is/ds/930294-castlevania-portrait-of-ruin/saves

>>16679057

Nevermind it looks like /v/ fucking hates GameFAGS. Not surprised, tbh.

Is there any reason to use anyone other than grant in 3?

>>16679065

Maybe. I like using Alucard, sometimes. Trevor and Sypha are complete chores for me to handle. As for about the GameFAGs filter, I haven't been on /v/ for a long while, now. But filters aren't exactly any better. Just look at what happened to /pol/ when kikefy was the mod. That was a whole mess, tbh.

>>16679069

I can't even archive the fucking GameFAGs link. Jesus Christ. Whatever, just search "castlevania portrait of ruin save files" on DuckDuckGo or something and you'll see what I mean. As I've said, I can't for the life of me convert any of it into something useful other than a fucking .sav file for the fucking No$GBA. Also:

>IP switch

I hate fucking hate mobile data.

>playing the godawful metroidvania CVs when you could be playing the amazing classicvania games

Fuckin faggot go back to reddit if you hate challenge so much

>>16679091

>implying they arent good games too

>>16679097

They are fuckin horrible games. Literally 0 challenge at all. I've finished SOTN mutliple times and everytime i was bored to tears by the end.

>>16679099 (wasted)

No one here except you is complaining about Metroidvanias having no challenge compared to Classicvanias, you thread-derailing kike elitist. For example, I don't fucking look for some almost Ghosts 'n Goblins-tier difficulty when I play Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. I look for that when I actually play Castlevania: Dracula's Curse.

>>16679112

You fuckin faggots are the reason why we never got another classicvania game.

>>16679099

>challenge is the only thing that matters in a videogame

What a tryhard faggot you are.

Does anybody know where I could find a translated Rondo of Blood ROM or at least a translation patch for it that DOESN'T have the english dub voices from the psp remake? I know it has to exist since I have that standalone .exe that installs the emulator+translated ROM to play it "easily" on PC (which I could upload somewhere if it's no longer in the sharethread archives) and that version doesn't have an english dubbed intro, but it's pretty hit-or-miss whether it'll actually work sometimes.

>>16679059

It's a holdover from the ol' GaymerGayte days, honestly at this point I forget what GameFAGS did to earn the only-archive linking.

>>16679116

Konami and Igarashi are the reason, now go play the NES trilogy, have some fun and stop shitting up the thread you massive fucking faggot nigger.

>>16679128

I fail to see how iga is to blame, he made a good game and konami hired him to work on more, he also worked on rondo.

>>16679134

He's simply to blame in that it would seem that while he was with Konami working on CV he was evidently completely uninterested in working on a classicvania post SOTN. Not saying it's a good or bad thing, I like the metroidvanias most of them but clearly he just simply didn't want to make any more Castlevanias in the classic style. If he had, perhaps we would have gotten one more after Rondo that wasn't a remake/remaster. Then again he would be dealing with Konami so who knows if he or anyone for that matter would even have been able to convince them to put out another classicvania.

>>16679142

I very much doubt he had a say, konami was pretty tyranical in what their studios worked on past their early life.

>>16679144 (checked)

Fair, I don't doubt that. I'm not too familiar with Konami to be honest. Castlevania is just about the only IP of theirs I care about.

>>16679116

But we did get another classicvania.

>>16679161

I really gotta get around to playing this. I have the ROM for it, what's a good way to actually play it? Dolphin's wiki compatibility list says it crashes at the intro but these compatibility lists are never updated regularly so who knows maybe it's okay now.

>>16679161

What type of embed is this? Like I said, I haven't been on /v/ for a while now. Sorry for the IP switch, again.

>>16679219

It says what embed it is right above the video.

>>16679091

>imagine being this dense on completely different vidya genres

PoR can be harder than any classicvania if you play hard mode lvl 1 with Old Axe Armor. Try beating Nest of Evil with lvl 1 Old Axe Armor, harder than classicvanias.

Finally got around to playing IV, holy shit that music is so fucking good

Janky pc port of Harmony of Despair (online co-op metroidvania) got a new server/update for any interested in playing. Levels have a 10 player max, quit the game and rejoin after two matches if your game starts stuttering/freezing.

https://mega.nz/#!ZeJVSa6b!YTauYq5c59M8C4tgBkpo06f4Nu3wrioL6HI0c0Nc8Kk

>>16679427

Well they already said they would be releasing a bunch of DLC for free, i hope we get a richter mode.

>>16679427

I wish I saw this thread earlier, I would have posted here, anyway, the game seems to have some weird PC optimization, I am a bit under the minimum requirements but setting everything to low and disabling vsync actually makes the game run with tons of stuttering.

<two progression items aren't even hinted at, one of them is a random shard, the other relies on people going full autism on the tower.

>>16679427

It's okay, but why did they nerf dsmantling into the ground? Doing a nightmare run is fucking tedious when you have to grind out multiple copies of every single food mat since dismantling a dish costs like 10k+ instead of just repurchasing the dishes and getting the mats back out for 1~2k to make new things. Honestly don't know why the devs were so afraid of people getting like what, early copies of mildly rare items and the ability to experiment with crafting new weapons at low investment? By the time you get to end-game you can make money fast enough, but it's still quicker to just grind for drops than the money you need to repurchase and dismantle equipment so it might as well not even exist at this point.

