Such a masterpiece from '91! Great soundtrack, nice graphics and very good gameplay - SC4 is my favourite Castlevania and one of my personal all time favourite games!
Dunno if it is the best, but it is one of the best for sure. My top 10 SNES games also include Actraiser and Super Ghouls & Ghosts, the entire Star Wars trilogy, and others I can't remember now.
From that era, this games ending was still the most memorable as a kid, I remember it being so hard, and the reward being that end theme song with the end credits showing you a highlights of all the different levels.
Same! Can vividly remember first time beating it. The way you had to fight Slogra, Gaiden, Death and then Dracula was challenging and fun. They really played up the ending with little details like the candles being lit one by one after you defeat Death on the path to Dracula. The build up following into the ending theme was perfect!
I still pay this game till this day. The best 2D Castlevania game in my opinion. And the music is amazing! I always liked playing from level to level instead of playing in an huge map where you always have to back travel constantly.
I loved this as a child but over the years, I'll be honest, I leaned more towards Rondo of Blood once I had access to it. After playing this hack and really thinking about the innovations and the impact this game has made over the years, I have a newfound appreciation and respect for it. This one has without a doubt one of my favorite Grim Reaper fights
I've never felt like this is a Castlevania game, but a game in its own series, a spinoff of Castlevania that plays very differently, much like Mega Man X is to the Mega Man series. It's fantastic, but yeah it doesn't really play anything like the other castlevania games. My favourite of whet I guess we'd call the classic castlevania series is probably Bloodlines for genesis, because that takes the NES gameplay to its logical conclusion and is obviously a graphical upgrade. It's also a much much quicker game, cos my only real problem with Super Castlevania is how slow it feels. And yeah Rondo of Blood is probably objectively the best classic castlevania game. Actually maybe I'd say that's my favourite, it's just really bloody difficult lol. But it's everything that's great about castlevania, but it also fixes every single issue that classic castlevania has. For example, if you get knocked back by an enemy into a bottomless pit then, well, it turns out there aren't bottomless pits. Instead of dying, you fall into a brand new area, and you keep going. So it rewards replaying the game because its absolutely enormous and has so many different branching paths. But it keeps the basic premise of having a horizontal whip, which I feel is actually better than having a multi-directional whip for the same reason having a horizontal blaster in mega man is better than the later 2.5 mega man x games that let you shoot every direction and suffered as a result, like the PS2 mega man x games. Having the horizontal weapons like that gives games like these a tactical aspect to them. It's one of those things where limitation breeds creativity, both for the developer and for the player. Though again I do still love super castlevania 4. But yeah I just feel as the mega man games are to the mega man x games, the castlevania games are to the super castlevania game. And that's the most depressing part, there was only ever one super castlevania game, and shortly afterwards they moved into making metroid style games instead and never went back to make a sequel to super castlevania in the same style, meaning we have to rely on romhacks to play more of it. But yeah it plays very differently from every other classic castlevania, so I don't think of it as being in the same series. It's its own thing, and it's a masterpiece. And so is bloodlines, and rondo of Blood, and castlevania 1 and 3. Castlevania 2 is alright if you follow a walk through but that's a pain in the arse, and let's just pretend Dracula X doesn't exist. Also Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and its sequel, which are two games in the classic castlevania NES style with NES graphics, are absolutely astonishingly great. I don't like metroidvanias so I haven't played the full 2.5 Bloodstained game that was made by the guy who made Symphony of the Night, but people say it's great if you're into that. But the spinoffs of that, the Curse of the Moon games, are as good as if not better than castlevania 1 and 3 for NES. They take everything great about them and just make more of it, so you play as 4 characters you can flip between on the fly, and in the 2nd game you play as 4 new characters (and then if you beat the game you unlock the 4 characters from the first game and can play through it with those 4, too, it's great)
This is an awesome comment. I can definitely see your logic with Mega Man and the X series, especially with the intro saying that Simon is once again fighting Dracula and his ass is only supposed to wake up every 100 years. I had this theory as a kid where This actually was a sequel to Simon's Quest with Dracula's hand popping out the grave at the end (The Headstones kinda Match, at least in the Japanese version with the cross on top) Simon has to go back for a 3rd time and this time Dracula can't escape because of the sunlight, gets burnt to a crisp, end of Simon's Story. Bloodlines is one I didn't grow up playing, I did try a color hack of it a few years ago and I enjoyed the story and the traveling. It felt pretty stiff but overall, it was pretty good, even picking it up for the first time in later life. Rondo is always going to be my personal favorite. The Graphics, The stages, the music, the branching paths, the replay value, and I loved the throwbacks, like fighting Shaft and it's a gauntlet match against the original bosses while the old boss music plays.
This is probably my favorite Castelvania, the atmosphere the music the whole adventure. What an amazing game. This game was serius about its themes, no anime bullshit and weird stuff added to it. It was a lone hero against never ending evil. I still play the OST while driving around. Thank you bro
Amen. Yeah this one didn't play around and I know exactly what you're talking about. Personally I wouldn't mind a little anime influence since I grew up on Vampire Hunter D, but its not even GOOD Anime. Its ultra generic americanized. Stay tuned tho. I got some hack coming as i go through the series that actually fixes that issue in the DS games :)
I think an anime-like or werstern cartoon-like desing for the characters would kill the game's atmosphere. This is one of the best, if not the best Castlevania game the way it is, only rivalled perhaps by Symphony of the Night for PSF
That western Anime style kinda ruined the DS games for alot of people. Thankfully there's some hacks out there that fix that as much as possible and revert the ugly character images to something more inline with SOTN's art style
This game doesnt get mentioned enough for the soundtrack, absolute masterwork, Sonic 1 and 2 level if not better, the 1st level has so many switch ups and elements I had not heard anything in a game like that before then
I've definitely found a renewed appreciation for IV. Personally Rondo is always going to be at the top of the list for me, but as far as legit games we got in America, this was without a doubt one of the best videogames ever released
Simon walking like he's going to the other side of the house to smack his kid in the head for talking back. Seriously, I always thought his walk animation was so badass in this game.
The best Castlevania of all time. The graphics, music, ambience, scaling/mode 7. One of the first and still finest games I played on the SNES. 42 now, remember that feeling of awe like it was yesterday in early 90’s.
