Let's not forget that this game was practically a launch title for the SNES. The rotating effects in World 4 were unheard of in video games at the time; no one had ever seen something like that before.
@aaroninman9579 it released in 1991. The SNES released in 1990 in Japan and 1991 in America. This game came out only a few months after the American launch.
I'm surprised you hadn't played this game before. Castlevania IV was one of my favorites back in the day! Everyone has their own favorite style of play, but my personal favorite sub-weapon in this one is the Cross Boomerang with the Triple Shot (III) item. That can seriously WRECK most of the bosses!
With the triple shot boomerang, the mummy boss at the end of stage A goes down really quick if he appears on the small platform at the start of the boss fight.
There’s some fun secrets in this game. Jumping on treasure chests, jumping into certain pits, whipping down through the floor, will lead you to treasure rooms.
So great to see u do your first play through. One of my all-time childhood favorite games. Great game and represents the series well. Thx for playing it.
You just didn’t know what a nostalgic feeling you can get playing the masterpiece of a Castlevania history of 1990… I can still see myself on Christmas of 1990 opening up that SNES 📦 & the 10 games I got with It… That unique new smell aroma hits your nose, & that’s when you know the 1990s nostalgia will forever change a 10yr olds live forever… Man, the many memories & friends & family I shared those NES & SNES memories I will always remember like It was just yesterday… The many toy stores that have come & gone through the years of my childhood nostalgia memories… I can still see the whole Nintendo World set up, & those game 📦 hanging on by those little plastic tags when you go to pick out your game that you saved for Or Birthday money you got… I could spend hours & hours doing that again with no problem…
God someone had a good childhood lolololol I got one for christmas, got the mario that came with it, and then that was all I got for Christmas, that was the deal I made with moms so that was the deal I got, and no regrets. I took the money I got from other still living at the time relatives and bought this. It was beyond amazing. God what a game. Everything about it was amazing.
U missed the secret at dracula it's invisible at the stairs . Just jump a leap of faith to the end screen and you'll get full hearts a cross and triple threat
The gameplay the music everything is so perfect on this game....Still playing it. Quote: Got that stupid dagger...a few seconds later.... Dude the dagger is hell good :D
The final fantasy 6 randomiser doesn't have many content creators, and it saddens me. You introduced me to it, and I can't stop watching or put it down.
One of the BEST things about SCV4 is the remaking of the 1st but that most of the new game is the JOURNEY to Castlevania. And the endgame is then basically a redoing of the entire 1st game. But better and at the finale.
Easy game, but epic! I'm amazed you got through it that fast, though! I thought you had to redo the whole boss rush when you died to Death. And you didn't use the hidden powerup platform to fight Dracula! yes, it's real!
The reason for sending you back to the start of a stage is threefold: the game is short, you need the extra practice, and it gives you a chance to load up on hearts and score which leads to extra lives. The continues are unlimited so there needs to be some incentive for you to hate dying.
That sort of artificial longevity is what makes a lot of these older games frustrating to go back to, because they waste your time in ways like this. I love the overall gameplay of a lot of these old games, but I hate being sent back to the beginning (especially if it's the beginning of the whole game, rather than the whole stage), when I've already proven I can get past those parts. It'd be like if you failed 11th Grade in high school, and instead of just repeating 11th Grade like we do now, you got sent back to Kindergarten. It literally makes no sense. It's also odd in the face of games like Contra too, which is still hard, but lets you continue right where you died. You can waste less of the player's time, still have unlimited continues and remain a challenging game, it's not impossible.
I don't think it's worth complaining about when it was a thing of the times and games don't really do it anymore (and the ones that do its either optional or for the niche that enjoys it). Plus you have save states these days so you can enjoy it at your pace. In context I don't see it as a "flaw" or an aspect worth complaining about. I'd argue AAA games now waste your time even more giving empty boring worlds w/objectives all over a map that don't mean anything, dying means you lose in-game currency which means you'll have to grind even more. It is what it is.
