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  • Was this AVGN'S first video?

  • But the music was rad...right?....RIGHT??

  • i wonder what retards made this game

  • Konami who made these who else?

  • i mean the game creators not the company..

  • oh well that I'm not sure who made it but probably not the same people who made 1 and 3

  • I had two castlevania games. One called Symphony of the Night and the other one was supposedly Lamnent of Innocence. LoI sucked and reminded me too much about Devil May Cry which in my opinion sucks, but I thought SotN was good but very difficult.

  • symphony of the night is for me one of the best

  • i had this game back in the early 90 and it was pretty bad but worst of all was that everything in it was obscure and made no sense.

  • This is actually one of my favorite games. The soundtrack alone is so good!! Hahaha, this is still good though!!

  • yeah this was one of my most fav castlevania games :P I beat the game when i was young.... and i didnt even the guide rofl

  • You should do Bart Vs. the Space Mutants.. that game was ridiculous, I could never get passed the 1st level. It seemed fun though, it was probably something like kneeling against the wall though like in this one to get to level 2. Haha.

  • He already reviewed that. Check his website, CineMassacre.

  • there,re no enemy,s in draculas castle so it may be possible that dracula dit,nt had to much monster bosses against simons so instead he sended all his troops to compansate that, as a result he got no troops left to keep his castle under contrle and there,re also no painfull abstacle in his castle maybe dracula dit,nt want heart his self as he was weak.

  • haha i think they spelt hope wrong at the end does it look lika a k to u?

  • They were just bored back then. And anyway, why are you hating on something from during the Reagan years anyway? It's kind of like hating on Pong. The game is fucking ancient and the new games are immensly better.

  • alot of new games suck, and others are just decent, u wont find many good games today..

  • @xxxCRAZYLOVExxx Not at all, most games today are mediocore few are bad (mostly licsensed and indie) alot of good or great and a few are amazing. You wont see games like Superman 64 or ET for the atari 2600 today.

  • @Trollgamingnews ur comment is contradicting lol, u surely dont know what ur talking about

  • @xxxCRAZYLOVExxx No your just one of those nostalgia whores who constantly look back at the past with rose tinted glasses. "The past remembers better than it lived", there were just as many bad games if not alot more you just only remember the good ones. Back in the RTS surge (mid 90s to early 2000s) there were freaking tidal waves of generic RTS after RTS but people look back at that time in a mostly positive manner because they only remeber the classics (WC2,WC3,SC1,Age of empires, Civ)

  • @Trollgamingnews the comment before was contradicting, u should check that out, btw im not a nostalgic, i know there were a bunch of bad games, but today's games are all about graphics and gimmicks, lots of gamers say it, you're just butt hurt about the truth

  • @xxxCRAZYLOVExxx all aboutngraphics and gimmicks/=/ bad

  • i don't understand y anyone would hate on a game that is made in 1988 when nintendo is the best system in the market. thanks for the post, its better than gamefaqs. and screw all you haters out there!

  • sounds like he really hated that game. This was some usefull insight for me as a game designer too... even though that game is absolutely pathetic

  • ya this game does suck all together.

  • didint know it was that bad ! thanks for making me relise that ! hahaha

  • LMAO! What a retarded fucking game.

  • wtf why is the AVGN's account suspended!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i donno its retarded he did nothing wrong!

  • guys the angry nintendo nerd has been suspended!

  • LOL! "So You Should Thank Me!" What an ass!

  • Christ, that DOES qualify as an annoying game.

  • OMG NINTENDO NERDS ACCOUNT IS GONE!!!

  • Youtube Has gone TOO FAR NOW!! Everything that has been great on this site, those fuckers censors it. Someone should give them a piece of mind

  • Looks way to hard for me

  • I played this when i was 5 years old.....94 or so. I loved it. The kneeling did take me like 5 solid nights to figure out, stayed up till like 4 am to play it :P It was great for me though. The music was so good at night and I figured the game out with my grandma. IT was more of the mood of playing than anything else and using ur brain. It was fun in its day :)

  • it was waaaaaaaay to hard. but i enjoyed the challenge.... some parts were way unfair... but i wished they made a game like this now.

