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Author: qxz
Posted: October 27, 2011 (05:22 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Nicely written, but I do have one catch with the ending. Rondo of Blood was actually released in 2008 as a part of the Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles compilation on the PSP. I guess you could say it was a double release, since said disc includes a visually remade version of Rondo, as well as the original game.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (06:42 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
True--and that package was freaking awesome.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (06:44 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Aside from the fix in your final note... I've now read the review, and it's amazingly well written--this might be your best review (that I've read, and I think I've read most of them).
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (09:49 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Everything I read anything about Rondo, I remember back to when I bought Dracula X for my Super Nintendo. And then I feel sad.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (10:56 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Yeah cuz that game... isn't great.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (12:19 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Indeed. If I made a list of my TOP TEN MOST DISAPPOINTING PURCHASES, it would rank somewhere reasonably high.
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Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (02:22 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thank you, folks. In the final note, I said, 'in its original format', which basically doesn't include the remake. I could offer a small side note in there on the remake, though.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (02:32 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The remake IS awesome though. AND it includes SotN? How crazy is that. It's the best package since The Orange Box.
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Author: dementedhut
Posted: October 27, 2011 (07:20 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Am I the only one that actually think the SNES revision was a solid game? :|
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (07:24 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
But have you played the Turbo one? Cuz it's the comparison that makes the SNES one seem especially lame.
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Author: dementedhut
Posted: October 27, 2011 (07:25 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I have, actually. Rondo of Blood is an awesome game, but I still think its SNES remix is a fine effort.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: October 27, 2011 (07:40 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I haven't played Rondo, so I can't judge too harshly, but I definitely enjoyed what I played of Dracula X on the SNES. It does really seem to be a case where people don't like a good game because the better one they wanted was never localized. See also: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. Fun game... but people wanted Final Fantasy V.
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Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (08:49 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I played the SNES one and wound up rage-quitting it. I may pick it back up in the future because I've gotten much better at games in general since playing it.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (09:58 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I actually played the SNES one first. So without Rondo for reference, I already thought it was pretty weak. It has that crappy invincibility window which allows you to get bounced around--very annoying. SCIV is like, a million times better.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: October 27, 2011 (10:46 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I'll admit it: I just really like the graphics on Dracula X a lot and the graphics on SCIV don't do anything for me. I've never played SCIV, mind you... but I've seen so many screenshots and they have always repulsed me, even during the SNES launch window. Tragic, I'm sure.
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Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod)
Posted: October 27, 2011 (10:59 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I like SCIV. Maybe not as much as other Castlevanias, but it's still a worthy contribution.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: October 27, 2011 (11:06 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I believe that SCIV is probably a great game. I realize that I haven't gotten around to playing it for a really stupid reason (though obviously there's a lot more to it than that one reason; it just happened to be one of the things that kept the game low enough on my list of titles to try that I never actually did). But whatever. Dracula X had a pleasing visual style and that one I've actually tried. I was only a casual Castlevania fan, anyway, until Symphony of the Night. I played Castlevania on the NES a lot, and Castlevania III a fair bit, but then I forgot about the series until Alucard won me over and made me a permanent fan.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 28, 2011 (10:04 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The visual style repulsed you? Are you nuts?
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: October 28, 2011 (11:22 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I never had even heard of Rondo before starting up at GFaqs, but had experienced Dracula X beforehand.
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Author: zigfried
Posted: October 28, 2011 (12:59 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
SC4 is freakin' ugly -- it's like the graphic "artists" took orange and brown and splattered it all over some failed Castlevania clone. SNES Drac X looked decent, as far as SNES games go.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 28, 2011 (01:40 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Hilarious that a Genesis fan has stuff to say about a game being poorly coloured.
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Author: zigfried
Posted: October 28, 2011 (04:54 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Someone (MASTERS) needs to check his SNES-versus-Genesis facts!
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