As Ryu is a Mario player, I can understand he thinks the original Castlevania controls bad. But what's appealing to classic Castlevania fans is having to commit to each action you make, and having a more slow-paced thoughtful approach, rather then just reflex reactions. The whole game is designed around it from whip wind up to jump delay (yes I'm just paraphrasing Sequelitis)
Surprised he missed the most useful whip strat which is to just get let the whip stay in front of you for nearly every projectile, also kills anything that runs into it slowly but they get stunned'ish from it. Also crawling and attacking is almost universally better than trying to jump over everything.
@@deighton13601 Yeah, I probably also benefitted from having older brothers show me how to play before my first playthrough. They were always showing all the whip tricks.
@Andy Witmyer He was talking about holding the whip out and not moving it around with the d pad. It will make it just hang down in front of you. It's a shield for most projectiles in the game. Including Dracula's fireball split. But Ryu made that work with a jump and down Whip haha :)
For me, this is THE Castlevania game! A masterpiece of the series. And I would put it as the BEST game I have ever played since I started playing videogames. TOP 1 OF ALL TIME.
Really enjoyed watching this. Super Castlevania was among my first games on the Snes and I played it again a couple weeks before this video. While watching I could easily predict the mistakes you would make and the ways you would die, cause I made them too haha. Good job, it's good to see this masterpiece is still praised 30 years later.
This! But as whip upgrades in an openworld adventure. Imagine like a 7 tier whip upgrade system, where length, morning star, diagonal whipping, whip flicking, shield whip, grappling whip and flame whip are all part of the upgrade system.
There's a hack called Other Castle. Not kaizo-hard like most hacks but much harder than the base game, includes some branching paths & extra rooms, some mechanics changed up (invincibility item now gives a faster walk speed till you take damage). Worth playing, it's fun and tests your CV4 skillset.
28:45 "that dude literally spawned..." Had me rolling! In all seriousness, if you rewatched it, the guy was there on your first swing. It's intended to speed strat go on the first swing to avoid him more easily. This is up there in one of the top ten SNES games for me. I love it!
Heeey, I just recently decided to get decent at this game. I think someone like you should have no problem learning it and speed running it. Good luck, if you do!
Nice to see those that love this as much as me. My absolute favourite Castlevania ever. Yeah the first 3 are wonderful and SOTN is great but this...the music, one of the great game soundtracks of all time. Wonderful stuff, real nostalgia here 😊 subscribed 🤙
I really enjoyed that. The last two seasons kind of deviated from the story line of the games, but for the alternate universe that it is, it was awesome!
@@bardinblue9830 I like the story but all the work that must have went in to animating those looooong fight scenes was awesome. And no spoilers but the last episodes were very emotional.
@@RyuSaarva I suppose you could say that. I still thought the first two seasons were at least somewhat faithful to Castlevania III, except that Grant was not included. Seasons 3 and 4 would have covered the same time period as Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, but although some of the same characters were present and the deviations from the game story were much more obvious, I still thought it was a pretty good story for an alternate universe.
you gota understand this game came out only 4 months after the snes launched and at the time there was nothing like this on the system it was a great step up from Fzero and Pilotwings
I remember playing non stop trying to finish this game 😂 back in the days when you die you restart from the beginning, the Dracula at the end was super well made for that time, very challenging. I had a lot of fun
1.- It's very funny you were yelling cheap, pixel perfect or any shenanigans, you know better there are cheaper games in the SNES, this is the most fair game in the Castlevania series. 2.- You may try another run but only on hard difficulty (continue after you finish the game), and try to do only 1 live or/then no damage run. That is where the real players are (trust me, Slogra you can defeat him without taking damage very easy). 3.- There are 4 secrets in this game, one you discovered it in the caverns, the others are in Block 6-2 after passing the 2nd chandelier and before the knight, chech the floor and it will crack revealing a stairway, if you can find any lore about this particular room you are my hero. The next secret is in stage 9-2 after the bed of spikes, the last upper platform on the right has a coffin and a tunnel. Let the tunnel suck you into a secret area. And last is before you climb the stairs to Dracula, jump to the far left and it will prepare you to the final battle.
