Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (Game Boy Color) - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Konami's colorized remake of the 1991 action-platform game, Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge. It was released as part of the Konami GB Collection Vol. 4 compilation cart for the Game Boy Color in 2000.
With its upcoming rerelease in Konami's Castlevania Anniversary Collection, I thought that it would be cool to show off this little-known updated version of the second Castlevania Game Boy game. Just as with the color version of Castlevania: The Adventure, this one never came out in America, so the video was recorded from the European release.
Belmont's Revenge was a good improvement over Castlevania: The Adventure, with some cool additions like a Mega Man-style stage select and the use of sub-weapons, the graphics look much better this time, and the soundtrack is as kick ass as you probably hoped it would it would be. It retains the slow pace of the first game, but the challenge - though still at times maddening - feels much more even this time around, and there's a lot more content here compared to the original game.
The color job on Belmont's Revenge looks great, and like most of the other games in Konami's GB Collection series, the upgrade from monochrome makes for a dramatic improvement in both its looks and its playability.
Like Castlevania: The Adventure, I highly doubt that the color version of Belmont's Revenge will be used for the Anniversary Collection, but you're getting a quality game either way.
You can find my playthrough of the color version of Castlevania: The Adventure here if you're interested: / udvpcrpjb
And the original Game Boy version of Belmont's Revenge here:
• Castlevania II: Belmon...
*Recorded with Retroarch shaders to mimic the look of the original hardware.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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What a masterpiece for its era, formidable music, exceptional level design and boss battles and a huge step-up in control/gameplay from its predecessor; if only there were more levels. I remember, as a kid, whipping all bricks trying to find secrets... the memories...
FYI the main differences from the original game on Game Boy, are the new subweapon (cross instead of axe), and some text corrections/alterations (like Soleil instead of Soleiyu). Keep up the good work!
Time stamps:
Crystal Castle: 3:44
Cloud Castle: 10:24
Plant Castle: 18:04
Rock Castle: 25:01
Dracula Castle 1: 32:03
Dracula Castle 2: 38:59
Final Boss: 48:12
The music always hyped me up. You feel like a real Belmont vampire slayer
I was not impressed with this game when I cleared it.
Lorewise The event of Count Dracula's resurrection by Soleil was treated confidentially as a "scandal in the family". For this reason, only one victory of Christopher over Dracula was known on Simon Belmont's time.
Just as with Castlevania: The Adventure, Konami produces yet another excellent color upgrade to a Game Boy classic.
Wish they improved the gameplay of adventure as well.
@@8squared007 oh it's not that bad.
@@Gameboy-Unboxings Dude, if I had to pick between beating Adventure or getting the best ending in Simon’s Quest without a guide, I’d pick the latter option.
@@Gameboy-Unboxings It's terrible. The screen tearing and the awful speed makes me want to chunk my chili.
The second is filled with ropes
Christopher is the first Belmont in the main timeline to have not only defeated Dracula twice, but also to have done it alone. And according his official artwork, he would be the oldest to have defeated him.
Just for that, he should be considered the most respected and the bravest of Belmonts, instead of being ignored or forgotten.
Dov Wise words. 👍🏽
So thankful that he got featured in Castlevania: The ReBirth. Dude needs to be respected more for sure.
But most people care about Ritcher and Simon.
Well, Christopher might not be the oldest Belmont to fight Dracula (his ancestor Trevor was), but he is indeed one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful Belmont
I agree.
This is one game I can sit and watch through every time. The attention to detail in each level is fascinating and the gameplay is so so soooo much better than the first one. The music is also one of the if not THE best on the gameboy.
I kind of miss when game creators had to really push the limits of a system to get results like this.
Fhistleb
Shame this game was not on the virtual console.
Its on the Castlevania Collection for Switch
When a vampire come along, you must whip it.
thecowboy2 yeah no sh1t
Whip it good!
D E V O
That Cloud Castle music is so good.
yes....i was looking for it! Probably hadn't heard it for decades!
It truly is, Plant Castle also really good
By far the best castlevania on the gameboy!
Including the GBA imo
Hopefully Christopher was wearing a strong pair of gloves because sliding down them ropes like that otherwise he's looking at one hell of a rope burn.
Oh yes, I doubt children were happening after that
Fantastic to see this one being played through with the color treatment also. Dracula dun goofed when he tried to mess with Christopher's son.
Cloud Castle has the best music ever composed for the Game Boy.
10:31 Best music in the game.
While it looks like you missed one of secrets in the Crystal Castle, I was pleasantly surprised to learn of another I had no idea about.
