This is such a gift for the community, especially for Simon fans. There’s so much content combining various Castlevania games + some extra stuff, the devs must have worked really hard on this, I can feel the love and passion through the screen. I especially love how Simon has Grant’s wall climbing ability (somewhat).
@@anotherland2462 Simon built the franchise. Sure maybe Julius is the "strongest" Belmont but he isn't the "first" Belmont. Simon and Richtor are icons of gaming. When you talk castlevania people think Simon > Richtor and maybe Trevor. No one thinks about Julius, Leon, Juste, Soleil, or Christopher. Julius is an afterthought.. If even that.
Game definitely seems cool, especially with the drought of Castlevania in general. That said, does Simon... have many fans? No shade to the OG but he isn't much of a character
DEFINITELY should also do this with castlevania 2, Castlevania 2 felt like it WAS suppossed to be a Metroidvania from the start, minus the terrible advices, with an upgrade like this, it would be an amazing game
Screw the advices man, the fake blocks and braindead enemy placement makes it so much worse! Not even the awesome Redacted hack improves that awful design
@@dominicballinger6536 fake blocks could work like they do here, they are given a hint on where they are or require an elemental whip, all the other ones, screw the enemy placement and make it work like this one, if well done, it could work like an 8 bit order of ecclesia
@@joezuru3753 yeah, I can see it being really fun! I've heard of another rom hack of Simon's Quest that might be nice, but if only the game were better to begin with
I thought somebody already did a fix of Simon's Quest? I could swear AVGN played it at some point. He was doing some skit about being so sick of bad games that he was quitting, then he played the fixed Simon's Quest and changed his mind
@@toxicmanbaby1069 yeah, that was Simon's Quest Redacted. It just fixed the bad translations, npc lies, and day/night cycle speed. Not anything with the level or game design as a whole
Honestly, it looks like it's a minor reskin away from being commercially viable. It wouldn't even be the closest Castlevania derivative in that market.
@@mademedothis424 Thought the same - I wouldn't be too surprised if this game was out there with proper brand and packaging stuff. This is pretty much legit compilation&remaking of Simon's early saga of multiple parallel games.
@@retro3188 Chronicles is basically the remake of X68k - speaking of X68k, the complete port was *finally* released in X68000 Z, which came out May 30 this year.
I like how the game puts collectible power ups in your path right after you get the powerup to collect them. Like the health up right above where you come out when you get the climbing claws.
I gotta say, this Fan Game is the Sonic Mania of Castlevania, I would love to see more classic games get reimagined like this; Lv.4 Games really deserves a lot of attention and hype for this masterpiece of a remake!
I'm honestly shocked with just how well rounded this game is, it really feels like you gotta use all your options when it comes to fighting bosses and every sub weapon at least feels like it has a decent use case. I actually found myself swapping between them decently often, my only real complaint is that you have to find a candle if you wanna swap sub weapons, I wish you could just swap out sub weapons at save points once you've gotten them at least once. Easy 9/10 game.
I agree with other comments - I get that music and graphics take effort to produce but what I see here is a solid metroidvania in its own right and if they just replaced the copyrighted assets with their own they'd have something totally marketable here that wasn't at risk of getting them sued.
This is true, but counterpoint... I think I would like it less. Just because it's such a love letter to Simon Belmont and Castlevania fans. I hope the dev does an original project using this as a framework, I would really love to support them, but Castlevania ReVamped isabout as close to perfect as a game can get
Pretty sure that the invisible block room is not a glitch and is rather intended, considering a little further in you see the huge plains painting room (which would otherwise not make much sense if illusion was not the intent.) It's likely a homage to the original level where Etude for the Killer played in Chronicles, since the whole level had a trickery gimmick. I could be wrong though!
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29:21 btw this is one of the best rooms for farming in the game. You equip the triple knifes and just spam it against the glass guys. Easy money and health.
As a Metroidvania fan myself, I was very pleased to see yours joy and satisfaction from this game. I'm not such a Castlevania professional, but I've probably played absolutely every Metroidvania and this "remake", so to speak, is simply amazing
What a phenomenal fan game. I agree wholeheartedly that this could be an actual professional release. If I saw this on a storefront, I'd immediately purchase it.
