Castlevania's Harder Arcade Version Is Coming To Nintendo Switch Tomorrow

im sure some will love this, is the original not on the nes online service?

Oh, no, please no differences, I was going to pass on this one and now I hesitate...

But I guess I won't be buying it, because I plan on getting the Castlevania Anniversary Collection at some point, and have the original on the NES Mini too. I don't need 3 Castlevanias that are or practically are the same. I would need significant differences, like in other Nintendo Arcade Archives that I purchased.

Arcade game version will always be harder they were designed to take your 10ps.

For completists I can see appeal here but seriously for most this won’t be worth the fee over the standard NES version

So £6.29 for this or £15.99 for 8 Castlevania games including this one 🤔 This version just isn't different enough to warrant it and Castlevania really doesn't need a harder mode

What we need are the PC Engine, PS, Gameboy Advance and DS Castlevanias in a new collection!

@Justifier Hopefully we will get the Aria of Sorrow GBA/DS trilogy in a future collection.

@geox30 gosh, yes. That would be phenomenal; I’m itching to play those gems again.

@lemonjellydude No, but I think it is in the Konami collection.
Neither Castlevania not Contra are in NES online. Possibly due to those classic collections.

These differences are not enough to warrant a purchase. I will stick with the Collection

It's weird that to this day Symphony of the night has still never been released on a Nintendo platform. Not even with the recent castlevania requiem that had both Rondo and SOTN. Guess that collection is too good for Nintendo or Konami doesn't want us to have it.

I think i speak for every castlevania fan when i say, What the hell Konami?

@LeatherCorpse
As great the first collection is, it's missing the really good games in the series. It is coming, it would be madness if it isn't!

I'd just like to know what made them include The first notoriously horrible gameboy game instead of oh i don't know the wiiware CV rebirth game, Rondo or SOTN?
Jeeze talk about missed opportunity!

@geox30 I completely agree.

@Zeldafan79 It appears that Sony put money into those re-releases, and that would explain it. A shame, though.

@Moroboshi876
I see. Yep real shame.

My job may be complete

That's nice and everything, but every time they put up a Konami arcade game, I gotta ask...

Where the heck is Mr. Goemon already?

As someone who grew up when arcades were a thing, I think what they mean by the difficulty is ramped up is this: Will cheaply kill you at random points and it will infuriate you. But you are so close so just put another quarter in please.

@Airsqueeble No. This version is much harder.

Pointless arcade port of the day winner is..........

I'm not sure what went wrong with the Vs. Super Mario Bros port, but it has insufferable input lag, making it downright unplayable.
It's been over a year now and Hamster still can't be arsed to fix that, so I'm ignoring all other Vs. games they release.

Thankfully enough, Rygar, Psycho Soldier and Bomb Jack all turned out perfectly fine.

Dang! A version that's harder than the NES title? I already have issues getting past level 3

So a castlevania game that's even harder than the og which was one of the hardest games? Sounds cool but no thanks. I could only beat castlevania with save states at each new section of the levels so id really struggle with this.

I might have to get this. VS Castlevania is actually the first game in the series I ever played when I was a kid. They had it in a small arcade at a hotel my family used to stay at when we went on vacation. And I played it a ton.

@ShadowSmile THIS!!! I literally feel my brains cells combusting when I view that screen.

Wondering if save states make this harder version of Castlevania more viable to finish that the NES one. . . ?!?

Not sure I see the need for this one with the Castlevania collection available even though Konami left some key castlevania games out. I was hoping for a volume 2 but just as I expected, Konami stopped with a mere 3 Anniversary collections when they have so much more retro goodness still buried in their basement!! With The Arcade collection in particular, & with only 8 selections, they could’ve kept going with several more volumes from the Arcades! Oh well 😔

Got the collection already so I'll probably skipped this though I am glad Hamster is giving us Konami arcade classics now. Here's hoping we get closer to Sunset Riders.

Not to be a double dip Debbie downer, but if this had came out long before the Anniversary Collection, I would have been more inclined to buy it. I’m super content with the original Castlevania that I know and love. This may not be different enough to intrigue me. For what is this arcade variation? For 12 or so more dollars, you can have a miserable little pile of extra Castlevania games.

@Gryzor Thats strange. The game ran great for me. I replayed it several times over and may actually prefer it over the original SMB or SMBLL. Now the Sega Genesis Collection on the other hand... it has terrible lag.

Hamster did PC Engine ports in the past, so where's Rondo of Blood?

@carlos82 Actually, Castlevania Anniversary Collection doesn't include VS. Castlevania, only the NES version.

@EVIL-C yes I know but it is virtually the same game

Can anyone verify that this is indeed the same game as the one offered in the Konami Arcade Classics Anniversary collection?

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Actually, nevermind, it isn't

@carlos82 Agreed. I cant say I ever found myself playing castlevania and thinking "I wish this game was harder". More like "f#@k you stupid piece of poop".

@carlos82 Merely just amending what you said. Personally, CV1 is hard enough as it is.

@carlos82

Gee that's such a hard choice

@EVIL-C

I was going to say that too Castlevania is hard enough as it is

@KitsuneNight Mmhmm, though I still really enjoyed it, and I beat it back on Wii for the first time. 🙂

@EVIL-C
I honestly don't have the patience for that.
I do have the Castlevania collection though.
Maybe I'm just a masochist or something.

collection is the better deal

@Moroboshi876 @Zeldafan79 Actually the story with the Rondo/SOTN PS4 collection is more interesting. The port was not only funded by Sony but the games are based in the PSP versions and use the in house developed PSP emulator for PS4! Too bad they never released more PSP ports on PS4.

@belmont That explains a lot. But please, someone bring them to other systems too. After all, on the Switch itself there are games released by Hamster that were included in the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection anyway, and by Digital Eclipse, so there has to be a way.

Well, Rondo of Blood is included in PC Engine Mini.