Rondo of Blood Thread

[Black Tiger]

My favourite stage is Stage 4, since it feels like a living, breathing dungeon:  You can follow the rolling balls down the hole and along their path back up again to the dude who throws them.  Classy.

Or if you're Maria you can just double jump.

I wonder why Dracula is so young?

He's a vampire.

Yes, but...

He's older in the other games.

I find it funny that Dracula is way older in SOTN (takes place only a few years after, even has the goatee in the prologue)

So what you meant was, "why does Dracula look older in games that came later?"

No earlier too...

He was monstrous in the original and a ghost in Simon's Quest. Otherwise the NES, MD, SNES, PCE and X68k look similar off the top of my head.

[EvilEvoIX]

Wow, such a good game. 

It's quite a masterpiece of game design. Whole game, looks, sounds and plays amazing.

Presentation is of a league of it's own.

I've gotten 100%, and still feel like doing more. Maria!

One of my favorite levels is Stage 5. Nice long ship level, with a great boss fight.

Though, every level is my favorite.

I disagree, so do most of the people on this site, rushed, poor grafx, terrible music.  The Legendary Ax II beats it on all fronts.

[fragmare]

Rondo is the most piss poor example of botched/rushed gameplay mechanics I've ever seen.  The animation is clunky, the hit detection is terrible, and the controls are not responsive at ALL.  The only saving grace WOULD be the redbook audio, but even that sounds like a drunken dwarf farting in an auditorium.  Just awful.  Night Creatures is infinitely better.

[bob]

Rondo is the most piss poor example of botched/rushed gameplay mechanics I've ever seen.  The animation is clunky, the hit detection is terrible, and the controls are not responsive at ALL.  The only saving grace WOULD be the redbook audio, but even that sounds like a drunken dwarf farting in an auditorium.  Just awful.  Night Creatures is infinitely better.

This joke was already attempted.

[_joshuaTurbo]

This joke was already attempted.

Yet neither were funny.  You can joke about alot of things here at PCFX, but saying Rondo is an overrated or terrible game gets you put in the f*cking SNERD closet for life.

Rondo for SCD usually gets ranked in my top 3 PCE/Turbo games and easily in my top 10 favorites of all times for all consoles.

[Black Tiger]

This joke was already attempted.

Yet neither were funny.  You can joke about alot of things here at PCFX, but saying Rondo is an overrated or terrible game gets you put in the f*cking SNERD closet for life.

Rondo for SCD usually gets ranked in my top 3 PCE/Turbo games and easily in my top 10 favorites of all times for all consoles.

We do have a few of those non-jokers around here.

[munchiaz]

Rondo is one of the greatest games i have ever played in my whole Life. Konami left the level based castlevania games off with a bang. Its basically perfect.

[GohanX]

I'll go one step further and say it's the best game ever made. I need to get another real copy sometime soon.I saw one at a store recently but they wanted to much for a beat up copy.

[td741]

I will admit then when I first got Rondo back in the day I was initially disappointed.

The slideshow intro, the encounter with death, and initial stage before entering the castle seemed a little lackluster for all the hype the game was getting...

Of course, the changed as soon as I entered the castle...

[BlueBMW]

I really enjoyed Rondo, but for some reason I like the x68k Dracula just a hair more...  I think its has to do with the variety of music in the 68k game.  Either way though, Rondo is a masterpiece!

[Tatsujin]

I will admit then when I first got Rondo back in the day I was initially disappointed.

The slideshow intro, the encounter with death, and initial stage before entering the castle seemed a little lackluster for all the hype the game was getting...

Of course, the changed as soon as I entered the castle...

so when was that "back in the day" of yours?

the slideshow intro, the encounter with death, and initial stage (prologe) before entering the castle  was and still is something of the coolest and most stylish a game ever showed in the whole 90s. how can one get disappointed of a show from that great calibre?

[td741]

Back in the day was as close to release date as I could have gotten it. I was calling up the import store long distance every week to see if they got it yet.

I had to contend with an awful exchange rate, import fees, long wait for delivery while reading the few articles in magazines I could find.

When I finally got it, I was so hyped that I was let down by those first few moments of the game. It wasn't that I thought it that small chunk of the game sucked. It just wasn't as spectacular as I was expecting.

[Tatsujin]

ok..I was sheer killed by those first minutes of purest awesome just possible.

[fragmare]

This joke was already attempted.

Yet neither were funny.  You can joke about alot of things here at PCFX, but saying Rondo is an overrated or terrible game gets you put in the f*cking SNERD closet for life.

Rondo for SCD usually gets ranked in my top 3 PCE/Turbo games and easily in my top 10 favorites of all times for all consoles.

Trollololol

Anyone who doesn't think Rondo is an incredible game needs admitted to a mental ward.  Of course it's awesome.  It's still one of the best, if the THE best, of the Castlevania games ever made... duh.

[bob]

Anyone who doesn't think Rondo is an incredible game needs admitted to a mental ward.  Of course it's awesome.  It's still one of the best, if the THE best, of the Castlevania games ever made... duh.

Yeah, "duh".