It always seemed really cool to me to have the UI and art design of the first level in the new game emulate it's direct prequel. SOTN and ROB are such a cool pair.

I bought the PS4 collection and was originally going to skip Rondo, because I was only interested in seeing what all the SotN hype was about. I ended up actually liking Rondo more

I'm pretty bad at old-school Castlevania, but this one and 1 are tied for my favorites in the classic style. Even though 4 gets a ton of praise, I kinda like the way Rondo handles its combat mechanics and exploration a lot better. It's so unfortunate that so many of the best PC Engine bangers like this one never left Japan. Not too surprising considering how much they botched the launch and subsequent marketing of the console over here, but it would have been amazing either way.

I just beat Rondo of Blood like a week or two ago. Loved it, probably my favorite Castlevania game! Glad to see you reviewing it!

Rondo is by far my favorite Castlevania!  Though 3 and 1 come close.

And Dracula X, if you count that as it's own. Then Bloodlines and SOTN.

I have played almost all of the Castlevania’s and this is still my favourite. Took forever to get a copy but when I did I played it non stop.

Awesome video as usual!

maria may be "easy mode" but damn is she fun to speedrun with, especially because you can zoom through the game very smoothly once you get the hang of timing her cartwheel thing without crashing into enemies and the input of the special attack

Good review as always! For some reason the way you corrected yourself when you meant to say Castlevania 3 with the text gave me a chuckle. I do really love how its one of those games that stands on its own like you said, but if you played the previous Vania games you get a slightly different perspective on things. That's the best way to do references to stuff.

One other thing I thought was interesting about Maria, while it is way easier as a whole you also have way less HP so mistakes are costly and you have to learn to make the most of her kit that has less commitment.

U need to blow up bro ur content is amazing. I love your videos so much keep the great content and sly sarcasm coming

Wonderful Rondo of Blood! I do not remember how many times I completed it....
But the best One will always be Symphony of the Night.

I started to appreciate more the linear approach of this kind of games because i feel a bit tired of the metroidvania game of remembering where i couldn't go hours ago and try to check those places to see if something i acquired works there (not always clear what a new power can open). Also the magic of acquiring something is nice for few games but then? I need to double jump, here we go after a set of stuff the double jump i need. What a coincidence. See that red door? Now i have this red attack that opens it. Maybe i played too much of these games or they don't put a bit more effort on the immersive side.
A game can be linear but let you have choices to do, still explore to a degree, offer NG+ or other gameplay elements to ramp up difficulty like different characters, new enemies or enemy placement, new equipment or bosses, maybe even new hidden or not stages that push you to go even higher with the challenge. Nowadays the linear approach is often a short experience or is the rogue like approach with randomness doing the "fun" but i miss games that give some more confined logic to analyze, repeat and so on. In a way Souls-like games try to do that in a 3D way without being just platformers or action stuff but i miss a bit of that arcade, less RPG feeling. Lately i'm checking out old stuff like Capcom AD&D titles or Wild Guns Reloaded to explore that kind of approach to the design (multiple characters, routes, things to memorize, etc), maybe even a bit too hard for me but still kinda nice because i never was good at that kind of stuff and now maybe i can appreciate it more for what it tried to do at the time :)

Sweet review

To me this is the last great if not the best Classicvania game! I was so surprised by how good it actually was. I'm not a skilled gamer by any means, but I really did appreciate the challenge that Rondo presented even when I had to restart a stage all over again after dying at the very end. As a 2D game, this holds up today by a long-shot!

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Damn good bit here

Wonderful Review of a wonderful game bravo for knocking them out one after the other, have you Played Dracula X Chronicles on the PSP? Pretty sure that's where the localisations of Rondo and Symphony of the night that were used in Requiem come from.
3D remake of Rondo of Blood it's an interesting novelty, piece to look at and it's a decent approximation.

Love this game!

What’s you favorite a Rondo of Blood track? Mine is Opus 13.

That art for Super Nintendo Dracula X is cursed as fuck.

The most anime Castlevania game is also the best one. Coincidence?
Also I would love to see you review Castlevania Bloodlines.