Fun fact! In the second GBA Castlevania, 'Harmony of Disonance', you can upgrade your whip by switching out various equip-able stones, and there's one that lets you shoot out fireballs. It's called the "Christopher Stone", after Christopher Belmont, protagonist of Castlevania The Adventure.
2 years later, but it's kinda silly to say Symphony of the Night is the game they kept recycling sprites from when a huge chunk of that game's assets were lifted straight from Rondo of Blood.
Thank you. I'm happy someone dropped this tidbit there I recently got into the series and played the real TGX16 Rondo of Blood right before SotN, so when I heard them crediting the latter I lifted an eyebrow
in vidoegames where you find meat in the wall it means the meat crawled into the wall and cooked itself for you just before you needed it. Because it's psychic meat too, pretty sure there is a pokemon that does this too.
"I want a sawblade room. Also, make me a saw with some super conductive properties on each of its segments that allows it to repel and attract its blades on its own accord. That'll be so sick..... The ladies will love that shit." -Dracula to his architect.
Liam: "Konami release that (Castlevania: adventure) on the E-shop, because I guess they hate people " oh how funny we use to think that was the extent of Konami giving its customers the middle finger ^^;
I've logged more hours in Portrait of Ruin than any other Castlevania. It was huge, amazing, looked and sounded great, had a ton of everything in it. Definitely the best of the DS games, at least.
MigBird In your opinion yes, in my opinion no. In the end all opinion. In my opinion I really can't wait for the lords franchise to die out and the original timeline to return.
SlipperTroll it was an interesting game not perfect, but if it kept the mechanics but added the lords production value, they would be cooking with fire. Also that games music were so damn good.
Oh.... Oh, holy shit. Dark Souls (at least Dark Souls 1) is just a really good 3D Castlevania. I never thought of it that way before, but it's pretty accurate.
"Dude the Amazon Rainforest has less bugs than Unreal 3- *BAM*"Nice one Liam! As for a 2D Castlevania for Liam, I'd recommend Touhouvania's sequel. SOTN style but plays like the old 4 and plenty of moe girls in a dumb plot.
I cannot get over the ancient stock sound effect they use for the bone throwing skeletons in this game. It's the same one from 60s Hanna Barbara cartoons.
2:26 All made up of bone Shaped like a man Skeleton feet, and skeleton hands He has calcium strength at his command Skeleton Man, Skeleton Man, So he's just a regular man?
Mareepu Then they raped the corpse of it with the HD collection. They have asked Hideo Kojima to direct an instalment using the FOX engine so there may be a glimmer of hope for the series if anything comes of it.
Game2590 Have they actually asked him? All I've seen is him saying in interview he'd be interested to do it. Then again, he's the vice president of the games division so... It'll pretty much happen whenever he decides.
CantabileGamingHD Yeah they asked him to do one at some point, that's how him saying he'd like to do it came about, either directing or at least contributing with the FOX engine, I'm guessing he'll be looking in to it more once he's done with Phantom Pain.
Wow, they actually name-dropped One Must Fall 2097, that game was awesome. It reminds me of the days when I used to receive those software catalogs in the mail from Software Labs for shareware. It would be awesome if they did more older PC games like Commander Keen, OMF 2097, Monster Bash, and Little Big Adventure 1 or 2, although I can understand if they don't. The 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' playthrough was a pleasant surprise and I hope they pull off another.
"Did you know there's a skeleton in your body right now? AND HE WANTS OUT!" GEEES that's the creepiest thing I've heard in a while, and I went ahead and thought about this phrase for like 2 minutes just damage-over-time losing my jimmies to rustles, lol.
I scared my cats when I shouted in triumph right along with you guys as you finally found the elusive wall meat! Nice to know this is available on the eShop; I haven't played it since the Game Boy, only watched footage. That classic cartoon sound effect that's being used for the bone throws is very distracting and out of place though. More Bestfriendvania please. :)
Speaking of Dark Souls, there is an item in game called the Old Whip which does increased damage to hollows, I'm fairly sure that it is paying homage to the Vampire Killer from Castlevania.
I had the GameBoy version when I was a kid. That game is totally unforgiving. It wouldn't had been so bad if the jumping was shit. I made it to the last level ONCE and gave up.
