by prfsnl_gmr Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:18 am
I love every Mega Man game, but I haven’t yet beaten Mega Man 11, Wily Wars, or the portable games, I love the first four Mega Man X games, but I couldn’t get into Mega Man X5. I also couldn’t get into Mega Man Zero, and I haven’t given Megan Man Battle Network, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man Star Force, or Mega Man ZX a fair shake.
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1. The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary (NDS)
2. Reigns (iOS)
3. Castlevania: The Adventure (GB)
4. Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge (GB)
5. Castlevania Legends (GB)
Poor Sonia Belmont...She was supposed to be the matriarch of the legendary Belmont clan. Unfortunately, however, her game got farmed out to KCE Nagoya, was released for the original Gameboy in 1997, was produced in such small quantities that it’s now a pricey collector’s item, and was played by almost no one. She’s now been retconned out of the Castlevania seres, which is no worse for game’s absence.
Despite its price, Castlevania Legends is not a good game. It doesn’t control as poorly as Castlevania: The Adventure, but it does not control nearly as well as Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge. It is also plagued by slowdown, and the music is pretty terrible (despite a few arrangements of classic Castlevania themes). Worse, the game is simultaneously annoying, boring, and incredibly easy. The levels branch, but there is only one way through the stage. Accordingly, all of thbranches are dead ends, and you always have to backtrack (very, very slowly) to the main branch if you make a wrong turn. The level design is otherwise boring, and since you acquire sub-weapons by beating bosses, the only items you pick up from candles are single hearts. (You may find a 1up or meat very occasionally, but 99.9% of the items in the game are just...single...hearts...) The bosses move in very simple patterns and are ludicrously easy. Death apparently lost all but one of his sickles, and since Medusa is incapable of reaching the right side of the screen, just pressing the “B” button repeated is enough to put her down. As if the weren’t enough, one of the subweapons restores your life completely, and once per life, you can freely activate a mode that makes you completely invincible for a minute or two (which is more than enough time to beat any boss in the game). Although the game has the word “Castlevania” in its title, everything about it, from the gameplay, t9 the graphics, to the music, is just off, and while it’s nort the worst the series has to offer, it’s not far from it. Accordingly, Castlevania Legends is an experience that i can really only recommend to collectors and completionists.