You mentioned in this video that you played through Super Ghouls and Ghosts, but I can not find it on your channel. Beating the second to last boss on the second play through is one of the hardest things I have ever done in classic games and I would love to see how you handled it.
That was great watching you play this. I play it every now and again myself but I love seeing people play games, that I played as a kid, for the first time! It brings a bit of nostalgia back to me! Did no one tell him in stream that you get sub-item multipliers by using the weapons in candles and enemies?? Lol Good vid though, you got yourself a subscriber 👍
I always knew Vampire Survivors was apart of the Castlevania lore. But it's crazy watching this game and seeing just how much. All the weapons from the cross, axe, holy water, even the cross that get's rid of the enemies on screen. Then the enemies like the floating eyes, dragon that spits fire, knights, skeletons, even the respawning red skeletons. Vampire Survivors is such an addictive game.
It is pretty funny that the Holy Water is such a great item, since it is technically very similar to the horrible Torch in "Ghosts'n Goblins" - but of course, the Holy Water does pass through enemies, and this allows it to hit multiple enemies at once, and you also always have access to the whip at all times.
Ryu two things: one thank you for recognizing who medusa was ,most people *cough arin Hanson cough* Think Medusa is a guy in this game and 2:if noone already mentioned this in your stream the 2+3 tablets mean you can throw 2+3 times more sub weapons but at the cost of more hearts.
This was really fun to watch because of how much fun you were clearly having. This is the distillation of classic Castlevania at its most creative. Have you played Demon's Crest? If you're digging this, you would really get a lot out of it.
You even beat Dracula without the secret power ups. If you jump off the cliff before climbing the stairs to Dracula's chamber there's an invisible platform that gives you the cross, the II power up, the III power up, and 99 hearts
Pretty quality playthrough I'm actually glad Ryu had some trouble with the Frankenstein stage and the last stage granted I learned info about the Frankenstein stage that will save me significant hassle with the spikes.
The very best early Castlevania! The audio is fantastic, although I did prefer the 8bit tunes of the original, but that aside, it has the best gameplay!
Funny coincidence... I just replayed this game for the first time in a decade just a couple of days ago. It took me like, 6 tries to get by those stupid disappearing/reappearing platforms in Stage 8. Nicely done.
Ryu needs to learn the wise words of James Rolfe from all the way back in 2009 - "GET THE KNIFE. GET THE KNIFE. GET THE KNIFE, Get the f**kin' knife." - AVGN, Castlevania retrospective.
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You shouldn't have skipped the intro...it's one of the best parts and sets the mood perfectly!
Let's not forget that this game was practically a launch title for the SNES. The rotating effects in World 4 were unheard of in video games at the time; no one had ever seen something like that before.
It was released three years into the Super Nintendo’s life. So not really close to launch.
@aaroninman9579 it released in 1991. The SNES released in 1990 in Japan and 1991 in America. This game came out only a few months after the American launch.
This was the first Super Nintendo game I saw at a friend's house and I couldn't believe the quality of the music I was hearing.
@@aaroninman9759that's incorrect
So good, this was and still is legit. Classic
The audio tracks in this game are truly magnificent.
Agreed! I am borrowing my brother's SNES and going down nostalgia Lane. This is one of our favorite games!
One of the best soundtracks ever made, videogame or not.
@@misanthrope82gaming 100%
Absolutely wonderful
This game is a gem. A top 5 for SNES, definitely. I used to breeze through this game without dying, I played it so much.
It's also jist about the easiest game ever...
I'm surprised you hadn't played this game before. Castlevania IV was one of my favorites back in the day! Everyone has their own favorite style of play, but my personal favorite sub-weapon in this one is the Cross Boomerang with the Triple Shot (III) item. That can seriously WRECK most of the bosses!
With the triple shot boomerang, the mummy boss at the end of stage A goes down really quick if he appears on the small platform at the start of the boss fight.
yup, triple boomering and diagonal whipping and you can stomp through this game, in such a fun fashion. Best Castlevania ever.
