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- Do you think Super Castlevania IV is the easiest Castlevania game?
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The easiest Classicvania to be sure
I kinda prefer bloodlines or rondo.
Which means it’s still very challenging by most games standards
he cheesed it. Just like Batman.
I think it's Castlevania 2. It even has infinite sub weapons...
Strangely I have to go with Castlevania 1, it's the only classicvania game that I can beat.
Mike thanks for all that you do for the retro community. I have always liked your content.
He is so awesome. Great channel!
I have a soft spot for Castlevania 4 because as a kid its visuals and atmosphere just blew me away. Still looks and sounds awesome today.
It has great music and looks nice. I think Rondo looks better graphically but this game looks great. I just wish it was more difficult.
@@mikematei The final fight with Dracula is a real joke in particular. They could have at least made that more challenging
@@Trainy2 Not to mention the Slogra/Gaibon/Death rush before that. The game gives you a few too many candles with health powerups between each boss. It also does not make you re-fight the bosses if you die at any point or have to use a continue. I think you get 3 powerups after the Slogra battle and then another one after Gaibon before Death. Would have been a better challenge if you had to fight all 3 in one health bar.
@@Trainy2 dracula fight would be much more difficult if they didn't give the food in-between phases. If you dont hit dracula in between the phases he keeps spamming you with food and that kind of ruins the fight
@@mikemateithe second quest is harder. Maybe you can keep playing it and it gets harder and harder?
A Symphony of the night (genesis port ) is in the works. Built more like a traditional Vania .. no grinding.
Bet you'll love it Mike.
That would be sweet.
Still one of the funnest castlevania experiences , thanks for playing it. Regarding the realism talk in games, i was never a fan of it in debating video games , the developer makes whatever rules he wants for his game.
As a non-Castlevania expert, I have always felt this game has very "clunky" controls. I think for example Bloodlines controls better, I do not know if it is missing animation frames or what, but it feels so clunky.
Yeah. Try Rondo of Blood. It controls great. Especially with the backflipping and all that.
@@mikematei That has always looked awesome, never played it.
For me to properly answer that...I need to actually beat one of them someday. Back then, we didn't have any of the Castlevania games on NES. This one here is actually the only one my brother and I owned while we had the SNES and I remember my brother beating it and being really proud about that. After that I only remember renting Dracula X on SNES once, not being very impressed by it and that was it as far as Castlevania was concerned in my childhood. I do plan on tackling the classic ones one of these days though.
This video actually made me think a bit about the topic of the multidirectional whip and other improvements like the more comfortable hit push and being able to change the jump direction while in mid-air. I personally think that the game developers should have made the game harder to accommodate these changes but I would not fault them for trying to improve what several gamers would have thought are valid criticisms. Sometimes you can do changes like Mega Man getting the slide and the Mega Buster in later games without it being a detriment to the game difficulty (though Metal Blade and Shadow Blade are good examples why Mega Man thankfully never got the ability to shoot in eight directions with his normal plasma gun). Sadly, that was not the case here.
I am curious: If I remember correctly, James was of the opinion that he liked the multidirectional whip and found it sad that they removed it from later games, right?
Game that is missing from your Games I've Beaten On Stream list:
-Mega Man 2 - Back To Basics (NES Hacks/Homebrew/Unreleased)
This music is amazing!
I remember requesting him to stream this game about a year ago in the comments of another video. Glad he finally got around to streaming it. One of my favourite SNES games, even though I first played it about 4 years ago. And this is obviously not the hardest Castlevania seeing that the Game Grumps couldn't beat the game and gave up on it.
Also, I played the PAL version of the game, and it doesn't have any of the lag and slowdown that the NTSC version has. So in a way, the PAL version is the more smooth experience.
