An Unhinged Look at the GBA Castlevania Games

At this point, it’s become an on-brand move for me to lightly pepper in a Castlevania article on this website in between other games. Of course, by “lightly pepper” I mean “call upon Mother Nature to pelt the world with golf ball-sized hail”. Even when I don’t write about Castlevania, I’m either referencing it or …

Castlevania 64: My Favorite “Bad” Game

The more I think about it, the more I realize how much of an impact growing up with a Nintendo 64 made on shaping my weird-ass tastes in games. It essentially laid the bedrock for my love of jank-but-charming games that shoot for the stars with boundless ambition (but sometimes fly right into the burning …

Super Castlevania IV: The Beginning of a Lifelong Obsession

If I hadn’t made my love of the Castlevania series known in my previous write-up of Rondo of Blood, let me reiterate once and for all right here: Castlevania is my favorite video game series. There may be other franchises out there that have a more consistent standard of quality, but those franchises aren’t Castlevania. …

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood – The Essential Classicvania

You know, it’s a damn shame that Castlevania: Rondo of Blood remained a Japan exclusive for as long as it did. I know the PC Engine wasn’t a smashing success here in the West (known here as the TurboGrafx), but I’m honestly surprised it didn’t receive some kind of PlayStation port in the same vein …