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Hisiru on 28 December 2009
VTnev27 said:

I thought this was a reimagining (or update, not sure) of Castlevania: The Adventure for Game Boy? Can anyone clarify?

Yup yup, it's a remake of the Game Boy game but if you played the GB game you will notice that this remake seems to be a very different game.

Here is a source to confirm:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176458



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jarrod on 28 December 2009
VTnev27 said:

I thought this was a reimagining (or update, not sure) of Castlevania: The Adventure for Game Boy? Can anyone clarify?

In theory, but not in function.  The "game" itself is 100% new, though it recycles the plot from CVTA.



johnsobas on 29 December 2009

i've been playing this for a while now, not quite finished but as a big castlevania fan i'm impressed. I do prefer it to be harder but it's not too easy. There is a hard mode, and you can play with the classic castlevania style where you can't control your jumping and get knocked back. This is why i love wiiware, it's reason enough by itself for me to own a wii.



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burgerstein on 29 December 2009

Aw man. I forgot about the Rebirth games. Now I need to get some more Wii points.



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famousringo on 29 December 2009
Khuutra said:
famousringo said:
Thanks for the impressions. I've never played much Castlevania, so I wondered if this might be a good point to jump into the series.

I grabbed one of the DS games, but I'm not going to play it until I get around to sending in my DS to get the R button fixed.

Which DS game?

@Jumpin:

Well, I think you just made a sale for Konami

Dawn of Sorrow. I saw it used for a great price.



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gansito on 29 December 2009

installed the game today, i thought it was rlly good. Konami's Rebirth series have been pretty good so far, can't wait for metal gear rebirth



Bladeforce on 29 December 2009

KONAMI for gawds sake bring back the diagonal whip shots. No castlevania has felt "right" after playing castlevania 4 on the snes and I have tried the PSX, DS incarnations. Jumping and only being able to use your whip in a straight line is sooo annoying!!!



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Kenology on 29 December 2009

Thanks for the impressions. I mean to download this last night but I can't put Muramasa down.

Classic Castlevania is so much better than Metrovania.



jarrod on 29 December 2009
gansito said:
installed the game today, i thought it was rlly good. Konami's Rebirth series have been pretty good so far, can't wait for metal gear rebirth

Next up is likely Salamder Rebirth going by Konami's JP trademarks.  I'm sure in time we'll see Metal Gear though, and probably a ton of other stuff (Parodius, Twinbee, Goemon, etc).



jarrod on 29 December 2009
KylieDog said:
Make or break question: Can you use the whip diagonally?

Nope.  It's the same as the best Castlevanias (Dracula's Curse, Rondo of Blood).  The game is slavishly oldschool, but still somehow newschool friendly, just like the other WiiWare ReBirths (Gradius & Contra).  M2 really are the masters of this sort of thing.