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Originally Posted by Voltron
Speaking of the original Castlevania series, I think a lot of love for that comes from two things:
1. People love monsters.
2. People love trauma.
The movie monsters in the franchise are a lot of fun. They're all familiar.
The game itself, just like a ton of other NES games, was prohibitively difficult. I beat the original once. ONCE. And even then, it was on a technicality. It took my 17 hours and used a ROM to reload every time I got a game over.
But there's a sort of bonding over that, I feel. You can see that same 1,000 yard stare when it's mentioned to a fan.
Symphony of the Night is just a fantastic game all around. It perfectly hit what Simon's Quest was going for. Unfortunately, they never stopped with that theme and it grew stale REALLY fast.
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Well, perhaps I should mention that I did not grow up with the CastleVania series. I didn't get the chance to play it until my early 20s. So I have zero emotional attachment to the series and didn't play them around the time they came out and were possibly quite impressive games for their generation.