It was totally mind blowing back in the day. It was one of the last times we all sat around as a family and went "Whoa" whenever they showed off something new, like going into the background via the gates, or the spinning room, or the rotating room and the attention to detail really was immaculate
@@DaRealKing303I know right. The problem with 2 is that when to game was translated, The translation text was screwed during the process. Sotn is my first favorite,Followed by this one.
Indeed, I do agree that Bloodlust still puts a very fair fight between Sega/snes, realñy wish bloodlines had the scrapped stages, it's truly an amazing game and it's up there along CV 3 and 4 on my opinion (regarding cartridge Castlevanias)
The nostalgia I feel once the song plays after Simon grabs that last orb after defeating Dracula is extremely powerful, it gets me everytime I play Super Castlevania lV today.
The two standout moments to me are that ominous tone that plays after killing Grim and the torches are lighting and the organs hitting after Half of Dracula's health is gone. Totally amazing examples of the music as a character itself
being able to swing your whip around in all direction was great choice the fact they got rid of it for later installments was a crimes against humanity and made no sense.
It really added so many more possibilities of platforming and gameplay future installments and it's a shame they completely ditched the gimmick like that. The closest I can think of where they somewhat did it again, was in the Genesis one but it was so underutilized that you forget it even existed in the first place. Things like the revolving room and even the first time you swing like Indiana Jones was mind blowing to us as kids
The philosophy of Castlevania was a side-scrolling platformer _horror_ game. IIRC, the devs went on record to say they removed the 8-directional whipping in future installments because the whip was "too good" and took away from the horror aspect of the series since you always had the good options the whip provided to fall back on in any scenario. Ironically, Super Castlevania was _never_ rated as an easy game, thanks to the amazing level design and challenges they provided. To us gamers, we love having fair options and reasonable challenges to allow us to use these options fully. Truly, Super Casltevania IV is a gem of fun and challenge, that I suspect most gamers who've played it haven't actually beaten it. I'm no developer, so I don't know if designing future for new Castlevania experiences with 8-directional whipping that is challenging and rewarding to players is "worth" the headache of keeping it vs reverting to unidirectional whipping. At least, it does give Simon a sense of uniqueness not seen elsewhere in his family, save technically for Julius Belmont that we have _yet_ to get his game where he battles Dracula. I think I can safely speak for all Castlevania fans that we get this game. It'd be neat if this prime Belmont would possess all the abilities previous Belmonts possessed: item crash, martial arts, full whip control, and more. One that still gives fans that challenge and sense of the Belmont family finally going all out to cause Dracula to do so as well.
That Cemetery scene definitely was unsettling. What got me as a kid, was Dracula's skeleton face in Simon's Quest and those damn owls in Dracula's curse
Me too, I'm 45 and love this game, for all the stuff. But the music selection is in another level. The bosse's themes are excepcional and unforgetable!
I get to go back in time when I play this on my rebuilt Super Nintendo. Back to the age of 11. At least it feels that way. Back to better days! This put a smile on my face to see this version. Thank you for sharing.
This and the first Castlevania were always my favorites, they had a satisfying difficulty that kept you coming back to do better than last time while not being ballcrushingly hard like CV3. Plus the gameplay in both will never stop being satisfying to me, carefully timing your whip swings and your jump combined with the extra crunchy whip sounds is just marvellous.
It's a beautiful feeling when you get those whip swings down perfect. I wish they experimented more with the changing planes dynamic like in stage 1 with the gates
@@FatalVisionTV The only stage I don't like in CV4 is that dungeon level full of instant death spikes, because it sends the pacing grinding to a halt. The rest of the stages are all awesome, the dungeon level is the only bad stage of the bunch.
I remember playing this for the first time and really pushed myself to go through the whole game, finding hidden walls and power-ups and even did a playthrough without taking a hit. The good times when graphics and music were most sublime by those standards.
@@jasonleveck8546 - It's a debatable statement, yet one with profound, and forlorn sobering thoughts. The lament of art as a form, but we can always see the joys of them in the form of indie games, as passion still remains within them.
@@BigBrotherGnE Indie games have definitely been carrying that torch. A lot of it for myself, is that i'm still chasing that dragon of those younger days. I know I can't ever get'em back, but I still wanna have those experiences again.
@@jasonleveck8546 - We can only cling to nostalgia for so long until the bowline breaks and we swim to shore, entering another world. My biggest fear, in due time, is when the games we love are no longer ours to own.
Indy games are definitely where it's at these days. There's this one game I checked out recently on Steam called FAITH and I can't get over how faithful it is to the old DOS style games but it's also loaded with jarring visuals and the horror elements are fantastic
Great video, this is a hack worth showing off. Although one correction to make from the description: The chain whip sfx heard here are from the western version, *not* Japanese version. Everything else is legit!
@@FatalVisionTV Yeah the Japanese version is definitely cleaner and less clunky sounding (though I can see some preferring the 'heaviness' of it). Thanks for being awesome.
Still such a stunning game after 47 years of age, the nostalgia comes flooding back. Such memories. And that soundtrack, wow. Thanks for the playthrough. Always loved the bloodier Japanese version which I got years later. Great stuff 🤙 Barry, London
I enjoy watching master gamers like this. They make the game look so easy. It took me a long time to beat certain levels and this gamer does it effortlessly.
Thank you so much for watching and the kind words. I've been playing this game for over 30 years and there's still parts where this game can totally kick my ass. The only reason why I'm even halfway as decent, is because this game was the only way I could get my daughters to sit still when they were little.
to FatalVisionTV: You go so fast, it looks like you're good on all levels. Level B-2 is a difficult level though. I think you died on level 4-4 ( 24:14 ) because you didn't use the boomerang. But you were one hit away from winning.
to FATALVISION: That's great! After you do another playthrough video for Super Castlevania IV, please do a video for Caslevania: Dracula X. That also is a good game for Super Nintendo.
This game was such a great showcase for the then-new SNES. So many cool effects and amazing soundtrack. Still just as impressive to me more than 30 years after first seeing it.
