Dracula X (PC Engine) Vs Super Castlevania IV (SNES) - which game is better?

[Nando]

How do you all rank the gba games?

[Sadler]

Huge fan of the "metroid-vania" games, with SotN at the very top of any Castlevania game. Even above Rondo. In terms of GBA games I'd say (best to not quite as best):

1) Circle of the Moon
2) Aria of Sorrow
3) Harmony of Dissonance

Yeah, CotM take the top spot. Amazing game and I do not understand the hate it gets. Aria is fantastic as well, but CotM takes top spot for me.

Battle.

Arena.

[Tatsujin]

Aria of Sorrow >>> Circle of the Moon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Harmony of Dissonance
 

[jeffhlewis]

Aria of Sorrow >>> Circle of the Moon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Harmony of Dissonance
 

Agreed. AoS is damn near on par with Symphony. I do have a soft spot for Circle of the Moon just because the music was mind blowing when it came out. Harmony isn't a bad game but it was a complete nosedive in the music department.

[Tatsujin]

Harmony isn't a bad game but it was a complete nosedive in the music department.

right, it completely lives up to its name.

[seieienbu]

Yeah, CotM take the top spot. Amazing game and I do not understand the hate it gets. Aria is fantastic as well, but CotM takes top spot for me.

I picked it up when I picked up my GBA at launch.  I got home and was super excited to play Circle of the moon and was super pissed off about how I couldn't see it well in any light that I had available to me.  Sunlight was a bit too bright and gave a rainbow sheen over the non-lit pixels while every other light source I had was just too dark.  I got to Dracula twice but just gave up against him as his dark sprite on a dark background that moved around rapidly was just too hard to see.  Maybe I'll go back and play the game on emulator or DS at some point.

[awack]

Damn, im I the only person who likes Dracula xx, I like it a bit better than SCIV, fighting enemies and Bosses is actually fun in Drac xx... in SCIV, not so much. Dracula XX does have few problems with its gameplay though.

[jperryss]

Damn, im I the only person who likes Dracula xx, I like it a bit better than SCIV, fighting enemies and Bosses is actually fun in Drac xx... in SCIV, not so much. Dracula XX does have few problems with its gameplay though.

It's not that bad. People complain about the graphics but my biggest complaint was the level design. There are some screens that I think "shouldn't there be enemies here"? It's like they never finished it.

[Sadler]

Yeah, CotM take the top spot. Amazing game and I do not understand the hate it gets. Aria is fantastic as well, but CotM takes top spot for me.

I picked it up when I picked up my GBA at launch.  I got home and was super excited to play Circle of the moon and was super pissed off about how I couldn't see it well in any light that I had available to me.  Sunlight was a bit too bright and gave a rainbow sheen over the non-lit pixels while every other light source I had was just too dark.  I got to Dracula twice but just gave up against him as his dark sprite on a dark background that moved around rapidly was just too hard to see.  Maybe I'll go back and play the game on emulator or DS at some point.

Ahh, that makes more sense. I played it on a GBA player for the GameCube. That probably skews my opinion.

[Nando]

Yeah, CotM take the top spot. Amazing game and I do not understand the hate it gets. Aria is fantastic as well, but CotM takes top spot for me.

I picked it up when I picked up my GBA at launch.  I got home and was super excited to play Circle of the moon and was super pissed off about how I couldn't see it well in any light that I had available to me.  Sunlight was a bit too bright and gave a rainbow sheen over the non-lit pixels while every other light source I had was just too dark.  I got to Dracula twice but just gave up against him as his dark sprite on a dark background that moved around rapidly was just too hard to see.  Maybe I'll go back and play the game on emulator or DS at some point.

I tried to like the GBA but man that screen. The SP is WAY better. I need to hunt down some Castlevania games.

[Xak]

^ I play the GBA games on my TV. There is so much detail in the backgrounds in Castlevania the first GBA one. Have yet to play the others.

[_joshuaTurbo]

I'm in the boat where I think these two games are really close to 'perfect' castlevania games.  I love the control scheme of Simon in CV4 with the whip ability and directional options.  I think that gameplay and level variations keep it separate from DracX so much that I have respect for each game.

If I made my top 3 Castlevania games it would go-
1a- Rondo
1b Castlevania IV
3 - Castlevania III
Depending on my mood, sometimes while playing Super Castlevania I think to myself- 'Damn this is the finest Castlevania game ever created!'...

I first played CV4 in 1992 when I picked it up for SNES, but never played Rondo until 1997 when I finally acquired it for the Duo.  That 5 year gap had me playing CV4 when I was an impressionable 13 years old and I hit adulthood (a mere 18) when I finally got teh OBEY 'Vania realm.

This might skew my opinion on the games a bit, but I still usually dub Dracula X as the best Castlevania game of all times.  If I had played it when it first came out, who knows how much it would have blown my mind of minds!!

Also, I really do enjoy Bloodlines and would rank it somewhere after the original NES game but slightly better than Symphony.  Somewhere around the X68k/Chronicles and Castlevania Adventure Rebirth games. 

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[Xak]

I personally love Castlevania Chronicles and Castlevania 2 (2013 retranslated version) the most. As crazy as it sounds.

[jeffhlewis]

Any top 5 list without x68000 Akumajou Dracula in it somewhere is garbage

[GohanX]

I really do enjoy Castlevania IV, but it's not in the same league as Rondo.

Dracula X > Bloodlines > Castlvania IV >>>>>>>>> Dracula XX (I hate this game.)