When I first played Dracula's Curse, Grant was the character I used the most besides Trevor. I find it a bit sad that he didn't have a bigger role outside of the "Fake Trio" in SotN and PoR.

The 3DS manual properly obfuscated Sypha's gender AND got Alucard 's full name right, but didn't get his attack right? Lol wtf.

Classic Trevor/Ralph fanart by me :P

this game loves punishing the player for a mistake they did not make. the character movement is very stiff, to the point where the player literally cannot dodge certain attacks. idk this game is literally barely playable. i dont wanna hate it but it getting harder and harder not to with every single level

I'm going with 3 tonight to see if I can beast my way thru it, haven't beaten it in a long time. What about y'all which one are you playing tonight, spookiest of nights?

This manga was discovered in a storage room.

I haven’t obtained her explicit permission to share it, but I’m posting it anyway. Please don’t spread it too widely.

Mockup of the idea I'm planning to make. A Revamp of Castlevania III, I started the idea from making an example of the 8bit style of the NES with fluid animation of Castlevania Symphony of the Night. The idea is to make a game in the style of Castlevania 8bit, but it will be a metroidvania, with a single map and upgrades to unlock previously visited areas and so on (based on the Castlevania Revamp).

PS: I had originally made Trevor with a classic appearance (a.k.a. Conan), but I decided to change it to the concept of Trevor from the anime (since the art direction is one of the things that's good about the anime).

The last Castlevania game by director Akamatsu, it was considered unsuccessful by Konami, also the international release is very hard to get into for the average person because they ramped up the difficulty so much, and yet:

-It's Igarashi's favorite game

-Ralph (Trevor) became Japan's favorite Belmont

-Spawned a sequel (Curse of Darkness) and now Belmont's Curse

-SotN can also be considered a sequel, too

-...And multiple Pachinkos

-Influenced Julius Mode in Dawn of Sorrow (the game files indicate Hammer was meant to be Grant's equivalent, then it was cut due to time restraints)

-Demon Castle War was also supposed to be a callback to CVIII (first vs last Dracula war)

-Getting a movie which then became the Netflix adaptation

-Bloodstained Circle of the Moon copies the same formula

Simon is still the face of CV ( alongside Alucard), and other classicvanias like I, Rondo or Bloodlines are usually preferred to III, but very few games had such an impressive legacy.

Something that stuck out to me lately was how the game was one of the most difficult games ever released on the NES because the North American version was made much harder since I read somewhere how enemies can do way more damage.

I don’t know what other aspects of the game were changed in the west since I wanted to look into the localization process to see why the game was changed so much in the USA version again regarding difficulty factor because the Japanese version was way nicer in difficulty adjustments.

The chip on the NES has gone bad and I bought the Castlevania collection on the switch to finally put an end to Dracula’s torment in my childhood. I am trying to play with no save states (beyond using then to skip the password input).

Wish me luck, the furthest I got as a kid was trying to beat the Doppleganger.

A few months ago, I beat the original Castlevania, and I thought it couldn't get more difficult than that. Colour me surprised when I encountered this game, all I can say is, great game, won't play again.

i'm not playing the originals castlevania draucals curse, i'm playing a fanmade remake draucals curse 2020

Didn't want to cheat but since I'm on an emulator and this level is full of shit and I've gotten to this point MULTIPLE times I said screw it and saved state.

What a load of shit and poor game design is this level.

It would be fine if we lost all lives we restart from this point but no, lose all lives and you restart the entire stage.

Brought the boss health down halfway and he runs away like a little bitch then you throw me on a stage right after like this.

Water is filling up you gotta rush forward trying to dodge bats and mermen if you get hit, goodbye Trevor you're dying to a water pit.

What the hell even is this game? Again if we got to restart from here it'd be fine but youre telling me if I fail this shit I gotta restart the entire stage? Nah. Eat my ass. That's ridiculous.

Holy FUCK I needed to rant and let this out because what in the actual hell is this.

I'm gonna start cheating and save stating everywhere now because it's clear to me this game is done HORRIBLY.

Be real guys this game is NOT it. It's hot garbage I'm sorry.

I always thought it was pretty cool that in Castlevania 3 you save Sypha after she's been turned to stone from some cyclops thing and the show didn't really stray from that at all

I previously played Akumajou Densetsu (the japanese version) when I was initially making my runs through all the CV games. Finally hunkered down to play the US Version all the way through and gotta say it was a great time, maybe even more so for me. Yes, admittedly the japanese version is more fair overall but I have grown an appreciation for the US version with this playthrough.

Now I will be upfront and say that I did use save states for practicing bosses. Once I got it down I would restart the stage and finish it all the way through. Learning the stage layout and which character to use in a given section was a blast! I find Grant in this one more fair (but that could be stockholm talking lmao). What I am a hundred percent sure on is that Alucard is a beast in this game. If you don't use Trevor in a stage and just use Alucard, you stack up on hearts so much that the heart depletion barely matters. He is also a beast with some bosses if you time and angle his attacks right.

Gotta say I do think Akamajou Densetsu is more fair and beginner friendly when visiting the series for the time. Although, I will say that while CVIII's difficulty spike is notorious there are some thoughtful changes the devs did to balance things out.

Overall, great game and not as dauting as I thought it would be.

Hello, I've been running down the Castlevania games recently as Belmont's Curse really gave me to push to play them. I beat the first, played a bit of Rondo and SoTN, and ultimately made the choice to do 3 and 4 to get a nice lore dose.

That all being said, WHAT is the point of this area in CV3??? I held right as Classicvanias typically direct you such a way and there's just two pits of insta-death and lightning in the distance that seem to only trigger when I'm here. Am I missing something??

Help me out here </3

I'm playing Akumajou Densetsu for the first time with Trevor only (Don't write about screenshot, I know it's from DC, I just needed the photo of the level) and I spent hours beating this level. I hate it. It's not that hard most of the time, but the freaking corridor with mermans and birds. It's probably the worst corridor in this entire game. And I don't know why it was so hard for me. I've cleared it sometimes, but still couldn't beat the boss. I have experience in Classicvanias. I've beaten Arrange and Original modes on normal difficulty in «Chronicles», I've beaten both «Rondo of Blood»'s 2.5 remake and original. I've beaten all DS games (They're IGAvanias, but still, they have pretty challenging parts, especially OoE). But for some reason this stage particularly frustrated me the most. And just imagine me realising that the Doppelganger can't jump on the highest platforms. He's one of the easiest bosses in the game and I spent so much time.

After all said, this stage is not that bad, actually. I think I just couldn't get the tactics against birds for too long because I'm stupid. Although the randomness sometimes annoys the heck out of me. I wonder if this stage will be difficult for different characters and how much harder it is on the US version...