Thx dude to show us this, wonderful game, I got to finish it with 100% of map, Boss, enemies, itens and cards, no I dont wanna finish less 2hr or 12% itens, I not speedrunner, two images on galerie. I've loved this freak game
I like how quickly he does the stairs now. Just like how in Megaman 3, he suddenly climbed the ladder twice as fast. They knew we were getting bored 😂 This is super cool though, like a cross between the first two castlevania games
Honestly, this is what I don't like about it. It's cool to increase the movement speed of everything, but it feels way over done to me. The speed is too fast and the player control isn't that tight. It would've felt much better if the speed was more similar to Symphony of the Night.
This was driving me crazy. Maybe it’s the RPG hoarder in me, but it was driving me crazy how many candles, hearts, money pickups, he just struts right passed. 😢
Popped into this video not knowing what it was but the thumbnail sold me so I'll have to come back to this video after I played it myself. Thank you for uploading! Can't wait to explore this on my own!
This looks fantastic! Great graphics upgrade while still keeping with the classic look, life bar upgrades, the ability to choose between sub weapons if you accidentally grab something you didn't want, and exploration elements? Yes please! Sign me up!
Actually they need to just license Castlevania out to these creators to do the work they no longer do. But yeah same result 😂. Konami let somebody make grimoire of souls because they wanted to make a pay to play addictive element from their casino games success. Hopefully the rumors of a real new Castlevania game is coming true but the 2d games like this is actually what fans love
I'm going to have to check this out! I recently played a metroidish Mario - SMW: Mario's Expedition. While not great, it was fun, and I had always wanted a progressive exploration system for Mario. And same for this! Ever since seeing the MSX version, I wanted a sort of metroid style game of the first CV!
I know this is a bit late but thank u Jupiter for showing us this masterpiece! I took my absolute time enjoying this game and managed to beat it 100% and after I completed the "4 endings" challenge. This was, as you said, a childhood dream, I always wanted to see a Classicvania remake and maybe turned into a metroidvania and here we are. What a absolute timeline to live in ♥
1:11 WHAAAAAAAGH?!?!!! The dreaded ‘CastleVania jump’ is GONE! AWESOMMMMMMMMME!!! For those unaware, in the NES Castlevania, once you jumped, it committed you to the jump with no ability to maneuver mid-air… …and multi-directional whip strikes ( 4:50 )?!?!!!… There’s SO much gold here, but the jump adjustment is a MASSIVE quality of life improvement… (I still have my copy that I got back in the 80s… 😅 ) Bonus shout that this looks almost like it got a ‘Super Metroid meets Symphony of the Night’ sort of treatment… NO idea how I managed to beat the original back in the day. …amazing. Cheers! \m/, 😊 ,\m/
Been watching through this and the only way I can describe the feeling I have right now is that this makes me feel like a kid again. I haven't felt like this towards an 8 bit game since Super Mario Bros 3. Edit: Christ after watching it all, I can't believe I'm saying this but I think this game is on par with Symphony. You would think this game gets bad in some points but it feels like biting into a wagyu steak that only gets better with each small piece you eat. Like having the best meal of your life right before you die...It actually left me crying tears of joy a bit from how good the gameplay looked. I'm not making this up....
1:47:38 this must definitely a glitch. Also loved the game, but it gets very easy when you use the card that gives you health when you attack. Combine this with the herb subweapon and you can just stand in one spot and just spam attack on every boss
One thing I'd really love to see one of these days in a fan game (or by some miracle, a new CV from Konami) is a Metroidvania CV with a Belmont like the first two GBA games but with Castlevania 4's omni directional whip gameplay. I still have no idea why they've like NEVER revisited that gameplay system in a future game, it was so good lmao.
It looks like a demake of Castlevania Chronicles from the PS1, which in turn, is a port of the rare 16-bit remake of CV1 for japanese PCs in the early 90s. But it also seems to borrow from Symphony of the Night as well, so it's certainly not a 1 to 1 port of Chronicles.