At some point, you guys should get Woolie and Pat to join you guys and play Harmony of Despair (XBLA/PSN). 4-Player Castlevania game. It should be fun to watch. ^_^
the game actually saves when you quit it but if you have beaten a stage or more... hold right on the game start selection and you can select the stage. Its different if you select it on a different difficulty setting. Lets say you beat it in normal and change the difficulty setting. That setting wont have a stage select unless you beaten some stages on it. Its like different save files. Another thing, it wont save on a checkpoint. If you select a stage that you were on the last time you played... you will start at the beginning of that stage.
Circle of the Moon was my favorite Castlevania game(I didn't play SoTN till last year by then it was kinda spoiled for me by knowing to much and I over leveled a lot...). I must played through it 5 or six times to 100% completion(minus a few pieces of armor and whatnot). Weird I hardly remember it at this point... but I do remember the magic system and being able to twirl the whip in a circle to fend off the weak enemies as well as keeping out of reach from some stronger enemies being able to lame it out till they died. :)
I never heard of or played this game before this video, but if Konami was aiming to recapture the feel of their late 80's / early 90's games, then well done. The soundtrack sounds EXACTLY like something they would've done for an arcade game around the time of Lethal Enforcers, G.I. Joe, Sunset Riders, X-Men or Haunted Castle. I guess it's mostly the overuse of "orchestra hit" and FM-synth style instruments, but it's perfect. :)
Fun fact! In the second GBA Castlevania, 'Harmony of Disonance', you can upgrade your whip by switching out various equip-able stones, and there's one that lets you shoot out fireballs. It's called the "Christopher Stone", after Christopher Belmont, protagonist of Castlevania The Adventure.
"This'll stop dem Belmonts!...Welp time to watch Duck Dynasty"
- Dracula
He wasn't wrong!
Christopher Belmont: "I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I got crushed to death at Dracula's big dumb castle"
2 years later, but it's kinda silly to say Symphony of the Night is the game they kept recycling sprites from when a huge chunk of that game's assets were lifted straight from Rondo of Blood.
Thank you. I'm happy someone dropped this tidbit there
I recently got into the series and played the real TGX16 Rondo of Blood right before SotN, so when I heard them crediting the latter I lifted an eyebrow
"Suck the air out of that meat stick"
- Matt, 2014
that's one for the fan fic
in vidoegames where you find meat in the wall it means the meat crawled into the wall and cooked itself for you just before you needed it. Because it's psychic meat too, pretty sure there is a pokemon that does this too.
Castlevania: The Adventure: Rebirth: The Legacy: Reborn: The Redemption: The Revenge
You need to add the backdown somewhere in that title
magicscreenman
Ultra Castlevania: The Adventure: Rebirth: The Legacy: Reborn: The Redemption: The Revenge: Alpha EX
At least it is not the shit sequel
Castlevania: The Adventure: Rebirth: The Legacy: Reborn: The Redemption: Revelations
Castlevania: The Adventure: Rebirth: The Legacy: Reborn: The Redemption: The Revenge: THE BACKDOWN
What is a Matt? An awesome little pile of Punisher hats!
But enough talk! PERSONA!
Hiding in a large pile of comfortable coats
"I want a sawblade room. Also, make me a saw with some super conductive properties on each of its segments that allows it to repel and attract its blades on its own accord. That'll be so sick..... The ladies will love that shit." -Dracula to his architect.
After seeing Woolie playing Broforce and trying to play Fusion, I'm relieved that he's not spearheading this episode.
WE HAVE TO PUSH HIM FOR SUMMER SLAM!
A dumb series idea is that Pat and Liam should play Dark Souls 2 but each time they die, they must give the controller to the other.
"I bet I can make that." -Christopher Belmont's last words
"Harder than T-Rex shit" Never heard that one before, good one Matt, ima steal that shit.
Might wanna cross-reference that with AVGN's list of vulgar descriptive words
I'll admit I kind of want to watch Liam finish this.
Liam can't beat anything without little Japanese girls in it.
He just imagined everyone was a japanese school girl
***** A question truly worth answering.
The Creeper
Contra Rebirth then!
The Creeper Says "The Creeper" XD
You're fucking amazing.
Hope we get more of these, these are some of the hypest videos on youtube. Easily my favorites.
