this shit is so hard :flame:
Until We Win: Castlevania Dracula X
Written by LordKat Friday, 06 August 2010 20:53
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08.06.2010 - 22:37 | chives1994
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08.06.2010 - 22:38 | Foxhack
I already saw this review at your site.
I still don't get the "haters". I LOVED renting this game and beating the hell outta it when I was younger.
And no offense, but this game isn't really -that- hard. I had a harder time beating CV3 than this.
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08.06.2010 - 23:12 | gaaralee1234
I do have the first three as well as the god-like fourth one, but I haven't gotten around to buying the fifth one. I wish I had the original game but I do have the PSP game, Dracula X chronicles.
My LORD is it hard, like Zelda 2 hard, Sonic Battle Adventure 2 all A's hard, or Superman 64 hard...without the broken controls.
It took me a while to figure out some tricks, for example that bastard painting, I hated it. Then I realized I had to keep my distance.
Also those damn slash attacks sucked, they had IMPOSSIBLE parts were you had to go the very edge of platform (without falling into the water below) to wake up the monsters and THEN attack them.
The remake has some similar parts so this walk through will help me tons, thanks.
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08.06.2010 - 22:50 | Chris P Bacon
The PC Engine Rondo of Blood is available for download on Wii. I got it recently and while I was expecting for it to be the all-time best Castlevania, as so many have claimed, it's better to temper your expectations that it's a really good Castlevania, worthy of being compared to the many other great Castlevania titles.
The reason being is every Castlevania fan is already likely to have a favorite.
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08.06.2010 - 22:55 | Roker
Did you get better audio quality?
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08.09.2010 - 16:45 | WrathofautumnYou noticed that too, huh? It was some pretty decent audio. Like his voice echoed.
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08.06.2010 - 23:12 | sgtdeathnice vid rondo of blood is my favorite castlevania so i naturally also like dracula x but i do have one complaint and that is that you didnt fight death. in the clocktower you fight one of two bosses based on if you rescue annette u fight the skull thing or death and the death in dracula x is one of the all time coolest.
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08.06.2010 - 23:15 | Spudler
Thank you! just the UWW I needed....I have never beaten this game, always get stuck on the Grim Reaper boss :zombie: (yeah, I kinda suck at gaming).
I got the PSP version, which is great, because it came with Symphony of the night, which I unfortunately missed on its Playstation release, very cool game.
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Beary from Benzai's videos is in the upper right corner of the shot of your house! Its a conspiracy!
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08.09.2010 - 07:44 | hellomayoThat's actually Strawbeary. :D
And when you talked about the "panther BOSS", I'm pretty sure that's Cerberus. You can't really see his other two heads, but I'm still pretty certain it is.
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08.06.2010 - 23:29 | MoomooI like the idea of doing an RPG. Breath of Fire 2 maybe? Dunno if it's hard enough, but it sure kicked my ass as a kid.
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08.07.2010 - 09:50 | whatever42
I also think seeing you do an RPG will be pretty cool. There are quite a few good choices out there. Some RPGs like to be rather cruel :evil:
Nice to see you play another game that is both hard and fun. I never played Dracula X, but it sure looked pretty much as you said it was. Keep up the nice work Jason. =)
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08.06.2010 - 23:34 | danethefurry
Yes! Seeing you do a RPG will be awesome. =)
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08.06.2010 - 23:38 | Camseyeviewhearing you talk about playtesting makes my life as a game tester worth it.
i am a game tester and i know how hard it is to keep playing through some areas of a game that are downright hard.
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08.06.2010 - 23:46 | MoomooWell, I'm a level designer, and I fully know the importance of proper playtest. You guys have no idea how hard it is to judge the difficulty of something you designed yourself. Actually, about 70% of the job is watching playtests and adjusting your level accordingly. If you don't do that, you end up with shit like that Pumpkinhead game thinking the player will work it out.
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08.07.2010 - 00:21 | TheEggGamer
this is one of your best Vid's Jason. I like the feel of it. Can you finish that next game in a week? I think I know what it is, but if Im wrong I look like a dumb ass and if im right I look like a jackass. So I no more words from me on that.
Great job Jason.
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08.07.2010 - 00:24 | nighthawk_99
Flawless timing with this video LordKat! I just got my hands on Castelvania: Dracula X Chronicles on the PSP recently. I highly doubt the same problems are going to be present in it though. But this definitely motivated me to sit down and plow through next chance I get.
You can unlock Rondo of Blood in it, but I would assume it's the PC version.
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08.07.2010 - 00:24 | NativanonpersonOh yeah that it hard.
However I've played a harder game in my time. I played it when I was just a kid and I never made it past level three since I lost all but my last life in the other two levels. T_T
I thought when I got it again as part of a sega compilation a few months ago that it would be easier since I'm not a kid anymore.
It kicked my ass just like it did all those years ago. -_-
For me the hardest game I've ever played is 'E-SWAT cyber police'!
