/vr/ - Retro Games

>Game is so easy that there are millions of difficulty hacks but none of them get it right
Discuss SOTN here or something

Examples of great aesthetics & nostalgia masking bad boring gameplay.

The "SotnKindAndFair" hack is bloody brilliant and made me feel like I was playing SotN for the first time all over again. Now that bosses don't die in 5 seconds, you'll find they actually have a variety of cool attacks that you really gotta dodge.

I'm playing SotN. I played Aria / Dawn first, and I don't quite get this game. Yeah, it's same premise, but the combat feels so "vanilla". You only have your basic attack + special weapon, like holy water. You can't even cancel your attack into backdash like in Aria. At this point, Richter sounds more fun to play.
So… I guess the fun is in using those spells that have crazy button combinations, right? I read you get summons too, guess leveling them up should be fun too.

This was one of the first orchestrations I ever worked on, Requiem of the Gods from SOTN. Let me know what you think.
https://voca.ro/1c4hwGjObskg

Moonlit Nocturne was a better name, unfortunate it had to be dumbed down

The motherfucking GOAT.

>2D graphics STILL haven't gotten better than this
what the fuck happened?

Reverse castle sucks

>>9546142

>Inverted castle
Great idea or lazy level design?

>Level 1 code
There, the game is fixed.

>>8929953
So what are the PS1 games seriously worth playing today? I don't hate the console btw, I only remember reading about Panzer Dragoon on a thread some time ago

Symphony Of The Night and that's about it.

>>8631153
>tons of cntrl + v for enemies down monotonous hallways and the same green/blue hallway between every area (maybe this was due to hardware loading?)
>you can carry a bunch of useless shit but have to rely mostly on random pick-ups for your throwing weapons apart from a few obscure rooms that have them all--why can't I select my throwable weapon like my melee weapon?
>Another dumb thing from the old Castelvania's--huge amount of knockback from shit like a tiny bone getting thrown at you. Annoying. Not necessary to punish me that much since I'm not playing a platformer.
>can tank pretty much every single boss on your first attempt
>have to cycle through every single warp point to get to your desired one since you can't just get a map display and pick
>music completely stops when you hit start which you have to do fairly often
>because bosses are trivial, there's hardly a point in fighting any of the monsters in the inverted castle so you end up just slowly floating past everything--seriously, bosses are so easy that there's 0 punishment for this
>vast majority of swords and items you get are dogshit/worthless since there's only a handful of decent ones that render the rest moot
>I think the inverted castle just looks stupid

Still enjoyed it, but it's pretty clunky and very much a product of its time that paved the way for better games. Super Metroid aged better.

Metroid if he soulful

>Sidescrolling Metroidvania
>Top-Down Metroidvania
>2.5D Metroidvania
>3rd Person Metroidvania
>1st Person Metroidvania

Why did they make it so easy?
Shield rod + iron shield special attack deletes everything, and it's something you can get like 1/3rd of the way through the game.
Even if you don't use special attacks like that, just playing normally you are basically invincible after like 20 minutes.

>>8334894
Not the first entry in the series but the first metroidvania. Every game after this one feels like a cheap imitation.

This game proves that most of you prefer style over substance.

>>7702456
I think 'murica was still in that "Jap faggot cartoons isn't marketable" phase. The PAL version got the Japanese styled cover, like often was the case with other releases too.

This sucks. Why is it praised? I wonder how many people even got to the inverted castle or even got the bat ability.

ITT games you dont understand why people like

Starting with this, AKA all style no substance - the game. Yeah the graphics are nice and the music is catchy but the gameplay is fucking shit - seriously why do people have this game in their top 10s.

I don't understand why everyone creams their pants over this game. 90% of indie games are cloning this game. People get in huge shit flinging fights over this game being better than the GBA/DS games. I see memes and shit about it everywhere. There is so much fucking autism around this game. I just got the true ending and it was great, but it didn't completely blow my dick right off my pelvis. It has a lot of charm and fun shit in it, but not so much more that the GBA/DS games completely pale in comparison.

I don't even understand why indies are cloning it either. Everything that makes this game great (good music, movement, keeping things interesting, etc) can be done in any game genre/format and mindlessly making a clone will have none of those things.