+neogeomaster Nope. Bloodlines is one of the best Castlevania games and also one of the most unique with its fast pace, gore dimension and creative visual effects. Rondo of Blood is good but more conventional, too easy (the last boss LOL and I don't even talk when playing the game with Maria...) and it has a few technical shortcomings such as running in low resolution (256x224 pixels vs 320x224 for Bloodlines).
*****"too basic... Rondo destroy your shit castlevania, it is not castlevania look design of character... just put effect as contra on megadrive, but castlevania on megadrive and snes are shit, castlevania is well only 8bits period. 16bits= too easy..." Quoted for emphasis. Just LOL. 'Nuff said.
***** Sounds a bit better then saying all 16-bit Castlevanias are shit :P There is so much difference between SC4 and Dracula X on SNES. Simon's Quest is one of the weakest games in the series, 8-bit or not.
Huge fan of this game. It has so much going on, with two worthy characters to play with, arcade-like fast and smooth gameplay, great level design, a lot of memorable set pieces (the different play locations through Europe was such a good idea), a lot of creative visual effects (the reflection on the water, the rotation on the tower...), a more gory dimension than usual in the series, some crazy boss fights and that soundtrack is absolutely majestic!!! Only downsides are a few janky animations and a few empty backgrounds, all of which due to Konami cheaping out on the cart size (only 8 meg, it's rather low by 1994 standards) and rushing the development process. But still, overall, Bloodlines (AKA Vampire Killer in Japan) is the best Classicvania IMO and a strong contender for a top 100 best Mega Drive games. It's just a shame that a Bloodlines 2 never happened. It could have been great on 32X or Saturn.
+Parallax Craze Agreed, I owned this and Castlevania 4 and I've played through and enjoyed Bloodlines many more times as both characters. Great music that utilizes the Genesis synthesizer well too. Its too bad many (but a lot still did and I owned most of those games) devs didn't use extra graphical tricks and better sounds tools on the Genny more often. :/ It can closely match it in many cases regardless though.
God! You were/are a BEAST! I have NEVER thought I would live to see the day that someone would just beat a Castlevania game all the way through in less than an hour and not get hit once or die a single death. Just freaking AMAZING! :-P
i love the whole Castlevania series. I have been a fan since Simons Quest (the first one was psychotically hard!) I love watching all these videos you post. I especially like the fact that you do a great job of just playing the game and not adding anything else. Just the way it should be, no crap just straight up gaming.
man, they aught to remake this game with better graphics and a symphonic music. This one was my 2nd favorite Castlevania game, with SoTN as #1. Why? just the general atmosphere combined with AWESOME music! epicness
The best game ever is Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I just Love that Masterpiece 💖. Anyway, Bloodlines is awesome, since it combines gameplay, challenge, graphic and soundtrack. Personally, I prefer playing with Eric: his skills with Alcarde Spear were really something, back in those years. Great longplay! 😉
@Mysterious0Bob And then you see Alien Soldier, Gunstar Heroes, McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure, and Dynamite Headdy, and suddenly Bloodlines and Hard Corps look kinda plain. Then again, Treasure was formed by former Konami employees, so...
I actually did some research and found out that "Dracula" (the book) can only take place during or before 1890, since the epilogue (even in the original edition) contains notes from Johnathan Harker seven years after the events of the book (which was published in 1897).
You won't believe that I've found this game three years ago on an old toy shop and in brand new condition for only 10 euros! The sad thing is that I didn't own a mega drive console and for that reason I didn't purchased the game, god If I only knew how rare this game is I'll surely had bought it back then!.. On ebay the cart of this game costs over 90 euros!!!
+BennyUrquidez86 It's not rare, just silly resellers have driven up it's value. Back in the day I got it and Contra Hard Corps from Toys R Us, both Majesco reprints, for $9.99 a piece.
To this day I still have this and Contra Hard Corps in mint condition, Majesco soft box re-releases though. Toys R Us was selling both for about $10 back in the late 90's. The clamshell versions for both fetch a bit of money now while the softboxes are cheaper. Usually the softboxes for some games, like Ristar, go for more because they only came in these, and these boxes are harder to keep intact.
@Warblefly41 No, they are there intentionally put in by Konami to make the stage a little harder, it's an illusion and impressive design for the old Megadrive/Genesis.
