This Is So I Was Born In The Wrong Generation Cringe Of Me, But I Am So Sad That Video Game Toll Lines,

This is so “I was born in the wrong generation cringe” of me, but I am so sad that video game toll lines, the kinds where a game manual or magazine would have a phone number to call if you were stuck so somebody reading a book of common problems could tell you what you were doing wrong and give tips, aren’t a thing anymore because ranting to random people about Castlevania all day is exactly all I wanna do most of the time.

happy birthday to a Special Girl

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the version without the hands is included here because i drew it all in one layer via mouse in ms paint because i love suffering

for the simonheads in my audience

Random tiny details I like a lot in CV4:

- you can be killed by frogs

- also tables

- and falling off the stairs

- Simon sometimes moonwalks on the stairs

- Simon really has trouble with stairs doesn’t he

- there’s a particular brick pattern in one of the backgrounds that looks like teeth

- 3/4 hanging skeletons can be ducked under without having to kill them

- if you stand in place with the whip held over your head none of Deaths projectiles can hit you

- the cute little bugs on the title screen

- the ghost dancers are named Paula Abgoul and Fred Ascare (hehehe puns)

- that bone horse in the background of the first level

- Simon just kinda flails the whip around with wild abandon when “spinning” it, like it’s barely a spin bro is just panicking

- hehehehe Simon swing!!! It’s so fun

- a lot of enemies are taller than Simon

- the sound when you jump off a treasure chest

- almost all the hand enemies don’t do any damage they just hold you in one spot

- secret room!

- the end use of Simon’s theme of course, still sad there’s no curse of man/second phase tho

There’s more but like man it’s the little things, I love this game I’m replaying it again that’s the whole context for this lol

AUGH. thinking ab leon and how hes such an effective foil to mathias and how the events of lament wouldve changed him as a person AUGH. its all so much.