Well Castlevania adventure. What can I say. It's bad. The first two stages are pretty decent. But then after that it's like watching the three stooges when they got that pitiful and awful replacement for curly. I think it was Joe Stooge. For the most part the graphics are ok. They pass. The music is pretty good. I like the fact that the game doesn't have the level select at the beginning of the game like Castlevania 2 Belmont's Revenge. It seems like Konami couldn't quite iron out making a very good Castlevania game on the Gameboy. They were close. Well the flaws in this Castlevania are worse than the flaws of Castlevania 2 Belmont's Revenge. I feel like this game could have excelled if it was called something like Fright Night, based on the movie Fright Night. I definitely like the first two stages, keep them. Get rid of the third stage. Or maybe keep it as an after you beat the game bonus stage. And the fourth stage, uh I don't know. I haven't made it that far yet.
Definitely the game we get feels like Hostel. Hostel in video game form. I am not going to complain about how slow Simon Belmont walks in the game but the controls have some issues. Sometimes Simon Belmont goes into what I call Peter Pan mode, where he tries to hit a flying enemy (or projectile) and instead it hits him, and then you defy gravity. And then at that same moment another thing hits you and you are basically suspended up in the air -- in Peter Pan mode. You definitely can't do anything about it. Sometimes it can be quite comical to watch. Kind of like the way the terminator, Arnold Schwartzenegger jumps in the stupid game Terminator 2 for the Super Nintendo. You wonder when you play the game if this is the effect that the programmers wanted? To be comical? The biggest letdown of Castlevania Adventure for the Gameboy is that you have to memorize glitchy areas.
I feel like this could have been a good game but maybe if they called it something else. And if they developed it more. This should not have been billed as a castlevania game. Is it playable? Yes. Is Bart Vs. the Space Mutants playable. Yes again. But which would you rather play. Good questions.