What the fuck is this: Castlevania SOTN is now going for like $70?!!

tbf i haven't played rondo of blood since the late 90s when i foolishly let my original copy slip into a friend's hands. i did remember a bunch of the sprites going over to SOTN so that's fair. but not all of them surely!! i dunno i had a blast in the second half, love all those environments, shit was cool. def not as "tight" as the first half but that's true of tons of games that open up in terms of linearity as you go on.

The Last Faith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN3Opf27zto
It's amazing how many of these games there are, I find most of them on this channel, but see this playlist in particular.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7eMqz_fn4BpW8BEBUQcmHtAi3Xc77ef4

SOTN and another CV game is cheap on PS Store at the moment so I grabbed them. Worth it?

Certainly. Rondo of Blood is my favorite of the "classic" gameplay style. It placed #44 on this recent forum poll of platformers: https://www.resetera.com/threads/reseteras-101-essential-platformers-top-101-posted-hm-voting-in-progress.217215/

I picked up the collection with 1-4 and Bloodlines. I've never played Bloodlines before.

Bloodlines is totally dope. One of the best classic era titles.

Interesting that Wallachia goes for a specifically early 90s look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8CPL7Y4aAw

And the new Record Of Lodoss War game looks modeled on Iga era Castlevania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmKbXx6gtU

A Lodoss War game? in 2020??
All for it, but surprised. Lol at that "Item Get" animation being a carbon copy of the Igavania message style

the lodossvania is by the same folks that made the touhouvania game a year or two ago that was pretty good

I didn't realize that the first Lodoss book (Grey Witch?) appeared in english a few years ago, some reviewers say it's completely generic but I'm putting it on my endless list of things I'd like to but probably wont read.
Actually I didn't know there was a book series that came out of another table top rpg.

I had no idea that in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - the gradient in the UI flips based on which castle you are in (normal or upside down) pic.twitter.com/tSpORA19cz

— Derek Daniels (@derek_omni) May 18, 2021

They should flipped the text as well for the full upside-down experience

literally had the same thought

people would have hated it, but now, in retrospect, they would have loved it