On Friday I got Castlevania Classic NES series for Gameboy Advance. This is a port of the first in the Castlevania series for NES on the GBA and it still is just a fun as when I first played it in 1987. This game was on the Famicom Disk System, NES, DOS, Commodore 64, Amiga and several mobile phones.
While this is the first game in the series it is actually the seventh in the timeline but no one plays Castlevania just for the story. Castlevania games have been a staple of Konami line up for a over a decade.
Castlevania is a damn well done 2d platform action game that follows Simon Belmont a vampire hunter with a whip that fights through Castlevania the magical demonic castle of Dracula. There is a plethora of monsters and undead things to take out. Now Simon Belmont can't just jump and sort of change direction in mid air like Mario can he sort of lumbers and when you hit a monster and fall to your death while jumping between platforms it can be quite frustrating to say the least.
This game can be damn hard and it would be nice if there was a battery save but at least there is unlimited continues.
This game is a good refresher before Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow comes out for the Nintendo DS in two weeks. Castlevania was gothic before gothic was gothic. This is the first game that really showed me the possibilities of the NES and once I played it at a friend's house it was a done deal. This is almost as old as mario and is every much a classic. It has spawned and inspired a multiple of sequels on a plethora of platforms and it is nice to be able to sit down at a cafe and whip (pun intended) out my DS and play the game that started it all. I still find myself humming the tunes.
That is a darn fine game there. Maybe I will play it on the plane on my way back from Thailand. By the way, it does have a battery save. It saves which level you were on. That's how I got to stage 99.