  • totally agree

  • i totally agree in everything u just sayed xD

  • The biggest roadblock for me in this game is the ferry man not taking me to the castle where I get Dracula's Eye and the Golden Knife. The one time he didn't mislead me, which was a couple days ago, I beat the game. Other than the ferry man misleading me on most attempts, I thought it was a good game.

  • The ferryman will take you to the castle if you have Dracula's Heart equipped when talking to him, you also need to talk to him from the right side of the Dead River. He should say "Let me show you the way." and he will then take you to the castle.

  • Honestly, I wish they'd make another game like Castlevania II

  • Gotta say, I absolutely loved Simon's Quest.

  • Roflmao! Its funny how you complain. xD

  • wrong not him james

  • Is this the only game where the hero dies after you won the battle? I played this game, like 12 or 13 years ago a few times, and it was rather forgettable, but I never heard about the hero dying in the end.

  • They use Hearts in Pit Icaurus too.

  • Some good points, but eh.. the secret books are one, and Dracula was easy, but i was a kid and i beat it soundly without any help, including the kneeling. I never cared about the day/night thing either. I didn't mind that you died when falling in water, there's easily hundreds of games like that. I liked the fact that Dracula's castle was empty, added to the weird and eerie feel of the place. I think you wanted an action game and got an adventure.

  • he sounds as if he didn't even want to make a review of this fucking pees of shit . well im actually tankfull , i guess i should stay away from that fucked fuck fart

  • i love u

  • The values as well as the difficulty go up at night. Oh, and youre an idiot if you thought this game was hard or frustrating.

  • This game review, unlike, well, ANY others done by the same author, is actually done well! Rather than try to be funny by over exaggerating every tiny nuance and detail you can possibly find, and acting like each game has somehow ruin your life, you listed down some actual points that a person can agree or disagree with. You did more than yell "OH GOD THIS IS A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!" 100 billion times. Consecutively.

  • Please read Diplocephalus' article "Castlevania II: An Ode to Obscurity"(google it), it brilliantly elucidates the greatness and haunting power of this underrated masterpiece. Simon's Quest is the best dark/gothic game ever made, and it's annoying to see that hip irony can sway so many gullible people into believing that it's bad. Cheesy modern games have spoiled many younger players, it seems. This is the moodiest, most mystifying game I've ever played.

  • I agree, this is a great game, and for a kid growing up in the nes era, it was one of the few games that was really scary. i remember turning down the volume during the password entry part when i played at night. And what's wrong with a flame whip? seems cool enough to me. and it doesn't take that long to get hearts, it's not like dragon warrior or something. I think this is not a very fair review, and too much swearing detracts from the credibility.

  • you were scared of the password tune? Puh-leese.

  • that game looks cool at the start but what he saed was right he is alweys right

  • NO WAY. This game is flawed, but it's still a great adventure game. It could have been alot better though.

  • lmao, u love videos like this plz make more u are my hero lol, nothing better then a true ranting video.

  • castlevania is 1 of most cooles playebal and orginal game i have ever seen ( im talking about alla castlevaniia's ) i liked this part couse it was litle difrent and i adventure modelooked cool it was like my 1st half rpg on nintendo but i need to say u all right this gam is cool but u r 100 % right :D

  • I Liked the game...but...as you say, you dont know what your doing at the start...night time pisses me off and yeah...what an anti-climax. shit ending! all three of them!

  • You´re right :-), very exciting video!

  • omfg THX , i finished castlevania 1 , two days ago on pc (had it on nintendo years ago but it was too hard) great game + music ... and now i wanted to finish all other... played for 1 h and i throw out fkn oak stake.. and this fkn floor holes...wtf it was hard and weird... thx man i ll not waste my time on this crap.. going to play 3 ;d

  • When are you going to do a review on Golgo 13 for the nes and the immortal for genesis?

  • it was a gr8 game, i figured out all the stuff and finished it in 2 weeks.i was 8 yrs old i think and i just dealt with it and i didnt die that often. gr8 game, if it was made easy u would prolly complain its to easy of a game

  • if it's so "gr8" why can't you spell out "great"? even 7 year olds can spell that easy.