Ost: Praying hands
He missed more than one secret in crystal castle, but in all those years, I've never seen that one in the room with the rope and spikes! Oo
Best CV game with its ost. I remember beating the hell out of this game like 10 times each day when I was a kid & bought it on release day. I was one of those kids that made sure the games box still had it's original plastic to it & would read the games manual over & over again.
Memories indeed & I would do it all again in another life lmao.
Awesome. I'm a CIB collector and this is my most valuable game I have actually.
@@Gameboy-Unboxings nice to hear. ✌
@@solonepeon5805 I never played Castlevania as a kid but I'm playing through this now. Question, would you consider this a hard game?
@@Gameboy-Unboxings Yeah very hard but with practice you should be able to beat it without dying. During my time I had lots of time so definitely it will be based on what your lifestyle is at now so don't give up.
The classic ''from point A to point B'' system, that appears when you enter the secret 5th stage after it rises from the ocean, is a really clever throwback to Akumajo Densetsu!
Konami really knew how to get the most out of the Gameboy
This game,Operation C,the Skate or Die platformer,Kid Dracula,Both the Gradius games,all well mad with really good music
You forgot all 3 ninja turtles games.
When I first saw that intro, all I could think was "Is this an ad? Is this a ad built in to the game? Boy, Konami were really ahead of the curve-, oh wait, it's a collection."
I guess now that you think about it, that should give you a good idea of what shape the gaming world is in.
Oh hey, the color version corrects Soleil's name! I always thought "Soleiyu" felt weird. Anyway, I'd love for this one to get a remake in the Rebirth style, like its prequel did!
That soundtrack, pal, that soundtrack!!
New Messiah is the most powerful, strong and intense track that I have listened in the original Gameboy, feel the Konami power!!
Better level design, better story and better everything, of course this is a great game.
I've always loved the New Messiah track.
The best improvement here compared to The Adventure is that it actually runs at 60fps most of the time.
The GBC's CPU is twice as fast and it has 4 times the RAM and VRAM so yeah
@@RWL2012Belmont’s Revenge originally was released was for the base gameboy and Adventure got a GBC port. BR still runs faster every time.
31:27 when they build it, they come. reminds us of someone's journey to enter the castle and dethrone the king (such as an athlete being nobody to becoming a champion).
Today October Castlevania Day!!
I own the NA and JPN versions of this game and have to say that the Axe has way more utility in this game than the Cross.
0:07 OH MY GOD, That is NOT how you Konami.
This game has a spectacular soundtrack, and is one of the first games I owned for the Gameboy (I have way more now though). I love that repetitive track on the last section to Dracula (Road to Enemy #2 I believe is what it is called).
It's ashamed that Konami only released the color version of this game in Japan and Europe, they should have released it here in America as well as a standalone cartridge.
Only Europe, I think.
1st Boss 9:07, 2nd Boss 17:06, 3rd Boss 23:55, 4th Boss 30:36, 5th Boss 37:32, Final Boss, Dracula 46:39.
0:28 3:29 castlevania ii belmont's revenge it's a masterpiece
It is great that they corrected Soleil's name and added cross instead of axe:)
Still, one thing bugs me. Why they censored Dracula's name and refer to him only as Count or "him"?
Also, the controls seem better there than on the original Gameboy.
🙏Congratulations Castlevania ll Belmont's Revenge!🙏
Why was _Belmont’s Revenge_ never rereleased on the 3DS Virtual Console, I wonder?
They didn't want us to get the best games in the series as they always want to sell the ones that are not popular 1st to max sales before they give the ones ppl remember the most.
Now look at how knomai is doing on their CastleVania collection website where now we can buy all the classic CV games soon. Times have changed indeed. I just hope they release a physical for the Switch.
And the fact this didnt sell well because the first game pissed off the fans
I remember buying it for 10 bucks at EB because they couldnt sell it
Bill Ranes Weren’t other games that didn’t sell too well during their initial releases rereleased on the Virtual Console?
Best Gameboy soundtrack hands down. (The GB should've burst into flames trying to play this epic OST)
I was today years old when I found out this version existed. (Color, font and apparently corrections of names)
Didn't know the correct name was Soleil. Where is that mentioned officially outside of this game?
(I came here because certain versions of the Castlevania collection CV2 BR sound hollow as of its missing a channel)
Jurassic Park, Metal Masters, Turok Rage Wars and Trip World have also great tunes despite the hardware limitations.
"Antarctic Adventure"! The first and last time I ever played that game was on the Colecovision. I do have "Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge" for GameBoy, didn't know Konami created a Gameboy Color version.
OMG this game was my absolute favorite!!! I used to play it all the time 😍😍😍😍
Godlike music, my first ever Castlevania game.