Phlebiax: Depending on who you chose in the beginning your route is slightly different. Like the Whip allows you to swing while the lance allows you to vault upwards. You go back to the same spot in the end.
Nobody eats at Norway. Norwegians literally have no food specialty. Apparently Konami was hungry when they made this. "HEY, LETS INCLUDE COUNTRIES WITH FOOD IN THEM!" "Norway, you can stay seated."
@TechnoEstate This and Contra Hard Corp did things on the Megadrive that it really shouldn't been capable of. They had some great programmers at Konami.
The boss of Stage 4 was kind of... Interesting. I honestly don't know how to put it other than that. I'm thinking it was possibly a very powerful poltergeist possessing an amassment of gears. Also, the mini-boss of Stage 5 is supposed to be a reference to the optical illusion of an image that can be a vase or two people looking at each other. Though, obviously, the mini-boss uses two halves of a face instead of two profile-view faces, and a pillar instead of a vase.
It might be a step back from Super Castlevania IV in terms of gameplay mechanics, but I actually like Bloodlines a bit more, mostly due to its art direction (which foreshadows the post-SOTN titles).
Ugh, I remember this game..... awesome, but so damn hard. I could never beat that damn moth at the end of level 5. Ahh, the frustration and rage is all coming back to me. May have to hook up the old Genesis for another try
@Mysterious0Bob The most notable thing was the great music, but that's because Konami's arcade machines used FM synthesis just like the genesis to make their music, so it was easy for them to make the genesis really sing.
I am glad that I see this. I only heard of it and seen videos like this one. I wonder if they got this on the Virtual Console for the Wii, Playstation Network for the PS3, or Xbox Live Arcade for the 360? I am a huge Castlevania Fan and I want this one. It looks fun! : )
Great game and expectedly played. Still it's little fun to watch when you run and haste through this game as if Dracula itself is directly behind you. If you go any quicker you might hit the speed of light and the fun is over before you even started. :)
Programming trick meant to play tricks on your eyes, you never quite feel secure walking and jumping, though you could see where your feet are on platforms if you look carefully. The next bit after is even more mind boggling, playing upside down.
So John Morris is from Texas. So is Sonya Blade, the last time I went wikisurfing (not sure if the reboot changed that). Jeez, Don't Mess with Texas indeed.
+Simon v. Cleef While the gameplay is definitely the most important part, changing the way a game looks does make a difference. The SNES Castlevania was censored in a similar way (the dungeon stage has green blood on a green background), and the result is a very bland looking level. The blood also causes damage, and can be difficult to see due to the censorship. The graphics, music, and sound can affect the gaming experience almost as much as the way it plays.
rocketcon I'm not a fan of censoring either. But in these cases it didn't make a difference for me, I still enjoyed the games. You also have the example of mortal kombat on the snes. I didn't even notice it back in the days, I was probably too young to care about blood. I don't really care about it still but I do see it of course.
*Resurrects a comment* Actually, that was true to almost every platform that Konami made games. I can't remember any bad or simple game from this company at all @_@
Man the amount of bosses in this game is just crazy =) I've always loved Bloodlines for that (and many other) reason. Are you going to do an Eric Lecarde run as well?
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this is my favorite castlevania, everything is perfect.
+neogeomaster Nope. Bloodlines is one of the best Castlevania games and also one of the most unique with its fast pace, gore dimension and creative visual effects. Rondo of Blood is good but more conventional, too easy (the last boss LOL and I don't even talk when playing the game with Maria...) and it has a few technical shortcomings such as running in low resolution (256x224 pixels vs 320x224 for Bloodlines).
*****"too basic... Rondo destroy your shit castlevania, it is not castlevania look design of character... just put effect as contra on megadrive, but castlevania on megadrive and snes are shit, castlevania is well only 8bits period. 16bits= too easy..."
Quoted for emphasis. Just LOL. 'Nuff said.
***** Super Castlevania IV is not shit. Back then it was (and in my opinion still is) THE shit! ;)
***** Sounds a bit better then saying all 16-bit Castlevanias are shit :P There is so much difference between SC4 and Dracula X on SNES. Simon's Quest is one of the weakest games in the series, 8-bit or not.
