a messy, messy game and one that i wouldnt recommend to anyone unless they were already a dedicated Casltevania fan. id be willing to bet that people who played this one only did so to scratch the itch of wanting more Castlevania games, even if it wasnt so good!
but is it really as bad as all that? for one, the game has this incredible sense of speed that coupled with the fact Juste's kick attacka do the same damage as his whip allows you to fly through Dracula's castle at a constant 90mph. moving in this game is fun, and it is from the very beginning. it gets better with the slide kick, double jump, and fuckin uppity jump near the end of the game. the whip attack is fast and satisfying and you can throw your subweapon fast too.
that being said, the magic spells trivialise the entire game. its already too easy without them. i managed to beat Dracula using the steel tip whip instead of the platinum tip and it made no difference! thats the games biggest failing. its bosses are almost all just too easy, low down rooms with a guy who is very easy to hit with easily avoidable attacks. they can do a lot of damage but it doesnt matter because youll likely have tonnes of potions anyway. another bad thing is the castle in some ways, it has some fun areas but it feels confused. why is the castle treasury like 50% of the map? why does it have the crystal cave section in it, why wasnt that part of the luminous caverns, which woild have benefitted massively from more variance in backgrounds? why is everything in castle B so fucking grey? i would love to mod this game to give Castle B some freakin colour bc it depressing and samey. the music isnt actually too bad if you can get past the awful soundfont, its clearly suffering from technical limitations but the tracks themselves are mostly catchy and good, if a bit boggly from the beeps and boops of it all.
its still nice in this game to see the enemy variety and all the unique death animations they have. despite its problems its still verymuch an explicit Casltevania game with all of the good flavour, albeit a stilted and limited one
but is it really as bad as all that? for one, the game has this incredible sense of speed that coupled with the fact Juste's kick attacka do the same damage as his whip allows you to fly through Dracula's castle at a constant 90mph. moving in this game is fun, and it is from the very beginning. it gets better with the slide kick, double jump, and fuckin uppity jump near the end of the game. the whip attack is fast and satisfying and you can throw your subweapon fast too.
that being said, the magic spells trivialise the entire game. its already too easy without them. i managed to beat Dracula using the steel tip whip instead of the platinum tip and it made no difference! thats the games biggest failing. its bosses are almost all just too easy, low down rooms with a guy who is very easy to hit with easily avoidable attacks. they can do a lot of damage but it doesnt matter because youll likely have tonnes of potions anyway. another bad thing is the castle in some ways, it has some fun areas but it feels confused. why is the castle treasury like 50% of the map? why does it have the crystal cave section in it, why wasnt that part of the luminous caverns, which woild have benefitted massively from more variance in backgrounds? why is everything in castle B so fucking grey? i would love to mod this game to give Castle B some freakin colour bc it depressing and samey. the music isnt actually too bad if you can get past the awful soundfont, its clearly suffering from technical limitations but the tracks themselves are mostly catchy and good, if a bit boggly from the beeps and boops of it all.
its still nice in this game to see the enemy variety and all the unique death animations they have. despite its problems its still verymuch an explicit Casltevania game with all of the good flavour, albeit a stilted and limited one
Martint
10 months ago