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| Time Mage 1171th Post
 
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|  "Experiment: Castlevania 64 poll."
, posted Sun 26 Jan 05:23
Se the "rules" after the poll.
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This poll could have been done with any controversial game, but I'm putting C64 because it was mentioned in the PS2 Castlevania thread, and because I own and like it.
My intention is to measure how an idea of what a game has to be influences the opinion about it. We all have a preset ideas of what a saga we like has to be. So, if you haven't played it, respond according with your feelings/expectations, that is, if you think a 3D Castlevania won't work, use the "haven't played - don't like" option.
It would be interesting if you also post why have you voted what, just to compare. I'm not here to blame anyone's tastes, but i want to know.
I've voted the first option, because, even when I wasn't expecting a great game, I bought it, and it offered me many great moments, and only some decievings (the music, except the intro one is mediocre).
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| OmegaDog 405th Post
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| "Re(4):Experiment: Castlevania 64 poll." , posted Mon 27 Jan 13:23
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Trust me, you didn't miss a thing.
Perhaps it's that I've really only played completely through Legacy of Darkness, and not the original CV64. (I banked on a feeling that it wasn't the final version of CV3D that Konami was going to release, so I waited it out.) So, only having seen part of the original CV64, I'm commenting here on Legacy of Darkness -- which did have improved atmospheres and textures from the original, not to mention that it could be experienced in the crisper high-res mode (which still has a very-playable frame rate; the only place where the frame rate causes trouble is in the Tower of Execution).
In terms of gameplay it is a bit generic (the gameplay does feel more like Tomb Raider than Castlevania). The music definitely isn't characteristic of Castlevania, in that very few of the pieces are memorable; the only memorable pieces in the game originally stem from other titles in the series (the Art Tower BGM is a slower, grander rendition of the Atlantis Shrine BGM music in Castlevania Bloodlines, and the boss music comes from Dracula X). And, the graphics and character models can be simple at times (sometimes embarrasingly so, as with the dead villager models).
But, despite all that, I really enjoyed the atmosphere that Legacy of Darkness gave. The architecture and textures applied, mixed in with the cloudy skies, rain, sunlight, and appropriate use of fog, contributed to an atmosphere that drew at least myself into the game. And even if the music wasn't memorable, it was at least atmospheric (and the sound samples were great) such that it contributed wonderfully to the architectures. That's what kept me going through the game. (I suppose you can add to that that I really hadn't played completely through Tomb-Raider-type games beforehand. I've only demo-ed them.)
As for Hybrid Heaven -- that was a game that also drew me in, but more actually for the fighting system. Getting in quick punches or combos, narrowly avoiding enemy attacks... I enjoyed it quite a bit. (If only the actual evasive steps were more effective...) but I still really enjoyed the fights of the game. Graphics weren't that bad either -- this is also a game that runs well in high-res through most of the game, perhaps except for the beginning stage.
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