Liam: "Konami release that (Castlevania: adventure) on the E-shop, because I guess they hate people "
oh how funny we use to think that was the extent of Konami giving its customers the middle finger ^^;
You guys need to get a headphone splitter already.
Bestfriendvania becoming a thing?
What a terrible night for a lack of snacks for watching videos.
Dammit, I want another Metroidvania like Order of Ecclesia or Symphony of the Night. Or Portrait of Ruin, am I weird for liking PoR the best?
a little lol, still it does take place in a world war 2 europe, Still I personally love ecclesia the most.
I've logged more hours in Portrait of Ruin than any other Castlevania. It was huge, amazing, looked and sounded great, had a ton of everything in it. Definitely the best of the DS games, at least.
MigBird
In your opinion yes, in my opinion no. In the end all opinion. In my opinion I really can't wait for the lords franchise to die out and the original timeline to return.
I would personally like another one like Curse of Darkness.
SlipperTroll
it was an interesting game not perfect, but if it kept the mechanics but added the lords production value, they would be cooking with fire. Also that games music were so damn good.
Oh.... Oh, holy shit. Dark Souls (at least Dark Souls 1) is just a really good 3D Castlevania. I never thought of it that way before, but it's pretty accurate.
Haha, Kinda, cept in the games after SOTN, your abilities are what mostly helped you progress, which would be SO awesome in DarkSouls. Dx
I just wish the Whips were a bit better in 2. :T
"I could give you my Barbarian Simon action figure if you want"
Matt confirmed for best best friend
Watching these videos knowing that Castlevania is dead and the Best Friends channel is over makes spooky times more sad than spooky :/
"Dude the Amazon Rainforest has less bugs than Unreal 3- *BAM*"Nice one Liam!
As for a 2D Castlevania for Liam, I'd recommend Touhouvania's sequel. SOTN style but plays like the old 4 and plenty of moe girls in a dumb plot.
Already played it! Great game!
I lost my shit laughing at "3 hits, more than enough to kill anything that's jello"
I've always wanted Castlevania Dracula to be voiced by Tim Curry, yep juuust like Abridged DIO.
Could you imagine how fuckin sick a Castlevania x JoJo thing would be?
I couldn't pay enough money for it.
Xthechosen21XX You thought you were going to find Dracula at the end of this castle? Instead it is I, Dio!!!
Alejandro Rodriguez DIO! YOU DON"T BELONG IN THIS WARUDO!
Xthechosen21XX Dammit, I can't think of a snappy Dio comeback o.0
Alejandro Rodriguez Well fuck. We had a good run I guess. I thought I could work the how many breads have you eaten one into it but i got nuthin.
I'm hoping the sequel... *Bestfriendvania: The Rebirth of Simon's Backdown Symphony.*
castlevania actually starts at Lament of Innocence
25:10
Liam: We don't have girls watching our channel..
Me: Notice me senpai!
I can be whatever Liam wants me to be
shh, we have to pretend you don't exist!
just like girls have to pretend they're not watching the RE:4 run because of what pat said.
Emma Leach im jerking my pecker as we speak!
I think the things you were asking about at 11:13 mark the transitions to new areas and the red ones indicate where you came from.
Jus10Ed I just scrolled through 20 minutes of bs people complaining and insulting to find this gem, thank you.
Thanks. :)
10 units of any monetary currency says Shinji Ikari is the last of the Belmonts.
Wait why?
Ahhhh.... I am extraordinarily keen for Bestfriendvania to become a reoccurring thing!!! I'd love to see you guys playing SoTN!
I think we all can agree that street fighter really starts at Street Fighter the Movie the Game.
14:00 Better give him that pay raise Matt
I cannot get over the ancient stock sound effect they use for the bone throwing skeletons in this game. It's the same one from 60s Hanna Barbara cartoons.
I'm just imagining Dracula walking down a hall, deciding he's hungry, and punching through a wall then pulls out a chicken and just eats it.
I would love to hear Dracula say "Just go Nutzzzzz."
Dude, I love old Castlevania games! They're super-awesome.
I hope you guys make this a series where you just play the shit out of Castlevania games.
"You don't just go up into the nothing and not live!" - Matt
The end of Christopher "I'm gonna try and book it" Belmont
2:26
All made up of bone
Shaped like a man
Skeleton feet, and skeleton hands
He has calcium strength at his command
Skeleton Man, Skeleton Man, So he's just a regular man?