Watching this in Holland while my Bulgarian date is painting eggs for easter, god love living in Europe watching American entertainment, love from the Netherlands ✌🏻
Fan games to try! - Simon's Curse (PC), Resurrection of Vampire Killer (PC), CastleVania ReVamped (PC) by Lv4 games, CastleVania Chronicles 2: Simon's Quest by BMC WarMachine, CastleVania Chronicles 3: Dracula's Curse (PC) by BMC WarMachine, and CastleVania: The Seal of the Curse by ArkHouse (CV2 remake) (PC) to name a few!
This is such a fun game. It's not perfect, but it's almost there!
I love short games but even this game is a little too short. Definitely a Blockbuster rental.
@@GamerWordDotNetthis game is hard. It's only considered "easy" because the other games in the series are crazy difficult.
Mike i enjoy watching you ur vids keep me smiling for days thank you
I love that old Konami pause sound, lol.
I find Castlevania 1 easier, somehow. I can't finish any of the other classicvania titles.
Castlevania 3 is difficult but rewarding. Part of the experience is surprising yourself at your own ability to tackle increasingly difficult sections. Heavy on trial and error but it's difficult to match the sense of satisfaction you get from beating Dracula in that game.
My biggest issue is that in previous Castlevania titles were super tightly designed whether it was level design, enemy layouts, and movement/attacking. People love the 8 way whipping, but I believe that it's actually a design flaw. The original game was very purposeful with it's design. It forced the player to really calculate their every move and attack. Super Castlevania 4 is extremely lenient and often feels like a mindless whipping simulator. It excels in scale, graphics, sound, and atmosphere but REALLY lacks in level and enemy design. Again, most fights just feel like your mindlessly whipping and just hoping that you land enough hits while in other titles, enemies and bosses have clearer patterns that you have to carefully navigate through.
I wish someone would hack an 8 way whip into the NES ones and Rondo/Dracula X. Just that alone would make them all much more equal. Why was this the only time we got it, and whip swinging? It added so much fun. Might not be better but I've played them as is and I'd like a fun alternative. Oh and make a 2 way whip only version of this game just for Mike, let him see if it's still even beatable.
Bloodlines has whip swinging and diagonals. Chronicles had downward diagonal. I think 8 way whip is just totally unnecessary in most cases, although it’s fun in cv4
One of the most laggy games that comes to mind on SNES is Stunt Race FX
race drivin' is pretty bad as well
Super R-Type has a lot of slowdown, as does this game.
1:14:32. They could design a hook shot in the original Legend of Zelda like they did with Link’s Awakening. Or even use the feather item to jump over pits
You are a legend if you can beat castlevania Chronicles on normal mode for the x68000 or ps1 version. That game is bar none the hardest Castlevania and also also the most fun. It’s a double edged whip.
Here's my stream beating Chronicles original mode. th-cam.com/video/rt4csNKjWVw/w-d-xo.html
It's probably my favorite one. I need to play it again been a long time.
Thank you for posting amazing retro content Mike, saved my saturday night. God bless
This game is like a pleasant walk home, with your tape of favorite songs playing on your Walkman.
Great video, thank you Mike. Some of these early SNES games are so nostalgic. If you're looking for a more challenging platformer, you might enjoy Gargoyle's Quest II on the NES if you wanted to try it again. It has some very challenging stages.
The most atmospheric Castlevania with the arguably the best OST
Soundtrack is on par with SOTN - both some of the best music in all videogames
Nailed it! ❤
sotn beats it but this is a close 2nd
I don't care for the music at all... literally every other classic CV game has a better OST (in my opinion of course lol)..
I'm definitely in the camp that this one has the best ClassicVania OST. The earlier games are more catchy and sound like a new wave band's stab at progrock, but this game goes full Early '70s with the sheer variety of styles present.
In Japan, this game had the exactly same title as the first game on the NES:
"Akumajô Dorakyula", which means "devil's castle Dracula".
