A Castlevania? In this year? In this climate? In this economy? Fuck yeah
@alexeyeliseev63222 ай бұрын
Fuck yeah indeed
@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk6582 ай бұрын
Vlad the Castle is on fire!
@brightorangepants2 ай бұрын
May I see it?
@Amitlu2 ай бұрын
Can I see it?
@spooky5787X2 ай бұрын
@@Amitlu no
@marrvynswillames49752 ай бұрын
3:24 Richter's VA, Scott McCulloch, who also voiced Chris on the first resident evil, died in 2000 Rip
@dsshocktrooper75232 ай бұрын
😔
@dantepizza63102 ай бұрын
we never got to see him punch any boulders...the world is too cruel
@ASSLEVANIA2 ай бұрын
@@dantepizza6310he punched the boulder of our hearts, partner.
@mysteriousbob2 ай бұрын
I feel like not enough people realise that the infamous dialogue in both RE1 and SOTN involved the same actor.
@PatrickGilland2 ай бұрын
And Dracula's VA, Michael Guinn, also voiced Harry Mason in the first Silent Hill. He's still alive at this present moment though.
@sda29112 ай бұрын
Interestingly enough, the miserable pile of secrets line is actually from a French writer, André Malraux- “A man is what he hides: a miserable little pile of secrets”, which he paraphrased himself later as “What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
@ReubelАй бұрын
"To reject the major facts about a man out of contempt for convention can lead to an exclusive preoccupation with the minor. Admittedly the truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides. A remark of one of my characters has been attributed to me: "A man is what he does." Of course he is not only that; the character was in any case replying to another who had just said : "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets." André Malraux, Anti-Memoirs (1968)
@XxDemon23xXАй бұрын
I love this fact. It adds context to what Dracula was saying and clarifies his meaning. It also kind of flips the fan reaction on its head, everyone was like "lol what were these writers smoking on" when in reality it was some meaningful writing flying right over our heads.
@dreziv2 ай бұрын
I heard Civvie say there are four familiars in this game and I got all smug, like "ho ho, he doesn't know about the fifth one" and then he grinded the Sword so much it turned into a new model I'd never seen before so I had to retract that smugness.
@RockyPixel2 ай бұрын
@@dreziv tbf, it looks like he's playing the original NA release, which lacks the green fairy and nose demon
@GIDAEONGULLY2 ай бұрын
@@RockyPixel Rookie mistake.
@dreziv2 ай бұрын
@@RockyPixel Fairy, Demon, Ghost, Bat, and Sword. As far as I know, they're all in the original NA release?
@IkaIka7372 ай бұрын
good God how much weapons and mechanics were changed with different releases?@@dreziv
@josephlh16902 ай бұрын
@@IkaIka737not much really. Outside of some slight touched up special effects, an added boss fight with Maria, and a redub for psp, there are no other changes.
@DS3422 ай бұрын
"Had Dracula gotten any kind of characterization before this game?" Yeah,in Rondo of Blood. That one can get a little goofy though since if you fight Dracula as sassy lost child Maria,Dracula gives her the same speech about the evils of humanity he would normally give Richter and her response is effectively just "I have no idea what any of those words mean but you're an asshole". It's great. She's more fun to play to.
@rionofbahamut97512 ай бұрын
Dracula's reaction to getting killed by her is hilarious too
@henrynelson93012 ай бұрын
You’re thinking of Rondo of Blood
@DGneoseeker12 ай бұрын
That is definitely not Bloodlines.
@DS3422 ай бұрын
@henrynelson9301 I did wonder that later when I realized I couldn't remember what Rondo was about. It had to be one of them.
@Xick2 ай бұрын
@@DGneoseeker1 They sure did call it Bloodlines in this game, though. Inexplicably.
@mrmusickhimself2 ай бұрын
Dracula: "Tell me....what were Lisa's last words?" Alucard: "AHHHHHH! IT BURNS! SOMEONE PUT ME OUT! I'M ON FIRE! AHHHH!" Dracula: "....wow."
@itsaBoomerАй бұрын
MARABOX INFERUX!!!
@mrmusickhimselfАй бұрын
@@itsaBoomer I'm still confused as to WHY The Succubus decided to imitate Lisa Tepes. There is NO way she didn't recognize Alucard OR the familiar connection until AFTER being beaten down. I almost felt bad for her getting banished that hard, but damn, she made a DUMB move.
@ASDER412Ай бұрын
@@mrmusickhimself I'm pretty sure she meant that he is indeed as strong as Dracula's son should be, not that she literally only now recognized him. Blame translation.
@mrmusickhimselfАй бұрын
@@ASDER412 OR the writers just forgot.I mean she lives there it's just one of those things that cross ones eyes if they think about it too hard.
@niranjanr90642 ай бұрын
The FPS man plays a Castlevania? *Metroid Prime inches forward in the distance.*
@J.Hawker2 ай бұрын
We get Civvie reviewing Metroid before GTA 6, wild! Shit meme but I had to.
@kyon8132 ай бұрын
He's already played a GameCube game, so that's one step even closer
@NerfPlayeR1352 ай бұрын
Not only that, but PrimeHack exists, which makes it possible to play the Prime games with modern keyboard and mouse controls.
@kyon8132 ай бұрын
@@NerfPlayeR135 Objectively the best way to play the Prime Trilogy, even with the Remaster.
@DooDoo-f4v2 ай бұрын
Fake fan. He referenced Aria of Sorrow in a gag way back
@IvanDubsK72 ай бұрын
“WHAT IS A MAN, CV-11?!”
@Germania92 ай бұрын
"A miserable little pile of gaming knowledge!!"
@woodchuck94og2 ай бұрын
A featherless bipedal
@MetalJT242 ай бұрын
A Man Chooses
@wladimir.Quiroz2 ай бұрын
The pinnacle of evolution
@ZOMGItsDAF2 ай бұрын
Enough talk... have at you!
