Haunted Castle is a 16-bit arcade game. It was mentioned in the 16-Bit Castlevania episode. I consider Rondo of Blood a 16-bit era game and explained this in the 16-bit Castlevania episode. The 16-bit Castlevania episode can be found here ---> th-cam.com/video/2f0YAPo4s5I/w-d-xo.html A LOT of people haven't seen this episode judging by how often these two games are being brought up in the comments. My goal is to cover all of the Castlevania games (or as many as humanly possible) by dividing them up into groups. No need to cover a single game twice throughout the course of these 4 episodes. PLEASE UNDERSTAND! Thank you.
Great video Joe. Just wanted to say I'm really happy you continued on when that Nintendo Fanboy (more like Fanbaby....🤦) left the channel. I just can't & don't care to imagine a world without the Game Sack. For real tho, I do miss Dave & hope he's enjoying the time with his family & that they're staying safe & healthy in these uncertain times. Same goes to you my brotha.
HowToDrawEmAll strong agree. I don’t know why people have to compare things constantly. Why can’t we have both, different, but beautiful/awesome things?
I only recently discovered Game Sack and it’s already my favourite channel on any platform. Excellently produced, great game reveals and wonderfully written. Better than TV - long live Game Sack!!!
Annnnnnnd.....by the way, we freaking love these types of videos, man. So many you can do. Ninja gaiden comes to mind...as does ninja turtles, battle toads, double dragon, etc.
I was just thinking Ninja Gaiden in this vein. Also, your other suggestions sound great! I could have sworn they already did a Turtles one, though, might have been someone else.
@@smoketreez666 I know...and I liked that one as well. It could be done in this more updated style is what I should have said for that one...I'd be all in for multiple watches...like I do all of their videos 🤓🤓👍🏽!!
I've never subscribed to such a service, myself. I imagine they're a lot like daytime television for the most part. I've never had much use for soap operas. Sitcoms have always been hit and miss (mostly miss). TH-cam, meanwhile, has endless content from talented special-interest producers like this one, and it has good documentaries and other more TV-like shows available as well. Then there are all of the cool music videos, official and otherwise. It has replaced VH1 and MTV as well, this way.
"The game even has 3 different endings depending on how much you suck" 😅 Also, I noticed that the closed captioning is fully fleshed out for your videos. If it is indeed you doing it I am blown away, as the editing and such is already top notch and obviously time consuming so that adds another level to it!
Glad you found a sponsor Joe, and made an entertaining ad out of it. Some might say you are considerate enough to put it at the end of the video but the hardcore GameSack followers know that the last skit at the end is the best :D
The original Castlevania on the Disk System also incorporated an save feature absent in the US version. It was re-released in Japan on a cartridge and it removed the save feature, but included a new Easy mode (which removed knock-back and gave you more lives).
Heh. I swear I'm not just trying to be a contrarian here, but my favorite 8-bit Castlevania games are... Castlevania II on NES, and Vampire Killer on MSX! I actually DO like the day/night system in CV2, and think it adds quite a bit to the game both strategically and atmospherically. And as for the MSX game, there are a few things about it that I think really make it stand out: - The fact that the dagger, cross, and axe sub-weapons aren't even sub-weapons in this game, but actually REPLACE your whip -- so none of them use hearts at all! BUT, since both the cross and axe function like boomerangs, you MUST catch them on the rebound, or you lose them, which makes them desirable weapons, but also risky to use. - The fact that you can actually hold an hourglass (stopwatch) and holy water at the same time, IN ADDITION to your regular weapon, and the holy water is RIDICULOUSLY overpowered. Hell, even the hourglass is overpowered -- since it no longer takes up an item slot, but is just an extra bonus you can use as needed, it becomes THE main strategy for beating most bosses, especially when paired with the holy water! - The inclusion of power-downs. Enemies appearing from candles, black bibles that cause merchants to raise their prices, etc. But also new power-ups, including a shield that blocks ALL projectiles (which is SUPER handy!), as well as white bibles that cause merchants to LOWER their prices. It rewards you for exploration, and gives you a chance to strategize your way to victory if your platforming skills aren't quite up to snuff. - ...which you'll need, because the game only gives you 2 lives, with no continues, and no opportunity to EVER get an extra life. I'm really surprised you didn't mention that! - Also, the stage designs in this game are gloriously devious. I love the "traps" that were added -- stage 6, for example, has a fake door key down on a platform from which there's no escape, meaning if you drop down to collect it, you're stuck there and forced to kill yourself, losing one of your two precious extra lives. And that's just one of many traps found in stages 5 and 6 especially! It's such a unique take on Castlevania, and it's one of those games that feels like a legitimate EXCURSION -- you'll definitely never beat it on your first try, but every time you play, you'll get a LITTLE BIT FARTHER, and learn where a few key power-ups are located so you can stand the best chance possible on future attempts. It's no wonder Simon's Quest was more a sequel to the MSX game than the NES game -- because the MSX game frigging rules, and so too does Simon's Quest! Screw the haters! ;)
For the msx version there's a patch that makes it like the nes castlevania structure wise more linear. For Simon's quest there's also a patch that retranslates it so everyone's dialog makes sense, it also ads a map so you can see where you are etc. It tweaks the game so it's not so obtuse. For draculas curse there's a patch that ads in what was taken out from the Japanese version, it fixes all the censored things they did to the US version. There's also a patch for snes super castlevania 4 where they fix what was censored from the US version, so the statues are like the Japanese version, slime is now blood etc.
