Dude, great run and I have this in the background when working. I am absolutely in love with Castlevania and this is the best one for the NES, if not all time. Watched my older brother beat this with his friends when I was young and it still takes me back to those days every time I watch it. Just beat it myself for the first time the other day as well! Thanks again
@@scottydukes5987 it’s such a well constructed game. Often goes without mention when discussing the best games on the platform in the wake of SMB3, LoZ, MM2 etc, but it stands its ground with any of those titles.
Fun Walkthrough!! I just finished it by myself (with many save states). It was probably the hardest game I've played this year. I was pulling my hair out on some parts, especially at the third Dracula phase. The drops in FPS just really messed me up, but I'm happy I did it without a guide this time around. I'm almost compelled to play through it again with Alucard or Grant as I recruited Sypha, and didn't even meet the others, but I would tilt too much rn^^ Still a great game and one of the most beautiful NES games I have seen.
Great playthrough. There is no bad way to beat Castlevania III. As most people have observed this game has lot of neat features. Great visuals and great soundtrack.
I remember walking down the street to Woolsworth with my uncle who bought this for me when it first came out, I was so happy with it, it's possibly the best game on the NES, Top 5 for sure
Enjoyed your video, dude. This is my favorite game on the NES and I've played it so much, I even beat it recently without using any continues. That's right, no Game Overs. 😎 Here's a better way to beat Dracula - Use Sypha's Orb magic. In general, this spell completely wastes the bosses, but the tricky thing is getting to Dracula WITH it. It usually drops in the same locations as Trevor's Cross weapon, but here's the catch - there is no drop for it in the last level of the game. You have to beat the previous level and make sure Sypha has the Orb when you enter the final level (It works out though, because you can beat the previous Clone boss easily with the orb). If you get a Game Over in the last level, then you've lost the opportunity to face Dracula with it, so I recommend actually keeping your password from the previous level and start over from there if you want to try this extremely satisfying method. If you can pull it off, it's the easiest way to beat the game. Sypha's magic is OP, lol.
Yeah Syfa is the best ally it seems. My goal here was to sort of take a separate path and see if I could pull off the Trevor only run. Literally any way other than how I beat it is better.
The top path is actually a bonus route, after you get through the woods the levels until 8 where the early fork converges have a letter beside each block.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but i prefer the NES soundtrack over the extra fm channels on the famiconlm. This was also the first Castlevania i beat as a kid.
@@phantom8157 this game is so so well put together. Awesome game to claim as your first Castlevania that you cleared. I wish I knew more to weigh in on the music
@@phantom8157 VRC6 is not FM. It’s two more square wave channels and one sawtooth waveform channel. VRC7 is the FM expansion mapper, used only in a Japanese-only game: LaGrange Point.
Man.... Ive seen that grave sooo many times, but not for decades. I played the hell out of this. It felt so "advanced" ar the time, and looking back really was progressive. Multiple characters, branching paths, upgradeable weapons, multiple endings. As a kid, it was grueling to play through. If i remember correctly even the password didnt give you new continues. Think you had three. I beat it with Grant and Sypha but never with Alucard. Good times. Stupid Medusa heads. Great playthrough, subscribed!
Nate keep it going I am enjoying your videos. I bought all the Castlevania games from Konami the whole collection and I will need all the help I can get so I appreciate it!
Nice run, overseas Dracula's Curse is a pain, especially the final stage as it breaks one of the things most players are used to (pretty much) most of the other "classicvania" games (heck, even the Metroidvanias have a save station next to or close to the final boss' lair) that you start at the stairs between attempts, this one sends you back to the door checkpoint after the slow autoscroll going down or the start of the stage if you lost your last live and pick to retry the stage. Edit: Funny enough, despite the changes Konami did for the overseas version of Dracula's Curse, having the Axe is a blessing in disguise for Dracula's Phase 3... while in the original JPN version you have the cross, a subweapon that is good for all 3 Phases but for Phase 3 means to take a few risks here and there, the Axe for phase 2 is a mixed bag (well, that's almost the same for the cross) while Phase 1 can be quite useful at the right distance (not as much like the cross, but still quite good).
If this is the prequel to Castlevania maybe it is Trevor paying respect to Leon Belmont since Leon was the Belmont that helped create the Vampire killer Whip and was the first Belmont to slay vampires.
@@retronate The 1st Ps2 Castlevania game (known as Lament of Innocence) is the one that features Leon Belmont (it was also the 2nd 3D castlevania released... and yeah, I'm counting Castlevania Legacy of Darkness and N64 Castlevania as a single game... after all, Legacy of Darkness felt more like an update (like how Street Fighter 2 started from World Warrior to Champion Edition and those updates) to the vanilla N64 release than an actual new game).
