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Super NES Works #026: Super Castlevania IV (Patreon)

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2018-10-24 18:50:24

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2026-06

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Not a hoax! Not a dream! Not an imaginary story! Nope, it's just me and some more Castlevania history. My one regret with this episode is that the complete playthrough I recorded a couple of weeks ago bizarrely failed to capture the audio, so I had to rush to capture replacement footage and didn't have time in my schedule to record the final stage. Oh well.

Also, for some reason I mispronounced "arpeggio," and I'm not sure what that's about.

Uh, but the point is, here's a Super Castlevania IV video. Yep.

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Super Castlevania IV retrospective: Simon's big adventure | Super NES Works #026

Last week we looked at the original Castlevania for NES; now here is its Super NES remake. Sort of. Super Castlevania IV is kind of like a remix of Castlevania 1 and 3 (which does add up to IV!), but it makes some pretty big changes to the core mechanics of controlling Simon Belmont. On the other hand, it carries over a lot of elements from the NES, too. It's an odd duck in the Castlevania series that doesn't always work but has so much loving detail invested into it that it holds up regardless of its flaws.