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   DrRyanSkelton (drryanskelton@mugicha.club)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 08:28:42 JST DrRyanSkelton
   I might need to play a few more CVs again more recently to properly rate it (As I sure changed my rating of MMZ and ZX seeing how seldom MMX was good) but Castlevania Bloodlines felt perfectly average. Now average for CV is excellent by any standard but I can see how despite technically being a more refined game than CV4 it doesn't have the it factor that makes CV4 so memorable. Stage 5 is trash and almost every boss looks stupid, almost all of them bad demos of the Genesis sprite manipulation capabilities but whats the point of making a monster with 16 different coordinated sprites that all rotate and dance and do all this Dynamite Headdy shit if he ends up looking like a retarded shapeless blob? The fact that the hardest platforming in the game was a boring fireball room that was also upside down felt simultaneously banal and spiteful.
   
   Still all that aside the game is still quite good and worth a play. Bonus for a soundtrack by someone who was new to Castlevania. Some girl named Michiru Yamane or something, I heard she was nervous being tasked for that game as she wasn't sure if she was up to the demands of CV music. Wonder how that turned out...
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     LittleTom (littletom@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 16:40:25 JST LittleTom

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     @DrRyanSkelton The music is really incredible. I enjoyed it enough to play it a few times but I get a bit bored when ever I try playing it again. CV1, 3 and Rondo hold up better as games that are fun every single time I go back to them.
     You should try Chronicles if you haven't. Port of the X68000 game, but it's a good one so you don't have to worry about figuring out the quirks of emulating some japanese boomer micro pc.
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     DrRyanSkelton (drryanskelton@mugicha.club)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 16:41:08 JST DrRyanSkelton

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     Sounds worth a try. I've heard SOME pre-CV1 game in this series is dogshit but not sure if it's that PC one or some arcade thing.
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     Autism Simulator 2070 (gucciloafers@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 16:50:27 JST Autism Simulator 2070

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     @LittleTom @DrRyanSkelton It's hard as fuck and the werewolf girl that tosses clock parts at you filters a lot of people.
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     LittleTom (littletom@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 16:50:27 JST LittleTom

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     @gucciloafers @DrRyanSkelton I got filtered at Medusa's stage which is why I can't really rank the game against the others.
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