The original games are straight up action. The Metroidvania thing refers to games such as Symphony and the GBA and DS games. I hate this game for what it is, but the fact that a Castlevania game appeared on the Game Boy, of all things, is awesome.
I can't wait for Simphony of the Night, the holy GBA trinity, the holy DS trinity and, surprisingly, Lords of Shadows 1. Only the first one. Actually the only one, because no more lords of shadows were made. Ever. Clear?
Gotta agree with Lords of Shadow 1 being the only good game in that reboot trilogy. The other two are so misguided and incoherent on so many levels, mixing gameplay elements that make no sense together...
I made the mistake of playing through the whole thing without save states. Making Dracula explode was still unsatisfying. The fact that I can beat Three Houses more quickly than this game is worrying. I also played Gargoyle's Quest recently on NSO. If you wanna play a tough Game Boy platformer, I can't recommend that game enough. The localization is a little funky, but it's a surprisingly enjoyable mix of RPG and Platforming.
Played and beat Gargoyle's Quest on My Old Boy emulator on my phone. Gotta say, I love the music and its creepy undertones, but the bosses are pathetic once you figure them out and you earn more benefits from dying at the start because you can stock up on potions and exchange 8 of them at the start of the game for a 1-Up. Also I really like the mechanics of flight and clinging to walls. They make platforming more fun.
Stage 3 and 4 were pure hell. Incredibly painful. Must have taken me 4 hours to finally pull off the successful 7 minute run on Stage 4. I only allowed myself to use save states between stages.
That one stage with all the spikes is one of the most sadistic levels ever devised by a truly warped mind. I pray the person who designed it found peace.
Adventures tricky. Mechanically it's simple, most of the stage and enemy designs are built around the mechanics appropriately, but the performance is awful. Give it responsive controls and the game, while simple, works and is fun (a romhack fixes this and changes the walk speed). If Adventure was in the Belmont's Revenge engine it'd be a more pleasing experience.
As a videogame on its own, its a gauntlet that pushes players skills to their absolute limits. As a Castlevania game, it is the best sounding but worst playing game I ever tried. I love your review though, I think it was perfectly fair.
It's especially bizarre it turned out so awful despite having two legends of 16 bit action games, Maegawa (treasure) and Nakazato (rka, contra 3 & HC) working on it.
A Castlevania review that's uploaded on my birthday, how neat! Anyways, Castlevania: The Adventure is easily one of the worst games in the series. It's a shame that it's much better remake is stuck in WiiWare purgatory, cuz I'd love to actually play it.
Having actually played Adventure Rebirth, it's a great game and it's a huge shame it isn't currently available. However calling it a remake of Adventure is like calling Super Castlevania IV a remake of Castlevania for the NES. It's a retelling of the same story, but a completely different game.
0:47 that platforming SHOULD be easy if it wasn't for stiff controls,since there's no rewind the load & save trick is essential to finish it,also everyone knows the only games that saved the gameboy were the mario land games & more specifically tetris & the pokemon games,these are facts.
I was so excited to get Castlevania The Adventure when I was a kid. I had only had my Gameboy for about a year & loved the NES Castlevania games. After getting the game, I remember trying to convince myself that it was good, even though I was so disappointed. I agree about the box art though; it’s badass
Would it be a sin to say that I genuinely like this game? :3 I think a lot of the level design is pretty neat, the third level with the falling ceiling part is my favorite. And the music is top tier, I love the soundtracks of both Christopher games so much. While playing it, I never actually really noticed just how slow Christopher’s walking is, but playing CV1 after it made it feel like Simon was sprinting in that game lol XD. Besides, his speed does make it a little easier to judge some jumps since it’s easier to see where his toes are on a platform during his walking animation, since some jumps you really have to do when he’s got like a single pixel still on the edge. The timing is fucking PRECISE though for sure; I’ll never judge anyone for not liking the game because it’s definitely a niche taste even just for that reason alone. It’s definitely not a forgiving game (TwT ). But the difficulty had me kinda pumped for some reason??? Energized even? Locked in??????? I guess I also have to thank this game for just drastically improving my platforming skills cause again I played CV1 after beating it and nearly no hit the game up until the Death battle hahahajfkshsk X,,,,,D Idk, I enjoyed it, I’ve played it a couple times :3. I told a bunch of friends I had fun with it and they recommended I play Dark Souls lmao. I will 100% say that I do really enjoy Belmont’s Revenge equally if not more! It definitely takes all the things The Adventure did right and concepts it didn’t and improves upon them, at the trade off of difficultly, and I loooove Belmont’s Revenge. Literally one of the most underrated classicvanias in the series and it’s so criminal that it is. Idk how to end this comment, so cool to see you review The Adventure even if you found it boring!!!!!!! Sincerely, a rare Christopher Belmont fan :3!!!!!