I actually liked Simon's quest the best for nes trilogy (granted I had watched a playthrough once or twice to memorize it so I was still challenging my memory without the frustration of not knowing where to go exactly since everyone lies in that game lol) but when I revisited this for the collection on switch it won me over as the best in early series. Great game! ❤️
@@scottjones845 I love all of em but this one really elevated from the previous ones. Multiple playable characters and paths through the game and some truly memorable enemies and boss fights put it among the elite games on the entire console
it's kind of confessing but in Castle Vania Lord of Shadows Trevor is Simon's father. In the Netflix series is suggest that Trevor will become Simon's Father. I kind found out how their related in the original Castle Vania timeline.
For anyone with this game that wants to enjoy the music without playing the game. At the title screen while pressing a and b, press start, it should take you to sound mode. I made myself the full soundtrack of this game for long car trips. Its fun to hear good and loud in the car.
I forgot what section I got stuck at but seeing your vid makes me wanna take another go at it! Have you seen the angry video game nerd takes on the classic castlevanias? Very funny
So, i guess i can say. Trevor is actually great Grandpa to Simon. Sypha (Syfa) being great Gramma. His dad is actually Richter Belmont. Simon is the Fifth Generation of Belmonts. The first two being Leon and Hector Belmont (in PS2 games). Technically this is the third encounter but the second defeat to Dracula. But i remember playing this in my Game Room when i was in college. Someone brought their hacked Wii and could play it. I really liked this game. I don't think i actually beat it, though. I watched someone do it. And i love whipping that wall meat. Makes me hurt thinking of the implication. Heh
@@retronateI'm aware it does sound like an "Um, acktuallll*clears throat of junk*ly-" post, but I just wanted to make that correction. And clarification. But I won't let that "Whip that wall meat" phase slide. Heh
@@retronate I have to correct myself again. I forgot Christopher Belmont (one of the comments mentioned him) because I never played the Gameboy Castlevania. So, Trevor is Simon's great-great grandpa as Trevor was Christopher's dad, who was Soliel's dad. So, by my corrected research, Simon is Richter's great grandpa. I'm not a professional at any point, can you tell? I just know what I know. Like Castlevania Bloodlines or The New Generation as the PAL version is called. Where there isn't a Belmont by blood but two people related to the Belmonts. I still find myself correcting some things sometimes. And even then I will find some things wrong after questioning myself so many times. Hector never being a Belmont, Trevor being the second Generation, Christopher being the third Generation, Richter is a desendant of Simon Belmont. it all blurs together when you don't pay attention. I love the series, but the family tree is more vines. It feels. Heh
I didn't have any handhelds growing up either. I got a psp as an adult. Yeah the game is very good. It's a remake of a tales of title for the ps1. I've been in love with the tales series for several years. It's a very good jrpg series
The only fool proof ways to beat the doppleganger is with the holy water and the cross, what you want to do with the cross is stay above him and wait to see what he does, when he jumps at you you can get up to three whip hits in on him, if he goes to throw crosses throw them as well then start swinging the whip when he jumps and the crosses and your whip will all hit him then try to jump over him and repeat. If you’ve got full health you can beat him with just a double shot.
@@ontheruntips7242 I’m am ashamed and disgraced lol. Best I had was whipping as the doppelgänger jumped up but it’s so unreliable. Only did it once in practice
@@retronate Oh boy, wait till you get to Dracula X, beautiful game, excellent music. However you dont have the control of the whip like you do in Super Castlevania 4, overall its a much harder, but I bet you'll love it. Looking forward to you playing it.
Hey, so you mentioned a future expansion to SNES and Genesis... any chance of going more deeply retro for Atari games? The 800 was my first system and there are at least several games I would love to see your take on. :)
@@lishd oh wow…Atari 2600 I have some familiarity with, maybe at some point I could feature a few of those? Many of them just loop instead of having a start and finish.
@@retronate Yeah the 2600 was more of a toy; the 800 was an actual computer system. Have a look at The Return of Heracles, Gemstone Warrior, and Gemstone Healer (the sequel to Gemstone Warrior which I've never seen the end of 😜). I bet you could win them all... 😏
no one seems to use sub weapons on candles for faster double and triples for the subs i swear lol. basically you have to wipe out so many candles or enemies for it to drop, you can max a sub weapon fast that way and there is too many hearts not to in this game
@@phantom8157 right i just rarely see it in youtube videos outside of speedrunners, like i watched a UCBVG video the other day which was really in depth and he didn't do it either lol
The only way I could beat the game is with Sypha using the thunder spell... That or playing the Japanese version which is superior because it's tough yet still fair.
She certainly makes it much easier. The ice spell is great for so many enemies and that thunder spell has homing capabilities making several bosses easy to damage at no risk.
@@slohand8034 that was courtesy of a community member on tonight’s stream. Hope you enjoy! You’ll get advanced ad free access to the all videos posted this month, and some emojis and a membership badge to boot!
