Castlevania

**Althena** · 01-30-2024, 09:02 AM

Castlevania is one of my oldest and most beloved jams. I've always loved the music from the franchise, I love music that heavily features the organ and harpsichord, and the classical/rock/gothic/ecumenical vibe is just my speed. I especially found the DS games to be a lot of fun, and SotN will always be close to perfect. It's influenced many games I played the hell out of, including Rogue Legacy. God that game was fun! Recently, I received Infernax as a gift, and I was really enjoying that one too. Definitely want to play more of it some time.

**Selbaek** · 01-31-2024, 02:20 PM

Late May will mark 2 years since a sequel to Bloodstained was confirmed to be in development. Hopefully we get to hear something more about its progress this year!

**Random Encounter** · 03-26-2024, 06:00 PM

Someone's made a Metroidvania take of the original Castlevania. It is geniously named Castlevania ReVamped. This looks like fun!

**Althena** · 03-26-2024, 09:45 PM

Oooh sign me up!

**The Grimace** · 03-27-2024, 06:37 AM

Originally posted by Selbaek

Late May will mark 2 years since a sequel to Bloodstained was confirmed to be in development. Hopefully we get to hear something more about its progress this year!

Ooh. I guess I should have expected them to be working on a sequel, but I never gave it much thought because they're still adding more to the base game here and there. Bloodstained is such a great game and I'm continually thrilled by it.

I really wish we could get a "Castlevania DS" compilation sooner than later. I really want to replay Order of Ecclesia, but not sure I want to go through the effort of emulation.

**Random Encounter** · 03-27-2024, 08:39 AM

Originally posted by The Grimace

Ooh. I guess I should have expected them to be working on a sequel, but I never gave it much thought because they're still adding more to the base game here and there. Bloodstained is such a great game and I'm continually thrilled by it.

I really wish we could get a "Castlevania DS" compilation sooner than later. I really want to replay Order of Ecclesia, but not sure I want to go through the effort of emulation.

It's not so bad to emulate! MelonDS is definitely the way to go. If you need help getting it set up, holler at one of us!

**Selbaek** · 03-27-2024, 10:13 AM

Originally posted by The Grimace

I really wish we could get a "Castlevania DS" compilation sooner than later. I really want to replay Order of Ecclesia, but not sure I want to go through the effort of emulation.

That would be great! Though, I wonder how they'll emulate the touch screen bits... All the DS games had touch screen mechanics, didn't they?

**Random Encounter** · 03-27-2024, 11:27 AM

Originally posted by Selbaek

That would be great! Though, I wonder how they'll emulate the touch screen bits... All the DS games had touch screen mechanics, didn't they?

Only Dawn of Sorrow makes you use it for in-game mechanics. And even then you can just use a mouse for those moments, or get a hack for the game that removes the stylus requirement altogether.

**The Grimace** · 03-27-2024, 02:39 PM

Thanks for the offer, I might look into it in the future.

I think the main reason I haven't tried to emulate before now is the dual screen nature of the games. On the DS, having one screen specifically for the map was lovely, but I don't know how it would integrate to a single screen experience. I'm guessing maybe some emulators have an option to switch between screens when necessary? Because I'd rather have one screen up than both at once, on a normal monitor setup.

**Selbaek** · 03-27-2024, 03:45 PM

Originally posted by Random Encounter

Only Dawn of Sorrow makes you use it for in-game mechanics. And even then you can just use a mouse for those moments, or get a hack for the game that removes the stylus requirement altogether.

Absolutely, for the sake of emulating them a mouse is an obvious choice. I was more wondering what Konami would do officially to be able to release a compilation on multiple platforms. I don't think they would enforce the need of a mouse for console users.

I also was under the belief that Order of Ecclesia had some mandatory touch stuff, but it's been so long since I played it, maybe it wasn't mandatory.

**The Grimace** · 03-28-2024, 02:45 AM

As far as I remember,

Dawn of Sorrow: using the stylus for magic circles and to destroy ice blocks.
Portrait of Ruin: Sisters Mode. Can also use stylus to send non-dominant character around screen?
Order of Ecclesia: Nothing; maybe a soul uses the stylus, but I don't remember.