@Rupiee2 ай бұрын
9:04 You missed the best pat of the whole kickstarter! They said they would make an old-skool styled bloodstained game as a stretch goal and everyone thought it might be a gimmick, but it was in fact an entire second game and it rocked so hard!
@prossnip42Ай бұрын
And it got an even better sequel too
@kankeydong2500Ай бұрын
And its music kicks so much ass. Truly THE Castlevania spiritual succesor.
@BunnychanFarabeeАй бұрын
Gosh, I would totally Kickstarter for another Bloodstained sequel. I love Miriam so much.
@JohnnyBurnesАй бұрын
Curse of the Moon's SO good! The sequel's more complicated, but great! The Classic modes in Ritual are so cool too! So FOUR great retro spin offs + the main rad game! Tremendous!
@Ckoz2829Ай бұрын
@@BunnychanFarabee Bloodstained Ritual of the Night 2 is actually in development right now, but it’s still too early to show anything off. Plus the main director was diagnosed with cancer recently and had to step away from the project while seeking treatment. Meanwhile the rest of the Bloodstained team is sharing his workload.
@CptJistuce2 ай бұрын
"Anyone who hates this voice acting hates fun." THANK YOU! That isn't bad acting, it is actors that understood the assignment. This is B horror as a video game, and they are doing their hammiest, over-the-top scenery-chewing best. Whoever did their Dracula turned in a friggin' masterpiece. ... I just wish they'd had a proper recording booth for Richter's actor instead of what sounds like a bathroom.
@AnAverageGoblin2 ай бұрын
a lot of PS1 voice acting was directed poorly. none of that was on purpose (still glorious not hating on it)
@CptJistuce2 ай бұрын
@AnAverageGoblin This specific instance was rather famously a rush job. There was no plan for english voices, but SCEA decided very late into the game's localization to require a redub. That doesn't mean the voice actors didn't recognize the kind of work they were doing.
@zzodysseuszzАй бұрын
@@CptJistuce people don’t dislike it for being cheesy, they dislike it for being bad translations that butcher the story. The what is a man line was literally made up for the translation and doesn’t even fit what the original line was saying.
@CptJistuceАй бұрын
@zzodysseuszz The "retranslation" they praise so heavily isn't accurate either, it is a rewording of the existing localization. But I was speaking to the voice acting, not the writing.
@AnAverageGoblinАй бұрын
@@CptJistuce Who is praising the retranslation?
@christraven2 ай бұрын
33:33 "Humans made atomic bombs and the Borderlands movie." Are we really sure that Randy is human, though?
@spudmeister95662 ай бұрын
He is sleaze in human form
@NerfPlayeR1352 ай бұрын
His body is 2/3rds grease instead of water.
@Flesh_Wizard2 ай бұрын
His lore race is Grease Golem
@Keanotix2 ай бұрын
Technically Randy didn't 'make' it, he simply allowed it to exist in it's broken, malformed state. I don't think he's actually completed a single thing in his career.
@vee-bee-a2 ай бұрын
Just another one of Nyarly's disguises.
@MondianАй бұрын
Everyone farms up crissaegrim, because its op as hell, but my favorite weapon is actually dropped by the Lions in the library: Fist of Tulkas. Fist weapons are quick and devastating, but this one gives you hadoukens and the thousand hand slap. Absolutely incredible, highly recommend
@Joevenon2 ай бұрын
Just wanted to say thank you, your videos have helped me through tough times with anxiety, watching your videos always felt like hearing a good friend talking about games and helped me feel better, keep up the good work mate!
@caoistico6692 ай бұрын
Oloko, o joeveno
@ajflink2 ай бұрын
Same here. It is like hearing a friend be sincere and brutally honest with things.
@acethurman712 ай бұрын
I feel the same. Been watching civvie for like 4 years now.
@RadikAlice2 ай бұрын
While something like this does help. Don't sell yourself short, the strength to endure it was entirely yours
@GoodJujuMagician2 ай бұрын
Plus one I also find similar help from these videos :)
@josephdell63422 ай бұрын
What's this?!? Civvie reviewing a non DOS 90s jank shooter from Russia? Truly these are strange times.
@LordDeBahs2 ай бұрын
there are still some left . do you rember xs ?
@eSportDjango2 ай бұрын
Civvie uses the DraculAx
@rickystumpp2 ай бұрын
Now I wanna see me a Slavjank Metroidvania
@rustyjames61312 ай бұрын
This gives me hope for Pro Monster Bash.
@double_anarchy2 ай бұрын
SPOOKY 😂
@kingdomrains2 ай бұрын
53:28 Civvie laughs at Dracula being defeated by an open window. I think it's funnier, when, in Rondo of Blood a 12 year old Maria beats him by throwing pigeons at him.
@CallofDutyBlackOps282 ай бұрын
They’re doves of peace, which makes it even better.
@mrmusickhimself2 ай бұрын
@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 If she blessed those Doves then no WONDER they're dangerous, they're like Holy Homing Missles.
@SRGIProductions2 ай бұрын
Hitchcock would be proud. 😀
@gratuitouslurking8610Ай бұрын
@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 If Vampire Survivors has taught me anything, is that birds are nothing to joke at.
@NEEDbaconАй бұрын
@@gratuitouslurking8610 Having played Vampire Survivors but never paying attention to Castlevania. Boy I sure didn't realize how many references that game had. And for the record, it's just really funny to think of Dracula being beaten by a 12 year old throwing pigeons and not holy doves.
@gabbytabbycat2 ай бұрын
Maybe you felt like you were tearing apart a classic that you loved, but showing off all the parts of it--the weird things, the cheese, all of it--the way you did just reminded me of how much I loved this game as a teenager, and makes me want to go back and play it again. Thanks Civvie. 🙂
@athiefoftime39342 ай бұрын
I love that the Ettin that was captured in the Hexen episode continues to show up in the background, wandering with its simple Doom AI. It's the little things with Civvie.
@ArnieMcStranglehold2 ай бұрын
Some of us notice and appreciate these things.