The best castlevania is part 3 on the nes, after that 1. All of them are good though, also this one on the megadrive/genesis.
Huge fan of this game. It has so much going on, with two worthy characters to play with, arcade-like fast and smooth gameplay, great level design, a lot of memorable set pieces (the different play locations through Europe was such a good idea), a lot of creative visual effects (the reflection on the water, the rotation on the tower...), a more gory dimension than usual in the series, some crazy boss fights and that soundtrack is absolutely majestic!!! Only downsides are a few janky animations and a few empty backgrounds, all of which due to Konami cheaping out on the cart size (only 8 meg, it's rather low by 1994 standards) and rushing the development process. But still, overall, Bloodlines (AKA Vampire Killer in Japan) is the best Classicvania IMO and a strong contender for a top 100 best Mega Drive games. It's just a shame that a Bloodlines 2 never happened. It could have been great on 32X or Saturn.
Night Driver he is using tool assisted
+Parallax Craze Agreed, I owned this and Castlevania 4 and I've played through and enjoyed Bloodlines many more times as both characters. Great music that utilizes the Genesis synthesizer well too. Its too bad many (but a lot still did and I owned most of those games) devs didn't use extra graphical tricks and better sounds tools on the Genny more often. :/ It can closely match it in many cases regardless though.
Mr_x 1992 This does NOT look like a TAS.
Wow, that water reflection in the second stage is epic!
Castlevania Bloodlines: Even Speedwagon Can Be the Protagonist!
Nice longplay.
Soundtrack is so good...and more fun than SC4. That first wolf battle with the glass breaking is cool
I love this game, specially the song "Calling from Heaven". In fact, all the OST is amazing.
I'm so glad to be subscribed to this channel.
God! You were/are a BEAST! I have NEVER thought I would live to see the day that someone would just beat a Castlevania game all the way through in less than an hour and not get hit once or die a single death. Just freaking AMAZING! :-P
i love the whole Castlevania series. I have been a fan since Simons Quest (the first one was psychotically hard!) I love watching all these videos you post. I especially like the fact that you do a great job of just playing the game and not adding anything else. Just the way it should be, no crap just straight up gaming.
You thought CV1 was hard? CV 3 and the X68K Akumajou Dracula would love to have a word with you, those two are balls to the wall hard.
For not being directly related to the Belmonts, John Morris sure knows how to get the job done.
Retroplay, impressive your performance... Thank´s for playing and posting!
You are the best Castlevania player I saw ever.
I love this longplay. I've watched it so many times.
man, they aught to remake this game with better graphics and a symphonic music. This one was my 2nd favorite Castlevania game, with SoTN as #1. Why? just the general atmosphere combined with AWESOME music! epicness
This game was the main reason I bought a MegaDrive, then I realized how many good games were on the system not too long after.
I swear the two best Castlevania games are this and SotN. Hell I'll even throw in Dracula X Chronicles as #3.
Best Gameplay ever !!!!!!
Thanks
Used to play this on a regular basis on Sega Channel. Love this game.
as a kid i was freaked out by about 85% of genesis games i came across. this was one of them
Loved the music when I was 9, love it now. Fuck yea Castlevania.
28:16 this damn corridor with the frantic sound of the knights rushing out of nowhere always scared me when I was a kid..
Iron-Blue Intention and Simon's Theme remain my favorite themes from this game :D
Ditto for me as well as the ones gor italy and france
wow this guy is a castlevania expert
The best game ever is Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I just Love that Masterpiece 💖.
Anyway, Bloodlines is awesome, since it combines gameplay, challenge, graphic and soundtrack.
Personally, I prefer playing with Eric: his skills with Alcarde Spear were really something, back in those years.
Great longplay! 😉
love this game so much :) thanks for posting this :)
I love how the candles are still lit as the water drains out. Video game logic FTW
@Mysterious0Bob And then you see Alien Soldier, Gunstar Heroes, McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure, and Dynamite Headdy, and suddenly Bloodlines and Hard Corps look kinda plain.
Then again, Treasure was formed by former Konami employees, so...
love the color in this game and compared to other oldschool Castlevanias you and your enemies are nice and big so you can tell what you fighting
my god, the music of the second stage bring back some good old memories!
this video just changed my opinion on this game completely.
