Castlevania
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epiglottis

reviewed Castlevania

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Nintendo 64
I have to imagine that a lot of the antagonistic attitudes toward this brisk, attractive, moody adventure are performative echoes of that old AVGN video. The camera is fiddly, sure, but anyone with the medium literacy to seek out and play a game like this in 2023 should be able to figure out how to tame it within the first hour. The widespread complaining about the Nitro part, though... I cannot shout SKILL ISSUE loudly enough. Shit is not hard!!! (Incidentally, anyone still taking AVGN seriously in 2023 has a skill issue of a more cognitive kind.)

They call her Carrie because she carries the game with her kite goddess tech. I am subtracting half a star though because her second costume is just a pretext for preteen panties.

Reviewed on Jun 13, 2023

2 Comments

tonyfinale

11 months ago

the nitro questline shit may not actually be softlock inducing, but it IS certainly lame gameplay! I'd much prefer just more of the funky castlevania 64 brand platforming or slide attacking into dudes!!! weird game!!! cool atmospheres and satisfying sounds 'carrie' through those mid-y moments indeed. that avgn video still a classic tho despite the c64 hatespeech

epiglottis

11 months ago

Oh yeah, this definitely shouldn't be interpreted as an endorsement of that segment, shit is dumb. I'm just shocked at how difficult so many people seem to find it. (Hopefully not for the same reason as AVGN, who apparently forgot how to use C-Right for context-sensitive actions after ~3 hours of gameplay...)