(technically it is transcribed as "Dorakyura", but I prefer to write an L in appropriate places, and Japanese uses a specific sound that is like a mix of L and R anyway)
I notice that literal translations from Japan never sound good. It's like they could never be bothered to pick an American title that best fits the spirit of the original title without sounding foreign. They couldn't find a single American translator to say, "Hey, this title sounds better and conveys the same meaning"? Castlevania almost sounds nothing like what the original title was going for.
This is a pet peeve of mine but ’’Akuma’’ does NOT translate into ’’Devil’’.
Akuma is a loan from Chinese ’’Ak Ma’’.
Ak = Bad, Evil, Wicked etc.
Ma is a clipping from Chinese ’’Ma La’’ which itself is a borrowing from Sanskrit ’’Mara’’, Mara = Death, Destruction, Killing
This in turn is derived from Proto-Indo European mor-os which is from PIE root mer-
Cognates in other languages Spanish: Muerte French: Mort Italian:Morte English:Murder, Mare(as in Nightmare) etc.
So a real translation for Akuma would be something like ’’Wicked Death’’
Devil is from Greek ’’Diabolos’’ which means ’’Slanderer’’ which is a quite different meaning.
Super Castlevania IV is my favourite of the classic Castlevania games. I find that when you're trying to do a no death run or just a clean run in general that I can go for quite a while and be almost perfect, but the minute I die, then I steat to constantly mess up and die multiple times.
CV4 is a total breeze, but I still come back to it even after playing it for about 30 years now. The music and mood are perfection, it feels good with the movement and of course the nostalgia is great too. Game design wise, I feel Rondo of Blood is the perfect blend of decent fair challenge and top notch crafted quality that is expected of the franchise. Rondo is all class. The X68000 Castlevania (on original hardware, not the PS1 version) is the most ridiculous as far as challenge, that game wants you dead lol.
Yeah, I don't agree with the game being easy because of the 8-way whip.
The game is less challenging because the team who made the game(which was a new team within Konami not the guys who made 1-3) decided to make it less challenging.
It was actually a design goal for the game, the director of this game said in an interview said that he wanted to make a more atmospheric less challenging game compared to the Famicom games. And you are right that this game is very impressive, especially considering that it was a brand new team and this was a North American launch window game for the SNES.
The game could still be challenging with the 8-way whip if the game was designed to counter-act it, but again, that wasn't the design goal with this remake.
It's not necessarily the 8 way whip, I agree. It's more the level design and placement of enemies that makes it overly easy.
@@mikematei Fun Fact: The 8-way whip was also an idea originally considered for the Original Castlevania at one point. You can read about this on the development section of SC4's wiki article(the article credits the book The History of Castlevania: Book of the Crescent Moon).
Yeah like I said, the game being easier overall was an intentional design choice from the team. I can see where they were coming from, they wanted to make:
A). something a bit different(more atmospheric)
B). an easier game to introduce new players who had never played Castlevania before
Ideally, they would have designed a hard mode with altered level design and enemy placement etc. but keep in consideration that in addition to the fact that this was a new team who had never made a Castlevania game before(plus they were also figuring out the Super Famicom hardware at the time they were making this) this was also a very small team who made the game even for the time and they had to deliver the game within the American launch window. The Director of the game was also the Main Programmer as well.
@@bardhi09 Well, I played Castlevania 1 long before I played the SNES game. So for me, that was my introduction. So playing this game later, it just felt too easy. Since I had already played 1 & 3 which were way harder. My introduction to the series was like "here you go asshole, try beating this shit". And that's what I like about Castlevania, I want a challenge. Not a walk in the park. You are supposed to be killing the Lord of Darkness after all.
@@mikematei American version of 3 was harder too compared to the Famicom version
Regarding your premium videos like your recent metroid prime videos are they going to stay premium forever or do you make them available to everybody after a while? Thanks.
