Castlevania: Bloodlines - Pikasprey

[@TheWolver8]

America: Castlevania Bloodlines Europe: Castlevania WATERlines

[@elmentado9231]

LOL 😂 💀

[@TheXell]

A small price to pay for the one and only forbidden fruit

[@AnUncreativeGuy]

TheWolver8 Floodlines

[@Fireafyanimations299]

@@elmentado9231 bro used 💀 before it became popular 💀

[@ZorotheGallade]

"Conglaturation, John and Eric! You have fulfilled your destiny! Now, John will die from overusing the Vampire Killer and Eric will be slaughtered in front of his daughters, come back as a ghost and watch as they're turned into vampires. Yay!"

[@jacoud1576]

A true victory indeed!

[@raiyanchowdhury7898]

ZorotheGallade

[@raiyanchowdhury7898]

ZorotheGallade to

[@deltawdunn6597]

SPOILERS.

[@conradojavier7547]

Castlevania Fans: Kuck Fonami for Killing of My Favortie Protagonists, in favor of 2 Bratty Animé Kids.

[@thebard9459]

Essentially, the ending of Castlevania: Bloodlines is akin to when you complete the Pokedex in a Pokemon. Just a simple Congratulations.

[@wolfox7776]

Sometimes the journey is the reward

[@TheArceusftw]

Isn't that the case with a lot of older video games?

[@leons.kennedy2747]

Just like getting to the end of Neon Genesis Evangelion...

[@pious83]

@@TheArceusftw True. For example, SMB 1 was a kiss on the cheek, SMB 2 you woke up, SMB 3 was a tech demo and Super Mario World you walk back to Yoshi's house XD

[@Ranzord95]

At least in later pokemon games you get a minor but relatively good boost to your chances of getting shinies

[@Chernobog2]

"Dracula's second form" is actually Elizabeth's lackey, Drolta Tzuentes, buying time while Dracula powers up

[@Eunakria]

Unless you're playing on the European version, in which Pikasprey Yellow is instead Pikasprey Blue because... wait, that's your gameplay channel

[@raiyanchowdhury7898]

Linus Parker 0

[@The_Nametag]

You actually can know about the 5 73 sound test thing, as "5 7 3" is "ko na mi"" They use it in several things, including the name of their arcade hardware.

[@TANKTREAD]

No one ever mentions another move that Eric can do with the spear. He can spin it 180 degrees from left to right and vice versa. "Castlevania: Bloodlines" is an excellent entry in the long running series. The music is always fantastic.

[@Primecat854]

Glad your first vid of 2019 was a Castlevania one!

[@zhnigo]

0:31 The most neglected ones are the 3d metroidvania ones on ps2 - Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness. Bland visuals aside, I felt these games were solid and translated the formula into 3d really well. I'd love a sequel with proper modern graphics

[@ayan4249]

People should watch these as much as the Pokémon ones.

[@dodgingthejamofajammydodge5298]

Absolutely!

[@DanieluYoshikoto]

I love that the secret code was 05 and 073. I am not sure if it has been said before but the digits "573" can be read out as "go, na, mi" in japanese. This number has been used by konami in a number of their games, for example highscore placeholder scores. I have not yet realized there might be some secret codes associated with this number.

[@Sombres]

Finishing with 5730 life points in some yugioh games like tag force and even duel links should give you a "konami bonus".

[@Spiral6SM]

very similar to Namco's iconic number, 765, which is used in Pac-Man for the high score and The Idolm@ster as the name of the production studio

[@mrblt1299]

i think this is the most underrated in the series, my favorite part is the changing locations where it feels like your on an adventure and using real life buildings like the leaning tower, and the setting of WW1 was cool too even if it it could have gone farther with it. another thing is the graphics, im a sucker for 16 bit graphics and the game does a great job showing it off.Overall great game.

[@annietmood]

Beyond underrated due to it being the ONLY Castlevania game on the Genesis and not being released in any other platform.

[@RotaAbyssian]

Exceptionally underrated because Eric Lecarde is one of the coolest motherfuckers of the entire franchise.

[@RotaAbyssian]

@Tayebz Tayebz :3 Plus, Eric is one of few protagonists in the franchise to have repeat appearances, just in a slightly different way

[@blockeontheleafeon]

9:13 Then why didn't they Replace the Red Skeletons with Blue Ones?

