Some retrospective thoughts on the old Castlevania games... and gameplay footage.
Whether on the Famicom or NES, Castlevania III is an 8-bit masterpiece.
I disagree.
Having beaten the first 3 Castlevania games I think part 3 is easily the worst. Part 1 isn't that hard and a good, fun challenge throughout, until you reach Death & Dracula. :D Castlevania II is a masterpiece and was far ahead of its time; in fact many action / adventure hybrids today follow Castlevania II's formula. Castlevania III is just Castlevania I with the difficulty increased to the point of being ridiculously cheap. Also, the graphics of Castlevania II, and I'm tempted to say the graphics of Castlevania I, are better than those of Castlevania III.
Totally disagree with your disagree. 3 is better than 2. I understand where you are coming from with the Metroidvania standpoint of it being used today. But 3 was just overall better. 2 wasn't even reviewed as well as 3 when it came out. Still doesn't today. 3 was sloppy in that you didn't know where to go, when to go and had to search every nick and cranny to find something. And when you found it, you had to figure out what to do with that item and at what time. Or ask someone else in the neighborhood who was also playing it too as there were no guides back then. It lacked direction even if it allowed you to walk around aimlessly. Games don't need hand holding. But it needed something as it was not like Metroid exploring. It was worse trying to copy that style. 3 led to a better game with 4 being a forward adventure. All areas were new. It's like saying Zelda 2 was better than 1 or 3. Nope. It was okay. But not better than those either.
3 was a forward adventure with different paths to increase replayability. Metroidvania games like 2 while okay, do a lot of back tracking over the same areas. Which allows the developer to get away with the same assets being reused but can lead to a game being boring seeing the same stuff. That's not always enjoyable. That's being cheap.
It's good developers fixed the Metroidvania confusion of games like Castlevania 2. Because although I beat it then, it was irritating to get through. It's not a masterpiece.
Trevor and Sypha's video game romance explained.
So, Nintendo's got a new mini NES with 30 games packed in.Here's 12 classics they snubbed.
It is called rights, and RARE is no longer got any rights with Nintendo. as for some of the others, maybe someday they will be added VC games can be downloaded to it FYI
Rare have got all the rights to their games FYI. The only games rare don't own the rights to are where Nintendo characters are involved I.E the donkey kong games, Diddy Kong racing etc. Hence why banjo is on Xbox ;)
i find it funny that you think nintendo didnt give careful consideration to the 30 games it included in the collection.
any games not included were left out for a reason.
Super Dodge Ball was great, but how do you forget Track and Field, Double Dribble, Skate or Die, Paperboy, Bad Dudes, Top Gun, Blades of Glory, WrestleMania, Tecmo wrestling, bomberman, etc
There are probably about 5MB worth of games here. I didn't feel like doing the exact math, but considering these games average from 8KB to 128KB My estimate may in fact be too high. The user interface will probably be about 1GB (1024MB) so I'd be surprised if this thing even holds 2GB, honestly it probably costs Nintendo less than $5 to make one. That being said I'll probably still buy one since it looks pretty neat.
Agreed it does look good. Im just being a spoiled american and wishing it was more than 30 games or at least a promise to add future titles
At one point it was reported that the Wii had enough memory to fit every game in the library of NES & SNES in it woth room to spare so I think these 30 games take up even less then your estimates
Loved seeing Bloodlines.