Comments on: Meta-Review: Castlevania Bloodlines – Sega Genesis

By: kevinski

kevinski — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:20:00 +0000

Castlevania: Bloodlines had better special effects, and its color palette was far superior to the predominately brownish color palette used in Super Castlevania IV. Bloodlines also utilized the rotation effects much more effectively, as the implementation of rotation in IV was lame. (Just the drawbridge and the rotation room. Woo hoo.)

The enemies in Bloodlines were more similar to those in other Castlevania games. The flying horse heads are bad enough, but Paula Abghour and Fred Askare (sp?) were just lame.

I have no gripes about the jumping controls, as it’s more realistic to not have full control over the jumps. My only real gripe with Bloodlines is with the subweapons, as they’re just boring to use.

By: D.Lo

D.Lo — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:11:00 +0000

I duuno, Bloodlines had a busted story (that ruined Castlevania’s continuity) and some really stupid enemy designs. It has some weird stuff like collecting diamons instead of hearts, like it was made by people who didn’t look very hard at the other games. It was also far too short (CV3 has 50 levels, and this has six of about the same length), and graphics far below CV4 and Rondo of Blood.

Why don’t you use a quote from this Castlevania History article:

http://palgn.com.au/article.php?id=3639

“Overall, it’s a great Mega Drive game, but because of the step down in system power, it still pales in comparison to Super Castlevania IV and Dracula X. If this game had come out between Dracula’s Curse and the SNES game, it would have been a great step between the two. As it is, it was the second step back in a row, and while not a sales disaster, The New Generation was bad PR for the series.”

By: kevinski

kevinski — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:21:00 +0000

This is easily my second-favorite Castlevania game of all-time (just after SotN, naturally). I’ll never understand what drew most people to Super Castlevania IV, since it had far less in common with other Castlevania games that any other Castlevania game.

Besides, you have to play this game just to see Dracula shoot fire out of his crotch in his final form.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:17:00 +0000

Little known fact about Castlevania: Bloodlines that I myself did not discover untill a few months ago!
There is a password that you can enter that plays one of three classic Castlevania tunes after you power up your weapon to full power!!!
Let me tell you something, hearing Bloody Tears, Vampire Killer or Beginings kick in is just about the raddest thing that you can imagine!!
Just set the sound to 73, and the music to 5. Then play both and start the game.
~alpha jammer