Topic: The Castlevania Discussion Thread

I still need to work on completing the Playstation 2 Vanias...

Just beat Circle of the Moon tonight (with a little help from our resident sexy Vampire Killer @ogo79). First time i've actually played through any of the GBA 'Vanias ... i much prefer the Classicvanias, and until now the only one of the Metroidvanias i've played through was SotN. But very good game, even though Drac's final form was stupid-tough. Now i'm looking forward to playing Harmony and Aria (and perhaps the DS entries down the line as well).

Meanwhile, i finally got a copy of Bloodlines ... albeit a repro cart. I wanted to get a legit copy, but it's just too hard to find it for a reasonable price. So when i hit the retro shop today and they had an inexpensive repro, i grabbed it.

@ThePirateCaptain:

Thanks! So the WiiU Gamepad may not showing the correct colors? That's interesting...

@soma
You could try turning up the brightness on the Game Pad to see if that helps. If not, then it may just have something to do with the console sending the image to the Game Pad screen.

@the_shpydar: Couldn't you have just played it on your "magic" Wii?

@ThePirateCaptain:

I investigated a bit more and there are several topics about this issue. It just seems a difference in the color temperatures. The Gamepad seems to have a Cool color temperature and my TV is set to Warm. I adjusted it a bit to be less purple, but not as blue as the Gamepad.

So I managed to watch the Netflix original Castlevania and I will say I am impressed. I love how for the most part it took the story of Castlevania III with the opening scene from Symphony of the Night. It also was nice to see that they didn't make it so kid friendly cause honestly how can you with a story like Castlevania.

Overall my biggest complaint was how short it was at only four episodes. Still as a Castlevania fan I couldn't have been happier with the way the show turned out.

Yeah, watched it yesterday (put my thoughts in the Netflix thread).

It was promising, but 4 episodes was too short. Spent too much time fighting cartoonishly evil Catholics, and when he finally started fighting Dracula's hoard the season ended.

I loved it the series It left me completely hooked for Season 2. I liked they gave Dracula a tiny bit of an extra backstory alongside Lisa, and liked the action scenes, specially the final part of the fourth chapter.

It's disappointing, though, that it was so short. I hope they release the next season soon, and keep building the lore, since Castlevania III doesn't have what you would call exactly a rock solid plot.

@Luna_110 They actually didn't give Dracula the backstory. The whole thing with Lisa is taken straight out of Symphony of the Night.

It was definitely too short, but what was there is extremely promising. I think this is the first time ever that I've been excited to watch a video game adaptation. I'm pumped for season 2.

I hope they show us more Dracula, though. There has to be more going on behind the scenes that we're not seeing. Is he feeling any regrets whatsoever about what he's doing, does he spend half his time crying in a corner somewhere, etc etc? I really love how they set him up, though. There's no better villain than one you can sympathize with. He took his anger several steps too far, but still.

I just watched the Netflix series a couple of days ago....and to my surprise, I liked it very much. I was actually grateful most of the gore was kept to a minimum, since its the themes of the series which interest me the most nowadays. The voice acting was very good, though I'd have preferred Robert Belgrade for Alucard.

Well I bought the Castlevania advance collection and have been playing circule of the moon. I am having fun so dar (about 50% of the map unlocked) but I cannot understand how to activate the dss bonuses.... I have both action and atributo cards but cannot understand how to proper use them, I tried all button combinations I could think and nothing. Tried to check online but had no luck either... Can someone help?

@Balta666 It depends on the DSS combo. There are effects like the summons that require button combo that is not Up + Attack. They were Left > Down > Right > Attack I think.

Also some of them will NOT show up in your cards effects because in order to know what is the effect you have to invoke it. For example if you activate a DSS that shields you from fire, for the first time, you will not get the info in the DSS page until you get hit by a fire element.

It is very confusing

https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Dual_Set-Up_System/Combin...

Here is a list of the combos, their effects and HOW to use them.

@Zuljaras what the hell... Well thanks for the list

Started playing Harmony of Dissonance tonight and I remember why I never beat this game, it's absolute garbage. This has got to be the worst Metroidvania one ever. The controls feel clunky, Juste just doesn't move as smooth as Alucard did In SotN and the biggest problem is the wonky hit boxes in this game. I am going to try and stick it through this game but I have a feeling that this game is just going to annoy me.

@Tasuki On the contrary to your experience I love HoD With all of its wonkiness I love the gameplay and the 2 Castles. The Graphics and the enemy design is good as well. It is a little easy as well.

The only thing missing for me is New Game Plus but I hacked a ROM of the game to have ALL items from the start so I guess I have an unofficial New Game + mode

@Zuljaras I don't know I found it a bot harder then SotN and other Metrovania games but that was due mainly because of the wonky hit boxes, and poor handling of Juste not to mention how few and far between save points are. Also I noticed that upon leveling up your life doesn't refill like SotN. Kinda makes leveling up pointless.

I don't remember having control issues with Harmony, but the sound quality was terrible. The game was OK, I kinda liked it, but it's definitely at the bottom of my list.