Great to have this vid playing during a relaxing Sunday. Still remember renting this and happily spending a weekend on it and then eventually buying it and happily spending many more weekends on it. This and TMNT sold the system for me, which I purchased from K-Mart on layaway. Minus 1 point for adding a shitload of obligatory life trivia in the hopes that someone else remembers Kmart layaway
the level at 1:35:10 gave me so much anxiety as a kid lol
54:00 being a sports fan this commentary made me laugh so hard! 🤭
I enjoy your vids Mike! thanks for doing these longer plays!
I like Super Monkey Ball on the GameCube too. There was a game for the iPhone that I played about 12 years ago and it wasn't bad.
Thanks for all you do to make sure Bimmy can keep making money
Loved this game had this for snes in 1992 played this a lot they have ahack to this game mike
Hey, Mike. Enjoy the streams!
I think this game just has a really great vibe to it. It’s really fun to plow through it. I just love it, even though I think Bloodlines and Rondo are superior in general. I think the Castlevania Chronicles game is by far my least favorite 16 bit castlevania game. It just never felt right to me, next to Dracula X for the snes I suppose. That one’s okay.
Mike I still watch James and mike Mondays like there new
During development, Konami ran into issues with optimization that forced them to remove a lot of the enemies, as the game would slow to a crawl with too much on-screen. This is evidenced by the leaked beta builds floating around. Konami also had a tight deadline of a Halloween '91 release, so this was their band-aid.
Game was way too easy as a result.
Just beat this myself for the first time like yesterday
This game (dies) is so (dies) EASY (dies many more times)! Seriously though, I agree that it is one of the easier ones, though obviously not quite as easy as you try to make it out to be as evident by the steep number of deaths (I don't mean to yank your chain here, but it is a bit odd to die that many times on a game you keep saying is so easy). I've played through and beaten it countless times over the past 30 years, and there are still parts that I die on, though that typically doesn't happen until Stage 8 (the dungeon). Easier, sure, but it still provides a good challenge, which makes it worth coming back to over and over. Easily the best of the older Castlevanias for its gameplay & stage design.
I mean i barely play this one. I guess i should have done a no death run of it but i dont like it that much
Am I actually catching this live? Holy shit
Throwing my vote to Castlevania 3 LOOP 2 Alucard route.
I wonder which are the best non-NES entries Castlevania hacks ?
I love this game but the one thing that always bugs me about it is how zoomed in the screen compared to the previous Castlevania games. Makes for a very claustrophobic experience!
one of my fave games of all time!
This game was my childhood, the soundtrack blows me away and still does to this day aye aye aye
When you can 360 a whip. Yes thats the easy one
360 degree whip makes this game too easy for babies
Mike! Can you do Deadly Towers? I know it's awful but I've been looking for a walkthrough for that game that has commentary and I can't find one.
While walking Simon Belmont looks like he's cursing all the time
To some this is a hot take, but I think Castlevania: Bloodlines on Genesis and Castlevania: Rondo of Blood on Super CD-ROM² are both better than Super Castlevania IV. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, Castlevania 1, Castlevania Chronicles, and SOTN are also better. Everyone praises Super Castlevania IV as one of the best ones, but its not even close. Probably because of nostalgia. Super Castlevania IV is better than Haunted Castle (Arcade), though.
I like Rondo of Blood and Chronicles better. I think my list is something like this:
Either Rondo or Chronicles for my number 1. Hard to decide but one of those.
Dracula's Curse
Castlevania 1
Bloodlines
Symphony of the Night
Castlevania the Adventure (wiiware)
Super Castlevania IV
Haunted Castle
Simons Quest (i like the atmosphere and music but thats about it)
Castlevania 64 (i like the first stage a lot but then the camera angles get real bad and I just can't)
I haven't played the other metroidvania ones. Not really my thing but I like Symphony well enough.
@@mikematei
Did you never play Dracula X (SNES demake of Rondo)? Or you consider it so shit that it doesn't even deserve mention?
