Saturday Morning Gaming: Castlevania (Remembered)
I couldn’t believe it when I saw this: This week’s free game is the Castleviania Anniversary Collection.
This means that they’ve got:
Castlevania
Castlevania II Simon’s Quest
Castlevania III Dracula’s Curse
Super Castlevania IV
Castlevania The Adventure
Castlevania II Belmont’s Revenge
Castlevania Bloodlines
Kid Dracula
History of Castlevania – Book of the Crescent Moon
Now, you may say something like “Aw, Symphony of the Night isn’t on there?” and, no, it’s not. But Castlevania is! And Castlevania IV is! And it’s free!
So, last night, I played Castlevania for the first time since… Jeez. I don’t know. Since high school.
I played long enough to beat the bat.
“Wow…” I thought. “We used to live like this.”
I then booted up Super Castlevania IV:
And I quickly found out that you can’t remap any of the buttons. Which was exceptionally frustrating for me. Why can’t you remap buttons?
So if it’s important to you that you remap buttons, don’t even think about downloading this. Just remember it fondly. But if you’re willing to put up with it?
Dude. Castlevania IV.
And it’s free!
So… what are you playing?
(Featured image is the menu screen from the Castlevania Anniversary Collection. All screenshots taken by the author.)
I think Castlevania was the first game I ever actually beat. I still have the music stuck in my head.Report
Sweet! I never played any of the Castlevania games, have been tempted many times to pick up one of these collections — finally the price is right. Just got a new laptop a few weeks ago so it’s a perfect time to finally get some new games.
Several years ago I got a puzzle game bundle with three games, but I only played 1.5 of them before my old laptop more or less gave up the ghost; and since I mostly am in front of my work laptop anyway, i didn’t rush to get a new one. So now I’m finally getting around to playing Baba is You and enjoying it tremendously.Report
OMG, you kids and your fancy graphics… I remember when Castlevania was green stick figure men shooting Na*is with 45* firing vectors. And we liked it. Oh, wait, that was Castle Wolfenstein – get off my lawn.
I’m currently angry at the ARPG Game developers; feel my wrath. Diablo IV is just plain bad… too many skills on really long timers… dumb dumb dumb.
Last Epoch had a really strong release, but hasn’t been able to keep up with the 3-4 month update/release cycle that’s required to bring back players… so it’s just grinding gears hoping its delays will see people return.
Speaking of Grinding Gears, I *should* be playing the PoE2 early release right now… but they delayed it because the realized that one of their Original Day1 plans of Account cross-over for Micro Transactions wasn’t going to work. So they pushed it back to Dec6. They then pushed out the patch to update all of the Account code, and crashed PoE1, so they rolled it back. Turns out that in unifying all the Accounts across all the platforms, they were going to have to append three digits to everyone’s name — naturally there is more than one Legolas, not to mention xLegolas or xLegolasx or xxLegolasxx or, well you get the picture. Anyhow, according to the post mortem, if the old Charater limit was 24, they forgot to update that number to 27 *and* that part of the code was deployed without some sort of fault toleration (devs prob know what this means) and once one name failed, the entire section failed which caused the game to fail.
So, anyway, I’m still not testing PoE 2 *and* my confidence in the new game continues to erode; I’ll definitely give it a go as PoE is the best game out there right now — but from what I’ve watched, they aren’t fixing PoE1 and making it better, they are making a different game that the Devs think is better than PoE2 — and in my experience, Devs making new things because they are bored with the old have about a 25% success rate. I’m low-key expecting a big failure primarily because they have adopted WASD movement… and, well, WASD movement isn’t ARPG, it’s a Souls game.Report