Alright. Got 100%. Game sucks. Shelving it, and moving on (or, in this case, back) to FFT. Wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that IGA purposefully sabotaged this game so that he can convince his jobs to allow him to churn out more SotN clones. Hopefully, at least, they'll turn out more like the Sorrow games, and less like HoD or PoR! Cheers.
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Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles (Official Thread of AWESOME) GO! PSP! GO!
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Red Scarlet
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Defuser said:
Then I'm really confused..is this only in the remake? As I've done those numerous times (I play off my 100% file) and only gotten the forms that also show up in SotN.
rollingstart
Banned
Red Scarlet said:
yeah, new to the remake.
Mar_ said:
torture to help them hate it more.
Red Scarlet
Member
Mejilan tends to get 100% in most games he plays, in some cases extremely early on he is beyond overpowered. It's just how he plays. I stopped trying to understand it long ago.
Oh, ok Link. It freaked me out for a bit!
Oh, ok Link. It freaked me out for a bit!
jaundicejuice
Member
DAMN IT! Some of you people have already beaten the game, can piss an moan about it on a message board, get into debates over its qualitiy or lack there of and I still don't have my copy.
Is this what it's like to be European?
Is this what it's like to be European?
Magicpaint
Member
jaundicejuice said:
I wish I had this game.
MajestY said:
No, not really.
In my estimation, this is the ranking from best to least attractive SOTN option:
1. XBLA, graphic filter, achievements, good emu
2. PS1 version, off the PS store
3. Dracula X version: spotty emu (the sounds effects are weird), disappointing redubbed dialogue, ghosting on PSP's LCD.
Vrolokus said:
Not only are the sound effects in SotN weird (my best guess is that they were resampled to a higher rate, since they're a bit higher pitched), but all of the games on the disc have a problem with sound mixing. You turn up the music to really appreciate it, and then an ear-piercing "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" when Maria dies in the remake. What's the point of awesome music when the sound effects are twice as loud?
Conrad Link
Member
This game was doomed from the instant they re-dubbed SOTN.
They probably got sick of reading about how its so terrible and thought hey lets change it, but what they didn't realise was that it had taken on a form of its own, it now lives on in infamy and is bigger than the development team could even dare dream.
They probably got sick of reading about how its so terrible and thought hey lets change it, but what they didn't realise was that it had taken on a form of its own, it now lives on in infamy and is bigger than the development team could even dare dream.
rollingstart
Banned
Vrolokus said:
correct me if im wrong, but I remember people comparing the PS1/PSN version of SOTN to the XBLA one saying it had better sound and such, I would put that as the ultimate version if true.
however, the best version to play on the PSP (this is between the PSN and DXC versions) is the DXC version.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Being from Canadia, I haven't tried the DXC version yet, but in the comparison of XBLA SotN and PS1 SotN, the PS1 version is indeed the champion.
Playing this remake is actually my first time playing an old school CV game. It kicks my ass sometimes, but I'm slowly making progress and I'm starting to see what it was like before Metroidvania made it easy.
I'm disappointed a bit by the emu on SotN and the load times are fucking horrible sometimes (mostly in the menus). But overall, it's a great package for someone who doesn't live in nostalgia like me.
Still need to unlock original Rondo...
I'm disappointed a bit by the emu on SotN and the load times are fucking horrible sometimes (mostly in the menus). But overall, it's a great package for someone who doesn't live in nostalgia like me.
Still need to unlock original Rondo...
Segata Sanshiro
Member
French instructions, or are they shipping the US version?Lee N said:
Lee N said:
Yeah, they had it on their blog that preorders shipped last week. I kinda wish I'd driven to Mississauga to pick it up, but considering the game SHOULD be out around tomorrow, it's not quite worth the effort for me. I guess Videogamesplus might get their stuff from an American supplier, I know a game store near me does the same thing (although they weren't expecting Castlevania until this past Monday).
No, the SotN port was. I don't know if I'll be able to make it through without the original voices, even with the extra content. It's not much. The new Alucard sucks ass. The new Dracula sucks ass. And the new dialogue has no panache.Conrad Link said:
Sure the old dialogue was hilariously bad, but it's among the most beloved video game scripts of all time, partly for that reason. That IGA's way too sensitive. "People like it?! NO! I'll show them!"