@GuntanksInSpace2 ай бұрын
That's what it gets for randomly warping to the cells lol
@DoveAlexa2 ай бұрын
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@athiefoftime39342 ай бұрын
44:50, center-right column of cells @@DoveAlexa
@Valdishthesecond2 ай бұрын
I like the idea that Alucard was so determined to destroy draculas castle, he went there packing a neutron bomb
@kabxksbАй бұрын
Of course Soldier appreciates packing a neutron bomb to face off against a shitty dad and its death-trap castle lol
@HelixSnake2 ай бұрын
48:10 "awesome, he's got to galamoth, now I can hear him talk about the Beryl Circlet" 49:20 "he... he didn't mention the Beryl Circlet... ok clearly he's just saving it for some kind of last minute joke right? right?" 55:20 "DOES HE NOT KNOW ABOUT THE BERYL CIRCLET???"
@HelixSnake2 ай бұрын
for those who do not what I'm talking about, there is an item that heals you for taking lightning damage and it makes Galamoth a joke, and the only reason most people don't get it is unlocking the room it's in requires you to do the "how are you supposed to know to do that" dog and bat thing with the stone tunnel that Civvie ALREADY DID
@Civvie112 ай бұрын
@HelixSnake I WENT THERE AFTER GALAMOTH, ALL RIGHT?
@maxownzor2thelawnmower7762 ай бұрын
@@Civvie11 NO SHIELD SLIDING???
@michaelrussell27112 ай бұрын
Berry circle is serious business
@thestephanoturtleygo2 ай бұрын
I'm just glad that you played this on the channel. Let them complain, I liked this video as soon as I saw it on my feed. Castlevania is fucking awesome and thank you for choosing one of the games for Halloween.@@Civvie11
@pitchblackgrue2 ай бұрын
"I don't know how anyone would know to do that." The real secret? Gaming magazines. Tekken had a secret movelist, Castlevania had enitre halves of the game; a lot of it came down to hiding secrets to sell magazine subscriptions. Not that I can complain. As a former magazine subscriber I have to admit having the mags with the secrets on them was a pretty fun time.
@pseudonayme7717Ай бұрын
So true. I used to wonder if anyone would have ever beaten Majoras Mask if it weren't for Zines. I know I wouldn't have, some of the things you had to figure out were just crazy.😲
@HelixSnake2 ай бұрын
I'm late with this but did you know almost every single weapon in the game has a secret move and some of them are fucking insane Take your near completed list of weapons and go through each one and try one of the following inputs quarter circle forward -> attack back forward -> attack I'll be surprised if civvie doesn't already know this but it will be a real treat if he doesn't
@KryptKicker524 күн бұрын
This is a great tip. I didn’t know that.
@miyo_mizugi21 күн бұрын
...wth man i need to play it again now
@Meitti2 ай бұрын
I like the world detail where in the Inverted Castle the Chapel turns into a more vampire-appropriate version where crosses are upside down and all angel statues look like they're falling from heaven.
@RadikAlice2 ай бұрын
That goes so hard, God. Pure genius
@QQnowQQlater2 ай бұрын
Google St Peter's cross, and maybe rethink that...
@RadikAlice2 ай бұрын
@@QQnowQQlater While you're not wrong (Had them painted in my nails years ago because of the "unworthiness" symbolism) There's no reversing the perception I could say Baphomet is a mistranslation of Muhammed until I'm blue in the face, and even though I'm right. People would still picture a demon with a goat head (Quite goofy when compared to Anubis isn't it?)
@QQnowQQlater2 ай бұрын
@@RadikAlice Nah, that was a reply to the OP; not you, so no biggie. And yeah, people love to commandeer stuff. In Japan, the average perspective of religion isn't really much more than an aesthetic or "cool", so anything in the inverted castle is just coincidence, especially since the inverted castle was to add more content to the game without having to make new content doing that.
@RadikAlice2 ай бұрын
@QQnowQQlater Once again, you're right. Evangelion comes to mind Only mentioned the personal tidbit because it was on topic, the things curiosity and a Wikipedia article can do
@Oborosen2 ай бұрын
This game was so entertaining for me growing up. I would scrounge across entire sections of the castle, and check up every source I could to see what I might've missed. One of my favorite details is that if you idle in an area, Alucard will relax. Some of the familiars will also relax such as the Fairy, who'll sit on your shoulder. If you turn into a bat, while using the bat familiar. You'll see a little heart pop up above your familiar, and it'll follow you more closely. With a chance for it's heart to be broken when you turn back. A supremely fantastic game, and one that every gamer. No matter their generation, should play.
@MagicalManFromMars2 ай бұрын
My favorite familiar interaction is when you transform with the Ghost, and it gets confused and just nopes offscreen
@superplayerex24312 ай бұрын
In the Japanese version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the faerie/fairy familiar actually sings a song when you idle for long enough. That song was later properly translated to English for the PSP port since that's also where the game was re-localized with better voice actors and script (I love the original cheesy English localization on the PSX, but the new one is just better if you actually want to take the story seriously).
@aeraaureliawashereonceАй бұрын
It's good
@Voxrar2 ай бұрын
Fun Fact. All the enemies in the reverse library are based on Wizard of Oz. That battlebot is Tinman, then Lion and the bouncing Scarecrows on sticks.
@jtojagicc2 ай бұрын
Librarian giving middle fingers when you boost him will forever be my favorite thing in videogames
@knivesoutcatchdamouse21372 ай бұрын
Holy shit, how have I been playing this game for 25 years and never noticed this?!
@Sigh952 ай бұрын
For anyone curious about Alucard’s voice actor, he still does v/o work. He recently voiced the vampire boss and end credits in Lunacid
@Riboshom2 ай бұрын
Didn't they bring him back for Bloodstained? I vaguely recall the Kickstarter mentionning himm
@RipOffProductionsLLC2 ай бұрын
@Riboshom indeed, he's an obvious Alucard expy named "D.O." which seems to be a double pun. D.O. being "Original Dracula" backwards just as Alucard is Dracula backwards, and D.O. is pronounced like Dio, making it a JoJo reference when he has a time freeze power.