At this point, Konami might as well pass down the Castlevania IP to us Castlevania fans, as we're able to put more passion into the franchise than Konami has in the past decade. Don't expect much from Konami outside re-released content but Castlevania's 38th anniversary is just around the corner 👀 I know we just got a re-release of the DS trilogy alongside a remake of Haubted Castle but I'm just putting that out there...
I know, right!?!?!?! I know this dude is great at the other Castlevanias but now I am starting to think he is only good because he spent his entire life playing them as opposed to just having a quick learning and memorial skill set. The amount of things he just walked right by had me yelling at the screen. I had to turn it off just as he killed Medusa, lol
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Castlevania ReVamped official trailer with download information:
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What kind of Controler are you using dude?
@@joshuamay9487 Logitech F310
This is such a gift for the community, especially for Simon fans. There’s so much content combining various Castlevania games + some extra stuff, the devs must have worked really hard on this, I can feel the love and passion through the screen. I especially love how Simon has Grant’s wall climbing ability (somewhat).
Simon is and always will be THE BELMONT.
@@anotherland2462 Simon built the franchise. Sure maybe Julius is the "strongest" Belmont but he isn't the "first" Belmont. Simon and Richtor are icons of gaming. When you talk castlevania people think Simon > Richtor and maybe Trevor. No one thinks about Julius, Leon, Juste, Soleil, or Christopher. Julius is an afterthought.. If even that.
Ye
THIS looks awesome!
and btw youre so gey!
Game definitely seems cool, especially with the drought of Castlevania in general. That said, does Simon... have many fans? No shade to the OG but he isn't much of a character
Simon literally just jacked Richters entire swagger. He even turned blue toward the end.
Simon wore it first. Super Castlevania IV art
That's how it goes when you are the triple OG on tha block!
Other way around. Richter inherited it from Simon's side of the family. :p
CV1 got Zero Mission'd
Excellent comparison lol
Well the gameplay got ZM'd, the graphics are still 8-bit style.
I was thinking the same lol
The use of underappreciated tunes from the CV catalog was GREATLY appreciated
DEFINITELY should also do this with castlevania 2, Castlevania 2 felt like it WAS suppossed to be a Metroidvania from the start, minus the terrible advices, with an upgrade like this, it would be an amazing game
Screw the advices man, the fake blocks and braindead enemy placement makes it so much worse! Not even the awesome Redacted hack improves that awful design
@@dominicballinger6536 fake blocks could work like they do here, they are given a hint on where they are or require an elemental whip, all the other ones, screw the enemy placement and make it work like this one, if well done, it could work like an 8 bit order of ecclesia
@@joezuru3753 yeah, I can see it being really fun! I've heard of another rom hack of Simon's Quest that might be nice, but if only the game were better to begin with
I thought somebody already did a fix of Simon's Quest? I could swear AVGN played it at some point. He was doing some skit about being so sick of bad games that he was quitting, then he played the fixed Simon's Quest and changed his mind
@@toxicmanbaby1069 yeah, that was Simon's Quest Redacted. It just fixed the bad translations, npc lies, and day/night cycle speed. Not anything with the level or game design as a whole
This feels like a _whole nexus_ of CV games starring Simon(OG, 2, 4, X68k and furthermore) combined with Later CV system
Honestly, it looks like it's a minor reskin away from being commercially viable. It wouldn't even be the closest Castlevania derivative in that market.
@@mademedothis424 Thought the same - I wouldn't be too surprised if this game was out there with proper brand and packaging stuff. This is pretty much legit compilation&remaking of Simon's early saga of multiple parallel games.
And also Vampire Killer (MSX), Haunted Castle (arcade, it’s terrible) and Chronicles (PS1).
@@retro3188 Chronicles is basically the remake of X68k - speaking of X68k, the complete port was *finally* released in X68000 Z, which came out May 30 this year.
I like how the game puts collectible power ups in your path right after you get the powerup to collect them. Like the health up right above where you come out when you get the climbing claws.
I gotta say, this Fan Game is the Sonic Mania of Castlevania, I would love to see more classic games get reimagined like this; Lv.4 Games really deserves a lot of attention and hype for this masterpiece of a remake!