Those pretzels Tammy brought you was the reason you took Death down...and they look good. I've never had a homemade pretzel, ever
One of my favorite games of all time. Any console
That "Oh fuck!" on Death's fight came from the heart. I had the same raction when i played it back when the game was released.🤣
There’s some fun secrets in this game. Jumping on treasure chests, jumping into certain pits, whipping down through the floor, will lead you to treasure rooms.
Dude, how I miss classic Konami... These games were dope as hell! ♥️
Best SNES soundtrack hands down.
So great to see u do your first play through. One of my all-time childhood favorite games. Great game and represents the series well. Thx for playing it.
You just didn’t know what a nostalgic feeling you can get playing the masterpiece of a Castlevania history of 1990… I can still see myself on Christmas of 1990 opening up that SNES 📦 & the 10 games I got with It… That unique new smell aroma hits your nose, & that’s when you know the 1990s nostalgia will forever change a 10yr olds live forever… Man, the many memories & friends & family I shared those NES & SNES memories I will always remember like It was just yesterday… The many toy stores that have come & gone through the years of my childhood nostalgia memories… I can still see the whole Nintendo World set up, & those game 📦 hanging on by those little plastic tags when you go to pick out your game that you saved for Or Birthday money you got… I could spend hours & hours doing that again with no problem…
I love how everything about Castlevaina 4 says that " i am from 90s "
Toys R us, children's palace, & show bob's pizza place. Noble Roman's GIANT pizza was also awesome.
@@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCanI feel you on Children’s palace I liked it better than Toys R Us I was so upset when they went defunct in 1990
God someone had a good childhood lolololol I got one for christmas, got the mario that came with it, and then that was all I got for Christmas, that was the deal I made with moms so that was the deal I got, and no regrets. I took the money I got from other still living at the time relatives and bought this. It was beyond amazing. God what a game. Everything about it was amazing.
Ryu: I really gotta play the original Zelda
*also Ryu: Plays every other game but*
Your very lucky to be playing this for the first time! One of my favorite SNES titles, and castelvania at large.
This was my favorite castlevania. Awesome unique music and very moody. Some levels had very creative designs too.
Pretzel power! Looking forward to more content on this channel.
U missed the secret at dracula it's invisible at the stairs . Just jump a leap of faith to the end screen and you'll get full hearts a cross and triple threat
The gameplay the music everything is so perfect on this game....Still playing it.
Quote: Got that stupid dagger...a few seconds later.... Dude the dagger is hell good :D
Good stuff. Can't wait to see more streams on this channel!
Welcome Belmont you truly have earned the morning star
This game is amazing...definitely tougher in the later stages but I am definitely surprised that Ryu hasn't tried this game before.
The music in this game is epic. Great content as usual, Ryu!
The final fantasy 6 randomiser doesn't have many content creators, and it saddens me. You introduced me to it, and I can't stop watching or put it down.
Yes plz. I long for it.
The best Castlevania EVER 👍
best castlevania game imo
One of the BEST things about SCV4 is the remaking of the 1st but that most of the new game is the JOURNEY to Castlevania. And the endgame is then basically a redoing of the entire 1st game. But better and at the finale.
Whaaa i just played this yesterday first time in years, spooky. This game is a legend
Still one of my alltime favorite games. Certainly my favorite castlevania title
Easy game, but epic! I'm amazed you got through it that fast, though! I thought you had to redo the whole boss rush when you died to Death. And you didn't use the hidden powerup platform to fight Dracula! yes, it's real!
The reason for sending you back to the start of a stage is threefold: the game is short, you need the extra practice, and it gives you a chance to load up on hearts and score which leads to extra lives. The continues are unlimited so there needs to be some incentive for you to hate dying.
That sort of artificial longevity is what makes a lot of these older games frustrating to go back to, because they waste your time in ways like this. I love the overall gameplay of a lot of these old games, but I hate being sent back to the beginning (especially if it's the beginning of the whole game, rather than the whole stage), when I've already proven I can get past those parts. It'd be like if you failed 11th Grade in high school, and instead of just repeating 11th Grade like we do now, you got sent back to Kindergarten. It literally makes no sense.
