First Time EVER Playing Super Castlevania IV (SNES) 

It was released three years into the Super Nintendo’s life. So not really close to launch.

@aaroninman9579 it released in 1991. The SNES released in 1990 in Japan and 1991 in America. This game came out only a few months after the American launch.

This was the first Super Nintendo game I saw at a friend's house and I couldn't believe the quality of the music I was hearing.

​@@aaroninman9759that's incorrect

So good, this was and still is legit. Classic

BL isn't too shabby either.

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My only nitpick is that it's also the easiest.

@@MrJholshouser41 The first three games would he just as easy if it wasn’t for the jank.

You are correct. It's definitely the darkest feeling Castlevania.

Agreed! I am borrowing my brother's SNES and going down nostalgia Lane. This is one of our favorite games!

One of the best soundtracks ever made, videogame or not.

@@misanthrope82gaming 100%

Absolutely wonderful

With the triple shot boomerang, the mummy boss at the end of stage A goes down really quick if he appears on the small platform at the start of the boss fight.

yup, triple boomering and diagonal whipping and you can stomp through this game, in such a fun fashion. Best Castlevania ever.

It's also jist about the easiest game ever...

I love how everything about Castlevaina 4 says that " i am from 90s "

Toys R us, children's palace, & show bob's pizza place. Noble Roman's GIANT pizza was also awesome.

@@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCanI feel you on Children’s palace I liked it better than Toys R Us I was so upset when they went defunct in 1990

Finally someone gets it

​@@CC164_real I actually wrote a really good reply, but RU-vid glitched it during an ad and I lost it. I re-wrote it...but it's not as great as the first time I wrote it, which is annoying. Hopefully it will still effectively convey the points I made anyway 🤣

​@@CC164_real ​But, yeah - thanks! What I wanted to say in my original comment is that, as a lifelong musician, I tend to really hone in on the nuts and bolts of a composition, including the larger and smaller details, with a particular emphasis on the elements of any given song's instrumentation, melodic/harmonic direction of its chord progressions, its time signatures, timbre and mood, and the general theory related to its modes and the like. Castlevania IV has a very interesting OST, not the least of which for how the composers tap into such a diverse pallete of genres and then - through some creative instrumentation - somehow manages to stylistically re-contextualize / re-imagine them as a trope of classical "gothic" horror. I just think it was a really unique approach, as it's something that I've never quite heard repeated in any other similar OST - and the timestamped song is something I hear as being perhaps the best example of how amazing the uniqueness of that approach can sound.

@@AndyWitmyer lol yeah my dad's a musician so I pick up a lot of those musician "traits"

I've heard people rag on some of the tracks in Symphony of the Night, like the one in the arena, because they have a heavy jazz influence, and say it's out of character for a Castlevania game. I'm like, dude, do you even know Castlevania music?

I'd like to see Ryu play Super Metroid. 😎👍

Yes plz. I long for it.

This! But as whip upgrades in an openworld adventure. Imagine like a 7 tier whip upgrade system, where length, morning star, diagonal whipping, whip flicking, shield whip, grappling whip and flame whip are all part of the upgrade system.

@@feenix219 man that would be incredible

There's a hack called Other Castle. Not kaizo-hard like most hacks but much harder than the base game, includes some branching paths & extra rooms, some mechanics changed up (invincibility item now gives a faster walk speed till you take damage). Worth playing, it's fun and tests your CV4 skillset.

That sort of artificial longevity is what makes a lot of these older games frustrating to go back to, because they waste your time in ways like this. I love the overall gameplay of a lot of these old games, but I hate being sent back to the beginning (especially if it's the beginning of the whole game, rather than the whole stage), when I've already proven I can get past those parts. It'd be like if you failed 11th Grade in high school, and instead of just repeating 11th Grade like we do now, you got sent back to Kindergarten. It literally makes no sense. It's also odd in the face of games like Contra too, which is still hard, but lets you continue right where you died. You can waste less of the player's time, still have unlimited continues and remain a challenging game, it's not impossible.

I don't think it's worth complaining about when it was a thing of the times and games don't really do it anymore (and the ones that do its either optional or for the niche that enjoys it). Plus you have save states these days so you can enjoy it at your pace. In context I don't see it as a "flaw" or an aspect worth complaining about. I'd argue AAA games now waste your time even more giving empty boring worlds w/objectives all over a map that don't mean anything, dying means you lose in-game currency which means you'll have to grind even more. It is what it is.

To be fair I never knew about the usefulness of that till I started watching people online use it

@@deighton13601 Yeah, I probably also benefitted from having older brothers show me how to play before my first playthrough. They were always showing all the whip tricks.

It's boring and tedious to play it that way. I'd rather take a risk killing things fast than stand around dangling my limp whip all day 🤣

@@AndyWitmyer He was talking about holding the whip out and not moving it around with the d pad. It will make it just hang down in front of you. It's a shield for most projectiles in the game. Including Dracula's fireball split. But Ryu made that work with a jump and down Whip haha :)

@@jamesk1868 Yeah, I knew exactly what he was referring to and I find it boring to use the whip in that way 🤣

I remember finding the hidden power up platform by accident when I was a kid. I basically got so frustrated with dying against Dracula for like 10th time in a row that, in frustration, I just sort of "rage suicided" by making Simon jumping off the cliff...only to land, to my absolute shock, on that crazy invisible walkway with every power up you need in order to win raining down on me. Lmao! It was pure awesomeness and one of my all-time favorite gaming memories. I can't help but to wonder if they put it there on purpose, with the hope that rage suiciders like me, at the end of their rope, would give it one last go 🤣

The Dagger sucks so badly. I actually did a spit take bc I don't know if I've ever heard anyone ever say the Daggers are "hella good" and actually mean it 🤣 Every item not named the Cross Boomerang kind of sucks tbh, save for maybe the Holy Water and Stop Watch, though the latter two are far more situational in their usefulness. Chucking two or three active boomerangs at a clip pretty much steamrolls everything, especially bosses

@@AndyWitmyer I’ll take triple cross boomerang any day. 😋

I really enjoyed that. The last two seasons kind of deviated from the story line of the games, but for the alternate universe that it is, it was awesome!

@@bardinblue9830 I like the story but all the work that must have went in to animating those looooong fight scenes was awesome. And no spoilers but the last episodes were very emotional.

@@jaym.7865 Agreed!

@@bardinblue9830 all seasons deviated from the story.

@@RyuSaarva I suppose you could say that. I still thought the first two seasons were at least somewhat faithful to Castlevania III, except that Grant was not included. Seasons 3 and 4 would have covered the same time period as Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, but although some of the same characters were present and the deviations from the game story were much more obvious, I still thought it was a pretty good story for an alternate universe.

Imagine the secrets from our ancient past archived within his library!

Eh, it one of my least favorites. Castlevania 1, 3, Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night are better.

It's not the same one but there is definitely some base similarity - such was the state of audio samples on the tiny SNES carts haha

i streamed it on twitch - i actually still have it i'll have to upload the VOD to my other youtube channel soon!

@@Ryu great thanks!

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@@Ryu Thank you

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High difficulty doesn't automatically make a game good. Sometimes you just want a game you can just pop in and play.