There's actually a ReVamped version of Simon's Quest and Dracula's Curse now too. They're really good. Amazing graphics and new gameplay.
The "Link stuck in Castlevaina" fan game might be my favorite. You gotta check it out
I'm honestly shocked with just how well rounded this game is, it really feels like you gotta use all your options when it comes to fighting bosses and every sub weapon at least feels like it has a decent use case. I actually found myself swapping between them decently often, my only real complaint is that you have to find a candle if you wanna swap sub weapons, I wish you could just swap out sub weapons at save points once you've gotten them at least once. Easy 9/10 game.
the fact it uses the file select theme from Harmony of Disonance really shows the love from the devs
And actually that tune comes from another version of Castlevania 1.
The og Famicom Disk System Akumajou Dracula.
Watching Death pull out Ecclesia and Aria/Dawn tech was not something I was prepared for.
I agree with other comments - I get that music and graphics take effort to produce but what I see here is a solid metroidvania in its own right and if they just replaced the copyrighted assets with their own they'd have something totally marketable here that wasn't at risk of getting them sued.
All of the tracks of this are remixed, I'm pretty sure. And a lot of the enemies are custom as well.
This is true, but counterpoint... I think I would like it less. Just because it's such a love letter to Simon Belmont and Castlevania fans. I hope the dev does an original project using this as a framework, I would really love to support them, but Castlevania ReVamped isabout as close to perfect as a game can get
The love behind this fangame really shows, a speedrun would be pretty interesting
cool pfp, love that album
Pretty sure that the invisible block room is not a glitch and is rather intended, considering a little further in you see the huge plains painting room (which would otherwise not make much sense if illusion was not the intent.) It's likely a homage to the original level where Etude for the Killer played in Chronicles, since the whole level had a trickery gimmick. I could be wrong though!
'Bear with me I'm doing some money farming' -ignored drops until then-
Picks up a row of coins "Ooooooooh"
He even whips the candles too. 😂
*Immediately goes back to ignoring drops*
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I played this last month! This is such a good game. This is my first Castlevania fan game And what an incredible passion project this is! A+
29:21 btw this is one of the best rooms for farming in the game. You equip the triple knifes and just spam it against the glass guys. Easy money and health.
Whoever created this game needs some kind of an award, especially since we haven't received any new GOOD Castlevania games in the past 12 years!
As a Metroidvania fan myself, I was very pleased to see yours joy and satisfaction from this game. I'm not such a Castlevania professional, but I've probably played absolutely every Metroidvania and this "remake", so to speak, is simply amazing
What-If Castlevania NES MetroidVania with Vampire Killer MSX with Levels Haunted Castle
The doubble jump sounds like the super ghosts and ghouls sfx and i love it
This is so amazing! We need more examples like this one that companies are just leaving money on the table for not caring enough of their IPs 🍷
OH MY GOD THE MEDUSA SKY PROJECTILES FREAKED ME OUT SO MUCH I THOUGHT SOMEONE WAS CALLING ON THE INTERCOM IRL ISTG
What a phenomenal fan game. I agree wholeheartedly that this could be an actual professional release. If I saw this on a storefront, I'd immediately purchase it.
This is like if Castlevania combined with Metroid!
Now what would such a combination be called? I can't quite put my finger on it.
Castloid, obviously.
@@AliceErishechRolls right off the tongue, too! 🧑🍳👌
Thx dude to show us this, wonderful game, I got to finish it with 100% of map, Boss, enemies, itens and cards, no I dont wanna finish less 2hr or 12% itens, I not speedrunner, two images on galerie. I've loved this freak game
You’ve got to start speedunning this, truly an awesome game
I think we need more of those 8-bit metroidvanias
Man, this game has everything: triangle wall kicks...
Shoutouts to the word "stymied"
My favorite part was when Dracula said "What is a man" in modem talk and then got Belmonted in the face
Castlevania: Zero Whippin’
Whip it good!
I like how quickly he does the stairs now. Just like how in Megaman 3, he suddenly climbed the ladder twice as fast. They knew we were getting bored 😂
This is super cool though, like a cross between the first two castlevania games
The BGM at the merchant was name enter from the arcade game, Haunted Castle. Nice!