Master of Darkness is actually really good. Technically counting as an 8bit episode, there was a 1990 version of Castlevania for the Commodore 64, but it may have been released only in Europe, I'm not sure.
My favorite NES/FC games are Gimmick!, Mega Man 2 and Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse. As such, Castlevania III is DEFINITELY my favorite 8-bit Castlevania game. Oh, and Master of Darkness on Master System is an awesome rip off of the series. I’m glad you mentioned it in the spoof.
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge is easily the winner for me! Partially due to nostalgic bias (I owned it!) :-) The music is definitely some of the best on the GB for me!
Simons quest will always be my favorite on nes,the other 2 are great games but their very challenging(almost too much) I owned all three by dec 91 and i loved the rpg style of part 2(no matter how confusing and simple by todays standards)i put a lot of hours on it by the time i got part 3 and draculas curse it was like part 1 on steroids with the cool multiple charachter option,its a good game but i didnt play it knowhere near as much as simons quest.There was just so much depth and items to upgrade, find, and buy in that game to really hold my interest decades ago.
"You're playing as [Insert Vampire Killer Here] trying to kill dracula with your whip." That's pretty much Castlevania in a nutshell. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
The Famicom version of Castlevania is much easier than the western release. I've never legitimately beaten the western release, but I beat the Famicom version on my first playthrough.
Konami: Castlevania Legends is shaping up to be a 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 game ... KCEN: But... Konami: Well, do you think you could maybe make it (scratches their heads) 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 ? KCEN: Gee, that sounds like (stares at floor, shuffles feet) 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 Konami: Yeah, you're right. I mean, in another 30 years we'll probably abandon everything that made our company great, betray Hideo Kojima, kill Metal Gear, Castlevania, and make Contra suck.
I really like these type of episodes: they have your signature in-depht analysis and humor, but are not as exhausting as the full console ones. Keep 'em coming, please! (yes, that is definitely what she said)
Great reviews as usual. A buddy and I were determined to beat Castlevania 3 one night, swapping the controller after lives. We got to the final area finally and after another annoying death my friend tossed the controller up in frustration, which landed right on the famicom top loader reset button. We hadn’t been writing down passwords so that ended our attempt. So close yet so far.
Castlevania and Castlevania 3 are my favorites in the series. Since buying the collection for Switch been playing snd enjoying the ones i don't own physically. Great video Joe.
My favorite 8-bit Castlevania game will always be... The Vs. Castlevania arcade game (basically the original Castlevania) that was at my local Pizza Hut back in the day. So many memories...
Good memories. My dad and I were horror movie fans. He bought Castlevania the first day it came out on the NES since it was the closest to a "Horror movie" game we could play at the time on the system. We would repeat the same tradition for Super Castlevania for the Super NES.
You should do a series of numbered episodes highlighting long-running franchises. Any game franchise that has more than five or six entries. Something like that
I haven't watched the video yet but Castlevania 3 is the pinnacle of 8 bit Castlevania games. In fact, imo, it's the best Castlevania game. There's just something about it that's so replayable.
