As always a hero for the worthless humans!
| Platform | OVERALL |
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| WiiWare | 8.60 |
| Overall | 8.60 |
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Castlevania Rebirth is another triumphant game in the rebirth series of Konami games. What we get here is a SNES era style Castlevania game and man is it good. It is also a remake of CV Adventures but no one played that so it's like a brand new Castlevania game, woo! This game has everything that worked for pre-Iga Castlevania, the great action and the platforming filled levels. Crazy awesome boss fights and a game that gave you challenge. This game is does have the linear stage layout but those stages have multiple paths to discover. There are hidden keys to find that unlock doors to completely different locations, you can play a level twice and see something totally different. The way the whip upgrade is handled is different, one upgrade gets you the long whip and one more upgrade gives your whip a fireball power for a limited time. It reminded me of Link using his sword at full health. Jumping feels fantastic as it allows you to move in air, if you hate yourself you can turn this off and go back to crappy NES CV jumping. Other than that it is classic Castlevania all the way through. The art style is fresh, finally there are different looking enemy design to the enemies, they have been using the SOTN designs for so long. The music is not as good as most CV games, still decent. The main issue is the length, this game is really short. There are 5 levels, the 6th is just the Dracula fight. Compared to games like CV3 and CV4 this feels like half a game. Also it is a bit on the easy side on normal difficulty, I advise CV vets to play on hard as it feels more true to the old games. If this game was just a few levels longer I would put it up with CV4 and Dracula X as the two best old school Castlevania games, sadly it just stops way too quickly. |
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Posted by Dvader Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:33:35
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I really want this game. The game looks like a great remake of the old adventure game which I used to love as a kid on the Gameboy.
Yeah, it may be short but the original had four levels. So I guess it ain't that big of a deal.
Sounds as short as Contra Rebirth. How many points is this?
Oh and for f**** sake buy THE best game on WiiWare already.
"It is also a remake of CV Adventures but no one played that so it's like a brand new Castlevania game, woo!"
*ahem*
At the time, it was pretty damn good!
Go back and play Super Mario Land and I bet people would say that sucks too!
^ The only Mario Bros. game that I cannot for the life of me remember the last bosses name...
...Some weird alien dude!
...A Mario Bros. with side-scrolling shooter levels...?
...ya! Odd!
^ I would have bet my life that he was going to make an appearance in Mario Galaxy, btw...
He, Wart, Tryclyde and Mouser seem to have faded into Nintendo History though!
Tatanga!
THAT was it!