I just beat this on my GBA and it was BRUTAL. Easily the most painful, frustrating game I’ve ever played on GB. Possibly the most frustrating game I’ve ever played…and I just beat Ghosts n’ Goblins on original hardware as well. The music made repeating the levels over and over slightly more bearable, but the only reason I persisted was so this damn game wouldn’t beat me lol. Am I glad I beat it? Yes. Would I recommend it to anyone except the most grizzled Castlevania fans? Nope.
What I want to know is, did you just put the script in comic sans for the bit? Or did you actually write your script in comic sans? One is mildly funnier than the other, so this is important information.
In the annoying platforming in the first level you made a good reference without you noticing it😂🤣its like a song since you have to jump every two paces(one two jump one two jump)🤣😂🤣
Well GameBoy games were still better than Tiger handhelds but yeah they were generally bad so I never had one. I have this game in the Castlevania collection. It’s beyond terrible. Should have never been released. Everything about it is a nightmare.
If the adventure is the worst to you idk what to tell you. It has got a decent soundtrack and some interesting ideas. For a first gameboy game it is not the worst. BY ANY MEANS. There's far worse. Like the n64 games.
Id honestly argue it got better Platforming than Adventure. An early 3d platformer not being as janky when it comes to platforming says alot about Adventure
I don't think that Rebirth is a good remake. A better game? Ehh, maybe, though playing it on Hard was some of the least fun I've ever had with a classic Castlevania, but it throws out almost everything that made Adventure the game it is - the platforming of Stage 3 and it being mixed with combat in Stage 4, despite flaws and control issues, was fun and refreshing, while Rebirth throws out basically all of the original level design for the sake of a bunch of fanservice (almost every midboss is just there so there can be more Castlevania staples, but none of them are fun to fight in Rebirth) and filler, coupled with platforming sections that are just as annoying on Hard but arguably with less consistency. After replaying it a few times, I find Stage 3 and 4 of the original Adventure to be some of the more fun platforming segments in the series due to requiring high precision and memorization, but with barely any random elements, and while the game has a ton of flaws (poorly programmed, controls are unsatisfying, whip downgrades are annoying, recycled segments early on) I really wouldn't say it's that bad. Not to mention that Rebirth also has none of the music from the original, aside from a rendition of Battle of the Holy that gets unused, which is a big shame.
Wow. You kids today just plain suck at games. No offense, but its' true. I beat this game on my friends Game Boy as a teen. I still play through it from time to time even to this day. It is a pretty cool Castlevania game that had some unique features such as the use of climbing ropes instead of steps along with some pretty cool level design. Great soundtrack, cool enemies and even some hidden power up rooms.
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As someone who's never really gotten into metroidvanias, this series is a neat way to catch up on the genre with my sanity intact
those are not metroidvanias tho...
These aren't metroidvanias. Castlevania only gets into metroidvania territory starting from 1997.
Technically Vampire Killer, a micro computer port was in metroidvania territory a few months before Simons Quest hsd similsir elementd
The original games are straight up action. The Metroidvania thing refers to games such as Symphony and the GBA and DS games. I hate this game for what it is, but the fact that a Castlevania game appeared on the Game Boy, of all things, is awesome.
I can't wait for Simphony of the Night, the holy GBA trinity, the holy DS trinity and, surprisingly, Lords of Shadows 1. Only the first one. Actually the only one, because no more lords of shadows were made. Ever. Clear?
Gotta agree with Lords of Shadow 1 being the only good game in that reboot trilogy. The other two are so misguided and incoherent on so many levels, mixing gameplay elements that make no sense together...
Idk if it can be called Holy Gba trimity with how much of a letdown Harmony of Dissonamce is after Circle of the moon.
Lol
6:41 can't believe Bopper got the Casual Coin to cameo in the Castlevania: The Adventure manual
Should be titled “The first several minutes ain’t so bad”
There's a good fan game called The Lecarde Chronicles 2 that has a great remix of Battle of the Holy!
