Hello everyone. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend. I have been playing more Balatro and Nightreign, but I spent this morning readying another playthrough of New Vegas that I will be undertaking soon. Have a good week everyone!

  • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Thanks to @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net I’m playing a game for the first time in a long while—the original Castlevania for the NES! I’d only ever played the post-Symphony-of-the-Night Igavania games, so it’s been interesting to see where the series began, and it’s a lot of fun! I really appreciate the simplicity of not worry about item drops, backtracking, or gear—just Simon Belmont, his trusty Vampire Killer, and a handful of subweapons. Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten the chance to play again since that first session, but I’m hoping to get in a bit of playtime tomorrow.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      7 days ago

      You gotta sorta watch out for item drops! Some candles have subweapons and often they aren’t the holy water and if you pick one up you cant get your old one back. You wanna always try yo keep the holy water cause it stun locks. You’re in for a real treat! I usually replay castlevania games each October for spooky season. Maybe I’ll start esrly this year. Keep me up to date on the battle against Dracula and his friends. Stay patient and methodical and abuse the holy water on bosses, never ever turn around when there’s Medusa heads, dont stop moving at the part where crows throw guys at you, and here’s a cheeky move, its not hard to turn that massive knock back into a double jump by landing on the far side of an enemy (play the gsme right the firsr time tho). Im really excited for you! For other hard games that I’d consider totally doable are the Contra Games and Ninja Gaiden. Those ones are more fast paced but have a similar old school thing where if you know what makes what happen the enemy spawns become something you control instead of something that seems random

      Edit: here’s the rant thar spawned it since I was late to the thread and threw down paragraphs in a ghost town:

      https://hexbear.net/comment/6470888