I'm loving the 2.5D Rondo remake, and shitty emulator or not it's the first time I'll play TD Rondo. For $30, I can't really complain. But the redub is an expensive, pointless, unforced error.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Yeah, so you guys got US versions. Which I would love, but the chains have completely muscled out all the mom-and-pops in Winnipeg, and the chains won't order/sell US versions.
Lostconfused
Member
Segata Sanshiro said:
Nobody cares about us poor souls in Canada. The guy at EB told me that they might have it tomorrow. ITS AS IF WE DONT LIVE ON THE SAME CONTINENT.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Well, Super Mario Bros. had about 45 seconds of story, but can you imagine the rage if they changed "Thank you Mario but our princess is in another castle"?Skilletor said:
It's like that.
brandonh83
Banned
Gamespot said:
True, but it's for me.
InfectedZero
Member
This game is challenging. Thats what is good about it, how the hell do you mark that as bad? If it was "too easy" it would of marked as bad, so Im assuming they put that in there to not make the "whats bad" area look so empty. What a laugh.
Also, to you guys bitching about how horrible the emulation, gtfo. Go make a thread about the PS1 version, or roam over to the XBLA thread and talk about how glorious that version is. Yes, they are both fucking good version, I owned both. Read the thread title. It has awesome in it, you complaining about how shitty it is is making it less awesome. Rondo owns, I have two versions of it. ALL IN ENGLISH(or Japanese), with a bonus SOTN. $30. Not having to spend a rediculous amount of money just to play it.
Also, to you guys bitching about how horrible the emulation, gtfo. Go make a thread about the PS1 version, or roam over to the XBLA thread and talk about how glorious that version is. Yes, they are both fucking good version, I owned both. Read the thread title. It has awesome in it, you complaining about how shitty it is is making it less awesome. Rondo owns, I have two versions of it. ALL IN ENGLISH(or Japanese), with a bonus SOTN. $30. Not having to spend a rediculous amount of money just to play it.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Well, there's "too hard", "too easy", and "just right". It's sort of analogous to Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Given that Gamespot is reviewing for the average gamer, I would say that pointing out Dracula X's difficulty is fair game. It *is* going to be too hard for a lot of today's... gamers, and if all they ever see is the first twenty minutes of the game, that's got to be considered a negative, right?
Obviously beefy mans like us see that in the "negatives" and go "Woohoo!", because it's a positive for us. But we are certainly the minority in today's gaming landscape.
Obviously beefy mans like us see that in the "negatives" and go "Woohoo!", because it's a positive for us. But we are certainly the minority in today's gaming landscape.
InfectedZero
Member
Yeah I guess your right. Beef...
I don't care about politeness. However, when anyone says something bad about me, I do flex my magical wish powers to summon a Rick James lookalike to their house to dirty up their couch.Y2Kev said:The reviewer is actually in the thread. Let's be polite.
HAHA great original soundtrack, mej explode
Games, and the reviews written for them, are subjective things... opinions. As it turned out, I enjoy Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles as much as you all do (apart from Mejilan), but my gripes are not the same. I really like the soundtracks for all three games, for example, and I do think the new voice work in SOTN is superior to the old. But I haven't played through SOTN on PS1 twenty times to the point that my brain has been convinced to like that stiff, wooden crap they recorded.
As for the difficulty, a couple of folks nailed it on the head: it's a positive for a few people, but more likely to be a negative for the majority of GameSpot's readership. I had numerous primal scream moments myself. I don't enjoy being that angry. Still, I'm a trooper, and I like the way old school Castlevanias are setup, so I pressed on and now I'm to the point where I can play through the whole game without running out of lives. Is that sort of forced trial-and-error a good thing? I gotta admit, personally, I wish the game had been just a little less brutal so I wouldn't have felt rage at times while playing it.
Oh well, that's old school Castlevanias for you. Wonderfully designed games, but you know going in they're tough as nails. That's just how they are. I went through the same thing playing the 68000 remake/original on the PS1 Chronicle disc. 80% fun, 20% unbridled anger.
So yep, that was my thought process.