It's also odd in the face of games like Contra too, which is still hard, but lets you continue right where you died. You can waste less of the player's time, still have unlimited continues and remain a challenging game, it's not impossible.
I don't think it's worth complaining about when it was a thing of the times and games don't really do it anymore (and the ones that do its either optional or for the niche that enjoys it). Plus you have save states these days so you can enjoy it at your pace. In context I don't see it as a "flaw" or an aspect worth complaining about. I'd argue AAA games now waste your time even more giving empty boring worlds w/objectives all over a map that don't mean anything, dying means you lose in-game currency which means you'll have to grind even more. It is what it is.
As Ryu is a Mario player, I can understand he thinks the original Castlevania controls bad. But what's appealing to classic Castlevania fans is having to commit to each action you make, and having a more slow-paced thoughtful approach, rather then just reflex reactions. The whole game is designed around it from whip wind up to jump delay (yes I'm just paraphrasing Sequelitis)
Lmfao. 12:48
Ryu: don’t sleep on the dagger, dude, it’s freaking excellent.
*continues grabbing a garbage… axe… *
😅
@Andy Witmyer I’ll take triple cross boomerang any day. 😋
1:51:28 "poop their jank" lmao
Surprised he missed the most useful whip strat which is to just get let the whip stay in front of you for nearly every projectile, also kills anything that runs into it slowly but they get stunned'ish from it. Also crawling and attacking is almost universally better than trying to jump over everything.
To be fair I never knew about the usefulness of that till I started watching people online use it
@@deighton13601 Yeah, I probably also benefitted from having older brothers show me how to play before my first playthrough. They were always showing all the whip tricks.
@Andy Witmyer He was talking about holding the whip out and not moving it around with the d pad. It will make it just hang down in front of you. It's a shield for most projectiles in the game. Including Dracula's fireball split. But Ryu made that work with a jump and down Whip haha :)
@Andy Witmyer Ok...
For me, this is THE Castlevania game! A masterpiece of the series. And I would put it as the BEST game I have ever played since I started playing videogames. TOP 1 OF ALL TIME.
Those pretzels look exactly like the ones I got from Costco.
I kind of want to see Ryu play Rondo of Blood after learning that this is the first time he's played IV.
One of my favorite games of all time. Its not particularly hard but fun as hell never the less.
I'm jelaous you got to expirience this masterpiece for the first time.
I got this game for Christmas of ‘91, and I beat it that night. Loved every second of it! Great gift at 13 years old.
Really enjoyed watching this. Super Castlevania was among my first games on the Snes and I played it again a couple weeks before this video. While watching I could easily predict the mistakes you would make and the ways you would die, cause I made them too haha. Good job, it's good to see this masterpiece is still praised 30 years later.
The music is this game slaps. Also, it's funny to me that they took the sound effect when you get hit from the game Actraiser lol
I wish we got another castlevania that controlled like this with an even higher difficulty.
This! But as whip upgrades in an openworld adventure. Imagine like a 7 tier whip upgrade system, where length, morning star, diagonal whipping, whip flicking, shield whip, grappling whip and flame whip are all part of the upgrade system.
@@feenix219 man that would be incredible
There's a hack called Other Castle. Not kaizo-hard like most hacks but much harder than the base game, includes some branching paths & extra rooms, some mechanics changed up (invincibility item now gives a faster walk speed till you take damage). Worth playing, it's fun and tests your CV4 skillset.
Best 2D Castlevania game BY FAR!
Eh, it one of my least favorites. Castlevania 1, 3, Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night are better.
The second loop from this game is a little harder than the first one imo.
That was great! I really enjoyed the fight heading to the Count, and it was a peaceful stream... Great Job...💪🏿
Hard time believing this is the very first time you have played this game…
28:45 "that dude literally spawned..." Had me rolling! In all seriousness, if you rewatched it, the guy was there on your first swing. It's intended to speed strat go on the first swing to avoid him more easily.