I need Sypha to beat this game. It isn't Dracula that's the problem for me. It's the doppelganger the level before. Can you beat Trevor's doppelganger without Holy Water? Now that I have seen it, it's cake, but Holy Water is always the answer in Castlevania 1 and 3.
@@pallas29 I cannot consistently. The only technique I’ve used is similar to the holy water - but whip a few times as the boss jumps up…then retreat to the higher platform. Same thing as he jumps up to that platform. Then jump over the doppelgänger, down to the middle of the room and repeat on the other side. It’s not easy and very inconsistent
@@KornPop96 since you can use Trevor no matter what, doing so without taking on an ally leaving yourself the option to use them for certain parts truly is silly though.
@@retronate sipha's magic is helpful at times, but idk. I usually just stick with Trevor. I already know how to get past every screen with him so he's my go-to. Besides it doesn't feel like Castlevania without the whip 😂.
“A-liu-card”? Isn’t it just Aloocard? Read it backwards and Dracula also doesn’t have an ‘i’. So yeah, owned this game as a young adult and beat it every which way. Although I think you used a clickbait title, you do choose a fun route.
@@roberthunter479 I really do try to create intrigue while not deceiving with my titles. It’s so hard to walk a line that both catches attention and delivers on the promise made by a title or thumbnail. I continue to try to find that balance. It very well could be Aloocard. I’m notoriously horrible at both pronunciation and even remembering the names of characters and enemies in these games.
@@MikeS-y1l I really enjoyed 2 for the most part. Anticlimactic finish though. 3 really brings in some unique elements with the allies and varied paths. Music is on point and some great level design
U are my new U Can Beat Videogame channel, wonder what happened to that channel? I know Nintendo is getting more greedy and dont like youtubers having channels like this one.
Hope not! Irony is Nintendo uses emulation version of their games, when they sell them at their online store...hahahaha, but they dont like people playing emulation games. I havent bought one single Nintendo game in about 30 years...hihihi!
Unpopular opinion but Castlevania 3 was my least favorite Castlevania game of the main titles (not Gameboy). I found the difficulty to be cheap at times rather than skill based. Preferred 1, 2, 4, and Bloodlines over it.
@@volbound1700 what do you mean by cheap at times? I’m interested in that perspective because looking back this probably was the easiest of the 3. Idk if that’s because of learning the mechanics in 1?
@@retronate frustration use of stairs making it impossible to attack enemies, hunchbacks, jellyfish kind of things that split, the spikes with Alucard, etc. It has been a while since I played it but it just seemed like the game was just out to get you. Simon's Quest was a lot easier. Castlevania had parts (Medusa head hallway leading to Death). Issue with both Castlevania 1 (in 1-2 areas) and 3 throughout is just not having enough health powerups as well.
@@volbound1700 ah I see. There were certainly spots that were designed in a more dastardly way. I didn’t necessarily feel that way on health - I felt like there was one per level in a pretty reasonable spot most of the time. Those flea men did seem more over caffeinated in this installment though…
@@retronate I have died a lot more from hits than falls interesting. It seems to be more attrition issues. Not a certain area but just a hit in one area, hit in next area, etc.
this is was first game i beat after i retuern to reto games a year ago since i stop playing since 1993 ! im a sega gensis guy but i play NES and SNES as well but still my love to sega since in fiji and east asia and some part of the world people more into sega at that time and usa they were only playing snes ! since i daily nowadays spend 2 or 3 hours beating games one of the games of sega gensis that i would say its like a zelda of sega gensis ((Tōgi Ō: King Colossus ((us english verision) )) this game the play is similar to zelda and tropical island and the story is away better its catch me since a week i play it ! i wish you try it give 30 mints and you will find your self deep with it i wish i hear ur review on it its really amazing i still finished 10 hours and yet didnt finish it such amazing game the fight and boses and the story line its a mix of zelda and tropical island of nes ..
@@retronate i cant wait to see your review about it its a hidden treausre its hard with puzzels i didnt cheat since i dont like to cheat and im glad so far 14 hours still playing ! i love how it looks like zelda and star tropics of nes and story very strong !
Dude, great run and I have this in the background when working. I am absolutely in love with Castlevania and this is the best one for the NES, if not all time. Watched my older brother beat this with his friends when I was young and it still takes me back to those days every time I watch it. Just beat it myself for the first time the other day as well! Thanks again
@@scottydukes5987 it’s such a well constructed game. Often goes without mention when discussing the best games on the platform in the wake of SMB3, LoZ, MM2 etc, but it stands its ground with any of those titles.