@BrySkye2 ай бұрын
Heck, Robert Belgrade has even reprised the role of Alucard in the Castlevania fan game Castlevania: The Lecarde Chronicles 2.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine2 ай бұрын
Robert Belgrade. Honestly I think his performance is near perfect for Alucard, very slightly awkward delivery at times, but he does the voice perfectly.
@hanshead2 ай бұрын
His voice is amazing. The dialogue is a bit goofy, but the VA did a great job. Alucard had a power and presence.
@MrCobalt2 ай бұрын
Ah, I was wondering if we'd get a Sterling-esque "HIT THE LEVER!" clip whilst discussing Konami. Civvie knows what's up.
@XxDemon23xXАй бұрын
Good to know I'm not the only one who noticed it.
@Sonichero151Ай бұрын
When doscussing the bullshit of Konami, you must always pay homage to FucKonami
@Sir_Bone-Head2 ай бұрын
You know what's funny, when they first remade Symphony of the Night in Dracula X Chronicles on PSP, they actually made it even more broken. You can easily backdash out of the room where Death takes your stuff and keep it all.
@milosmisic892 ай бұрын
You could've done that in the og version as well. I have been doing it since the ps1 days
@Sir_Bone-Head2 ай бұрын
@@milosmisic89 Really? Most people talk about the other method which involves taking damage from a warg across the room.
@nutsquats2 ай бұрын
You can actually do that in the SoTN and RoB bundle thats sold nowadays
@mat_max2 ай бұрын
@@nutsquats yeah i believe it's the exact same as the psp version
@Sir_Bone-Head2 ай бұрын
@@nutsquats yeah, but I'm pretty certain it's using the remake that was on PSP anyway, because if I recall that had the new voice acting as well.
@philswiftdestroyerofworlds19882 ай бұрын
Civvie-ula: Tell me... what... what were SOTN's last words? Sewercard: She said "Do not hate sewer levels, if you cannot play through them, then at least do them no harm"
@jeremyallen59742 ай бұрын
Civvie: *looks at the ever-growing pile of broken keyboards and game discs* nah, that ship sailed LONG ago.
@Upsetkiller456Ай бұрын
One of my favorite parts about Igavania titles is absolutely shattering the kneecaps of it's balancing by the end and running through areas as an unkillable demigod.
@tacotaskforce2 ай бұрын
Civvie's quandary about the value of a game with no balance is exactly why humanity invented randomizers.
@DoveAlexa2 ай бұрын
this comment needs more likes! MOAR!
@Tuskin382 ай бұрын
There’s a great Castlevania themed mod for GZDOOM source port called Castlevania : Simon's Destiny
@who62422 ай бұрын
Such a great mod. It honestly does feel like a Castlevania game.
@johnmoss46242 ай бұрын
PRO SIMON'S DESTINY WHEN, CIVVIE?
@RadikAlice2 ай бұрын
Was that the one by Batandy, with the Rondo-style level title cards?
@cjnf112 ай бұрын
Yeah I immediately thought why wouldn't this be his Halloween pick.
@vulcanbrady2 ай бұрын
I recently discovered this mod and yes, it's very good.
@DebbieDickens2 ай бұрын
Surprised to see Civvie had nothing to say about the boss of the inverted alchemy lab Beezlebulb; a creative take on the 'Lord of the Flies' demon being just a giant rotting corpse held up by hooks whose only means of attacking is attracting giant flies with an occasional maggot dropping from it's body to try to poison you. Up there with Legion in Castlevania monster designs.
@weruinmovies2 ай бұрын
When this video is over, you have to watch it again upside down to get the true ending.
@zevorothrappaleano582 ай бұрын
My favourite "style thing" I love to do on replays of Symphony is grabbing the stop watch, going into the first Doppelganger fight, and THE SECOND he shows up, freeze time- because he's one of the few bosses this works on, he's now completely frozen in place. Then I run up and punch him so fast that the animations cut each other off into more punches. Just completely DIO his ass, it's wonderful. He dies before the stopwatch time stop ends, so before even the boss music can start you just melt him with your barrage of punches.
@Helvetica_Scenario2 ай бұрын
I'm gonna have to do this on my next run.
@HoChiMints20072 ай бұрын
lmaoooo that's genius
@TheXell2 ай бұрын
Omae wa mou...twinkudeiru.
@GuntanksInSpace2 ай бұрын
I actually discovered this by accident in my very first playthrough of SOTN lol. Had a stopwatch going in the Doppelganger fight, activated that bad boy, and completely shat on the poor shadow clone that he had to crawl back into his hidey-hole not long after. This repeated itself for the rematch.
@meatlejuice2 ай бұрын
I'm gonna be honest I'm so bad at this game that I thought that's how you were supposed to beat him
@bigdummy62862 ай бұрын
"Nope, thats the bad ending everyone got in the nineties." Hell, I got it in the early 2000s before I discovered youtube. This single line just feels so validating.
@eleventhbiscuit52422 ай бұрын
Unbelievably happy to see you playing SotN. I am perfectly divided between 1) indignantly pointing at the screen when you miss "obvious" things I've known forever and 2) picking my jaw up off the floor when you show me some heinous new shit I didn't know existed like at 18:26.
@Necronner2 ай бұрын
7:22 I love it, Civvie gets the DS collection and what is the first game he plays on it, Portrait of Ruin. The man might be in lockup for having superb taste.
@miltiadiskoutsokeras91892 ай бұрын
Best in the series with Dawn close and Ecclesia third. I do not get why people place Ecclesia on top, probably the game system breaks less with overpowered items.
@NinjaRunningWild2 ай бұрын
@@miltiadiskoutsokeras9189 It's one of the more difficult entries, that might be why. It's my least favorite of the 7 Castlevania "Metroidvanias".