The castlevania collection on modern consoles has the game boy games, and they have the green gb screen filter. Yours was better but i love to see those filters. Always makes me smile. I remember we had one of those gameboys a loooooooooong time ago... for some reason my brother got rid of it when we got the colors but i wish he hadnt. That screen just makes those old games feel complete.
Castlevania. the music, the games, the show.... I love this series, it's amazing. C'mon Konami, more Castlevania and less pachinko machines... really (I remember thinking after Simon's quest, we wouldn't get any more in the series. I'm so glad I was wrong.)
It's also worth noting that the NA version of Castlevania III received a serious boost in difficulty (fewer/nerfed power ups, Grant can't throw daggers anymore, more enemies, etc)
Another great video, I played some of the older entries perfectly on my channel and have been thinking of making a castlevania for the nes explained vid, you beat me to it and I am glad to see another great vid from you. I hope you keep GameSack going for a long time. Can't wait to see what goofy thing you do at the end.
Adventure was originally an alternate version of Castlevania III (like Vampire Killer /Castlevania I). In the original 1986 game's manual there was a backstory of another Belmont called Christopher that beat Dracula a century before Simon. In Japan Trevor is named Ralph C.Belmont,the "C" stands for Christopher and he was created to be the same ancestor mentioned in Castlevania I. Igarashi retconned them to be different characters in the early 2000's.
Simon’s Quest was the first game I ever bought, and is still my favorite. I recommend checking out the Simon’s Quest Dissected website for proper translations of all the game’s text and version differences.
I absolutely love the 8bit Castlevania games. It's games like these that made the NES the better console than the Master System. My favourite in the original 8bit Castlevania games is definitely Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. It gets a lot of shit for being really confusing with the bad Engrish translation. But if you can get over that than it's a really good game in my opinion.
As always, thank you for your videos. Game Sack has always been one of the most top-tiered, high quality, and consistent channels on the entire platform. I watched you grown and get better as the years go by. I also really appreciate the time you spend gathering all the facts and not making stuff up as you go along like other channels do. If you want an excuse to show "The Other" Castlevania titles, try to make it an establishing a timeline video.
I remember playing Castlevania three when it came out and kind of squeezing a little when I first discovered I could freeze the water w my freeze spell. They also made it a twist that the sorcerer was actually a woman all along but I completely saw that coming. And I’m pretty sure that was after Metroid did the same thing
There being no stairs in the Gameboy Castlevania games kinda makes sense once you remember that in Bram Stokers novel Johnatan sees count Dracula climbing down the walls of his castle. Dracula doesn't need stairs!
You are awesome, I love watching your videos and the way you made them, I'm praying someday you'll hit more than a million subscribers, you deserve that.
I enjoy the day and night system in Castlevania 2, however your right, it does get boring, I'd say because of the wait for the transition from day to night and vise versa. There a patched version of Castlevania 2 called Simons Quest Redacted. It fixes the issues with the towns folk not making sense and the lengthy day and night transition. Make's a big difference when you know what the hell you are doing.
I've never been a big fan of the NES, but I did beat the three NES games last year, and of them, I like 2, 1, and 3 in that order. Simon's Quest, while flawed, understands two things. 1.) If you move slow, so should most of the enemies. 1 and 3's enemies are high on bath salts and never stop jumping around. 2.) You shouldn't have a 16-segment health bar but only be able to take 4 hits. With a map, it's not that bad to traverse the world. The game also probably has my favorite graphics and mood of the three. Plus the upgrades are fun to get and use. The original and Dracula's Curse are just kind of tedious to play. 1 is short enough, and is nice enough to let you continue at Dracula rather than restarting at level 6, which is a decision so good I almost forgive every other flaw with the game. 3 is horrible in that regard, starting OK, but those last levels are hell. That whole game took me twice as long as to beat the first two combined. I hate it, I hate the game design, and I never want to play it again. Oh yeah and Adventure 1 sucks. Just slow and badly designed.
