Its Not Like An Atari Haunted House Situation Where That Game Is The First Survival Horror Ever Lol - Tumblr Posts

chibishortdeath
1 year ago

I bet none of these people could name a game they’ve played that wasn’t somehow inspired by the Castlevania series. And yeah it’s not nearly as popular now as it once was, but holy shit it’d be easier to list off games that WEREN’T directly or indirectly inspired by these games. Especially indie games. You would not believe how many times I’ve played a game, heard some chord progressions, and immediately been reminded of Castlevania. Shovel Knight is practically a love letter to a lot of older platformers, but the Castlevania influence bleeds from this game; they even made Specter Knight’s boss battle very obviously based on Death!

And Metroid came out first, but without Simon’s Quest we wouldn’t have the Metroidvania genre as we know it. Heck, we wouldn’t have a lot of genres. Soulsborne style is heavily inspired by that game down to the map progression and atmosphere, just in a 3D format. I’ve run into multiple people who call Simon’s Quest both a proto-soulsborne and proto-metroidvania as well as a precursor to the modern psychological and survival horror genres. Hell it was one of the first series to put multiple endings into a platforming game, that was usually reserved for text based or RPGs. And that’s only the second game in the whole series!

Hell, I’d even say that for years before the Netflix series came out the series was considered on the same level as other classic, respected franchises. I’d see entries from it in lists of like “games you should play before you die” alongside Legend of Zelda and Halo or something. All those early 2000s gamer collages with logos from famous series would have Castlevania in it somewhere. If anything I’ve seen LESS people talking about the game since the show has been out unless it’s to dog on it for the reason of “teehee I have a popular ‘unpopular’ opinion and will make some people mad and most people agree with me”

Man, I don’t know, it’s just infuriating and sad. :(

i already know most nfcv fans dont respect the games but i feel like ive been punched in the gut

I Already Know Most Nfcv Fans Dont Respect The Games But I Feel Like Ive Been Punched In The Gut
I Already Know Most Nfcv Fans Dont Respect The Games But I Feel Like Ive Been Punched In The Gut
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castlevania castlevania games text post reblogs anti netflixvania cw netflixvania netflixvania tw and no I’m not saying Simon’s Quest was a first for literally everything it’s just the one that did all of these things that everyone knows about and probably the one that inspired things it’s not like an Atari Haunted House situation where that game is the first survival horror ever lol it’s just sad I think about that ‘nobody’s favorite anyway’ comment made about Bloodlines and Drolta a lot it also sucks that like of all videogame adaptations why did this one have to get popular most are laughed off the internet for the same reasons that Netflixvania is praised and it’s so frustrating you see people making lists of great adaptations and putting idk Arcane in the same list as it and it’s what no how literally like the resident evil movies are more respectful of the source material than this one and they’re basically just generic action zombie movies it’s sad man it’s so so sad incoherent rambling
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