Castlevania "Special"
Feb. 15th, 2010 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsSo, having finished the Castlevania timeline via playthroughs, today I'm going to wrap it up with a little omake.
First, a footnote. I haven't posted any links to Castlevania: Judgment, and I'm not going to. To put it bluntly, I am not touching that shit. From everything I can tell, at once the most generous and most damning thing you could say about it is that it was a fan-service game that the fanbase hated. For me personally, it would be like taking the pain that I expect Curse of Darkness to cause me, boiling it down into a solid mass, and constructing a game entirely of that. Plus I fucking hate Death Note. Completionist impulse be damned, I see no good reason to do that to myself. (Ironically in my fanfic universe there is a thoroughly rewritten version of Judgment's basic idea that I am actually going with, but that does not change the foregoing...)
Okay, now let's cheer up with the promised special extra! I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find this, but I did: Akumajo Special: Boku Dracula-kun! (roughly translated: "Castlevania Special: I'm Kid Dracula!"). The first was never brought to the US, but here it is in a Let's Play by DeceasedCrab, apparently using a translated rom. Notice that the first stage music is a bouncy remix of "Beginning" (the first stage theme from Dracula's Curse), and watch for the "boss" game show hosted by the Statue of Liberty (in cutesy chibi form of course).
The sequel for GameBoy did reach American shores under the title Kid Dracula, and it comes to us in a Let's Play by TheHelldragon.
Kid Dracula also appeared in some of the Parodius games. I couldn't find full playthroughs, but here is Parodius: Forever With Me in a perfect boss run as Kid Dracula by Shadowserg. I have to say, though, I'm beginning to understand why they never ported Parodius to the States as this stuff is both intensely Japanese and really flippin' weird... ^_^;;
(If I told you that Kid Dracula was in some way canon to my Castlevania universe, you'd think I was totally out to lunch, wouldn't you? Well, it's a long story... Maybe some other time.)
And with that silly little cherry on top, my linkblogging project is complete. Anyone else who was reading might have found it totally boring, but that's why I pulled back to the DW account, so that if I enjoy it I can just go with it and not worry about it, and I'm giving it its own tag for easy reference in the future, which could be handy for me. But seriously, if you're reading this, I hope you did enjoy it.
Now I'll have to come up with something else to post about... ::chin scratch::
ADDENDUM: Oh, one more Librivox public-domain audiobook for you: Carmilla.
MUCH LATER ADDENDUM: I don't expect anyone to keep track, but just so you know, I have occasionally gone back through these playthrough link posts to clean up the inevitable link rot. I actually haven't been keeping up with Castlevania so much lately, and at this time I am not going to add the games that have been released since I posted these (e.g. Harmony of Despair, Lords of Shadow).
First, a footnote. I haven't posted any links to Castlevania: Judgment, and I'm not going to. To put it bluntly, I am not touching that shit. From everything I can tell, at once the most generous and most damning thing you could say about it is that it was a fan-service game that the fanbase hated. For me personally, it would be like taking the pain that I expect Curse of Darkness to cause me, boiling it down into a solid mass, and constructing a game entirely of that. Plus I fucking hate Death Note. Completionist impulse be damned, I see no good reason to do that to myself. (Ironically in my fanfic universe there is a thoroughly rewritten version of Judgment's basic idea that I am actually going with, but that does not change the foregoing...)
Okay, now let's cheer up with the promised special extra! I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find this, but I did: Akumajo Special: Boku Dracula-kun! (roughly translated: "Castlevania Special: I'm Kid Dracula!"). The first was never brought to the US, but here it is in a Let's Play by DeceasedCrab, apparently using a translated rom. Notice that the first stage music is a bouncy remix of "Beginning" (the first stage theme from Dracula's Curse), and watch for the "boss" game show hosted by the Statue of Liberty (in cutesy chibi form of course).
The sequel for GameBoy did reach American shores under the title Kid Dracula, and it comes to us in a Let's Play by TheHelldragon.
Kid Dracula also appeared in some of the Parodius games. I couldn't find full playthroughs, but here is Parodius: Forever With Me in a perfect boss run as Kid Dracula by Shadowserg. I have to say, though, I'm beginning to understand why they never ported Parodius to the States as this stuff is both intensely Japanese and really flippin' weird... ^_^;;
(If I told you that Kid Dracula was in some way canon to my Castlevania universe, you'd think I was totally out to lunch, wouldn't you? Well, it's a long story... Maybe some other time.)
And with that silly little cherry on top, my linkblogging project is complete. Anyone else who was reading might have found it totally boring, but that's why I pulled back to the DW account, so that if I enjoy it I can just go with it and not worry about it, and I'm giving it its own tag for easy reference in the future, which could be handy for me. But seriously, if you're reading this, I hope you did enjoy it.
Now I'll have to come up with something else to post about... ::chin scratch::
ADDENDUM: Oh, one more Librivox public-domain audiobook for you: Carmilla.
MUCH LATER ADDENDUM: I don't expect anyone to keep track, but just so you know, I have occasionally gone back through these playthrough link posts to clean up the inevitable link rot. I actually haven't been keeping up with Castlevania so much lately, and at this time I am not going to add the games that have been released since I posted these (e.g. Harmony of Despair, Lords of Shadow).