I made the mistake of playing through the whole thing without save states.
Making Dracula explode was still unsatisfying. The fact that I can beat Three Houses more quickly than this game is worrying.
I also played Gargoyle's Quest recently on NSO. If you wanna play a tough Game Boy platformer, I can't recommend that game enough. The localization is a little funky, but it's a surprisingly enjoyable mix of RPG and Platforming.
Played and beat Gargoyle's Quest on My Old Boy emulator on my phone. Gotta say, I love the music and its creepy undertones, but the bosses are pathetic once you figure them out and you earn more benefits from dying at the start because you can stock up on potions and exchange 8 of them at the start of the game for a 1-Up. Also I really like the mechanics of flight and clinging to walls. They make platforming more fun.
Stage 3 and 4 were pure hell. Incredibly painful. Must have taken me 4 hours to finally pull off the successful 7 minute run on Stage 4. I only allowed myself to use save states between stages.
It looks like chris is pissing in the ending
Based
GOOOOOOOOD MOOORNING BOPHEADS
Chris Belmont may be the most glacial protagonist of an action game I've ever seen. Zero sense of urgency.
That one stage with all the spikes is one of the most sadistic levels ever devised by a truly warped mind. I pray the person who designed it found peace.
Not the Castlevania review we expected but the one we deserved.
when you showed off the music i cant believe i heard scatmans world
Really digging this series. Hope to see more!
Im weirdly obsessed with the game rn. Though ive also always been fascinated by Crusty Gameboy and later gba ports like R-Type, Contra 3 and Doom
I also still miss printed game manuals to this day
Adventures tricky. Mechanically it's simple, most of the stage and enemy designs are built around the mechanics appropriately, but the performance is awful. Give it responsive controls and the game, while simple, works and is fun (a romhack fixes this and changes the walk speed). If Adventure was in the Belmont's Revenge engine it'd be a more pleasing experience.
As a videogame on its own, its a gauntlet that pushes players skills to their absolute limits. As a Castlevania game, it is the best sounding but worst playing game I ever tried. I love your review though, I think it was perfectly fair.
It's especially bizarre it turned out so awful despite having two legends of 16 bit action games, Maegawa (treasure) and Nakazato (rka, contra 3 & HC) working on it.
A Castlevania review that's uploaded on my birthday, how neat!
Anyways, Castlevania: The Adventure is easily one of the worst games in the series. It's a shame that it's much better remake is stuck in WiiWare purgatory, cuz I'd love to actually play it.
Having actually played Adventure Rebirth, it's a great game and it's a huge shame it isn't currently available. However calling it a remake of Adventure is like calling Super Castlevania IV a remake of Castlevania for the NES. It's a retelling of the same story, but a completely different game.
Its not the worst one. Haunted Castle exists.
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0:50 lol at the spikes.jpg slowly chasing you
0:47 that platforming SHOULD be easy if it wasn't for stiff controls,since there's no rewind the load & save trick is essential to finish it,also everyone knows the only games that saved the gameboy were the mario land games & more specifically tetris & the pokemon games,these are facts.
6:51 unless you’re looking for accuracy.
I was so excited to get Castlevania The Adventure when I was a kid. I had only had my Gameboy for about a year & loved the NES Castlevania games. After getting the game, I remember trying to convince myself that it was good, even though I was so disappointed. I agree about the box art though; it’s badass
Would it be a sin to say that I genuinely like this game? :3
I think a lot of the level design is pretty neat, the third level with the falling ceiling part is my favorite. And the music is top tier, I love the soundtracks of both Christopher games so much. While playing it, I never actually really noticed just how slow Christopher’s walking is, but playing CV1 after it made it feel like Simon was sprinting in that game lol XD. Besides, his speed does make it a little easier to judge some jumps since it’s easier to see where his toes are on a platform during his walking animation, since some jumps you really have to do when he’s got like a single pixel still on the edge. The timing is fucking PRECISE though for sure; I’ll never judge anyone for not liking the game because it’s definitely a niche taste even just for that reason alone. It’s definitely not a forgiving game (TwT ). But the difficulty had me kinda pumped for some reason??? Energized even? Locked in??????? I guess I also have to thank this game for just drastically improving my platforming skills cause again I played CV1 after beating it and nearly no hit the game up until the Death battle hahahajfkshsk X,,,,,D Idk, I enjoyed it, I’ve played it a couple times :3. I told a bunch of friends I had fun with it and they recommended I play Dark Souls lmao.
