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Yeah, none of that bothered me. It had bosses. Not many of them granted, but they were there. The Vampira Mask was one of my favorites back then. In one of my Jr high school art classes we had to design a ceramic face and I used that as my design. The mask is currently hanging in my bedroom.

Onslaught Six wrote:

Mako Crab wrote:World 1-2 warp to World 4. World 4-2 warp to World 8. They couldn't believe it. I was already in World 8 and still had 4 minutes to go.

Then you didn't beat the game.

I mean, it's still an accomplishment to beat World 8, but unless you actually walked through all seven worlds before it? No point. It's like beating Contra with the Konami Code, or using NARPASSWORD in Metroid.

Man, give him a break, it was a speed run for showing off. I'm sure the man's beaten Super Mario before, but in this case it's a lot more entertaining to tell your friends 'watch me beat SMB in eight minutes' rather than 'sit there and watch me play SMB for three hours'.

Most impressive thing I can do is steamroll through the Light World portion of Zelda Link to the Past in around an hour if I feel like it. The whole game doesn't take me more than like six to eight hours to beat these days. Still love it though.

BWprowl wrote: Man, give him a break, it was a speed run for showing off. I'm sure the man's beaten Super Mario before, but in this case it's a lot more entertaining to tell your friends 'watch me beat SMB in eight minutes' rather than 'sit there and watch me play SMB for three hours'.

Most impressive thing I can do is steamroll through the Light World portion of Zelda Link to the Past in around an hour if I feel like it. The whole game doesn't take me more than like six to eight hours to beat these days. Still love it though.

Thanks, Prowl, but don't worry. I wasn't upset. You're right on both counts too. I can (and have) smoked every level of SMB1 in one sitting on my own time. But this was a speed run just to show off. Absolutely right.

On Castlevania- LOVE part 1! It was the first game I ever got for the NES. Got it at Christmas along with the console. Still remains one of my absolute favorite games to this day.

Part 2 I hated back in the day, but I since bought it and beat it. It is quite different from part 1, but this was back in the day when developers would take chances and try to mix up the formula (before there was a set formula). It's different, but good.

Part 3 is awesome! It's so long, that you really have to devote some time to it, so part 1 edges it out as my favorite for those days when you just want something quick and fun. But part 3 has so much going for it, that it really is an instant classic.

Part 4 I only just got about a year or two ago. In fact, it's the game that started off MY MISSION to go through all the games I hadn't finished. It really is quite challenging, but compared to part 3 it feels a bit on the short side. Still, there's enough improvements to the gameplay, that it makes it just as rewarding of an experience.

And on an unrelated note, I fired up Final Fantasy X-2 tonight. It's been a long time since I've played it and I've forgotten how all the garment grids and stuff work. Trying to get the feel for it again. I know I have a strategy guide somewhere, but it's gone missing. The game says I have 25 hours into it already. My crew is around level 32 and we're holding up pretty well in the fights. But there's so much I've forgotten! I don't even know what the plot of this one is!

*edit*

So I just read a plot synopsis for X-2 and I'm even more confused now than before! WTF is this game about!?

Mako Crab wrote:So I just read a plot synopsis for X-2 and I'm even more confused now than before! WTF is this game about!?

Massive bloody coincidences, apparently.

I went off Final Fantasy around number VII, and decided to give it another go with X. I was not impressed. Then X-2 came out and it was such an anomaly to have a sequel in Final Fantasy I gave it a try too, and was pleasantly surprised to find the gameplay was a huge step up.... but the story, if possible, was even more absent than X's. =|

FF13 (fuck roman numerals) is getting a sequel too, plus there's "Final Fantasy Versus 13" which I don't even know. All we really know about that one is what it *isn't,* which is it isn't a Final Fantasy 13 fighting game which is EXACTLY what it sounds like. No, apparently it's entirely different!

The last Final Fantasy game I played was FF8. I played it up until the third disc, wherein I was trapped on the Ragnarok spaceship with a Level 37 Squall and a Level 17 Rinoa. Also the disc would skip during one cutscene and freeze, and I could never finish it.

(At one point in the game, you're given a pretty traditional JRPG "Group splits into two parties" choice. I put all the girls in one group and all the guys in another. All the girls ended up getting stuck in this exploded tank in a prison or something, so I was playing as the guys...and I got stuck. I didn't know where to go. So instead of cheat and just look at what to do, I grinded. When the girls finally showed back up, all the guys were almost Level 30 and the girls were in their mid-teens. I didn't see the point in using them anymore, so they stayed that way. Bad idea!)