  • i really dont know how to answer to this and then it just came to me; i dont have to. but since u asked, i would say just to bother people like you.

  • I loved this game did not take me long to finish. It was the first game I ever finished off

  • who are the dumb ass commentators- u cant swim due to the restricted graphics of the time- who cares this game was easy- what a dumb idiot who made this

  • Then why even have water in the town?

  • why have water in the towns? hmmm....why have water in golf? why have water at all?

  • ya u right those creators were stupid. it was like kids made this s***. whoever bought this game a long time ago were riped off.

  • I agree with you..

  • I got this game for xmas when I was younger. watched these clips to see how it was supposed to be done and to see what I missed out on after giving up,after years of remembering what a s**t game it was and didn't make sense. good words, everyone true.

  • I love this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • lmao. This is hilarious.

  • ha ha ha i was looking for a cv2 fansite and came across this. hilarious. everything you say is true and i never really thought about it. thank god for emulators and state saving, otherwise i'd never relive this nightmare!!

  • u speak the truth. i pity the guys who wasted a summer back in the 90s just to figure this game out. thank god some kid from the neighborhood taught me about the kneeling. i was throwing holy water on everything

  • hah u rock dude

  • You're funny.

  • the ending sucks to LOL!

  • I you all notice, this game has different endings, 3 as I remmeber, depending how fast you kill dracula, if you do it before 7 game days you will see the best ending, if that can answer the day and night question.

  • That's what I let everybody know as well!

  • i'm sorry, but you are very much like the main character from "High strung"

    that very odd and obscure movie where for the entire movie is where the main character COMPLAINS

    and jim carrey plays a tiny cameo where he's the devil:P

  • fuck you guys

  • yes when i was a child i dit trough exactly the same from what the fucking gameplay is that

    despites i dit enjoyed the graphics and sound i were boring me after hours.

    ,i just din,t know that it was a mix of adventure and rpg.

    but thanks your disscription from kniel down by the dead end and get the red cristall orb for the magic tornado and the password code i have finely atleast beat the hole game thank you .

  • Nope sorry for saying that, you do work with him.

  • LOL, thank you.

  • You stole this from JamesNintendoNerd unless he works with you. If not you have stole this video.

  • Dude I love your reviews. You have no idea how many times I just screamed "FUCK!" just like you did when I miss jumps and stuff.... hehehe.... =)

  • Thank you for telling me how shity it is

  • Thank you for advising me to stay away from this steaming pile of horse shit.

  • my friend was going to buy this on Wii sometime, now i can tell him how horrible it is lol.

  • Absolutely hilarious

  • i ment ***FUCKING***

  • oh SHIT its FUNKING NITGHT TIME!!!I was laghing my ass off when he said that.

  • What Angrynerd was EXACTLY what I thought when I played this game back then

  • me and my friends enjoy all the whining and cursing, its hilarious. you play the game so we dont have to! you're the man

  • whine bitch cry whine bitch swear cry swear cry shine swear bitch whine cry swear... that gets boring after a while. please dont make more of these.

  • dont watch them :|

  • Normally I hate the reviewer here, but I really have to agree with everything he said. the first 3D castlvania was about as bad though... actually. All the 3D ones are.

  • i loved this game, but now i think you're right

  • What ya need to do, is a game called "Tombs and treasure."

  • what he says is true, but I still love this game!

  • its an 80s game

    get a grip

  • I love how people take these reviews so seriously.

  • i do thank you, was going to buy it off ebay

  • this is some funny shit

  • Holy shit man, do you want a bottle? I've never heard so much fucking whining in my life. "Boo hoo, I die when I fell in water." Jesus Christ, IN ALMOST ANY GAME FROM THE 80s YOU DIE WHEN YOU FALL IN WATER. That includes the original Castlevania. Castlevania 2 was the best of the old series because it required a brain to get through. If it's too tough for you, maybe you should stick to 1 and 3 - just walk in a straight line and hit the B button and you'll be fine.