I will 100% say that I do really enjoy Belmont’s Revenge equally if not more! It definitely takes all the things The Adventure did right and concepts it didn’t and improves upon them, at the trade off of difficultly, and I loooove Belmont’s Revenge. Literally one of the most underrated classicvanias in the series and it’s so criminal that it is.
Idk how to end this comment, so cool to see you review The Adventure even if you found it boring!!!!!!! Sincerely, a rare Christopher Belmont fan :3!!!!!
I just beat this on my GBA and it was BRUTAL. Easily the most painful, frustrating game I’ve ever played on GB. Possibly the most frustrating game I’ve ever played…and I just beat Ghosts n’ Goblins on original hardware as well. The music made repeating the levels over and over slightly more bearable, but the only reason I persisted was so this damn game wouldn’t beat me lol. Am I glad I beat it? Yes. Would I recommend it to anyone except the most grizzled Castlevania fans? Nope.
What I want to know is, did you just put the script in comic sans for the bit? Or did you actually write your script in comic sans?
One is mildly funnier than the other, so this is important information.
The only one with no sub weapons.
Comic Sans!?
You absolute legend.
In the annoying platforming in the first level you made a good reference without you noticing it😂🤣its like a song since you have to jump every two paces(one two jump one two jump)🤣😂🤣
A ywar later and no belmonts revenge 0/10 retrospective
This game was absolutely terrible. If a game disrespects and wastes the players time it doesn’t deserve to be played without save states.
Well GameBoy games were still better than Tiger handhelds but yeah they were generally bad so I never had one. I have this game in the Castlevania collection. It’s beyond terrible. Should have never been released. Everything about it is a nightmare.
Alot of way better gameboy games came out later in its lifespan
belmont's revenge is good. a massive improvement
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Ayo that title 🤨📸
Lol
by the way, dont play Dracula's Curse, play original Akumajou Densetsu - and take Alucard's path, you will be surprised
Idk, the bs difficulty in the Western localization kinda is what makes it satysfying to beat. Though JP version has more impressive music
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@@eightcoins4401 try punchout "difficult?" modification, use save states, and say what you think after you beat first baldbull.
If the adventure is the worst to you idk what to tell you. It has got a decent soundtrack and some interesting ideas. For a first gameboy game it is not the worst. BY ANY MEANS. There's far worse. Like the n64 games.
or legends
Castlevania64 isnt that bad. Id argue its actually pretty good albeit rushed and janky
Id honestly argue it got better Platforming than Adventure. An early 3d platformer not being as janky when it comes to platforming says alot about Adventure
I don't think that Rebirth is a good remake. A better game? Ehh, maybe, though playing it on Hard was some of the least fun I've ever had with a classic Castlevania, but it throws out almost everything that made Adventure the game it is - the platforming of Stage 3 and it being mixed with combat in Stage 4, despite flaws and control issues, was fun and refreshing, while Rebirth throws out basically all of the original level design for the sake of a bunch of fanservice (almost every midboss is just there so there can be more Castlevania staples, but none of them are fun to fight in Rebirth) and filler, coupled with platforming sections that are just as annoying on Hard but arguably with less consistency. After replaying it a few times, I find Stage 3 and 4 of the original Adventure to be some of the more fun platforming segments in the series due to requiring high precision and memorization, but with barely any random elements, and while the game has a ton of flaws (poorly programmed, controls are unsatisfying, whip downgrades are annoying, recycled segments early on) I really wouldn't say it's that bad.
Not to mention that Rebirth also has none of the music from the original, aside from a rendition of Battle of the Holy that gets unused, which is a big shame.
Wow. You kids today just plain suck at games. No offense, but its' true. I beat this game on my friends Game Boy as a teen. I still play through it from time to time even to this day. It is a pretty cool Castlevania game that had some unique features such as the use of climbing ropes instead of steps along with some pretty cool level design. Great soundtrack, cool enemies and even some hidden power up rooms.
No. The platforming was that bad.
The game isnt really that hard, just annoying and janky which quickly tests your patience.
Skill issue
I'm sorry but my nostalgia for this game is so powerful i simply cannot see any flaws 🤍