Silent Hill starts at Homecoming.
And ends at Homecoming.
Mareepu Then they raped the corpse of it with the HD collection.
They have asked Hideo Kojima to direct an instalment using the FOX engine so there may be a glimmer of hope for the series if anything comes of it.
Game2590 Have they actually asked him? All I've seen is him saying in interview he'd be interested to do it. Then again, he's the vice president of the games division so... It'll pretty much happen whenever he decides.
CantabileGamingHD Yeah they asked him to do one at some point, that's how him saying he'd like to do it came about, either directing or at least contributing with the FOX engine, I'm guessing he'll be looking in to it more once he's done with Phantom Pain.
Game2590 hate to piss on your chips but.. there's no hard evidence that he's making SH, at all.
Wow, they actually name-dropped One Must Fall 2097, that game was awesome. It reminds me of the days when I used to receive those software catalogs in the mail from Software Labs for shareware.
It would be awesome if they did more older PC games like Commander Keen, OMF 2097, Monster Bash, and Little Big Adventure 1 or 2, although I can understand if they don't. The 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' playthrough was a pleasant surprise and I hope they pull off another.
Super Mario starts at Sunshine.
Jokes aside, do we say Mario starts at SMB, or at Donkey Kong?
Mareepu The dude in dankey kang was called jump man, so mario starts a SMB (Super meat boy lol)
wick3dwick So Mario starts at Super Meat Boy?
I'm okay with this.
(Jokes aside, thanks.)
Mareepu Super Meat Boy is best Mario game.
Liam and Matt play Yu-Gi-Oh! Tag Force. It's gonna be a thing.
22:10 silly liam, girls are always watching. always.
At about the 21 minute mark, they start describing what sounds like Tromavania. I love this fucking channel.
Just in time cause I was looking for something good to watch!
Oh man...love that Bloodlines tune in the first level
Onimusha Blade Warriors for this Friday Night Fisticuffs!
I don't care if its not relevant, it needs to be done!
LISTEN TO THIS MAN.
GorillaBorg why wouldn't we? He's in the top percentile of super best fans.
FUCKING THIS
Is it good? because if it's not good then it goes into the scrublords pile.
"Did you know there's a skeleton in your body right now? AND HE WANTS OUT!"
GEEES that's the creepiest thing I've heard in a while, and I went ahead and thought about this phrase for like 2 minutes just damage-over-time losing my jimmies to rustles, lol.
i fucking love the music arrange on this game.
Virtual Protagonist Aquarius? like Gradius IV Aquarius?
This soundtrack screams the 90s. I love it.
The amount of homoerotic innuendos that the Best Friends quote are astounding to say the least. Never change guys lol.
This soundtrack is godlike, by the way.
I scared my cats when I shouted in triumph right along with you guys as you finally found the elusive wall meat! Nice to know this is available on the eShop; I haven't played it since the Game Boy, only watched footage. That classic cartoon sound effect that's being used for the bone throws is very distracting and out of place though. More Bestfriendvania please. :)
A 3D Castlevania game made by FROM software would actually be pretty cool.
3:50 A whole lot of the SOTN enemies were taken from Rondo of Blood. Which is on WiiWare and you should play it.
Speaking of Dark Souls, there is an item in game called the Old Whip which does increased damage to hollows, I'm fairly sure that it is paying homage to the Vampire Killer from Castlevania.
''COME ON! Do it Nerd!!!''
I've never heard anything so encouraging before in my entire life.
I had the GameBoy version when I was a kid. That game is totally unforgiving.
It wouldn't had been so bad if the jumping was shit. I made it to the last level ONCE and gave up.
The idea of collecting hearts that DON'T heal you in any videogame feels... wrong.
Idk man, I kinda feel like you can get away with saying Street Fighter starts at SFII.
At some point, you guys should get Woolie and Pat to join you guys and play Harmony of Despair (XBLA/PSN). 4-Player Castlevania game. It should be fun to watch. ^_^
***** Oh snap, let's do this then. Lol xD
This was too good! TOO GOOD!
