Edward_R_Murrow said:
The mashup of every Creature Feature movie monster, with a slight gothic glaze, along with everyone's favorite bloodsucker, Vlad Tepes, style of Castevania games you see in the first game all the way to Rondo of Blood/Dracula X/Vampire's Kiss (ok, and Castevania 64)?
You are a wise man. That's exactly what I meant!
Or, almost.
I was mostly refering to the ridiculously exagerated gothic architecture, the ridiculously exentric and pimped out dresses and clothes, the fact every single monster and villain and antihero out from gothic horror and similar genres makes an apparition, the foggy east european valleys with creepy forests and vaguely romanian towns full of nervous people as written by someone who never saw an east european valley with creepy forests and vaguely romanian towns full of nervous people, the incredible hotness of everyone who looks at least vaguely human, the inseparable sillyness and awesomeness and over-the-topness, the incredibly misinterpreted occult themes and references, and the gothic horror stylings and trappings that are completely out of place in a story about killing thousands of evil things with little whip but nonetheless are totally awesome. Oh, and the awesome music.
In any case, is Lord of Shadows any good? I was totally hyped out about it but most comments on the internet seems to be about how very little Castlevania-esque it is.
Gakkone said:
Bram Stoker's Dracula for the SNES (don't know if it's on any other platforms) maybe?
I did not knew of that game. Nice opening music, I'll write it down.
Wasn't there a PC first person dungeon crawling action game by the same name? In which you, uhm, crawled dungeons in first person, got killed a whole lot by undead thingies and werewolf stuffies, got lost thanks to the whole set of disorienting dungeon crawling traps like teleporter tiles and spinner tiles and the like, and got both stumped and killed by some pretty obscure puzzles?
Gakkone said:
EDIT: Oh yeah, and how about the Gargoyle's Quest series? I remember liking Demon's Crest a lot.
That video does look pretty sweet. Are those games, however, as hardcore as they are usually said to be? As in hair pulling, hate inducing, good neko turned into serial killer out of frustration?
Rasputin said:
Hm, that's a big oversight I had. Yes, the original one and defiance could be probably be thought of as having a certain Castlevaniaesque style. Maybe Soulreaver II, too, but I don't remember a lot about that one. Soulreaver, however, is already more of a Tzimisce Apocalypse story, so I don't think it counts. And LoK II is, uhm, weird.
Crooked Bee said:
Do you, perchance, know where can a good and nice and pretty neko get a download link for Primal? I have been trying to get my greedy paws on that one for a long, long while, to no effect.
Excidium said:
I never got too far on it, but I'll give it another try given what I know about it mixed with the mention of it being Castlevania-esque make it sound like a very promising and weird little thing.
SCO said:
Thief 2, some vertical fan mission levels.
Any in particular?
Vagiel said:
If you disregard the medieval setting, as some casltevania actually do, then koudlka, shadow hearts, Devil may cry and of course the many doujin that have copied castlevania, although I am sure you do not need me to remind you of them.
Ah, yes. Koudelka is most definitely so.
Shadow Hearts and Devil May Cry (and Bayonetta, too) give much of the same vibe and feel, too, but they are so modern in look and style that while they come pretty close is not exactly the same. So i'm unsure about those, even if they are all pretty cool indeed.
Vagiel said:
If you try to be a little more specific about the setting, eg vampires or extravagant clothing, then I believe I could come up with more.
Well, I just gave a much more precise description a bit earlier on this post so...
... pretty please with a sugar neko on top?
