Castlevania

26 Sep 1986

PC (Microsoft Windows) Commodore C64/128/MAX Amiga Nintendo Entertainment System Wii Nintendo 3DS Family Computer Disk System Family Computer Wii U DOS Arcade

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192 want

857 played

29 playing

53 reviews

Developer

Konami

Developer

Konami

Publisher

Konami

Nintendo

Time to beat

Main story

3h 17m

Main story + extras

100% completion

Based on 4 answers

Summary

Step into the shadows of the deadliest dwelling on earth. You've arrived at Castlevania, and you're here on business: To destroy forever the Curse of the Evil Count. Unfortunately, everybody's home this evening. Bats, ghosts, every kind of creature you can imagine. You'll find 'em all over the place, if they don't find you first. Because you've got to get through six monstrous floors before you even meet up with the Master of the House. Your Magic Whip will help, and you'll probably find a weapons or two along the way. But once you make it to the tower, you can count on a Duel to the Death. The Count has waited 100 years for a rematch.

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Castlevania is an extremely tough somewhat unforgiving action platformer that is actually very addicting. Simon's whip is one of the most satisfying attacks I've used in an 8 bit game and the whip is your best friend all the way to the end. However you'll need to bring the type of persistence here that you would bring to a souls game. You will die to some bosses over and over again until you realise their pattern, which then it becomes pretty easy. I will be honest though, I had to play this one with save states and getting a game over will send you back all the way to the start of a level, in which in modern gaming standards I don't have the patience for 🫠 but I didn't abuse it to the point where it would help me during a boss fight or through a stage. I recommend using save states as somewhat more forgiving checkpoints at a start of a stage within a level. I feel like this is one of those games I will now always come back to play and master - like I have with mega man.

25 Jul 2023