I have done a lot of rare game searching and playing, I can't believe I missed Getsu Fuma Den! and well organized and formal video, we gotta get you out there, Gaming Historian would be proud!
Honestly I'm extremely hesistant to say GetsuFumaDen is in any way a "Castlevania game" when you consider *literally none of the people who worked on that game actually had a role in the Castlevania series ever), seems like a very surface-level comparison to go with: long-haired beef cake vs. the forces of evil wasn't something Castlevania invented but just a very common trope in the 80s (i.e.: Conan the Barbarian). Gameplay-wise they couldn't be more opposite: Castlevania is a very methodical and deliberate action-platformer while GetsuFumaDen is just a slippery action-adventure game, I think the comparison with Zelda 2 is a lot more apt because it actually feels that's the game it was aping up to be (like the other forgotten Zelda 2 clones like Battle of the Olympus and Faxanadu) It feels to me like the only solid link between both franchises seems to be Castlevania Harmony of Despair, and I presume this had more to do with Koji Igarashi's interest in Getsu Fuma as a character above anything else, and it would seem like he had plans for him if we consider that in his spiritual successor series "Bloodstained" one of the main characters is a samurai called Zangetsu, whom much like Fuma stands out by being a Japanese character in a western Gothic setting (in Curse of the Moon 2 he can even do a spin-attack like Fuma too!)
I have done a lot of rare game searching and playing, I can't believe I missed Getsu Fuma Den! and well organized and formal video, we gotta get you out there, Gaming Historian would be proud!
love getsu fuma den. that arranged ost is amazing
finally, worth the wait though
I ADORE YOUR VIDEOS, WE NEED MORE PLS
Nice 👍
great stuff.
Subbing in hopes of getting Megaman secrets 5 a little bit sooner...
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hell yea
2:11 why do you have to throw us Europeans under the bus like that
Good video though
Honestly I'm extremely hesistant to say GetsuFumaDen is in any way a "Castlevania game" when you consider *literally none of the people who worked on that game actually had a role in the Castlevania series ever), seems like a very surface-level comparison to go with: long-haired beef cake vs. the forces of evil wasn't something Castlevania invented but just a very common trope in the 80s (i.e.: Conan the Barbarian). Gameplay-wise they couldn't be more opposite: Castlevania is a very methodical and deliberate action-platformer while GetsuFumaDen is just a slippery action-adventure game, I think the comparison with Zelda 2 is a lot more apt because it actually feels that's the game it was aping up to be (like the other forgotten Zelda 2 clones like Battle of the Olympus and Faxanadu)
It feels to me like the only solid link between both franchises seems to be Castlevania Harmony of Despair, and I presume this had more to do with Koji Igarashi's interest in Getsu Fuma as a character above anything else, and it would seem like he had plans for him if we consider that in his spiritual successor series "Bloodstained" one of the main characters is a samurai called Zangetsu, whom much like Fuma stands out by being a Japanese character in a western Gothic setting (in Curse of the Moon 2 he can even do a spin-attack like Fuma too!)
Fair
cool video, i subeed
I have no idea who this guy is but I joked about him not uploading in discord
Binged all the content....realizes he posts twice a year... 😢
Oh, I'll be trying to upload again soon.
Damn, this aged poorly lmao
@@seppos.7712 lol
lol