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I have a few suggestions/requests for RPGs. I'd love to see you tackle a Final Fantasy game, either II or IV (II from "Dawn of Souls" or an NES ROM, or IV, known in America for the SNES as II). I'd also like to see "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars" if you care to. There's also Chrono Trigger (I found that to be hard), and Breath of Fire, either I or II. Finally, I think it'd be fun and interesting to see you play a hard-to-find and nearly impossible-for-the-wrong- reasons start of a great series, "Revelations: Persona" for the PS1, or it's updated, slightly fixed PSP port simply called "Persona."
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08.07.2010 - 00:33 | Fracassi
I think my favorite Castlevania games are Rondo of Blood and Dracula's Curse, simply because of the huge replay value. SOTN is great, but you could essentially do everything (as Alucard) on the first play-through. If you can beat DC on hard mode than you are a better man than me.
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08.07.2010 - 00:50 | NintendoFanboy
*Insert obligatory Twilight joke here*
Any chance you'll do an UWW on Earthworm Jim? Or maybe it's just hard for me, since the Virtual Console controls are so akward. :gah:
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08.07.2010 - 08:33 | jaknovaHe did it in one of the earlier videos. Fun times!
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08.07.2010 - 00:50 | camlost245
Black panther Boss? Kind of looked like a Cerberus. You know, the multiheaded hellhound of greek and roman mythology.
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08.07.2010 - 00:51 | egodeth
All you have to do is keep everything at the very edge of your whip. But you have to keep everything exactly there. And then backflip.
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08.07.2010 - 00:59 | egodethOh, and just use an item crash to counter any really hard part. You're invincible, and you kill any enemies in your path. Just item crash anytime your about to get superbuttfucked by any of the supermoves. Any massive damage moves always have a blatant counter moment so just backflip it or item crash it. Just be aggressive in this game. KILL THEM FIRST.
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08.07.2010 - 01:06 | FracassiI saw Drakken in Nintendo Power back in the day and it never really appealed to me.
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That is what Rondo of Blood was like? Completely different from both of the PSP versions of the game. The history with the titles Dracula X and Rondo of Blood is really confusing, huh?
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08.07.2010 - 01:51 | S_Pac_3:16
Ah, I know that tune at the end!
Anyway, nice episode!
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08.07.2010 - 02:08 | BlacksmithAh yes, Dracula X. After playing Super Castlevania, I felt frustrated that this one went back to the stiff jumping mechanics and limited whip attack of the earlier games. It is still a solid entry in the series but I'd rather let the NES ones knock me around like they're after my lunch money.
The thing about RPGs is that some of the "hard" ones really just require more level/item grinding to beat than the usual suspects. The hardest one I ever tried was 7th Saga for the SNES which was impossible to get through if you didn't spend a half hour or more in each new area simply leveling up.
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08.07.2010 - 02:10 | MursaI'm just making a guess but I remember it being pretty hard, secret of evermor?
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08.07.2010 - 02:39 | spliffzero
lol clocktower, but the bloody tears remix there is nice.
Though, some are more polished than others, all Castlevania = AWESOME in my book. Love the CV music, even in the SNES ver. of Dracula X.
Rhondo of Blood is probably my fav CV game. Ive had great fun with the older ones, even the ducking tornado game, but Rhondo, its simply amazing.
The older (pre-SotN) games had this classic, simplistic, awesomeness, about them. SotN required more map reading and item grabbing, as opposed to platforming skill.
btw, CV Chronicles is zomg impossible hard... no really, its die 38 times in the same spot and try again tomorrow (before you break something) hard. (on hard) I used to play it with my morning coffee, never finished it, and i wont, until i can beat it on hard. ...that may, very well, never happen.
Whats sick about Chronicles... there is actually 6 or so NG+ playthrough's that get HARDER each time you play through the game... Who or what in gods name could possibly achieve that? Backgrounds change as well on the 6th playthrough, I think. Things like bleeding statues appear n such...
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08.07.2010 - 02:39 | AlucardsQuest
After Rondo of Blood was Bloodlines, not Symphony of the Night.
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08.07.2010 - 10:30 | Quantum Wolf
Wrong. Symphony of the Night starts 5 years after Rondo of Blood. Bloodlines wouldn't take place until 120 years later.
Anyway... dang Dracula X looks difficult. I've gotten into CV only recently (Dawn of Sorrow is my first), so I'm not entirely sure how I'd fare if I played any of the pre-SOTN games. I'd probably get my ass whooped.
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08.07.2010 - 03:26 | FunkyM
Great vid, LK. :)
So, That's Dracula X then. Looks fun. And what have you up your sleeve for the next review? I daresay Spoony won't like it...
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omg XB why.. why did i not think off that i got out my collection and i played this a couple off weeks ago and i got to dracula and he was fuck hard and i turn it off for tomorow but i... i forgot to remember the code T_T but playing that made me remember the difficutiy of old games =) =( :sick: :onoes: :zombie:
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