34:52 “BIRD UP!!!!!!! BbbbbbbBBBBIRD UP!”
It's the worst show on television!
Why was he ignoring the drops ,that's free money bro
Yeah for real. It's absolutely frustrating
This is SO cool! I really hope you come back to this game again in the future, and again, and again!
I think "Clock Toweeeer~ NO!" is my favorite quote from this playthrough.
Cannot wait to see Speedruns of this!
Best part of this is the speed at which you move. I hated how slow original Castlevania was lol. Especially with stairs lol
Honestly, this is what I don't like about it. It's cool to increase the movement speed of everything, but it feels way over done to me. The speed is too fast and the player control isn't that tight. It would've felt much better if the speed was more similar to Symphony of the Night.
The blinding in the torture lab was so frustrating, but the game feels amazing and I loved the rest of the video
at the end it looked like Simon Belmont had a tail. but its his whip. banger video as always. keep it up.😃👍
That's pricy...Proceeds to not pick up money along the way.
This was driving me crazy. Maybe it’s the RPG hoarder in me, but it was driving me crazy how many candles, hearts, money pickups, he just struts right passed. 😢
Popped into this video not knowing what it was but the thumbnail sold me so I'll have to come back to this video after I played it myself. Thank you for uploading! Can't wait to explore this on my own!
Every enemy feels like a homing missile. That could use some work.
22:13 "it's like Beat from megaman but free"
Except you pay for it and then you can use it every time when equiped.
Unreal! This was so cool to watch. Thanks for uploading this!
Axe + crit = harmony of dissonance damage stacking
Oh my god. Someone else loved the Tower of Dolls?!
No one would’ve left their home if this was released in 1990.
The grim reaper (death) fight is very reminiscent of Samus vs. Raven Beak.
This is so cool. Love the style.
Flame whip did it for me. The euphoria of seeing all of those 2s...I think it broke me.
The musics got that old Konami feel.
Oh lord I shouldn’t have clicked on this. I’m going to end up watching this entire thing!
This looks fantastic! Great graphics upgrade while still keeping with the classic look, life bar upgrades, the ability to choose between sub weapons if you accidentally grab something you didn't want, and exploration elements? Yes please! Sign me up!
Konami REALLY, REALLY needs to hire the cats making some of these mods/revivals/fan games. I'd gladly pay for them.
Actually they need to just license Castlevania out to these creators to do the work they no longer do. But yeah same result 😂. Konami let somebody make grimoire of souls because they wanted to make a pay to play addictive element from their casino games success. Hopefully the rumors of a real new Castlevania game is coming true but the 2d games like this is actually what fans love
I'm going to have to check this out! I recently played a metroidish Mario - SMW: Mario's Expedition. While not great, it was fun, and I had always wanted a progressive exploration system for Mario.
And same for this! Ever since seeing the MSX version, I wanted a sort of metroid style game of the first CV!
I know this is a bit late but thank u Jupiter for showing us this masterpiece! I took my absolute time enjoying this game and managed to beat it 100% and after I completed the "4 endings" challenge. This was, as you said, a childhood dream, I always wanted to see a Classicvania remake and maybe turned into a metroidvania and here we are. What a absolute timeline to live in ♥
Glad to see you play this! Recently played it and had a great time 😊
what an incredibly made fan game ! killed it !
1:11 WHAAAAAAAGH?!?!!!
The dreaded ‘CastleVania jump’ is GONE! AWESOMMMMMMMMME!!!
For those unaware, in the NES Castlevania, once you jumped, it committed you to the jump with no ability to maneuver mid-air…
…and multi-directional whip strikes ( 4:50 )?!?!!!…
There’s SO much gold here, but the jump adjustment is a MASSIVE quality of life improvement…
(I still have my copy that I got back in the 80s… 😅 )
Bonus shout that this looks almost like it got a ‘Super Metroid meets Symphony of the Night’ sort of treatment…
NO idea how I managed to beat the original back in the day.
…amazing.
Cheers!