[@madmaster0015]

Oh Konami, seemingly never interested in making HD collections for old Castlevania games. And they wonder why people pirate their games.

[@ArcadianLegend]

Castlevania Requiem?

[@SuxMenner]

@@ArcadianLegend Requiem is pretty mediocre

[@SparkstarScope]

@@SuxMenner it's still a HD collection for old Castlevania games tho. The real issue with this one is that it's the same Castlevania games that get rereleased over and over again: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood/Dracula X. They don't bother with other classic games much.

[@SuxMenner]

Kinda weird they didn't add the PSP remake of Rondo and the Saturn version of Symphony, sad stuff

[@greg4675]

Should pirate all old game releases anyway, fuck paying for 20-30 year old games which is why I do not support Nintendo.

[@expio4257]

Oh boy! It's an upload from my favorite Castlevania channel! Time to see this get no views since it isn't Pokemon.

[@wunnup3229]

Ever since they released the Castlevania Classic Collection, I gave this game a try and fell in love with it. I prefer the Japanese version included though, since the American version has an absolutely unnecessary amount of Fleamen in the palace of Versailles.

[@hairy_cornflake]

Bloodlines is still one of the finest Castlevanias ever made. And that music...oh sooooo goooood!

[@wherestherussian]

This was my first Castlevania game, and probably my favorite. Soooo glad to see you cover it, and in such depth. Fantastic video dude.

[@gabemewell3643]

This was also the first Castlevania game to have Michiru Yamane as it's composer.

[@demonboss1777]

One of my favorite KZbinrs doing one of my favorite castlevania games!

[@ais4185]

Mr. Pikasprey is also my favorite Castlevaniatuber!

[@katatonic5672]

Good to see some more Castlevaina!

[@dylanogg347]

A character based on Elizabeth Bathery was one of the Main Antagonists of the animated movie Hellboy: Blood and Iron. It's also heavy on the horror and is split in focus between Hellboy and Broom.

[@nathanwaters6638]

Great work! I love these types of retrospective/reviews for Castlevania. Been playing these since I was a little kid, and for a new fan, you didn’t miss a beat. I’m very happy to see another fan join the club.

[@elflordyt6830]

WHAT?! IN BLOODLINES YOU CAN GRAB ONTO CEILINGS WITH THE WHIP?! NANI?!

[@blueblade6174]

Yay! Another Castlevania game review! I don't play Castlevania but I do enjoy these kinds of videos. Makes me want to get into the series.

[@yul2033]

You should!!!!

[@Ravenford]

First of all, great channel, both this one and the blue one. After watching this video and follow the let's play, I noticed that there are two aspects of Eric's character that you do not seem to know. The first is that, with your weapon at the highest power level, if you do not release the attack button too fast after attacking, the spear cross opens and Eric makes two hits in the same attack. Although it seems that the animation is always done, only if you hold the attack button enough Eric makes the two impacts, taking twice as much energy from his opponents. The second is that, if you keep pressing the attack button and press the pad from right to left, or from left to right, Eric makes quick turnstiles with the spear. This tactic sacrifices the distance of the spear but, done at the right moment, can damage several quickly and even shield you from projectiles that would normally be difficult to dodge or deflect. Hope this can help you. Greetings from Spain.

[@FinalBoy99]

So glad to see you upload

[@BluesM18A1]

Something to note about death punishment in this game: Playing on easy will cut your crystal count in half rather than deplete it outright. Though playing on easy also skips several minibosses and cuts Bathory's second form from the bossfights, which you may or may not want to do.

[@uniqueheroics2818]

ITS GONNA BE ON SWITCH!!!!!! I'm so stoked that this is happening so i can FINALLY play this again, i haven't played it since i was like, a kid kid haha

[@RossCHoward]

Fantastic review. I recently did a run of this as John and was blown away. I had always read/heard it was a lesser entry. That’s obviously not true. It’s great.

[@gotham006]

Love this channel. Cant wait the pikasprey yellow Digimon video

[@nuculaisvoidwalker5866]

As always, amazing content dude Im always happy when you upload some castlevania, thank you

[@cheemsrei]

Never thought of Dracula as a Person to have a Brother/Sister

[@andrewkos5560]

I wanna say she just claims she's Dracula's niece and isn't actually related. That said, I wouldn't object to seeing Dracula's family Christmas party in a game

[@shadestained]

...i don't think she's actually his niece, but my knowledge of Dracula's history in this series is limited to CV3 and games that came out after this one (SoTN, LoI), so who knows.