Haunted Castle is a 16-bit arcade game. It was mentioned in the 16-Bit Castlevania episode. I consider Rondo of Blood a 16-bit era game and explained this in the 16-bit Castlevania episode. The 16-bit Castlevania episode can be found here ---> th-cam.com/video/2f0YAPo4s5I/w-d-xo.html A LOT of people haven't seen this episode judging by how often these two games are being brought up in the comments. My goal is to cover all of the Castlevania games (or as many as humanly possible) by dividing them up into groups. No need to cover a single game twice throughout the course of these 4 episodes. PLEASE UNDERSTAND! Thank you.
Great episòooooøöõôóôœoode anyway, always the best retro game channel ever .
Kill Dracula !!! ts'e you would , in your dream .
Great video Joe. Just wanted to say I'm really happy you continued on when that Nintendo Fanboy (more like Fanbaby....🤦) left the channel. I just can't & don't care to imagine a world without the Game Sack. For real tho, I do miss Dave & hope he's enjoying the time with his family & that they're staying safe & healthy in these uncertain times. Same goes to you my brotha.
why not castlevania from master system? is that game horrible? i really dont know, im not from that era, why it got cut from your video?
episode suggestion: castlevania miscellaneous
suggestion for other castlevania games - Miscelvanias! Nah, probably rubbish lol!
No one ever talks about how good Joe really is at stop motion, it's hard and really time consuming, good job Joe
Still prefer Harryhausen
N64 Fun Time I was thinking this watching the intro. That has to take a long time. Not unnoticed here
Yeah he is insanely gifted at stop motion animation. There is one episode where he has the consoles attacking him. That not easy to do.
That's an entirely different type of stop-motion, made in a different era. Not a valid comparison. More like a cheap attempt at an insult.
HowToDrawEmAll strong agree. I don’t know why people have to compare things constantly. Why can’t we have both, different, but beautiful/awesome things?
just wanted to remind everyone for no reason Trevor Belmont's name in Japan: Ralph Belmondo
I like it
Ralph C. Belmondo*
Don’t forget about the legendary Gizmondo Belmondo
Belmondo has a nice Latin flair to it. Ralph on the other hand works in a muffler shop.
Dodongo belmondo jr
Really love your editing man, nice transitions between games
I appreciate the love you showed to Simon's Quest and the first GB game.
I only recently discovered Game Sack and it’s already my favourite channel on any platform. Excellently produced, great game reveals and wonderfully written. Better than TV - long live Game Sack!!!
Should group the remaining castlevanias into an episode called ‘miscellvanias’ or ‘miscellvanious’ something like that.
Miscellvanias
Incelvanias
16 8 9 12 12 9 16 Eagle exactly what I thought. Not everything needs to be crap sounding mishmash
Annnnnnnd.....by the way, we freaking love these types of videos, man. So many you can do. Ninja gaiden comes to mind...as does ninja turtles, battle toads, double dragon, etc.
I was just thinking Ninja Gaiden in this vein. Also, your other suggestions sound great! I could have sworn they already did a Turtles one, though, might have been someone else.
Yeah, I guess every series where the are enough titles to loose overview would qualiy .. eg just think of the Wonderboy or the Aleste or Gundam games.
They did a double dragon episode years ago if you're interested!
@@smoketreez666 I know...and I liked that one as well. It could be done in this more updated style is what I should have said for that one...I'd be all in for multiple watches...like I do all of their videos 🤓🤓👍🏽!!
Mega Man!
This is tv quality content, beats Netflix
I've never subscribed to such a service, myself. I imagine they're a lot like daytime television for the most part. I've never had much use for soap operas. Sitcoms have always been hit and miss (mostly miss). TH-cam, meanwhile, has endless content from talented special-interest producers like this one, and it has good documentaries and other more TV-like shows available as well. Then there are all of the cool music videos, official and otherwise. It has replaced VH1 and MTV as well, this way.
Disagree.
Clay3613 sick
i support game sack on netflix, and all the positive consequences of that
You mean the Castlevania anime series?
Me: Well, it was a long day, gotta hit the sack...
Joe: *Uploads*
Me: ... the Gamesack, that is
That's what she said...?😁🤷♂️🤦♂️
Yeah you hit that sack baby. You want Joe or Dave?
@@anonamatron do l have to pick?
Ball sack
Just call it "Castlemania - All the Rest"
"The game even has 3 different endings depending on how much you suck" 😅
Also, I noticed that the closed captioning is fully fleshed out for your videos.
