Castlevania

[Music] Hello everybody and welcome to the Cana Rinse Podcast, volume 15, issue 705. Today we're going to talk about Castlevania, Legacy of Darkness. And joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, Brian Edwards. ...

[Music] Hello everybody and welcome to the Cano Rinse podcast volume 14, issue 691. And today we're going to be talking about Castlevania Legends. Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, Brian Edwards. ...

... - See, my perception of the GBA was skewed because the first thing I got for that system when I imported it at the Japanese launch was Castlevania Circle of the Moon, which cheated hardcore. ...

... So I'm gonna go with brutal legend 'cause I can't think of a classic game series that I would want a cart, like a cart racer that didn't already have some very close variant that actually did come out. - I can't believe Castlevania never had a cart racing game 'cause it literally had a fighting game and it was horrible. ...

... I remember the combat being eyes, it's just more Castlevania with a, you know, little town area sprinkled in. ...

... But it turns out there have been two new versions of one of the most legendary Gothic horror platform side-along slasher games. Castlevania has also quite a lot of love recently. Now, we did talk about an Amiga version of this coming out a while ago. ...

take their slow time doing it. But Max was watching me play the game. And the stairs, I don't think those were introduced immediately. I think the chains and ropes are introduced sooner. So Max saw that and was like, "Hey, this isn't a Castlevania clone. This is a Castlevania, the adventure clone." And it's like, no, no, it's way better than that. Sorry. That kind of brings me to one of the key things that I would say distinguishes Rusty from Castlevania. So they are similar in a lot of ways from the premise to…

... It's totally worth playing, but but like, was there any takeaways from you guys? I don't want to run through the whole thing, the state of play again, shout out to Castlevania. Oh, my God. ...

podcast recently, but I think this is definitely worth a mention. There was a couple of years ago, we kind of went through a spade, didn't we? Of kind of covering a lot of the homebrew stuff that was coming out on the Amstrad and a lot of it looked really impressive. I remember that the pinball fantasies that came out on there. Yeah, the Batman group, they were doing some great stuff going back a few years now. But this looks really cool. This is a Castlevania style game called mighty castle adventure that…

... That's very well thought out. Actually probably Castlevania, 'cause I think Castlevania would actually lend itself to being pretty fucking cool, swinging that goddamn whip around first person style. ...

... - And I'll top this off with, is it worst transitions to 3D? I wanna, do I not wanna put Castlevania in here, because Lords of Shadow is pretty cool, but like, obviously Castlevania feels much more at home in 2D. ...

then we come back to you ash you got two bits oh gosh uh let me just remind myself what matt have you picked just gone i just let me have some pics please i've got some good titer picks but we've had some titers i'm gonna mix it up uh i'm gonna go konami and i'm gonna go castlevania symphony of the night hmm definitely on my short list you know this is it's not where metroidvania has come from but certainly where the term comes from you know this this was konami reinventing the kind of action platforming of…