10:10 PM on 01.23.2007
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Last week I asked everyone how they preferred positioning their next generation gaming consoles -- horizontal or vertical? Everyone made some sex jokes and a few people even cleverly retorted with "Diagonal!" The results were pretty even though, so it made for a good debate:
- Vertical: 39 votes
- Horizontal: 42 votes - winner!
This week I'm taking another great reader suggestion (from our now famous naked reader Dexter345) and making the Metroid handheld games go to battle against the Castlevania handheld games. Both game series have graced the same Nintendo handhelds, and both have received great reviews, but which is better as a whole?
The setting in the two series is dramatically different from each other, but gameplay is somewhat similar, so weigh the pros and cons, cast your votes, give a short reasoning, and check back next week for a winner.
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Contest:
Vote: Metroid
Also, the Castlevania games started getting really repetitive.
Vote: Metroid.
No Metroid game can come close to the amazing DS showings of Portrait of Ruin and Dawn of Sorrow. Dawn of Sorrow is probably my favorite Castlevania of all time if not one of my favorites of all time period.
Either way, definately Castlevania; Fusion tried to hold my hand too much, while Metroid Prime: Hunters is more of Quake with a Metroid skin. That leaves the superb Zero Mission, which is out-numbered by Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow, as well as either Portrait of Ruin or Circle of the Moon, depending on your tastes.
I won't touch the new castlevania games, DS or GBA. I played the first one on the GBA, saw how much it had changed since Super Castlevania and I never wanted to mess with it again. Too much back and forth crap. I like my Metroid like that. My castlevania games all have a linear progression.
And keep the freakin' RPG out of my Mega Man.
i vote castlevania
If its the 2d games my vote goes to Metroid. Castlevania has been getting MIGHTY repetitive, even with the latest release, despite it still being an AWESOME game.
I'm going to have to vote Castlevania, just because there are more of them. Also, because Metroid Prime: Hunters was not nearly as good as the 2D Metroid games.
Castlevania.
They're both great series. I've had so much fun with both, but on my old green GB I played the heck out metroid2, finding glitches and secrets for years. Castlevania on green gb wasn't as good for me.
I do wish there were more handheld Metroids though... but 2d.
...but if the author just didn't know the diff, metroid.
But I gotta give this to Castlevania.
That said, if Metroid beats Castlevania to WiFi co-op through the campaign, it will win my heart back. Just, uh, throw the SA-X in as the second player. *cough*
And quit with the Prime games on DS. They aren't good. No, really, they aren't. Konami is kicking your ass, Nintendo, because they're doing your Metroid gig better than you are. I'm sure you don't care, with your money-printing DS, but come on.
ENOUGH TALK, HAVE AT YOU!
(yes, I know that's from SotN which isn't on handheld but the new handheld games have been basically just trying to match the awesomeness of THAT game and coming only a tiny bit away from succeeding. Being almost as good as one of the greatest games of all time gets you a vote from me)
In that respect, I think Metroid wins, but only by a shade. Metroid gameplay has been the same since the NES; Castlevania has taken nearly twenty years to get to what the original Metroid achieved. Nearly every review for the modern Castlevanias has mentioned "metroid". Don't get me wrong, Castlevania is amazing. But it needs another twenty years of evolution to get to where metroid is now.
Plus, Metroid survived the move to 3D a whole lot better than castlevania did.
Thinking about Metroid, I don't think I like it as much. I haven't played that many (Prime, Fusion, NES Metroid, Super Metroid), but I've still played more Metroid than Castlevania. I like Metroid games, but they aren't as appealing as Castlevania. I don't really know why, I think the "Metroidvania" games of the series take elements from Metroid and add to them, which is something I really like.
I vote for Castlevania.
metroid 2 on the orig gb? fuck. yeah.