[@superlukey3]

Dracula is actually one of the Belmonts as of that God of War ripoff, right? That would perhaps go at least a little ways to explain this.

[@shadestained]

@@superlukey3 that's an alternate continuity. they tried to reboot/reimagine the series. i don't think it's connected to bloodlines, considering in lords of shadow Trevor and Alucard are the same person for some reason and that doesn't seem to be the case here. to be fair, there are like, three basic origins for the belmonts/dracula: sonia's version in that gameboy castlevania ((which got retconned)), lament of innocence ((which I believe is the main timeline but don't quote me)) and lords of shadow ((an alternate continuity)). i think only the first one would even make it plausible for dracula to be related to someone, as matthias and gabriel don't have siblings mentioned anywhere except in bad fan fiction.

[@ElectricNova15]

Vlad Tepes, who Dracula is based on, was actually Elizabeth Bathory's uncle so that's probably why they did that

[@yan7821]

I love ur reviews, pretty nice detailed and fun to watch, also your voice sounds so nice to me for some reason ^^

[@ajojoreference2307]

I know you get annoyed when people bug you about games and whatnot but thanks for making videos. They are always fun and very educational.

[@rho-starmkl4483]

I feel like the Death Battle in Bloodlines might’ve been the inspiration for the King Dice Battle in Cuphead. King Dice conjures a die that you need to parry to move an icon across a game board. Landing on certain spaces get you teleported into a mini boss room.

[@CrimsonMoonM]

The only real issue I have with this game is that I feel like having limited continues doesn't fit in a series that's as punishing as Castlevania. Granted, the game does give you passwords and only features six (rather lengthy) stages. But I'd rather just have it so you get sent back to the start of the current stage whenever you run out of lives.

[@akhandtripathipyz9888]

That's also my only complain too

[@konj90]

Thank you for covering this game, i really enjoyed it!

[@TheliMagnus]

I been watching only your playthrus videos and i got suprised seeing a 17min video from you, then i remembered you also had this channel

[@Thatonedude917]

I was just playing this yesterday and I have to say that I love that the sprite for John Morris looks like an absolute unit

[@SmilesEdgeworth]

Yay, new pikasprey upload!

[@justininfranca9856]

The moth powder scene is hard too see , it makes me feel better knowing some one else experiences the same thing . Also thank you for warning us if your going to use speed up, that really hurts my head . Cheers pikasprey thank you for all of this re-watchable gold .

[@87392v]

This is an engaging and informative retrospective. Thanks!

[@superkillerrobo]

I really like when you do these Castlevania games. Your video on Aria of Sorrow made me wanna try that game.

[@Longlius]

You should get it! The Sorrow games are definitely the most friendly to newcomers of the metroidvanias. The other two GBA games (Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance) are fantastic too, but they're more difficult and focus entirely on the whip as your main weapon (which can make them a little repetitive unless you really like the whip).

[@cool3dd]

Love this please do more of these

[@soundsofstabbing3627]

1:50 actually they aren't descendents of the Belmonts, John just got the vampire killer when Richter disappeared after symphony of the night and gave it to another family of vampire hunters called the Morris'

[@soundsofstabbing3627]

forgot what's up with Eric tho, I know he's definitely not a Belmont

[@Morningstar_95]

I am incredibly glad this game is coming out with Anniversary edition. I've wanted to play it since this video came out.

[@savanchandul7451]

Pikasprey, you're one of the few KZbinrs that has a good format and can make subjcects I'm not familiar with interesting. Do continue making more videos on Yellow, and enjoy 2019!

[@MrNope221]

glad i can finally give this a go through the castlevania anniversary collection

[@EpicMarioPlayer]

To be honest, most games of this era didn't have amazing endings. And most people didn't play just for that anyway. lol But, I get what you mean, though I think at least the cutscene for the ending in this is really cool.

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

I always love it when games have you travel around the World in different stages.