I suspect Super Castlevania is more popular because the SNES was more popular. Bloodlines and Rondo of Blood were both overlooked due to their platforms. Also, Super Castlevania is a lot more accessible than Bloodlines and Rondo in terms of difficulty. I'd imagine many people who are capable of beating Super Castlevania aren't capable of beating the other ones.
@@mikematei I have a similar list. We should play the GBA ones on MiSTer, they are probably good. I never really played them other than testing for a few minutes.
Rondo of Blood is the best classic Castlevania. Chronicles are also very good. Then probably Castlevania 3. Symphony of the Night is the best Metroidvania and the best Castlevania overall. I also liked Aria of Sorrow, but it's not as good as Symphony. Especially in terms of music and atmosphere. GBA's sound chip is terrible in my opinion. And I don't like the tedious mechanics of collecting enemy souls.
This is the jam!
I still think bloodlines is much easier, maybe because its shorter but there are some dastardly jumps at the end of castlevania 4 on that auto scroller part
I still don't understand how those damn cogwheels work;
I don't know where you can stand on them, and where you suddenly cannot stand on them anymore.
At the halfway point or higher, you stick to them. Any less and you fall off.
I couldn't agree with Mike more on CV3 loop 2 being the hardest game. It's the hardest game I have ever completed. I also feel that Bloodlines is a very easy game to beat, if you play as Eric. GG's as always Mike!
I think I remember seeing you stream CV3 a long while back. Yeah, Loop 2 castlevania is nuts. I think Chronicles original mode is up there for the hardest other than that, probably.
Hey Mike will you ever make a SOTN playthrough?
Man I love Simon quest even tho is flaw really like how the world look the atmosphere at least it tried to build something but sadly a flaw game
I think community ROM hacks did a good job at fixing issues with the game. Having said that, it's really a different kind of Castlevania experience. More of an exploration themepark than an actual game.
Thanks!
japanese cart has less lag, oddly enough
How many hours does it take to beat this game?
hey mike! hope your holding up well.
Their's a Castlevania SOTN female for the Sega Genesis. It's not finished yet, but u can play wats there
Demake* Not female. Stupid auto correct
Have you tried the legend of Mario? It combines two of your favorite games. Mario in a Zelda 1 type game
I streamed it. Its on this channel.
I find the tiles hideous now, but the graphics did impress when it came out.
Rondo is a much nicer looking game imo.
@@mikematei No question
Mike is a true gamer. All hail Mike.
Indeed, it could be considered the easiest classic-style castlevania, though "Hard Mode" can be pretty arduous, especially considering the longer levels.
Also, I noticed the videos now have pretty good sound quality, regarding to noise reduction.
I fixed the sound. Was fucked up on the mega man stream
But is it really the easiest? This game is much harder than say the og castlevania if you try a no death run
I'm talking about a normal playthrough.
Great stream MF Mike! Some suggestions for next games to beat on this channel: Ghostbusters (Genesis), Road Rash 2 (Genesis), X-Men (Genesis), Sonic CD (Sega CD) . . . Thanks for the gaming content.
I feel like Simon's Quest is the easiest. It's not difficult at all as far as not dying goes, I mean the most risk you run of dying is falling into a pit lol.
If you don't know the cryptic stuff it would be very difficult.
this is exactly how i feel. IF you know what to do SQ is very easy, much easier than SC4
It's the definition of a Nintendo Power game. Easiest with it, hardest without it.
Mike, what is your opinion on time limits in side scrolling games? Does it make the game more intense or does it make you rush through the game?
I don't usually like time limits in general. I'd rather them not be there. There's probably some exceptions, but on average I dont like time limits.
@@mikematei Same here. I like to play things at my own pace and time limits don’t allow that. They should be optional for people who want an added challenge.
I actually had an easier time with Bloodlines.
I think it's because 4 seems so loose at 1rst, and it eventually gets picky about how you move and the flow feels weird.
