Castlevania Anniversary Collection announced for all platforms. Includes Castlevania 1-4 and four unannounced games.
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konami.comPosted Mar 20, 2019, 3:31 AM UTC
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konami.comInteresting that it has the Game Boy Castlevania 2, instead of Simon's Quest.
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Yeah, OP needs to update the title because Simon's Quest is missing. I hope they put it in though, that's still one of my favorites of the series though I'm sure it's not held up well.
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The problem with Simon's quest is it was designed to sell Nintendo power and other guides. It's deliberately confusing.
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Apologies, can't edit the title.
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8 games? That's barely enough to cover just notable pre-Metroidvania Castlevania games. Are they going to ape Capcom's take on Rockman Collection and then release "Castlevania Collection 2", followed by "Castlevania Metroidvania Collection"s 1 and 2?
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The collection with Mega Man 1-6 was amazing. The rewind feature helped in some of those more difficult sections and they added a CPU option which ended the lag when there were too many sprites. I was finally able to play the first section of Metal Man as God intended. I can only hope more NES type collections can learn from that.
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My point was that there was no real (or any reason, for that matter) to split it in two parts. And especially to then go and do that again with X collection. That was just pure greed.
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Not as bad as Nintendo selling NES games for $5 EA though.
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I’d guess two collections. One classicvania and one metroidvania. I’d be ok with that. I already own most of the metroidvania games in the series but I’d still buy the collection.
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Better have sotn
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SotN has already been rereleased. Give us the GBA games.
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Not on Switch though
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Too bad. Give us the GBA games.
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Given they just released SotN + Rondo in a different package a I feel like this collection is unlikely to have either.
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I’m guessing Castlevania 1-4, Game Boy Castlevania 1-2, Rondo of Blood and Bloodlines?
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That is what I was thinking as well.
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Sick, but at this point not fit for the sub, right?
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Watch it be SNES Dracula X. Lol
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Steam? Don't mind if I do
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I'm seeing a lot of criticism of the game selection here. As someone who enjoys Metroid a lot but hasn't played Castlevania, I was excited to see this as a good starting point to play the games. Is there a big one I'd be missing if I only played this collection?
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Sotn is in my opinion (and a lot of others') the best Castlevania. The ones in this package are all the first few games which are not metroidvanias. Circle of the moon and aria of sorrow are really good too. None of them have been announced for this bundle yet
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SOTN, Aria of Sorrow, all of the DS Castlevanias.
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There's two main types of Castlevania games: the Metroidvania type and the Classicvania type, which is the old school action platformer type.
This first collection will more than likely just consist of games from the Classivania type games, meaning you would miss out on SotN, arguably one of the best Metroidvanias/games in the series period. There is a chance that with collection number two, that it will feature more Metroidvania styled Castlevania games, including SotN. It could always potentially be revealed for this first collection, all evidence just seems to point against that for the remaining four games.
As far as whether you should/shouldn't play this collection? I personally say you absolutely should but I'm a die hard Castlevania fan and a Metroid/ Metroidvania fan second. Castlevania 3 (NES) and Super Castlevania 4 (SNES, a complete remake and over haul of Castlevania on the NES) are both really solid entries into the series for Classicvanias and a good jumping off point in terms of gameplay, difficulty, music, art design etc etc. The original Castlevania can potentially be a bit too difficult or too shallow for someone new to the series and the GB one is good, but shows it's age the most in my opinion and isn't really a great jumping off point.
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It's a Christmas miracle
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All I want is CotM on the switch.
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I want pixelart rondo of blood on my switch. Thank you.
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If it has Aria of Sorrow I'm in.
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If it has Aria of Sorrow or Dawn of Sorrow, I'm all the way in.
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Title of thread is incorrect; Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest is not currently listed. Castlevania II - Belmont’s Revenge 2 IS listed, though.
Anyways, even with the other games to be revealed, this is far too few games to make this collection worth buying. Leaving off Castlevania 2 is laughable, because Konami 100% has the resources to put all these old roms in one package with a paltry amount of effort, but they can’t even be bothered to.
Oops, thanks for the correction.