@miltiadiskoutsokeras91892 ай бұрын
@@NinjaRunningWild I like it, but it is not better than the first two IMHO
@Dylanjrvs2 ай бұрын
@@miltiadiskoutsokeras9189 I didn't like OoE much either. Very boring level design to boot and the worst story of all the Metroidvanias
@wannabecinnabon2 ай бұрын
@@Dylanjrvs ...How the heck does it have the worst story? There's some actual intrigue going on with what Albus is plotting, a satisfying twist at the halfway point, and an ending that makes me feel some things, which is more than can be said for most CV stories. It's no Lament, but I really fail to see how Ecclesia's story is losing to nothingburgers like Dawn or Circle...
@waterdrinker902 ай бұрын
I don't think any other game blew my mind as much as this one did. Back in the 90's coming across all those secrets organically, or by word of mouth, going to school and telling your friends what new quirk you discovered, what new item combination, new way to completely break the game. Finding out there's an entire second castle after beating the first one. That's why this game is fucking legendary. This game (along with Super Metroid obviously) shaped so much of what videogames are today, and still continue to influence the industry to this day.
@johns8369Ай бұрын
Can you believe Sony USA refused to allow Konami to publish it at first? They didn't want 2D games in America. So Konami forced the issue saying they wouldn't bring out MGS in that case. Worth looking up the whole saga - madness! 😂
@LovePotion_2 ай бұрын
I kept saying it, it kept popping up: There was HYPER SPECIFIC musical choices and audio cues from older videos that led me to believe CV11 was not only a SOTN fan, but a SOTN lover. Doom 2 and Symphony Of the Night. That's my childhood there, the whole of it, at least the best parts. Thank you for your content dude, thank you for not shying away from your passion.
@Just.Kidding2 ай бұрын
“The PC Engine, which… is a console” People don’t give the PCE its due, all they think is TurboGrafx16, à la failure. But that’s selling it critically short - the PC Engine was, for a time, the bestselling console/market leader in Japan. With the later CD add-on, it had a pretty long life-cycle, too.
@donoteatmikezila2 ай бұрын
Justice for PC Engine.
@reptilez132 ай бұрын
I have one in my living room. I really wanna rig it up to play CD games, burned or from an ODE but they aren't cheap yet lol. I think I already have the whole JP PCECD library on a hard drive somewhere...
@DSaC_2 ай бұрын
It's in the same boat as the Sega Saturn, where it's failure in the worldwide market leads people to believe it was just as unpopular in it's home country, when in actuality it performed very well in Japan. The Saturn definitely deserves a little less credit comparatively, though. The PC Engine was genuinely on top of the market, while the Saturn only had the distinction of "barely beat the N64 in sales."
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine2 ай бұрын
It was a pretty good console, it had Splatterhouse, Zero Wing, and all that goodness.
@NipplesTheEnchilada23232 ай бұрын
It got to the point where the time when the Turbografx 16 stopped getting games in the west, stores would stock games that were from Japan, mostly being games that don't require knowing Japanese to play, like Rondo of Blood or Shmups.
@deadeyereaper20802 ай бұрын
As you said Civvie, Konami is stupid. Those idiots retconned the story with a mobile game sequel done by a Chinese developer and once again resurrected Dracula with the help of Death, not understanding their own goddamned lore when it was stated that Julius PERMANENTLY destroyed Dracula. The game didnt even last 6 months and was immediately shut down. Not surprised.
@elijahjarman2837Ай бұрын
What game was that out of curiosity
@deadeyereaper2080Ай бұрын
@elijahjarman2837 Castlevania Grimoire of Souls
@elijahjarman2837Ай бұрын
@deadeyereaper2080 thank you
@nazgulsenpai2 ай бұрын
I'm almost 40 years old and I played SOTN for the first time in 2021 and it still managed to become one of my favorite games of all time. That Dracula's Castle theme song is also some of the best video game music of all time (and Bloodlines from Rondo of Blood, Castle Corridor from Aria of Sorrow). Great video
@Lunchbox2242 ай бұрын
Game facts: The translator for this game is Jeremy Blaustein, who also handled translation for Metal Gear Solid 1 and Snatcher, as well as translation/voice casting/cultural advisor for Silent Hill 2/3/4. He's also the man who came up with the term "codec" for MGS, as in Japan, it was originally referred to as just "Wireless."
@BloodyArchangelus2 ай бұрын
He was a genius.
@marcellosilva9286Ай бұрын
His work on the Silent Hill games is absolutely fantastic, he worked closely with Team Silent and vice-versa to ensure that the english script was the most faithful it could possibly be.
@Sonichero151Ай бұрын
Sounds like he is the G.O.A.T of video game translations
@lightsideendings58152 ай бұрын
My head canon is Maria doesn't find Alucard for another year, after he turns 401.
@HoopleBogart2 ай бұрын
The first time I beat this game I lived in a trailer in the trailer park with a carpet covered in cat shit from the previous tenant. Had some issues with my hot water tank a few hours afterwards... and when I opened up the closet to check it I noticed that someone had scrawled "Alucard" into the garbage wood paneling they called a wall. I doubt anyone reads this but I needed to get that weird coincidence off my chest lol. Thanks for making our day better Civvie. Happy Halloween nerds.
@kolman31782 ай бұрын
That is some wierd coincidences. Good thing its all just happenstance. Right?
@steve43ful2 ай бұрын
🫡
@fallingwater2 ай бұрын
Let it be known that we have read this.
@StripedAssedApe2 ай бұрын
It might have been a breakable wall 🧱
@RaccoonWithMatches2 ай бұрын
Good stuff as always Civvie - I joined the Kickstarter for Bloodstained because of how much I respected IGA and loved these games. It made me really happy to see you mentioned the struggle and love from the community to keep making these types of games.
@teranokitty2 ай бұрын
I didn't join the Bloodstained Kickstarter because I was burned from Mighty No. 9, but I'm glad Bloodstained succeeded.
@theonlybilgeАй бұрын
There's a retranslation patch you can apply to the JP version, it also means that you can get every familiar.