  • PS- I beat this game when it came out; I was about 10 years old. No internet to look up the secrets or any shit like that. The cliff stuff was just a matter of trial and error. I must say though that I found your swearing pretty amusing. Some good rants!

  • I liked Simon's Quest, but I can't really argue with what's being pointed out. There definitely is some crappiness to it.

  • Fuck you guys, I love this game for ever and ever.

  • well i dont and im sure a whole shit load of guys dont either... but hey you can love this game for all its shittiness for all i care

  • I applaud Konami for doing something as ambitious as this. The ironic thing is that this project should've been saved for the next-gen consoles rather than the 8-16 bit consoles since expansive games are much better suited for next-gen consoles(i.e. Morrowind, Oblivion, Ocarina of Time, Shenmue, Myst)

  • Beat this game when I was a little kid, and loved it.

  • most entertaining thing i've seen in a while. really takes me back. and to those of you ignorant imbreds who say he's bad at video games to excuse this game's horridness- give me a fucking break. the guy is demonstrating the foul points of some of these tedious and not fun old games. obviously he's not gonna play terrible if he's not performing the faults for you. use your head, he collects hoards of old nintendo games, and seems logical and systematic playing them, he's probably better than you

  • ive been trying to beat this game since the 1980's, and i still can't beat the first mansion. boy, am i a cunt.

  • Thank you, now I'll never play this game.If what he says is true, its probably not worth my time.And besides I got a job I can't be spending my time collecting hearts and then at some moment say "Oh shit, I fell in water and ALL of my hearts are now gone for some reason.Oh hell,I'll just start again".No, I don't have that kind of time.Most Castlevania games are good though.

  • Yeah, it took me forever to figure out you have to select the heart er something before you jump on the boat to goto a different village.

  • I hate games with a time limit and I love walk through cities and go shoping, that's why I like Faxanuda the most. Castlevania II is the only game of the series I could stand.

    If you just could wipe out this day/night transition via emulator.

  • this game rules. I dont give a shit what anyone says

  • Some of the replies to this video are more hilarious than the video itself. I think people need to take a laxative and vent their shit. Anyway, great video.

  • ^^^You're kidding right. Castlevania II is one of the biggest loads of shit I've ever played.

  • That's foul son.

    Bang your head at Deborah Cliff...

    And keep Simon's name far from your mouth.

    Simon's Quest does indeed share in the gutsy glory of Super Mario Bros 2 (USA) and Adventure of Link.

    And its developers have far more productive talents than your vacuous swearing...

  • He's right, this game does blow.

  • yeah, i have no idea how i beat this game. especially the part where you have to kneel in front of the cliff with the red crystal. absolutely no hints to do that inside the game!

  • You know something? I never knew about that tornado thing until I picked up the Simon's Quest Worlds of Power book and yet I still beat that game without the tornado. He's got a point about the passwords though. Long-winded passwords weren't really necessary even back in the day.

  • Forgot to mention, shut the hell up about the fire whip. Undead monsters are weak against fire. What the hell else would be the strongest whip-type in the game? Zombies are weak against fire. Fire Whip = the ultimate kind of whip.  Lastly, don't jump off the ledge for a shirtcut, walk off it. You'll fall straight down, avoiding any water.

  • Screw this review. If it weren't for Castlevania 2, we'd be trapped forever in the style of Castlevania that had a game timer and no strategy at all. Castlevania 2 is the grandfather of the RPG-styled games that are so much more popular.

  • True, but at least that style of Castlevania had some semblance of variety in its various releases whereas the current games all look and play the same regardless of the gimmicks used in each entry.

  • The guy had a good point about not being able to skip the night/day transition text, but GOD DAMN, he's an idiot. He should stick to easier, modern, mainstream games, which pretty much beat themselves. "OH NOES! TOO MANY LETTERS AND NUMBERS TO CHEAT WITH TEH PASSWURD! I DIDUNT PASS THUH SECKOND GRAED!"

  • jesus, i hated the stupid night/day transistions!

  • hahahaha, its funny how i own most of the games this guy has reviewed. i guess i have a pretty shitty collection of NES games.

  • these videos used to load really fast. i dunno what happened to my computer but now they load as fast as a turtle crawling from my apartment to my job. WTF?

