| Leynos said: All 3D Castlevania's. Yes I said it even N64. If you don't let the worms in your ear, sit down and play them with no preconceptions you will be shocked. N64 game was a solid 3D game for it's time and was fairly ambitious with certain aspects that did not become more standard until PS2 era 3D action games. Camera? Most 3D games of that era had a bad camera. It's biggest crime was releasing after SoTN. Lament on PS2 is a Igavania game in 3D and is a good game.Some aspects you can say GoW borrowed from. Curse of Darkness is a good game as well and the Familiar system is fun. (Castlevania Pokemon anyone) Lords of Shadow was great and to me felt as close to a 3D Castlevania IV as one can get. (My fave in the series is CVIV) LoS2 got a lot of shit and it does have some issues but after finally trying it a couple years ago. I enjoyed it. It goes back to Metroidvania. It's still solid but not as good as the first one. |
In the case of C64, they had a lot of big plans for it. They basically wanted it to be an adventure on the scale of what Nintendo was promising with Ocarina of Time. But of course, it was their first 3-D attempt at Castlevania, not helped by the fact that Nintendo was notoriously lax at providing development tools to third parties, and given that Konami was the only Japanese third party that supported the N64 in any meaningful way, they really should have gotten white-glove service from Nintendo. It got bogged down in development hell, and the first game was likely the result of Konami managment telling the team they needed to have something ready to ship, soon. Legacy of Darkness was much closer to what the original vision for C64 was. The original vision of C64 had four main characters (Reinhart, Carrie, Cornell, and a chainsaw-wielding character called Kohler who got demoted to being a regular enemy in Legacy of Darkness). The graphics had originally been planned to be better than they ended up being.
I'd say the bigger thing working against them was that Ocarina of Time came out only two months before C64 did, and C64 just got dismissed. For my part, I did buy it on launch day.
The 3-D Castlevania games are, nonetheless, good games, and 3D Castlevania deserved better than it got.