\m/, 😊 ,\m/
The creator really has an eye for metroidvania stuff
Man it’s like they took Castlevania 1 and put the castle from SotN in this!❤️🔥
Jupiter your game now is ported on Xbox series X/S devmode
Now I want a Simon's Quest Revamp SO BAD
Simon walks faster and you can get back your sub weapon. Already 300% better.
This looks and sounds incredible. Also would be amazing if the flame whip renders useless under water 😂
Has anyone ever told you that you could be a voice actor? Like, your voice is perfect for it.
Also, this video and fan game is amazing.
If he had made a game with these same mechanics and used custom art he could have sold it. It would have been a hit.
Oh man this looks awesome! Anyone know if it will run on the Steam Deck?
I have got to the flame whip so far in my game. I been loving this game so far also I love the ability to wall jump and ground punch.
This was insanely impressive. Great fangame!
Awesome game, the visuals the abilities, that was a treat.
I really like this one, they did a fantastic job with it I feel. Good play through as well, Thanks!
Tried it. Was reminded that Jupiter is a pro and I'm terrible at classicvanias. Its great!
I really like this! The SOTN days have been reborn, or should I say ReVamped.
Those conveyor belts are pulled from shovel knight, neat
Wish this was an official release, this looks great
Been watching through this and the only way I can describe the feeling I have right now is that this makes me feel like a kid again. I haven't felt like this towards an 8 bit game since Super Mario Bros 3.
Edit: Christ after watching it all, I can't believe I'm saying this but I think this game is on par with Symphony. You would think this game gets bad in some points but it feels like biting into a wagyu steak that only gets better with each small piece you eat. Like having the best meal of your life right before you die...It actually left me crying tears of joy a bit from how good the gameplay looked. I'm not making this up....
This was good! Commenting to boost the algorithm
A useful familiar, never thought I'd see the day.
Whoever Made this game should be hired to make the Julius Castlevania
As a fan of the metroidvania style castlevania games, not even a few minutes in, and I know I've gotta play this fangame.
This mod looks killer. A vampire killer! X3
How much!? I need this asap
1:47:38 this must definitely a glitch. Also loved the game, but it gets very easy when you use the card that gives you health when you attack. Combine this with the herb subweapon and you can just stand in one spot and just spam attack on every boss
No knock back sounds good to me
I'd love to see if they made a surprise area with the Bloody Tears theme
HOLY SHIT IT USES THE CASTLEVANOA CHRONİCLES OST
It's fun to hear remixes of original compositions by Oliver RGN along with tracks from the X68000 game arranged by VRC6. A truly legendary chip.
One thing I'd really love to see one of these days in a fan game (or by some miracle, a new CV from Konami) is a Metroidvania CV with a Belmont like the first two GBA games but with Castlevania 4's omni directional whip gameplay. I still have no idea why they've like NEVER revisited that gameplay system in a future game, it was so good lmao.
This game will be excellent speed run. The music is amazing. Turn that dial up to 11 my friends.
This looks really well done.
>Some of the music was done by Shimoine
That explains why the OST is banging
CHRONICLES BOSS THEME!
*Bird IS the WORD*
It looks like a demake of Castlevania Chronicles from the PS1, which in turn, is a port of the rare 16-bit remake of CV1 for japanese PCs in the early 90s.
But it also seems to borrow from Symphony of the Night as well, so it's certainly not a 1 to 1 port of Chronicles.
Chronicles wasn't a metroidvania
At this point, Konami might as well pass down the Castlevania IP to us Castlevania fans, as we're able to put more passion into the franchise than Konami has in the past decade. Don't expect much from Konami outside re-released content but Castlevania's 38th anniversary is just around the corner 👀
I know we just got a re-release of the DS trilogy alongside a remake of Haubted Castle but I'm just putting that out there...
Any castletroid needs to have a rando.
Damn... those items you missed that you could've gotten by wall climbing...
I know, right!?!?!?! I know this dude is great at the other Castlevanias but now I am starting to think he is only good because he spent his entire life playing them as opposed to just having a quick learning and memorial skill set. The amount of things he just walked right by had me yelling at the screen. I had to turn it off just as he killed Medusa, lol