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That’s how I felt too. I didn’t mind the challenge because I had so many ways to go about it. The final area with Dracula tho is still BS they should have given you a checkpoint to return to fight him. It’s pretty unforgivable at times

🙏 thanks guys it was a blast playing through

I still have ptsd 😑

Watch so much Captain N! Simon had that super macho man look from Punch out going on 😆

We are gonna have to dive into your top ten in detail sometime I know we briefly went over it but will have to see where Castlevania 3 ranks up there. Great work on the black box series to so far

They did my guy dirty 😆

The more the merrier I say

Super is top shelf 🤩

He became mayor like Haggar

@@RockinKatReviewsMayor Nasty 😆

It sure is!

I’d agree with that

She was a blast to use for sure

I think it was more so a reference to Jackson’s involvement with Sonic in the 90s

It was always a toss up between 2 and 3 for me… It’s too hard too really decide.. I lean towards 2 but 3s story and level layouts are so good

We needed the Power…Nintendo Power!

Thats how I sorta figured it out I just tried to kneel as I did by the lake… unless there was a head banging technique I over looked that would grant a secret passage through the cliff 😆

@@TheKonamiMan exactly! The game indicates how to use the crystals outside

🙏 Very much appreciated. It’s been a blast doing these and def looking forward to hearing what you think on the Castlevania series. Still hoping we get something next year from Konami especially with them reviving a lot of their IPs

@@RockinKatReviews keep up the content. Looking forward to it.

I felt the same way.. for me it was a combination of that very clue and the fact that the blue crystal would only be activated if you kneel..with each crystal in a way gaining the power of the previous one..especially with the red crystal it also activates the lake

Tails in the bonus stages was crippling at times 😆 I could manage the first few but by the end he would always get snagged it was fun having a buddy tag in at times

He was a world video game champion… Gotta put some respect on Skips name 😆

@@Chadjessup40 how was it on the nes mini? I picked up the SNES Mini and had a blast with it.

That might be the case for Zelda and (to a lesser extent) Mario, but Castlevania II’s fingerprints are all over the Metroidvania genre almost as much as the original Metroid.

Growing up if you asked me to play a Mario game more often then less It be Mario 3 but over the years I have slowly became a big Mario 2 fan and it’s now one of my favorite games to play in general.

@@RockinKatReviews same. It’s so fun to play and I have played through it numerous times vs Mario 1 and 3. It’s not only one of my favorite Mario games except for Super Mario World but it’s one of my all time favorite NES games. It’s really a masterpiece in my opinion.

@@54raynor I guess that’s true in a way. I skipped a lot of the later Castlevania games after Castlevania IV. I guess from my perspective I was thinking how 3 and 4 went back to the older formula.

@ agreed!! the mechanics were well ahead of their time.. the grab…toss and bash your way through a stage just hit differently…clobbering a hoard of enemies with a lone shy guy 😆

@@ashwinrebbapragada7626 I always loved the exploration too... Just the uncertainty of the unknown really creates this. atmosphere about it.. just going town to town writing down things u found out and comparing those findings with a buddy

🙏 Moving on to Dracula’s Curse 😆

one villager apparently has seen the Death Star 😆

🙏 thanks so much !!

I love the world 9 comparison that’s pretty spot on especially that final boss encounter…. Its brutal and I’m not quite sure if that’s more so due to the screen crunch but u have to really have that electrical field pattern down when u enter the chamber or it’s over before it begins.. but it’s as you said there are some trade off between the GG and MS release and it’s almost the matter of preference at that point. Sonic 2 def has so many creative rides wrapped up in it! Also which bookstore are they giving out GG sonic 2’s bc that is awesome… I remember seeing copies of GG Sonic 2 getting clearanced out at toys r us when majesco rereleased the gamegear along with S2 and Sonic spinball so S2 does have a lot of rereleased copies. I think someone needs to stock pile them and pass them out on holloween like candy

@RockinKatReviews Bookmans is kind of an "all-media" store, not sure what you'd call that but yeah they sell used games, consoles, movies, records, CDs, figures. It's just that books are the main focus. I'd love to be rich enough to be able to give away Sonic games on Halloween. On a side note. Your best friend in Scrambled Egg Zone is the pause button. Sonic moves way too fast in the tubes to get by on reaction time alone, especially on the tiny Game Gear screen. Spam that pause like it's Battletoads (another great game with a lot of flaws). Also I think maybe the pictures with Tails in them are to show that Tails is always on Sonic's mind. Imagining his buddy by his side, a reminder of what he's fighting for. And on that note, I believe this does take place after the Genesis Sonic 2, despite releasing before it. The lore seems to suggest that the beginning of Sonic 2, Emerald Hill and such, is when Tails first started following Sonic around, as they both witnessed Eggman's attack on Westside Island shortly after meeting.