Bloodlines gets really difficult towards the end. Particularly at the burning mansion part.
If you play this game, can you adjust difficulty? I ... don't remember.
Well mike good new most of the de Castlevania you can set a level cap to make it more difficult in new game plus
When will we get fast rmx ? :p
Mike is not going to sleep until he finish the game.
very nice music
This and once u know how to play it simons quest is the easiest of the classic 2d games in the series still fun to play the set pieces sprites graphics and music are what stand out and I like that each area is different rondo of blood bloodlines I think overtime might be the better games kind of crazy to think this rondo and bloodlines where the last of the I would say true classic castlevania games as u know it became metroidvainia after symphony of the night
You must beat this game once. Because then you can select another difficulty.
Here is my castlevania 4 loop 2
www.twitch.tv/videos/2136625235
I would say Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles for PSP is easiest one, I could finish it using touch screen controls.
Thank you for the videos Mike. You are cool.
Did you ever stream the Castlevania for Gameboy?
Dinosaur knight name is solgra
Not really the most difficult Castlevania game indeed. Only the last couple of levels are tricky and one or two bosses. After The Treasury level (tough bat boss to beat btw.) it has some difficult moments: The Clocktower mainly in the platforming department. The Castle Keep levels too (the stage that's upscrolling with the moving platforms and the saw coming up from the bottom). The boss I have some difficulty with is: Slogra. And Dracula himself isn't that easy too.
The last section with the upscrolling, moving platforms is a headache. Even though I've beat it many times, it's a headspinner every time.
it may be the easiest, but i couldn't finish it 😅
The “Nerd” just said that it’s not like fighting with a hand behind your back. I’m sure I could do it just the same.
Do you ever go down the pub?
Well easiest compared to other Castlevania but I like the game still has good gameplay,atmosphere,music and visuals but yea even second loop is not that difficult
It has great music. I like the graphics for Rondo more, but yeah it looks nice. Its not really the 8 way whip that makes the game easy, its more the enemies and level design.
You need to stream symphony of the night try and beat that castlevania
I'd say both Super Castlevania IV and Symphony of the Night are by far the easiest Castlevania games. As much as I love those games, Rondo of Blood and Dracula's Curse both top the list for me not just because of their addictively hard gameplay, but also because of the playable characters and branching pathways. I played a lot of Castlevania in my time and I still prefer the old-school, sometimes brutal challenge of the older games. I'm a big Castlevania fan and a big fan of watching your streaming videos.
SOTN stream/video please.
This game was great. I love the overall look of it but you can't top the original trilogy.
I got a request. Please, PLEASE play 'The Legend of Mystical Ninja' it's one of my favorite SNES games of all time and that's quite achievement. It's perfect for streaming cause you can beat it in like 3 - 4 hours. Unless you mess around with little mini games. Please consider it man.
SC4 being the easiest Castlevania game pisses me off, because it's the only one I've been able to beat without abusing save states. Skill issue of the highest order on my part.
Don't beat yourself up too hard, this game really ramps up the difficulty in the later stages
Still probably the best Castlevania game. Tied with SOTN in my opinion. And your dam good at it
Difficulty isnt everything to me unless the game is toi easy...whats the fun factor? Thats it for me
Later games have the whip twirl instead and physical attacks
Does 2 count in the argument of easiest?
Simons Quest always felt like the easiest in terms of combat. Maybe not the easiest to figure out how to beat without internet or Nintendo Power, but fighting through the areas never felt tough.
When are you going to do Castlevania SOTN?
When it becomes a game where you can’t just grind to win. 🫠
Great run Mike!
Eh, sometime I'd like to go through where I don't lose the triple cross. The only subweapon that seems to matter when you have this type of god whip. Thanks though.
What about the super mario clone. Kid dracula.
complain to konami where are the new castlevania games
Please play the Japanese version of Super Castlevania 4!
Hi always loved your nerd videos and your rage videos respect