If it is indeed you doing it I am blown away, as the editing and such is already top notch and obviously time consuming so that adds another level to it!
Too bad Dave couldn't be here to talk about this legendary series. RIP in Peace Dave White. Thanks for making this episode in his memory Other Guy.
Glad you found a sponsor Joe, and made an entertaining ad out of it. Some might say you are considerate enough to put it at the end of the video but the hardcore GameSack followers know that the last skit at the end is the best :D
The NES Castlevanias are still so much fun.
True classics of the era.
Yeah, I love those three, great memories of them from back in the day. THey were the best.
Mmm no
this is my first video on the channel, and i love it already, from the editing to the analysis to the captions being the icing on the cake
Of course Game Sack uploads a Castlevania video just in time with the hype around Netflix's Castlevania Season 3; what a great month for Castlevania!
"What a horrible night to have a curse."
"what a wonderful night to have a beer"
Castlevania on NES is pretty hard but the goddamn MUSIC makes it nearly impossible to stop playing
🎵 dee deet duh duuh - ba duttuh da da duuh duuh da d'duuh 🎵
@@Jesse__H Mad Forest is the one!
The castlevania games have some of my most favorite bgms on the NES.
Look up the band Bit Brigade. I saw them play Castlevania live, and it was great.
Castlevania III Clockwork is one of the best pieces Ive heard on any system. If JS Bach were alive in 1989 that's what he would've made.
My eldest sister (who turns 68 in August) absolutely loves the Castlevania games...pretty sure she still plays them.
I beat the original Castlevania a few years ago and it was such a satisfying feeling.
The original Castlevania on the Disk System also incorporated an save feature absent in the US version.
It was re-released in Japan on a cartridge and it removed the save feature, but included a new Easy mode (which removed knock-back and gave you more lives).
Heh. I swear I'm not just trying to be a contrarian here, but my favorite 8-bit Castlevania games are... Castlevania II on NES, and Vampire Killer on MSX!
I actually DO like the day/night system in CV2, and think it adds quite a bit to the game both strategically and atmospherically. And as for the MSX game, there are a few things about it that I think really make it stand out:
- The fact that the dagger, cross, and axe sub-weapons aren't even sub-weapons in this game, but actually REPLACE your whip -- so none of them use hearts at all! BUT, since both the cross and axe function like boomerangs, you MUST catch them on the rebound, or you lose them, which makes them desirable weapons, but also risky to use.
- The fact that you can actually hold an hourglass (stopwatch) and holy water at the same time, IN ADDITION to your regular weapon, and the holy water is RIDICULOUSLY overpowered. Hell, even the hourglass is overpowered -- since it no longer takes up an item slot, but is just an extra bonus you can use as needed, it becomes THE main strategy for beating most bosses, especially when paired with the holy water!
- The inclusion of power-downs. Enemies appearing from candles, black bibles that cause merchants to raise their prices, etc. But also new power-ups, including a shield that blocks ALL projectiles (which is SUPER handy!), as well as white bibles that cause merchants to LOWER their prices. It rewards you for exploration, and gives you a chance to strategize your way to victory if your platforming skills aren't quite up to snuff.
- ...which you'll need, because the game only gives you 2 lives, with no continues, and no opportunity to EVER get an extra life. I'm really surprised you didn't mention that!
- Also, the stage designs in this game are gloriously devious. I love the "traps" that were added -- stage 6, for example, has a fake door key down on a platform from which there's no escape, meaning if you drop down to collect it, you're stuck there and forced to kill yourself, losing one of your two precious extra lives. And that's just one of many traps found in stages 5 and 6 especially!
It's such a unique take on Castlevania, and it's one of those games that feels like a legitimate EXCURSION -- you'll definitely never beat it on your first try, but every time you play, you'll get a LITTLE BIT FARTHER, and learn where a few key power-ups are located so you can stand the best chance possible on future attempts. It's no wonder Simon's Quest was more a sequel to the MSX game than the NES game -- because the MSX game frigging rules, and so too does Simon's Quest! Screw the haters! ;)
Rondo of Blood is 8-bit, because the CPU of the system it runs on is 8-bit.
100% correct
I was glad someone caught that.
Yes but if you have watched the 16-bit Castlevania episode, I already talked about it and explained why there.