Same. This was Nintendo coming out the gate swinging (no pun intended for stage 1) and showcasing just what the SNES was capable of and damn, they really did it well.
The final Bosses and the Music when you face the Grim Reaper the anxiety in the atmosphere its feels like you we're Simon Belmont at that moment feeling the pressure of the moment.
One of the best SNES and CV games of all time. Honestly, the music of CV 1 (Wicked Child, etc...) is still the greatest for me, but 2 & 4 are a close 2nd.
My favorite soundtrack out of the entire franchise, is Rondo of Blood's but the first 4: CV1: Wicked Child CV2: Inside the Castle CV3: Aquarius CV4: The Cavern Music
I played this when i was a kid. It's amazing to think that the snes was so ahead of its time in music and graphics. This is possibly the greatest castlevania ever, SOTN second in the list.
@djfortunomusic my whole family was blown away when this came out. When I was 12, I thought it was the most amazing thing ever, I'm pushing 40 and... I still feel the same
He then got back his boomerang with a 2 and 3 token behind a hidden wall. It was at this moment I realized, this was not a demonstration... it was a performance!
Now this is 2D Castlevania at the top, i have tried the metroidvania games & I can't dig into it I still prefer this 2D style left to right castlevania game. I just wish there's more of castlevania games like this in this modern age but as we know konami fell off super bad
Konami really screwed the pooch. This is why I'm glad there's rom hacking. Yeah there aren't official releases, but I've seen some amazing ones that really stand out
21:51 Look at those Mode 7 graphics!! I remember watching my older brother play through this a lot. Personally I don't think I ever made it much farther than the hydra in level 2, just couldn't get used to the jumping. It's a good upgrade to the original game though.
I used to keep my copy of super castlevania on the top of my stack of Nintendo games because I loved the artwork on it lol 80s fantasy art like dnd and magic the gatherings original cards , the castlevania art work . So freakin cool man , I hope the classic style of George remero and Al the artists of that type during tha era start to get more attention again and people in the entertainment industry realize how big of an untapped market that could be . Nostalgic horror fans and fantasy fans are itching for a great adventure
SF2 is always a classic. Super Metroid was awesome, For some reason I could never bring myself to finish it, which is weird because I used to play the hell outta the Gameboy Game
I swear, how did it go from this to Dracula X? I beat both as a kid and was more stoked to play this game as often as I can. The only thing X had going for it was better music. Well, Konami did release Dracula X Chronicles and that was way more desirable. Granted, it came out a little more than a decade later and had SotN and the original Rondo of Blood games packed with it. Thanks for sharing your gameplay!
That's what I'm sayin! I've always felt that with X, they started porting Rondo and they realized halfway through they couldn't do it but they were already committed and had to make SOMETHING. People can tell me that it's an original title til they're blue in the face, but look how Metal Gear turned out when they went from MSX to NES. It's my pleasure, Thanks for watching. We got way more castlevania to explore soon
Cannot help but to think of Dragoth Belmont's No Hit playthrough guide Since it was my last time watching this Majestic beauty of a Classic This is for you Simon Belmont 🦇🖤
I dunno if I could pull off a no hitter for this one, The OG castlevania, definitely. I'm gonna have to look up his run because for a game of this scope, it sounds like a sight to behold
When you upgrade your character’s intelligence, you also modify your cpu intelligence. That worked for me in Symbian, but it needed maximum upgrade. The main benefit, is better browsing results, finding websites easier during searching. That is the “luck”, finding magical powerup, that is the “magic”. Same with Diablo 2 and Nfs, luck is the luxury cars. Processor is updated in only few steps, but it needs a lot of work with the games. Anyway, it’s worth it.
Playing this game for the first time back in the 90s was magical, and its still my fave Castlevania game. One thing I never got tho was the entering of the name in the beginning, there isnt even a score/ranking system lol. My name everytime F**kHed lol
Still one of my favorites if not the favorite of all time. Wish they included Dracula, Frankenstein Monster, Medusa, the Mummy in the credits. Still can’t understand why? Perhaps copyright infringement? Lastly I really wanted a good wolf man/wear wolf battle in this version since I got it back in 1991 the year I graduated High School. Great play through. Can’t believe the brick guy Golem got you, I can tell you have experience with the game. I still get killed from time to time as well from stupid mistakes. Especially the last 3 levels. My version of this original Japanese version doesn’t work even though I paid good money for it to work. So your play through helps a lot. Thanks!!
That Golem was a heart breaker for me. Well tbh, I was pissed. I thought I had him XD I noticed in the last video (Simon's Quest Re-Translation) that the original trilogy had this cool Film reel motif going on and they just dropped it. I liked it and I never knew why they just forgot about it and you're right, It would have been cool to have a nice wolfman fight in this one. Rondo had a great fight and for how much I hated Chronicles, That clock tower fight were the wolf ripped off the clock hand and used it as a weapon was really cool
If I don’t have the Cross/Boomerang subweapon the man/woman ghost boss can really be tough for me, same goes for the Mummy and Frankenstein Monster. If I don’t get my timing right getting to him where the floor tiles disappear can be a real pisser too. Along with the big gear. It’s still such a real great game. It and Sega Genesis Ghouls & Ghosts are my true go to when I feel like playing.
@@joshbrekke6374 The axe also works well with the ghost dancers and the golem. The cross is the best subweapon against the golem, but the axe is the best against the ghost dancers. Against the mummy, you should use the holy water.
@@joshbrekke6374 Ghouls n' Ghosts for the Genesis (and arcade) is really great. Just as good as Super Gn'G for the SNES. But all games of this franchise are freakin' hard!! I never finished any of them.
For anyone interested in short, it is the Japanese version in English. Personally the language isn't and issue in this game as it is early Castlevania......
@PaulGirdlestone there is that, but curiously, its missing the Japanese versions chain whip sound (which was way better) But it's also got a nifty slowdown fix so it runs a lil smoother
I like games where you go from one level to the next. When playing Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, I would get tired of going from one place to the other and not knowing where to go. It's a good game, but I don't know where to go.
