Love/ hate Cv 64 & what was I looking for all the time?

[Nimrods Son]

All I want from a modern Cv game is an arcade-style action/adventure experience with just a little bit more story elements than in classic Cv gameplay. That’s why I love Cv 64, for they have strong story-strands guiding you through the linear chain of levels (which are in itself non-linear), and that’s why I’m dissatisfied with IGA-style castleroids, for everything in its level design is just there to remind you that IGA did Symphony and is great, while for a game with such a bias on levelling and collecting millions of items, there is surprisingly an absolute sad lack of little story sequences, of text messages, of dialogues… still, I buy and play them, for they’re Cv, but all I wanted was a spirit, a fashion, a simplicity. 1993, where are you now, where’s truth and beauty? 



Just for checking, I added this possibility for you to express your hatred or love for the Cv 64s.
To me, they’re the last Cv “epics” with the meaning of belonging to the “main” series rather than to the sidestrands – the “Adventure”, “X” or the “IGA castleroid Advanced Cv” series.

[Darkmoon]

I'm a big fan of the CV64s. For all the little niggly bits that are wrong with the games (like the unresponsive camera and some boring level design) they got so much right, especially when you consider it was their first 3D CVs.

I think for story, the best of the CV-roids was CotM. There was a good bit of dialogue in that game, and enough story to carry you through.

[Nimrods Son]

CotM is cool for me 'cause of its arcade-niveau hardness. That's a game where there's a real need for extensive levelling, and the magic system is pretty useful and kinda "sorted", compard to LoI's or Aria's.
IGA seems to know pretty well what he's doing when he tries to de-canonize CV64 & CotM, he's disabling comparison 

[Darkmoon]

You're not wrong on that front.

[DragonCub]

Castlevania Canon or not, the Castlevania games on the 64 were decent games.

[Xuzaf D]

I would have liked to play the 64 games. I just find it odd that so many people hate the games so much. I remember getting into one fight at ICVDF where the person decided that comparing CV64 to Resident Evil 3's cinimatics was fair.

[Darkmoon]

They can't be that hard to find. Maybe EBay would have em.

[ilpalazzo]

I've got Both Cv64's

[Darkmoon]

As do I. They're pretty.

[ilpalazzo]

I'm stuck on LoD. I think I forgot something at the satrt so I have to restart.
Oh well.

[Achirio]

You know why people hated them? because it was the first attempt for 3d, which meant losing the original castlevania feeling. But they, as game where good.
I did hate the mandragora/nitro part tho -_-  stupid crap gave me tons of heart attack.
As for cotm, it was an ok but i still liked sotn better.

[Xuzaf D]

My favorite 'roid at this point is Aria. It was more streamlined than SotN, and every enemy in the game dropped a different type of food. Damn... if I played long enough I probably could have written an "ENEMY DROP FOOD" list.

[ilpalazzo]

Ah hell all CV's rule...... *Hugs all of his castlevania games*

[Nimrods Son]

*Hugs all of his castlevania games*

it's like family. And it's good to have something for yourself that your friends can't understand
Cv comes handy at this point.

[ilpalazzo]

My job, which shall remain nameless, allows me to look into people, so to speak. by doing his I turned one of my friend into avid CV fans.

Damn i'm good.

[Achirio]

Namless huh? i COULD name that you know

[Darkmoon]

The mandragora was the one part of the game I really didn't care for. Pain in the arse level.

Other than that, though, most of the areas were quite fun to play...

Actuall, I did hate the tower of duels too, simply because the hit-detection when trying to grab onto ledges sucked dick.

[ilpalazzo]

Those levels were one of my favorites.

[Nimrods Son]

Those levels were one of my favorites.

Mine as well. Gotta love the Vampire Butlers At least, finally there's really vampires in a Cv game so Dracula actually IS king of sorts to something.

[BlackSheep]

CV64 and LoD were both great games with hidden touches that you might not at first be aware of.  For example, once when I had just jumped on to the big stone pillar that descends down into the ravine in CV64, I spun the camera around and panned upwards.  Staring back at me was a skeleton that had chased me towards the pillar and it had actually wandered over to the precipice after I had escaped it and was staring menacingly down at me as I descended.  That is cool to die for in my book.   

[Nimrods Son]

Yup. The KI (read: "personality feel") of these games' minor enemies is unmatched, not even in the more recent games. I don't want to say that IGA sucks, but, in this aspect, his games do. But that's perhabs because of the room-for-room character of Lament of Innocence.

[BlackSheep]

His games don't suck exactly but they can't match the N64s for sheer atmosphere. One has to take in to account, the years between the N64s and Iga's 3D efforts and the technology changes therein.

The N64 music rocked too.

[Lysander]

Yeah, I really like the 64 games. LoD more since it has the stuff from the first, but more. Did have great music, gameplay wasn't terrible like many say either. Going through the game with the whip can get pretty tough though. Doing things like spending all the money on day/night cards so you can fight the other vampire hunter and the shop owner doesn't help things.

[Nimrods Son]

yeah, it's quite a tough one. But still, besides Ultimate Dracula who is bad asshole,
the game is as balanced as Super Cv IV.

[Leafar]

i am an old school soldier...for me castle always will be platform, 2d...
i mean...i already get pissed with bats coming forward...i don't want more directions for the freaking to come annoy me :p...just kidding...
but frankly...i am an old school fellow!