@johnm.95972 ай бұрын
Man, this game rules! I would watch my older brother play all the time and he'd clue me in on all the little nuances he knew. I still beat it every couple years. Thanks Civvie, brought big smiles to me today
@MasonShmason2 ай бұрын
The scream I screamed when i saw this pop up in my notifications you cannot begin to imagine how long i was hoping you'd cover this one. Also Civvie being a fan of Terrifier warms my black shriveled worm infested heart.
@poptop892 ай бұрын
I think- I think you need to get that checked.
@somethingelse90872 ай бұрын
I hope you scared your animals.
@MasonShmason2 ай бұрын
@poptop89 nah the clown's pet demon told me it's fine
@MasonShmason2 ай бұрын
@@somethingelse9087 my cat is more offended when I sneeze so
@FGCJesus25 күн бұрын
Hey Civvie, I just wanted to let you know that I really, really enjoy your videos. They bring me a tremendous amount of happiness, and I hope that you get that same level of happiness from making them! Stay strong Civvie!
@AsherV202 ай бұрын
I did NOT wake up this morning expecting: 1. Civvie to post a friggin Castlevania video 2. Civvie to reference DEVIL MAY CRY in said Castlevania video. If I'm having a stroke, it's a damn good one!
@amotl20012 ай бұрын
OMG REALLY!?
@zzodysseuszzАй бұрын
Bro you’re surprised by the devil may cry reference? I’m suprised by the fucking REN AND STIMPY reference like wtf
@elijahjarman28372 ай бұрын
FUN FACT! In the 2004 film, Van Helsing, at Dracula's masqurade, when he 'introduces' the main character, music from SOTN plays in the backgroudn
@RadikAlice2 ай бұрын
I am in disbelief, but wanna see it?
@elijahjarman28372 ай бұрын
@RadikAlice I genuinely love Van Helsing. It's on netflix
@YngolSonofYsgramor2 ай бұрын
What song exactly is it?
@elijahjarman28372 ай бұрын
@YngolSonofYsgramor castle dracula, according to IMDB
@MyScorpion422 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWKlgqWnZ9eNbsk, at 4:16 it plays the first 4 notes
@mcgibs2 ай бұрын
55:20 Raw mouse cursor
@johnplayer4202 ай бұрын
My fav game of all time being reviewed by my fav Gamer channel... ON MY BIRTHDAY
@MangetsuSAMURAI2 ай бұрын
Happy birthday, man.
@ownageDan2 ай бұрын
happy birthday :)
@gui2peg2 ай бұрын
cool, happy birthday bro
@napalmzombie8482 ай бұрын
Happy birthday! :)
@thomas8152 ай бұрын
Yo, Happy Birthday, man!!
@ChickenShred2 ай бұрын
Am happy to see you happy Civvie-11. I love seeing your passion for games you personally love, even if there not fps games. Hell I tried this game out because of how often you mentioned it in your videos. And as a Metroid and Hollow Knight fan, I adored sotn (as well as the classic castlevania games). God bless you man and thank you for your work.
@solblackguyАй бұрын
Symphony of the Night is the first Playstation game I ever played and after countless playthroughs, I always learn something new. Just when, after 27 years, I thought I finally discovered everything the game has to offer, you just dropped the jewel sword secret on me I never knew about.
@Phantom0342 ай бұрын
Civvie covering Symphony of the Night?? The next hour of my day just opened up!
@killer900rocks2 ай бұрын
24:27 this was such a beatdown it almost could have been inducted into the Cyberdemon Humiliation Hall of Fame, or at least a notable mention.
@johnalbertwrestling2 ай бұрын
Civvie I discovered your stuff this year. Greetings from Brazil. Your stuff is like a warm blanket that calms me down before bed. I always see your Doom 2016/ Doom Eternal Reviews because they are damn funny.
@saibot12462 ай бұрын
3:28 Dracula: What the hell is that delivery? Richter: what do you mean. Dracula: WHERE IS THE EMOTION WHERE IS THE DRAMA RICHTER ? From one of jehtt's video
@DPCP-h9u2 ай бұрын
"I WENT TO JULLIARD, BELMONT!"
@c4h5n2o12 ай бұрын
"Dracula's Fucking Castle" "Dracula's WHAT Castle?"
@matthewcurcio29232 ай бұрын
I’m so for Civvie covering more Metroidvanias!
@akterminded2 ай бұрын
THIS. A PLEASANT SURPRISE INDEED
@universalperson2 ай бұрын
The worst part about Konami replacing the meme script is that it's not even more faithful to the Japanese original. They just rearranged the English script a bit.
@jruler932 ай бұрын
As a lifelong lover of Castlevania, this was a fun video. The combat isn't balanced, but that was never the aim of the game. The focus was clearly on movement and exploration, and that's where SotN really excels.
@Bapate-rh9be2 ай бұрын
Can't throw a brick with the message "Boltgun has gotten an expansion" throught one of civvis windows without my buddy superfly.
@theylivewesleep.51392 ай бұрын
Bad expansion for a bad game
@Bapate-rh9be2 ай бұрын
@@theylivewesleep.5139 I liked it - thought the endboss had extremely obvious cheese potential and I ran into a horrible bug.
@ArnieMcStrangleholdАй бұрын
I'll be honest as someone who's not really much of a fan of 40k lore, Boltgun was only slightly above average. The gameplay was fine, level design was fine, but the entire experience just felt like fanservice, which is completely lost on a lot of people. I played it because, like Civvie, I had people going "OH YOU LIKE SHOOTERS AND THIS IS 40K YOU'LL LIKE IT" I mean, I didn't *dislike* it...
@theylivewesleep.5139Ай бұрын
@ as a fan of 40k, I find it to be a very exploitative product that lacked basic features found in DooM 1993 like painstates and an auto map. It’s also so easy. I beat it on exterminatus difficulty and I am bad at video games.
@Bapate-rh9beАй бұрын
@@theylivewesleep.5139 Yeah. All correct. I liked it because it conveys the powerfantasie pretty well and really give you the feeling of beeing a space marine with all the gear and weight and what not. Thinking about buying space marine 1 - whenever I have time for such affairs.