@@robertanderson9447 that makes sense it would come after but the only thing I couldn’t wrap my head around is when that moment was that they met… it sorta felt up for interpretation due to GG having 6 chaos emeralds. Makes me think they maybe had already began work on the GGS2 as maybe a spin off game and it slowly became Sonic 2 8 bit? I would also like to know your opinion on Sonic 1 8 Bit. Do you consider it a sequel to GennyS1? Especially with the added zones and Eggman borrowing bowsers airship 😆

@@RockinKatReviews The canon regarding the GG titles is weird. I think what likely happened is Sonic Team would give Aspect some details/assets from the Genesis games before they were finalized, and so Aspect's games would naturally end up having differences/inconsistencies. Like how Knuckles' laugh animation in Triple Trouble is based on an early version of the Sonic 3 animation. I've seen some call the GG games an alternate timeline because of stuff like the 6 emeralds, which probably makes more sense, but it's fun to imagine them being on the same timeline. After all, you never see Super Sonic in these games (aside from a rare cameo on the end signs in Sonic Blast) The Japanese manual for Genesis Sonic 1 establishes through dialogue from Sonic and Eggman that this is not their first encounter, in fact they've been going at it for a while now. It also presents Eggman stuffing the animals into robots as being something he never did before. The Japanese GG manual doesn't have any of this, instead just describing how Eggman landed on South Island one day and trapped the animals in capsules, so Sonic had to stop him. And (due to sprite limits) animals don't pop out of robots in that game. Also, the first boss of 8-bit S1 is just the Eggmobile by itself, no frills or weapons. It's like Eggman doesn't know Sonic, thinking he's just another animal at first. Ultimately it's up to interpretation what 8-bit S1 is exactly, but I choose to view it as a prequel to 16-bit S1 for these reasons. Let's just say that after Eggman stole the airship, Bowser tightened his security and Eggman didn't feel like sneaking into one of Bowser's World 8's again.

@@robertanderson9447 It def would get messy trying to place chaos and triple trouble into the timeline.. I would love to see a reimagining of the GG stages of S1 with a 16 bit Genny paintjob. I know they made a triple trouble fan game that looks incredible and Bowser def needs to tighten up maybe it was his lost levels counterpart that dropped the ball. I forget if they called him a brother or a clone 😆

That would have been nice! I think they just went a bit too far back to the basics

That’s sort of how I’ve always looked at it. Modern horror games series today build entire series around lore and playing off fan reactions. I always point at a series today like fnaf that never gives you a beginning or end to any story only leaving you with more questions. I feel a great deal of Simon’s quest charm is that the game gives you this sort of extreme game of telephone. If this game came out today it would have an entire community built around solving the clues and to be fair I believe there in their. Your told to kneel at the lake to use the blue crystal which indicates how to use the crystals outside of the mansion.. There’s also two clue for the red crystal of banging your head and also waiting at the cliff…why would u stand if you just used the blue crystal to kneel bc u can also use the red crystal on the lake by kneeling also

Excellent take on things. I also always looked at the infinite lives as Simon slowly being consumed by the curse only to slowly turn into a walking corpse 😆

@@RockinKatReviews lol it would be awesome if visually simon deteriorated after using a few continues.

They need to incorporate that into the Transylvania Advenutre of Simon Quest

I think that’s absolutely spot on and an excellent take on the Dracula fight. The entire final area from the town leading up to the castle just changes the entire mood completely. I always felt that the clues were almost a game of telephone in a sense . If the clues were spelled out the game would have ended as fast as u could have rented it. I almost felt like they wanted us to spread the word about the mystery’s to friends and so forth. How games today almost build on lore and a growing community attempting to solve the developers games

​​@@RockinKatReviewsI think a lot of it is just, people naturally start to view games differently over the years for a multitude of reasons. What was valued in 1987 isn't valued the same way in current day. Games can no longer get away with making you spend so much time figuring out how to progress. Even if they try, a walkthrough is always readily available online. And with so many great games in the world, it's a mindset of, why should I waste my time on this when I could be doing, or _playing_ something else with that time? I understand this mindset, as loads of people are busy with life. But I also feel it leads to a lot of old games getting unfairly trashed in the eyes of history. Games like Simon's Quest are classics for a reason, they just come from a different time, with a different gaming landscape in mind. There are absolutely still bad games from the era, more than can be counted, but this isn't one of them.

@ That makes a lot of sense too. I would also like to try to dig up a few numbers also. One would be how many Nes games were officially out in the US by 88 and how well the game sold in comparison to other releases that year. Whenever I try to compile any list of top games or something along the lines I always try to factor in hardware and how the game culturally impacted gaming at that time. Like with Zelda which I believe came out a year earlier I feel Simon’s Quest brought a great deal of originality to the nes so I would still rank it decently on any list.

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