Wait, how do you get rid of the notorious slowdown, or ”framedrops” as it’s called today? For example, the Hydra boss has always played at like 5fps for me, even on emulators. And the rotating level as well. I assume it was because the SNES simply wasn’t strong enough to have too much happening on the screen, but here it looks perfectly smooth. How did you do that? 😮
@3X73RM it's a small hack that was included in this patch and it really worked like a charm. There's a link for the hack in the description and If it comes from sea d romance ;) it's prepatched. Just drop in snes9x and enjoy
In this version when you pick up a different sub weapon it doesn't matter and you don't even really care. In the first Castlevania that shit would of driven you fucking insane.
I used to wonder the same thing as well. The one thing that always drove me nuts, was what do all the monsters do in the off season? Do they go out to other games for extra pay or do they just hang out in the ruins and read woodprint newspapers while smoking stogies and reminiscing about the good times?
I wish they would redo Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. Keep the game the same and just add the graphics of Super Castlevania IV. If Castlevania II: Simon's Quest had the graphics and music of Super Castlevania IV, it would be an incredible game to play again. Someone tell Konami to remake it.
If what I received a few days ago is legit, your wish just might have come true. Originally there was a SV4 like remake out called Castlevania Revamped and it was done very very well but I've heard rumblings of new stuff coming out
Sorry for the late replay, I'm trying to reply to everyone as much as I can castlevania-ii-simon-quest-revamped.en.uptodown.com/windows This is a legit download and I just tested it, no issues as far as virus's or malware, it's safe
There's a bit more than that lol. There isn't anything groundbreaking here as far as changes go. I'm putting together a list of what and where the changes were. So far, crosses and religious icons were removed off tombstones and caskets in the intro, stage 1 and 2 and a few other levels. Statues in the ballroom level had more clothing added and the dungeon level, the liquid was changed from blood to green meteor shit
In japan, the story of SC4 is actually a retelling of the first Castlevania. Which is so cool. I never knew why they would change it on the USA and UK releases
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The music is some of the best EVER in a video game. I rented this soo many times from my video store as a kid.
At 44, this is still my all time favorite game. Perfect synergy of music and graphics.
This masterpiece from'91 is one of my favourites too, and definitely the best Castlevania game!
42 dark room watching the intro still give me goosebumps
@@kegaan I remember the chandeliers area made me feel really uneasy at a kid. This game truly pushed the envelope for it's time
Game was way ahead of it's time, a phenomenal 16bit experience!
I'll never forget turning it on the first time.. truly the golden age of gaming!
Such a timeless classic. Top 10 best snes games ever.
Agreed. It may not be my favorite castlevania but as far as SNES games go, definitely at the top of the list
Such a masterpiece from '91! Great soundtrack, nice graphics and very good gameplay - SC4 is my favourite Castlevania and one of my personal all time favourite games!
Agreed, my man.
Dunno if it is the best, but it is one of the best for sure. My top 10 SNES games also include Actraiser and Super Ghouls & Ghosts, the entire Star Wars trilogy, and others I can't remember now.
Actraiser is good. Part 2 is almost as good. I actually have two carts of super ghouls and ghosts. Lol
From that era, this games ending was still the most memorable as a kid, I remember it being so hard, and the reward being that end theme song with the end credits showing you a highlights of all the different levels.
Same! Can vividly remember first time beating it. The way you had to fight Slogra, Gaiden, Death and then Dracula was challenging and fun. They really played up the ending with little details like the candles being lit one by one after you defeat Death on the path to Dracula. The build up following into the ending theme was perfect!
I still pay this game till this day. The best 2D Castlevania game in my opinion. And the music is amazing! I always liked playing from level to level instead of playing in an huge map where you always have to back travel constantly.
I loved this as a child but over the years, I'll be honest, I leaned more towards Rondo of Blood once I had access to it. After playing this hack and really thinking about the innovations and the impact this game has made over the years, I have a newfound appreciation and respect for it.
This one has without a doubt one of my favorite Grim Reaper fights
I've never felt like this is a Castlevania game, but a game in its own series, a spinoff of Castlevania that plays very differently, much like Mega Man X is to the Mega Man series. It's fantastic, but yeah it doesn't really play anything like the other castlevania games.
My favourite of whet I guess we'd call the classic castlevania series is probably Bloodlines for genesis, because that takes the NES gameplay to its logical conclusion and is obviously a graphical upgrade. It's also a much much quicker game, cos my only real problem with Super Castlevania is how slow it feels.
And yeah Rondo of Blood is probably objectively the best classic castlevania game. Actually maybe I'd say that's my favourite, it's just really bloody difficult lol. But it's everything that's great about castlevania, but it also fixes every single issue that classic castlevania has. For example, if you get knocked back by an enemy into a bottomless pit then, well, it turns out there aren't bottomless pits. Instead of dying, you fall into a brand new area, and you keep going. So it rewards replaying the game because its absolutely enormous and has so many different branching paths. But it keeps the basic premise of having a horizontal whip, which I feel is actually better than having a multi-directional whip for the same reason having a horizontal blaster in mega man is better than the later 2.5 mega man x games that let you shoot every direction and suffered as a result, like the PS2 mega man x games. Having the horizontal weapons like that gives games like these a tactical aspect to them. It's one of those things where limitation breeds creativity, both for the developer and for the player. Though again I do still love super castlevania 4.
But yeah I just feel as the mega man games are to the mega man x games, the castlevania games are to the super castlevania game. And that's the most depressing part, there was only ever one super castlevania game, and shortly afterwards they moved into making metroid style games instead and never went back to make a sequel to super castlevania in the same style, meaning we have to rely on romhacks to play more of it.
But yeah it plays very differently from every other classic castlevania, so I don't think of it as being in the same series. It's its own thing, and it's a masterpiece. And so is bloodlines, and rondo of Blood, and castlevania 1 and 3. Castlevania 2 is alright if you follow a walk through but that's a pain in the arse, and let's just pretend Dracula X doesn't exist.
Also Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and its sequel, which are two games in the classic castlevania NES style with NES graphics, are absolutely astonishingly great. I don't like metroidvanias so I haven't played the full 2.5 Bloodstained game that was made by the guy who made Symphony of the Night, but people say it's great if you're into that. But the spinoffs of that, the Curse of the Moon games, are as good as if not better than castlevania 1 and 3 for NES. They take everything great about them and just make more of it, so you play as 4 characters you can flip between on the fly, and in the 2nd game you play as 4 new characters (and then if you beat the game you unlock the 4 characters from the first game and can play through it with those 4, too, it's great)
This is an awesome comment. I can definitely see your logic with Mega Man and the X series, especially with the intro saying that Simon is once again fighting Dracula and his ass is only supposed to wake up every 100 years.