Fun Walkthrough!! I just finished it by myself (with many save states). It was probably the hardest game I've played this year. I was pulling my hair out on some parts, especially at the third Dracula phase. The drops in FPS just really messed me up, but I'm happy I did it without a guide this time around. I'm almost compelled to play through it again with Alucard or Grant as I recruited Sypha, and didn't even meet the others, but I would tilt too much rn^^ Still a great game and one of the most beautiful NES games I have seen.
@@flekeinssiebeneins2790 great assessment. The grant/alucard paths are cool. I prefer that path when I play it too. But I agree, beautiful game
Keep it up. Love your walkthroughs and your style. You do it professionally and articulately without the foul language
@@hatca81 thanks a lot! Much appreciated. Many more games to go!
Bird words??
@@godagon97 is this a crossword puzzle clue?
@ No I didn’t write fowl🤦🏻♂️
@@hatca81 hahahaha took me til now but I got it
Great channel my friend. Informative, concise, and entertaining.
@@granpastreetz glad you enjoyed!
Great playthrough. There is no bad way to beat Castlevania III. As most people have observed this game has lot of neat features. Great visuals and great soundtrack.
Such a complete game with great replay value. Love the lore, the level design, soundtrack. Game has it all.
I remember walking down the street to Woolsworth with my uncle who bought this for me when it first came out, I was so happy with it, it's possibly the best game on the NES, Top 5 for sure
@@vchill79 I’m doing a series where I rank these games after I complete them. This one will be on that list soon. Top 5 may indeed be right
Enjoyed your video, dude. This is my favorite game on the NES and I've played it so much, I even beat it recently without using any continues. That's right, no Game Overs. 😎
Here's a better way to beat Dracula - Use Sypha's Orb magic. In general, this spell completely wastes the bosses, but the tricky thing is getting to Dracula WITH it. It usually drops in the same locations as Trevor's Cross weapon, but here's the catch - there is no drop for it in the last level of the game. You have to beat the previous level and make sure Sypha has the Orb when you enter the final level (It works out though, because you can beat the previous Clone boss easily with the orb). If you get a Game Over in the last level, then you've lost the opportunity to face Dracula with it, so I recommend actually keeping your password from the previous level and start over from there if you want to try this extremely satisfying method. If you can pull it off, it's the easiest way to beat the game. Sypha's magic is OP, lol.
Yeah Syfa is the best ally it seems. My goal here was to sort of take a separate path and see if I could pull off the Trevor only run. Literally any way other than how I beat it is better.
43:00 Use secondary weapons to earn double/triple shot bonus. After ten hits with it, the next candle you hit with it will drop a double or triple.
@@zerobyte802 ah didn’t realize it was every 10. Since the end of the level has the free double, I never really farm those
Candles or enemies
@@granpastreetz either one counts. And it’s hits, not uses. If you hit 3 candles with one boomerang, that’s 3 towards a double.
The top path is actually a bonus route, after you get through the woods the levels until 8 where the early fork converges have a letter beside each block.
@@jaredt2590 ah ok. I’ve seen that in other runs where I’ve taken them. Thanks!
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but i prefer the NES soundtrack over the extra fm channels on the famiconlm. This was also the first Castlevania i beat as a kid.
@@phantom8157 this game is so so well put together. Awesome game to claim as your first Castlevania that you cleared.
I wish I knew more to weigh in on the music
@@phantom8157 VRC6 is not FM. It’s two more square wave channels and one sawtooth waveform channel.
VRC7 is the FM expansion mapper, used only in a Japanese-only game: LaGrange Point.
But I kind of prefer the NES version too, but the Famicom version is def awesome too.
Sup this game was absolutely amazing
@@XAlucardmoonX it’s easily my favorite game of the series on the NES. Elite game construction
Man.... Ive seen that grave sooo many times, but not for decades. I played the hell out of this. It felt so "advanced" ar the time, and looking back really was progressive. Multiple characters, branching paths, upgradeable weapons, multiple endings. As a kid, it was grueling to play through. If i remember correctly even the password didnt give you new continues. Think you had three.
I beat it with Grant and Sypha but never with Alucard. Good times. Stupid Medusa heads.
Great playthrough, subscribed!
So glad you enjoyed! Medusa heads are the WORST. The plan is to cover all of the NES games at some point so saddle up partner. 😉
Nate keep it going I am enjoying your videos. I bought all the Castlevania games from Konami the whole collection and I will need all the help I can get so I appreciate it!
@@mortal1501 glad to hear it! This is such an awesome series and well worth experiencing fully.
Nice run, overseas Dracula's Curse is a pain, especially the final stage as it breaks one of the things most players are used to (pretty much) most of the other "classicvania" games (heck, even the Metroidvanias have a save station next to or close to the final boss' lair) that you start at the stairs between attempts, this one sends you back to the door checkpoint after the slow autoscroll going down or the start of the stage if you lost your last live and pick to retry the stage.
