Comments on: 2D: Castlevania Stages 10-12 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2012/08/06/2d-castlevania-stages-10-12/ Defunct, amateurish, game design analysis by Jeremy Parish Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.7 By: Mudron http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2012/08/06/2d-castlevania-stages-10-12/#comment-789 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:47:18 +0000 http://telebunny.net/toastyblog/?p=4900#comment-789 A Wii is almost entirely worth owning just to be able to play a legal copy of Castlevania that lets you save-state your way to Frankenstein/Igor with the holy water in hand.

Anyway, I always kinda liked the run-up to Frankenstein because I appreciated being ‘outside’ one last time before tackling the sometimes-claustrophobic gauntlet to Dracula’s chamber at the end of the game, even if it meant slugging through all those Fleamen in order to get a bit of fresh air.

(Then again, I also get a fun/subtle sense of vertigo sometimes when running around the treetops in Woodman’s stage in Mega Man 2, so maybe I was just really susceptible to atmospheric game environments when I was a kid.)

]]> By: Thad http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2012/08/06/2d-castlevania-stages-10-12/#comment-788 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:19:48 +0000 http://telebunny.net/toastyblog/?p=4900#comment-788 Yeah, I’m one of the guys who never made it past the Monster.

(And come to think of it the spot I got stuck in on Rondo of Blood was right after one of those damn Bone Dragon tunnels.)

]]> By: Wildcat-Lvl http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2012/08/06/2d-castlevania-stages-10-12/#comment-787 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:39:14 +0000 http://telebunny.net/toastyblog/?p=4900#comment-787 It took me a long time to get back this stage. The caves are maddening, despite the threats being fairly simple. I was so relieved to get past that part. Luckily for me, I did have the holy water for the Creature and Igor, so that was a breeze.

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