Despite always being aware of this series I never actually gave it a try, I guess I was like 2 years old when Super Castlevania came out, so the whole craze evaded me. Let me do a little breakdown of the stuff that stuck out to me. (Btw the other game Smash made me play was Fire Emblem back with Melee, thank you Daddy Sakurai)
GAMEPLAY - Simon is slow and awkward to control but this doesn't feel like hindrance (for the most part) since I think the game is balanced around it, you hardly face a challenge where you need to be agile or attack lighting fast, its more about just reflexes and judgement (Hey! just like Dark Souls!) the game uses clever enemy placement so this makes your shitty movement a non issue...except for a few areas but I will get to that later.
When it comes to items/weapons I used the Cross/Boomerang 99% of the time, I mean I saw no reason to use the rest, what does the Knife even do? The Axe is the 1% since I used it against the 1st boss, guess that falls on me since I didn't experiment with the rest of them, but the cross was all I needed really.
MUSIC - Pretty fantastic, I am not gonna go too deep into this topic, instead I will tell you the tracks that stuck out to me the most...or actually describe where I heard them since I don't know the names.
* The very begging, I am sure I heard this during Simon's reveal at the Direct
* Uhh you are fighting crows...at a high point of the castle, lots of orange platforms, oh and you are outside
* Walking to Dracula's room
BOSSES - The Bat was a chump, Medusa got rocked, only realized the Mummies where a boss when the orb dropped, Frankenstein's Monster and the monkey thing were annoying but nothing too hard, Death is the hardest boss in this game like legit hard and a good challenge, took me a few fights to get used to his scythe patterns, I was surprised when he went down since I was not paying attention to his health bar. Dracula I guess is the 2nd hardest but that is not saying much, I honestly though his 1st form was more challenging, his 2nd form was easy after I started to fill the screen with crosses and stayed in the middle, Death was still much much more challenging.
MISC - I have seen people talking about the room with the medusas and the knights so I was ready to get my balls rocked, and I don't mean to brag but it was not that bad, I rushed forward throwing crosses like a madman and I never got his by the medusas since they always floated behind me, I noticed before the knights keep walking backwards so I used that to keep pushing, who knows, maybe I got lucky with the pattern
Worst enemy in the game? The monkey things, they are fast and unpredictable, but even worse is the combination of the birds+monkeys, fuck that room before Dracula with the cogs now THAT is hard and nobody warned about that shit, the game is not made for platforming or evading fast enemies, and they seem to respawn forever so I just ran for the exit like a bitch...fuck that room.
So there you go, overall really enjoyed the game and I am looking forward to the next games in the series, that being said should I skip some of them? I am sure they are not all winners, please let me know which games are a must play.