This is up there in one of the top ten SNES games for me. I love it!
i seriously had to pause and make dinner when i saw those pretzels near the end.
Heeey, I just recently decided to get decent at this game. I think someone like you should have no problem learning it and speed running it. Good luck, if you do!
Cool stuff! The Japanese version of the game is even better as the Western versions were censored a lot.
This is my all time favorite Castlevania game, such a classic!
Nice to see those that love this as much as me. My absolute favourite Castlevania ever. Yeah the first 3 are wonderful and SOTN is great but this...the music, one of the great game soundtracks of all time. Wonderful stuff, real nostalgia here 😊 subscribed 🤙
Great video. I'll be interested to watch you play through aria of sorrow or other castlevania games
Anyone that hasn't seen the Netflix Castlevania anime series needs to check it out especially the last season :)
I really enjoyed that. The last two seasons kind of deviated from the story line of the games, but for the alternate universe that it is, it was awesome!
@@bardinblue9830 I like the story but all the work that must have went in to animating those looooong fight scenes was awesome. And no spoilers but the last episodes were very emotional.
@@jaym.7865 Agreed!
@@bardinblue9830 all seasons deviated from the story.
@@RyuSaarva I suppose you could say that. I still thought the first two seasons were at least somewhat faithful to Castlevania III, except that Grant was not included. Seasons 3 and 4 would have covered the same time period as Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, but although some of the same characters were present and the deviations from the game story were much more obvious, I still thought it was a pretty good story for an alternate universe.
Trying to watch all your videos on all of your channels. Lots of content to catch up on, well worth it though. Some really good quality stuff you got.
The control that you have over your whip is the main reason that I feel like this is the best of the traditional Castlevania games.
You should do Castlevania Bloodlines on Sega Genesis next.
you gota understand this game came out only 4 months after the snes launched and at the time there was nothing like this on the system it was a great step up from Fzero and Pilotwings
Dead CElls is one of the best games in the last 5yrs imo.
I remember playing non stop trying to finish this game 😂 back in the days when you die you restart from the beginning, the Dracula at the end was super well made for that time, very challenging. I had a lot of fun
1.- It's very funny you were yelling cheap, pixel perfect or any shenanigans, you know better there are cheaper games in the SNES, this is the most fair game in the Castlevania series.
2.- You may try another run but only on hard difficulty (continue after you finish the game), and try to do only 1 live or/then no damage run. That is where the real players are (trust me, Slogra you can defeat him without taking damage very easy).
3.- There are 4 secrets in this game, one you discovered it in the caverns, the others are in Block 6-2 after passing the 2nd chandelier and before the knight, chech the floor and it will crack revealing a stairway, if you can find any lore about this particular room you are my hero.
The next secret is in stage 9-2 after the bed of spikes, the last upper platform on the right has a coffin and a tunnel. Let the tunnel suck you into a secret area.
And last is before you climb the stairs to Dracula, jump to the far left and it will prepare you to the final battle.
No the original Castlevania is way more fair, and I think that Rondo of Blood is more fair, but it’s been a while since I’ve played that one.
Hey Ryu the legend of dragoon is coming to the playstation plus classic this month you should play it on youtube and or twitch 😀...
You mentioned in this video that you played through Super Ghouls and Ghosts, but I can not find it on your channel. Beating the second to last boss on the second play through is one of the hardest things I have ever done in classic games and I would love to see how you handled it.
i streamed it on twitch - i actually still have it i'll have to upload the VOD to my other youtube channel soon!
@@Ryu great thanks!
Yes...scratch your chin. One of the best 16 bit video games ever made....
52:10 I like how the game rapidly transitions from the coolest to lamest enemy sprite almost instantly
Not gonna lie homemade pretzels sounds really good right now. Plus Super Castlevania 4 and Symphony of the Night are my favorite Castlevania games
I was gonna yell at you then read this was your 1st time... So, I'm a new sub. And I rang a lang the bell.😝😁 Thank you for the video
I remember when I first beat this game. I legit got hyped when the song changed during the last boss.