I had this theory as a kid where This actually was a sequel to Simon's Quest with Dracula's hand popping out the grave at the end (The Headstones kinda Match, at least in the Japanese version with the cross on top) Simon has to go back for a 3rd time and this time Dracula can't escape because of the sunlight, gets burnt to a crisp, end of Simon's Story.
Bloodlines is one I didn't grow up playing, I did try a color hack of it a few years ago and I enjoyed the story and the traveling. It felt pretty stiff but overall, it was pretty good, even picking it up for the first time in later life.
Rondo is always going to be my personal favorite. The Graphics, The stages, the music, the branching paths, the replay value, and I loved the throwbacks, like fighting Shaft and it's a gauntlet match against the original bosses while the old boss music plays.
This doesn't hold a flame to Castlevania 2 or 3 on the NES
This is probably my favorite Castelvania, the atmosphere the music the whole adventure. What an amazing game. This game was serius about its themes, no anime bullshit and weird stuff added to it. It was a lone hero against never ending evil.
I still play the OST while driving around. Thank you bro
Hehehe yes like Rondo of Blood with Richter Belmont does Cheese anime scenes suck Balls for sure very anoying.
Amen. Yeah this one didn't play around and I know exactly what you're talking about. Personally I wouldn't mind a little anime influence since I grew up on Vampire Hunter D, but its not even GOOD Anime. Its ultra generic americanized.
Stay tuned tho. I got some hack coming as i go through the series that actually fixes that issue in the DS games :)
I think an anime-like or werstern cartoon-like desing for the characters would kill the game's atmosphere. This is one of the best, if not the best Castlevania game the way it is, only rivalled perhaps by Symphony of the Night for PSF
That western Anime style kinda ruined the DS games for alot of people. Thankfully there's some hacks out there that fix that as much as possible and revert the ugly character images to something more inline with SOTN's art style
Cant agree more with the '' no anime bullsh*t'''
just watching as another excuse to hear the awesome soundtrack ❤️
We got nonstop castlevania music blasting here at some point lol
All these years later the mode 7 effects are still really cool! 🙂
It was totally mind blowing as a kid to see it and it still holds up really really well
Those chandeliers drove me nuts, you mess up and you got to do it all over again.
GG, my man! I'm done with 1/3 of video,beginning of stage 5 is next if I read correctly,and I will come back later to watch the rest.
Thank you sir. More is coming soon
1:10:45 - That moment hurt so much. This game is really unforgiving at times.
This game doesnt get mentioned enough for the soundtrack, absolute masterwork, Sonic 1 and 2 level if not better, the 1st level has so many switch ups and elements I had not heard anything in a game like that before then
I've definitely found a renewed appreciation for IV. Personally Rondo is always going to be at the top of the list for me, but as far as legit games we got in America, this was without a doubt one of the best videogames ever released
Still the best Castlevania.
SoTN destroys this
Simon walking like he's going to the other side of the house to smack his kid in the head for talking back. Seriously, I always thought his walk animation was so badass in this game.
I laughed waaaay too hard at this XD
Perfect description. lol
Chad walk?
Dr. Livesey walk?
"I swear to God when I get my boomerang cross on that boy, I'm gonna whip him into shape!"
The best Castlevania of all time. The graphics, music, ambience, scaling/mode 7. One of the first and still finest games I played on the SNES. 42 now, remember that feeling of awe like it was yesterday in early 90’s.
It was totally mind blowing back in the day. It was one of the last times we all sat around as a family and went "Whoa" whenever they showed off something new, like going into the background via the gates, or the spinning room, or the rotating room and the attention to detail really was immaculate
2 and 3 on the NES and SOTN are way better Castlevania games than this one.
@@toddburgess5056 no but SOTN is.
@@DaRealKing303I know right. The problem with 2 is that when to game was translated, The translation text was screwed during the process. Sotn is my first favorite,Followed by this one.
@@FatalVisionTVI know right
It's the best game on Super nes for me.
Absolutely agree
It's one of the best games on any system imo!
Indeed, I do agree that Bloodlust still puts a very fair fight between Sega/snes, realñy wish bloodlines had the scrapped stages, it's truly an amazing game and it's up there along CV 3 and 4 on my opinion (regarding cartridge Castlevanias)
Mto bom mas não o melhor jogo do sistema kkk
The nostalgia I feel once the song plays after Simon grabs that last orb after defeating Dracula is extremely powerful, it gets me everytime I play Super Castlevania lV today.
The two standout moments to me are that ominous tone that plays after killing Grim and the torches are lighting and the organs hitting after Half of Dracula's health is gone. Totally amazing examples of the music as a character itself
@@aminparker01 it is on the switch online.
Dang when the organs kick in and the music starts up you just cant beat that music man!
I love that "Things just got real" moments with the music
being able to swing your whip around in all direction was great choice the fact they got rid of it for later installments was a crimes against humanity and made no sense.
It really added so many more possibilities of platforming and gameplay future installments and it's a shame they completely ditched the gimmick like that. The closest I can think of where they somewhat did it again, was in the Genesis one but it was so underutilized that you forget it even existed in the first place.
Things like the revolving room and even the first time you swing like Indiana Jones was mind blowing to us as kids
@@FatalVisionTV I remember you can do that if you play as Richter in Sotn
The philosophy of Castlevania was a side-scrolling platformer _horror_ game. IIRC, the devs went on record to say they removed the 8-directional whipping in future installments because the whip was "too good" and took away from the horror aspect of the series since you always had the good options the whip provided to fall back on in any scenario.
Ironically, Super Castlevania was _never_ rated as an easy game, thanks to the amazing level design and challenges they provided. To us gamers, we love having fair options and reasonable challenges to allow us to use these options fully. Truly, Super Casltevania IV is a gem of fun and challenge, that I suspect most gamers who've played it haven't actually beaten it.