  • this game was total shit...

  • Christ, what the hell is wrong with you people?

    Why must you defend Castlevania 2?

    Everything the nerd says is true.

    Castlevania 2 is the black sheep of Castlevania games.

    Even the PS2 ones are better.

    And yes I did play this game when it was released ,and yes I did beat it then. It doesn't mean it's great though.

  • hey even if you dont like and i love you gotta admit there were some really good parts to the game.

  • watching that makes me want to try out CV2. Keep up the good reveiws. They are both funny and informative. Like, I'm a martial artist so I might have wanted to get Karate Kid, but now I don't want. Thanks for saving me a few bucks

  • Sadly I own this game..Heheh.

    However I agree, Konami could've done FAR better with it.

    (..And I feel blessed for not playing it all the way through (I kept dying at the beginning..luckily.))

  • Wow, I must admit this really was funny. However this as my favorite game (along with River City Ransom) for the NES. While this was my favorite Castlevania game due to the RPG elements, I can see how frustrating it can get. I spent hours looking for how to get to each mansion/castle.

  • Tahnks for saving us

  • god i never played the game and for some reason im glad i didnt (hmm wonder why?). i say good call.

  • jesus christ... 15 years later i figure out about that stupid crystal crap... that angers me.

  • As A kid I loved this game. I remember that who kneeling with the red crystal bullshit took me forever to figure that shit out. Love this review though lol he's so angery makes me laugh

  • dude for someone who hates the game your sure wasting a lot of time on it playing it.

  • right on man, right on!

  • shut up you prick

  • LOL, 1 of konami's biggest failures

  • Hey Idiot..it was Made in the 80's..first off...if it was easy it would not be fun....get a life...go play Grand Turismo or some shit..ass

  • That day to night box. That's definetly one of the most annoying points. That and the heart collecting. Very tedious.

  • I have that game and I do agree with what you said. That damn water always got in my fucking way! ARGH! SO FUCKING ANNOYING! But I love old school games and this game was alrite. Not good, but alrite. I never even beat this game lol. I got stuck at that wall and gave up.

  • Good review. Brought back some painful memories though. Still, the music was good at least.

  • this is one of my favorite games because its so different. i liked having one 3 bosses, and that dracs castle was empty. he's dead, so its cursed, so i guess its so tainted that none of the undead can go there. i agree with the water though. and that day to night box.

  • very very good

  • fuck this pile of goat shit. I rather have diarehha in my fuckn ear!!!

  • This is the best video game critic ever!

  • You don't like this game because you suck at it, just admit it. This review isn't logical or critical, it's biased and ignorant. And all the swearing is completely unnecessary!

  • good call

  • Hahah, very funny review, but I'm gonna have to disagree with you because I actually liked that game, though you do have a few valid points... Like... That damn water.

  • i say fuck the new stuff, honestly, they make games a lot worse like the fucking Spyro games, god dammit, not only that but looked wat happened to the castlevania games on the PS2... im a huge fan of them but now i wont pick up anymore 3-d castlevania games, give the old stuff another pick up, hell u might even find the game that puts most to shame (Bubble Bobble), cuz we all know any other 1 does. just becuz a game has shitty graphics doesnt mean it's not worth while. DAMN!!

  • lol dude shit like the ps3 and 360 is out who the fuck would play these games anyway

  • ps3 and 1080 sucks!

  • Thank you for helping me stay away from this horrible steaming pile of goat shit :)

  • Maybe you're the one that sucked..geez dude I best this game when it came out and I was 12 and had no user guide nor the internet to check. Different, yes, but it has some of the best music of any game on the NES and your criticism of falling the water happens in every NES Castlevania game.

  • oopw I WHOULE EO THAT i FALL IN WATER

  • I beat this game in time and trial LOL if only i knew you when I was 11 y/o

  • At least the series was able to redeem itself with part 3

    Great review

  • go die in a fire, castlevania series not only has the best storyline in video games, but the soundtracks are the best as well. i hope u choke on ur food tonight and die

  • i watched this just now 2 times cause its funny but true

  • great commentary. i hated all the cast