"Castlevania: Dracula X occupies an interesting place in Castlevania lore. You may recall that Castlevania: Rondo of Blood was released for the Japan-exclusive PC Engine in 1993. That game featured branching paths (kind of like Dracula’s Curse), three characters to rescue, and the ability to play as one of the rescued characters (Maria Renard). Dracula X is an SNES “demake” that was released in 1995. The level design is inferior, there are only two alternate levels, and Maria is not playable. Dracula X does not feature the gameplay improvements made to Super Castlevania IV, so it feels like a big step backward."
If you’re a gamer “of a certain age”, you may vaguely remember the moment when games went from a grueling gauntlet requiring all your skill and concentration to tackle to a casual, checkpoint-containing, cruise control-encouraging walk in the park.
I beat Jurassic Park multiple times!
Jurassic Park had no save system, so I would leave the console running while I went to school, took breaks. It's not that it's hard, it's just tedious. But I was a Jurassic Park obsessed kid (around 13 when this hit), so I would obsessively scower ever inch of the maps (both 2D and 3D) until I had them memorized.
The Star Wars trilogy, I only beat w the cheat codes.
Sounds just like me. I mapped out the indoor areas on paper, leaving the SNES on for days at a time. But I never finished the game. I collected all the raptor eggs except one. So close !
oh god, I remember beating JP on SNES and like you said, it was all in one shot.
I dunno about this list though, I beat all the Star Wars games and while some levels were tough, it was easy to get powerups and extra lives and stuff. Maybe set to the hardest settings it was tough. I also beat Contra 3, loved that game to death.
with the exception of Jurassic Park and Prince of Persia, I've beaten every other one of those. It just takes practice and time. Something I had way more of when I was younger.
In honor of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's release, The Punished Backlog's Luke Vennall went back, played, and reviewed three games from a series that is a total newcomer to Smash: Castlevania.
A.J. says: "Nintendo's Virtual Console has been a treasure trove of great classic games ever since its debut back in November 2006. Now that it's ten years old, let's take a look at the first five Virtual Console games that I ever reviewed."
The author should have mentioned the huge problem with the Virtual Console: Nintendo ties all digital purchases to hardware, not accounts. If your Nintendo console or handheld breaks, is lost, or stolen, you lose all your digital purchases. No one should buy any Virtual Console games unless and until Nintendo changes this harsh, anti-consumer policy.
Yes, that's a significant problem. However, the article is focused on five specific games that the author reviewed and this information wouldn't quite fit. That being said, we'll keep it in mind next time we write about Virtual Console. Thanks!
This version is total rubbish. Buy the Turbographix 16 version on the Wii virtual console in Wii mode.
Thanks for the heads up.