Edit: Funny enough, despite the changes Konami did for the overseas version of Dracula's Curse, having the Axe is a blessing in disguise for Dracula's Phase 3... while in the original JPN version you have the cross, a subweapon that is good for all 3 Phases but for Phase 3 means to take a few risks here and there, the Axe for phase 2 is a mixed bag (well, that's almost the same for the cross) while Phase 1 can be quite useful at the right distance (not as much like the cross, but still quite good).
@@PikangsFutaba yeah the axe proves its worth certainly in phase 3 but is usable in the others.
Downside to skipping the clock tower is missing the the stand out music score, though ofc I enjoy the funky forest theme any day, too. :D
@@aceofdatabase clock tower music is SO good. Great call there. Also the first intro to those clock tower pendulums to get their mechanics
My favorite Castlevania. The Japanese ost is beyond amazing. What a masterpiece of a game.
@@JeremyNoblitt I’ve only played the three on NES and it’s my favorite as well. Wonderfully executed.
1:02:00 not a chair, that is his coffin. However, from perspective it resembles a throne.
@@techmaester wow no kidding! Makes sense now that you say it
Love the Major League reference @20:50. Part 2 I think actually.
@@anthonywarfield7348 a man of taste and culture. Part 2 indeed.
Nice MAJOR LEAGUE reference! Bob Uecker is a gem.
@@Theou_Aegis to be technical, major league 2. But t that’s my favorite sport movie of all time
Y'all should listen to Artie Lange's Bob Uecker story. The most entertaining story I've ever heard
@granpastreetz I'll check it out. Thanks mate.
If this is the prequel to Castlevania maybe it is Trevor paying respect to Leon Belmont since Leon was the Belmont that helped create the Vampire killer Whip and was the first Belmont to slay vampires.
@@joshs1803 is Leon featured in a future game? These are the only three I’ve played in the series
@@retronate The 1st Ps2 Castlevania game (known as Lament of Innocence) is the one that features Leon Belmont (it was also the 2nd 3D castlevania released... and yeah, I'm counting Castlevania Legacy of Darkness and N64 Castlevania as a single game... after all, Legacy of Darkness felt more like an update (like how Street Fighter 2 started from World Warrior to Champion Edition and those updates) to the vanilla N64 release than an actual new game).
@@PikangsFutaba this comment section is confirmation I need to perhaps do a video just about Castlevania lore
@retronate Castlevania lament of innocence was a game released on ps2 and it's considered to be lore wise the start of the Belmont clans missions
@@joshs1803 ah good to know. Lots of this for me to learn
I actually liked Simon's quest the best for nes trilogy (granted I had watched a playthrough once or twice to memorize it so I was still challenging my memory without the frustration of not knowing where to go exactly since everyone lies in that game lol) but when I revisited this for the collection on switch it won me over as the best in early series. Great game! ❤️
@@scottjones845 I love all of em but this one really elevated from the previous ones. Multiple playable characters and paths through the game and some truly memorable enemies and boss fights put it among the elite games on the entire console
Great run!
@@ZeklorWGD thanks! Stage 9 is tricky and did me in there but managed to lick my wounds and get through.
Form 2 is Legion, form 3 Pazuzu, iirc.
@@Bulleta appreciate that. I’m the worst with names. Legion is so well drawn and creepy
Holy another game I didn't finish, thanks man.
@@PSNTheSunsRay this one is so stinkin good. Incredibly executed.
it's kind of confessing but in Castle Vania Lord of Shadows Trevor is Simon's father. In the Netflix series is suggest that Trevor will become Simon's Father. I kind found out how their related in the original Castle Vania timeline.
@@Mrx35ful the lore for this series is pretty detailed. I’m gonna have to do a deep dive at some point
For anyone with this game that wants to enjoy the music without playing the game.
At the title screen while pressing a and b, press start, it should take you to sound mode. I made myself the full soundtrack of this game for long car trips. Its fun to hear good and loud in the car.
It is such a solid soundtrack through and through. Not a weak track to be found
Use your secondary weapon to hit the candles/torches and you will get 2x 3x upgrades much faster.
@@kevinrempel4059 yeah I get too comfy w the whip and miss out on those. Good call
I forgot what section I got stuck at but seeing your vid makes me wanna take another go at it!
Have you seen the angry video game nerd takes on the classic castlevanias? Very funny
@@lazysmurf7168 I have to catch up on his stuff. Admittedly don’t watch a ton but what I’ve seen is really funny
So, i guess i can say. Trevor is actually great Grandpa to Simon. Sypha (Syfa) being great Gramma. His dad is actually Richter Belmont. Simon is the Fifth Generation of Belmonts. The first two being Leon and Hector Belmont (in PS2 games). Technically this is the third encounter but the second defeat to Dracula. But i remember playing this in my Game Room when i was in college. Someone brought their hacked Wii and could play it. I really liked this game. I don't think i actually beat it, though. I watched someone do it. And i love whipping that wall meat. Makes me hurt thinking of the implication. Heh
@@MegamanXV0 hahahaha….this is very helpful for me as I’m clearly woefully deficient in my Castlevania lore.