[@RogueDragon05]

Thankfully one bit of information on this video is now outdated, Castlevania Bloodlines will be re released on The Castlevania Anniversary Collection and the Sega Mini both out in 2019

[@cecillewolters1995]

Never played Castlevania games, but this video may give it a chance. It looks pretty awesome to be honest! The art style loosely reminds me of Golden Sun somehow. Also the buff vampire slayer reminds me of Jojo xD Great video man! ✨

[@Crunkman2k]

The later games go all-in on JoJo references - as far as having a boss that's just Dio with blue skin and red hair.

[@Videogamelover58]

Awesome review! I love this game a lot.

[@Ethereally13]

Just bought SotN a few minutes before this was uploaded. Good sign.

[@tristnal]

Dude! Great video again! Hopefully you're not still taking shit for not always doing Pokemon games, because I really dig the Castlevania stuff as well. Keep it up!

[@iamboy116]

Finally! A new video :D

[@puellapurin]

"I guess we have bloodstained to make up for the stage based Castlevanias" And that too, aged like milk

[@heardofrvb]

Now we have the Castlevania collection and the upcoming Genesis Mini.

[@kyuubinaruto17]

I mean, it kinda already exists and has for a while now. I own one. It touts something like 50 games, but half of them aren't "real" games. They're like mini-games. But on the plus side you can plug an actual sega controller in and it has a top loader slot for real genesis games.

[@heardofrvb]

@@kyuubinaruto17 Not that one.

[@Lumi_kuningatar]

Bloodlines is among the series one of the best titles in my opinion. It deserve to be recognized.

[@Jackrost01]

In Dynamite Headdy(from Treasure) you can see another method with rotated cylinder. But it rotates you around a boss in center

[@lucalycan]

As soon as you mentioned the green aura on the weapons I was thinking "Man, I bet people love to speed run this game using that." and sure enough...

[@macblackledge6121]

This is hands down my favorite of the classic Castlevania games, maybe one day Konami will remaster or remake it like they did with Rondo of Blood on the PSP.

[@RotaAbyssian]

Nah. That's not what people want! We obviously want Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night for the umpteen bajilionth time! Seriously I can, and have, sucked those games dicks all day. I would like to give a different one a taste, please!

[@henryfleischer404]

0:37 Koumajou densetsu: Am I a joke to you? Ok but really, more people should know about that series. Classic Castlevania but with flying is a really good idea, and, at least in the second one, is very well executed.

[@tsinestexicthdauwraum9082]

We used to call the stage 3 boss "Shitballs" because of his look and that he screamed Shitballs when you hit him.

[@overlordalfredo]

Yay more “Christianvania“ content please!!!

[@overlordalfredo]

@A Gamer Aaron that Guy's real name is Christian. And he is making a video about Castlevania...

[@orangelimesky]

I just realized Eric Lecarde may have been originally intended to be somehow related to Alucard since he has Alucard's Spear, plus his name ends with 'Lecarde' which sounds just like 'Alucard'.

[@excaliburzx1134]

Seeing Pikasprey playing Castlevania games makes me want to see him talk about the Castlevania timeline, particularly the timeline made by GamerThumb

[@chromasus9983]

I love the music of Bloodlines, largely because of how unique it sounds from all other Castlevania games thanks to the Genesis soundchip. Stage 2 and 4 songs especially are really good.

[@justininfranca1858]

The moths poisonous powder messed with my eyes also , it happens in a lot of old games

[@BradLad56]

Good news. This is one of the games that's gonna be in the Castlevania collection next month.

[@DDD033]

This look like a lot of fun. Also Pikasprey is the greatest game reviewer ever

[@Rad1antGeneralZelcina]

11:29-11:43 Is that a reference to Mothra? Damn, never thought Castlevania would reference Godzilla and their Kaiju's...

[@DFAnton]

Loved your Castlevania playthroughs on Blue. More Castlevania!

[@periwinklelynx761]

Bloodlines is honestly one of my favorites. It's super underrated for what it is.

[@GreyVested]

I find it funny how there were these 16-bit non-nintendo entries in the series that led to fantastic sequels. I guess it shows how creative you can be with story if you try. In any case this was cool to see. This game has been on my radar and seeing it in action is encouraging, though i do hope an easy, legit way to play this will pop up. It'd be neat if this got a treatment similar to Rondo Of Blood / Symphony of the Night, released in a combo with Portrait of Ruin

[@Atmapalazzo]

One thing I recall (though I'm not sure if I'm correct) is that Eric's spear has a bit of a odd hitbox, making it slightly hard to get a handle on than John's whip.

