Status BadBoyBule Aug 29, 2024
Don't have time for the actual DS trilogy just yet but had to check out Haunted Castle Revisited since that is such a bonkers thing to exist in the first place. I'm very positively surprised. It's short, it's simple but it's basically a new old-school Castlevania in 2024.
I think it follows the original Haunted Castle somewhat closely in it's …
Don't have time for the actual DS trilogy just yet but had to check out Haunted Castle Revisited since that is such a bonkers thing to exist in the first place. I'm very positively surprised. It's short, it's simple but it's basically a new old-school Castlevania in 2024.
I think it follows the original Haunted Castle somewhat closely in it's levels (haven't gotten far in the original) but other than that, everything has been remade. For one, it's actually of a playable difficulty. Secondly, the gameplay just has this nice snappy feel to it when sowing destruction with a whip. Haunted Castle Revisited also nails the aesthethic: it looks chunky and kooky like the original but with a lot more detailed 2D graphics.
For a standalone game, this would be fun but a tad too short, and there isn't much incentives to play this over and over either (there's three difficulty levels and a score tally without rankings). As an extra, though, this is coolness overkill.
