Alright, which of these fucking things are actually worth playing? I just hacked my 3DS and I am ready to downlood

Alright, which of these fucking things are actually worth playing? I just hacked my 3DS and I am ready to downlood.

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1, 3, 4, Bloodlines, Rondo, Symphony, Aria, and the DS games.

>Alright, which of these fucking things are actually worth playing?
non-rpg castlevania games?

GOAT: castlevania 3, rondo of blood (not the shitty snes or psp ports, track down the pc engine version, someone made a specific exe that essentially loads a custom setup emulator just for the game) that 2D bloodstained game
good but definitely a step down from the above two: castlevania 3, bloodlines
flawed but has its charm: castlevania 2/4
sucks: all the gameboy games and really everything else on this list

ah, whoops. that should be the original castlevania next to bloodlines

>Classic, linear games with emphasis on platforming and combat
1, 3, 4, Bloodlines, X6800, Rondo of Blood, Belmont's Revenge, Adventure Rebirth
>Metroidvania games with emphasis on action and exploration
Symphony of the Night, Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, Order of Ecclesia

I'd recommend going with Rondo and SOTN as your first games.

What these anons said, but with japanese Castlevania III for the superior music

While we're at it, the games are pretty self-contained storywise, but try to play Aria of Sorrow before Dawn of Sorrow

Excellent list, but should 1 really be considered an essential title?

1
3
4
X68000
Rondo of Blood
Dracula X
Dracula X Chronicles
Bloodlines
Belmont's Revenge
The Adventure Rebirth
Simphony of the Night
Circle of the Moon
Harmony of Dissonance
Aria of Sorrow
Dawn of Sorrow
Portrait of Ruin
Order of Ecclesia
Legacy of Darkness
Lament of Innocence
Curse of Darkness
Harmony of Despair if you can
And the Bloodstained games.

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1 and 3 are two of the best platformers ever made but don't hold your hand and filter a lot of people. has more content and looks/sounds better while 1 has better design. Rondo is also good, though not as good, but has much more manageable difficulty and some of the better boss fights in the series.

2 isn't very good, I'd say strictly for CV enthusiasts only because it's interesting in some ways but ultimately pretty bad.

4 is a good game but plays more like a normal platformer, is mostly very easy compared to the other games and kind of falls apart in the last third or so of the game, still worth playing though and a lot of people who don't like the other games like this one.

The metroidvania ones are honestly all quite good though have a completely different appeal to the classic ones. Probably SotN>Aria are the must plays, but I would strongly recommend you pay Rondo of Blood to completion first as they are direct sequels with recurring characters (though all the games are in the same continuity).

Not him but what's wrong with 1?

Considering it's the best one yes

>Are worth playing

All of them. There is no such thing as a bad castlevania. They are THE action platformer series for a reason.

One thing I forgot to mention is Rondo has a SNES port which is basically a completely different game and should be avoided.

>everyone shitting on simon's quest

FUCK YOU YOU AVGN MIND ADDLED BASTARDS

fpbp

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>Rondo has a SNES port which is basically a completely different game
Correct.
>and should be avoided.
Absolutely wrong.

I played the redux version and while it isn't as bad as a lot of people say it's not on the the level of 1 or 3. The level design seems fairly random, the bosses basically don't exist or have no AI at all and the weapon balance is all over the place.

It's kind of like Zelda 2 where it is interesting in that it was made before the franchises' conventions were really set and so is really off the wall and experimental in some ways, but it definitely has more misses than hits.

The only good things that came out of Simon's Quest are Bloody Tears and making Simon the Belmont who killed Dracula twice

it's to be mentioned that 4 has a hard mode that begins when the game is beaten and continued on immediately
really should have been an option like Bloodlines but it's there

Dracula X is mind boggingly terrible compared to rondo.

I actually never bothered with that, what changes? Enemy damage?

I also second JP Castlevania. The US version also had some weird changes made to make it harder so you'd be inclined to buy the game, so I recommend looking for a JP-translated ROM.

That's the thread, baby.
Yeah 1 is still really good despite some horse shit like the hallway leading up to Death, Death himself, and fucking Dracula spawning on top of you.

this so hard, holy shit that final boss is ass

yes, a lot of enemies require 1 or 2 more hits, bosses are basically 1 damage pip every time instead of some taking two but cheese stuff like multiple cross hits still register
enemies do more damage too, getting bounced by two enemies is basically all of your health

I don't know how you can think that, Rondo is way, way too easy with some downright insulting levels. Dracula X at least is constantly trying to kill you.

The Dracula X Chronicles. Yes or no?

yes its a pretty faithful remake with some goodies thrown in even, the originals are still worth emulating though rondo even has a unofficial PC port

I've played through it a few times, and still think Simon's Quest isn't a good game. It has some iconic bits and did inspire SOTN, but that's all it really has going for it. When you know where to go, it's mind-numbingly easy. The enemies die in two or three hits, and the mansions don't have any real interesting level design.

Dracula's design IS cool though, and I'll gladly defend it. He was resurrected from decomposed body parts, of course he'd look different from a classical Dracula design.

>I just hacked my 3DS and I am ready to downlood.
Jesus christ, emulate them on something nicer. The 3DS' screen looks like shit.