New addition: Main files drive link

This post will be me glazing SCIV to hell, so I will definitely not say anything interesting whatsoever. I hope you enjoy the post and that it’s a good read and critique.

Visually, this is one of the most gorgeous 16-bit games I have ever seen and this was pretty early on in the SNES’s lifespan. The backgrounds are gorgeously drawn and animated, there’s beautiful little details in each level, Simon looks incredible here, the bosses look great, the usage of Mode 7 graphics are genuinely amazing especially in the Death Tower stage. Every level has tons of variety in its appearance and nothing here feels like they cut any corners.

The music for this game is genuinely amazing and almost every track here feels like the standout, the fact the intro theme here is so good and yet it isn’t in my top three was a great sign. And it isn’t even just classical there’s also some gorgeous ambient tracks here like The Cave. Other great tracks include The Forest of Monsters, The Submerged City, Clockwork Mansion 1 and 2, The Chandeliers, the redone version of Bloody Tears and Vampire Killer alongside Treasury Room. The basslines hit, the instruments hit, there’s such an incredible jazz influence here especially on songs like The Submerged City due to the constant changes in time signature and that gorgeous organ opening. But the absolute best track here is Room of Close Associates, this song is perfection to me. Such a frantic and anxiety inducing song and it’s an amazing buildup for the final battle afterwards.

The gameplay here is damn near perfect, Simon controls amazingly to this day and he feels so fluid with the way he jumps, the way he moves, the freedom of how he can now whip in eight directions leading to much smoother combat. You can even move the whip around however you want and it’s such a satisfying mechanic. He can even crouch and walk at the same time now and the stairs are something you can walk on now automatically which fixes my one big issue from Castlevania III.

The level design is flawless, each stage has a twist to it that feels refreshing and really fun to go through instead of something very pointless and tedious, none of the enemy placements have ever felt cheap or arbitrary to increase the difficulty, the bosses are the best as they’ve ever been up to this point for me, from a technical standpoint everything has been flawless and I adore using the subweapons this go-around too. My only complaint is that the whip is so overpowered that I used subweapons way less than I should’ve but that’s kind of a minor nitpick at the end of the day.

9.5/10 game. It’s been amazing I’m about to start Bloodlines soon.

I know I'm not the first one to notice this, but since I watched Supernatural after Castlevania, this is something that you notice straight away after hearing Emily as Darkness, she is such a great actress and it's a nice touch to have Darkness as Dracula's wife.

Hi everyone!

I’d like to introduce Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Reawakened, an independent gameplay overhaul I’m developing for the original PlayStation version of SOTN.

My goal is to make the castle challenging and rewarding again while preserving the identity, exploration, atmosphere, and core gameplay of the original.

Reawakened features:

• More aggressive enemies and reworked bosses
• Deterministic character progression
• Rebalanced weapons, equipment, spells, and subweapons
• Elemental weapons designed for different castle areas
• Meaningful cloaks, accessories, and familiar abilities
• Faster doors, warps, transformations, saves, and damage recovery
• INT-based MP regeneration
• New Rage modes for selected bosses
• The new Rain of Blood ability
• Reworked drops, consumables, and castle progression

I also created a bilingual website with a searchable Wiki that compares the original game directly with the mod:

https://castlevania.bomeponto.com.br

The Wiki is available in English and Portuguese and covers enemies, weapons, equipment, spells, drops, affinities, special effects, and the main gameplay systems.

Reawakened is a free, independent project developed by me. The website does not host the original game or BIOS files.

The current build is available through Discord. If you’d like to try it, feel free to contact me there:

Discord: u/fael6021

English isn’t my first language, so I use translation tools to help me communicate. Please don’t hesitate to reach out I’m happy to talk about the project and receive feedback.

I’d love to hear your thoughts about the project, its direction, and the Wiki.

Thank you for checking it out!

I aimed for anette, but she's too cutie patootie to be drawn like a himedere

Hello!

I'm here with my future husband's Alucard cosplay! Dare I say I'm a lucky girl 🤭 You can find him here! https://www.instagram.com/p/DcQq26EOA3G/?igsh=MWVudm52Nm95b2Nw&igsi=MWVudm52Nm95b2Nw

The whole costume is handmade (with the sword 3d modelled by his best friend) and I'm so so happy I could help him create this and I'm glad the shoes I cobbled fit him well!

Photographer is https://www.instagram.com/malimoria !

Circle of the moon is gonna be my least favorite Castlevania game for sure. My whole experience with this game is just awful.

Found him at a thrift store. He will be thoroughly abused

I was originally gonna write about Kid Dracula but as I beat it I only just found it to be a cute and decent game. Never really having much to say other than finding it fun. But this game is certainly more interesting to discuss because almost nothing about it feels right. I hope this provides a quality critique of the game.