"This Castlevania plays like a metroidvania game..."
Never would have guessed
You actually wouldn't though since they only started making those in 1997
I love Sunday mornings, gamesack and coffee
For the msx version there's a patch that makes it like the nes castlevania structure wise more linear.
For Simon's quest there's also a patch that retranslates it so everyone's dialog makes sense, it also ads a map so you can see where you are etc. It tweaks the game so it's not so obtuse.
For draculas curse there's a patch that ads in what was taken out from the Japanese version, it fixes all the censored things they did to the US version.
There's also a patch for snes super castlevania 4 where they fix what was censored from the US version, so the statues are like the Japanese version, slime is now blood etc.
I think I've had most of the nes castlvania music as alarm and ringtones. Still get that "oh shit I over slept" feeling when I hear them sometimes.
Nothing ruins a song like a ringtone or an alarm
@@Ralph_Sandwichtotally. I dont do that anymore.
On Game Sack, even the ad is entertaining because Joe handles it himself.It's like an additional ending skit.
Worth a watch for the stop-motion sketch at the end alone
I so love all the hate everyone has for "Castlevania II: Simon's Quest", to this day it's still my favorite Castlevania game.
Hey Joe, you forgot to mention that Alucard in Castlevania 3 can turn into a bat and it allows you to basically skip most levels.
Master of Darkness is actually really good.
Technically counting as an 8bit episode, there was a 1990 version of Castlevania for the Commodore 64, but it may have been released only in Europe, I'm not sure.
On the contrary. That version, the PC MS-DOS version and the Commodore Amiga version, were only released in North America.
And here I was, getting ready to write "what about Master of Darkness?"
Oh, and you should call the episode "Castlevania: Miscellanea"
ah Master of Darkness, love that game for being a proper CV clone, story is quite a bit out there too but i dont focus on that much when playing.
I love your transition effects, Joe!
Castlevania Leftovers might work as a title for the next Castlevania video.
My favorite NES/FC games are Gimmick!, Mega Man 2 and Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse. As such, Castlevania III is DEFINITELY my favorite 8-bit Castlevania game.
Oh, and Master of Darkness on Master System is an awesome rip off of the series. I’m glad you mentioned it in the spoof.
Thanks for retrospective Joe. Loved it. From one Joe to another, Joe knows best👍
Recently found this channel.
Been binge watching soooo your library of vids.
Awesome youvstill make content even after over five years
One of my favorite game series!
Remember playing early in the morning before school
Great episode and really loved the transitions on this, top editing as always Joe!
Dracula's Curse is the best of the 8-bit Castlevanias...and Rondo of Blood is the best of the 16-bit era.
Can you please do a "8-bit Star Wars Games"? No one ever mentions games like Super Return of the Jedi on Game Gear etc. It woudl be great!
I wasn’t expecting a sack to be so spooky outside of October!
I bought Castlevania The Adventure, for my 3DS for a dollar..... got my dollars worth.
Now that's how you do a sponsorship, I didn't even mind it, and started to actually think about buying them!
FINALLY someone else who likes Castlevania adventure
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge is easily the winner for me! Partially due to nostalgic bias (I owned it!) :-) The music is definitely some of the best on the GB for me!
3D castlevanias could be theme, cover the N64 playstation 2 and lords of shadow games
Simons Quest was my go too in primary school, played the shit out of it and still play it occasionally today!!!! Absolutely love it.
I had 1 and 2 back when they were new/current. Played the shit out of them, I still play them to this day.
The best Castlevanias! Thanks Joe.
Simons quest will always be my favorite on nes,the other 2 are great games but their very challenging(almost too much) I owned all three by dec 91 and i loved the rpg style of part 2(no matter how confusing and simple by todays standards)i put a lot of hours on it by the time i got part 3 and draculas curse it was like part 1 on steroids with the cool multiple charachter option,its a good game but i didnt play it knowhere near as much as simons quest.There was just so much depth and items to upgrade, find, and buy in that game to really hold my interest decades ago.
This is fantastic content sir. The original CV games are very near and dear to me. You’ve earned yourself a new sub
Thanks for using "Aquarius" during this video. Easily my favorite Castlevania tune, even after all these years.