@@retronateI'm aware it does sound like an "Um, acktuallll*clears throat of junk*ly-" post, but I just wanted to make that correction. And clarification. But I won't let that "Whip that wall meat" phase slide. Heh
@@MegamanXV0 not at all and I appreciate it! I love hearing all this stuff that I didn’t know before. I rely on you guys to teach me lol
@@retronate I have to correct myself again. I forgot Christopher Belmont (one of the comments mentioned him) because I never played the Gameboy Castlevania. So, Trevor is Simon's great-great grandpa as Trevor was Christopher's dad, who was Soliel's dad. So, by my corrected research, Simon is Richter's great grandpa. I'm not a professional at any point, can you tell? I just know what I know. Like Castlevania Bloodlines or The New Generation as the PAL version is called. Where there isn't a Belmont by blood but two people related to the Belmonts.
I still find myself correcting some things sometimes. And even then I will find some things wrong after questioning myself so many times. Hector never being a Belmont, Trevor being the second Generation, Christopher being the third Generation, Richter is a desendant of Simon Belmont. it all blurs together when you don't pay attention.
I love the series, but the family tree is more vines. It feels. Heh
@@MegamanXV0 we need one of those conspiracy theory boards with string and thumbtacks to follow this story lol.
Castlevania 3 is an amazing game. The best castlevania on the nes. I love retro games. Right now i'm playing tales of eternia on the psp.
@@miasma82 never had any handhelds growing up, but PSP wouldn’t have been available til I was a bit older. Any good?
I didn't have any handhelds growing up either. I got a psp as an adult. Yeah the game is very good. It's a remake of a tales of title for the ps1. I've been in love with the tales series for several years. It's a very good jrpg series
@@miasma82 very nice! I’m sure I’m woefully deficient in my jrpg knowledge, but I do enjoy them a lot.
Aww you referenced my Tossing Femurs indie band ☺ I'm touched 😁
@@lishd hahahaha can’t see those any other way now.
maybe i missed it, but did you explain how to get 2-3x multiplier on the candles? believe its every 5 but not 100% sure.
@@NecDK I wasn’t sure the exact number…I just mentioned that using a secondary weapon will eventually generate the multipliers
I hope Toe Jam 'n Earl is your first SEGA video. 🍻🤣❤️🔥
I LOVE toe Jam and Earl. Goal is to get through at least 10 genesis games in 2025. That one makes a strong case
The only fool proof ways to beat the doppleganger is with the holy water and the cross, what you want to do with the cross is stay above him and wait to see what he does, when he jumps at you you can get up to three whip hits in on him, if he goes to throw crosses throw them as well then start swinging the whip when he jumps and the crosses and your whip will all hit him then try to jump over him and repeat. If you’ve got full health you can beat him with just a double shot.
@@jaredt2590 oh wow great strat. The cross technique I didn’t know so thank you. I can visualize what you’re saying lol
Nate, I'm very disappointed that you didn't even try 9-4 without the holy water. I had faith you could figure it out and win. 😢
@@ontheruntips7242 I’m am ashamed and disgraced lol. Best I had was whipping as the doppelgänger jumped up but it’s so unreliable. Only did it once in practice
Love the Major League 2 line lol
An all time fave
Once again taking the “True O.G.” route in the game. Very nice, Nate! 👍
@@ddg-dojodestroyergaming3682 True OG….Stupid….potato potahto lol
I'm currently trying to beat my favorite Castlevania, Dracula X. Game is such a pain, I love it lol
I’ve never played this one. In fact this marks the end of my Castlevania knowledge. The rest I’ll be playing for the first time when I get to them.
@@retronate Oh boy, wait till you get to Dracula X, beautiful game, excellent music. However you dont have the control of the whip like you do in Super Castlevania 4, overall its a much harder, but I bet you'll love it. Looking forward to you playing it.
@@voxtek this series is so captivating. Love em
Hey, so you mentioned a future expansion to SNES and Genesis... any chance of going more deeply retro for Atari games? The 800 was my first system and there are at least several games I would love to see your take on. :)
@@lishd oh wow…Atari 2600 I have some familiarity with, maybe at some point I could feature a few of those? Many of them just loop instead of having a start and finish.
