Question for you classic game fans, have any of you beaten Castlevania in its second difficulty, on the NES. This is about Castlevania 1

Just curious, cause I find it challenging.

Oki... I'll take that as a no.

There's a second difficulty? I feel like an idiot for not knowing that. I can beat the game in the regular difficulty setting without using a continue, though. Always end up dieing once or twice like an idiot though, lol.

Sazzy_D, beating it without using a continue is quite the feat! I'm pretty sure after a while of playing though it I could pull it off, but I know if would be tough. If you can beat normal without a continue, I'm excited to see how well you'll do in the 2nd difficulty mode.

The 2nd difficulty starts when your first game ends. If you look at the stage #, instead of saying "1" it says something like "Stage 19" (not on my Wii atm).

I can't believe I never realized that about the second difficulty level. I'll definitely try to play through it again when I have a little free time. The key to beating Castlevania is memorizing enemy placement (which isn't too hard, because it's a pretty short game) and abusing holy water. Holy water is broken in that game, and you should never use anything else unless you are just looking for a challenge, you can literally freeze every non Dracula boss in place until there health reaches zero with it. I'll let you know how it goes when I give it a try.

Have you ever played Castlevania 3? It improves upon the original in every way, and it's difficulty is brutal compared to the first one.

Yup, played it and never thought it was difficult at all. I don't get why people say it's one of the most difficult games of all time (according to several lists). I used to beat the game over and over again and every time it would get more difficult, but still 10 times less than Demon's Souls.

Yeah, like I said part 3 blows it out of the water difficulty wise, but its still not as hard as Ninja Gaiden 2 or Ghosts n Goblins, which are much harder NES games. Or the original Ninja Turtles game - man I hate that game. It i still a decently difficult game though.

I haven't, I'll try it next time I'm on in my Castlevania mood, thanks for suggesting.

@naruball. How many stages are there? (How many games cycles?)

I remember only beating it three times in a row. There was a stage that you're supposed to enter a door and 20% of the time the console would freeze while entering the building and I had to restart. I was literally praying to get through every time. Since there were no save files I never managed to beat it more than three times (my mum would turn off my nes or the damn door would do it for me).
The first playthrough was easy, the second a bit more difficult and the thrid quite challenging, but not ridiculously like Demon's Souls.
Good times...

Me and my bro used to LOVE Castlevania as kids. We beat Castlevania II, first (it was actually pretty easy). Then, we went back and beat Castlevania I. Then, when Castlevania III came out, we got every ending except the "Trevor by himself" ending.

So, to answer your question: I don't remember at all. I don't even remember there being a second difficulty.