@SilencerGDA2 ай бұрын
That succubus not only ate the holy rod, she gobbled it in every orifice
@ErebosSpiral2 ай бұрын
You touched during the video on this, but to me, my fav part of this game is how much weird stuff is in it. The one wall you have to push to acces an item, the sword familiar that turns into a weapon after being leveled up enough, the confession room in the chapel, the fact that the fairy will sing to you if you sit down long enough, the spells being tehnically all available from the start but needing to know the correct input to cast them, the switches in both clock towers that have to be hit a certain amount of times to unlock a room. So much cool one time stuff, almost no other game in the series comes close to this or how open the game is in general, even if they are more tightly designed and balanced.
@SeruraRenge112 ай бұрын
9:50 tbf, being half-Dracula, the Vampire Killer would probably hurt Alucard. I don't remember which game in the series that said it but wielding the VK if you aren't a Belmont and thus aren't protected by the soul of some chick, is lethal to the user.
@jaredsamples69692 ай бұрын
Portrait of Ruin. Not being a Belmont when using the VK whip can be detrimental to your health, which is how John Morris kicked the bucket between Bloodlines and PoR. And the whip woman was Sara, Leon Belmont's fiance.
@lunatic0verlord102 ай бұрын
7:48 Fun fact: this version was part of Dracula X Chronicles, a remake of Rondo of Blood. And the re-recorded line is simply them taking the version from the main game, which has it's own voiced dialogues. Hell, they even included the ORIGINAL Rondo of Blood in this game, with it's OWN set of voiced dialogues. They even added voiced lines for bosses. I honestly feel impressed at how much effort they put into that one game.
@Duderocks11512 ай бұрын
Was not expecting you to play Castlevania
@bluebay02 ай бұрын
Civvie had mentioned in older videos (eg Powerslave) that apart from the boom shoot, metroidvania is his other favorite game genre.
@bobloblaw4182 ай бұрын
was not expecting him to be *good* at Castlevania :o
@bleachsmoker2 ай бұрын
I mean, he played duke nukem (the original one)
@GuntanksInSpace2 ай бұрын
@@bluebay0 Also it's a very small tidbit, but the Pro Doom 2 video had the title screen music of SOTN hitting when he gets the Super Shotgun.
@bluebay02 ай бұрын
@GuntanksInSpace Ah so that's where Civvie got that church choral music from! I wouldn't have known because I've never played the game. Thank you.
@doomdimention97872 ай бұрын
Two things worth mentioning about Bloodstained. While it did meet every Kickstarter goal there were a few that they just weren't able to actually deliver on, which is unfortunate although the game did still deliver a massive wealth of additional content, but also they didn't just make Bloodstained Ritual of the Night. They also made Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 1 and 2 which are the absolute best classic style Castlevania games out there. So from one Kickstarter we got 3 fantastic games and a RotN2 is confirmed to be in the works
@GuntanksInSpace2 ай бұрын
Notably I think they gave up on the Vita version of the game, and IIRC the Switch version had a hell of a lot of problems that took a while to get fixed (and I hear it's more or less fine now). But yeah otherwise Bloodstained delivered more or less everything, even if it took a good bit. And that's not even getting into the Curse of the Moon games (which are quite beloved too)
@doomdimention97872 ай бұрын
@GuntanksInSpace there was also a roguelite mode that fell through and the Switch version was originally supposed to be Wii U.
@doomdimention97872 ай бұрын
@@AnAverageGoblin absolutely. It is right up there with Symphony of the Night and Aria of Sorrow for my favorite Castlevanias. Also it having a built in randomizer gives it a bunch of bonus points too.
@AnAverageGoblin2 ай бұрын
@@doomdimention9787 Oh dope, you sold me on it.
@GuntanksInSpace2 ай бұрын
@@AnAverageGoblin how much do you like IGA's style of Metroidvanias? Ritual of the Night is practically IGA's greatest hits in one game (though a good amount SOTN and Dawn/Aria with its systems). Just as fun to move around and explore too. With the current version you get them Randomizers, Retro Modes, other playable characters and so on. Also the OST is fantastic.
@MamRadVlaky2 ай бұрын
40:33 "you know what I'm doing" - for some reason I knew exactly what you're doing :D
@azalinprime2 ай бұрын
2:15 Wait, what's with the controller ports? And the HuCard slot? WTF THAT'S NOT AN ORIGINAL TURBOGRAFX-16, IT'S THE MINI CIVVIE YOU HACK
@lordofchromium15342 ай бұрын
It was foretold in the exophobia vid when he mentioned Metroidvania’s where his second favorite genres…
@wesleybcrowen2 ай бұрын
Done way, way earlier with Powerslave video where he admitted Aria of Sorrow is his favorite igavania.
@eightcoins44012 ай бұрын
Waiting for the losers no one likes to arrive and demand you call it Search Action even though its the lamest name ever
@DoveAlexa2 ай бұрын
@@eightcoins4401 Yeah, like why do we need to erase the genre's history to make it a valid name? Do they not know how language works?
@TerryVideoZone2 ай бұрын
@@eightcoins4401 Search action is also just what they call it in Japan. Either way, it's all semantics.
@NerfPlayeR135Ай бұрын
@@eightcoins4401 Nah, I'm going with Civvie's joke name of Obsessive Compulsive Simulator.
@thatkidfromtx2 ай бұрын
I didn't know I needed to watch Civvie cover SOTN, but I love it!
@tylerlazarus21262 ай бұрын
Yo! Me and my wife love your videos, today's our anniversary and we're eating steak and watching civvie. Thanks for all you do dude!
@Multienderguy372 ай бұрын
5:02 Maria isn’t Annette’s sister except in Dracula X, she is actually a distant relative of Richter.
@axelprino2 ай бұрын
Civvie's Halloween episodes never disappoint, and I like how his love of metroidvanias is slowly finding its way to the surface through the sea of boomer shooters.
