Whip Cracker

User Rating: 9 | Akumajou Dracula NES
By sh811a | Review Date:
Yeah, this is no supprise to anyone but I myself am a Castlevania fan, it's no doubt one of my favorate video game series. There is just something about it to me that has an exotic quality, from the fact it has a gothic setting down to fighting creatures of the night with a most elegant weapon in video games ever, a whip. It's true if you've played the Castlevania series for a long while this first game might seem just a bit tame due to the fact it doesn't really have certain features that current and newbie gamers might be use to now like the RPG elements, more storyline, more weapons and capabilities, exploration, puzzles and characters to work with in the current Castlevania games. But you have to realize like every video game franchise it always starts out simple before it truely grows into the giant it is today, and this game was a great start.

I played this game since I was about 11 I loved it then and I still love playing it today. This game has actually aged slightly well the graphics still look good, the detail on the forboding gothic setting I always admired, a varity of enimies that you might be obviously familar with if you ever seen a lot of the classic horror movies, as well as a varity of weapons that are litterally your best friends as always in these adventure games my favorate in this was always the Holy Water and of course the one I'm always carring the whip. And a pritty good soundtrack that still sounds good today.

But I won't lie to you the game is hard, there are some parts of the game that could frustrate you like some of those small enimies like those Medusa heads, I've always hated those things or even the fact that if you don't push the down and up button to start climbing the stairs to get accross a gap of somekind you can fall and die (that has happened to me a few times I hate it when that happens). But most of all it has to do with length of the level which is a little long and complex, it's a matter of survival. But don't fret you can get though them smoothly it just might take a little practice in some places of the game, this is a classic game where timing is everything. If you find the correct patern in bosses as well as the rythm of your enemies and the opsticles in the way than you can avoid damage once you find the safe zones as well as hit them at the right time.

So, there is nothing more for me to say except that this game was the first chapter in a living legend that has continued to build on even today.

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