>>16680264

Pretty retarded, but the swimming one is indirectly given through a quest you get which tells you to kill about 10 of the enemies that drop them for a move-speed boosting item, and the drop rate seems high enough that you're almost guaranteed to get it in those 10. As for the one on the tower, you're kind of given a hint that something is there because there's this suspicious gap on the map for the second tower which you're forced to map every other square around, however the fact that you should head up there specifically and not to any other gap on your map is thoroughly oblique.

I have a lot of problems with this game but the progression items aren't really that big of an issue.

>>16680308

BTW, the flying kick in English gives me a boner.

<tfw used to love RPGvanias but now only ever feel like playing Arcadyvanias like X68000, Bloodlines and III

>>16680351

Sometimes you just want to worry about a small moveset and play the game, is understandable.

bump

>>16680339

> the only thing I don't exactly like is how there is little room for being OP once you are near the end

I don't understand this comment. You (too) easily end up being super OP for most of the entire game. Spend 10-20 minutes grinding to level up the right shards and you just hose down rooms as you pass through them and never need to get near the bosses or stop moving long enough for them to touch you.

>>16680316

>>16680339

I have no idea what you're trying to tell me with this but now I need to listen to screamer metal for a bit to get that fucking bitchy california accent that the talentless american clique always uses for muh anime girl out of my head. Like, I would rather play games in English but until (((localistion))) companies start hiring real actors and not just a bunch of uneducated talentless whores + blum/hayter I'll be stuck listening to INBAATOs and the uncanny ability to pronounce french worse than Americans.

>>16680694

>>16680339

>Spend 10-20 minutes grinding to level up the right shards

You don't even need to do this. Pick up the 500 gold hidden chest in the ship and buy 9 units of gunpowder then upgrade flame cannon to max the second you reach the village and you're already wiping the floor with pretty much anything in the game. Spend the time to get rarer shards and items you're ridiculously powerful and not even bosses can stand a chance (with flame cannon they might still hurt you by backstepping or walking into you since you need to be kind of close). Assuming a regular playthrough where you use all the tools you have at your disposal and not a self-restricted one like 'no shards in combat' the hardest boss is usually the tentacle one right at the start. I don't really understand how you can feel like recycler hat/diamond bullets, hellhound/infinite mp/skull necklace or just zipping around the map with accelerator and high jump spamming the upgraded wind blade isn't OP enough for you.

>>16681159

It is probably the French.

>>16680339

>16 MB video for 9 seconds of literally fucking nothing

Imagine being this much of a fucking weeb. You weren't supposed to take the webm tutorial literally.

>>16681182

>>16681178

I don't know what's worse, me being like that or other people getting upset at me being like that.

>>16681185

Definitely you.

>>16681186

Probably, on the other hand, how can I be the weeb when it is not the Japanese version?

>>16681192

More often than not weeaboos play in english because 'reading is too hard and I just want to relax :-3' and fail to realise how much more awful the dub is. So you fit the bill pretty well.

>>16681219

Or maybe I don't like how the kick sounds in Japanese.

>>16681380

I was more upset about the removal of godspeed boots, rainbow cloak and castle costume Richter.

>>16681409

This.

>>16681380

>unneeded, unnecessary filler content

The entire game was filler.

>>16683165

So the game should just be the final battle with dracula according to you?

>>16683179

The final battle was filler too.

>>16681380

The issue was the hardware limitations of the Saturn paired with the experience of Konami's B-team. Some tweaking and touch ups would fix your complaints for what is merely just extra content at no loss to the player.

>>16679468

I came ITT to ask about this. Glad to see it's still being made.

>>16685419

>>16679468

Actually nevermind, it's too heavy for me to download on mega and I don't use a 64bits OS. Any link to the source (I know it's made with Unity) so I can compile it myself?

Drac is a pretty big retard, for supposedly being a super smart tactician and alchemist. He acknowledges the existence of God, so he must also acknowledge the existence of heaven. So, if he really believes Elizabetha was as good and pure as he says, then he has to admit that her immortal soul would pass on to heaven. Meaning his entire angry tantrum over her death is incredibly stupid, as he's basically getting angry over God giving her the best gift ever, and his whole revenge scheme is to literally guarantee he'd never join her.

>>16681380

>"Why did Konami remove Underground Garden and Cursed Prison on the PSX version of Castlevania: SOTN?!

The Saturn release is the updated port released a year afterwards, that statement doesn't even make any sense.

>>16687124

What is this webm supposed to prove?

>>16687124

That overhead sword attack was always a 1-hit kill to me unless I was shielded (in which case it goes through and you still get damage).

Looks like remastered had the black knights severely nerfed.

>>16681380

>I'll tell you why, because it's absolutely fucking garbage. It might as well be just unneeded, unnecessary filler content

That's only true for the underground garden. The prison at the very least serves as a well needed shortcut for 2 areas of the castle that otherwise you almost never go through and fills an empty area of it. Yes, the level itself is still shit, but the area it takes place is needed.

The problem itself is that being Saturn exclusive really hindered it. It was worked on by basically Team B, and so had some shitty ideas pushed into it, and the fact that Saturn graphics hindered it instead of helping it.

>So I gotta ask you anons, why are normalfags feeling so awe inspired by these "good" extra content on the Sega Saturn version of SOTN?

Extra content is extra content, and that's important in a game about exploration. Not everything in the Sega Saturn is bad. I personally think Maria's gameplay in the saturn is better than the one in the PSP remake, the extra weapons are pretty good too. Also, this >>16681409

>>16686084

thought that game wasn't canon. Still had a fantastic time playing it.