Que habrá pasado con Desmond Belmont
Wow this looks a lot more easier than the first gameboy game I'm excited to play this one in the castlevania collection this may hopefully it'll be in color.
Ok so I got past the first castle. I am wondering though, why I can't seem to find that purple boomerang? Because it looks like you really need it on the second level for the boss.
The boomerang only appeared in the Japanese version of the game. In other regions it's replaced by the axe.
The playthrough here is from a re-release for the Game Boy Color that used the first instead of the latter.
soundtrack is great!!
32:09 Welcome to Castlevania once again Belmont
Dracula seems easy in this clip, but it took me several times to beat. The attack seems predictable, but it’s not.
It’s a huge shame Praying Hands, Ripe Seeds and Original Sin haven’t been used in future titles, a real shame considering they are nearly as good as Vampire Killer, Theme of Simon, The Beginning and Bloody Tears
god, the memories...
I always had the question of how do you do to make the lcd filter on your handheld gameplays with the background of the console?
It's done using Retroarch's shaders and borders. You can download them directly within Retroarch.
Brilliant game they really improved on the original GB game. The crystal stage music is amazing
If anyone can answer the question, im at the first stage select screen. It has the castle, the plant stage, etc etc. which one shouldbi do first? And why
I didn't even know there was a color port of Belmont's Revenge. I'm surprised they didn't release this version on the Castlevania Collection.
It seems easier to play on the GBC as the controls are WAY more responsive. I have both GB and GBC versions. On the GB version, the jumping is more leaden and whipping has a bit of delay to it.
@@mnky75 Aww man now I really want to play this version.
@@msw0322 it's certainly a challenge, but the game's pretty brutal on its own without the slightly janky controls.
@@mnky75 Yeah it's hard, especially towards the end with the last 3 bosses.
It's fun to see that the intro text is different from the original US version.
Yeah. They even corrected the name of Christopher's son :) In the original, his name was Soleiyu.
For those who don't know, Soleil is the correct name of Christopher's son. Soleiyu was a translation error.
Man I always called him soleiyu but soleil sounds like the correct name
@@angelobelmont9379 It's French for "sun" :)
@@somacruz7759 I know that
@@angelobelmont9379 :)
What shader are you using and what emulator are you using
The Gambatte Retroarch core. The shader is an LCD shader with a border - I think it was called GBC LCD
Just snagged a complete copy not very good condition but excited to play the game
Que nostalgia 😿 buen gameplay bro 😎
That Music and Sounds Used for Gowin Making Bootlegs Games
Music is still badass.
NGL, I think this is better than Castlevanias 1-4
The New Messiah has arrived again!
I didn't know this launched on Gameboy color!
The Game of Master Bosses
Why couldn't we get the game boy color skins on the switch release
well played!
Adventure was so awful due to the lag. This, however, is amazing. Plays just like the NES games and the music SLAPS some cheeks.
The hero goes from right to left? What is this madness? XD
Cloud Castle theme sounds like something from Human League.
Where can i find GB rooms colorized? pls
It's a pretty unclear question here...
If you are referring to this version, it is Konami GB Collection released in Europe, you can find it on a usual romsite.
If you are asking for other games, the only way to get it is romhacking. I'm pretty sure they have colourised Mario Land and Kirby patches and a colouriser program:)
Thanks, i found mario land 1 and 2 colorized, but i didnt find the program to colorize roms.
@@anibalmera4213 TH-cam deleted my comments, so try to search GBcoloriser:)
Konami did 4 GBC Collections of GB games. They basically did some of their own colorization hacks back in the day, and Belmont's Revenge was one of them in Vol. 4.
GG dude,great👍
Tremendo juegazo que me tope, me lo recomendo youtube lo jugue y quede fascinado :).
Does anyone else thinks of Battle toads in the second stage soundtrack? :) a part of the soundtrack remindes me of that game lol Or maybe its another game i think of :P
Also the soundtrack alone makes it worth to watch this video :D
I miss the gbc music so 2000s
The music in this game is from 1991.
That last chapter is annoying. The first four castles are really good with great music and satisfying platforming and then it just gets unbearably difficult for no reason
game is insane fun
i played this game when i was a kod but i wemt right to the part to where his son was and i fought something else
0:43 Karate Student Attacks
What is password?
LOL, the whole dialogue was translated from Japan.
First Gameboy I owned. Shame I didn't keep it as it now goes for 50 bucks.
My copy got destroyed in a fire.
The colour doesn't look great imo. Very weird choices and no detail, they did it as simply as they could get away with its not a true DX upgrade like Link's Awakening
Alucard.
He's not here o.o
Why didn't they keep the name as the Nintendo console game, Castlevania 2:Simon's quest?
Probably because they're totally different games
Yo this game was awful. But good times
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