mZuzek said:
No need to generalize the thread if you're only booing at me lol. And sorry, then. I understand why some people love Castlevania 3, it introduced many cool ideas, Alucard, was gorgeous visually and its soundtrack is seriously something else. I don't dislike it because of those things, I dislike it because the difficulty and the level design, especially in the American version, are stupidly unfair, to the point where the only person I know IRL who shares your opinion on the game loves it because they don't mind abusing save states, going as far as saying "that's how you play those kinds of games". And, yeah, if death is meaningless and there's no punishment for it, maybe then there is a lot of enjoyment to be found in Castlevania 3, but to me it was just a whole load of horseshit everytime I died thanks to some random crap and it took me back like 5 minutes because the stages are so long... I mean, they seem to be about twice or three times longer than the average Castlevania 1 stage, yet they give you fewer lives, and about as many checkpoints, and to make it worse all the stages are filled with bottomless pits EVERYWHERE. That's just frustrating, in a pretty unfair way usually. My favorite Castlevania 1 stage (the 5th one) doesn't have any bottomless pits at all and still manages to be a heck of a challenge, in fact it's quite notorious for it, but it's challenging in a way that doesn't require it to be one-shotting you for every and any mistake you make - instead, it allows you to make mistakes, and learn from them. It's awesome. This stuff you just don't get in Castlevania 3, for example when you get to the final boss and even a single death (never mind a game over) takes you all the way back halfway through the final stage (sure, I know that's American version only, but still, what the fuck). And obviously, there's a bottomless pit on the final boss as well lol. Edit: oh and don't get me started on that 3-minute block dodging section... |
Hmm I never saw it that way. I always felt the difficulty is pretty much the same in both games. Maybe it's because I've been playing it since I was a kid but I don't even feel it's THAT difficult. I can play it from start to finish in one sitting and I never use save states. But yeah I can see why difficulty might ruin it for some people. Maybe if you use the 10 lives cheat? In case you didn't know about that.
