HEY!You wanna play a hard NES game that will piss you off and make you to break your computer,well play this game and you will see it.

elmas : I bleepen hate that game its a jerk to play, a pure waste of time.

It's a terrible, terrible game. If you want a *good* NES game that has a Gothic setting, extreme difficulty, 2-D action, undead enemies and takes place in a castle, just play "Castlevania".

Speaking of which give me another month or so on the walkthrough. I've ditched the idea of including the second quest for three reasons. The first is, I admit, the second quest is hard and I've kind of given up. But also, there's a *reason* why nobody does second quest walkthroughs: because nobody plays the second quest of *anything*, except maybe "Zelda"! Nobody cares about the second quest, it's just padding. They added it to old games to create the illusion that they'd added something extra when it's just a few more enemies and a couple of hidden items. Finally, I'd essentially be writing the same walkthrough twice. I made it more than halfway through the second quest (almost to the end of block four) and not a lot is different.

Anyway, back to "Ghosts n' Goblins". The game reeks. The music has this awful, awful piercing quality to it and it's just the same few bars endlessly repeating throughout...the whole...game! The sound effects are just as abrasive, the map animation (which IIRC seems to happen every time you die) is unskippable and tedious, the atmosphere is not eerie so much as just unpleasant and miasmic somehow, and most of the weapons are useless, one-directional, visually uninteresting with their effects, and anything but fun to chuck. I admit I've never made it past the first level but there is a reason for that: I've never wanted to! Remember you're talking to the guy who told you how to beat "Friday the 13th".

It always cracks me up that people say it's a bad game just because it's hard. You guys should be ashamed. It's a classic. Just because you happen to wuss out on the difficulty that's fine you are welcome to not like it, but don't say it's bad just because it's hard. That's lame. Keep in mind also that you are picking on the map fucntion and the sound of a game that WAS A PORT of a game and released in 1986. How many games back then had a map feature? Sound better than that? Sure you are welcome to your own opinion but it seems like you are picking on it because you aren't good at it. Just saying. I'm not trying to be rude. I just find it amusing.

The game is fine. It's not among my favorites. Sure it's hard, but that's part of the challenge. It's still a fun game to try out. Once completed you feel that much more accomplished. It's a decent game for it's time.

I didn't see anyone in this thread say that the game was bad just because it's hard. I don't remember ever thinking it either. I'm getting very close to being able to pull off a no death run at "Castlevania" (and would've eventually even beaten the much harder third game too if my Wii hadn't stopped working--I had made it up to Dracula's final form). You're just making an argument from motive fallacy, if not putting words in our mouths outright.

I can stand some loops of annoying music, obviously, as I'm the author of that "Friday the 13th" walkthrough. The thing is, with "Friday the 13th" that music isn't the only thing that plays throughout almost the whole game. You spend nearly as much time listening to the boss music and cabin music, the latter of which is so awesome that fans like to do remixes of it.

Everything about "Ghosts n' Goblins looks, sounds, and FEELS unpleasant. Instead of having the Gothic charm of the "Castlevania" series or even the campy, tongue-in-cheek flavor of "Haunted House" for the 2600 it instead has the thick miasma of a bad fever hallucination. It just feels...nasty somehow, empty.

Why do you *need* a map feature anyway? Why do you need to spend ten seconds looking at the map every time you die? There were six levels, the layout was irrelevant and the map looked uninteresting! Why do the zombies have to wear pajamas? Is that supposed to be scary? Why does the game's every sound effect have to be some awful, grating squeak? And this was hardly a quiet game.

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Jordanv78 : nope it is not that you have two lives and it's a glitch to play(glitch replaces bad word).
I played mega man vs ghost and goblin and it was cool.

kingvictory : Who cares how hard the game is? I'm saying it's lame to say that a game sucks because it's hard. It's better to say that you don't like it because of that fact but not that the game sucks. That's all I'm saying.

If that was the case you wouldn't like 70% of the NES library which would be a shame.

Jordanv78 : acaully I love the nes but hate ghost and goblins

Guys come down!I didn't say that this game is bad I just sad it's a hard game,personally I love it.The game is frustrating for sure,but remember "a game isn't bad just because it's hard".
 

 Jordanv78: I argee with you . Although a game is hard people should at least find or say some good aspects about it  

You guys gotta remember, this game is from the 80s. Hard games came out of that era (ei: Mike Tyson's Punchout, Kung-fu, etc.) You gotta cut it some slack

 alsonic: yes exactly they should cut it some lack. Infact let me ask everyone a question if yall think this game is so hard.  then why do you like contra? thats a even harder game  

Its a hard game but its fun. Personally it plays better then most modern games. I prefer the sequel ghouls n' ghosts on the Genesis.

I've only played it for Gameboy Color. So I've never played it for the NES.

plantkingman : You should try it but be warned,That game will piss you off.Good luck

elmas : Thanks for the heads up.

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.

Big time.

Please ignore this post, it adds nothing to the thread and only attacks another user.

There wasn't anything wrong with Ghosts n Goblins.  It's a decent side-scroller.  The only real thing was the challenge.  It's impossible.  You get two hits total and the enemies come from left, right, up, and down.  The controls are unwieldy but the music wasn't bad.  The story line is awesome if you ask me.

Decent game but I could never get very far unless I used the Game Genie cheats back in the day.  I may have wrecked one or two things trying to handle this game.  I certainly gave up video games for a while when my blood pressure sky rocketed.