@@retronate Yeah the 2600 was more of a toy; the 800 was an actual computer system. Have a look at The Return of Heracles, Gemstone Warrior, and Gemstone Healer (the sequel to Gemstone Warrior which I've never seen the end of 😜). I bet you could win them all... 😏
@@lishd so many games and so little time lol
@@retronate oh no, a permanent stream of enjoyable content for your increasingly popular channel, I feel so sorry for you 😂
@@lishd you gotta convince my wife!
no one seems to use sub weapons on candles for faster double and triples for the subs i swear lol. basically you have to wipe out so many candles or enemies for it to drop, you can max a sub weapon fast that way and there is too many hearts not to in this game
It’s totally a blind spot of mine. I only do it later in the run - maybe level 9
@@yeolemillinial8295 That's strange. That's how I've always done it. I think I learned that from Nintendo Power
@@phantom8157 right i just rarely see it in youtube videos outside of speedrunners, like i watched a UCBVG video the other day which was really in depth and he didn't do it either lol
Yeah, I always do it but I just run the game casually.
@@Bulleta same
I didn't know that was a grave at the beginning. I thought it was like a church and Trevor was praying before going out on his quest.
@@MegaCartmanX I saw the coffin and assumed? Maybe it’s not and you might be right. I need someone smarter than me to tell me lol
I love playing Castlevania 3 Dracula's...Quest?
Hahaha…it took like 5 seconds for me to screw up.
The only way I could beat the game is with Sypha using the thunder spell... That or playing the Japanese version which is superior because it's tough yet still fair.
She certainly makes it much easier. The ice spell is great for so many enemies and that thunder spell has homing capabilities making several bosses easy to damage at no risk.
I got fairly far into this one, but I couldn't ever beat it. Cheers!
It’s among my favorites on the console. Replay value through the roof. One more game in the books!
Damn! Your singing voice is amazing 😮
@@Rhyndrop very kind of you! I did sing in a band once upon a time
Thank you for the gifted membership
@@slohand8034 that was courtesy of a community member on tonight’s stream. Hope you enjoy! You’ll get advanced ad free access to the all videos posted this month, and some emojis and a membership badge to boot!
Fighting the mummies isn’t bad, you want to duck and focus on the side you need to go and get them all on the other side.
@@jaredt2590 which mummies? Boss or the endless spawn one’s?
The endless spawning, the boss you want to use double or triple holy water or cross.
@ I gotcha.
I need Sypha to beat this game.
It isn't Dracula that's the problem for me. It's the doppelganger the level before. Can you beat Trevor's doppelganger without Holy Water? Now that I have seen it, it's cake, but Holy Water is always the answer in Castlevania 1 and 3.
@@pallas29 I cannot consistently. The only technique I’ve used is similar to the holy water - but whip a few times as the boss jumps up…then retreat to the higher platform. Same thing as he jumps up to that platform. Then jump over the doppelgänger, down to the middle of the room and repeat on the other side.
It’s not easy and very inconsistent
There was the cross & wall meat at the wall
@@Gambit2149 I missed wall meat??? That’s my favorite protein!!!
The left side have the wall meat(in the first block on top)
@@Gambit2149 I’m not sure which wall you’re referring to but I’m not disagreeing with you. There were a few spots I’m sure I left wall meat uneaten
@retronate Alucard stage(the walking flame man, the wall with the candle, the bottom block is the wall meat)
@ ahhh I see. Good call
Trevor is Simon's grandfather or Great-Grandfather, I believe.
@@TheHeartlessAlchemist yes another commenter correct me on that. There is so much lore I’m not familiar with. I’d do well to read up on all of it
Simon's great-grandfather is Christopher Belmont .
And Christopher is the grandson of Trevor Belmont .
Can't wait for clash at demonhead! :)
My cousin has referenced this one A TON. Glad to know there’s another fan out there to validate his take lol.
@@retronate Clash was anti-game genie back in the day. :) I love that!
@@xmurfd a true warrior standing firm in the battle against soft gamers who enlisted the help of a giant bully. I respect the hell outta that!
I played this like on release and when I fought alucard I thought for a while it was dracula.yes I'm extremely aged
@@meeiclonn5486 we all did! By that point we’d struggled and thought we’d finally reached the end. We had an entire half of a game yet to go!
symphony of the night no damage run next :P
@@JunkieVirus you’re a sick man ya know that???
@@retronateno no sir my flu is gone since yesterday 😕
Nice Major League reference 😂
@@blakeshawke1934 the most quotable sports movie of all time (imo). If you watch long enough you’re bound to hear a few of those come out lol
Do Dr. Chaos next
@@nickpapagiorgio2253 someone else mentioned this to me recently as well.
Why is there more than one Dracula final boss form in the Castlevania series? There's no reason for there to be.
@@neilpotsch1023 good question…maybe just a game creator’s license to add some suspense? Not really sure
I usually only use Trevor. I think it's easier that way.
@@KornPop96 since you can use Trevor no matter what, doing so without taking on an ally leaving yourself the option to use them for certain parts truly is silly though.
@@retronate sipha's magic is helpful at times, but idk. I usually just stick with Trevor. I already know how to get past every screen with him so he's my go-to. Besides it doesn't feel like Castlevania without the whip 😂.
