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Super Castlevania IV
05-09-13 04:11 PM
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Super Castlevania IV
After slaving through the original Castlevania game, I decided to skip Simon's Quest and Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and head straight for Super Castlevania IV because it's generally regarded as one of the better Castlevania games in the series. Seeing that I started playing these games through Aria of Sorrow, I was still trying to get used to playing the "classic Castlevania" as opposed to what people like to call the "Metroidvania" games that started with Symphony of the Night.
Super Castlevania IV takes the formula of the original game and doesn't try to innovate the series through drastic gameplay changes, such as the RPG elements in Simon's Quest and the various playable characters in Dracula's Curse, but instead IV sort of aimed to refine the series' gameplay instead of invent large new gameplay elements or introduce gimmicks. I found this to be a pretty pleasant thing especially coming straight out of Castlevania; the original was very innovative and important for its time, but by today's standards the game's controls in particular are pretty dated and for some, very difficult to handle. Now, whenever you jump, you have some bearing over how far you jump instead of having a set distance that could lead to your death. Along with that is the incredibly entertaining ability to control the direction you can whip, and this gives you much more freedom in how you can approach attacking enemies. I feel as if the game itself is just a lot more free. You're able to do much more and you're in control of your actions in a larger sense than in the original. Along with these slight but important gameplay changes is the whip-swinging segments, which in brief moments like "the revolving room" can really highlight how creative the developers were with their level design. Ultimately, it sort of leaves me longing a bit for even more though, since there are some really nice gameplay elements that they could potentially incorporate with the ... Read the rest of this Review
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