"That looked like a nice pot roast area." LOL. I haven't played this game since it came out, but it seems so familiar still.
That was great watching you play this. I play it every now and again myself but I love seeing people play games, that I played as a kid, for the first time! It brings a bit of nostalgia back to me!
Did no one tell him in stream that you get sub-item multipliers by using the weapons in candles and enemies?? Lol
Good vid though, you got yourself a subscriber 👍
I always knew Vampire Survivors was apart of the Castlevania lore. But it's crazy watching this game and seeing just how much. All the weapons from the cross, axe, holy water, even the cross that get's rid of the enemies on screen. Then the enemies like the floating eyes, dragon that spits fire, knights, skeletons, even the respawning red skeletons. Vampire Survivors is such an addictive game.
It is pretty funny that the Holy Water is such a great item, since it is technically very similar to the horrible Torch in "Ghosts'n Goblins" - but of course, the Holy Water does pass through enemies, and this allows it to hit multiple enemies at once, and you also always have access to the whip at all times.
best music ever in a Castlevania. Best game, just after symphony of the night. This is a masterpiece!
Ryu two things: one thank you for recognizing who medusa was ,most people *cough arin Hanson cough*
Think Medusa is a guy in this game and 2:if noone already mentioned this in your stream the 2+3 tablets mean you can throw 2+3 times more sub weapons but at the cost of more hearts.
It'd be cool to see you check out Castlevania Bloodlines too
This was really fun to watch because of how much fun you were clearly having. This is the distillation of classic Castlevania at its most creative.
Have you played Demon's Crest? If you're digging this, you would really get a lot out of it.
That first level music is an insane intro
top tier 16 bit gaming
As a German, those pretzels look amazing! Cheese dip seems a bit strange but I don't doubt it tastes good for a second.
The game's also nice.
You even beat Dracula without the secret power ups. If you jump off the cliff before climbing the stairs to Dracula's chamber there's an invisible platform that gives you the cross, the II power up, the III power up, and 99 hearts
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@@Ryu Thank you
@@Ryu Ryu talkin like a bot over here
this was the game i played growing up and I have wanted a streamer to play it for a long time so thanks
I love this game and Contra III SNES so much I even have my original CIB copies that I bought with my paper route money
Pretty quality playthrough I'm actually glad Ryu had some trouble with the Frankenstein stage and the last stage granted I learned info about the Frankenstein stage that will save me significant hassle with the spikes.
The very best early Castlevania! The audio is fantastic, although I did prefer the 8bit tunes of the original, but that aside, it has the best gameplay!
I remember fighting Dracula for a week strait before finally beating him. Love this game.
Would love to see you tackle Battletoads on the NES, that game was bad-ass!
He did.
@@tveye363 awesome! Dunno how I missed that, thanks :-)
Everything about this game's armosphere is a true masterpiece.
I just finished SOTN. Nothing could possibly ever top that game.
Funny coincidence... I just replayed this game for the first time in a decade just a couple of days ago. It took me like, 6 tries to get by those stupid disappearing/reappearing platforms in Stage 8. Nicely done.
my childhood ... so many memories from me and my best friend
The part with your girl and the pretzels was great 2:14:59
Awesome game! Surprised there wasn't a final phase too, kind of a bummer based on all the other games. Great run!
This is definitely the best castlevania not the hardest but the best with rondo of blood at a close second.
One of my ALL TIME favorite games ever!!!!!
Great vid. More FF6 randomizer pleaaaaase
Stage 3-3's music was so ODDLY Kenny G style, it was truly bizarre. Almost every other track was a certified banger, though.
That’s the “real horror”. Someone was trolling lol
Ryu needs to learn the wise words of James Rolfe from all the way back in 2009 -
"GET THE KNIFE. GET THE KNIFE. GET THE KNIFE, Get the f**kin' knife." - AVGN, Castlevania retrospective.