Your skills are fantastic!
Very AWESOME CV game! I still have it to this very day! Like the far darker tone of this game! Woulda been cool to get a direct sequel back then!
Great Video, great game. Thanks.
I actually did some research and found out that "Dracula" (the book) can only take place during or before 1890, since the epilogue (even in the original edition) contains notes from Johnathan Harker seven years after the events of the book (which was published in 1897).
El mejor castlevania.
You won't believe that I've found this game three years ago on an old toy shop and in brand new condition for only 10 euros! The sad thing is that I didn't own a mega drive console and for that reason I didn't purchased the game, god If I only knew how rare this game is I'll surely had bought it back then!.. On ebay the cart of this game costs over 90 euros!!!
+BennyUrquidez86 It's not rare, just silly resellers have driven up it's value. Back in the day I got it and Contra Hard Corps from Toys R Us, both Majesco reprints, for $9.99 a piece.
To this day I still have this and Contra Hard Corps in mint condition, Majesco soft box re-releases though. Toys R Us was selling both for about $10 back in the late 90's. The clamshell versions for both fetch a bit of money now while the softboxes are cheaper. Usually the softboxes for some games, like Ristar, go for more because they only came in these, and these boxes are harder to keep intact.
@Warblefly41 No, they are there intentionally put in by Konami to make the stage a little harder, it's an illusion and impressive design for the old Megadrive/Genesis.
John Morris.
Takin' out evil, Texas style.
Juegos que jamás mientras este en vida olvidaré ☺💪🌹🎮🎮♥️♥️♥️♥️
The greatest Castlevania game ever.
This video looks like a TAS. The jumping to get up the steps gives it away, and on the first boss, he got hit by the glass, and took no damage.
The most thing i like about Castlevania games is the music
Phlebiax: Depending on who you chose in the beginning your route is slightly different. Like the Whip allows you to swing while the lance allows you to vault upwards. You go back to the same spot in the end.
Eric got a modified face in the intro.
Nobody eats at Norway.
Norwegians literally have no food specialty.
Apparently Konami was hungry when they made this.
"HEY, LETS INCLUDE COUNTRIES WITH FOOD IN THEM!"
"Norway, you can stay seated."
@TechnoEstate
This and Contra Hard Corp did things on the Megadrive that it really shouldn't been capable of. They had some great programmers at Konami.
BEST Castlevania EVER!!!!!!
The boss of Stage 4 was kind of... Interesting. I honestly don't know how to put it other than that. I'm thinking it was possibly a very powerful poltergeist possessing an amassment of gears.
Also, the mini-boss of Stage 5 is supposed to be a reference to the optical illusion of an image that can be a vase or two people looking at each other. Though, obviously, the mini-boss uses two halves of a face instead of two profile-view faces, and a pillar instead of a vase.
my favorite castlvania ever! Music is awesome and story is even same as the novel said
Don't forget about Treasure and their technical marvels such as Gunstar Heroes, Dynamite Headdy or Alien Soldier ;-) .
i love this game!
It might be a step back from Super Castlevania IV in terms of gameplay mechanics, but I actually like Bloodlines a bit more, mostly due to its art direction (which foreshadows the post-SOTN titles).
I played castlevania bloodlines all the way through, it just doesn't FEEL like a castlevania game, I cant explain it
One thing that I never understood -> at 1:01 it says Johnathan Morris was born in 1895 even though his father Quincey Morris died in 1893. WTF?
Actually in Europe, the came is called Castelvania: Bloodlines too. And the console is named MEGADRIVE too :p.
Ugh, I remember this game..... awesome, but so damn hard. I could never beat that damn moth at the end of level 5. Ahh, the frustration and rage is all coming back to me. May have to hook up the old Genesis for another try
SOTN is a love letter to this game this is my favorite next to SOTN and draculas curse
@Mysterious0Bob The most notable thing was the great music, but that's because Konami's arcade machines used FM synthesis just like the genesis to make their music, so it was easy for them to make the genesis really sing.
The best game of the sega master sistem :D
this was on Genesis/Mega drive, not Master system
But she wasn't a VAMPIRE, for Chrissake.