I'm no developer, so I don't know if designing future for new Castlevania experiences with 8-directional whipping that is challenging and rewarding to players is "worth" the headache of keeping it vs reverting to unidirectional whipping. At least, it does give Simon a sense of uniqueness not seen elsewhere in his family, save technically for Julius Belmont that we have _yet_ to get his game where he battles Dracula. I think I can safely speak for all Castlevania fans that we get this game. It'd be neat if this prime Belmont would possess all the abilities previous Belmonts possessed: item crash, martial arts, full whip control, and more. One that still gives fans that challenge and sense of the Belmont family finally going all out to cause Dracula to do so as well.
The intro legit scared tf outta me as a kid when my older brother would play this. he was 10 i was only 5 at the time.
That Cemetery scene definitely was unsettling. What got me as a kid, was Dracula's skeleton face in Simon's Quest and those damn owls in Dracula's curse
Me too, I'm 45 and love this game, for all the stuff. But the music selection is in another level. The bosse's themes are excepcional and unforgetable!
The best of all... Simon! Great game!
It takes a real sadist to pick a whip as your main weapon
The music that plays in the caverns is very beautiful.
It's one of my favorite tracks in the entire game
I get to go back in time when I play this on my rebuilt Super Nintendo.
Back to the age of 11. At least it feels that way. Back to better days!
This put a smile on my face to see this version.
Thank you for sharing.
Bloody tears and vampire killer two of my all time favorite sound great!
The whip is so effective here that the sub weapons are almost never used!
That 8 direction whip does all the work
Love the first song in the beginning of the game.
This and the first Castlevania were always my favorites, they had a satisfying difficulty that kept you coming back to do better than last time while not being ballcrushingly hard like CV3. Plus the gameplay in both will never stop being satisfying to me, carefully timing your whip swings and your jump combined with the extra crunchy whip sounds is just marvellous.
It's a beautiful feeling when you get those whip swings down perfect. I wish they experimented more with the changing planes dynamic like in stage 1 with the gates
@@FatalVisionTV The only stage I don't like in CV4 is that dungeon level full of instant death spikes, because it sends the pacing grinding to a halt. The rest of the stages are all awesome, the dungeon level is the only bad stage of the bunch.
@@thatgamingkiwi1630 that stage pissed me off so much with the disappearing floors
Back in the day games like this left an indentation on my thumbs.
I remember playing this for the first time and really pushed myself to go through the whole game, finding hidden walls and power-ups and even did a playthrough without taking a hit.
The good times when graphics and music were most sublime by those standards.
Today all games are practically beautiful to watch, but they seem so soul-less.
@@jasonleveck8546 - It's a debatable statement, yet one with profound, and forlorn sobering thoughts. The lament of art as a form, but we can always see the joys of them in the form of indie games, as passion still remains within them.
@@BigBrotherGnE Indie games have definitely been carrying that torch. A lot of it for myself, is that i'm still chasing that dragon of those younger days. I know I can't ever get'em back, but I still wanna have those experiences again.
@@jasonleveck8546 - We can only cling to nostalgia for so long until the bowline breaks and we swim to shore, entering another world. My biggest fear, in due time, is when the games we love are no longer ours to own.
Indy games are definitely where it's at these days. There's this one game I checked out recently on Steam called FAITH and I can't get over how faithful it is to the old DOS style games but it's also loaded with jarring visuals and the horror elements are fantastic
Great video, this is a hack worth showing off. Although one correction to make from the description: The chain whip sfx heard here are from the western version, *not* Japanese version. Everything else is legit!
You're 1000% right. I think I remember hearing the original chain sound in the beta for this and it was way better. I'll make the correction now
@@FatalVisionTV Yeah the Japanese version is definitely cleaner and less clunky sounding (though I can see some preferring the 'heaviness' of it). Thanks for being awesome.
Eu não sou hack sou um profissional em fazer game
This brought back a lot of fun memories. Now I have to download the game and start playing again
The Real Super Castlevania IV Uncensored
what's uncensored about it?
@@JohnyTheWizKid Stage VIII is filled with blood.
@@aktchungrabanio6467 Ohhhh... instead of green slime?
@@JohnyTheWizKid yep
@@aktchungrabanio6467 hmm... is there a cartridge around I can look into?
so mani snes games but for me ... Castlevania IV & Demons crest Those two games have a special place in my heart.
Same!
Indeed, both are timeless classics and great masterpieces!
demon crest!!!!!? you hit me my nostalgic heart man so good tittle and cry by the never part2
OOOOOOOO We gotta do Demon Crest someday on the channel. I just upgraded my net too, so Live Streams are gonna be making a comeback as well
Still such a stunning game after 47 years of age, the nostalgia comes flooding back. Such memories. And that soundtrack, wow. Thanks for the playthrough. Always loved the bloodier Japanese version which I got years later. Great stuff 🤙
Barry, London
It truly was the perfect game for it's time. It was one of the first games we played when we got an SNES and we were all blown away by EVERYTHING
I enjoy watching master gamers like this. They make the game look so easy. It took me a long time to beat certain levels and this gamer does it effortlessly.
Thank you so much for watching and the kind words. I've been playing this game for over 30 years and there's still parts where this game can totally kick my ass. The only reason why I'm even halfway as decent, is because this game was the only way I could get my daughters to sit still when they were little.
to FatalVisionTV:
You go so fast, it looks like you're good on all levels. Level B-2 is a difficult level though. I think you died on level 4-4
( 24:14 ) because you didn't use the boomerang. But you were one hit away from winning.
to FatalVisionTV:
I think you should do another video where you don't die. In walkthrough videos you're not suppose to die.
We'll do a revisit soon
to FATALVISION:
That's great! After you do another playthrough video for Super Castlevania IV, please do a video for Caslevania: Dracula X. That also is a good game for Super Nintendo.
Wow, im not sure if i remember playing Castlevania 4 on the snes. The whip control in this game is phenomenal!
pixellated art of old games have such charm unmatched
by most of today’s.
I still love the look and there's surprisingly good games still being made today, like FAITH
My brother and I laughed whenever waggling around the flacid whip in this game. It just seemed silly, but it was such a fun mechanic.
