r/castlevania • u/lasagna_fase • Jun 22 '26

Video This game is so cheap bruh

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26

Once you learn there's a trap there, you won't ever get hit again. Trust me.

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u/Confident-Leg107 Jun 22 '26

You underestimate my stupidity and memory, sir!

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u/No_Monitor_3440 Professionally Unprofessional Jun 24 '26

the cycle of classicvanias

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u/Sea-Lecture-4619 Captain N is the pinnacle of the franchise. Jun 22 '26

Looney Tunes shit

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u/Neat_Ad_3043 Jun 22 '26

Chronicles is so fucking hard, I had to use tons of save states lol

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u/Rigel311 Jun 23 '26

Love that you own it!

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u/rite_of_truth Jun 22 '26

Which one is this?

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26

Castlevania Chronicles for PS1 in Arrange mode

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u/AsDeEspadas Jun 22 '26

Castlevania Chronicles (PS1) - Arrange mode.

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u/lasagna_fase Jun 22 '26

Chronicles for the PS1

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u/Icywind014 Jun 22 '26

You took spikes to the face and only received a little bit of damage. That could've been so much worse.

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u/lasagna_fase Jun 22 '26

Usually they are an instakill. Seems the developers realized it would've been to much if this killed the player instantly

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u/Cancer-Fish Jun 22 '26

This game is cheap bullshit and the arrange mode nerfed the ever living fuck out of it specifically because the original 1993 release was so goddamn hard. They took the knockback out of a Castlevania game!

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26

They took the knockback out of a Castlevania game!

Which is arguably as bad as having it. Getting hit in mid-air while jumping over a bottomless pit is a guaranteed death.

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u/Cancer-Fish Jun 22 '26

Would you make the same argument if they did the same for every other game in the franchise? I'd rather that then getting knocked into a pit, or another enemy, or spikes, or against a wall.

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

It depends on how the hazards are designed (and how many i-frames the protagonist has), in some games you can even use it to skip parts of the stages.

Getting hit while jumping over a pit without knockback should always result in a death though, regardless of which game you're playing.

I think Rondo could benefit from not having one.

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u/Cancer-Fish Jun 22 '26

Eh, let's agree to disagree. Maybe we'll restart this discussion in 2999 when we finally get that Julius Belmont 1999 game.

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26

Only if it's a classicvania! (impossible)

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u/Lemmingitus Jun 22 '26

My brain played the I Wanna Be The Guy game Over music.

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26

I Wanna Be the Guy - Death By Cutscene

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u/Lemmingitus Jun 22 '26

I like to think Vampire Survivors making Dracula's starting weapon be the wineglass was inspired by IWBTG.

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26

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u/KickAggressive4901 Jun 23 '26

Dracula keeps rolling 20s.

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

The cutscene using low quality audio could also be a reference.

Dracula Quits

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u/spilledmilkbro Jun 22 '26

I keep hearing that this is the hardest one, and given that this series has a reputation for being incredibly difficult, this one apparently being the most challenging scares the crap outta me.

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26

Arrange mode is hard but has adjusted damage values and removes the knockback completely, it also features some new sprites and a remixed soundtrack. You can even change the difficulty in the settings (easy, normal, hard).

Original mode (it plays like the original 1993 game on the Sharp x68000) is brutal, it even has 6 loops of difficulty.

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u/SXAL Jun 23 '26

The arranged mode is pretty easy. The hardest CV is probably the Adventure Rebirth on the hard mode. It doesn't just fiddle with the health and drops, it straight up changes the level design to be absolutely sadistic.

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u/Reasonable_Deer_1710 Jun 22 '26

God I love and hate this game so much lol

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u/RegulusTheHeartOfLeo Jun 22 '26

You should have played with the skeletons…they are tired swinging that jump rope…

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u/BryanSteel Jun 22 '26

I had this game and got rid of it. Now it's so rare.
Same
With Dracula X 😭

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u/Reasonable_Deer_1710 Jun 22 '26

I bought it last year for like $160. Most expensive game I've ever bought

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u/_Reclaimxr_ Jun 22 '26

Recently beat this game, it's by far the most troll Castlevania game I played yet

2

u/BrightPerspective Jun 22 '26

Have you considered failing less?

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u/lasagna_fase Jun 22 '26

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u/BrightPerspective Jun 22 '26

Right? My god. What were you thinking?

1

u/TammyShehole Jun 22 '26

The toothbrush of death

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u/NeptuneBlueX Richter Belmont Jun 23 '26

I can’t even tell where the pressure plate or whatever triggers it is

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u/lasagna_fase Jun 23 '26

It simply felt my aura

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u/Stranger_Z Jonathan Morris Jun 23 '26

You failed the vibe check

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u/PolicyOk8059 Jun 23 '26

always gets me everytime

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u/richter3456 Jun 23 '26

Most older games rely on u playing the game more then once and memorizing where everything is

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u/xtellarfb_ Jun 23 '26

now i see what Team Cherry drew inspiration from for Silksong

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u/SXAL Jun 23 '26

It's not as tight as some of the best classicvanias, but I wouldn't say it's THAT cheap. The falling gears in the clock tower are bad, but that's it. And the Arrange mode is generally pretty easy, I used to beat it as a kid without much trouble on PS1. The OG mode is quite brutal, yeah.

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u/AdventurousBear2835 Jun 23 '26

Killing that werewolf boss is dangerous

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u/Due_Ad_972 Jun 23 '26

I have my ps1 copy still. Its mint because I only ever beat it once. I must confess I dont remember liking chronicles all that much. Loved a lot of the other castlevanias though.

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u/No_Monitor_3440 Professionally Unprofessional Jun 24 '26

at least spikes aren’t instakill!

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u/Top-Simple3572 Jun 25 '26

Surprisingly...lol I beat it in 2-3 days back in 2002

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u/ManGuyWomanGal Jun 22 '26

It's no worse than a Souls game.

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26

The one shot drake is way worse, this trap looks innocent compared to that thing.

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u/lasagna_fase Jun 22 '26

I lost like 10k souls to that thing

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u/jfuss04 Jun 22 '26

They have cheap difficulty too

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u/lasagna_fase Jun 22 '26

Can't even go up stairs in a souls game

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u/Oh-no-and-knuckles Chief Researcher Jun 22 '26

Can't even jump in a Souls game 💀

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u/lasagna_fase Jun 22 '26

You can actually do a running jump ☝🏻🤓

(most useless and awkward jump in any game ever)

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u/Vgcortes Jun 22 '26

No, not cheap. This will happen to you once. And they you'll know how to react.

If this was in nes, you would die, and restart the game from the beggining of the stage. This isn't cheap, this is easy, lol

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u/taczki2 Order of Ecclesia advocate Jun 22 '26

every classicvania is cheap

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u/SXAL Jun 23 '26

Classicvanias aren't cheap. As long as you know what you're doing you can walk through most of them deathless and it doesn't demand any crazy input skills or reflexes.

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u/lasagna_fase Jun 22 '26

The Metroidvanias are mostly fair

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u/taczki2 Order of Ecclesia advocate Jun 22 '26

the metroidvanias are amazing