Filling some holes in my Castlevania library lately, besides getting Belmont's Revenge a couple of weeks back, I finally decided to buy Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth on Wii. Technically we have a Wii, but I bought it through my Wii U's built in Wii mode. Shame they just didn't move it to Wii-U natively (I was kinda waiting for that) so I could be use the Wii-U pro controller instead of having to fish out an old school wiimote and even bother with Wii mode at all, but it's the only place you can get this game.
I'm a veteran of Castlevania: The Adventure on GB and beating that game when I was a kid was a proud moment for me. Rebirth is waaay easier. The connections to the original are very loose, eyeball enemies, shooting fireballs from your whip, that's about it. It has music from several different CV games so far, Belmont's Revenge and Bloodlines (or Circle of the Moon, same song in both) have both been featured. I'm only on Stage 3, but I'm liking it so far. I'm a fan of the Developer, M2, and I have already also bought the Monster World Collection by them on 360 (for the "official" Monster World IV Translation especially). I plan to buy Contra and Gradius Rebirth too, when funds allow.
So buying Wiiware games was a block as I said, because I really feel they should just be available on Wii-U. I know from doing QA myself things would have to be retested, new controllers, different resolution, etc. etc. Besides that, Konami is being, well, Konami right now and I didn't expect any resources for that coming from them.
So the next thing I bought has also been another block for me - DLC for Castlevania HD. It's a game I love, and I bought back in 2009/10 or whatever it was and played the hell out of. Xbox 360. So even though I've gotten a great deal of mileage out of my 360, I am loathe to purchase any multiplayer games on it because I have never appreciated the gold membership thing adding an extra cost just to play something with friends. Plus now, there's nothing to warrant getting one. I don't have an Xbox One, friends aren't playing 360 anymore, and multiplayer on Castlevania HD is surely dead as a doornail. So I had to really want to play some single player of it. Oh, and the DLC costs something like $40 bucks altogether.
This game is only really available on 360 or PS3, and I had secretly hoped it would show up on Steam or a disc containing all the DLC. No such luck though, again, Konami is probably done with this game forever, and we know they have basically bowed out of games entirely at this point. So I went ahead and said to myself I would buy $10 bucks of DLC for it a bit at a time because I do really like the game. Just a shame I have to relegate my play to single player. I wish it had couch co-op at least! Apparently the PS3 version does, but I hear you have to play zoomed out the whole time (crazy!) and it's full of bugs/issues. Anyway, I bought the Simon Belmont DLC, the Castlevania 1 themed stage, Maria (because Rondo) and the first music pack. Haven't beat it yet despite having tons of gear from before, but it's been a while since I played it and I don't have any help now! I will probably drop some dough on the rest, but a little at a time so it doesn't sting as much. I wish some of this old stuff would go on sale!