Castlevania! I liked Simon's Quest as a kid, even if I couldn't figure out where the fuck to go. One day I finally sat down with a guide and beat it, because there is no way to beat that game blind without months of training and memorization. Symphony of the Night is still a great game (same with Rondo of Blood) but after that the series kind of loses me. The last game I played was Circle of the Moon for the GBA. ShockTrek: What'd you think of Dracula X, the SNES port/butchering of Rondo of Blood? Did you play SOTN?

I finally tracked down a copy of CV3 at MAGFest this year only to find it doesn't work on my FC Twin. Damn you, advanced chips!

Onslaught Six wrote:Castlevania! I liked Simon's Quest as a kid, even if I couldn't figure out where the fuck to go. One day I finally sat down with a guide and beat it, because there is no way to beat that game blind without months of training and memorization. Symphony of the Night is still a great game (same with Rondo of Blood) but after that the series kind of loses me. The last game I played was Circle of the Moon for the GBA. ShockTrek: What'd you think of Dracula X, the SNES port/butchering of Rondo of Blood? Did you play SOTN?

I finally tracked down a copy of CV3 at MAGFest this year only to find it doesn't work on my FC Twin. Damn you, advanced chips!

My mom beat Simon's Quest in two weeks. With no help. Well sort of, that was actually a collaborative effort with me, my dad and my mom but she played the bulk of it. Mostly just to prove me wrong after one of my "stick to Dr. Mario" comments that she wouldn't be able to get through it. I recall not being impressed with Dracula X to the point where I forgot it even existed. SotN is the N64 one, right? I played it once, but I only got through a few battles and wasn't really impressed enough with it to track it down to own. Plus I think I was obsessed with Ocarina of Time at the time.

Symphony of the Night is the PS1 game where you play as Alucard in a giant, Metroid-style castle. It was the game that I used to convince my mom that we needed a Playstation and still remains one of my favorites. That game is like a fine wine that only improves with age. One of the absolute best soundtracks in gaming too.
After Symphony I dropped off the Castlevania map. The 3D Castlevanias have never impressed me graphically or in terms of gameplay. It wasn't until I picked up Order of Ecclesia on the DS, another 2D CV, that I had a new one to play.

I almost forgot! CV: Bloodlines on the Genesis is pretty good too, though its WW1 setting and the lack of a Belmont kind of put things a little off. Still, there's a guy with a whip out there breaking fangs.

SotN began the whole "MetroidVania" thing, which was the norm for the series up until the less-than-stellar second spate of 3D games...

The N64 one was the first 3D, and... yeah. I liked the characters at least. =|

Bloodlines is great, easily one of my favourite Castlevanias!

Shockwave wrote:

Onslaught Six wrote:Castlevania! I liked Simon's Quest as a kid, even if I couldn't figure out where the fuck to go. One day I finally sat down with a guide and beat it, because there is no way to beat that game blind without months of training and memorization. Symphony of the Night is still a great game (same with Rondo of Blood) but after that the series kind of loses me. The last game I played was Circle of the Moon for the GBA. ShockTrek: What'd you think of Dracula X, the SNES port/butchering of Rondo of Blood? Did you play SOTN?

I finally tracked down a copy of CV3 at MAGFest this year only to find it doesn't work on my FC Twin. Damn you, advanced chips!

My mom beat Simon's Quest in two weeks. With no help. Well sort of, that was actually a collaborative effort with me, my dad and my mom but she played the bulk of it. Mostly just to prove me wrong after one of my "stick to Dr. Mario" comments that she wouldn't be able to get through it. I recall not being impressed with Dracula X to the point where I forgot it even existed. SotN is the N64 one, right? I played it once, but I only got through a few battles and wasn't really impressed enough with it to track it down to own. Plus I think I was obsessed with Ocarina of Time at the time.

Nah, it was the PSX game like they described. It's also available in an entirely faithful port (everything down to using your memory sticks/hard drive as "memory cards") on XBLA for something like $10, a worthy purchase if there ever was one. I finally beat it a few months back and got 200.6%, unlocking Richter Belmont.

Same here O6, just started on a Richter playthrough. Some bits are ridiculously harder, some bits are ridiculously easier.