Great video as always! And yes all game boy games run 22% faster on the GBC. Making a lot of older games feel a bit better.
"You're playing as [Insert Vampire Killer Here] trying to kill dracula with your whip."
That's pretty much Castlevania in a nutshell. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
you said “nut”
heh
And then the Netflix show somehow turned it into ENDLESS TALKING scenes.
Generally my favorite is Castlevania 1, but Simon's Quest actually still has surprisingly good music and excellent open ended gameplay.
The Famicom version of Castlevania is much easier than the western release. I've never legitimately beaten the western release, but I beat the Famicom version on my first playthrough.
Hold on tightly to the holy water and it's a breeze.
Castlevania 1 & 3 are two of my favourite NES games of all time. I'm glad that I put all the time and effort, in order to beat them.
I can't believe I thought "this better include the GameBoy versions." It's a GameSack video. Of course it includes the GameBoy versions.
Konami: Castlevania Legends is shaping up to be a 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 game
...
KCEN: But...
Konami: Well, do you think you could maybe make it (scratches their heads) 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳
?
KCEN: Gee, that sounds like (stares at floor, shuffles feet) 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬
Konami: Yeah, you're right. I mean, in another 30 years we'll probably abandon everything that made our company great, betray Hideo Kojima, kill Metal Gear, Castlevania, and make Contra suck.
My favourite 8-Bit Castlevania game was 悪魔城ドラキュラ X 血の輪廻ロンド (Devil Castle Dracula: Rondo of Blood Reincarnation) on the PC Engine. 😉
I really like these type of episodes: they have your signature in-depht analysis and humor, but are not as exhausting as the full console ones. Keep 'em coming, please! (yes, that is definitely what she said)
28:38 In Legends for GB those candles are very slightly differently colored to be like dynamite stcks and the manual tells you to avoid them.
The good thing about beating an 8-bit Castlevania game was all the other games in your collection became easier.
Great reviews as usual. A buddy and I were determined to beat Castlevania 3 one night, swapping the controller after lives. We got to the final area finally and after another annoying death my friend tossed the controller up in frustration, which landed right on the famicom top loader reset button. We hadn’t been writing down passwords so that ended our attempt. So close yet so far.
❤️ castlania is my favorite series. Like you my first was IV , now my favorite is III and rondo of blood. Kudos from belgium
Castlevania and Castlevania 3 are my favorites in the series. Since buying the collection for Switch been playing snd enjoying the ones i don't own physically. Great video Joe.
I beat Simon's Quest in a week...
In the 3rd grade.
It was deep.
I love everything castlvania.
Thanks
My favorite 8-bit Castlevania game will always be... The Vs. Castlevania arcade game (basically the original Castlevania) that was at my local Pizza Hut back in the day. So many memories...
Good memories. My dad and I were horror movie fans. He bought Castlevania the first day it came out on the NES since it was the closest to a "Horror movie" game we could play at the time on the system. We would repeat the same tradition for Super Castlevania for the Super NES.
You should do a series of numbered episodes highlighting long-running franchises. Any game franchise that has more than five or six entries. Something like that
Awesome stuff man! I really enjoyed this, thanks!
Well done! Truly an epic series. I would love to see an episode on the GBA and DS Castlevania games. Thanks!
He already did one. It was great of course
one thing I like about GameSack and AVGN is that I can watch their latest videos to feel very nostalgic.
I got Castlevania 3 for my 8th birthday in 1990. Great memories.
I haven't watched the video yet but Castlevania 3 is the pinnacle of 8 bit Castlevania games. In fact, imo, it's the best Castlevania game. There's just something about it that's so replayable.
Damn Vampire Killer looks Ten times Faster.
Speaking of Castlevania, I just started watching the Castlevania series on Netflix. It's pretty rad.
The castlevania collection on modern consoles has the game boy games, and they have the green gb screen filter. Yours was better but i love to see those filters. Always makes me smile. I remember we had one of those gameboys a loooooooooong time ago... for some reason my brother got rid of it when we got the colors but i wish he hadnt. That screen just makes those old games feel complete.
Castlevania. the music, the games, the show.... I love this series, it's amazing. C'mon Konami, more Castlevania and less pachinko machines... really
(I remember thinking after Simon's quest, we wouldn't get any more in the series. I'm so glad I was wrong.)