[@RotaAbyssian]

only time I found that to be the case (in my memory) is his vault jump hitbox, since the timing's a little weird, and he has a move that if you hold the attack button he holds out the spear. If you keep holding the button down and face the opposite direction, he does this awesome looking spear twirl to the opposite side. It's practically useless, has a weird timing and hitbox, but looks sick as hell.

[@thundernuts0]

You make the best Pokemon hidden content/Lost Content videos :( Please make more Asprey

[@carterfranks9014]

Hell yeah another Castlevania review!

[@AaronDarkus]

Wowowowo. I don't know exactly if Eric gave some kind of relation to the Belmont Clan or even Alucard, but I'm completely sure is that John isn't part of the Belmont Clan, the Morris comes from the United States, meanwhile the Belmont Clan is supposed to be or from France or Wallachia (actual Romania). This is confirmed in it's chronological sequel Portrait Of Ruin, when you can see that Jonathan often argues in frustration that he can't use the complete power of the whip because he is not a Belmont.

[@conradojavier7547]

His Name Rhymes with Alucard.

[@conradojavier7547]

What ever Happend to the Belmonts between SOTN & Julius' Birth?

[@lizzieflamingo7367]

so excited for bloodlines to be on NSO. Always wanted to play it since first seeing this video!

[@AndrevusWhitetail]

The best thing about this game is how it actually made the original Bram Stoker's Dracula novel canonical to Castlevania Lore.

[@MrCed122]

Contra Hard Corps and Castlevania Bloodlines, two great Genesis game in the shadows of their SNES counterparts (Contra 3 and Super Castlevania IV). I love Castlevania, I love the Genesis and I love Pikasprey, that's a match made in heaven!

[@Gettodachoppapod]

Great video Love Bloodlines/ new generation It’s not quite as good as super castlevania4 but still amazing and pushed the Genesis to it limits

[@mintcey]

Yay, more castlevania videos

[@PhazonEnder]

January: it's sad that Bloodline has never been re-released March: Sega Genesis mini announced with Bloodlines being one of the games on it. Got to love the nearly perfect timing that Pikasprey had here.

[@conradojavier7547]

& Bloodlines is also the the Castlevania collection.

[@sabin1981]

Talking about a re-release, this was just confirmed as one of the FORTY pack-in titles on the upcoming Sega Mega Drive Mini, releasing in September ;)

[@Blinkedzero]

Well made video man. Keep it up. ;)

[@lucasgreer1736]

I think the whip swinging might be a reference to castlevania for the atari 2600 where literally the only use for the whip was to cross gaps

[@wunclerlaufenbumcorneliusu7047]

Aye, a Castlevania upload!

[@overlordalfredo]

Every time I get some interest in Castlevania to look into this, I learn about another PAL version being butchered by censorship back then... :(

[@patrickforsythe5620]

Finally got to play this one with the recent Castlevania Collection release. Now Konami needs to repackage the advance/ds games.

[@ForestSlump]

Same

[@ShakinJamacian]

Fun Fact: It's implied Dracula's second form is the witch Drolta Tzuentes, the woman who resurrected Elizabeth Bartley. Dracula often needs a host body if he's resurrected, and as the scene before he appears shows, he's rising from a coffin. She likely used her body as a "host" for Dracula.

[@originalkingdomhearts]

Didn't they put this on nintendo switch online expansion?

[@cacklettabean7781]

I was thinking of commenting : "you know, it's about time for another video, right?" On the last gem collecting video. Lo and behold

[@navzy6211]

look at this, the guy who got me into castlevania, still prefer the metroidvania genre over the side scrollers but thia seems fun

[@loosetube5417]

You should try Rondo of Blood, it's probably the best side scroller in the series.

[@tpj6988]

What is it with Castlvania series and awesome first stage musics? I really love Bloodlines' first stage music, Reincarnated soul.

[@Kreiser_VII]

Yay! Pikasprey Castlevania! :D

[@smievil]

congratulations you have freed yourself from the shadow of the beast

[@ericlecarde]

My favourite game of all time. This was an excelent review. And WE DO NEED A REMAKE (with more stages) but i would also be satisfied with just a port to a modern console, because this game is one of the less known Castlevania titles and is one of the best.