Your Hardest Games

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I think SOTN is one of the easiest games out there, haha...

That is strange you don't like Rondo of Blood though, at least the music completely rocks? But yeah I might put Super CV4 above it myself in terms of the old classic styled games. I liked that one a lot, and Death was a beast in that one.

Yeah, the music's great. I don't think there is a Castlevania game with bad music.

[brunoafh]

Too bad I hate Rondo with a passion. I could never force myself past the 4th stage.

That's very strange, do you like the original side-scrolling Castlevania games?

I haven't played them all yet, but, I really really liked Bloodlines. Castlevania 3 was pretty damn good too.

It seems almost impossible to dislike Rondo of Blood if you like the old Castlevania games, let alone hate it with a passion. It's basically everything old school Castlevania at it's absolute best. What made you dislike it?

[RyaNtheSlayA]

It seems almost impossible to dislike Rondo of Blood if you like the old Castlevania games, let alone hate it with a passion. It's basically everything old school Castlevania at it's absolute best. What made you dislike it?

I felt much weaker than in the other games. It doesn't help that most of the enemies move way too fast. The level design also wasn't very good from what I've played. I stopped at Stage 4 so perhaps it gets better. The game also seems to have a lot more cheap hits than Bloodlines.

[Markell1991]

I felt much weaker than in the other games. It doesn't help that most of the enemies move way too fast. The level design also wasn't very good from what I've played. I stopped at Stage 4 so perhaps it gets better. The game also seems to have a lot more cheap hits than Bloodlines.

Castlevania games are just like the Megaman games: you learn the level inside out after dying many times, then you pwn. I think some enemies are annoying, like the Fleamen and the Skeleton Dragon things.

[Xeogred]

Medusa Heads are the worst to me in the classic ones, haha.

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

Battletoads, which I believe was discussed on that How Hard do you like it thread. I played it on Genesis and it still as tough as the NES version. I'm still trying to figure out that f'n pattern on the speeder bikes stage! Frustrating as fuck

Not at all. It's MUCH MUCH easier on the Genesis, the NES version of that stage is a good 3-4 times faster.

Beating that stage on the NES version felt like a right of passage for me LOL

Never beat the whole game though

...yet

Be ready to dig some time into it, the hoverbike stage is a joke compared to the rest of the stages.[/quote]

Great. Thanks for the heads up.

I was playing the NES version last night just to compare w/ the difficulty between that and the Genesis. I stand corrected and you're right, it is easier than the NES. I just don't remember the NES version being that difficult for some reason! Holy crap! I'm sticking to the Genesis version for now and if by some miracle I beat that version then I will attempt to beat the NES version once I have regained my sanity from beating the Genesis version! I may need to break out that bottle of Jack I've been saving to get through both versions regardless though!

[vicrizer]

I'm gonna have to agree with F-Zero GX. I don't have the patience to 100% it. Beating Story Mode on Normal was enough to make me feel accomplished. Everything else beyond that is absurd to me. That won't stop me from coming back to it from time to time though.

I found Breakdown for XBOX pretty difficult at times, especially at the end. I felt its controls were awkward and slow but if you get the hang of them you can usually do fairly well... it's just that by the end it gets really cheap. Like GX's Story Mode, the game has two harder difficulty settings that just seem impossible to me.

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia was probably the most difficult of the handheld Castlevanias IMO. To top that off, once you beat it, you can start a new file with a level cap at level 1 and upped difficulty. I'm not that much of a masochist.

Gradius III Arcade nearly made me cry blood. I only beat it once on Gradius III & IV for PS2. I'm not that good at shmups, as much as I enjoy them

[brunoafh]

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia was probably the most difficult of the handheld Castlevanias IMO. To top that off, once you beat it, you can start a new file with a level cap at level 1 and upped difficulty. I'm not that much of a masochist.

This game was very good, best one on handhelds for me. Very difficult too, a Castlevania trademark that the handhelds ditched (I guess Circle of the Moon was kind of hard).

[Xeogred]

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia was probably the most difficult of the handheld Castlevanias IMO. To top that off, once you beat it, you can start a new file with a level cap at level 1 and upped difficulty. I'm not that much of a masochist.

This game was very good, best one on handhelds for me. Very difficult too, a Castlevania trademark that the handhelds ditched (I guess Circle of the Moon was kind of hard).

Agreed, OoE was definitely my favorite on the handhelds (so glad they ditched stylus stuff) and a good challenge. CoTM was pretty tough though as you said, I thought I was pretty high leveled around the end, until the final boss was able to kill me in ~2 hits. Still managed to beat it though, but damn that was probably one of the tougher final bosses in a CV game for me.

[Gamerforlife]

I've played Order of Ecclesia and Portrait of Ruin and I liked POR better. It's easier sure, but that doesn't really matter to me. I found POR to be more creative, original and fun than Order of Ecclesia. Plus, I like that it has a more traditional castle layout while Order of Ecclesia was mostly just a bunch of random stages on a world map

Symphony of the Night is still the best to me though, at least until one of the other 2d Vanias that I haven't played yet possibly changes my stance on that