Wait... how can this be a rebirth if its before Castlevania? Never mind, this was so good but so hard too. Great!
the game actually saves when you quit it but if you have beaten a stage or more... hold right on the game start selection and you can select the stage. Its different if you select it on a different difficulty setting. Lets say you beat it in normal and change the difficulty setting. That setting wont have a stage select unless you beaten some stages on it. Its like different save files. Another thing, it wont save on a checkpoint. If you select a stage that you were on the last time you played... you will start at the beginning of that stage.
They are totally right walking through Drangleic Castle totally has a Castlevania vibe to it
Would love to see you guys play the Metroidvania's at some point. ;D
"I wonder if I can walk that"
Liam's final words
That gelatinous goo fight was hype!
"Did you know there's a skeleton in your body right now?"
Why is this quote so funny?
3:54
Yeah, but unlike Morrigan, Castlevania's Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night sprites hold up so much better with time...Hiyoooo!
Circle of the Moon was my favorite Castlevania game(I didn't play SoTN till last year by then it was kinda spoiled for me by knowing to much and I over leveled a lot...). I must played through it 5 or six times to 100% completion(minus a few pieces of armor and whatnot). Weird I hardly remember it at this point... but I do remember the magic system and being able to twirl the whip in a circle to fend off the weak enemies as well as keeping out of reach from some stronger enemies being able to lame it out till they died. :)
I never heard of or played this game before this video, but if Konami was aiming to recapture the feel of their late 80's / early 90's games, then well done.
The soundtrack sounds EXACTLY like something they would've done for an arcade game around the time of Lethal Enforcers, G.I. Joe, Sunset Riders, X-Men or Haunted Castle.
I guess it's mostly the overuse of "orchestra hit" and FM-synth style instruments, but it's perfect. :)
Holy shit.
My comment about the actionman games...did the senpai's notice me?
N-not like I wanted you to. B-bakas.
Holy shit they also read mine about the second actionman game then...
I feel special :D
Soundtrack sounds so much like Castlevania Bloodlines or TMNT Hyperstone Heist. Basically like almost any Konami Genesis game.
Dracula always has Skullomania going on *somewhere* in his basement.
14:48 castlevania 3d would be amazing as a dark souls clone. especially since the newer ds ones had so much rpg pre-injected into them
Oh hey! This is the 1st level music from Castlevania Bloodlines! That's neat. That game never gets much love.
Damn, that's some good game music.
HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE MOST CASTLEVANIAEST GAME EVER.
Thank you super best friends for bringing this to my attention. I'm gonna buy this now.
This game looks better than I thought it would be.
Hey, those birds have the same squawk as Terry from Banjo-Tooie!
Liam tends to have the best opinions. I want another 2D Castlevania too
That sound effect the skeletons make when they throw a bone...
I'm fond of the cartoon laser "THOOM" that the eyeballs make when they appear.
Dynasty Warriors 2 is a good example of a game that is the "start" of a series
I was really wondering how long it would be until they made a "Re-Burth" joke
30 seconds, longer that I thought
This is the second time I've heard matt say he wants something remade into a souls game. Pretty sound logic actually
damn i remember playing castlevania the adventure on my gameboy as a kiddie
How long Liam lasted with one peg of health was so Gun-Jumper Rising Super Star. Loved it.
Haunted Castle Revisited recently came out made by the same dev that did this one and I just had to come back to see this again.
What a terrible night to have a curse... Watching Liam be shitty at Castlevania! [Obligatory Rolling Rock chug and eye bulging anger intensifies.]
Liam: "Did you know there's a skeleton in your body RIGHT NOW?!"
ME: (Looks down at own body; eyes grow wide) "Dear GOD!"
2D Castlevania game please! Matt and Liam are 100% right. Castlevania has so much more going for it as a 2D side scroller.
I love the cartoon sound effects in this game.
Belmon't Revenge had fireballs when you max your whip power.
"Dude the Amazon rainforest has less bugs than unreal 3". Sick burn! That is stolen Liam!
Alternate Universe where Daxter fell into Bio-Slime instead of Dark Eco
roh-roh, where's my wall meat needs to be a thing. Please, somehow, make it a thing Liam
I hope these guys do a Playthrough of the DS Castlevania's will be interesting to see them converse about the PoR Partner system.
"Just suck the air out of that meat stick!" That's what sh... well, you know.