I am glad that I see this. I only heard of it and seen videos like this one. I wonder if they got this on the Virtual Console for the Wii, Playstation Network for the PS3, or Xbox Live Arcade for the 360? I am a huge Castlevania Fan and I want this one. It looks fun! : )
Was rough to finish this game back then
Great game and expectedly played.
Still it's little fun to watch when you run and haste through this game as if Dracula itself is directly behind you.
If you go any quicker you might hit the speed of light and the fun is over before you even started. :)
34:37 The best part of this video :)
The fact you can beat bosses so easily is a big con. Otherwise this would be my favourite Castlevania game
Dracula shows some tiny balls in this game.
He plays very good...
Great play through!! I thought I was good...I think you only got hit like three times...
What's with the split screen at 27:26? It just looks like a glitch... were they just running out of ideas?
Oh, that. I think that's a stage gimmick ,
Programming trick meant to play tricks on your eyes, you never quite feel secure walking and jumping, though you could see where your feet are on platforms if you look carefully. The next bit after is even more mind boggling, playing upside down.
My favorite peice of music in this entire game is when he gets the invisibility item at 1:57
This game had some of the best music, stage and enemy designs. Too bad it came out on the Megadrive rather than SFC
And She is Niece of my Country King Stephen Báthory
Greatest music on the Genesis/MegaDrive. But what did the developers have against Norway?
So before kitchen nightmares and hells kitchen Gordon Ramsey was Dracula in this videogame.
Quincey died in 1897. Its also John Morris. Johnathan was in P.O.R. It was stupid that it says John was 2yrs old when he saw his father die.
i don't know if it is the emulator or what, but you have some glitches bro, particularly in the boss fight against the countess...
So John Morris is from Texas. So is Sonya Blade, the last time I went wikisurfing (not sure if the reboot changed that). Jeez, Don't Mess with Texas indeed.
are those graphical glitches in stage 6 emulation problems, or are those really part of the game?
the moth/fairy ws always my fvourite boss ^^
My only gripe about this game is that they put two slower levels with less action-oriented soundtracks one right after the other (Greece and italy)
34:36 Epicness overload
@cubex55 I wanna play on an emulator, too. How fo I download it? Do I have to pay?
Maury says Quincey IS NOT THE FATHER
Yep, imo Bloodlines has the best track in the saga, "Calling from heaven"...
17:07
I came for this!
Let me fix this with modern technology. 17:07
What sucks in the Europe Version of this game, all gore was removed and the title of the screen was water instead of blood.
You guys got screwed on a lot of games in Europe. That sucks.
Even the word blood in the title was censored and is called The New Generation there, man, I thought NOA was strict (yet Europe got Devil World, odd)
The game is the same besides those things. The color of the blood is not important the gameplay is.
+Simon v. Cleef While the gameplay is definitely the most important part, changing the way a game looks does make a difference. The SNES Castlevania was censored in a similar way (the dungeon stage has green blood on a green background), and the result is a very bland looking level. The blood also causes damage, and can be difficult to see due to the censorship. The graphics, music, and sound can affect the gaming experience almost as much as the way it plays.
rocketcon I'm not a fan of censoring either. But in these cases it didn't make a difference for me, I still enjoyed the games. You also have the example of mortal kombat on the snes. I didn't even notice it back in the days, I was probably too young to care about blood. I don't really care about it still but I do see it of course.
Miss the old Konami.
lol 28:35 he really thought he could sneak up on him with all that noise
Bloodlines was the start of violent castlevania games. Tsk tsk. But still, Good game.
*Resurrects a comment* Actually, that was true to almost every platform that Konami made games. I can't remember any bad or simple game from this company at all @_@
`how did you get 40 min?
I like this game one of the best castevania genesis
Great longplay...anyone going to do the Eric Lecarde game?
Man the amount of bosses in this game is just crazy =) I've always loved Bloodlines for that (and many other) reason. Are you going to do an Eric Lecarde run as well?
@cubex55 You got an emulator or you just play it on the normal mega drive?
這是惡魔城吧!打吸血伯爵前,先打敗應該是他女兒的妖怪
Wasn't Wallachia under Austro-Hungarian control back during WWI, and Atlantis being Rumoured to be in the North African coast?
ah normal mode.
omg when i was 6 this game was so scary to me
the candle keep in flame underwater at 6:20