It was nifty and an interesting time waster. I loved using it to smack away fireballs
This game was such a great showcase for the then-new SNES. So many cool effects and amazing soundtrack. Still just as impressive to me more than 30 years after first seeing it.
Same. This was Nintendo coming out the gate swinging (no pun intended for stage 1) and showcasing just what the SNES was capable of and damn, they really did it well.
My favorite game from my favorite Franchise!
The final Bosses and the Music when you face the Grim Reaper the anxiety in the atmosphere its feels like you we're Simon Belmont at that moment feeling the pressure of the moment.
Loved the music in this one.
Can't really say there was one bad track in this entire game
The biggest power move a man can do is walking up stairs backwards before he fights and kills dracula. Goddamn Simon is a chad
XD
One of the best SNES and CV games of all time. Honestly, the music of CV 1 (Wicked Child, etc...) is still the greatest for me, but 2 & 4 are a close 2nd.
My favorite soundtrack out of the entire franchise, is Rondo of Blood's but the first 4:
CV1: Wicked Child
CV2: Inside the Castle
CV3: Aquarius
CV4: The Cavern Music
I played this when i was a kid. It's amazing to think that the snes was so ahead of its time in music and graphics. This is possibly the greatest castlevania ever, SOTN second in the list.
@djfortunomusic my whole family was blown away when this came out. When I was 12, I thought it was the most amazing thing ever, I'm pushing 40 and... I still feel the same
@@FatalVisionTV 48, i feel the same!
@@djfortunomusic stick around man. We got plenty more castlevania to play. Welcome to the Monster Squad :)
That intro still gives me chills..
It’s even better with the dripping blood sequence! 🩸
The Japanese version is completely uncensored, and has different whip sounds. I prefer the japan version whip sounds as well.
I remember it being different in the original Beta version and yeah, it sounded way better
Nice~
It's so weird seeing the rotating room without slowdown. Plenty of lives lost here because of that.
I liked SOTN a lot and its derivatives a little bit, but for me nothing beats classicvanias
He then got back his boomerang with a 2 and 3 token behind a hidden wall. It was at this moment I realized, this was not a demonstration... it was a performance!
Game eu que faço
Ótimo longplay do melhor jogo da franquia Castlevania na minha opinião.
Great gameplay, man!
You are a straight gangsta at this bruh!
Love the music in this game. I played through this title dozens of times as a kid.
Now this is 2D Castlevania at the top, i have tried the metroidvania games & I can't dig into it I still prefer this 2D style left to right castlevania game.
I just wish there's more of castlevania games like this in this modern age but as we know konami fell off super bad
Konami really screwed the pooch. This is why I'm glad there's rom hacking. Yeah there aren't official releases, but I've seen some amazing ones that really stand out
Sound design kids. Take notes.
Love this game , but could never beat it. Always impressed by those that just coast through this . 😊
21:51 Look at those Mode 7 graphics!!
I remember watching my older brother play through this a lot. Personally I don't think I ever made it much farther than the hydra in level 2, just couldn't get used to the jumping. It's a good upgrade to the original game though.
Here is a video on how they did the tunnel effect, it's a combination of mode 7 and HDMA th-cam.com/video/pafOj9IrtuY/w-d-xo.html
I’ll always play this game . I’d love to see a remaster of super castlevania. Same side scrolling style just better graphics and harder bosses .
I used to keep my copy of super castlevania on the top of my stack of Nintendo games because I loved the artwork on it lol
80s fantasy art like dnd and magic the gatherings original cards , the castlevania art work . So freakin cool man , I hope the classic style of George remero and Al the artists of that type during tha era start to get more attention again and people in the entertainment industry realize how big of an untapped market that could be . Nostalgic horror fans and fantasy fans are itching for a great adventure
This, Street Fighter II: Turbo and Super Metroid are the best games ever made for the SNES. I play those games every day on my SNES mini.
SF2 is always a classic. Super Metroid was awesome, For some reason I could never bring myself to finish it, which is weird because I used to play the hell outta the Gameboy Game
16 bit Super Nes still kicks A$$ best system and era of gaming ever
This is the game I rented when I rented out (Demonstrated) the SNES when the console was released.
Best Castlevania game of all time. No doubt about it.
I swear, how did it go from this to Dracula X? I beat both as a kid and was more stoked to play this game as often as I can. The only thing X had going for it was better music. Well, Konami did release Dracula X Chronicles and that was way more desirable. Granted, it came out a little more than a decade later and had SotN and the original Rondo of Blood games packed with it. Thanks for sharing your gameplay!
That's what I'm sayin! I've always felt that with X, they started porting Rondo and they realized halfway through they couldn't do it but they were already committed and had to make SOMETHING. People can tell me that it's an original title til they're blue in the face, but look how Metal Gear turned out when they went from MSX to NES.
It's my pleasure, Thanks for watching. We got way more castlevania to explore soon
@@FatalVisionTVRondo of Blood was a CD game, so it was going to be a difficult port.
@@harlannguyen4048 It definitely was. I personally wish they would have continued with this style
Cannot help but to think of Dragoth Belmont's No Hit playthrough guide
Since it was my last time watching this Majestic beauty of a Classic
This is for you Simon Belmont 🦇🖤
I dunno if I could pull off a no hitter for this one, The OG castlevania, definitely. I'm gonna have to look up his run because for a game of this scope, it sounds like a sight to behold
bro, if you get down when the skeleton swordsman attacks, it won't hit you.
When you upgrade your character’s intelligence, you also modify your cpu intelligence. That worked for me in Symbian, but it needed maximum upgrade. The main benefit, is better browsing results, finding websites easier during searching. That is the “luck”, finding magical powerup, that is the “magic”. Same with Diablo 2 and Nfs, luck is the luxury cars. Processor is updated in only few steps, but it needs a lot of work with the games. Anyway, it’s worth it.
The fog that appeared before the text was so menacing
Playing this game for the first time back in the 90s was magical, and its still my fave Castlevania game. One thing I never got tho was the entering of the name in the beginning, there isnt even a score/ranking system lol. My name everytime F**kHed lol
For years I thought the Frankenstein monster was throwing flowerpots.