@grasshopper-ln9us2 ай бұрын
This game, Bloodstained, hollow knight and salt and snctuary are epic
@beltube2 ай бұрын
no fuckin way i wanted this vid for YEARS with how much he references it
@crashingblow3753Ай бұрын
Why did I not get a notification for this when I'm literally subscribed!? Castlevania is one of my favorite gaming franchises ever! Civvie playing a Castlevania game was an unexpected surprise and a surprise I am extremely happy to see.
@RougeMephilesClone2 ай бұрын
That was great. I never expected a Castlevania on this channel, but it fit like a glove.
@stevemanart2 ай бұрын
Death is Dracula's is close friend in the same way my "Aunt Kitty" was my aunt Patty's close friend in their one-bedroom apartment.
@mattsmokes2505Ай бұрын
I love you so much civie. Dosent even feel like Halloween without your uploads these days. And you do it so much better than your peers. Thank you so much civvie
@jirojiro27082 ай бұрын
Richter summoning two bosses from Rondo as his goons. Nice touch 29:17
@henrynelson93012 ай бұрын
The Minotaur uppercut is also from Rondo
@roguewarrior64632 ай бұрын
Can’t wait for Diddy to become a canon Dungeon character in the lore
@Flesh_Wizard2 ай бұрын
Count Diddula
@OnTheArchipelago2 ай бұрын
Cringe
@AnAverageGoblin2 ай бұрын
@@OnTheArchipelago making fun of a criminal isn't cringe.
@IrisCorven2 ай бұрын
Oh man. I've waited so long for Civvie to play Castlevania: Symphony of Eating Ass to Acquire Dracula's Tunic.
@AnthroTsuneon2 ай бұрын
'having a church in your vampire castle seems weird' Someone hasn't read Dracula
@BanzaiBenzai2 ай бұрын
41:17: One Crissaegrim obtained! Now I hope you get two, equip one in each hand, and then mash square and circle rhythmically to create the most unholy of vortexes! Now I'll press play to see if Civvie does this. Loving this video.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine2 ай бұрын
I remember doing that, it makes the weapons even more broken.
@InsidiousOne2 ай бұрын
15:17 but the shield is useful there. It works against each of Gaibon's fireball attacks, even the big ones. It's not like you really need it, but still
@jadewedge60822 ай бұрын
Honestly, I love seeing Civvie talk about the games he very obviously loves. I know this isn't the first time, but there's always something that tingles in me when I hear another guy nerd out about the shit the way I might because I loved a game. I wanna make my own video, some day.
@ErebosSpiral2 ай бұрын
Somehow, despite referencing SotN for almost every Hallowen special, this still feels like a Christmas miracle
@bootblackingАй бұрын
My headcanon with Death is that he's the manifestation of the FEAR of death, especially that which is sudden and brutal, and naturally comes into being where people shudder in the shadow of Castle Dracula. He IS Death, just one facet of it.
@Joker225932 ай бұрын
The First Level of Symphony of the Night is the last level of Rondo of Blood. It's really cool how the two games are actually just one game in many ways. The PSP release even has some kind of super combined mode, from what I've heard.
@TerryVideoZone2 ай бұрын
Dracula X chronicles on PSP has unlocks that let you play (retranslated/dubbed) SOTN and Rondo of Blood.
@FirstLast-cg2nk2 ай бұрын
You missed the actual best item from the library, the Ring of Varda that grants a major boost to all stats. Two of them make you nearly unstoppable. It gets dropped by the big skeletons there.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine2 ай бұрын
I think they only let you get one from the big skeletons.
@FirstLast-cg2nk2 ай бұрын
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I've gotten two, but even with the ring of arcana, the drop rate is ow.
@jetton3970Ай бұрын
Civvie says it's the first save on the memory card and the Ring of Varda is only on subsequent playthroughs, so I would chalk this up to lack of footage.
@PIDGEML2 ай бұрын
My favorite youtuber making a video on my favorite game? Today is a great day.
@chrispierceall36272 ай бұрын
So as a kid my friend and I rented SOTN from Blockbuster to play for a sleepover, mind you neither one of us had ever played a Castlevania,. He and I were very confused booting up the game and being put right at the "Final Stage" and restarted like 6 times until we called our other friend and he had to explain it to us and also told us to stop trying to use the damn Red Rust.
@wunnup32292 ай бұрын
This is how I know Civvie knows what he's talking about when he says a game is good. Every time he rants and raves about how good a retro-throwback boomer-shooter is, I'll give it a shot and go, "yup, everything Civvie said was 100% objectively correct," but when Darthcorporalsaiyan2005 fellates the newest battle royale Fortnite clone and I give it a shot and I'll just sit there going, "paid review." But then I play a game, fall in love with it, and then Civvie goes on about how amazing it is, and that's how I know I'm not just being brainwashed and the game is actually just that good.
@zzodysseuszzАй бұрын
Weirdly fucking specific but I know what you mean. Same with SsethTzeentach and his extremely specific reviews you won’t understand entirely until you play a game he recommends or is talking about in the review.
@TemenosLАй бұрын
Fuck yeah. This absolute classic of a game. Me and all my brothers loved this game growing up. The OST is absolutely full of fucking bangers. The gameplay is chef's kiss perfect. The memetic dialogue was perfect, and Alucard's VO was unparalleled. (Seriously, his voice is a smooth shot of whiskey. There's a video of the guy being interviewed and sadly he doesn't really remember the experience all that much, and is kind of humorously taken aback by the old SotN fanbase lauding him.) It is still THE BEST Castlevania game ever made, in my opinion. But Civvie, you can't put disrespect on Soul Steal. That sucker will tag EVERY enemy on the screen nearly eight times, and when the screen's full of stuff, this will give you a shit-ton of health. It's really life-saving in desperate moments. Love your content.
@grantsrants6652 ай бұрын
Well Civvie, I for one DO like the Crazy Arthur mask. I think that it needs to be permanent. As permanent as your past mistakes. Lasting forever. And ever. And ever. Never to be undone.