[Dr Bob]

Originally Posted by Steve SI

How about a review of "Rise of the Robots" on all the different systems?

I did the meg one before early this year ...shudder..the Geneva Human rights convention says I dont have to look at another port of it for another 4 years...

[Dr Bob]

Guess what I went with!
(will look at super offroad racing at some point , honest)
Taking these comnparion vids a lot handier than the last set , no 24 hours or less between updates this time!
This one features the BobCam , something which will probably get the vid more dislikes than likes

[EnterNow]

The BobCam thing is a great idea, gives the video more depth & ties the watcher into the review more...nice job

[o1s1n]

The bobcam really does add an interesting perspective to it. Thumbs up from me too

Although you may want to get a bit more irate when you die in games, you know, for our own personal amusement.

You raging out and smashing the keyboard off the table in the top left corner while R Type runs on the big screen would be beyond hilarious

[Dr Bob]

Originally Posted by o1s1n

The bobcam really does add an interesting perspective to it. Thumbs up from me too

Although you may want to get a bit more irate when you die in games, you know, for our own personal amusement.

You raging out and smashing the keyboard off the table in the top left corner while R Type runs on the big screen would be beyond hilarious

I was looking at the spectrum version , so getting annoyed /sweary was NOT a problem

[Retr0gamer]

My review of Landstalker on the Megadrive. The magazines raved about this game at the time but it's more frustrating than fun:

http://lifein16bit.blogspot.ie/2012/...king-nole.html

Good to see I've lots of Dr. Bob to catch up on since I came back from NYC.

[Dr Bob]

:Uses Phoenix Down on :Thread
So I'm back , with retro , only not.
But it is
Abobo's Big Adventure
www.abobosbigadventure.com

[Pyongyang]

Good man, back to the fore!

[Retr0gamer]

Something relatively retro up on my blog. Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles review:

http://lifein16bit.blogspot.ie/2012/...hronicles.html

[CiDeRmAn]

You know, reading your brief post, I had a slight thrill when I say Pyongy there above it.... thought he was back.... but it was not to be

And back to Castlevania!
The only one I own is SOTN, what are the essentials I really should have?

[Retr0gamer]

Originally Posted by CiDeRmAn

And back to Castlevania!
The only one I own is SOTN, what are the essentials I really should have?

I hate to say this but pretty them all. I mean there's absolutely no bad Castlevania's with the exception of Haunted Castle the arcade game and Judgement.

On the NES there's Castlevania which after finishing it is one of the best designed games I've ever played. It really is up there with Megaman 2 and Mario 3 as one of the games best.

Simon's Quest is a heap of fun as long as you use a FAQ to get over some of the BS you need to beat the game. It's definitely the weakest of the NES games but still worth it.

CV3: Dracula's Curse. This one here is an absolute masterpiece. Tonnes of levels, different routes through the game, different characters to use. Just so good damn good. The famicom version with the extra sound chip is the one to get bu the US release is fine.

Now for the NES games do not get the PAL versions. CV is a slower paced game than most action games but on a PAL system it's downright lethargic. On a NTSC system it boots along at a zippy pace.

There's an MSX game called Vampire Killer that is part of the series and came out before the first castlevanis but it's a rarity.

On the Gameboy the only one worth getting is Belmont's Revenge. It's a great game. Adventure and Legend on the GB I like but nobody else does, they are a bit crap.

Now the 16-bit systems.

On the SNES you have the stone cold classic Castlevania IV. There's also Dracula X/Vampires Kiss. This is a pretty good CV game that gets a bit of a bad rep because it's a poor mans Rondo of Blood. Ignore the negativity, it's a great game taken on it's own merits.

On the Megadrive you have New Generation/Bloodlines. It's a superb Vania game but make sure you get the US version, the PAL version has gore cut out of it. It's probably the most technically impressive game on the Megadrive and does some crazy hardware tricks the MD was never meant to do.

On the PC Engine CD is Rondo of Blood which you read about. Superb stuff.

On the X86000 is an exclusive Castlevania. However this is available on the PS1 as Castlevania Chronicles. It's a brilliant old school Vania game, well worth getting. Get the NTSC version as per usual

For the N64 is Castlevania and Legacy of Darkness. Castlevania 64 gets a bad rep but it really isn't that bad, it's mostly from Nintendo fans pissed off they didn't get Symphony of the Night. Some people make it out to be the worst game ever but it's a lot of fun despite some flaws. Legacy of Darkness improves on the first game in every way and is a much better game.

On PS2 there's Lament of Innocence which is good but a bit dull and repetitive. There's also Curse of Darkness which I'd only really recommend to fans of the series. It can get very dull.

On handheld pick all the games up, they are great. On GBA you have Circle of the Moon (good but extremely difficult), Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow. From Harmony of Dissonance onwards the games play very like Symphony of the Night.

On DS you have Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia

There's also a CV game on Wiiware called Castlevania Rebirth which is very good and well worth picking up, it plays like the more linear games than the SotN type games.

That should keep you going.

[CiDeRmAn]

Okay...
Now, who wants to buy a lobe of my lung?
Have to raise the money for that stuff somewhere and I have never smoked!

[Dr Bob]

here....It's Zelda ,only with fangs!

Blood Omen :Legacy Of Kain
..contains mid nineties cgi , neck nibbling, Odo, Breaking Bad actresses, and me blathering over ingame footage.

[o1s1n]

Great review! Got a few chuckles out of me

I really love that game. By far my favourite in the series. Originally played a friend's copy for the PS1 - but a few years later downloaded it from Home of the Underdogs (that site was an absolute gold mine for games in the dial up days) and played through it again.

Rebought a PS1 copy about two years ago. Niggling to start up a new save this evening...!

[Retr0gamer]

Yeah it was a good game, load times on the PS1 nearly killed it though. Looking back it looks a little ropey especially the combat but some things like the voice acting hold up really well. Still for vampire based games it's not a patch on Vania