@@KornPop96 great point
Trevor is grandfather.
@@donaldporr9682 yeah another commenter let me know that as well. Lots of lore I’m unfamiliar with.
Aw, but the sunken city is much harder for Trevor solo. Sadface....
@@kamikaze9699 that’s the one with that dragon and water that keeps rising as you play it? I have to still brush up my technique on that
@@retronate Yep. Really enjoyed it with Sypha on a 2nd playthrough (can also start with her using name URATA)
“A-liu-card”? Isn’t it just Aloocard? Read it backwards and Dracula also doesn’t have an ‘i’. So yeah, owned this game as a young adult and beat it every which way. Although I think you used a clickbait title, you do choose a fun route.
@@roberthunter479 I really do try to create intrigue while not deceiving with my titles. It’s so hard to walk a line that both catches attention and delivers on the promise made by a title or thumbnail. I continue to try to find that balance.
It very well could be Aloocard. I’m notoriously horrible at both pronunciation and even remembering the names of characters and enemies in these games.
I did that 30 years ago
@@Shane-fd5es you animal!
Ugh, I got to give Castlevania & Castlevania 3 a try again. I was a Castlevania 2 guy, and didn't like the gameplay of 1 & 3 when I was a kid.
@@MikeS-y1l I really enjoyed 2 for the most part. Anticlimactic finish though. 3 really brings in some unique elements with the allies and varied paths. Music is on point and some great level design
U are my new U Can Beat Videogame channel, wonder what happened to that channel? I know Nintendo is getting more greedy and dont like youtubers having channels like this one.
You’re the second person to tell me this…if I get a cease and desist letter I’m framing it lol
Hope not! Irony is Nintendo uses emulation version of their games, when they sell them at their online store...hahahaha, but they dont like people playing emulation games. I havent bought one single Nintendo game in about 30 years...hihihi!
Who can afford them nowadays???
Hardcore fans who take loans :D
@@urbanstad7353 yeah that’s about it lol
Unpopular opinion but Castlevania 3 was my least favorite Castlevania game of the main titles (not Gameboy). I found the difficulty to be cheap at times rather than skill based. Preferred 1, 2, 4, and Bloodlines over it.
@@volbound1700 what do you mean by cheap at times? I’m interested in that perspective because looking back this probably was the easiest of the 3. Idk if that’s because of learning the mechanics in 1?
@@retronate frustration use of stairs making it impossible to attack enemies, hunchbacks, jellyfish kind of things that split, the spikes with Alucard, etc. It has been a while since I played it but it just seemed like the game was just out to get you. Simon's Quest was a lot easier. Castlevania had parts (Medusa head hallway leading to Death). Issue with both Castlevania 1 (in 1-2 areas) and 3 throughout is just not having enough health powerups as well.
@@volbound1700 ah I see. There were certainly spots that were designed in a more dastardly way. I didn’t necessarily feel that way on health - I felt like there was one per level in a pretty reasonable spot most of the time.
Those flea men did seem more over caffeinated in this installment though…
@@retronate I have died a lot more from hits than falls interesting. It seems to be more attrition issues. Not a certain area but just a hit in one area, hit in next area, etc.
If it hasn't been said enter your name as helped for 10 lives
Literally the string “yourname”? I know there were a couple others you could use to get allies right away as well
❤😊
It’s a beautiful game
i Have a Secret Video of Castlevania 2
@@PrivateOGITH I did cover that one earlier on the channel as well. I found I’m in the minority of folks who seem to enjoy that one
@@retronate - i Made a Video of Secrets on That Game not even you Know About...
@ this isn’t the way man.
@@retronate - its Something That Only a Handful of People Seen...
@ I’m happy for you
this is was first game i beat after i retuern to reto games a year ago since i stop playing since 1993 ! im a sega gensis guy but i play NES and SNES as well but still my love to sega since in fiji and east asia and some part of the world people more into sega at that time and usa they were only playing snes ! since i daily nowadays spend 2 or 3 hours beating games one of the games of sega gensis that i would say its like a zelda of sega gensis ((Tōgi Ō: King Colossus ((us english verision) )) this game the play is similar to zelda and tropical island and the story is away better its catch me since a week i play it ! i wish you try it give 30 mints and you will find your self deep with it i wish i hear ur review on it its really amazing i still finished 10 hours and yet didnt finish it such amazing game the fight and boses and the story line its a mix of zelda and tropical island of nes ..
Wow sounds very interesting and I’ve never heard of it. I’ll give it a look Marcos. Hope all is well in Fiji!
@@retronate i cant wait to see your review about it its a hidden treausre its hard with puzzels i didnt cheat since i dont like to cheat and im glad so far 14 hours still playing ! i love how it looks like zelda and star tropics of nes and story very strong !