I got this on my SNES, now I have the Castlevania Anniversary Collection. Still an all-around great game.
This music is pumping
Castlevania IV then SoTN are the best hands down
God this brings me back...
Total masterpiece
Still one of my favorites if not the favorite of all time. Wish they included Dracula, Frankenstein Monster, Medusa, the Mummy in the credits. Still can’t understand why? Perhaps copyright infringement? Lastly I really wanted a good wolf man/wear wolf battle in this version since I got it back in 1991 the year I graduated High School. Great play through. Can’t believe the brick guy Golem got you, I can tell you have experience with the game. I still get killed from time to time as well from stupid mistakes. Especially the last 3 levels. My version of this original Japanese version doesn’t work even though I paid good money for it to work. So your play through helps a lot. Thanks!!
That Golem was a heart breaker for me. Well tbh, I was pissed. I thought I had him XD
I noticed in the last video (Simon's Quest Re-Translation) that the original trilogy had this cool Film reel motif going on and they just dropped it. I liked it and I never knew why they just forgot about it and you're right, It would have been cool to have a nice wolfman fight in this one. Rondo had a great fight and for how much I hated Chronicles, That clock tower fight were the wolf ripped off the clock hand and used it as a weapon was really cool
The Golem was one of the easiest bosses for me. The bird-like humanoid skeleton was hard to beat.
If I don’t have the Cross/Boomerang subweapon the man/woman ghost boss can really be tough for me, same goes for the Mummy and Frankenstein Monster. If I don’t get my timing right getting to him where the floor tiles disappear can be a real pisser too. Along with the big gear. It’s still such a real great game. It and Sega Genesis Ghouls & Ghosts are my true go to when I feel like playing.
@@joshbrekke6374 The axe also works well with the ghost dancers and the golem. The cross is the best subweapon against the golem, but the axe is the best against the ghost dancers. Against the mummy, you should use the holy water.
@@joshbrekke6374 Ghouls n' Ghosts for the Genesis (and arcade) is really great. Just as good as Super Gn'G for the SNES. But all games of this franchise are freakin' hard!! I never finished any of them.
Love this game.
For anyone interested in short, it is the Japanese version in English. Personally the language isn't and issue in this game as it is early Castlevania......
@PaulGirdlestone there is that, but curiously, its missing the Japanese versions chain whip sound (which was way better)
But it's also got a nifty slowdown fix so it runs a lil smoother
For me after Symphony of the Night and Dracula X this castlevania is the best 😎🤙
I like games where you go from one level to the next. When playing Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, I would get tired of going from one place to the other and not knowing where to go. It's a good game, but I don't know where to go.
Loved the music of thus video game
Wait, how do you get rid of the notorious slowdown, or ”framedrops” as it’s called today? For example, the Hydra boss has always played at like 5fps for me, even on emulators. And the rotating level as well. I assume it was because the SNES simply wasn’t strong enough to have too much happening on the screen, but here it looks perfectly smooth. How did you do that? 😮
@3X73RM it's a small hack that was included in this patch and it really worked like a charm. There's a link for the hack in the description and If it comes from sea d romance ;) it's prepatched. Just drop in snes9x and enjoy
In this version when you pick up a different sub weapon it doesn't matter and you don't even really care. In the first Castlevania that shit would of driven you fucking insane.
For realz. Grabbing a different subweapon in the original or the 3rd game is the biggest monkey wrench the game could throw at you
Protip: If you hit candles with your subweapons too, you'll get multipliers a lot faster.
So if you're a belmont born a year after dracula's defeated, you just get to be a farmer or something?
I used to wonder the same thing as well. The one thing that always drove me nuts, was what do all the monsters do in the off season? Do they go out to other games for extra pay or do they just hang out in the ruins and read woodprint newspapers while smoking stogies and reminiscing about the good times?
They might be living off as landlords like Christopher Belmont in the IDW comic
I wish they would redo Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. Keep the game the same and just add the graphics of Super Castlevania IV. If Castlevania II: Simon's Quest had the graphics and music of Super Castlevania IV, it would be an incredible game to play again. Someone tell Konami to remake it.
If what I received a few days ago is legit, your wish just might have come true.
Originally there was a SV4 like remake out called Castlevania Revamped and it was done very very well but I've heard rumblings of new stuff coming out
to FatalVisionTV:
Where can I get this Castlevania Revamped game?
Sorry for the late replay, I'm trying to reply to everyone as much as I can
castlevania-ii-simon-quest-revamped.en.uptodown.com/windows
This is a legit download and I just tested it, no issues as far as virus's or malware, it's safe
The golden age of gaming.
Such a good game.
BEST CASTLEVANIA EVER
to alangaytan6001:
This is not only the best Castlevania ever but one of the best games ever.
It's definitely the total package
Painful suggestion - play Vampire Killer for the MSX? Man, if somwone. would do a polishhed remake of that one, I'd be happy to play it.
...it has some blood and crucefixes in it but it's not the japanese version, the whip-sound is different!🤔
No shit
@@the-NightStar yes, really, no shit...
Awesome and fun!
This and symphony of the night are the best castlevania games ever made.
uncensored.. so we just add some blood drip the title screen.. and that's kinda it.. k.
There's a bit more than that lol.
There isn't anything groundbreaking here as far as changes go. I'm putting together a list of what and where the changes were.
So far, crosses and religious icons were removed off tombstones and caskets in the intro, stage 1 and 2 and a few other levels. Statues in the ballroom level had more clothing added and the dungeon level, the liquid was changed from blood to green meteor shit
The logo on the map screens needs to be changed to the bloody version, so it matches the new title screen logo.
the best castlevania ever period
Best soundtrack ever
Another cool video game that's classic is Astyanax.
In japan, the story of SC4 is actually a retelling of the first Castlevania. Which is so cool. I never knew why they would change it on the USA and UK releases
One of the best Castlevania's
1000% I have such a newfound respect for this entry and the impact it had on fans and the franchise
@@FatalVisionTVmy other fav Castlevanias are Symphony of the Night, Lament of Innocence, Curse of Darkness, Dawn of Sorrow and Lords of Shadow 2
@patrik9328 can't wait to play symphony on my saturn. Rondo will always have my heart