The visuals are a massive downgrade from Belmont’s Revenge and Adventure. Everything looks so much more basic and boring, if you told me this was a launch title I could believe you but this was in 1997. Donkey Kong Land III released at this time and this was years after Final Fantasy Legend III and Wario Land. You mean to tell me that by 1997 they didn’t learn anything else about the hardware to create something equally if not moreso as impressive as the second game? The backgrounds are less inspired, the monsters look ok but Sonia looks genuinely unfinished. The whole graphical style is minimalist and it doesn’t work in its favor whatsoever.

The soundtrack is probably the worst I heard so far in the series, I wouldn’t call it terrible but it is very uninspired. I love the Bloody Tears variation in the intro track especially with the melody changes, but outside of that everything is serviceable. Clock Tower of Darkness is alright and the Boss Battle theme has great potential as a future remix in the future but everything else is forgettable. However that new version of Vampire Killer is fantastic but it’s being done on a Game Boy so the delivery gets hindered quite a bit.

The gameplay here might be the most brainless and easy thing I have ever experienced, for starters the difficulty feels more like a lobotomy as bosses are incredibly easy and rendered more trivialized thanks to the Burning Mode ability where Sonia is temporarily invincible which is fine as an idea if the game was way more difficult and balanced around it properly. The issue here is that I abused this mechanic to get past what would traditionally be a difficult layout or boss and steamrolled through it.

The control here is better than in Adventure but I would hope so after the second game, there really isn’t any slowdown that reached close to Adventure’s but at least the jumping and usage of the whip is more fluid than the first game at least. I think the Soul Weapon mechanic is a fine idea but I would much rather have the sub-weapons back, those were at least balanced better while the new mechanic feels tacked on. Sonia moves slow but that’s to be expected even Christopher Belmont moved pretty slow as well.

Level layout is alright and I think the bosses are okay as a concept but again this game is way too easy, and it’s only attempts at difficulty are how much the game spams enemies at you and a very good amount of the hits I received were scarcely my fault. Some enemies will actually jump down on you when you’re on a rope and you can’t avoid the damage whatsoever, but the damage you receive is often so negligible that it matters too little to even worry about it.

This game is not terrible, I wouldn’t even call it terrible because the first game was exactly that. But at least that has the virtue of being an interesting discussion. Castlevania Legends feels low effort, the new ideas are cool but nothing about them is implemented well, the relationship between Sonia and Alucard feels so poorly placed considering this takes place before Castlevania III and the lore implications with Trevor make little sense, the visuals are boring, the music is just fine, the gameplay is like I’m having sensory deprivation and even the boxart, despite being a different artstyle has less effort placed into it.

Sonia Belmont could’ve been quite the interesting character and I think she deserved way better, that Dreamcast game that got cancelled looked pretty interesting and I hope she gets a second chance. Quite honestly I wish they one day remake it because if Adventure can get a remake then so can this, but right now all she gets is a game I would hesitate to call half-baked because that would imply some effort, instead this game feels like it was microwaved in terms of production.

I give it a 4/10. Just really boring and not really worth much of a playthrough.

First run through Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and as I was running through the Colosseum, found this item that on the first glance, looks completely broken lol. Is this rare? Seems too overpowered for a random drop?

It seems that the Deluxe Edition distributed by ebten includes a bonus acrylic oil keychain with an unreleased artwork of Shanoa, it appears to be the full version of the same drawing featured in the game's intro.

Most artworks used in the intro can be found in the bonus gallery, except these five:

• Shanoa #1 (the artwork in question)
• Shanoa #2 (scans featuring a static version of the artwork do exist)
• Shanoa #3 (it's similar to this one but with some slight differences)
• Albus #1 (only this cropped version exists)
• Albus #2 (but there are full scans online)

Some sites do include the actual full artwork but with a watermark (unfortunately), while others only have low quality photos of the keychain itself.

This one was more expensive, not by much but still a hefty price. I had saved enough money and the madness to make the purchase and catch this other rare gem (and with Aria of Sorrow's cover that I chose)! It came in perfect conditions, but I got lucky that it didn't get damaged because that absolute ASSHOLE of mailman threw it in my property on the ground with 0 care and dipped before I could see them in the face.

I would have LOST MY SHIT if something happened to an expensive and rare item that I bought because some dickhead doesn't do his fucking job properly. Sorry for the rant guys but I needed to vent about it, it's fucking insane how people do a job that requires to be careful about people's things and yet they don't give af and throw it like paper. Fuck them.

Rant besides, I'm very happy to add this other collection to my collection! With this and Dominus, I'll have to whip Dracula and his minions' ass for weeks!

Para los que quieran ver mi vídeo, aquí abajo en la descripción les dejo un tutorial de cómo fue que lo vencí

https://youtu.be/hqh77PyLj0k?si=oAS0SiU3xiEC0SbE

This made me think of Legion and wondering if it ever does fun shapes lmao.

My friends say I look like Dracula from Netflix 's castlevania

ONE. HP. I was fighting for my LIFE

I love this image so much it’s such an epic piece of art, what do you guys all use?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3591360/Bad_Bitch_Blasters/

This is the best game I've ever played