portrait of ruin is peak cluttervania. having to grind tough enemies for item drops, only to get a fucking rotten durian that takes away your health… UGH i love it
play as fourty million characters after you beat the game, how about a boss rush dungeon? HAVE ALL THE CLUTTER
HoD’s music fuckin owns
Like Dracula, once every 100 years they are summoned
what
cracks knuckles
who dares speak ill of harmony of dissonance on my watch
the portable tier list is like harmony and then everything else distantly below it, aria of sorrow, dawn of sorrow and portrait of ruin and then maybe circle of the moon. i feel like i am forgetting a game and thats how forgettable they were.
portrait is only cool because it approaches an okay maximalism and the central conceit of the plot means it is more diverse than the others besides harmony in terms of level design
#harmonygang
you forgot the actually challenging one! how dare you
#harmonyandecclesia4life
i have done shanoa, who i based two dnd characters on, so wrong…she’s still my desktop wallpaper tho
WHO could forget the adventures of Miriam is Not Shanoa and Granny Belmont, balthier from final fantasy 12
castlevania 3 is like the best video game in the classic style, what the fuck
like it’s a video game ass video game but also it is so good like what the fuck. the encounter design is like, total bullshit but also totally not bullshit at all, like what the fuck
i don’t know why this game is so good. it should not be allowed to be this good
i’ve always been kind of a castlevania 3 head too but i think that’s the minority opinion around here
CV3 gets fucking gnarly hard by the end iirc
i usually play 1 if im gonna play a NES Castlevania but 3 is really cool. looks sick, best soundtrack. love what the character switching does for it. love to play as Sypha and blast everything with magic, or watch Grant trivialize really tough Castlevania platforming, or fuck around in bat form and get knocked into a pit as Alucard idk he’s kind of a chump in this one
controversial?? i like this more than vampire killer (and bloody tears more than both (they’re all great))
i love how everything sort of keys off cv1’s music. the town music in cv2 and that one you posted in cv3 both use that initial (dorian mode, 3 note descent, 1-7-natural6) motif in cv1’s stage 1 and take it in various directions. i never realized that previously, so sick
I love Castlevania 3, but i’ve never beaten it because if I die on the stage with falling blocks, I just cannot bring myself to go through it again. and after that it’s just tough as nails.
i’ll do it one day!
I dislike Castlevania III because it seems like a creative retreat after II (also those falling block sections). I’ve always meant to go back and play the Japanese version for better balancing.
i respect this deeply HOWEVER i’m curious about what makes it a creative retreat rather than a different spoke off the hub of cv1
II is an exploration of possibilities too see how Castlevania could be expanded. It is large, mysterious, and forbidding. The creative experiment has many flaws but it is seeking something new. With III, the team seems to say, “we don’t know how to make II work. What we did the first time works. We don’t have to move far from that.” So they abandon the villages populated by thieves and gossips. They abandon a continuous world design.
They are right that the first game works. My problem is that if I want to play the first game, I can.
