In the last battle, Castlevania Adventure battled out Castlevania: Belmonts revenge for superiority. However, when Castlevania: Legends arrived on scene (albeit late) the tides turned, and poor Christopher was completely wiped out by Sonia. This confirms CV:Legends in round two, but now is not the time for such things. It is time for Round 1, Match 3: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse Vs Super Castlevania IV, two undeniably excellent games and two fan favorites.
The rules are the same. I'll list off a brief summary and my personal takes on the game, and you lot can all vote for your favorite. Feel free to post opinions as you wish, or to rebuttle opinions, or whatever. Just keep it clean. After this is over, I think I'll also host a Symphony of the Trite (title credit to the Bonus Level video)
First game to get 7 votes wins, or which ever one has the most votes after 3 days wins
I'll be doing this in (almost) chronological order, skipping Haunted Castle, Vampire Killer, Order of Shadows and NitM. Some games have been moved around slightly to have fan favorites duking it out.
Match 1: CV1 Vs CV2: SQ WINNER: CV1
Match 2: CV:A Vs CV2:BR Surprise entrant: Legends WINNER: CV:L
Match 3: CV4 Vs CV3:DC
Match 4: CV: RoB Vs CV X68000 (for the purpose of this, Chronicles)
Match 5: CV: Bloodlines Vs CV: SotN
Match 6: CV: L Vs CV: 64
Match 7: CV: LoD Vs CV: CotM
Match 8: CV: HoD Vs CV: AoS
Match 9: CV: LoI Vs CV: DoS
Match 10: CV: CoD Vs CV: PoR
Match 11: CV: DXC (For the purpose of this, only the remake of RoB counts. Ignore SotN and original RoB) Vs CV: OoE
The rest of the match will go fairly obviously, Winner Vs Winner
Now, on with the show.
In the Blue Corner, we have...Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
The Facts: CVIII was the final game on the NES, and oft revered as the greatest of the trio. Starring Trevor Belmont, who was the first Belmont to fight Dracula, it was the first Castlevania game to feature multiple characters, allowing the player to switch between Trevor and one of three alternate characters on the fly. Sypha Belnades, Grant DeNasty and Alucard were all playable, although you could only travel with one of them at a time. The game also featured multiple paths and repeated bosses, firsts for the series, as well as some of the greatest tracks in the series, including the third "theme" for the series, Beginning. It is also renown for its difficulty, although the multiple characters help balance it. It is well known as IGA's favorite game, and also part of a seemingly unending controversy regarding Castlevania: Legends.
IMO: One of the best in the series, hands down. The game is excellent in many ways, visually appealing (for an NES game) and lots of fun. The multiple characters is well done, allowing for improved balance and lots of great gameplay options. Each character is clearly unique and different, benefiting the game even further. The music is spot on, the level design is excellent, and its overall simply a game that clearly had a lot of love and effort put into it.
And in the Red Corner, we have...Super Castlevania IV
The Facts: Now this is a famous game. Although it is a remake of CV1, it is renown for being, well, different, in almost every way. Featuring the overworked Simon Belmont, he must whip his way through many new and unique levels. Being the first game on a more powerful home console, CVIV's main gameplay change is the whip grappling feature, allowing Simon to grapple onto certain points, to make it over longer jumps. This also is used for several clever puzzles. Featuring a slew of new enemies simply not possible on the old console, levels and visuals that were the best in the series for quite a while, and still praised to this day, and atmospheric and interesting music to help strengthen the game, including the introduction of Theme of Simon, this is one of the most popular games in the series.
IMO: Wow, a very impressive game. Even by todays standards, SCVIV still holds its own in many departments. The whip grappling is a rather unique feature that has been underused, only reappearing in Chronicles, Bloodlines and Ecclesia. The Octo-directional whipping is also a nice feature that needs to be used more, it seems to have gotten lost as the Belmonts slowly learned to swim. The game itself is difficult, but not NES-hard, with excellent music, visuals, level design and enemies, this is a very immersive and atmospheric game. For me, this is one of the best games in the series, and rightfully so, and it diserves all the respect it has.
Their fate is now in your hands.
And sorry about no caption pics, too lazy. Next match, I promise
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