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RagnarRox: Why Everyone* Was Wrong About Castlevania 64
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Tarnpanzer
Member
Legacy of Darkness was better.
Sleepwalker
Member
Remember picking this up as a kid from blockbuster and being mad about wasting my weekly rental on such bs. Still forced myself to play while wishing rented f zero x instead
Kev Kev
Member
christ almighty this guys voice in insufferable
but i did enjoy castlevania 64 back in the day. it had a really interesting story. although i cant say i found the combat "tough as nails". i had to rent the game more than a few times to beat it but i eventually did and really enjoyed the whole game. i always wondered why there wasnt a follow up.
i remember playing something on the 360 that felt similar but never bought it as i didnt think the demo was all tat great. still tho, i have fond memories of the N64 game.
but i did enjoy castlevania 64 back in the day. it had a really interesting story. although i cant say i found the combat "tough as nails". i had to rent the game more than a few times to beat it but i eventually did and really enjoyed the whole game. i always wondered why there wasnt a follow up.
i remember playing something on the 360 that felt similar but never bought it as i didnt think the demo was all tat great. still tho, i have fond memories of the N64 game.
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WalterSobchak
Member
I really like Castlevania 64. It's hard but fair enough overall. I believe I even beat it way back when. I still need to play the sequel which I own.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
I liked it back in the day.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
WTF does this guy ever get to the point? I watched about 20 minutes and he keeps repeating himself and showing the same footage. I still don’t have any idea what he thinks is good about this game.
Sorry, not watching anymore of this. It just made me hate Castlevania 64 more than I already did.
Sorry, not watching anymore of this. It just made me hate Castlevania 64 more than I already did.
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Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
I liked it.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
I liked that it went 3D that’s about it game looks very dirty.
PhaseJump
Banned
I used to work in an office where a perverted teenage kid used to call and get through our switchboard, only to end up breathing heavily, speaking just like this asshole, explaining that he's a woman that needs to be fucked.
It was a repeat thing. Had some hilarious conversations about him with the women I worked with. He would behave differently with them, either begging for fashion advice, or calling them whores and bitches.
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lughnasadh123
Member
Nah, been there and while it's not the worse game out there, it's not a good one especially in that era of Castlevania games. Sure as hell not going to get the click fisher another view for a insincere view.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
For anyone who wants to skip the first 20 minutes, here’s a summary:
- everybody said mean things about Castlevania 64 and pushed the narrative that it was a bad, inferior game. including Igarashi
- SotN was a media darling and everybody liked it and said nice things about it
- Castlevania 64 has muddy textures but so did most N64 games so you can’t hold that against it
Honestly this dude sounds like he first played (and enjoyed) it when he was 10, and he’s spent the last 25 years stewing with rage in his parents’ basement because most people disagreed. Now he’s put together his ultimate airtight treatise and he’s ready to destroy all the haters once and for all.
- everybody said mean things about Castlevania 64 and pushed the narrative that it was a bad, inferior game. including Igarashi
- SotN was a media darling and everybody liked it and said nice things about it
- Castlevania 64 has muddy textures but so did most N64 games so you can’t hold that against it
Honestly this dude sounds like he first played (and enjoyed) it when he was 10, and he’s spent the last 25 years stewing with rage in his parents’ basement because most people disagreed. Now he’s put together his ultimate airtight treatise and he’s ready to destroy all the haters once and for all.
Andyliini
Member
I personally do find it more enjoyable than the general consensus is, but the real beef is Legacy of Darkness. That game improved on pretty much every aspect of Castlevania 64, but not many people have played it. These games should be rereleased now, as they have never been before.
kunonabi
Member
Eh, I prefer the map design and performance in the original.
As for the video I wasn't wrong about it. It's been my favorite CV and my third favorite game of all time since it came out.
Generic
Member
He says way more, maybe he just like the game a lot.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
I think alot of people would think castlevania 64 is the best game they had ever played. If it was the first and only game they had ever played.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Castlevania 64 was excellent. That Frankenstein chase scared the shit out of me as a kid. The atmosphere of the game was steller and filled you with a sense of dread throughout. The game was not a power fantasy like many of the other Castlevanias.
Kokoloko85
Member
The title screen music alone is GOAT
I enjoyed it, its no SOTN or Simon’s quest but it was cool to play apart from the frustrating camera angles and controls lol. The PS2 3D games were alot better.
My friend got an earlier copy because his dad did some work for Konami lmao. Like something to do with Laws/Copyright for PAL region. I didn’t believe him until he brought it into class the next day
Almost as good as his uncle working for Konami
I enjoyed it, its no SOTN or Simon’s quest but it was cool to play apart from the frustrating camera angles and controls lol. The PS2 3D games were alot better.
My friend got an earlier copy because his dad did some work for Konami lmao. Like something to do with Laws/Copyright for PAL region. I didn’t believe him until he brought it into class the next day
Almost as good as his uncle working for Konami
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I thought it was pretty shit back when it released. People weren’t wrong about it, and I’m not giving some YouTube nobody a click.
I guess if you were a kid at the time there’s some nostalgia going on. But the game wasn’t good. Especially after the sublime SoTN.
I guess if you were a kid at the time there’s some nostalgia going on. But the game wasn’t good. Especially after the sublime SoTN.
BlackTron
Member
It was one of those games that happened as the dev was grappling with making a 3D game for the first time on the 64. Many of these devs had merit and some of that merit ended up in the end product despite a lot of "growing pains". More attention had to go into just making a game in 3D at all than the finer details and extent of content. (Modern take: Nintendo using up all their stat points on BOTW's map with none left for dungeons, LOL).
Objectively Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is severely flawed and janky, but it's still one of those games I'll just always like. Was there at the time, played it a lot, liked it for what it was...an early N64 game like Castlevania lol.
Objectively Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is severely flawed and janky, but it's still one of those games I'll just always like. Was there at the time, played it a lot, liked it for what it was...an early N64 game like Castlevania lol.
Kiddo Cabbusses
Member
This is one of my biggest peeves about indie YouTube videogame reviewers. I tried watching one for an import-only game I was interested in checking out because people said the review was good, but it was a video longer than an actual playthrough of the game, which wouldn't be so bad in and of itself if the game was short (It's not. At least, not a 30-minute arcade romp by any means) or if the first 40 minutes weren't full of references to barely-related subject matter, such as shamelessly promoting the guy's other reviews or shilling his patreon - you know, the stuff you usually do in the end of the video in under 3 minutes. I tuned out before I ever actually managed to hear any of the guy's talking points about the game itself.