Which Castlevania games are worth playing?

Which Castlevania games are worth playing?

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a lot.
start with 1, 3 and rondo for classicvanias and sotn, aria and any (or all) of the ds games for metroidvanias.
not familiar with the 3D games though.

pretty much every 2d castlevania except 2 is worth playing .

imo castlevania 3 was the peak of the series - the earlier titles that were more of the arcadey style rather than the castlevania genre had the best gameplay. second place goes to rondo of blood which you can easily find a PC port for it on jewtube.

4, rondo, bloodlines, and symphony

*metroidvania lol

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Why do they hate 2?

3, rondo, x68k, sotn, Aria, Harmony of D if you have buddies

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it's weird, questionable and horribly localized. just leave it for later, don't think about it for now, play the unquestionable good ones first.

It would be easier to list the ones not worth playing. Most of them are great and some, like OP's post, are genuine masterpieces.

I have played and beaten that game like 8 times.
It's really unpolished and they tried a new formula instead of improving the already working one.
Also AVGN's review made people hate it with passion.

1. symphony of the night
2. aria of sorrow
3. harmony of dissonance

Be sure to play jap version of 3, it's much better.

>x68k
My nigga. Love that werewolf fight

Castlevania
Castlevania II Simon's Quest
Castlevania III Dracula's Curse
Castlevania The Adventure II Belmont's Revenge
Castlevania Rondo of Blood
Castlevania Bloodlines
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Castlevania Circle of the Moon
Castlevania Aria of Sorrow
Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania Portrait of Ruin
Castlevania Order of Ecclesia

Haven't played harmony

Thoughts?

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The room leading to the fight can go straight to hell but x68 is the game I come back to the most

Symphony, Rondo, 3 and Bloodstained

Symphony of the Night, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, Order of Ecclesia, Curse of Darkness

These are good Castlevania games

> Bloodstained
Fuck off...

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>no classicvania
Fucking zoomers

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all of them except for SCIV.

The only good old school Castlevania game is Castlevania Chronicles with PS1's remastered soundtrack
I'm pretty sure I'm older than you, I'm 28

Literally all of the 2D games have merit except for

>Simon's Quest
>The Adventure
>Legends

Adventure is surprisingly decent with the patch to make Belmont walk faster. I'd recommend it with that. Legends has similar but there's nothing saving it's level design.

And as much as people try to fuck with Simon's Quest there's just so much bullshit it's hardly worth it if you're not already a superfan.

There is a 'remaster' out there made by one fan called Simon's Quest Rebitten, it's probably the 'best' version of SQ to play at this point but there's so many caveats, the leading one being you have to pay the dude 20 dollars to play it lol.

Bloodstained is good STOP being a faggot anytime.

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>No love for Lament of innocence

Fuck you.

It has a nice OST and story, but I didn't like the gameplay. Enjoyed Curse of Darkness quite a lot though

Noo the whip is cucking meee

for the 2D games, all of them except for

>Castlevania The Adventure (but play the sequel!)
>Simon's Quest (seriously this game just blows. use a guide if you do play it)
>Vampire Killer
>Haunted Castle
>Order of Shadows

For the 3D games it's hard to give a recommendation since preferences seem to swing wildly. But they're pretty easily ignorable and generally not especially well-liked.

>mfw I love Soma
>mfw all the games with him are the best ones
Fuck it feels good

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I think it's a legitimately great game.

fuck, I forgot to mention Legends

I just played Rondo and loved it.