It's also worth noting that the NA version of Castlevania III received a serious boost in difficulty (fewer/nerfed power ups, Grant can't throw daggers anymore, more enemies, etc)
Another great video, I played some of the older entries perfectly on my channel and have been thinking of making a castlevania for the nes explained vid, you beat me to it and I am glad to see another great vid from you. I hope you keep GameSack going for a long time. Can't wait to see what goofy thing you do at the end.
Adventure was originally an alternate version of Castlevania III (like Vampire Killer /Castlevania I).
In the original 1986 game's manual there was a backstory of another Belmont called Christopher that beat Dracula a century before Simon.
In Japan Trevor is named Ralph C.Belmont,the "C" stands for Christopher and he was created to be the same ancestor mentioned in Castlevania I.
Igarashi retconned them to be different characters in the early 2000's.
I'm glad I stayed to the end for Master of Darkness :)
Woke up 5 mins ago.
Opened TH-cam, saw a GameSack new clip.
Liked.
I grew up with msx2 Vampire Killer, this is my favourite version for sure... Amazing episode!
Recommend everyone watch Castlevania on Netflix, Season 3 is out. Joe’s videos are top notch. 👌
Yes "while he was inside me" lol
Simon’s Quest was the first game I ever bought, and is still my favorite. I recommend checking out the Simon’s Quest Dissected website for proper translations of all the game’s text and version differences.
I absolutely love the 8bit Castlevania games. It's games like these that made the NES the better console than the Master System.
My favourite in the original 8bit Castlevania games is definitely Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. It gets a lot of shit for being really confusing with the bad Engrish translation. But if you can get over that than it's a really good game in my opinion.
Master System had Master of Darkness. Better than 2, on par with 1, worse than 3.
26:40 Mouse trap song....the Nightmares!!!! 😆
Another great episode, but if ANY episode needed some Dave, it's this one.
As always, thank you for your videos. Game Sack has always been one of the most top-tiered, high quality, and consistent channels on the entire platform. I watched you grown and get better as the years go by. I also really appreciate the time you spend gathering all the facts and not making stuff up as you go along like other channels do. If you want an excuse to show "The Other" Castlevania titles, try to make it an establishing a timeline video.
Love castlevania 3 on the hard mode you unlock after beating it the first time. Damn floating skeleton heads...
I remember playing Castlevania three when it came out and kind of squeezing a little when I first discovered I could freeze the water w my freeze spell. They also made it a twist that the sorcerer was actually a woman all along but I completely saw that coming. And I’m pretty sure that was after Metroid did the same thing
There being no stairs in the Gameboy Castlevania games kinda makes sense once you remember that in Bram Stokers novel Johnatan sees count Dracula climbing down the walls of his castle. Dracula doesn't need stairs!
You are awesome, I love watching your videos and the way you made them, I'm praying someday you'll hit more than a million subscribers, you deserve that.
I enjoy the day and night system in Castlevania 2, however your right, it does get boring, I'd say because of the wait for the transition from day to night and vise versa. There a patched version of Castlevania 2 called Simons Quest Redacted. It fixes the issues with the towns folk not making sense and the lengthy day and night transition. Make's a big difference when you know what the hell you are doing.
Belmont's Revenge ended up being a pleasant surprise.
I've never been a big fan of the NES, but I did beat the three NES games last year, and of them, I like 2, 1, and 3 in that order.
Simon's Quest, while flawed, understands two things. 1.) If you move slow, so should most of the enemies. 1 and 3's enemies are high on bath salts and never stop jumping around. 2.) You shouldn't have a 16-segment health bar but only be able to take 4 hits. With a map, it's not that bad to traverse the world. The game also probably has my favorite graphics and mood of the three. Plus the upgrades are fun to get and use.
The original and Dracula's Curse are just kind of tedious to play. 1 is short enough, and is nice enough to let you continue at Dracula rather than restarting at level 6, which is a decision so good I almost forgive every other flaw with the game. 3 is horrible in that regard, starting OK, but those last levels are hell. That whole game took me twice as long as to beat the first two combined. I hate it, I hate the game design, and I never want to play it again.
Oh yeah and Adventure 1 sucks. Just slow and badly designed.
Sorry but.....never mind.